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In response to North Korea sending nearly 1, 000 trash-filled balloons to the South, South Korea made the decision on Monday to dismiss a 2018 inter-Korean stress agreement until “mutual trust is restored.”  ,
The 9/19 Comprehensive Military Agreement, signed on Sept. 19, 2018, aimed at defusing anxiety and avoiding warfare, was implemented after a conference between South Korea’s therefore- president Moon Jae- in and North Vietnamese leader Kim Jong Un.
At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the president’s National Security Council convened to discuss the latest behavior of North Korea and to consider a motion suspending the contract.
The members of the presidential office made the decision to” submit a proposal to suspend the full effect of the September 19 Defense Agreement until there is restored common trust between the two Koreas,” according to a release from the president.  ,
Since Thursday, North Korea has been sending waves of trash-filled balloons into the South as part of what it called a “tit-for-tat plan” against North Korean activists who have sent balloons carrying propaganda denouncing the North’s regime.
According to South Korea’s National Security Advisor, Chang Ho-jin, the government will “unbearable” measures against the North in response to its kites and GPS signal blocking next year.  ,
The angst caused by the balloons has sparked rumors that South Korea might resume advertising campaigns using loudspeakers along the borders. The monitors used to heat criticism of the Kim Jong Un government’s human rights abuses, as well as information and K- roll songs, to the indignation of the North.
To continue the forward- line broadcasts, it would be required to invalidate the 2018 inter- Asian military agreement.
North Korea threatened to resume its cross-border bubble plan if anti-Pyongyang flyers were sent from South Korea after South Korea issued a warning shortly after.
The North claimed that its bubble plan was only started in response to leaflets sent by activists from South Korea.
A Seoul-based organization known as Soldiers for a Free North Korea, which flew anti-Pyongyang balloons over the North last month, announced on Monday that it would acquire stopping sending flyers if the North offered an apology for its trash-carrying kites to the South.  ,
” We send facts, loves, medications, one- dollar bills, plays and run music to the North, but how come they send us wasted and trash”? the firm said in a speech, referring to a type of Vietnamese music.  ,
” North Korea head Kim Jong Un may soon apologize”.
