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Seoul will restart anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts in retaliation against trash balloons (apnews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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South Korea says it will restart anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in response to continuing North Korean campaigns to drop trash on the South with balloons.

Following an emergency security meeting led by South Korean national security director Chang Ho-jin, the officials decided to install and begin the loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas on Sunday, Seoul’s presidential office said in a statement. The move is certain to anger North Korea and potentially prompt it to take its own retaliatory military steps.

North Korea over the weekend flew hundreds of trash-carrying balloons to South Korea in its third such campaign since late May, the South’s military said, just days after South Korean activists floated their own balloons to scatter propaganda leaflets in the North.

North Korea has so far sent more than 1,000 balloons to drop tons of trash and manure in the South in retaliation against South Korean civilian leafletting campaigns, adding to tensions between the war-divided rivals amid a diplomatic stalemate over the North’s nuclear ambitions.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

All wars should be fought with trash balloons and loudspeakers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think a better response from SK would be a supermarket floated into NK via baloons. Imagine how much better off north koreans would be if a giant fully stocked wallmart crushed and replaced Kims shed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Lmao their fight is getting petty. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Weren't the shit balloons retaliation for the south sending balloons to drop propaganda leaflets?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

That was in the description. You didn't even have to read the article.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

So much for the high ground.