North drops trash, faeces

Disgusting package: A handout photo by the South Korean Defence Ministry showing unidentified objects believed to be North Korean propaganda material attached to balloons on a street in Chungnam province, South Korea. — AFP

THE North has sent balloons full of trash, toilet paper and suspected animal faeces into the South, local media reports said, with Seoul’s military slamming Pyongyang for their “low class” actions.

Photographs showing white balloons bearing garbage bags full of trash and what appeared to be excrement were shared widely by South Korean media, after the North warned it would shower border areas in “mounds of wastepaper and filth” to punish Seoul.