South Korea steps up propaganda broadcasts after new trash balloons from North
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Seoul: South Korea will ramp up propaganda broadcasts to the North in response to Pyongyang sending more trash carrying balloons across the border, Se...
Seoul: South Korea will ramp up propaganda broadcasts to the North in response to Pyongyang sending more trash-carrying balloons across the border, Seoul's military said Sunday.
The two Koreas have engaged in a tit-for-tat campaign, with the North sending nearly 2,000 trash-carrying balloons southwards since May, saying it is retaliation for propaganda balloons launched by South Korean activists.
In protest at a latest wave of North Korean balloons, the South Korean military said it was widening the scale of its frontline propoganda broadcasts.
"Effective from 1300 (0400 GMT) our military will conduct a full scale broadcasts along the borders as we have warned repeatedly," said a statement Sunday from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"The North is launching another batch of rubbish-carrying balloons," an earlier statement said, noting they were flying towards the northern part of Gyeonggi.
