North Korea decided to take the trash out Wednesday but
passed up on dumping its rubbish in bins and instead
opted for its neighbour South Korea.
Pyongyang sending more than 150 white balloons carrying plastic bags
over the heavily fortified border between the two countries,
causing a fright for residents.
Loud sound of something huge falling down,
then something started flying around the road.
I thought war would occur right away,
to put it a little strongly,
I felt like that if the situation grows,
it will become a war.
Emergency alerts ordering people to stay indoors were quickly sent
out as the barrage of balloons floated over South Korea's
skies.
They fell across the country,
including in Seoul. The army's bomb squad as well as
chemical and biological warfare response team were deployed to inspect
the strange deliveries.
But inside they only found trash and in some cases
feces.
Pyongyang making good on a promise it may just days
earlier to scatter mounds of waste paper and filth over
South Korea That in response to defectors,
turned activists recently sending over balloons carrying anti regime leaflets
as well as Usbs containing K pop music to North
Korea.
Pyongyang has long denounced the practice,
saying it constitutes psychological warfare.
Back in 2022, it blamed balloons allegedly sent from its
southern neighbour for its first COVID-19 outbreak.