OR North Korea has again sent hundreds of balloons filled with garbage into the South, the South Korean military said today, the latest such “slaughter” in a series of similar incidents.

OR Pyongyang took off about 190 balloons yesterday, Friday night, the general staff of the South Korean armed forces announced in Seoul. About 100 of them have already landed in South Korea, mostly in the northern part of the country.

The bags hanging from the balloons contain “mostly paper and plastic trash,” the same source said.

This episode is marked against the background of the visit to South Korea of the outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidawho had talks with the South Korean president yesterday, Friday Yoon Suk Yeol.

At the beginning of May, Pyongyang had sent nearly 5,000 balloons to the South Koreasaying it was in retaliation for the propaganda balloons sent by South Koreans to North Korea.

Relations between the two neighbors are at their worst in years. Recently the North Korea announced the deployment of 250 ballistic missile launchers on its southern border.

In response, the South Korea resumed broadcasting propaganda messages from loudspeakers along the border, completely suspended a military agreement aimed at reducing tensions and resumed live-fire high schools on border islands and near the demilitarized zone that divides the Korean peninsula.