SKorea 'receives' 600 more waste balloons

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 02, 2024 11:10 pm

SEOUL — North Korea has scattered about 600 more 'waste balloons' containing garbage including cigarette butts and plastic across the border, Seoul's armed forces said Sunday.

'North Korea has resumed launching waste balloons towards South Korea,' since around 8 pm Saturday evening, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement.

This handout photo taken by the South Korean Defence Ministry between the night of June 1 and 2, 2024 and released on June 2, 2024 shows unidentified objects believed to be North Korean trash from balloons that crossed the inter-Korea border, on a street in Seoul. North Korea again sent trash-carrying balloons into the South on June 1, the South Korean military said, a day after Seoul warned of countermeasures against such activity. Photo by Handout / South Korean Defence Ministry / AFP

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