Trash-Filled Balloons: North Korea's Psychological Warfare

North Korea has been sending balloons filled with trash toward South Korea as a peculiar method of psychological warfare. South Korea responded by broadcasting propaganda messages and K-pop songs. The balloon campaign includes waste paper, cloth scraps, and cigarette butts, intensifying the longstanding tensions between the two nations.

North Korea's latest psychological warfare tactic against South Korea involves flying balloons filled with trash, including waste paper, cloth scraps, and cigarette butts. The South Korean military reported this unusual move amid heightened tensions between the countries.

The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff noted on Saturday that the wind could carry these trash-laden balloons to regions north of the South Korean capital, Seoul. This follows North Korea's recent launch of over 2,000 balloons, which they claim is a reprisal against South Korean activists distributing anti-Pyongyang leaflets.

In response, South Korea has activated its front-line loudspeakers to broadcast propaganda messages and catchy K-pop songs in an effort to counteract North Korea's trash-filled balloon campaign.

(With inputs from agencies.)