Residents living near the inter-Korean border clashed with South Korean activists’ attempt to launch anti-regime leaflets toward North Korea on Thursday, underscoring simmering tensions over balloon launches due to security concerns.
Choi Sung-ryong, an activist representing families of North Korean abduction victims, and Park Sang-hak of the activist group Fighters for a Free North Korea had planned to launch balloons from the National Memorial for Abductees during the Korean War on Thursday.
Residents living near the inter-Korean border clashed with South Korean activists’ attempt to launch anti-regime leaflets toward North Korea on Thursday, underscoring simmering tensions over balloon launches due to security concerns.
Choi Sung-ryong, an activist representing families of North Korean abduction victims, and Park Sang-hak of the activist group Fighters for a Free North Korea had planned to launch balloons from the National Memorial for Abductees during the Korean War on Thursday.
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