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#DPRK vs. #ROK in the air. https://t.co/BH3qXtuCCl

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) May 30, 2016

A group of activists are floating a large balloon containing leaflets from Paju, north of Seoul, on May 28, 2016, to denounce North Korea’s sudden water discharge from Imjin River, located just north of the western demilitarized zone. This photo is provided by Fighters for Free Korea, an activist group composed of North Korean defectors. (Yonhap)

A group of North Korean defectors prepares to release balloons containing leaflets critical of the North Korean regime in Paju, near the inter-Korean border, on April 6, 2016. The balloons were released despite a recent Supreme Court ruling that the government can keep activists from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border, citing the safety of residents there. (Yonhap)

The ROK really cannot complain about this considering how private organizations continue to send propaganda leaflets and CDs via balloon into North Korea.  The nuisance of dealing with the litter caused by this propaganda war is worth it in my opinion because of the effect the propaganda has within North Korea:

North Korea has sent leaflets and compact discs criticizing President Park Geun-hye and the ruling Saenuri Party to South Korea, police said Wednesday, the latest move in its propaganda campaign.

Police retrieved some 20,000 leaflets and 40 CDs from Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, just northwest of Seoul, at around 5 a.m.

Earlier in the day, dozens of leaflets criticizing South Korea’s military and its joint exercise with the United States were found in central Seoul at around midnight, according to police.

Later on Wednesday, a group of defectors in South Korea sent 300,000 leaflets with messages criticizing the communist regime and 4,000 sheets of local newspapers over the border from Paju, Gyeonggi Province.

The same group had sent another 300,000 leaflets to the North last month.  [Yonhap]

You can read more at the link.

ROK Drop favorite Park Sang-hak and his group have continued with their propaganda balloon campaign against North Korea in the wake of the Kim regime’s repeated weapons tests:

An organization made up of North Korean escapees and a conservative civic group have distributed some 100-thousand leaflets denouncing the North’s nuclear and missile tests across the border.

Amid the heightened inter-Korean tension, Fighters for Free North Korea and the National Action Campaign for Freedom and Democracy in Korea distributed the leaflets on Monday in Paju, Gyeonggi Province near the border.

The organizations said that the people have the obligation to chastise Kim Jong-un’s threats and provocations regardless of whether or not the South’s government and military engage in psychological warfare.

The organizations then called on the public to join movements to send balloons containing leaflets to the North.

Last Saturday, Fighters for Free North Korea distributed 80-thousand leaflets condemning the North from Gimpo and Paju, as the day marked the sixth anniversary of the sinking of the South Korean naval corvette Cheonan torpedoed by Pyongyang.

Park Sang-hak, the head of the group, said that the organization will continue to send what will be a combined ten million leaflets critical of Pyongyang over the next three months.  [KBS World Radio]

Members of conservative groups in South Korea launch large plastic balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the air in their bid to send them into North Korea in the border town of Paju on March 28, 2016, a campaign that is strongly opposed by the North. (Yonhap)

A water tank on the rooftop of a residential building in Suwon, south of Seoul, was found partially destroyed on Feb. 2, 2016, after what police say was a heavy bundle of propaganda leaflets from North Korea fell on it. Police said they retrieved some 30,000 leaflets that criticized the South Korean president and extolled the North’s recent nuclear test. Pyongyang has been sending propaganda material across the border after Seoul, in retaliation against the Jan. 6 nuclear detonation, resumed anti-North broadcasts though border loudspeakers. (Photo provided by the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency) (Yonhap)

Leave it to the North Koreans to come up with propaganda balloons this crude:

North Korea has been floating balloons over the border with a cargo of propaganda leaflets denouncing the United States as well as South Korean leader Park Geun-hye, calling her “political filth.”

Recently, the leaflets have been accompanied by genuine filth: cigarette butts and used toilet paper.

According to military and police sources Monday, Pyongyang began sending the balloons carrying leaflets starting from Jan. 12 to retaliate for South Korea’s resumption of propaganda broadcasts at the border earlier that week.  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

You can read the rest at the link.

#DPRK propaganda leaflets found in Seoul, other areas — apparently sent from north to south on plastic balloons. pic.twitter.com/SzWlceODVO

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) January 13, 2016

This photo, taken on Sept. 20, 2015, by the Fighters for Free North Korea, an anti-Pyongyang activist group, shows a balloon that contains leaflets denouncing the hereditary power succession in the North, flying toward North Korea in the South Korean border city of Paju. The group said the next day it sent 200,000 leaflets on 10 balloons to protest against its moves to launch nuclear and missile tests amid opposition from the international community. (Yonhap)