Propaganda Balloons and Activism in the Korean Conflict

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After the Korean War, both North and South Korea used propaganda balloons to send messages to each other, including enticing defection and criticizing each other's regimes. The practice continued until the early 2000s when South Korea stopped, but activists took over, sending balloons with various messages including anti-regime propaganda, Bibles, medicines, and USBs loaded with K-pop dramas and outside world information.

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