North Korea threatens to turn Seoul into ‘sea of fire’ because of ‘foolhardy’ activists’ leaflet-dropping
The pamphlets criticised and mocked the North’s ruling Kim dynasty and condemned a landmine attack blamed on Pyongyang that maimed two members of a South Korean army border patrol earlier this month.
The warning came hours after South Korean police blocked activists from launching leaflets amid elevated military tensions on the divided peninsula.
“The puppet forces should not forget even a moment that the whole of South Korea might turn into a sea of fire due to the foolhardy leaflet-scattering operations,” the North warned in a statement released through its official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The statement, published jointly by front-line army units, said South Korea should not test the patience of North Korean soldiers.
It accused South Korean activists of having employed hit-and-run tactics in border areas to send anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North more than a dozen times at night in June, July and August.
Such leaflet launches are “an open declaration of a war” against North Korea, the statement said.