Police crack down on production, distribution of leaflets advertising illegal services

Seoul police said Sunday it identified more than 300 people involved in distributing illegal leaflets advertising prostitution, illegal pharmaceuticals and debt collection services over a five-month period.

2026-01-12

Activist group members sent to prosecutors over anti-North leaflet launches

Members of an activist group accused of launching balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets and other items from the South's border areas have been referred to prosecutors without detention, the Gyeonggi Yeoncheon Police Precinct said Wednesday.

2025-11-19

DP railroads ban on balloons to North in contentious committee meeting

South Korean lawmakers clashed on Thursday as the Democratic Party railroaded a bill out of committee that bans activists from sending balloons over the border with leaflets denouncing North Korea.

2025-09-25

South Korean commander ordered drone mission over North, DP lawmaker claims

Amid North Korea’s claim that a drone that breached its airspace last October belonged to the South, new allegations suggest the mission was personally ordered by South Korea’s drone operations commander.

2025-07-01

North Korean abductees group protests gov't crackdown on balloon leafleting campaigns

Members of the Families of Abductees to North Korea are pushing back against South Korea’s government crackdown on balloon leafleting campaigns aimed at the North, escalating tensions over a highly charged issue.

2025-06-16

Unification Ministry moves to halt anti-North Korea leaflet launches

The Unification Ministry on Monday issued a formal request to halt the launch of anti-North Korea leaflets in its first official appeal since the country’s top court struck down a ban on the practice in September 2023.

2025-06-09

Families of abductees plan anti-Pyongyang leaflet launch Wednesday

Tensions are rising again near the inter-Korean border as families of South Korean abductees in the North announced plans on Tuesday to launch anti-Pyongyang leaflets the next day.

2025-04-22

Anti-North Korea groups to conduct first leaflet launch from sea in 16 years

Groups of North Korean defectors and relatives of South Koreans abducted to the North were poised to send anti-Pyongyang leaflets from the waters off Gangwon on Tuesday.

2024-11-19

North's Kim Yo-jong warns South Korea will pay 'dear price' for dropping leaflets, 'dirty things'

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Sunday that South Korea will have to pay a "dear price" for sending propaganda leaflets across the border the previous day.

2024-11-17

Gyeonggi designates ‘danger zones’ to block anti-Pyongyang leaflets

The Gyeonggi provincial government designated 11 inter-Korean border areas within the province as "danger zones" to stop North Korean defectors and activists from sending anti-North Korea propaganda leaflets across the border.

2024-10-15

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