Weeks into North Korea’s campaign of launching balloons loaded with trash across the world’s most heavily armed border, some of them hit a symbolically significant target in South Korea on Wednesday: the presidential office in the heart of Seoul, the capital.
North Korea has released more than 3,000 of the trash balloons since May, many of which have reached the South after floating across the Demilitarized Zone between the two nations.
On Wednesday, for the first time, some of them landed inside the sprawling compound in central Seoul that includes the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The authorities did not say exactly how many had reached the compound, one of the most tightly guarded places in South Korea.
The team found “nothing dangerous or contaminating,” South Korea’s presidential security service said in a brief statement.
Persons:
Yoon Suk
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Officials
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South Korea, Seoul, North Korea