North Korea reignites garbage balloon drops on South Korea

North Korea has reignited its Cold War-style psychological campaign by floating another garbage-filled balloon onto the presidential compound in Seoul, according to South Korean officials.The incident on Thursday marks the second time in five months that Pyongyang has covered parts of South Korea in rubbish and comes after South Korea’s national security director Chang Ho-jin promised to take “unbearable” retaliatory steps to prevent it happening again.South Korea’s presidential security service said the garbage that fell on the compound carried no dangerous items.It was not immediately known whether President Yoon Suk Yeol was at the compound at the time of the balloon landing.South Korea’s Dong-A Ilbo newspaper reported earlier that the latest balloons contained propaganda leaflets criticising President Yoon and his wife Kim Keon Hee along with garbage.South Korea says hundreds of balloons carrying propaganda leaflets and trash have floated over the border from the north this…