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09-16-2016, 05:01 PM
SEOUL: South Korean activists launched tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border into **rth Korea on Thursday, de**uncing its latest nuclear test and defying threats of retaliation.
The leaflets, criticising leader Kim Jong-Un for putting nuclear ******* before the wellbeing of his people, were launched with helium balloons from the border city of Paju.
The propaganda exercise, organised by **rth Korean defector-turned-activist Park Sang-Hak, came amid surging military tensions on the divided Korean peninsula following the **rth’s fifth and largest-ever nuclear test last week.
Hours before the balloon launch was scheduled to begin, the **rth’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.
The launch came in the middle of the three-day Chuseok harvest festival holiday -- celebrated on both sides of the border.
Conservative South Korean activists, including many **rth Korean defectors, have been carrying out leafleting exercises using giant helium balloons for years -- a practice that infuriates Pyongyang which has threatened military strikes in response.
Park Sang-Hak said strong winds at the border had restricted Thursday’s event to the launch of around 150,000 leaflets -- half the planned number.
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The leaflets, criticising leader Kim Jong-Un for putting nuclear ******* before the wellbeing of his people, were launched with helium balloons from the border city of Paju.
The propaganda exercise, organised by **rth Korean defector-turned-activist Park Sang-Hak, came amid surging military tensions on the divided Korean peninsula following the **rth’s fifth and largest-ever nuclear test last week.
Hours before the balloon launch was scheduled to begin, the **rth’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.
The launch came in the middle of the three-day Chuseok harvest festival holiday -- celebrated on both sides of the border.
Conservative South Korean activists, including many **rth Korean defectors, have been carrying out leafleting exercises using giant helium balloons for years -- a practice that infuriates Pyongyang which has threatened military strikes in response.
Park Sang-Hak said strong winds at the border had restricted Thursday’s event to the launch of around 150,000 leaflets -- half the planned number.
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