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    Scuffle with police as defector tries to send anti-North Korea leaflets
    Posted : 2018-05-06 10:00
    Updated : 2018-05-06 10:39


    Scuffles broke out between police and protesters near inter-Korean border on Saturday (May 5) as South Korean civic group led by North Korean defector tried to send anti-North Korea leaflets across the border using balloons.


    Park Sang-hak, who has previously launched message balloons into the North, planned to send 300,000 leaflets but was blocked by police and residents of border village. Park denounced North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's gesture as a fake and said he already sent some of leaflets on earlier this week.

    Dozens of protesters including residents of Paju, border city about 50 km (30 miles) north of Seoul, held a rally at Odusan Unification Observatory to protest against sending the leaflets as saying it is a threatening behaviour, which is almost like a war.

    Late April, South Korea turned off the loudspeakers that broadcast a mixture of news, Korean pop songs and criticism of the North Korean regime as a goodwill gesture ahead of the inter-Korean summit, and began dismantling them from May 1. (Reuters)






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