North Korea literally shitting on South Korea

[pmbug]

North Korea has adopted a new strategy to contend with its southern neighbor: sending floating bags of trash containing “filth” across the border, carried by massive balloons.

The South Korean military began noticing “large amounts of balloons” arriving from the North starting Tuesday night, detecting more than 150 as of Wednesday morning, according to the country’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

Photos released by the JCS show plastic bags carried by two giant balloons, with some broken packages spilling scraps of plastic, sheets of paper, and what appears to be dirt onto roads and sidewalks.

The balloons so far contain “filth and garbage” and are being analyzed by government agencies, said the JCS, adding that the military was cooperating with the United Nations Command.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s younger sister Kim Yo Jong – who is also a senior official in the reclusive regime – referred to the activities as “freedom of expression.”

In a statement published by state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday, Kim said that North Korea had dispersed toilet paper and other waste materials in bags attached to the balloons along the Korean border and central areas.

Kim compared North Korea’s actions to South Korea’s years-long practice of sending balloons with anti-North Korea leaflets towards her nation.

“We’ve done some of the things they always do, but I don’t know why they’re making a big deal like they’ve been hit by a shower of fire,” Kim said.

The move, according to North Korean state media KCNA, was to retaliate against South Korean activists who often send materials to the North – including propaganda leaflets, food, medicine, radios and USB sticks containing South Korean news and television dramas, all prohibited in the isolated totalitarian dictatorship.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/asia/north-korea-trash-balloons-intl-hnk/index.html

North Korea said on Sunday it would stop sending balloons carrying trash over the border to South Korea but vowed to resume the practice if anti-North Korean leaflets are flown over again from the South.

South Korea has had a taste of how "dirty" and "wasteful" it is to collect trash after North Korea sent 15 tons of it using 3,500 balloons, the North's vice-minister of defence Kim Kang Il said in a statement carried by state media outlet KCNA.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ing-trash-balloons-to-south-korea/ar-BB1nu9OF

Quipped one South Korean reporter, "The filth everywhere reminds me of San Francisco." (j/k)

 

[WinkWink]

 

[searcher]

If leaflets cause the NK's to drop a load, I wonder what they'll do when Freedom Edge shows up on their nasty doorstep?

From the link:

The U.S., Japan and South Korea announced on Sunday that they will conduct the first iteration of a trilateral multidomain exercise called Freedom Edge this summer following a trilateral ministerial meeting between the defense chiefs of the three countries in Singapore. The United States-Japan-Republic of Korea Trilateral Ministerial Meeting (TMM) convened by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japan Minister of Defense Minoru Kihara Minoru, and South Korea Minister of National Defense Shin Won-sik was held on the sidelines of the International Institute of Strategic Studies Shangri-La Dialogue 2024 where the three defense chiefs discussed shared regional security concerns, reviewed the implementation of trilateral security cooperation lines of effort presented at the Aug. 18 2023 Camp David Summit, discussed new initiatives to strengthen and institutionalize trilateral security cooperation to contribute to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, in the Indo-Pacific region, and beyond according to a joint statement by the three countries.

https://news.usni.org/2024/06/03/u-s-japan-and-korea-commit-to-new-multi-domain-freedom-edge-exercise-series

 

[searcher]

WOTR opinion piece.

The North Korea problem is set to get worse before it gets better. North Korea continues to perfect the reentry technology, targeting capability, and solid-fuel missiles that will dramatically increase the potency and reach of its nuclear weapons, overwhelm missile defenses on the Korean Peninsula, and threaten America’s homeland and allies in Asia. There are even renewed expectations of a seventh nuclear test or some other provocationtimed to make a splash before the U.S. presidential election.

In January, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un publicly designated South Korea as his country’s “primary enemy” and renounced peaceful unification, essentially rolling back a decades-long unification policy supported by his forefathers. These moves take on extra significance when viewed against the backdrop of Pyongyang’s geopolitical shift toward embracing autocracies and the Kim regime’s consistent calls for “war preparations” since early 2023. Meanwhile, Pyongyang is bear-hugging Moscow, sending it artillery and missiles in return for much-needed supplies like food and oil and possibly even military technology.

Why Is the North Korea Problem So Hard to Solve? - War on the Rocks

The North Korea problem is set to get worse before it gets better. North Korea continues to perfect the reentry technology, targeting capability, and

warontherocks.com

 

[nickndfl]

Good thing they eat more rice than corn. Mexico let' its sewers run into US waters.

 

[searcher]

North Korea says drills by South Korea, US and Japan show nations have developed ‘Asian Nato’

Pyongyang calls ‘Freedom Edge’ drills involving fighter jets and nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier ‘provocative’

www.theguardian.com

 

[searcher]

Drones Penetrate North Korean Air Defenses To Drop Propaganda Leaflets On Pyongyang

South Korea is not admitting responsibility for sending multiple waves of drones over the North Korean capital.

www.twz.com

 

[searcher]

North Korea Sending GPS-Equipped Balloons Across The Border

The purpose for the balloons' GPS capabilities isn't clear, but none of the possibilities are good news for South Korea.

www.twz.com

 

[searcher]

Report to Congress on U.S.-North Korea Relations​

December 11, 2024 9:17 AM

The following is the Dec. 6, 2024, Congressional Research Service, In Focus report U.S.-North Korea Relations.

From the report​

Since 2016, North Korea’s advances in nuclear weapons and missile capabilities under leader Kim Jong-un have catapulted Pyongyang from a threat to U.S. interests in East Asia to a potential direct threat to the U.S. homeland. U.S. policy on North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK) has focused primarily on the DPRK’s nuclear weapons and missile programs. Other U.S. concerns include, the DPRK’s illicit revenue generating activities (including cybercrime); expanded DPRK-Russia ties that may provide North Korea with more advanced military capabilities; North Korea’s systemic human rights abuses; the potential for North Korea to resume conventional military attacks against U.S. treaty ally South Korea (Republic of Korea, or ROK); and the risk that a DPRK-ROK clash escalates into a major military conflict.

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https://news.usni.org/2024/12/11/report-to-congress-on-u-s-north-korea-relations-2