Seoul says North Korea is dropping balloons filled with ‘filth and garbage’
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Seoul also released images of large white balloons carrying bags, as well as of rubbish from one of the balloons strewn over a highway in a western district of the South Korean capital. According to unverified media reports in South Korea, some of the bags contained animal faeces.
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Pyongyang has long denounced South Korea for allowing activists to launch balloons into the North carrying items ranging from anti-regime leaflets and electronic devices to medication and Bibles.
The practice was banned by Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s former left-wing president, but was tolerated under the country’s current conservative administration until the ban was scrapped altogether last year by South Korea’s constitutional court.
This is a low bar, but at least they're not nuclear payloads.