North Korea continues to send balloons filled with garbage toward the South, even managing to strike the South Korean president's palace, prompting Seoul to mobilize chemical response teams in an escalating propaganda war. The presidential security service said it discovered it while monitoring the North's latest shipment earlier in the day. Since May, Yonhap reported, Pyongyang has sent thousands of balloons filled with garbage and manure, including human-made manure, toward South Korea to protest anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets sent by South Korean activists across the border. The launches have exposed the South's permeable defenses.
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“An investigation by the chemical, biological and radiological response team showed that the objects did not pose any danger or contamination, so they were recovered,” the Security Service reported. Assuring that it is committed to “continuing to monitor the situation in cooperation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff command.” Meanwhile, Seoul is also attacking Pyongyang with weapons. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent to Russia containers capable of holding about 5.2 million artillery shells and dozens of short-range ballistic missiles by July 15, according to an estimate by South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik, made in an interview with the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri.
Amid lingering concerns about the strengthening of military ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, Shin reiterated that the possible supply of South Korean weapons to Ukraine will depend on the “level and details of military cooperation” between Moscow and Pyongyang, such as weapons and military technology.
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