SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched hundreds of more trash-carrying balloons toward the South after a similar campaign a few days earlier, according to South Korea 's military, in what Pyongyang calls retaliation for activists flying anti- North Korea n leaflets across the border.Between Saturday night and Sunday morning, about 600 balloons flown from North Korea have been found in various parts of South Korea .
In a statement on Wednesday, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, confirmed that the North sent the balloons to make good on her country's recent threat to 'scatter mounds of wastepaper and filth' in South Korea in response to leafleting campaigns by South Korean activists.
Korea Sends Hundreds Of More Trash-Carrying Balloons To South Korea
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