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After sending hundreds of balloons loaded with trash and excrement across the border into South Korea, North Korean officials said on Sunday the effort would be halted.
"We will temporarily suspend the action of scattering waste paper beyond the border," said the official Korean Central News Agency. "This is because our action is a thorough countermeasure."
They warned that the balloons would fly south again if Seoul sent any anti-North Korean leaflets northwards.
The distribution of South Korea leaflets attacking the Kim Jong Un regime has long been a sore spot between the two rival nations.
South Korea has decried the sending of trash-filled balloons as "low-class" and warned its own response would be "unendurable."
North Korea sends hundreds of trash balloons across border
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dj/ab (AFP, Reuters)
