South Korea is boosting its propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts at the border after North Korea floated more trash balloons southwards.
North Korea has resumed sending balloons carrying trash toward South Korea, Seoul’s military said on Sunday.
The military added that South Korea was stepping up its anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the heavily guarded border between the two Koreas.
“The North is launching another batch of rubbish-carrying balloons,” the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement, advising people not to touch the objects and report them to nearby military or police authorities.
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The world will long remember the devastating Trash and Loudspeaker War.
I’m happy to take it as a win that we can avoid a real war if it means some obnoxious pettiness.
I’m fine with this until we can fight wars the way they’ve always meant to be fought- with giant robots on the moon.
South should dropped some fully-charged cell phones loaded with media and Wikipedia entries.
They’ve already being doing that shit for years now. The trash balloons are a response to that.
Then SK should do it some more, seems to really bother NK for… some reason.
Maybe because they’re littering e-waste at a massive scale?
Well that’s just not true. Anything electronic landing broken in NK would be scavenged for parts in 5 minutes. People in the countryside there don’t have access to new things like those in Pyongyang.
They probably turn in the balloons to the local authority after they take what they want. Then the local police take some and send it to the main headquarters. I’m sure it’s like drug shipments that start out at 10 kilos and end up at 2 kilos by the time it reaches the evidence locker.
Source?
Are you asking for a source with unbiased info about North Korea? That’s almost impossible. Read some interviews with defectors and they will tell you how they bribed police or had hidden electronic devices.
The average person in NK is just like you or me, but they don’t have much more than some basic food and a few possessions. Their lives basically suck solely because of the government and they live right next to one of the most developed metropolises on Earth.
my ass
Ftfy
That’s wild. I had no idea.
They’ve been dropping usb sticks over the border for like decades now.
For all those peasants with computers?
Phones mostly these days from what I understand, before that small digital video players which could also play usb stocks.
They’re poor and oppressed, not living in the Iron Age.
It’s estimated over a third of North Koreans have access to a computer at home. Just no internet…
Considering how conflicts between other neighbouring countries around the world are going, loudspeakers and trash balloons seem like pretty great choices.
Its basically Neighbours From Hell: Countries edition
Isn’t one of them a biological bomb? It can poison the ground and kill people.
No, they’re just piles of general waste. You know, the same stuff we throw in rivers or elect as president.
It’s a gender reveal
It’s a… Junk pile!
me.
gender: useless
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“The North is launching another batch of rubbish-carrying balloons,” the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement, advising people not to touch the objects and report them to nearby military or police authorities.
The latest balloons from North Korea come after South Korea announced on Thursday that it had resumed loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts directed at the North.
The broadcasts were restarted for the first time in nearly 40 days as a response to Pyongyang’s previous balloon activities.
Seoul had earlier cautioned that it would broaden the scope of its broadcasts if the North continued floating the trash-carrying balloons.
“As we warned several times, the military will carry out loudspeaker broadcasts in full scale and on all fronts starting 1 pm today,” the JCS said on Sunday, deeming the North’s launch of balloons vulgar and shameful.
South Korea’s broadcasts — which contain propaganda, world news and K-pop music — irk the isolated North Korea, which tries to limit access to outside news for its 26 million people.
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What a trashy thing to do
Reddit tier comment
now that is a Reddit tier comment
I agree because I didn’t add anything to the topic at hand, but disagree because I wasn’t making the lowest hanging fruit comment possible.
