North Korea defectors defy South to launch anti-Kim leaflets
The Hindu
The launches by the Fighters for a Free North Korea were the first since the law was passed in December
A North Korea defector group this week twice defied a ban by Seoul on flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone dividing the peninsula, it said Friday. The launches by the Fighters for a Free North Korea were the first since the law was passed in December. The group "flew 500,000 leaflets, 500 books and $5,000 in cash bills distributed between a total of 10 large balloons over two occasions near the DMZ between April 25 and 29", said its Chairman Park Sang-hak.
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