North Korea is about to drop cigarette butts, trash, and 12 million propaganda leaflets onto South Korea in its latest psychological-warfare move
A North Korean defector prepares to release balloons carrying propaganda leaflets denouncing recent North Korea nuclear tests near the Demilitarized Zone, on September 15, 2016.KCNA said printing presses in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, had already churned out 12 million leaflets that expressed "the wrath and hatred of the people." Other presses were providing more leaflets across the country.
The announcement comes after South Korea failed to stop activists sending leaflets critical of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un— and his stance on human rights and nuclear testing — into North Korea, despite the two governments having an agreement banning propaganda, according to"South Korea has to face the music. Only when it experiences how painful and how irritating it is to dispose of leaflets and waste, it will shake off its bad habit," KCNA reported.
In recent months, the relationship between South Korea and North Korea has deteriorated, particularly after a collapsed summit last year between North Korea and the US over potential sanction relief, according toOn June 16, North Korea blew up a symbolic liaison office that had acted as an informal embassy on its side of the border,A television news program in Seoul shows the demolition of an inter-Korean liaison office in North Korea's Kaesong Industrial Complex on June 16, 2020.
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