[Capture news] The North balloon burst and then it started falling...It's actually a deadly weapon.

North Korea sent a garbage balloon today, the opening day of the Supreme People's Assembly to revise the Constitution.

North Korea sprayed 5,530 filth balloons 22 times between May 28 and April 22,
There were also 78 cases of damage, including fire in warehouses and factories in
or damage to the roof of the building.

Recently, garbage balloons have exploded in the air and the rate of falling to the ground has increased, raising concerns about the spread of damage.
Let's look at the
balloon diagram.

The garbage balloon was made by hanging a plastic bag filled with garbage or manure in a rubber balloon with a diameter of 3-4 meters.

Battery-powered heating timer is installed between the balloon and the bag,
The
garbage bag is wrapped with a powder belt like a belt and connected with a heat timer and a wire.

The heat timer sends electricity to the wire after a certain period of time after the balloon takes off to splash the spark,
It is the principle that the gunpowder band with
bags burst and the lower part of the bag is opened, so that the trash inside is scattered widely.

The balloon was filled with hydrogen gas, instead of light, safe helium, which is typically used to float a balloon,
The price of
hydrogen is one-tenth that of helium, but it is dangerous because it explodes when it catches fire.Officials in

said they do not believe that there is a gunpowder component that helps generate heat from the heating line connected to the heating timer, but that this is not the level that causes a large explosion.

However, there are constant concerns that garbage balloons can be weaponized at any time, depending on the contents of the balloon.

[Hong Min / Senior Researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification] We are testing now in many ways and it may be a process of securing a record of testing. Therefore, if you intentionally convert various contents, such as biochemistry or viruses, into military means, you can change the timer, the size of the balloon, and the contents to cause great damage.

anchor | Lee Ha-rin
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