Defectors’ group sends balloons carrying propaganda leaflets to N. Korea

GIMPO — A North Korean defectors’ group has despatched 20 huge balloons carrying propaganda leaflets, together with these on the information of Yoon Suk-yeol’s election as president, to North Korea throughout the western inter-Korean border, the group stated Thursday.

Some 1 million anti-Pyongyang leaflets had been despatched over to North Korea within the newest leaflet marketing campaign carried out in Gimpo, west of Seoul, on Monday-Tuesday, the Fighters for Free North Korea (FFNK) stated in a press launch.

A number of the leaflets had been carrying the information of Yoon’s election as president and his pictures, the group stated

“A terrific nation the place a prosecutor has turn into a nationwide chief,” among the leaflets learn.

By way of a revision of the Growth of Inter-Korean Relations Act final yr, the South Korean authorities has been banning the sending of propaganda leaflets throughout the border, with individuals violating the regulation topic to as much as three years in jail or a most effective of 30 million gained ($23,700).

Park Sang-hak, the pinnacle of the defectors’ group, is standing trial on prices of launching balloons filled with anti-North Korea leaflets and US$1 payments to North Korea throughout the Demilitarized Zone in Gyeonggi and Gangwon province on two events in April final yr.

Earlier than the regulation revision, the FFNK had typically carried out such balloon campaigns within the hope of liberating North Korean individuals with information and data from the surface.

The FFNK argued within the press launch that “North Korean chief Kim Jong-un threatened South Korea and the whole humanity with nuclear weapons and missiles within the newest army parade, placing South Korea’s nationwide safety in an especially precarious state.” (Yonhap)