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Photographs shared on social media show bags attached via string to white translucent balloons carrying toilet paper, dark soil, and batteries, among other contents. 

Police and military officers are seen in some of these photographs. 

South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that "some of the fallen balloons carried what appears to be faeces judging from its dark colour and odour".

South Korea's military condemned the act as a "clear violation of international law".

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I legitimately can’t tell from the headlines whether North Korea stories are satire at this point.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Imagine how much nicer the world be if more international conflicts were fought with turd balloons.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Imagine how much nicer the world would be if more people imagined pooploons at all.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Until they drop little boy for tests, then suddenly you got Hiroshima and Nagasaki all over again....but with shit chain reactions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If we aim right, we can fertilize our crops while we war.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the famous Nena song, "99 Luftturds".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

There's something here from somewhere else! 🎶💃🏽

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My trash company didn't pick up my trash this week, and this gives me some ideas... BRB, gotta go rent a helium tank

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bruh. Someone had to actively put shit in a balloon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Those are probably just normal North Korean trash bags. Throwing shitty TP in the trash is very common in countries with bad plumbing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I remember a defector on a podcast telling about how she was wondering what a trash can was in the safe house in China and how foreign concept "trash" was to her. They don't consume anything that comes in a package and if it does it's then repurposed for something else but definitely will not get thrown away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Quite a disgusting act.