South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province has indefinitely extended a ban against launching balloons carrying anti-regime leaflets into North Korea, after previously designating 11 border areas as “danger zones” where such activity is prohibited.

The province bordering the DPRK on the western half of the peninsula first implemented the ban on Oct. 16, and at a press conference on Tuesday, vice governor Kim Seong-jung said the province will now extend the ban would be extended indefinitely, stating that it has been effective in curbing North Korean trash balloon launches in retaliation to ROK leafleting.

“North Korea sent about 6,600 garbage balloons 28