North Korea’s trash-laden balloons interrupted operations at Seoul-area airports 20 times this year. As of Monday, trash balloons had disrupted air traffic for a combined 413 minutes at Incheon International Airport and Gimpo International Airport.
Last year’s air traffic over Korean skies almost caught up to its pre-pandemic level in 2019, but travel through Chinese and European routes have been slow to catch up.
For more than three decades, air traffic control in the skies south of Korea’s Jeju Island has been shared by three countries: Korea, China and Japan.
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