North Korea has dropped thousands of propaganda leaflets attacking South Korea across their heavily militarised border for the second time this year, the South’s defence ministry said on Tuesday.
South Korean soldiers have collected about 17,000 leaflets, which were floated by balloon over the frontier on Saturday, a ministry spokesman said.
“They were found scattered in western border areas,” the spokesman said.
The leaflets criticise the defence ministry’s “anti-Pyongyang” education programme for its military and praise pro-North Korean activists in the South, he said.
In 2004 the two sides agreed to halt all official-level cross-border propaganda following a landmark 2000 summit.
The South’s defence ministry resumed the practise in late 2010 after the North shelled a border island in an attack that killed four South Koreans.