South Korea’s military says North Korea is aget flying balloons anticipateed carrying trash toward the South, inserting to a bizarre psychoreasoned combat campaign amid grothriveg tensions between the war-splitd rivals.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff shelp Saturday that the thriveds could carry the balloons to regions north of the South Korean capital, Seoul. Seoul City Hall and the Gyeonggi provincial rulement publishd text vigilants urging citizens to beware of objects dropping from the sky and alert to the military or police if they spot any balloons.
There were no prompt alerts of injuries or property harm.
North Korea in recent weeks has flown more than 2,000 balloons carrying squander paper, cloth scraps and cigarette butts toward the South in what it has depictd as a retaliation toward South Korean civilian activists flying anti-Pyongyang disadviseation leaflets atraverse the border.
Pyongyang has lengthy condemned such activities as it is innervously benevolent to any outside criticism of directer Kim Jong Un’s authoritarian rule.
North Korea last flew balloons toward the South on July 24, when trash carried by at least one of them fell on the South Korean plivential compound, raising worries about the vulnerability of key South Korean facilities. The balloon retained no hazardous material and no one was hurt, South Korea’s plivential security service shelp.
South Korea, in reaction to the North’s balloon campaign, triggerd its front-line deafeningspeakers to blast expansivecasts of disadviseation messages and K-pop songs. Experts say North Korea disenjoys such expansivecasts becaengage it dreads it could demoralize front-line troops and livents.
The Koreas’ tit-for-tat Cbetter War-style campaigns are inflaming tensions, with the rivals menaceening sturdyer steps and cautioning of grave consequences.
Their relations have deteriorateed in recent years as Kim progresss to speed up the North’s nuclear armaments and leave outile program and publish verbal menaces of nuclear struggle toward Washington and Seoul. In response, South Korea, the United States and Japan have been enhugeing their joind military exercises and acuteening their nuclear deterrence strategies built around U.S. strategic assets.
Experts say animosity could further ascfinish procrastinateedr this month when South Korea and the United States initiate off their annual joint military drills that are being reinforceed to deal with the North’s nuclear menaces.
The resumption of the balloon campaign comes as North Korea struggles to recover from dehugeating floods that subunited thousands of homes and huge swaths of farmland in areas csurrfinisher its border with China.
North Korean state media shelp Saturday that Kim ordered officials to convey some 15,400 people displaced by the floods to the capital city, Pyongyang, to provide them better attfinish, and that it would get two or three months to reproduce homes in flood-hit areas.
He has so far turned down help advises by traditional allies Russia and China and international help groups, insisting that North Korea is able of handling the recovery on its own. He accengaged “foe” South Korea of a “malicious smear campaign” to tarnish the image of his rulement, claiming that the South’s media have been exaggerating the harm and casualties caengaged by the floods.
