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In an apparent tit-for-tat move against South Korea’s propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts, North Korea has begun to distribute anti-Seoul propaganda leaflets across the border, military officials here said Wednesday.
Bunches of the leaflets were discovered in parts of Seoul and Goyang, Paju and other northern locales in Gyeonggi Province early in the morning. The papers mainly called for an end to the border broadcasts and “knockdown” of the Park Geun-hye administration.
The South’s military said it detected the North’s launches of plastic balloons believed to be carrying the flyers late Tuesday and early Wednesday, warning of a resumption of its own pamphlet-spraying activities.
“We’ve yet to decide but are ready to undertake our leaflet operations, closely monitoring the North Korean military’s movement,” a Joint Chiefs of Staff official told reporters on customary condition of anonymity.
The JCS released four types of fliers, each measuring 12 centimeters by 4.5 centimeters and printed on white or violet laminated paper.
“As we do with a rabid dog, let’s crack the Park Geun-hye clique that deteriorated the North-South relations by resuming anti-North psychological warfare broadcasts,” reads one, while another says, “Stop immediately the anti-North psychological warfare broadcasts that would light the fuse of a war.” Others warn Seoul against jeopardizing its own safety through a provocation, and urge the U.S. to scrap what it calls an “anti-North hostile policy.”
The police also collected some 1,000 handouts near Seoul Forest in the capital that threaten a “bombardment of fire” for offending the Kim Jong-un leadership, and more from Uijeongbu, Dongducheon, Paju, Yangpyeong and other Gyeonggi areas.
“The North spread them apparently to help offset the effects of our broadcasts,” a Defense Ministry official said.
The communist state has previously sent anti-Seoul brochures toward border islands in the West Sea, but the latest scattering is deemed unusual given its vast scale traversing the Seoul metropolitan area.
The South Korean military’s leaflet operations have been on hold since the two Koreas agreed to cease propaganda activities in June 2004, though some defector and nongovernmental organizations have been allowed to carry out their own campaigns.
Earlier in the day, seven members of defector group Fighters For Free North Korea led by Park Sang-hak sought to discharge about 300,000 anti-Pyongyang flyers in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, only to be blocked by the police.
By Shin Hyon-hee (heeshin@heraldcorp.com)
