“The measures we will take may be unbearable for the North Korean regime,” Seoul said.
South Korea is restarting loudspeaker broadcasts of anti-North Korean messaging for the first time in years, Seoul has said, after Pyongyang dropped hundreds of balloons carrying trash on its southern neighbor over the weekend.
Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said early local time on Sunday that North Korea had launched more than 300 waste-filled balloons at South Korea since Saturday. More than 80 landed in South Korean territory, the most recent round of balloons appearing to contain paper and plastic, domestic media reported.
“The measures we will take may be unbearable for the North Korean regime, but they will send a message of hope and light to the North’s troops and its people,” South Korea’s National Security Council said, according to Reuters.
North Korea has sent waves of balloons carrying waste and trash southward since late May.
