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Thu, May 26, 2022 | 17:48
Defectors' group sends balloons carrying propaganda leaflets to North Korea
Posted : 2022-04-28 11:14
Updated : 2022-04-28 03:08
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                                                                                                 A balloon carrying leaflets is seen in this photo, provided by a North Korean defectors' group in South Korea, April 28. The group, the Fighters for a Free North Korea, said its members sent 20 such balloons to North Korea across the western inter-Korean border. Yonhap
A balloon carrying leaflets is seen in this photo, provided by a North Korean defectors' group in South Korea, April 28. The group, the Fighters for a Free North Korea, said its members sent 20 such balloons to North Korea across the western inter-Korean border. Yonhap

A North Korean defectors' group has sent 20 large balloons carrying propaganda leaflets, including news of Yoon Suk-yeol's election as president, to the North across the western inter-Korean border, the group said Thursday.

Some 1 million anti-Pyongyang leaflets were sent over to North Korea in the latest leaflet campaign carried out in Gimpo, west of Seoul, Monday and Tuesday, the Fighters for a Free North Korea (FFNK) said in a press release.

Some of the leaflets were carrying the news of Yoon's election as president and his photo, the group said

"A great nation where a prosecutor has become a national leader," some of the leaflets read.

Through a revision of the Development of Inter-Korean Relations Act last year, the South Korean government has been banning the sending of propaganda leaflets across the border, with people violating the law subject to up to three years in prison or a maximum fine of 30 million won ($23,700).

Park Sang-hak, the head of the defectors' group, is standing trial on charges of launching balloons full of anti-North Korea leaflets and $1 bills to North Korea across the Demilitarized Zone in Gyeonggi and Gangwon provinces on two occasions in April last year.

Before the law revision, the FFNK had often carried out such balloon campaigns in the hope of liberating North Korean people with news and information from the outside.

The FFNK argued in the press release that "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un threatened South Korea and the entire humanity with nuclear weapons and missiles in the latest military parade, putting South Korea's national security in an extremely precarious state." (Yonhap)
 
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