{"id":39789,"date":"2024-06-03T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39789"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T12:27:14","slug":"north-korea-says-it-is-halting-sending-trash-balloons-to-south-korea-after-hundreds-more-float-over-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39789","title":{"rendered":"North Korea says it is halting sending trash balloons to South Korea after hundreds more float over border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea said it was stopping sending trash-filled balloons to South Korea after Seoul reported hundreds more airborne waste deliveries floating across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea\u2019s vice-defense minister Kim Kang Il said that the country will \u201ctemporarily halt dropping trash over the border,\u201d after claiming to have sent a total of 15 tonnes of trash to its neighbor, according to his statement released by state media KCNA on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kim said the balloon were \u201cstrictly a responsive act\u201d to South Korea\u2019s years-long practice of sending balloons with anti-North Korea leaflets the other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve let the South Koreans experience enough of how dirty it feels and how much joint effort it takes to clean up spread-out rubbish,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A South&nbsp;Korean official pledged his country would take&nbsp;\u201cunendurable measures\u201d against North&nbsp;Korea for sending more trash balloons this weekend, which will be \u201cspecified in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official from the presidential office added that the government \u201cwill&nbsp;not rule out the issue of resuming [playing] loudspeakers\u201d that used to blast propaganda across the demilitarized zone, but had been turned off since a military agreement was signed in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korea\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff&nbsp;said \u201cno substances harmful to safety\u201d were found among the hundreds more balloons that reached the country on Saturday evening \u2013 unlike just a few days ago when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/29\/asia\/north-korea-trash-balloons-intl-hnk\/index.html\">used toilet paper<\/a>&nbsp;was found in some of the about 150 balloons that crossed the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest photos released by the JCS show a large sack containing what appears to be paper left on the roadside, while other images show officers inspecting the garbage strewn on the ground. Others showed burned-out cigarette butts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to images released by authorities, the packages are conveyed by large, gas-filled balloons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korea said its military is working with the police, local government, safety ministry, and the United Nations Command to safely retrieve the balloons and the debris. The balloons were found in the capital Seoul, as well as the provinces of Gyeonggi and Chungcheong. Some were even spotted more than 300 kilometers (over 185 miles) south of the capital, in Gyeongsang province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: North Korea said it was stopping sending trash-filled balloons to South Korea after Seoul reported hundreds more airborne waste deliveries floating across the border. North Korea\u2019s vice-defense minister Kim Kang Il said that the country will \u201ctemporarily halt dropping trash over the border,\u201d after claiming to have sent a total of 15 tonnes of trash to its neighbor, according to his statement released by state media KCNA on Sunday. Kim said the balloon were \u201cstrictly a responsive act\u201d to South Korea\u2019s years-long practice of sending balloons with anti-North Korea leaflets the other way. \u201cWe\u2019ve let the South Koreans experience&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39791,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39789\/revisions\/39791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}