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S. Korean activists to send anti-Pyongyang flyers this week
By Shim Sun-ah
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean activists said Monday they will send
anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets into North Korea, a day after the communist
neighbor took a slew of measures to restrict border crossings by South Koreans.
"We're going to launch balloons carrying 100,000 flyers together with 1,000
one-U.S.-dollar bills at a location near the Imjin pavillion in Paju, Gyeonggi
Province, on Tuesday," said Park Sang-hak, head of a Seoul-based North Korea
defectors group.
North Korea on Monday denied entry by tens of South Koreans across the heavily
armed border into a joint industrial complex in Kaesong where they work,
following through its plans to restrict border traffic starting that day.
The activists earlier pledged to resume propaganda activities if the North takes
into action its threats to suspend almost all cross-border projects -- such as
cross-border rail services and sightseeing tours to the ancient North Korean city
of Kaesong.
Inter-Korean relations have chilled since South Korea's conservative President
Lee Myung-bak took office in February and vowed to get tough with Pyongyang.
Pyongyang has mentioned leaflets critical of its leader Kim Jong-il as one of the
reasons for trying to cut all ties with South Korea.
Many of these flyers describe Kim as an evil dictator who enjoys lavish life
while his people suffer from hunger and urge North Koreans to rise up since the
death of the ailing leader is approaching.
They sometimes are mixed with dollar bills or yuan notes to entice North Koreans
to pick them up.
South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials said the North Korean leader had
suffered a stroke in the middle of August, but North Korea denied the reports.
The two Koreas agreed in 2004 to halt propaganda warfare, which had involved
floating leaflets and blasting loud speakers across the heavily armed border.
South Korean activists like Park, however, have kept sending the leaflets despite
repeated warnings from Pyongyang and pleas from their government to stop.
sshim@yna.co.kr
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SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean activists said Monday they will send
anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets into North Korea, a day after the communist
neighbor took a slew of measures to restrict border crossings by South Koreans.
"We're going to launch balloons carrying 100,000 flyers together with 1,000
one-U.S.-dollar bills at a location near the Imjin pavillion in Paju, Gyeonggi
Province, on Tuesday," said Park Sang-hak, head of a Seoul-based North Korea
defectors group.
North Korea on Monday denied entry by tens of South Koreans across the heavily
armed border into a joint industrial complex in Kaesong where they work,
following through its plans to restrict border traffic starting that day.
The activists earlier pledged to resume propaganda activities if the North takes
into action its threats to suspend almost all cross-border projects -- such as
cross-border rail services and sightseeing tours to the ancient North Korean city
of Kaesong.
Inter-Korean relations have chilled since South Korea's conservative President
Lee Myung-bak took office in February and vowed to get tough with Pyongyang.
Pyongyang has mentioned leaflets critical of its leader Kim Jong-il as one of the
reasons for trying to cut all ties with South Korea.
Many of these flyers describe Kim as an evil dictator who enjoys lavish life
while his people suffer from hunger and urge North Koreans to rise up since the
death of the ailing leader is approaching.
They sometimes are mixed with dollar bills or yuan notes to entice North Koreans
to pick them up.
South Korean and U.S. intelligence officials said the North Korean leader had
suffered a stroke in the middle of August, but North Korea denied the reports.
The two Koreas agreed in 2004 to halt propaganda warfare, which had involved
floating leaflets and blasting loud speakers across the heavily armed border.
South Korean activists like Park, however, have kept sending the leaflets despite
repeated warnings from Pyongyang and pleas from their government to stop.
sshim@yna.co.kr
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