US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller called North Korea’s sending of balloons filled with manure and garbage to South Korea a “disgusting and childish tactic.”

South Korean authorities reported on Sunday the arrival of about 720 objects of this type.

“This is obviously a tactic quite disgusting, irresponsible and childish, and this must come to an end. Of course I condemn it,” Miller said at a press conference.

North Korean authorities assured on Sunday that they had paralyzed the activity but would send these types of balloons again if South Korea launched them again. propaganda brochures on its territory.

Pyongyang reported launching 3,500 balloons carrying “15 tons” of garbage between May 28 and June 2.

According to the South Korean Army’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the balloons, like previous balloons, carried a variety of trash such as cigarette butts, paper and plastic bags.

In response, first South Korea’s National Security Council and then the Cabinet decided to completely suspend the 2018 inter-Korean treaty, which they had already partially terminated in November, until “mutual trust” was restored between Pyongyang and Seoul .

The agreement at the time eased tensions between the two countries, which Seoul partially withdrew from in November in response to the launch of a military satellite by North Korea, which responded with a promise to restore military measures suspended under the Sept. 19 agreement. In 2018, under the administration of former President Moon Jae-in, which, among other things, called for an end to all hostile military activities between the two Koreas, the creation of maritime security zones and the transformation of the demilitarized zone into a zone of peace.