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About 500 balloons, mostly filled with paper and plastic waste, were launched by the North in the early morning of July 24.
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SEOUL – Rising tensions in the Korean peninsula reached new heights on July 24 when an unspecified number of trash-filled balloons launched by North Korea fell into the South Korean presidential office compound.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) confirmed that about 500 balloons – mostly filled with paper and plastic waste – were launched by the North in the early morning of July 24, and about 480 of them had fallen inside South Korea by the next day.
