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yuiyoshida

(41,762 posts)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 02:40 AM Aug 2015

Activists successfully drop propaganda leaflets over North Korea border



SEOUL: South Korean activists led by Park Sang-hak, a North Korean defector, have successfully released balloons carrying anti-North Korean leaflets over the inter-Korean border.

The Fighters for Free North Korea said they released ten balloons containing about 200,000 leaflets early on Friday (Aug 14) from Yeoncheon county in Gyeonggi province, according to Yonhap.

The leaflets reportedly carried messages condemning North Korea for last week’s land mine explosion that seriously injured two South Korean troops. South Korea has accused the North of planting the mines on the southern side of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas.

The activists had originally planned to launch about 500,000 leaflets from Imjinkak near the border town of Paju.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/activists-successfully/2049938.html
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Activists successfully drop propaganda leaflets over North Korea border (Original Post) yuiyoshida Aug 2015 OP
This is pretty common davidpdx Aug 2015 #1
They need to drop illustrated fast food menus. Binkie The Clown Aug 2015 #2

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
1. This is pretty common
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 02:48 AM
Aug 2015

I drove up to Paju a few weeks ago, in fact right up to the outer security checkpoint before you go into the DMZ area. It is a weird place. The drive only takes about a 1/2 hour from my house.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
2. They need to drop illustrated fast food menus.
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 03:06 AM
Aug 2015

With the hunger problems in the North, that would stir up some discontent.

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