Posted on 05/29/2024 5:07:20 AM PDT by billorites
An unusual sight drifted into South Korean skies on Wednesday: Large white balloons carrying plastic bags of North Korean trash. Some contained something even more vile.
The air deliveries from North Korea were detected the prior evening, Seoul’s military said, triggering emergency warnings around 11:30 p.m. to border-town residents to avoid going outdoors because of “suspicious objects” floating in the sky.
All told, around 260 balloons were found scattered across a country roughly the geographic size of Indiana.
Some journeyed more than 180 miles. One landed gently on a street—the pair of balloons and a clear plastic bag left intact. Another crashed through the greenhouse roof of a local grape farmer. Many others broke apart and spilled their contents onto sidewalks and streets: shreds of pink, blue and white paper, an empty laundry-detergent bag and dark clumps that looked like excrement.
Asked what the bags contained, South Korea’s defense ministry offered up only “o-mul”—which can mean either “trash” or “excrement” in Korean.
There was no doubt the sender was Kim Jong Un’s regime. Just days earlier, a North Korean vice defense minister vowed the country would soon heap “mounds of waste paper and filth” onto its southern neighbors, state media reported. South Korea should “directly experience how much effort is required to remove” the balloons, the vice minister said.
Pyongyang was seething over the recent unwelcomed arrival of a swarm of balloons cast off by a South Korean activist group, which sent 300,000 antiregime leaflets and thousands of USB drives containing K-pop music from the likes of boy band BTS.
Kim, the 40-year-old dictator, has sought to crack down on foreign-media consumption since glimpses of the outside world threaten to show his people how poor life is inside North Korea—a threat to his leadership’s legitimacy.
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are you sh——ing me?
Poo-flinging degenerates.
Nothing scares the Nooks more than their citizens finding out how the rest of the world lives.
Surely it can’t be worse than what the South sent to the North: “thousands of USB drives containing K-pop music from the likes of boy band BTS”!
Yes, it CAN be worse than boy-band music.
“And stop calling me Shirley.”
>Pyongyang was seething over the recent unwelcomed arrival of a swarm of balloons cast off by a South Korean activist group, which sent 300,000 antiregime leaflets and thousands of USB drives containing K-pop music from the likes of boy band BTS.
Are the South Koreans NOT trying to win?
lol...NORKS probably would of enjoyed some rice instead of USB drives.
99 poop-balloons
Assume the can opener.
Nice catch; huge talent. What is your favorite work of hers?
I know her best from her string of “strong, middle-aged woman” films in the 70s and 80s, but have had a hankering to see her in Sweet Charity.
How ‘bout you?
You’re right of course. But virtue signallers generally aren’t that smart.
2 Mules for Sister Sarah w/ Eastwood. Nice dialogues, nice surprise ending.
Huh—thanks.
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