{"id":2953,"date":"2024-06-02T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T10:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2024-06-02T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T10:06:14","slug":"north-korea-sends-600-more-trash-filled-balloons-over-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/north-korea-sends-600-more-trash-filled-balloons-over-border\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea sends 600 more trash-filled balloons over border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>North Korea has sent around 600 more trash-filled balloons containing everything from cigarette butts to plastic across the border, Seoul&#8217;s military said Sunday, adding that security personnel were collecting them as they landed.<br \/>\n&#8220;North Korea has resumed launching waste balloons towards South Korea,&#8221; since around 8 pm (1100 GMT) Saturday evening, Seoul&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>As of around 10 am Sunday, &#8220;approximately 600 balloons have been identified, with about 20 to 50 balloons per hour moving through the air,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>The balloons are landing in South Korea&#8217;s northern provinces, including the capital Seoul and the adjacent area of Gyeonggi, which collectively are home to nearly half of the South&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea began sending hundreds of balloons carrying bags of trash earlier this week, which Seoul has slammed as &#8220;low-class&#8221;, warning of strong countermeasures unless Pyongyang stops such &#8220;irrational&#8221; provocations.<br \/>\nSince the campaign started Tuesday, some 900 balloons have been launched, the JCS said.<\/p>\n<p>So far, they have been found to contain &#8220;waste such as cigarette butts, scrap paper, fabric pieces, and plastic,&#8221; it said, adding that &#8220;no hazardous substances have been found.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; it said.<br \/>\n&#8220;We urge the public to avoid contact with the fallen waste balloons and report them to the nearest military unit or police station,&#8221; it added<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has sent around 600 more trash-filled balloons containing everything from cigarette butts to plastic across the border, Seoul&#8217;s military said Sunday, adding that security personnel were collecting them as they landed. &#8220;North Korea has resumed launching waste balloons towards South Korea,&#8221; since around 8 pm (1100 GMT) Saturday evening, Seoul&#8217;s Joint Chiefs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}