NSC to discuss response against N. Korea trash balloons
NSC adviser Chang Ho-jin speaks during a press conference at a presidential office in Yongsan district, June 2. Yonhap
The presidential National Security Council (NSC) will hold a meeting Sunday to discuss responses after North Korea resumed sending balloons filled with trash to South Korea.
NSC adviser Chang Ho-jin is set to preside over an expanded NSC meeting, as the North on Saturday floated the balloons in retaliation against South Korean civic groups' recent launch of balloons carrying propaganda leaflets across the border.
The meeting comes a week after the NSC members discussed responses against Pyongyang's balloon campaigns and GPS jamming attacks in the West Sea.
After the last meeting, Chang said the government will take an "unbearable action" against the North's provocations.
President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday endorsed a motion to fully suspend the 2018 inter-Korean tension reduction pact, which would pave the way for resuming propaganda broadcasts near the border.
Following the full suspension of the Comprehensive Military Agreement, the South Korean military vowed to resume all military activities near the Military Demarcation Line and its northwestern border islands for the first time in more than five years. (Yonhap)