South Korea to suspend peace deal with Pyongyang over trash-carrying balloons

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Seoul announced Monday it would suspend a rapprochement deal with North Korea to punish it over its launches of trash-carrying balloons, even after Pyongyang said it would halt its balloon campaign.

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00:00 North Korea has said it would stop sending balloons carrying rubbish to South Korea but

00:06 promised to resume if anti-regime leaflets are flown over the border.

00:11 The balloons started on Saturday, carrying rubbish like cigarette butts, paper waste

00:16 and plastic. Pyongyang said they were in retaliation for a propaganda campaign by North Korean

00:22 defectors and activists in the South. Seoul blasted the practice as "unimaginably petty"

00:28 and promised "unendurable countermeasures."

00:31 (crowd chatter)

00:33 (whooshing)

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