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On Thursday, North Korean protesters flew large bubbles carrying advertising flyers toward North Korea after the North threatened to send more trash-filled bubbles across the boundary in response to such efforts.
The party, Fighters for a Free North Korea, led by Northern Korean diplomat Park Sang- untuk, said it floated 10 balloons tied to 200, 000 anti- Pyongyang leaflets, USB sticks with K- music songs and South Korean television plays, and one- buck U. S. bills, from a border town.
” We sent the truth and love, treatments, one- dollar payments and music. But a barbaric Kim Jong Un sent garbage and filth to the South, and he has n’t offered an apology for it, Park said in a statement referring to the North’s leader and the balloons the North sent last week over the South.  ,
” Our party, the Fighters for Free North Korea, will keep sending our pamphlets, which are the words of wisdom and liberty for our favorite North Korean colleagues”.
The group’s new balloon flights came after South Korea announced that it would resume all border military operations for the first time in more than five years, ending a 2018 inter-Korean military pact as a result of the North’s sending of garbage-carrying balloons to South Korea and its jamming of GPS signals.
The South’s decision to end the pact could lead to the return of South Korean propaganda broadcasts blaring through enormous speakers on the border into North Korea.
North Korea allegedly launched a tit-for-tat campaign against South Korean activists who sent balloons carrying propaganda material denouncing the North’s regime by sending waves of trash-filled balloons into the South from last Thursday through Sunday.
Separately, the North carried out GPS jamming attacks in waters near South Korea’s northwestern border islands on Sunday for the fifth day straight.
The Fighters for Free North Korea delivered 300, 000 leaflets and 2, 000 USBs of K-pop music videos suspended from 20 large balloons to the North last month.
The North has long been enraged by the balloons from the south, which have long been a source of conflict between the two Koreas, who have technically been at war since the 1950s to 1953 Korean War ended with a truce rather than a peace treaty.
North Korea announced on Sunday that it would temporarily suspend its cross-border balloon campaign, but it also threatened to resume it if South Koreans sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets.
