North Korea is allegedly sent more than 200 balloons filled with trash to South Korea. Leaders claim they were merely exercising their freedom of expression.
The North Korean toxic trade came on Wednesday in the form of 260 large air deliveries that triggered emergency warnings to border town residents about “suspicious objects” floating in the sky. It was payback after a South Korean activist group sent 300,000 anti-regime leaflets and thousands of USB drives containing
Just a few days earlier, a North Korean vice defense minister, seething over the leaflets and K-pop introduction to the closed-off country, vowed the country would soon heap “mounds of waste paper and filth” onto its southern neighbor, state media reported. And apparently, few things anger North Korea more than leaflet-carrying balloons, which Kim’s rigid regime views as psychological warfare and has in the past tried to shoot down.
She argued her country was merely exercising its freedom of expression, which the Seoul government has stated as a reason for its inability to stop anti-North Korean activists from flying leaflets across the border.
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