The highly effective sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong Un vowed Sunday to reply to what she known as a contemporary South Korean civilian leafleting marketing campaign, signaling North Korea would quickly resume flying trash-carrying balloons across the border.
Since late May, North Korea has floated numerous balloons carrying waste paper, scraps of material, cigarette butts and even manure toward South Korea on a sequence of late-night launch occasions, saying they have been a tit-for-tat motion in opposition to South Korean activists scattering political leaflets through their very own balloons. No hazardous supplies have been discovered. South Korea responded by suspending a 2018 tension-reduction cope with North Korea and resumed live-fire drills at border areas.
In an announcement carried by state media, Kim Yo Jong stated that “dirty leaflets and things of (the South Korean) scum” have been discovered once more in border and different areas in North Korea on Sunday morning.
“Despite the repeated warnings of (North Korea), the (South Korean) scum are not stopping this crude and dirty play,” she stated.
“We have fully introduced our countermeasure in such situation. The (South Korean) clans will be tired from suffering a bitter embarrassment and must be ready for paying a very high price for their dirty play,” Kim Yo Jong stated.
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North Korea final despatched rubbish-carrying balloons toward South Korea in late July. It wasn’t instantly recognized if, and from which activists’ group in South Korea, balloons have been despatched to North Korea just lately. For years, teams led by North Korean defectors have floated large balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets, USB sticks containing Okay-pop songs and South Korean drama, and U.S. greenback payments toward North Korea.
Experts say North Korea views such balloons campaigns as a grave provocation that may threaten its management as a result of it bans official entry to overseas information for many of its 26 million individuals.
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On June 9, South Korea redeployed gigantic loudspeakers alongside the border for the primary time in six years, and resumed anti-North Korean propaganda broadcasts.
South Korean officers say they do not limit activists from flying leaflets to North Korea, according to a 2023 constitutional court docket ruling that struck down a contentious regulation criminalizing such leafleting, calling it a violation of free speech.
Kim Yo Jong’s assertion got here a day after North Korea’s Defense Ministry threatened to bolster its nuclear functionality and make the U.S. and South Korea pay “an unimaginably harsh price” because it slammed its rivals’ new defense guidelines that it says reveal an intention to invade the North.
