Pyongyang is upset about balloons drifted over its territory by South Korean human rights activists, who included USBs with K-Pop music (banned in North Korea) in their aerial packages. The response: balloons from the North filled with trash, and worse.
“All told, around 260 balloons were found scattered across a country roughly the geographic size of Indiana. Some journeyed more than 180 miles. One landed gently on a street—the pair of balloons and a clear plastic bag left intact. Another crashed through the greenhouse roof of a local grape farmer. Many others broke apart and spilled their contents onto sidewalks and streets: shreds of pink, blue and white paper, an empty laundry-detergent bag and dark clumps that looked like excrement.
Asked what the bags contained, South Korea’s defense ministry offered up only ‘o-mul’—which can mean either ‘trash’ or ‘excrement’ in Korean,” reports the Wall Street Journal.