ALBAWABA - As North Korea continued to send out trash balloons toward South Korean territories, the latter announced that it would be suspending the inter-Korean military deal, a report by the Security Council confirmed.
Pyongyang has flown roughly a thousand balloons carrying waste, including cigarette butts and presumably manure, into the South in revenge for anti-regime propaganda delivered by South Korean activists.
The most recent provocation from its neighbor has been labeled "irrational" and "low-class" by South Korea, but unlike the previous wave of ballistic missile tests, the trash campaign does not breach UN sanctions on the isolated regime.
The North withdrew the balloon bombardment on Sunday, claiming it had been a successful countermeasure and issuing a warning that more may be necessary.
The 2018 military agreement attempts to lower tensions on the peninsula and prevent an unintentional escalation, particularly near the heavily fortified border. It was signed during a time of improved relations between the two officially at-war nations.
Seoul temporarily halted the pact in November of last year to protest Pyongyang's successful spy satellite launch, and the North stated that it would no longer follow the accord at all.
As a consequence, Seoul's NSC stated that the accord was "virtually null and void due to North Korea's de facto declaration of abandonment," but that adhering to the part of it harmed the South's capacity to respond to threats such as the balloons.
