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North Korean propaganda leaflets found at South's presidential complex

Both sides regularly use balloons to carry leaflets across the demilitarised zone

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An anti-Trump leaflet that dropped in South Korea, believed to have come from North Korea by balloon. It reads: “For the peaceful world without war and for the future of mankind … Butcher a mad dog Trump!” Photo: Reuters
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North Korean propaganda has been found at the South’s presidential compound, officials said on Monday, with the discovery of leaflets praising Pyongyang, which once sent commandos to attack the complex.

Authorities in the nuclear-armed North and activists in the South regularly use balloons to carry leaflets across the demilitarised zone that has divided the peninsula since the end of the Korean war.

Seoul is only 35 miles from the DMZ, within artillery range, and the leaflets are sometimes found lying on the ground in the capital – although not normally at the presidential Blue House.

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An anti-Trump leaflet that dropped in South Korea, believed to have come from North Korea by balloon. It reads: “Death to an old crazy guy Trump!” Photo: Reuters
An anti-Trump leaflet that dropped in South Korea, believed to have come from North Korea by balloon. It reads: “Death to an old crazy guy Trump!” Photo: Reuters
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An anti-Trump leaflet that dropped in South Korea, believed to have come from North Korea by balloon. It reads: “Mad dog Trump … ‘Will kill 25,000,000 people in North Korea’ … ‘Destroy North Korea completely’.” The characters on the right are saying: “He is crazy” and “The war will break out if we leave him”. Photo: Reuters
An anti-Trump leaflet that dropped in South Korea, believed to have come from North Korea by balloon. It reads: “Mad dog Trump … ‘Will kill 25,000,000 people in North Korea’ … ‘Destroy North Korea completely’.” The characters on the right are saying: “He is crazy” and “The war will break out if we leave him”. Photo: Reuters

“Great leader Kim Jong-un firmly declared to tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire,” one of the leaflets read, according to the Yonhap news agency.

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