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Seoul, South Korea – South Korea on Sunday resumed a loudspeaker propaganda campaign against the North, as Pyongyang sent a fresh barrage of trash-filled balloons across the border and vowed “new counteraction.”
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned the escalation could become a “very dangerous situation”, and that Seoul should expect “new counteraction”, according to a statement published by the North’s state-run KCNA. Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military had conducted a loudspeaker broadcast in the afternoon, and that whether additional broadcasts would follow “depends entirely on North Korea’s actions.”
Seoul’s military has said analysis of the balloons that arrived Saturday “shows there were no substances that were harmful to safety” and that they contained plastic and waste paper. “There is a high possibility the resuming of speakers could lead to an armed conflict,” Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Korean peninsula strategy at Sejong Institute, told AFP.
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