North Korea vows to send anti-South leaflets amid tensions
21 June, 2020
North Korea pledged to force ahead with its marketing campaign to send propaganda leaflets into South Korea, saying it isn't bound to all inter-Korean agreements, talk about media said on Sunday (Jun 21).
Tension has been growing after North Korea blew up a good joint liaison business office and threatened military actions over defectors found in the South mailing anti-North leaflets over the border.
As talk about media reported angry North Koreans gearing up because of their own "large-scale" leaflet campaign, Seoul's Unification Ministry handling cross-border affairs on Saturday urged the plan to be scrapped citing a violation of peace agreements.
The United Front Department of the North's ruling party, responsible for inter-Korean affairs, rejected the ministry's calls as an "absurd nonsense".
"Given their unique wrongdoings, how dare they utter such words just as regret and violation?" the department's spokeperson explained in a declaration carried by state media KCNA.
"When they are put in our shoes, the South Korean authorities will be able to understand even a bit how disgustedly we looked at them and how offending it had been for us."
Both Koreas, which remain technically at war as their 1950-53 conflict ended with out a peace treaty, possess waged leaflet campaigns for many years but agreed to cease "all hostile acts" in a 2018 peace accord.
Several defector-led groups have regularly repaid flyers, as well as food, US$1 bills, mini radios and USB sticks containing Southern Korean dramas and current information, usually by balloon more than the border or on bottles in rivers.
One of the groups dropped an idea to float a huge selection of plastic bottles filled with rice, drugs and face masks in to the sea nearby the border on Sunday.
Pyongyang in addition has used balloons and drones to fly its anti-South leaflets, which found in South Korea previously have already been rewarded with stationery if reported to law enforcement.
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