Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

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

[WHY] Why are both Koreas fixated on cross-border propaganda?

What is it about South Korean leaflets that anger the North so much, and why have both Seoul and Pyongyang put so much effort into cross-border propaganda?

2024-06-22

Seoul demands that North halt liaison office demolition

Seoul demanded on Friday that Pyongyang cease ongoing demolition work to remove the ruins of the inter-Korean liaison office in the border city of Kaesong that the North blew up in June 2020.

2023-12-08

Ruling on leaflets to North Korea welcomed (KOR)

The government and politicians have the duty to explore the best possible way to guard public lives without infringing on the values of democracy and civilian rights.

2023-09-28

Ruling on leaflets to North Korea welcomed

The government and politicians have the duty to explore the best possible way to guard public lives without infringing on the values of democracy and civilian rights.

2023-09-27