{"id":113241,"date":"2024-06-02T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/?p=113241"},"modified":"2024-06-02T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T06:58:10","slug":"north-korea-sends-more-trash-carrying-balloons-to-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2024\/06\/02\/north-korea-sends-more-trash-carrying-balloons-to-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Sends More Trash-Carrying Balloons To South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In what Pyongyang has described as retaliation for activists flying anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/africadailynews.net\/2023\/07\/10\/airspace-violations-north-korea-vows-to-down-us-spy-planes.html\">North Korean<\/a> leaflets across the border, North Korea on Sunday launched hundreds of more trash-carrying balloons toward the South after <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">a similar campaign<\/span> a few days earlier, according to South Korea\u2019s military.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Africa Today News, New York reports that between Saturday night and Sunday morning, no fewer than 600 balloons flown from North Korea have been found in various parts of South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The balloons carried cigarette butts, scraps of cloth, waste paper and vinyl, but no dangerous substances were included, South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The military advised people to be cautious of falling objects and not to handle items suspected to be from North Korea, but rather to report them to military or police offices. There have been no reports of injuries or damage.<\/p>\n<p>In Seoul, the city government sent text alerts saying that unidentified objects suspected to be flown from North Korea were detected in skies near the city and that the military was responding to them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Read Also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2024\/05\/29\/tension-as-north-korea-drops-trash-balloons-on-the-south\/\">Tension As North Korea Drops Trash Balloons On The South<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">The North\u2019s balloon launches<\/span>\u00a0added to a recent series of provocative steps, which include its failed\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">spy satellite<\/span>\u00a0launch and and a barrage of\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">short-range missiles<\/span>\u00a0launches that the North said was intended to demonstrate its ability to\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">attack the South preemptively<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s military dispatched chemical rapid response and explosive clearance teams to recover the debris from some 260 North Korean balloons that were found in various parts of the country from Tuesday night to Wednesday. The military said the balloons carried various types of trash and manure but no dangerous substances like chemical, biological or radioactive materials. Some of the balloons were found with timers that suggested they were designed to pop the bags of trash midair.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, confirmed that the North sent the balloons to make good on her country\u2019s recent threat to \u201cscatter mounds of wastepaper and filth\u201d in South Korea in response to leafleting campaigns by South Korean activists.<\/p>\n<p>She hinted that balloons could become the North\u2019s standard response to leafletting moving forward, saying that the North would respond by \u201cscattering rubbish dozens of times more than those being scattered to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Unification Ministry said Friday that North Korea must stop the provocations \u2014 also including its missile launches and other acts \u2014 or face unspecified \u201cunbearable\u201d consequences.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s military has said it has no plans to shoot down the balloons, citing concerns about causing damage or the possibility that they might contain dangerous substances. Firing at balloons near the border would also risk triggering a retaliation from the North at a time of high tensions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/\"><strong>Africa Today News, New York<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what Pyongyang has described as retaliation for activists flying anti-North Korean leaflets across the border, North Korea on Sunday launched hundreds of more trash-carrying balloons toward the South after a similar campaign a few days earlier, according to South Korea\u2019s military.\u00a0 Africa Today News, New York reports that between Saturday night and Sunday morning, 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