Defector group flouts ban, sends leaflets across North Korea border
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Defector Park Sang-hak claimed Friday that his activist group Fighters for Free North Korea sent balloons carrying leaflets, books and cash into the North this week, defying a government ban. Photo by Fighters for Free North Korea
Defector Park Sang-hak said he is not concerned about being arrested for defying the anti-leafleting law. File photo by Thomas Maresca/UPI
SEOUL, April 30 (UPI) An activist group defied a South Korean government ban and floated balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang information across the border into North Korea, it announced on Friday.
Fighters for Free North Korea, led by high-profile defector Park Sang-hak, sent 500,000 leaflets, 500 booklets and $5,000 in one-dollar bills attached to 10 large balloons into the reclusive state, Park said in a statement. He claimed the group carried out the mission in secret on two occasions between Sunday and Thursday at locations in Gyeongg
Defector group sends propaganda leaflets into North Korea in defiance of ban
Posted : 2021-04-30 12:38
Updated : 2021-04-30 17:19
Fighters for a Free North Korea leader Park Sang-hak in a video the group released on Friday, where he said his group of North Korean defectors flew anti-Pyongyang leaflets to North Korea across the inter-Korean border from areas close to the demilitarized zone in Gyeonggi and Gangwon provinces from April 25 to 29 / Yonhap
A North Korean defector group claimed Friday it has sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border in defiance of a ban enacted recently over concern such a leafleting campaign could provoke the North and endanger the safety of people in border regions.
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Defector group sends propaganda leaflets into N. Korea in defiance of ban
SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) A North Korean defector group claimed Friday it has sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border in defiance of a ban enacted recently over concern such a leafleting campaign could provoke the North and endanger the safety of people in border regions.
Fighters for a Free North Korea led by Park Sang-hak, a vocal North Korean defector, said that the group flew 10 large balloons carrying around 500,000 leaflets, 500 booklets and 5,000 US$1 bills from unidentified border areas in Gyeonggi and Gangwon Provinces from Sunday to Thursday.