North Korea sends more rubbish balloons to South after Kim sister’s threat

North Korea has floated more than 1,000 rubbish-carrying balloons into the South in recent weeks [Yonhap via Reuters]

North Korea has floated hundreds more refuse-carrying balloons into South Korea after Kim Jong Un’s influential sister warned Seoul to halt propaganda broadcasts across their tense border.

Pyongyang sent more than 300 waste-loaded balloons across the inter-Korean border overnight, South Korea’s military said on Monday, after Kim Yo Jong warned earlier that the loudspeaker broadcasts risked provoking a “crisis of confrontation”.