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South Korea's military accused North Korea on Saturday of releasing more garbage-filled balloons toward Seoul. North Korea has released hundreds of inflatable balloons filled with "soil" toward the south this week in retaliation for South Korea dropping propaganda leaflets on its neighbor.
The military did not say how many balloons were launched on Saturday. But South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that about 90 balloons dropped their dirty cargo into the skies over the capital and nearby Gyeonggi province.
North Korea released about 260 large balloons loaded with garbage, including cigarette butts, plastic and human waste, toward the south on Tuesday and Wednesday. The South Korean military said time fuses were found in some of the ruptured balloons, indicating they were designed to explode in the air.
South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik called the act a "shameful and despicable act unimaginable for a normal country" and a "serious violation of the armistice agreement" that ended the Korean War in 1953 but did not end it.
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said the balloons were launched in response to South Korean forces using similar tactics to drop propaganda leaflets on the North Korean mainland.
In a statement released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday, Kim called the balloons a "gift from the heart" and said more balloons would follow.
"When you experience how unpleasant and disgusting it is to have sticky dirt sent to you, you realize that you can't just talk about freedom of expression when distributing leaflets in border areas," she said. "We have made it clear that in the future, we will definitely retaliate with dozens of times the amount of trash they scatter on us."
Tensions between Seoul and North Korea have risen in recent days since North Korea attempted to launch what South Korea described as a spy satellite on Monday, followed by test launches of about 10 ballistic missiles on Friday. South Korea and the United States conducted joint military drills involving more than 90 aircraft across the armistice line on Monday.
