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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung

Bizarre psychological warfare using K-pop and trash balloons raises tensions between the 2 Koreas

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The North Korean leadership has vowed retaliation after South Korea resumed loudspeaker broadcasts and activists floated propaganda leaflets over the border, escalating the ongoing “balloon war” and damaging their already fraught bilateral relationship.

In a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency on Sunday, Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, denounced the South for “creating a new crisis”.

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