South Korea expects ”a new response” from North Korea after the decision to resume broadcasts with loudspeakers near the border and launch propaganda leaflets against Pyongyang. The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Kim Yo-jong, said this, speaking of a “very dangerous situation”. This was reported by the Yonhap news agency. South Korea has resumed loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts to North Korea after six years in retaliation for Pyongyang’s repeated shipments of garbage balloons.
“If South Korea simultaneously drops leaflets and broadcasts through loudspeakers provocatively across the border, it will undoubtedly witness a new reaction from North Korea,” Kim said. North Korea, he added, sent about 7.5 tons of “waste paper” in 1,400 balloons across the border over the weekend, claiming it was just trash that contained nothing related to political propaganda, unlike anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent by North Korean defectors to South Korea.
”It is very different from the provocative political agitation rubbish spread by North Korean scum against South Korea,” Kim said, asserting that the North had planned to stop sending balloons, but ”the situation has changed” as the South resumed broadcasting through loudspeakers across the border. “I sternly warn Seoul to immediately stop the dangerous act of provoking further confrontational crisis and discipline itself,” he said.
