It has been confirmed that a North Korean defector group sent plastic bottles filled with rice and dollars to North Korea. This group is different from another defector organization that recently scattered anti-North Korea leaflets across the border.
According to the defector organization “Keunsaem,” on the 23rd, they released 200 plastic bottles containing rice, one-dollar bills, anthelmintics, and a portable storage device (USB) into the sea from Ganghwa Island. These items were sent following the current heading towards the North. Earlier this month, this organization released 500 plastic bottles containing rice and USB drives from Incheon Ganghwa Island on the 7th.
Another defector organization, the Free North Korea Movement, also sent 20 large balloons to the North from Paju, Gyeonggi Province, on the 20th, containing leaflets, USBs, and one-dollar bills. This organization also dispersed anti-North leaflets on the 10th and 6th of last month.
In retaliation, North Korea has launched trash balloons on four occasions from the end of last month to the beginning of this month. North Korea has publicly stated its intention to respond hundreds of times if leaflets are scattered from our side. Kim Yo Jong, deputy director of the North Korean Workers’ Party, hinted at a potential counteraction with garbage balloons in a statement released through the Korean Central News Agency on the afternoon of the 21st, suggesting that “it is natural that unnecessary work arises because they did what they were told not to do.”
