A large number of North Korean propaganda leaflets have been found in South Korea, which denounce the South's anti-Pyongyang education program for service members as advocating dictatorship, an official said Tuesday.
A balloon was spotted flying from the North on Saturday evening, and a search in the border areas of Gimpo and Paju, near where the balloon fell, has turned up about 16,000-17,000 propaganda leaflets, a military official said.
The leaflets featured photos of prominent late South Korean dissidents on one side, with a phrase on the other side that the defense ministry's anti-jongbuk education amounts to advocating dictatorship.
"Jongbuk" means blindly following what North Korea says, and the leaflet appears to claim that the South is trying to use such anti-Pyongyang education for political purposes, apparently suggesting that past authoritarian leaders in the South used anti-communist ideology to suppress dissents.
The dissidents featured in the leaflets included Chang Joon-ha, one of South Korea's best-known dissidents who defiantly stood up against the authoritarian government of then President Park Chung-hee.
Park's daughter, Rep. Park Geun-hye, is vying for presidency in December's election.
It was the second time this year that North Korean propaganda leaflets have been found in South Korea. In July, 16,000 leaflets of 10 different kinds were found in Paju and other areas near the border. (Yonhap)
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