Almost 1,000 balloons carrying manure and trash were floated into the South.
Almost 1,000 balloons floated southwards across the fortified border dividing the Korean peninsula since Thursday, according to South Korea ’s, prompting a furious response from Seoul which vowed to take “unbearable” retaliatory measures on Sunday. North Korea announced it would stop sending the balloons hour after the threat over the weekend, but the South is now poised to take punitive action regardless.
The deal will remain suspended “until mutual trust between the two Koreas is restored,” the presidential office said. While the pact required both sides to end hostile acts toward each other, it did not explicitly ban civilian leafleting, according to the. That means activists in South Korea had been able to continue sending balloons over the border into the North carrying anti-regime leaflets and USB sticks containing world news, provoking fury in Pyongyang.
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