South Korea Launches ‘Tension-Escalating Acts’ After North Korea Sends More Trash Balloons Full of ‘Parasites and Old Clothes’

South Korea has upped the ante in the ongoing tit-for-tat hybrid war with its northern neighbor.

Knewz.com has learned that in response to the parasite, trash, and soil-bearing balloons, the southern peninsula state is blasting music and news at its northern neighbor using loudspeakers.

The sounds emanating from the said giant sound systems comprise K-pop (a local contemporary genre of music) along with South Korean news bulletins—both of which have been banned by the Kim Jong Un regime.

Announcing the decision in the press, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said: “As we have warned numerous times, we will conduct loudspeaker broadcasts in full-scale at all fronts starting from 1 PM.”

True to its word, the Asian democracy played the speakers for four days in a row from July 17 to 21.

During one of the broadcasts, the JCS indicated that the speakers had been on since 6 AM and were scheduled to be turned off at 10 PM.

“The North Korean military's tension-escalating acts in front-line areas may lead it to pay a fatal price and we sternly warn that all responsibility for this situation lies with the North Korean regime,” the JCS warned.

This move follows North Korea’s distribution of nearly 2,000 garbage-carrying balloons over South Korea in nine separate instances—1,500 of which were sent since June 2024.

One ensuing examination revealed that they carried soil with “roundworms, whipworms and threadworms,” and damaged “Western clothing”.

In another instance reported on May 29, 2024, the bombardment was preceded by a warning from a Kim military spokesperson.

Knewz.com reported that Kim Kang Il, a deputy minister from the North Korean military cabinet said:

“Mounds of wastepaper and filth will soon be scattered over the border areas and the interior of the ROK [South Korea] and it will directly experience how much effort is required to remove them.”

Notably, defectors from the reclusive northern state and anti-Kim advocates have been blamed for provoking the trashy assaults after they sent balloons with democratic propaganda northwards.

This drew fury from various Kim blowhards including the dictator's sister, Kim Yo-jong.

“We give the scum a stern warning again. They should be ready for paying a gruesome and dear price,” she said, referring to South Korea.

It is not the first time the latter has resorted to loudspeakers to get their message across.

Reports indicate that the southern country, which has a total of 11 loudspeaker systems along its border , employed this tactic as early as 2005.

It refrained from it for eleven years thereafter until relations between the two countries deteriorated and resumed the practice again in 2016.

According to the Yonhap News Agency , the most recent continuation of this tactic followed a forty-day hiatus, which was ended by a new wave of trash balloons.