South Korea blares K-pop at North Korea as payback for dirty balloons

Published June 10, 2024 1:10pm ET



South Korea saturated North Korean airwaves on Sunday by blasting boy band BTS’s chart-topping hits in retaliation for Pyongyang sending over white balloons carrying plastic bags of trash and excrement last month.

A South Korean loudspeaker near the border played Voice of Freedom, a two-hour radio program run by the South Korean military’s psychological warfare unit, the Wall Street Journal reported

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