The agreement, which was the most significant agreement to emerge from times of ancient mountain discussions between the two Koreas in 2018, had been all but abandoned when Pyongyang declared last time that it was no longer bound by it. Since therefore, the North has deployed troops and weapons atContinue Reading
The North said it will then “temporarily dismiss” its plan, saying it had been a “pure failsafe”.
” But, if the South Koreans resume the supply of anti- DPRK leaflets, we may respond by scattering one hundred times the amount of waste paper and garbage, as we have already warned, in proportion to the detected quantity and frequency”, it said, using the acronym for the country’s established name.
Activists in the South have also carried their own balloons, which are sometimes stuffed with rice, rice, or USB thumb drives full of K-dramas, across the border.
Pyongyang earlier this week referred to its” sincere gifts” as retaliation for the propaganda-laden balloons that were flown into North Korea earlier this week.
Nearly half of the country’s population, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been landed in northern provinces, including Seoul, the capital, and Gyeonggi, which are both home to nearly half of the country’s population.
According to the JCS, the most recent batch of balloons contained “waste such as cigarette butts, scrap paper, fabric pieces, and plastic,” adding that military officials and police were taking them in.
” Our military is conducting surveillance and reconnaissance from the launch points of the balloons, tracking them through aerial reconnaissance, and collecting the fallen debris, prioritising public safety”, it said.
A presidential official said Seoul would not rule out responding to the balloons by resuming loudspeaker propaganda campaigns along the border with North Korea at the meeting of South Korea’s National Security Council on Sunday.
In the past, South Korea has broadcast anti- Kim propaganda into the North, which infuriates Pyongyang.
” If Seoul chooses to resume anti-North broadcast via loudspeakers along the border, which Pyongyang dislikes as much as Kim balloons, it may lead to a resumption of armed conflict along border regions, such as those in the West Sea,” said Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Korean peninsula strategy at Sejong Institute.
Beijing’s landmark mission to retrieve the first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere successfully ended on Sunday ( Jun 2 ) with the arrival of an unmanned spacecraft on the far side of the moon. China’s position as a room power is strengthened by the landing inContinue Reading
Pyongyang referred to its” honest gifts” as being in response to the propaganda-filled balloons that were flown into North Korea earlier this year. ” If Seoul chooses to continue anti-North spread via headphones along the frontier, which Pyongyang dislikes as much as Kim bubbles, it may lead to a resumptionContinue Reading
SEOUL: North Korea sent around 600 balloons carrying trash into South Korea overnight, Seoul said on Sunday ( Jun 2 ), in Pyongyang’s latest move to rile its rival neighbour. According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, balloons carrying wastes like cigarette butts, material, paper waste, and vinyl wereContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: The prospect of peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan is being increasingly “eroded” by Taiwanese separatists and external forces, Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun said on Sunday ( Jun 2 ), promising to ensure independence never happens. China holds Taiwan, which is politically governed, as its own territory, despite the government’sContinue Reading
” LOWER EXPECTATIONS” There is now a force to replace roles that “dovetail with important policy priorities” or where skills shortages exist, said Tay, like business improving and technological development. With employment opportunities drying up for those holding anthropology, media and law degrees, she said, some kind of “government- sponsoredContinue Reading
However, South Korean activists continued to resist, and in the same time, Pyongyang formally cut off all formal military and political communication channels and blew up an inter-Korean contact office on its side of the border while dispelling the anti-north leaflets. The North Korean Constitutional Court last month upheld theContinue Reading
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Euro, US CRITICISM Chow” regularly published posts with subversive intention on social media, attempting to incite hatred of the people toward the central authorities and the Hong Kong government,” according to the Chinese foreign ministry office on Thursday. The spokesperson accused unknown “external forces” of “making all kinds of effortsContinue Reading