North Korea sends 600 more balloons carrying rubbish over border, says South
North Korea sent some 600 balloons carrying rubbish into South Korea overnight, Seoul said on Sunday, in Pyongyang’s latest move to rile its rival neighbour.
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North Korea sent some 600 balloons carrying rubbish into South Korea overnight, Seoul said on Sunday, in Pyongyang’s latest move to rile its rival neighbour.
SEOUL — Seoul warned the public on Saturday (June 1) to avoid more balloons sent from North Korea and to report them to the military or police.
North Korea launched more trash-carrying balloons toward the South after a similar campaign earlier in the week, according to South Korea’s military, in what Pyongyang calls retaliation for activists flying anti-North Korean leaflets across the border.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has slapped more sanctions on North Korea over its continued efforts to develop ballistic and nuclear missiles and its support for Russia.
SEOGWIPO, South Korea -- Since China, Japan and South Korea held a rare trilateral summit in Seoul on Monday, North Korea has carried out a flurry of aggressive acts, which analysts say indicate a particular irritation with traditional patron Beijing.
In the joint declaration issued after the Monday summit, the three countries called for wide-ranging cooperation, including resuming negotiations on a free-trade agreement as well as expanding people-to-people exchanges.
This is part one in a two-part series on the implications of North Korea’s recent official change of stance toward South Korea, and is adapted from the author’s recent chapterin Comparative Connections: A Triannual E-journal of Bilateral Relations in the Indo-Pacific.
Seoul and Tokyo, by contrast, denounced Pyongyang’s satellite launch plans, which violate UN sanctions and undermine the Korean peninsula’s stability. The diverging security visions confirmed the challenge of harmonising the trio’s regional priorities.