North Korea sends dirty balloons to South Korea in retaliation

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Large white balloons carrying plastic bags of North Korean trash and excrement were flown into South Korea as a form of dirty protest.

The North Korean toxic trade came on Wednesday in the form of 260 large air deliveries that triggered emergency warnings to border town residents about “suspicious objects” floating in the sky. It was payback after a South Korean activist group sent 300,000 anti-regime leaflets and thousands of USB drives containing K-pop music over the border. 

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