South Korean activists floated hundreds of thousands of leaflets across the border into North Korea today, protesting Pyongyang’s recent missile testing efforts in defiance of UN sanctions. “We launched the leaflets to protest against these provocative acts,” North Korean defector-turned-activist Park Sang-Hak told AFP.
A total of 300,000 leaflets — along with 2,000 one-dollar bills designed to encourage people to pick them up — were floated over the heavily militarised border in packages attached to large helium balloons. The balloon launch came a day after the North conducted what appeared to be its second failed test.