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N Korea to resend trash balloons to S Korea
Updated On: 15 July, 2024 08:20 AM IST | Seoul | Agencies
South Korea responded by suspending a 2018 tension-reduction deal with North Korea and resumed live-fire drills at border areas.
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The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed Sunday to respond to what she called a fresh South Korean civilian leafleting campaign, signalling North Korea would soon resume flying trash-carrying balloons across the border.
Since late May, North Korea has floated numerous balloons carrying waste paper, scraps of cloth, cigarette butts and even manure toward South Korea on a series of late-night launch events, saying they were a tit-for-tat action against South Korean activists scattering political leaflets via their own balloons. No hazardous materials have been found. South Korea responded by suspending a 2018 tension-reduction deal with North Korea and resumed live-fire drills at border areas.
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