So let me get this straight..........the NKs blew up roads and rail lines on their own territory that could be used by their forces to move south in the event of a war?
That's some brilliant stategerizing there, you betcha.
It's almost as if NK doesn't want war. Weird how they took a defensive posture in response to invasion of their territory by a country backed by the most war hungry country in the history of humanity.
That was in response to South Korea dropping propaganda in the North. North Korea complained that the propaganda drops were littering the countryside with trash.
First of all, I doubt that's the kind of balloon that was carrying trash.
Secondly, spy balloons were a thing back in the 1950s because satellites didn't exist yet. No one would use a balloon for warfare these days, because you can't steer a balloon.
What even is your point? If you think Washington was justified in freaking out over a weather balloon but Pyongyang was not justified in freaking out over frickin' drones, you're not making sense.
To be clear, the accusation from the North is that the drones were there to drop propaganda, not bombs. The South denies it, but let's assume it's true for a moment. Why is that a bigger provocation than the balloons full of actual human shit that the North has been floating over the border?