Excrement, rubbish and propaganda leaflets... the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil explains. North Korea has dropped at least 260 balloons carrying rubbish in the South, prompting authorities to warn its ...

It comes just days after North Korea appeared to send at least 200 balloons carrying rubbish over the border in retaliation for propaganda leaflets sent from the south. South Korea's defence ...

North Korea has resumed sending balloons carrying ... "The North is launching another batch of rubbish-carrying balloons," ...

SEOUL--Animosities between North and South Korea are rising sharply again over an unusual cause: The North’s rubbish-carrying balloons. In the past week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge ...

about 600 balloons flown from North Korea have been found in various parts of South Korea. The balloons carried cigarette butts, scraps of cloth, waste paper and vinyl, but no dangerous substances ...

According to KCNA, around 3,500 balloons carrying some 15 tons of trash such as cigarette butts, cloth, paper waste and plastic were sent by North Korea across the Demilitarized Zone separating ...

South Korea resumed using loudspeakers for propaganda statements and launching balloons with leaflets to the North. In response, Pyongyang sent balloons filled with trash and waste toward South Korea.

South Koreans have been advised to beware and not to touch falling objects suspected to be from North Korea. Source: AAP / AP ...

saying that the North would respond by 'scattering rubbish dozens of times more than those being scattered to us'. South Korea's military has said it has no plans to shoot down the balloons ...

[AFP] North Korea has sent balloons full of trash ... be also taken against frequent scattering of leaflets and other rubbish by the ROK near border areas," Kim Kang Il, a vice-minister of ...

North Koreans have been reduced to stealing each others' feces after Kim Jong Un demanded an impossibly high quota of human waste from his people to use as fertilizer.

The act of sending waste-filled balloons is not just a symbolic gesture; it is a reminder of North Korea’s capacity for unconventional and asymmetric warfare.