North Korea has again sent balloons carrying garbage across its heavily guarded border with South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday.
Yonhap quoted South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as saying that a number of balloons were seen floating over the border around Seoul and the surrounding province. The JCS advised people not to touch the objects but to report them to authorities, Yonhap reported.
Since late May, North Korea has sent more than 3,000 trash-filled balloons into the South, including about 500 on Sunday, the news agency reported.
North Korea’s balloon actions come in response to similar activities by South Korean groups, which have repeatedly sent thousands of leaflets and other propaganda materials across the border in huge gas balloons.
Tensions have risen again along the demilitarized zone and maritime border between the two Korean countries, which are still officially at war with each other since the conflict in the 1950s.
