North Korea prepares anti-South leaflets amid heightened tensions – Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea is gearing as much as ship propaganda leaflets over its southern border, denouncing North Korean defectors and South Korea, its command media stated on Saturday, the most modern retaliation for leaflets from the South as bilateral tensions upward push.

Inflamed North Korean people across the country “are actively pushing forward with the preparations for launching a nice-scale distribution of leaflets,” that are piled as excessive as a mountain, stated command news agency KCNA.

“Every motion may possibly possibly calm be met with appropriate reaction and absolute top when one experiences it oneself, one can feel how offending it’s miles,” KCNA stated.

North Korea has blamed North Korean defectors for launching leaflets across the border and threatened militia motion. On Tuesday, Pyongyang blew up an inter-Korean liaison workplace to relate its displeasure against the defectors and South Korea for now now not stopping them launching leaflets.]

South Korea’s unification ministry, which is accountable for inter-Korean dialogue, stated on Saturday that North Korea’s belief to ship leaflets used to be “extraordinarily regrettable,” and urged it to scrap the belief in the present day.

A North Korean defector-led neighborhood stated on Friday it had scrapped a belief to ship tons of of plastic bottles stuffed with rice, pills and face masks to North Korea by throwing them into the ocean approach the border on Sunday.

The two Koreas, that are calm technically at struggle as their 1950-53 conflict ended without a peace treaty, possess waged leaflet campaigns for many years.

South Korea’s militia used to launch anti-North flyers across the demilitarized zone, however the program ended in 2010.

Plenty of defector-led teams possess typically despatched aid flyers, alongside with food, $1 payments, mini radios and USB sticks containing South Korean dramas and news, on the total by balloon over the border or in bottles by river.

Pyongyang has used balloons to ship its anti-South leaflets. South Koreans beforehand had been rewarded with stationery if they reported leaflets from the North.