South Korea suspends agreement with North Korea over balloons

SUNYI — South Korea will completely suspend a 2018 tension-reducing military agreement with nuclear power North Korea, the National Security Council (NSC) in Seoul said on Monday, after Pyongyang sent hundreds of balloons filled with garbage across the border.

South Korea partially suspended the agreement last year after the North launched a spy satellite into orbit. But the NSC said it would instruct the Cabinet to “suspend the entire effect of the ‘September 19 Military Agreement’ until mutual trust between the two Koreas is restored.”