Trash dropped by a North Korean balloon falls on South Korea’s presidential compound

North Korean trash balloon lands in South Korean president's compound

Heightening tensions between the divided Koreas, a trash balloon allegedly sent from North landed in presidential compound in South Korea on Wednesday.  “Nothing dangerous was found,” the Presidential Security Service told Seoul-based Yonhap News. The divided Koreas have been flown balloons carrying trash across the border in recent weeks. Seoul has also resumed blaring out propaganda through loud speakers towards North from the border.

North Korean balloon drops trash on South Korean presidential office

The airborne garbage delivery was the latest, and perhaps most humiliating, episode in the ongoing trash-offensive.

The North sends balloons filled with trash, the South relies on K-Pop blasting. The feud between the two Korean states has been smoldering for months. Now, Pyongyang has apparently landed an unsavory bullseye.

New wave of North Korean trash balloons hits U.S. Army base and Seoul presidential compound

Trash balloons launched from North Korea landed at a U.S. Army garrison and inside the South Korean presidential compound.

North Korean trash balloon lands on South Korean presidential compound - National

North Korea’s latest balloon launches came days after South Korea boosted its broadcasts of K-pop songs and propaganda messages across the two countries' heavily armed border.

It is the first time that South Korea's presidential headquarters, located in the center of Seoul and protected by dozens of soldiers and an air exclusion zone, has been hit directly by one of thousands of balloons launched by Pyongyang since May in a propaganda war between the two countries. The chemical, biological and radiological warfare response team has safely recovered the garbage balloon,” the presidential security service told AFP. As a…