🇰🇵❌🇰🇷 — Over the past 48 hours, South Korean media reported that North Korea sent some 600 trash-carrying balloons

➡️ According to Yonhap News Agency, North Korea has sent around 600 balloons carrying trash to South Korea, Seoul's military said Sunday, despite a warning that the South would take "unendurably" painful measures against such provocative acts.

➡️ South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it has detected around 600 balloons that floated across the Military Demarcation Line separating the two Koreas and fell in Seoul and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province since 8 p.m. Saturday.

➡️ The balloons carried various pieces of trash, such as cigarette butts, paper and plastic bags, just like the previous balloons, according to the JCS.

➡️ North Korea previously sent around 260 balloons carrying trash and excrement to the South on Tuesday and Wednesday after it warned of a "tit-for-tat action" against anti-Communist & Anti-Juche leaflets sent by the South's activists and North Korean defectors

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🇰🇷❌🇰🇵❗️ — South Korean National Security Council expected to discuss resuming loudspeaker campaign as retaliation to North's launch of trash-carrying balloons

➡️ According to Yonhap News Agency, the presidential National Security Council (NSC) is expected to discuss a plan to resume Anti-Communist propaganda campaigns via State-owned loudspeakers across the border with North Korea, in response to the North's launch of some 600 balloons carrying trash to the South, a source close to the matter said Sunday.

➡️ The NSC meeting will be held Sunday afternoon and presided over by National Security Adviser Jang Ho-jin, according to the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol.

➡️ It marks the first time the presidential office will hold an NSC meeting over the North's balloon provocation.

➡️ A source within South Korea's military said to Yonhap News Agency, "Loudspeakers against North Korea are ready to resume at any time."

➡️ South Korea's propaganda campaign via loudspeakers had temporarily resumed in 2010, 2015 and 2016 in the wake of the North's provocations.

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