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SOUTH Korean activists launched tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border into North Korea yesterday, denouncing its latest nuclear test and defying threats of retaliation.
The leaflets, criticizing leader Kim Jong Un for putting nuclear weapons before the wellbeing of his people, were launched with helium balloons from the border city of Paju.
The propaganda exercise, organized by North Korean defector-turned-activist Park Sang-Hak, came amid surging military tensions on the divided peninsula following North Korea’s fifth and largest nuclear test last week.
Hours before the balloon launch was due to begin, North Korea’s official KCNA news agency published a commentary describing Park as “human scum without an equal in the world.”
KCNA said the balloon launch was a desperate response to the success of last week’s test, and a bid by Seoul to “stoke confrontation” over the holiday period.
South Korean activists, including many defectors, have been carrying out leafleting exercises using giant helium balloons for years — a practice which has caused Pyongyang to threaten military strikes in response.
“We are doing this to inform the 20 million starving people in North Korea of the truth,” Park told reporters.
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