Kim Jong Un’s sister hints at flying more rubbish balloons towards South Korea

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed on Sunday to respond to what she called a fresh South Korean civilian leafleting campaign, signalling that Pyongyan will soon resume flying rubbish-carrying balloons across the border.

Since late May, North Korea has floated numerous balloons carrying waste paper, scraps of cloth, cigarette butts and even manure towards South Korea on a series of late-night launch events, saying they were a tit-for-tat action against South Korean activists scattering political leaflets via their own balloons.