SEOUL, South Korea — Manure. Cigarette butts. Scraps of cloth. Waste batteries. Even, reportedly, diapers. This week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons to dump all of that trash across rival South Korea — an old-fashioned, Cold War-style provocation that the country has rarely used in recent years.
The powerful sister of North Korea n leader Kim Jong Un confirmed Wednesday that North Korea sent the balloons and attached trash sacks. She said they were deployed to make good on her country's recent threat to 'scatter mounds of wastepaper and filth' in South Korea in response to the leafleting campaigns by South Korea n activists.Experts say the balloon campaigning is meant to stoke a division in South Korea over its conservative government's hardline policy on North Korea .
In recent years, the two Koreas have agreed to halt such activities but sometimes resumed them when tensions rose.WHAT DOES NORTH KOREA WANT?The North's balloon launches are part of a recent series of provocative steps, which include its failed spy satellite launch and test-firings of about 10 suspected short-range missiles this week.
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