North Korea may be trying to provoke the South, but an official with the presidential office in Seoul vowed to respond calmly. “By putting rubbish and miscellaneous objects into balloons ...

Animosities between North and South Korea are rising sharply again over an unusual cause: The North's rubbish-carrying balloons.

At least 600 rubbish-filled balloons from Pyongyang landed in South Korea overnight, officials in Seoul said on Sunday as North Korea responds to leaflets sent across the border by South Korean ...

North Korea will resume flying its own balloons to dump rubbish hundreds times the amount of the South Korean leaflets found in the North. Earlier Sunday, South Korea's military said that more ...

According to KCNA, around 3,500 balloons carrying some 15 tons of trash such as cigarette butts, cloth, paper waste and plastic were sent North Korea across the Demilitarized Zone TOKYO ...

The act of sending waste-filled balloons is not just a symbolic gesture; it is a reminder of North Korea’s capacity for unconventional and asymmetric warfare.

TASS/. South Korea’s military has discovered about 260 balloons carrying waste and trash that were allegedly launched from North Korea, the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper said, citing South Korea’s ...

It said the balloons that landed were filled with paper waste, plastic bottles and other trash but contained no hazardous materials. The joint chiefs said North Korea was launching another set of ...

North Korea had halted its flights of rubbish-carrying balloons but threatened to resume them if South Korean activists sent leaflets again. The South Korean civilian group, led by North Korean ...

North Korea’s balloon launches often carried rubbish and messages insulting the south. South Korea's military believes the North Korean soldiers mistakenly made the border intrusion and the site ...

North Korea dropped suspected anti-South ... They said that the latest batch of trash balloons had been found to contain waste paper and plastic, but nothing toxic. "So far we haven't seen any ...

The act of sending waste-filled balloons is not just a symbolic gesture; it is a reminder of North Korea’s capacity for unconventional and asymmetric warfare. “With Kim now emboldened ...