North Korea’s threat to scatter “mounds of wastepaper and filth” in South Korea in retaliation to anti-regime leafleting underscores Pyongyang’s tit-for-tat approach to inter-Korean ties, and could even provide a pretext for further escalation if Seoul responds, experts told NK Pro on Monday.

In a statement on Sunday, DPRK vice defense minister Kim Kang Il claimed that U.S. and South Korean military planes and ships have repeatedly violated its territory in recent weeks, vowing that Pyongyang will take military action if such activities continue after it threatened to shoot down American spy planes last