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Balloons used to send Covid supplies into North Korea amid threat of ‘strong retaliatory response’ | South China Morning Post

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A defector identified as Park Sang-hak used 20 helium balloons to send Covid-19 supplies into North Korea from a city in the South on September 5, 2022. The shipment was sent weeks after the sister of the North’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un had warned of a “strong retaliatory response” to such packages that she claim…

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