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South Korea is boosting its propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at the border after North Korea floated more trash balloons southwards.

North Korea has resumed sending balloons carrying trash toward South Korea, Seoul's military said on Sunday.

The military added that South Korea was stepping up its anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the heavily guarded border between the two Koreas.

"The North is launching another batch of rubbish-carrying balloons," the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement, advising people not to touch the objects and report them to nearby military or police authorities.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

South should dropped some fully-charged cell phones loaded with media and Wikipedia entries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They've already being doing that shit for years now. The trash balloons are a response to that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Then SK should do it some more, seems to really bother NK for... some reason.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe because they're littering e-waste at a massive scale?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well that's just not true. Anything electronic landing broken in NK would be scavenged for parts in 5 minutes. People in the countryside there don't have access to new things like those in Pyongyang.

They probably turn in the balloons to the local authority after they take what they want. Then the local police take some and send it to the main headquarters. I'm sure it's like drug shipments that start out at 10 kilos and end up at 2 kilos by the time it reaches the evidence locker.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

That's wild. I had no idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They’ve been dropping usb sticks over the border for like decades now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For all those peasants with computers?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Phones mostly these days from what I understand, before that small digital video players which could also play usb stocks.

They’re poor and oppressed, not living in the Iron Age.