North Korea sent debris balloons across the border into South Korea again on Sunday, with South Korea retaliating with loudspeaker broadcasts near the inter-Korean border for the fourth consecutive day, Korean media reported.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said at 9:15 a.m. Sunday that the regime was again sending such balloons, and said the balloons were found flying toward northern Gyeonggi Province.
The Joint Staff warned the public to beware of falling objects, and if such balloons are detected, not to touch them and report them to the nearest military unit or police station. The latest launch took place three days after the previous one, last Thursday.
Since then, in response to repeated balloon launches by the North, the South has resumed loudspeaker broadcasts near the border. The military plans to broadcast for 16 hours on Sunday, from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The DPRK has been sending rubbish into South Korean territory since late May. North Korea said it was thus responding to South Korea’s distribution of propaganda leaflets by a similar method. On June 9, Seoul announced its intention to resume broadcasting propaganda broadcasts from loudspeakers on the border with North Korea.
Residents of DPRK border areas will be able to hear K-pop, news and other South Korean broadcasts. The decision could lead to “a very dangerous situation,” Kim Yo Jong, deputy head of the department of the Central Committee of the DPRK Labour Party, the sister of the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, said in response.
