In South Korea, the military is standing against more trash-filled balloons that could come from North Korea on Sunday.
North Korea launched hundreds of trash laden balloon into South Korea in two waves last week, saying it was in response to anti-Pyongyang propaganda balloons sent to the other side by South Korean activists.
Pyongyang announced a ban on all balloon activities on Sunday but days after that a free korean fighters group from south korea claimed to have sent 10 balloons with K-pop music and 200,000 leaflets against the leader Kim Jong Un.
The spokesman for its stated: “South Korea’s military is “vigilantly monitoring closely” because “there is a possibility that more may occur.” Garbage balloon It will drop around tomorrow,” said South Korean Colonel Kim Jun-rak
North Korea has said it would send out 100 times as much worth paper and rubbish if South Korea sends out more leaflets.
Last week North Korean balloons landed at various locations in South Korea they were found containing stuff such as cigarette butts, cardboard scraps and used batteries.
South Korea stopped implementing a 2018 defense agreement with North Korea designed to alleviate tensions between the nations in response to this balloon event on Tuesday.
Seoul authorities called these acts low-level by North Koreans and threatened countermeasures. They were also quoted saying Pyongyang was “intolerable.”
Juxtaposition of Propaganda
Activists from South Korea have been sending up balloons filled with anti-Pyongyang messages, money, grains and USB drives holding recordings of Korean TV series towards Northern part for long time now.
This has long infuriated North Korea whose regime is touchy about its citizens’ exposure to southern pop culture.
Also on Friday Kuensaem, another activist group from the south told AFP they had thrown 500 plastic bottles into the sea near the north Korean border.
These bottles contained rice cash plus a USB stick loaded with a drama series (Crash Landing on You) telling the story of love between a rich south Korean heiress and a north Korean army officer.
Since 2015, this group has been organizing these events twice a month.
“Park Chung-oh said that it was just for helping hungry North Koreans as usual,” added AFP’s writer to the group leader who is doing what they have always done for years.”
Dramatic propaganda clashes between the two sides have fueled tension in the past.
Pyongyang unilaterally severed all official military and political communication with Seoul in 2020 over anti-North Korean leaflets, and then blew up the empty North-South Korean Liaison Office on one side of their border.
The Constitutional Court of South Korea invalidated a 2020 law last year that made it a crime to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda arguing it unduly curtailed free speech
Last week Kim Yo Jong, sister of Kim Jong Un scoffed at South Korea’s complaints about balloons saying they were exercising freedom of speech.
