• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The answer: unhinged passive aggression (from a nuclear armed state).

    North Korea has deployed hundreds of trash balloons containing everything from used toilet paper to cigarette butts, a move it claims is in response to South Korean activists sending balloons with political pamphlets and USB drives with K-dramas.

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    6 months ago

    I mean… Yeah, it makes sense

    You don’t want our balloons, fine - we don’t want your balloons.

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      5 months ago

      But they gave North Korea spicy korean dramas and the hippest Kpop music and in return NK sends used toilet paper

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        5 months ago

        I think the message is that South Korean culture and western propaganda is garbage to them. They are saying, “send us garbage, we’ll return the favor in kind”.