North Korea launches new rounds of trash-filled balloons across border

SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea floated hundreds of balloons across the border with South Korea on Thursday, Seoul’s military said, continuing its latest campaign for the second day in a row.

‘Our military confirmed that North Korea had launched more than 420 garbage balloons from last night to early this morning,’ Lt. Col. Lee Chang-hyun, spokesman for Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a press briefing.

‘Since around 9 a.m. [Thursday], balloons have been launched again, so I emphasized to the public that they should be careful of falling loads, and if they see a fallen balloon, do not come into contact with it,’ Lee said.

He added that around 20 balloons carrying paper and plastic bottles fell in Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province, with no hazardous substances detected.

It marked the first time in 25 days that North Korea has launched the balloons, ramping up the back-and-forth Cold War-style psychological warfare that has emerged along border areas in recent months.

North Korea has conducted 13 rounds of launches since early June, sending thousands of balloons carrying scrap paper, shredded clothing and manure into the South — including one that spilled trash on South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s compound…”

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