After Seoul claimed to have found parasites like tapeworms in the material of past deliveries, North Korea sent a fresh batch of kites carrying garbage across the border to South Korea.
According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, 350 balloons were dispatched on Monday evening, and the authorities instructed the public to avoid touching any information that was passed along. About 100 bubbles generally fell in northern Gyeonggi state, which circles Seoul, and in the investment area, the JCS said Tuesday in a message sent to investigators.
There have been no health risks so much, it said, and the contents were largely paper waste.
The most recent shipment of kites started to fly a few hours after South Korea’s Unification Ministry reported that worms had been found in lots of the more than 1, 600 kites North Korea had flown in late May along with broken underwear, neckties, and socks.
In recent days, tensions have increased along the military Asian border zone. After protesters in South Korea flung balloons into North Korea this quarter, Kim Yo Jong, the vocal sister of the leader of North Korea, said more balloons may fly toward the cousin.
She also demanded that South Korea stop a continuation of loudspeaker broadcasts along the border of the north, which had been stopped under a 2018 partnership between Seoul and Pyongyang, which both governments today claim are no longer in effect.
South Korea is trying to react to the most recent debris balloon implementation.
” Our government’s advertising battle broadcast against North Korea are ready to get implemented immediately”, the JCS said. ” We will apply them dynamically depending on the corporate and operational condition, and this will depend on North Korea’s activities”, it added.
For years, North Korean activist groups have floated bubbles carrying flyers denouncing the Kim family, which has ruled North Korea since its founding. Many of the staff members are North Korean defectors who have settled there. To persuade North Koreans to pick up the contents, balloons with US dollars, corn sacks, and USB sticks with K-pop songs have also been transported.
The defectors have been called “human filth” by North Korea, and Seoul has pleaded with Seoul to prevent the balloons. Balloons have been sent across the borders by Pyongyang for decades.
The most recent significant bubble battle from North Korea before this was in 2016, when it sent advertising flyers across the frontier slamming then-President Park Geun-hye as a servant of then-US President Barack Obama and then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, made his first journey to North Korea in 24 times this month, signing a deal with Kim Jong Un, which would allow the two countries to support one another in times of conflict. The United States and its allies will probably have to make recalculate assumptions regarding possible consequences of using arms against North Korea as a result of the agreement.
The United States and its allies, Japan and South Korea, condemned this week in” the strongest possible terms” the growing defense ties between Russia and North Korea, calling it a grave problem and a danger to security. They also viewed the visit as a step forward for Putin’s assault on Ukraine and Kim’s program in terms of munitions exchange.
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