North Korea has sent a series of balloons to drop trash on South Korea.
This photo provided by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and released by South Korea Defence Ministry shows the trash from a balloon presumably sent by North Korea in Seoul, South Korea
The move is certain to anger North Korea and potentially prompt it to take its own retaliatory military steps. The move came days after South Korean activists floated their own balloons to scatter propaganda leaflets in the North. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the North launching around 330 balloons toward the South since Saturday night and about 80 were found in South Korean territory by Sunday morning.
The South’s military said the balloons that did land dropped trash, including plastic and paper waste, but no hazardous substances were discovered.
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