SEOUL — A North Korean balloon carrying trash landed on Seoul's presidential compound Thursday, authorities said, with local media reporting it contained propaganda leaflets ridiculing President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife.
SEOUL — A North Korean balloon carrying trash landed on Seoul's presidential compound Thursday, authorities said, with local media reporting it contained propaganda leaflets ridiculing President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife.Activist groups in South Korea have long sent propaganda northwards, typically carried by balloons, including leaflets, US dollar bills and sometimes USB drives containing K-pop or K-dramas, which are banned in the tightly controlled North.
Photo by YONHAP / AFPIt marks the second time the South Korean leader's office in downtown Seoul, which is protected by scores of soldiers and a no-fly zone, has been directly hit by balloons launched from the North, with the first incident occurring in July.South Korea's Chosun Daily reported the balloon carried anti-South leaflets ridiculing South Korean President Yoon and his wife Kim Keon Hee.
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