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Let's talk about updates on balloons in South Korea....

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Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Let's talk about updates on balloons in South Korea....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again. So today we are once again going to talk about

0:07.0

Korea and balloons because apparently like the South Korean government did not find that as humorous as I did

0:17.2

and it's turning into a little bit of a thing but at the same time because of how some of the initial reporting has been phrased,

0:26.0

I feel like it's going to turn into one of those things that in the United States

0:32.0

gets hyped up and gets used to fear monger and

0:34.6

inflame people so we're just gonna kind of run through what is actually going

0:39.8

on here if you missed it there has been a years long thing where South Korean

0:46.9

activists have flown balloons into North Korea and they've carried like pamphlets and

0:54.1

USB drives that have

0:56.4

like South Korean TV shows and stuff like that on them. It's a joke.

1:01.2

The South Korean government at one point in time did actually try to ban this practice.

1:06.5

However, it was ruled unconstitutional there.

1:11.6

The North Korean government responded by flying their own balloons over. These balloons

1:18.4

held rather than pamphlets and you know, USB drives drives they had trash and waste

1:26.9

i personally found this mildly amusing

1:31.9

uh... the south Korean government is taking a little bit of a

1:34.4

different stance and they are suspending looking at suspending, maybe they

1:40.8

already have by this point, a treaty from, I want to say 2018, somewhere

1:46.3

in there. In the early reporting it is being described as a peace treaty and that is true. It is a peace treaty and that is true it is a peace treaty it was something that came

1:56.3

about when the two sides were talking to each other again and things were

2:00.3

going pretty well. However, it is not the peace treaty, meaning this being

2:08.5

suspended does not lead to open hostilities and I feel like that's where people are going to

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