North Korea sent a new batch of balloons carrying trash across the border into South Korea after Seoul said it detected parasites such as roundworms in the contents of previous dispatches.

Read his research Just when longtime North Korea watchers thought they had seen it all, Pyongyang managed to surprise them. In other words, flying feces. On May 29, some South Koreans were ...

North Korea floated another 720 trash-filled balloons into South Korea, local reports said. Pyongyang says it is retaliation for activists sending anti-North Korean leaflets across the border.

The trash from a balloon presumably sent by North Korea, is seen behind police tape in Incheon, South Korea, Sunday, June 2, 2024. North Korea launched hundreds of more trash-carrying balloons ...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said it will stop sending trash-carrying balloons into South Korea, claiming Sunday that its campaign left the South Koreans with “enough experience of how ...

North Korea has yet again sent hundreds of trash-laden balloons toward its southern neighbor, reigniting a tit-for-tat exchange after South Korean activists sent floating packages in the other ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

North Korea has said it will now stop sending trash-filled balloons across the border to South Korea, but it has threatened to resume the operations if South Korean dares to send any. Balloon ...

SEOUL, June 2 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday it would stop sending balloons carrying trash over the border to South Korea but vowed to resume the practice if anti-North Korean leaflets are ...