North Korea garbage bombs its southern neighbor
June 03, 2024
Q: North Korea last week began sending balloons carrying bags of trash and other waste over the heavily fortified border toward South Korea, where the defense minister called it "unimaginably petty and low-grade behavior." Where is North Korea, which shares the East Asia’s Korean Peninsula with South Korea?
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Q: North Korea’s trash barrage was an apparent retaliation for South Korean activists sending balloons north carrying anti-regime leaflets, pop music recordings, cash, and even some banned snacks. North Korea’s ruling family was placed in power in 1946 by which nation?
A. China
B. Japan
C. Mongolia
D. Soviet Union
Q: The North Korean regime is sensitive to any challenge to its tightly controlled media which has built a cult of personality around the Kim dynasty and its “heroic leaders.” What other leader used propaganda to develop a cult of personality?
A. Adolf Hitler
B. Benito Mussolini
C. Mao Zedong
D. All of the above
Q: Since taking power after his father’s death 2011, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly has ordered hundreds of killings including his exiled half-brother Kim Jong-nam. He was assassinated with a nerve poison in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in which Southeast Asian nation?
A. Cambodia
B. Indonesia
C. Malaysia
D. Vietnam
Q: Kim Jong Un and former President Donald Trump held two summit meetings in Southeast Asia. The first was in Singapore and the second was in the Vietnamese capital of ...
A. Hanoi
B. Phnom Penh
C. Vientiane
D. Yangon
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