The balloons, which were found across South Korea, carried toilet paper, batteries and suspected poo.

North Korea has dropped at least 260 balloons carrying rubbish in the South, prompting authorities to warn its residents to stay indoors.

South Korea’s military also cautioned the public against touching the white balloons and the plastic bags attached to them because they contain “filthy waste and trash”.

The balloons have been found in eight of nine provinces in South Korea and are now being analysed.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    South Korea has been sending thumb drives containing KPop music across the border on a similar fashion.

    Now North Korea sends back bundles of excrement.

    I guess it is one way of expressing what they think of KPop…

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    1 month ago

    I’m pretty sure South Korea produces orders of magnitude more waste than North on account of them having an economy so I’d be careful starting this kind of game.

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    1 month ago

    Is this an attempt to obscure a real spy balloon? Send over so many trash filled ones that they start ignoring the real deal when it flies overhead?

  • naturalgasbad@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Is this supposed to be a response to the propaganda leaflets that got dropped on North Korea?

    I wasn’t aware that had happened recently, but I know it was a thing in the past.

  • Canary9341@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    “Mounds of wastepaper and filth will soon be scattered over the border areas and the interior of the ROK and it will directly experience how much effort is required to remove them,” North Korea’s vice-minister of defence Kim Kang Il said

    They are truly diabolical. It is an unprecedented escalation, I think they are one step away from total war.

      • Canary9341@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        Sorry if I’m being rude, but in a context where threats of destruction and announcements of new missiles are the norm, suddenly throwing garbage bags into your neighbor’s yard and saying “will directly experience how much effort is required to remove them” strikes me as too funny! Like a parody of a B-series villain.

        • pooberbee@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          1 month ago

          Not rude. Per the article, this is North Korea’s response to groups in South Korea sending balloons with propaganda leaflets and stuff (unsolicited care packages, basically) north. It seems they feel the south isn’t doing enough to prevent these.

          It seems more childish than diabolical, but I would do the same probably as a last resort. Like throwing somebody’s McDonald’s bag back into their car.