{"id":64724,"date":"2024-06-06T12:54:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T03:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/06\/north-korea-south-korea-poo-balloons-k-pop-usb-sticks-us-dollars"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:54:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T03:54:52","slug":"activists-fly-k-pop-usb-sticks-into-north-korea-as-poo-balloon-row-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64724","title":{"rendered":"Activists fly K-pop USB sticks into North Korea as \u2018poo balloon\u2019 row intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Balloons filled with US dollars, K-pop and leaflets critical of Kim Jong-un have been sent over the border by group of a North Korean defectors<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/29\/north-korea-reportedly-sends-balloons-carrying-excrement-into-the-south\">balloon wars<\/a>\u201d between the two Koreas have intensified after activists in the South said they had sent balloons carrying anti-North Korean propaganda over the countries\u2019 heavily armed border.<\/p>\n<p>A group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/jun\/25\/korean-war-haven-south-defectors-north\">North Korean defectors<\/a> called the Free North Korea Movement on Thursday said it had sent 10 large balloons filled with 200,000 leaflets critical of the regime of North Korean leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, as well as US dollar bills and flash drives loaded with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/k-pop\">K-pop<\/a>, according to South Korean media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/06\/north-korea-south-korea-poo-balloons-k-pop-usb-sticks-us-dollars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balloons filled with US dollars, K-pop and leaflets critical of Kim Jong-un have been sent over the border by group of a North Korean defectorsThe \u201cballoon wars\u201d between the two Koreas have intensified after activists in the South said they had sent ba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k-pop","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64734,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64724\/revisions\/64734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}