{"id":21929,"date":"2024-07-21T07:41:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=21929"},"modified":"2024-07-21T07:41:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:41:15","slug":"south-korea-responds-to-norths-trash-balloons-with-loudspeaker-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/07\/south-korea-responds-to-norths-trash-balloons-with-loudspeaker-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea responds to North’s trash balloons with loudspeaker broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – North Korea on Sunday floated balloons carrying trash towards South Korea, South Korea’s military said, declaring it would respond with “full-scale” loudspeaker broadcasts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Korean military said the North’s actions raising tensions near the heavily armed border could have fatal consequences, adding the North Korean regime would be solely responsible.<\/p>\n

“As we warned several times, the military will carry out loudspeaker broadcasts in full scale and on all fronts starting 1 p.m. today,” the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, calling the North’s launch of balloons vulgar and shameful.<\/p>\n

Activists and defectors in South Korea have for years sent their own balloons carrying propaganda leaflets and other items into North Korea, angering Pyongyang.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, South Korea’s military decided to resume its round-the-clock loudspeaker broadcast campaign targeting North Korea in response to what it called the despicable launch of balloons by Pyongyang carrying trash across the border.<\/p>\n

Since May, North Korea has been floating thousands of balloons with bags of trash attached to them, which have become a new source of tension between the two Koreas.<\/p>\n

Blaring propaganda, world news and K-pop music, South Korea’s broadcasts are considered by military officials and activists as an effective form of psychological warfare.<\/p>\n

SOURCE: REUTERS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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