North Korea Sends More Trash Balloons to South Korea

The North Korean leader’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, has warned that her country will take ‘counteraction’ against South Korea’s loudspeaker broadcasts.

A balloon presumably sent by North Korea, on the Han River in Seoul, South Korea, on June 9, 2024. South Korea Joint Chiefs of Staff via AP

North Korea sent hundreds more balloons carrying bags of trash toward South Korea over the weekend after South Korea resumed broadcasting anti-North Korea messages, among other content, via loudspeakers near their shared international border.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on June 10 that it detected some 310 balloons launched by North Korea across the inter-Korean border on June 9 and confirmed that they were carrying scrap paper and plastic.