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submitted 4 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

North Korea is sending more balloons carrying rubbish across the heavily fortified southern border, South Korea's military has said.

It comes just days after North Korea appeared to send at least 200 balloons carrying rubbish over the border in retaliation for propaganda leaflets sent from the south.

South Korea's defence minister Shin Won-sik called it "unimaginably petty and low-grade behaviour" while the military added it is examining the contents of the bags floated over the border by the balloons.

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 4 months ago

Not just leaflets, but also music, music videos, snacks and cash.

In addition to anti-Pyongyang propaganda, activists in South Korea have launched balloons carrying among other things, cash, banned media content and even Choco Pies - a South Korean snack banned in the North.

Earlier this month, a South Korea-based activist group claimed it had sent 20 balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets and USB sticks containing Korean pop music and music videos across the border.

Music, so dangerous!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

You joke, but without KPop, our teens would run riot in the streets.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 4 months ago

Not dangerous to the public, but it will be to the government.

If you've gone to great lengths to maintain an information bubble and keeping the country cut off from the outside world informationally, and if the government remaining intact relies on that...if the whole thing collapses, I suspect that the life expectancy of the North Korean leadership isn't too good.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You know I'm bad, I'm bad! 🎶

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