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Database: Map of North Korea’s Garbage-Filled Balloons

June 30, 2024, by Andy Lim and Victor Cha

Since May 28, 2024, North Korea started sending trash-filled balloons into South Korea. Over the course of five months, and in twenty-night waves they have sent between 3,000 to 8,000 balloons. These balloons have been found to contain trash such as animal and human feces, batteries, cigarette butts, clothes, dark soil, plastic bottles, toilet paper, wastepaper, and vinyl.

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Victor Cha is senior vice president for Asia and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Andy Lim is an associate fellow at the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Special thanks to Yeji Chung for locating all 166 locations for the map.

Headline image: Yonhap News Agency via Reuters

Database: Map of North Korea’s Garbage-Filled Balloons

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