Trash balloon causes fire on Seoul rooftop

A trash balloon from North Korea landed on a Seoul building rooftop and caused a fire, a local fire department said, among thousands of balloons Pyongyang has sent southward this year, sparking a tit-for-tat propaganda campaign.

“At around 9.04pm local time on Sunday, a fire broke out on the rooftop of a four-storey commercial building in the Western district of Seoul,” Seoul’s Gangseo Fire Station said in a statement yesterday.