The flames of revolutions in the Arab world may have been stoked by Facebook and Twitter, but South Korea is hoping mass protests will be ignited in North via helium balloons.

The South Korea military sent tens of thousands of helium balloons towards the North Friday, packed with messages detailing the popular uprisings in Egypt and Libya and explaining that “a dictatorial regime is destined to collapse,” according to news reports.

North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency hasn’t reported on the mass protests moving through the Middle East.

The two Koreas called a halt to their propaganda war in 2004, but the bombing of a South Korean warship in 2009 and the Pyongyang-ordered shelling of a South Korean island that killed four people in November of last year spurned a resumption of “psychological warfare” tactics.

The helium balloons are able to travel up to 200 km, taking them into the heart of North Korea where they burst, spraying their cargo below.

Along with leaflets, the balloons carry rice, medicine, clothing and radios in baskets tied to them.

“North Korean people’s protests may also be able to bring a change to the regime,” Song Yong Sun, a member of the National Assembly’s defence committee said in a statement. “South Korea’s military and government should also be ready for any revolt inside North Korea.”

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