S. Korean Activists to Stop Sending Flyers to NK

South Korean activists said Tuesday they will suspend sending propaganda leaflets over the border into North Korea for the time being.

The decision came after North Korea announced it will from early next week suspend tours to the North Korean border city of Kaesong, halt cross-border rail service and ban South Koreans from visiting the North to protest Seoul's "confrontational policy" toward Pyongyang.

"We decided to suspend our activities of sending leaflets for the time being," said Park Sang-hak, head of Fighters for Free North Korea, a Seoul-based group of North Korean defectors.

Pyongyang has threatened to cut all ties with South Korea unless it stops the South Korean civic groups, mostly of North Korean defectors and families of kidnapped South Koreans, from floating the leaflets critical of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.