The presidential National Security Council (NSC) is set to meet Sunday after North Korea sent around 600 balloons carrying trash to South Korea, officials said. The meeting will be held Sunday afternoon and presided over by National Security Adviser Chang Ho-jin, according to the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol. Earlier in the day, South Korea's military said North Korea has sent the trash-carrying balloons to the South since Saturday, despite a warning that the South would take "unendurably" painful measures against such provocative acts. It marks the first time the presidential office will hold an NSC meeting over the North's balloon provocation. The balloons carried various pieces of trash, such as cigarette butts, paper and plastic bags, just like the previous balloons, according to Seoul's military. North Korea previously sent around 260 balloons carrying trash and excrement to the South on Tuesday and Wednesday after it warned of a "tit-for-tat action" against anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent by the South's activists. Source: Yonhap News Agency
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