By Kang Hyun-kyung
Staff Reporter
A civic group that had disseminated anti-North Korean leaflets to the North pledged to stop for the time being Friday.
In a statement, leaders of the Fighter for Free North Korea (FFN) and Abductee's Family Union (AFU) vowed that they would not send the materials and wait and see if there is a change in the North's attitude toward the South.
They made the decision shortly after wrapping up their meeting with governing Grand National Party (GNP) chairman Park Hee-tae at the party headquarters.
Park set up the meeting to encourage them to stop sending the propaganda material, which played a role in worsening inter-Korean relations, for the time being, for the `great cause.'
Park said sending fliers to the North was not illegal as freedom of expression is guaranteed under the Constitution, but he hopes that the civic groups make a decision to help move South-North relations forward.
North Korea accused the South of allowing civic groups to send the propaganda leaflets to the North, arguing it drove inter-Korean relations to an impasse.
In a press conference Tuesday, Park pledged to sit down with the civic group leaders to discuss the negative effects of the fliers and possible solutions.