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South Korean Civic Group Sends 80,000 Anti-Pyongyang Leaflets to North

© REUTERS / Kim Hong-Ji Park Sang-Hak, a North Korean defector living in the South and leader of an anti-North Korea civic group, holds a balloon containing leaflets denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, March 26, 2016, on the sixth anniversary of the sinking of the naval ship Cheonan.
Park Sang-Hak, a North Korean defector living in the South and leader of an anti-North Korea civic group, holds a balloon containing leaflets denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, March 26, 2016, on the sixth anniversary of the sinking of the naval ship Cheonan. - Sputnik International
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A civic South Korean group sent tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border on Saturday in light of tensions on the peninsula triggered by North Korea’s missile launches and nuclear tests, local media reported.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Yonhap news agency, the Fighters for a Free North Korea has scattered some 80,000 leaflets across the border, criticizing the Pyongyang government.

The group is known for launching balloons carrying such leaflets in a bid to spread "dissenting messages."

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula escalated after North Korea successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test in early January and put a satellite into orbit a month later, violating UN Security Council resolutions and triggering condemnation from the international community.

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