South Korea police raid anti-North Korea activist office over propaganda leaflets


  • World
  • Thursday, 06 May 2021

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police raided on Thursday the office of an anti-North Korea activist group that said it had released balloons into the North last week carrying dollar bills and leaflets denouncing the government in Pyongyang.

Such releases, though banned by a recent law, can provoke condemnation from the North, which last year blew up a joint liaison office and threatened military action after it was angered by the propaganda leaflets.

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