North Korea prepares to send propaganda leaflets south in retaliation against Seoul

One of the leaflets shows Moon drinking a cup of unidentified beverage and reads: ‘[He has] eaten it all, including the North-South Korea agreement.’

South Korean activists have sent leaflets criticising the Kim regime across the border, prompting an angry response from Pyongyang in recent weeks

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North Koreans prepare anti-South Korea propaganda leaflets in North Korea. Photo: AP

Published: 1:57pm, 20 Jun 2020Updated: 10:41pm, 20 Jun 2020

North Korea is preparing to send anti-Seoul leaflets into the South, state media said on Saturday, with tensions high on the peninsula.

Pyongyang has recently issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of Seoul over anti-North leaflets, which defectors based in the South send regularly across the border – usually attached to balloons or floated in bottles.

North Korea has upped the pressure with a dramatic demolition of a building on its side of the border that symbolised inter-Korean rapprochement, threats to bolster its military presence at the border, and has now said it is readying a leaflet campaign of its own.

“Enraged” North Koreans are now “pushing forward with the preparations for launching a large-scale distribution of leaflets” into the South, the official KCNA news agency said.

“Every action should be met with proper reaction and only when one experiences it oneself, one can feel how offending it is.”

Photos carried by the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed cigarette butts and ashes piled on printed fliers featuring the face of South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

One of the leaflets shows Moon drinking a cup of unidentified beverage and reads: “[He has] eaten it all, including the North-South Korea agreement.”

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