(PatriotSpotlight.org) – The North Korean government says it will stop its routine of sending trash-filled balloons to its democratic southern neighbor. The decision comes after South Korea vowed to execute “unbearable” responses to the bizarre aggressive acts.
In a public statement issued last Sunday, North Korea’s vice defense minister Kim Kang II referred to South Korea’s campaign of anti-regime leaflets as the reason for Pyongyang’s retaliatory forwarding of the hazardous balloons. These campaigns generally send critical messages about North Korean politicians, aiming such attacks at the civilian population which is unable to access a free and fair global society due to the communist authoritarian state’s strict censorship regime.
Kim Kang II warned that North Korea would carry on sending the balloons if South Korea carried on its anti-Pyongyang leaflets. He stressed the unfortunate experience South Korean people had to undergo to clean up after the trash-filled balloons. South Korea then promised to hit back at the provocations with “unbearable” measures, which experts claim could even entail loudspeaker broadcasts directed at the oppressed North Korean population who suffer from extreme food insecurity and political persecution. Such broadcasts could play K-pop music or criticize the North Korean government’s extensive human rights abuses.
South Korea’s military said they found more than 700 balloons flown from North Korea, filled with trash and manure. This announcement was after their previous discovery of around 260 balloons the same week. North Korea said that it launched 3,500 balloons holding as much as 15 tons of waste paper.
The “unbearable” steps vowed by South Korea also come after the alleged jamming of GPS signals in the country and North Korea’s practicing of nuclear strikes against its southern adversary. This uptick in tensions between the two different Korean regimes has piqued worries of a future all-out war on their shared peninsula. The Korean War in the 1950s led to between 2 and 3 million fatalities. North Korea continues to threaten nuclear escalation in the region.
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