A man watches a TV screen showing a news program with a file image of Kim Yo Jong at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. Sending balloons across the border has been a common activist tactic for years, but North Korea considers it an attack on its government. In 2014, soldiers exchanged fire after South Korean activists released propaganda balloons across the Demilitarized Zone, but no casualties were reported. North Korea’s latest denouncement of the balloon protests follows months of frustration over the South’s unwillingness to defy U.S.-led international sanctions against the North. “(South Korean) authorities will be forced to pay a dear price if they let this situation go on while making sort of excuses,” she said in advocating South Korea outlaw the balloon protests.

Source: The Standard June 04, 2020 07:30 UTC