North Korea is gearing up to send propaganda leaflets over its southern border, denouncing North Korean defectors and South Korea, its state media said on Saturday, the latest retaliation for leaflets from the South as bilateral tensions rise.
FILE PHOTO: A soldier stands guard at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge which leads to the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, June 17, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
“Every action should be met with proper reaction and only when one experiences it oneself, one can feel how offending it is,” KCNA said. South Korea’s unification ministry, which is responsible for inter-Korean dialogue, said on Saturday that North Korea’s plan to send leaflets was “extremely regrettable,” and urged it to scrap the plan immediately.
The two Koreas, which are still technically at war as their 1950-53 conflict ended without a peace treaty, have waged leaflet campaigns for decades.
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