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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government said Wednesday that it will press charges against two activist groups that have been floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets … On Monday, North Korea’s state media said it had manufactured 12 million propaganda leaflets to be floated toward South Korea in what it said would be the largest-ever anti-Seoul leafleting campaign.Experts say North Korea is likely using the South Korean civilian leafleting as a chance to boost its internal unity and apply more pressure on Seoul and Washington amid stalled nuclear talks. It said the four groups have been accused of exploiting leafleting as way to collect donations as a money-making business, rather than a human rights movement.North Korea does not tolerate criticism of its ruling family, who enjoy a strong personality cult built by North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, whose military’s surprise invasion of South Korea in June 1950 triggered a devastating three-year war.Park previously said he would push to drop a million leaflets over the border around Thursday, the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. A balloon carrying a banner with images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, the late leader Kim Il Sung, center, and Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Kim Jong Un, released by Fighters For Free North Korea, is seen in Hongcheon, South Korea, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. The penalty for violations is a year in prison or a maximum 10 million won ($8,200) fine.Meanwhile, Park has accused South Korea’s liberal government of sympathizing with North Korea or caving to its threats. Gyeonggi province, which governs Paju, earlier issued an administrative order prohibiting activists from entering certain border areas including Paju to fly leaflets to the North.If Park’s leafleting is confirmed, Gyeonggi official Kim Min-yeong said the province will demand police investigate him. A balloon carrying a banner with images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, the late leader Kim Il Sung, center, and Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Kim Jong Un, released by Fighters For Free North Korea, is seen in Hongcheon, South Korea, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. South Korean authorities said Park’s activities are raising animosities and potentially endangering front-line border residents. All rights reserved.
On Monday, North Korea’s state media said it had manufactured 12 million propaganda leaflets to be floated toward South Korea in what it said would be the largest-ever anti-Seoul leafleting campaign. All market data delayed 20 minutes. A South Korean activist said Tuesday hundreds of thousands of leaflets had been launched by balloon across the border with North Korea overnight, after the North repeatedly warned it would retaliate against such actions. By. As Otto Warmbier is honored, new warnings that Kim Jong Un will again target Americans.North Korea has expressed anger over its neighbor’s civilian leafleting campaign against Despite this, activist Park Sang-Hak, who fled North Korea to the South, said he’ll keep sending anti-Kim leaflets, calling the dictator "evil” and saying he rules with “barbarism.” Police officers ride a boat to collect a balloon carrying a banner with images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the late leader Kim Il Sung and Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Kim Jong Un, in Hongcheon, South Korea, on Tuesday. If Park’s leafleting is confirmed, Gyeonggi official Kim Min-yeong said the province will demand police investigate him.
Park, a former North Korean who fled to South Korea, said in a statement that the leafleting is “a struggle for justice for the sake of liberation” of North Koreans. While Seoul has sometimes sent police to block activists from leafleting during sensitive times, it had previously resisted North Korea’s calls for a ban, saying the activists were exercising their freedom of speech.Seoul’s recent moves against leafleting have drawn criticism that the government is sacrificing democratic principles to keep alive its push for inter-Korean engagement.
South Korea called on its northern rival to suspend its plan to send propaganda leaflets across the border.
It said the four groups have been accused of exploiting leafleting as way to collect donations as a money-making business, rather than a human rights movement.North Korea does not tolerate criticism of its ruling family, who enjoy a strong personality cult built by North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, whose military’s surprise invasion of South Korea in June 1950 triggered a devastating three-year war.Park previously said he would push to drop a million leaflets over the border around Thursday, the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean group launched hundreds of thousands of leaflets by balloon across the border with North Korea overnight, an activist said Tuesday, after the North repeatedly warned it would retaliate against such actions.The move is certain to intensify already high tensions between the Koreas.
“Though North Korean residents have become modern-day slaves with no basic rights, don’t they have the rights to know the truth?” he said.South Korean officials have vowed to ban leafleting and said they would press charges against Park and others, who have sent leaflets toward North Korea for years.
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