North Korea to South: stop with the hate-balloons or we will shoot you

"A massive propaganda campaign by the South Korean military drew an ominous warning from North Korea on Sunday, with Pyongyang saying that it would fire across the border at anyone sending helium balloons carrying anti-North Korean messages into the country."

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benher

All out war! We promise! No, this time we really mean it! We’re serious! Did you hear us? War with a capital W! Give us Hennessy or else!
Anonymous

Why are democratic nations always the most obnoxious?
lecti

It’s not like the norks need to have a good reason to kill or kidnap. I’m sure people sending balloons don’t need a reminder.
Patient

Nothing makes a dictator warmonger more than seeing Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men fly around his airspace.
Anonymous

99 Luftballons?

IIRC there is a group of civilians who send balloons across from time to time. Probably with SK tacit permission. NK has protested in the past.
rebdav

99 dreams I have had.
In every one a red balloon.
It’s all over and I’m standing pretty.
In this dust that was a city.
If I could find a souvenir.
Just to prove the world was here.
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.