Unintended Diplomacy: North Korea’s Trash Balloons Reach the South’s Presidential Office
Unintended Diplomacy: North Korea’s Trash Balloons Reach the South’s Presidential Office Background: Every year, thousands of balloons filled with propaganda leaflets and small plastic toys are launched from North Korea, drifting across the border into South Korea. This tradition, known as “propaganda balloon diplomacy,” is intended to spread pro-North Korean messages and undermine the South’s…