JAKARTA - Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned South Korea that it continues to provoke through loudspeakers and spread leaflets amid rising tensions in retaliation from North Korean trash balloons.
"If South Korea simultaneously distributes leaflets and provocations through loudspeaker broadcasts across the border, then they will definitely witness new countermeasures from the DPRK (Korean Democratic People's Republic of Indonesia)," Kim Yo Jong said in a statement broadcast by KCNA as reported by Reuters, Monday, June 10.
South Korea continued broadcasts via loudspeakers aimed at North Korea on Sunday, June 9, South Korea's military said, as a follow-up to warnings demanding Pyongyang stop sending balloons carrying garbage to South Korea.
"This is the beginning of a very dangerous situation," said Kim, deputy department director at the ruling Workers' Party, referring to a loudspeaker broadcast in South Korea.
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The decision to resume the broadcast, as a form of psychological warfare, was taken after North Korea on Saturday, June 8, began launching about 330 balloons filled with garbage, and about 80 of them were dropped on the border, the South Korean military said.
Pyongyang began shipping balloons carrying garbage and dirt across the border in May and said the move was retaliation for anti-North leaflets flown by South Korean activists as part of a propaganda campaign.
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