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South Korea resumes broadcasting anti-North Korea propaganda at border in response to trash balloons

Jun. 09, 2024 22:49 PM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea resumed broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda through loudspeakers in border areas Sunday in retaliation for the more than 1,000 trash- and manure-filled balloons the North had sent over the last couple of weeks. Hours later, the powerful...

Will North Korea fly trash balloons into South Korea again? A look at rising tensions between them

Jun. 07, 2024 05:22 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Koreans were alert Friday for possible new launches by North Korea of balloons carrying rubbish into the South, a day after Seoul activists flew their own balloons to scatter political leaflets in the North. Any resumption of trash balloon launches...

North Korea's trash balloons deepen tensions with the South. Here's what's happening between rivals

Jun. 04, 2024 11:37 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Animosities between North and South Korea are rising sharply again over an unusual cause: The North's rubbish-carrying balloons. In the past week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons dumping manure, cigarette butts, scraps of cloth, waste...

North Korea flies trash balloons over the South as leader Kim doubles down on satellite ambitions

May. 29, 2024 08:12 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea flew hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South Korea in one of its most bizarre provocations against its rival in years, prompting the South’s military to mobilize chemical and explosive response teams to recover objects and debris in...

Kim's sister denies North Korea has supplied weapons to Russia

May. 16, 2024 22:22 PM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again denied Friday that her country has exported any weapons to Russia, as she labeled outside speculation on North Korea-Russian arms dealings as “the most absurd paradox.” The U.S., South...

North Korea says Japan's prime minister offered to meet with leader Kim Jong Un soon

Mar. 25, 2024 10:19 AM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday that Japan's prime minister has offered to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but stressed that prospects for their countries’ first summit in about 20 years would depend on Tokyo tolerating the North's weapons program and ignoring its...