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North Korea hinted Friday that it’ll ship extra trash-carrying balloons towards South Korea in protest of a North Korean defector group’s flying of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets north of the border.
In an announcement carried by the state-run Korean Central Information Company(KCNA), Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong-un, mentioned soiled paper waste and objects from the South have been discovered scattered close to the border as soon as once more.
She mentioned the North requested a halt to the propaganda exercise, however its resumption now requires the regime “to do one thing pointless.”
Kim mentioned the “scums,” in reference to the defectors, will face backlash from their countrymen.
Earlier, Fighters for a Free North Korea, a defectors’ group primarily based in South Korea, introduced that its members floated 20 balloons carrying propaganda leaflets, USBs, and U.S. one greenback payments throughout the border from the Gyeonggi metropolis of Paju late Thursday.
Between Could 28 and June 9, Pyongyang despatched over a thousand trash-filled balloons south of the border and threatened stronger retaliation ought to the leaflet exercise proceed.
Seoul, in response, resumed loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts alongside the border.
