South Korea On High Alert After North Korea Unleashes A New Smelly Weapon — Balloons Filled With Manure And Waste
Across the Korean peninsula, a shower of waste and propaganda descended, a stark contrast to the feared cross-border assault anticipated by South Koreans.
The country's military revealed Wednesday that its nuclear-armed neighbor had unleashed over 200 balloons overnight, dispersing a mix of trash, leaflets, and other items across the border under cover of darkness.
These balloons were primarily discovered in the border provinces of Gyeonggi and Gangwon, but their presence extended as far south as South Gyeongsang. Responding swiftly to the unconventional act, South Korea issued a government emergency alert, urging citizens to avoid contact with the objects and to report any further incidents promptly.
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In response, South Korea deployed teams to identify the contents of the balloons, confirming the presence of manure among them. While authorities assured the public that no human waste was found, it recalled North Korea's previous use of such unsavory tactics, including the dispatch of human waste via balloons in 2016. This practice aligns with North Korea's history of utilizing human feces as agricultural fertilizer.
Photographs unveiled by the South Korean military depict inflated balloons tethered with plastic bags brimming with refuse. In other images, a disarray of trash surrounds deflated balloons, with a conspicuous bag bearing the word "excrement" captured in one photograph.
According to reports from the Yonhap news agency, this marks the largest influx of balloons from North Korea since similar occurrences observed between 2016 and 2018. Furthermore, South Korea's defense ministry informed NBC News that North Korea had also disrupted GPS frequencies along the de facto maritime border shared by the two nations.
Expressing condemnation, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff denounced North Korea's actions as blatant violations of international law, emphasizing the threat posed to the safety of their populace. Urging an immediate cessation of such "inhumane and vulgar behaviors," the Joint Chiefs of Staff called upon North Korea to desist from further provocations.
The event comes in the wake of a stern warning from North Korea's vice defense minister regarding a potential "tit-for-tat action" following the recent dissemination of anti-Pyongyang leaflets by South Korean activists over the border.
In early May, Park Sang-hak, a defector from North Korea turned human rights advocate, launched 20 balloons laden with 300,000 leaflets denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Notably, these balloons were also laden with USB drives containing South Korean cultural content, including K-pop and K-drama, alongside U.S. dollar bills.
