North Korea bombards South Korea with balloons filled with waste
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
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Hundreds of large white balloons drifted from North Korea into South Korea on Wednesday filled with trash and human waste. This week we have been discussing the need for compassionate courage in speaking biblical truth to our broken culture. Let’s take each priority in order.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. It's Friday, May the 31st, 2024, and this is the Daily Article Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, |
| 0:09.6 | narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.8 | As I'm sure you know, former President Donald Trump was found guilty yesterday afternoon in his |
| 0:22.0 | New York City trial. I responded to the verdict with a daily article special edition. Find a link to it in |
| 0:28.9 | today's episode notes. As more is known over the coming days, I will offer further reflections. |
| 0:34.5 | If you go stargazing toward the eastern horizon about 20 minutes before sunrise |
| 0:39.4 | this Monday morning, you'll see a rare sight. Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune, and Saturn |
| 0:47.9 | will stretch before you, in that order, along a roughly straight line. You will, however, need a telescope or powerful binoculars to see them all. Otherwise, you'll have to take the word of the astronomers that they're there. Another story from the skies has been making headlines as well. Hundreds of large white balloons drifted from North Korea into South Korea on Wednesday. |
| 1:11.6 | They were filled with trash and human waste, |
| 1:14.6 | retribution for balloons from a South Korean activist group |
| 1:18.6 | that earlier sent anti-regime leaflets into North Korea |
| 1:22.6 | along with USB drives containing boy band music. |
| 1:26.6 | Akin to the planet you will not be able to see Monday morning, the North Korean garbage |
| 1:30.3 | was not visible until the balloons landed or otherwise exploded, but it was nonetheless real |
| 1:36.3 | and revolting. |
| 1:38.3 | The story reminded me of a time during the Cold War when some people from East Berlin dumped |
| 1:43.3 | garbage in West Berlin. |
| 1:46.0 | West Germans responded by stacking canned goods, bread, milk, and other provisions on the East |
| 1:52.0 | Berlin side with the sign, each gives what he has. Their wisdom applies not just to nations, |
| 1:58.0 | but to people, including you and me today. This week we have been discussing |
| 2:03.2 | the need for compassionate courage in speaking biblical truth to our broken culture. Let's take |
| 2:09.8 | each priority in order. We will be more compassionate if we remember that many secular Americans |
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