This comes after Kim Jong Un's influential sister, Kim Yo Jong warned Seoul to halt propaganda broadcasts across their tense border. She warned that the loudspeaker broadcasts risked provoking a "crisis of confrontation."
In retaliation for North Korea's campaigns to use balloons to drop trash across the border, South Korea has announced that it will resume anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas, reported Al Jazeera.
A North Korean defectors' group said that it has sent about 10 large plastic balloons carrying propaganda leaflets against the North Korean regime across the border, which has further raised about Pyongyang resuming to send trash-filled balloons, reported Yonhap News Agency.
Ramping up its 'trash balloon operations' across the border, North Korea sent 600 more trash-filled balloons to South Korea, leaving bits of paper, cloth, and cigarette butts scattered over the nation, CNN reported on Sunday citing Seoul officials.
The unannounced launch on May 27 by North Korea of yet another reconnaissance satellite using new technology represents a violation of resolutions of the 15-member UN body and posed "a grave threat to peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula," speakers warned the Security Council.
A joint statement of the three countries followed a meeting of US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell with Japan's Vice Foreign Minister Masataka Okano and South Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Hong Kyun in Little Washington, Virginia, on Friday.
The US State Department's Principal Deputy spokesperson said that China has a responsibility to "rein in and influence some of the malign and bad behaviour that we are seeing."
This follows a day after Pyongyang sent hundreds of large thrash and manure filled balloons into South Korea and days after a military spy satellite rocket launch by Pyongyang did not succeed. The South Korean military also said today that it has detected attempts by North Korea to jam GP
In a new move to grapple with its neighbour, North Korea has come up with an idea of using enormous balloons to transport floating sacks of trash containing "filth" across the border, reported CNN.
According to the Korean Central News Agency, the deputy commander of the North's national aerospace agency stated that the rocket carrying the satellite, the Malligyong-1, detonated during the first stage of flight on Monday night after being launched from a launching point on the country's
During a joint press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and China's Premier Li Qiang following the meeting in Seoul, Japan's Prime Minister Fumion Kishida emphasised on the importance of North Korean denuclearization and said that the stability on the Korean Peninsula is