South Korean airport shut down after North Korea despatched trash-carrying balloons

Nazim Sheikh

World Courant

ANKARA

A South Korean airport was shut down for 3 hours after North Korea launched balloons for the second straight day on Wednesday.

Takeoffs and landings of each home and worldwide flights at Incheon Worldwide Airport have been suspended or delayed from 1:46 a.m. to 4:44 a.m. native time, Seoul-based Yonhap Information reported, citing airport officers.

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Earlier, the army in Seoul stated Pyongyang despatched greater than 250 trash-carrying balloons towards South Korea in a single day, the sixth such launch since final month.

In line with South Korean media, over 2,000 trash-carrying balloons have been despatched to South Korea since Might 28.

The Joint Chiefs of Employees stated over 100 balloons on Wednesday have been carrying scrap papers and landed in Seoul and the northern a part of Gyeonggi Province.

Earlier this month, South Korea claimed that Pyongyang had resumed air-dropping trash, with greater than 300 balloons crossing the border after Seoul resumed propaganda broadcasts over loudspeakers after six years.

Pyongyang has described its transfer as a “tit-for-tat” response to anti-regime leaflets flown into North Korea from South Korea.

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Earlier, North Korean chief Kim Jong-un’s sister Kim Yo-jong additionally warned that Pyongyang would use “new responses” to Seoul’s leaflets and loudspeaker broadcasts.

She referred to as Seoul’s actions a “prelude to a really harmful state of affairs.”

In the meantime, North Korean media stated a mass rally was held in Pyongyang on Tuesday because the nation commemorated the Korean Battle anniversary.

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Round 100,000 folks attended the mass rally on the Might Dar Stadium on the day of wrestle in opposition to “US Imperialism,” the state-run Korean Central Information Company reported.

“The audio system, in reflection of the retaliatory spirit of all of the folks, expressed their will to annihilate the U.S. imperialists and the ROK puppets, the unchangeable arch enemy, at any price, bitterly denouncing the inhumane crimes dedicated by the sworn enemy,” the information company stated.

*Writing by Islamuddin Sajid



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South Korean airport shut down after North Korea despatched trash-carrying balloons

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