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North Korea flies more balloons likely carrying trash after the ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ resumes propaganda broadcasts

SEOUL, ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea (AP) β€” North Korea launched more balloons likely carrying rubbish toward ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea on Sunday, two days after the ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ restarted blaring anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the border in retaliation for the North’s repeat
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FILE - A balloon presumably sent by North Korea, is seen in a paddy field in Incheon, ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea, on June 10, 2024. North Korea launched more balloons likely carrying rubbish toward ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea on Sunday, July 21, two days after the ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ restarted blaring anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the border in retaliation for the North’s repeated balloon campaigns, Seoul officials said.(Im Sun-suk/Yonhap via AP, File)

SEOUL, ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea (AP) β€” North Korea launched more balloons likely carrying rubbish toward ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea on Sunday, two days after the ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ restarted blaring anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the border in retaliation for the North’s repeated balloon campaigns, Seoul officials said.

ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North Korean balloons were flying north of Seoul, the ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korean capital, after crossing the border.

It said the ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korean public should be alert for falling objects and report to police and military authorities if they see any balloons fallen on the ground.

North Korea’s latest balloon flying is threatening to escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula. ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea earlier warned it would conduct loudspeaker broadcasts in a fuller manner and take other stronger steps if North Korea continues provocations like balloon launches.

Since late May, North Korea has floated numerous balloons on a series of launch events to drop scraps of cloth, cigarette butts, waste batteries and even manure on ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea, though they caused no major damage in ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea.

North Korea said the initial balloons were launched in response to to the North via their own balloons. North Korea views ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korean civilian leafleting activities as a major threat to its leadership as the country prohibits official access to foreign news for most of its 26 million people, experts say.

In a statement Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, warned that ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korean β€œscum” must be ready to pay β€œa gruesome and dear price" over the leafleating activities. She said more ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korean leaflets had been found in North Korea. That raised concerns North Korea could stage physical provocations, rather than balloon launches.

In response to North Korea's balloon campaigns, ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea responded by with North Korea, a step required for it to restart propaganda broadcasts and conduct front-line live-fire military drills at border areas. On June 9, ΒιΆΉΚΣΖ΅ Korea made propaganda broadcasts for two hours at the border.

Hyung-jin Kim, The Associated Press

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