[cstaylor]

...and here I thought this article was about Kim's arterial walls...

[Taro Toporific]

Balloon bomb from North Korea? What's next?

During July and August, a large, unidentified balloon reached the coast of Japan. The Japanese law enforcement authority confidentially recovered it. The public was never informed. The balloon is now believed to have come from North Korea..

Once again, the Koreans make a bad copy of Japanese prior art.
Riddle of Japanese 'plague' balloons Telegraph / Sep 28
American intelligence feared a biological attack spreading plague or anthrax over Los Angeles after discovering in 1944 that Japan was launching large unmanned balloons across the Pacific, according to files just released at the National Archives.
The first reports of a campaign that led to more than 9,000 balloons capable of carrying weapons of more than 300lb being sent on the jetstream from mainland Japan....

[kurohinge1]

... Once again, the Koreans make a bad copy of Japanese prior art.
Riddle of Japanese 'plague' balloons Telegraph / Sep 28 ...

And the earlier thread: Japanese Balloon Bombs

Maybe the missing Korean ballonist was the "big tuna ... with shoes" found near Tanegashima

[Ketou]

So the North Koreans got the idea from seeing the link on the FG forums!