The US calls the sending of balloons with garbage from North Korea to South Korea a “disgusting and childish tactic”

June 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The spokesman for the United States Department of State, Matthew Miller, has described as a “disgusting and childish tactic” the sending of balloons with manure and garbage by North Korea to South Korea, whose authorities denounced on Sunday the arrival of some 720 objects of this type.

“It is, obviously, a pretty disgusting, irresponsible and childish tactic, and it must come to an end. Of course I condemn it,” Miller said during a press conference.

The North Korean authorities assured on Sunday that they have paralyzed these actions, but that they will send this type of balloons again if South Korea launches propaganda pamphlets on its territory again.

Pyongyang reported launching 3,500 balloons carrying “15 tons” of debris between May 28 and June 2. The balloons carried various pieces of trash, such as cigarette butts, paper and plastic bags, like previous balloons, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the South Korean Army.

In response, first the South Korean Presidential National Security Council, and then the cabinet, have decided to completely suspend the 2018 inter-Korean treaty, which they already partially interrupted in November, until “mutual trust” between Pyongyang and Seoul is restored.

This agreement at the time reduced tensions between both countries, from which Seoul partially withdrew in November in response to the launch of a military satellite by North Korea, which responded with the promise of restoring military measures suspended under the agreement, signed on September 19, 2018 under the Administration of former President Moon Jae In, which called for stopping all hostile military activity between the two Koreas, establishing maritime security zones and converting the Demilitarized Zone into a zone of peace, among other issues.