North Korea Sending Trash- and Poop-Filled Balloons Into South Korea
“By Wednesday afternoon, more than 260 balloons had been detected, and most of them have landed on the ground, carrying animal faeces and rubbish”
This is just bizarre. Apparently, North Korea is sending balloons filled with trash and excrement into South Korea.
Update: South Korea's military says North Korea has sent some 600 trash-filled balloons that are currently drifting into and being discovered across parts of South Korea. New images show the balloons and their burst loads. So far, this is over double since the last such incident. https://t.co/UTY3ZYrYD2 pic.twitter.com/gIZMlzRBcB
— Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) June 2, 2024
South Korea's presidential National Security Council is set to convene an emergency meeting this afternoon re: continued arrival of more trash-filled balloons from North Korea.
— Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) June 2, 2024
So far, the balloons are said to contain nothing directly dangerous to human health, just cigarette butts, thrown-away paper, bits of cloth, plastic, and other trash. But authorities are warning people not to touch them if found and to report them to the police or military. pic.twitter.com/wiJbEC6WZy
— Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) June 2, 2024
North Korea sent hundreds of balloons carrying trash and excrement across the heavily fortified border to South Korea on Wednesday, calling them “gifts of sincerity”, prompting an angry response from Seoul, which said the act was base and dangerous.
Photographs released by the South Korean military showed inflated balloons with plastic bags tied to them. Other images appeared to show trash strewn around collapsed balloons, with the word “excrement” written on a bag in one photograph.
By Wednesday afternoon, more than 260 balloons had been detected, and most of them have landed on the ground, carrying animal faeces and rubbish, the South Korean military said in a statement, calling the act “base and dangerous”.
North Korea said the balloons were in retaliation for an ongoing propaganda campaign by North Korean defectors and activists in South Korea, who regularly send inflatables containing anti-Pyongyang leaflets, alongside food, medicine, money and USB sticks loaded with K-pop music videos and dramas across the border.
Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister and a powerful ruling party official, issued a statement in state media KCNA, slamming Seoul as “shameful, brazen” for criticising the balloons while defending its citizens’ own freedom of expression.
The North’s balloons were “gifts of sincerity” for South Koreans who “cry for freedom of expression”, she said, pledging to send dozens of times the number she said South Korea had sent into its territory.
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The only way to get to the bottom of this enemy evacuation plan is to flush out a stool pigeon.
Poor Man’s China spy satellites the Brandon let room free over our airspace
Trump is going to have his work cut out for him.
He’s got a lot of, pardon the pun, cleaning up to do after the Biden junta’s been shitting over everything everywhere for the last 4 years!
Time to send in F Troop.
Waiting for the Chinese to upgrade their next balloon campaign against the USA.
Boy, how’s all that peace dividend playing out for you all from this Democrat administration?
If any more peace breaks out around the world we will be in some serious trouble!!
What next, flaming bags of feces laid upon embassy stoops followed by a round of ding dong ditch?
Who you callin’ Ding Dong, man?
This is all laughable, ATM. But, the reality is because of the lethality of certain biological and radiological substances, this has the potential to asymmetrically change and shape the battlesapce in the same way drones have in the last several years. I think this is particularly true when you have an irrational actor like we see in the DPRK. The world is a very, very dangerous place at them moment….and we’re stuck with Joe Biden.
Yes, but that argument cuts both ways.
South Korea started this by sending balloons of “unwanted shit” north.
Their balloons could have been filled with anything, as well.
Thumb drives with K-pop on them? With K-Stuxnet hitchhiking on them, perhaps?
An “objective” journalist wouldn’t have waited until halfway into the article to disclose that this act was retaliation for South Korea invading the north’s airspace with balloons.
Remember how we felt when China did this to us?
Well, North Korea has the right to feel exactly the same way.
No. There’s no moral nor logical equivalence at all between sending relief to people trapped in tyranny and sending filth and trash to people living in freedom.
We laugh but I hadn’t thought of that. Lace the balloons with genetically altered pathogens. Low rent biological warfare.
Cultural exchange program.
The flaming bags of poo with a doorbell dash always worked back in the day…or so I have been told.
Burlap bags, the only problem was that teens generally did not understand the difference between cement and wooden porches.
If San Francisco is attacked, how will they know?
The citizens would notice cleaner streets.
roll the houses with toilet paper
Smells like a dry run for a bioweapon attack.
What are the NORKs going to eat?
It is a test.
I see they used animal poo
no one is NK eats enough to
give enuff poop to fill balloons
The NY Mafia has finally captured NK’s trash disposal industry.
Certain South American countries do the same to us, except they don’t have to pay for balloons, the trash pays them to transport itself.
Honestly, this suggests to me that the nork regime is going to fall, and reunification is going to happen in Trump’s next term.
If you’re at the point where you are sending poop balloons, instead of launching rockets as provocations, you must be on the verge of collapse.
This feels like 1989 happening all over again. I can almost imagine the norks unconditionally surrendering on November 9th, 2024, after Trump is elected.
An odd observation, to be sure. The poop balloons are a reaction in kind to the south’s sending what they consider “intellectual poop” northward the same way.
Threatening a rocket response to an exercise in social propaganda would be the mark of a madman — you know, the kind of guys that everybody claims run North Korea. A paradox to consider well.
World’s Worst Jobs:
North Korean Balloon Poop Filler
Traitor Joe Biden’s Personal Poop Cleaner
… but it might even be the same guy on both jobs … I think they need to test the poop DNA in those balloons.
A bad job?
Consider that RVers do many of the same tasks, and call it recreation.
Maybe this is a tactic you should adopt when your city landfill is full and they don’t want to build a new one. Best make sure the wind is right….