Both sides accuse each other of provocative actions
Kim Yo Jong threatens military steps
North and South Korea tensions escalate
North Korea retaliates with balloons carrying trash and manure
South Korea suspends military deal, restarts propaganda broadcasts
In recent weeks, tensions between North and South Korea have escalated significantly. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, has criticized South Korea for launching anti-regime propaganda leaflets across the border via balloons and warned they would pay “a very high price” if further provoked. Pyongyang has already sent over a thousand balloons carrying trash southward in retaliation for balloons carrying propaganda criticizing Kim Jong Un's rule. In response, Seoul has fully suspended a tension-reducing military deal with North Korea and restarted some propaganda broadcasts from loudspeakers along the border. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim called South Korea's recent front-line live-fire drills “suicidal hysteria” and threatened unspecified military steps if further provoked. She accused South Korea's conservative government of deliberately escalating tensions as a way to escape a domestic political crisis. North Korea has been engaged in provocative weapons testing since 2022, with its two recent tests of a missile with “a super-large warhead” and a multiwarhead missile drawing widespread skepticism from South Korean officials and experts who said North Korea likely fabricated successful launches to cover up failed tests. In early June, South Korea fully suspended the 2018 inter-Korean military pact after North Korea flew balloons carrying manure, cigarette butts, and waste paper across the border in protest of South Korean activists scattering political leaflets in the North via their own balloons. The military agreement, reached during a short-lived era of reconciliation between the Koreas, required the two countries to cease all hostile acts at border areas such as live-firing drills, aerial surveillance, and psychological warfare. The deal had already been in danger of collapse with both Koreas taking steps in breach of it amid animosities over North Korea's spy satellite launch last November. Additionally, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, called the first-ever multi-domain joint military drills between the U.S., South Korea, and Japan as “the height of confrontational hysteria” against North Korea. She warned that the allies have “crossed the red line.” Relations between North and South Korea are at their most unstable in decades, with Pyongyang accusing Seoul of provocative joint military exercises with the United States and condemning Kim Jong Un regime's spate of missile launches. The Russia-North Korea arms trade and a new mutual military treaty have further stirred tensions.
North Korean leader's sister, Kim Yo Jong, vowed to respond to South Korea’s civilian leafleting campaign.
Kim Yo Jong signaled that North Korea would soon resume flying trash-carrying balloons across the border towards South Korea.
South Korean officials don’t restrict activists from flying leaflets to North Korea, following a 2023 constitutional court ruling that struck down a law criminalizing such leafleting, calling it a violation of free speech.
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South Korean officials don’t restrict activists from flying leaflets to North Korea.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, criticized recent military exercises near the North-South border and warned that the allies have ‘crossed the red line.’
Relations between North Korea and South Korea are at their most unstable in decades.
Kim Yo Jong called the first-ever multi-domain joint military drills between the U.S., South Korea, and Japan as the ‘height of confrontational hysteria’ against North Korea.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, criticized recent military exercises near the North-South border and warned that the allies have ‘crossed the red line’.
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The author uses inflammatory rhetoric by quoting Kim Yo Jong's statement that South Korea and the US have 'crossed the red line' and will 'sustain terrible disaster'. This is an appeal to fear and a threat. The author also quotes Kim Yo Jong's statement that the military exercises are 'reckless', 'suicidal hysterical', and 'the height of confrontational hysteria'. These are subjective opinions, not facts, and an appeal to emotion.
"The war maniacs should judge by themselves what result such desperate war drill hysteria would bring in the end,"
"Relations between the Koreas are at their most unstable in decades,"
"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, called the exercise 'the height of confrontational hysteria.'
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, criticized South Korea for launching anti-regime propaganda leaflets across the border via balloons.
Pyongyang found a batch of ‘dirty leaflets and things’ from South Korea in North Korean territory along the border.
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Pyongyang found a batch of 'dirty leaflets and things' from South Korea in North Korean territory along the border.
