North Korea’s trash rains onto South Korea, balloon by balloon. Here’s what it means

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Manure. Cigarette butts. Scraps of cloth. Waste batteries. Even, reportedly, diapers. This week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons to dump all of that trash across rival South Korea – an old-fashioned, Cold War-style provocation that the country has rarely used in recent years. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un confirmed Wednesday that North Korea sent the balloons and attached trash sacks. She said they were deployed to make good on her country’s recent threat to “scatter mounds of waste paper and filth” in South Korea in response to the leafletting campaigns by South Korean...