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Police crack down on production, distribution of leaflets advertising illegal services

Seoul police said Sunday it identified more than 300 people involved in distributing illegal leaflets advertising prostitution, illegal pharmaceuticals and debt collection services over a five-month period.

2026.1.12

Choi Seong-ryong, head of civic group Families of Abductees to North Korea, speaks during a press conference announcing the end of anti-North Korea leaflet launches in Paju, Gyeonggi, on July 8. [YONHAP]

Activist group members sent to prosecutors over anti-North leaflet launches

Members of an activist group accused of launching balloons carrying anti-North Korea leaflets and other items from the South's border areas have been referred to prosecutors without detention, the Gyeonggi Yeoncheon Police Precinct said Wednesday.

2025.11.19

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Members of a South Korean civic group representing families of abductees held in North Korea prepare to launch leaflet balloons toward the North in Paju, Gyeonggi, on April 27. [THE ASSOCIATION OF THE FAMILIES OF THOSE ABDUCTED BY NORTH KOREA]

DP railroads ban on balloons to North in contentious committee meeting

South Korean lawmakers clashed on Thursday as the Democratic Party railroaded a bill out of committee that bans activists from sending balloons over the border with leaflets denouncing North Korea.

2025.9.25

Democratic Party Rep. Park Sun-won speaks during a hearing at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Feb. 21. [NEWS1]

South Korean commander ordered drone mission over North, DP lawmaker claims

Amid North Korea’s claim that a drone that breached its airspace last October belonged to the South, new allegations suggest the mission was personally ordered by South Korea’s drone operations commander.

2025.7.1

Choi Seong-ryong, head of the Families of Abductees to North Korea Association, second from left, speaks at a press conference in front of the Seoul Government Complex Seoul in Jongno District, central Seoul, on June 16, explaining the purpose and contents of the group's leaflet campaign to North Korea and urging the government to confirm the fate of their abducted family members. [YONHAP]

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.

2025.6.16

Ministry of Unification spokesperson Koo Byung-sam speaks during a regular press briefing at the government complex in Jongno District, central Seoul on June 9. [NEWS1]

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.

2025.6.9

Choi Seong-ryong, right, head of the group representing families of abductees, argues with Rep. Yoon Hu-duck of the liberal Democratic Party (DP) in Imjingak, Paju, Gyeonggi, on Jan. 30. [YONHAP]

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.

2025.4.22

Members of the North Korean defectors group Fighters for a Free North Korea hold large balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets in northern Gyeonggi in June. [NEWS1]

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

A photo of balloon apparently containing South Korean snacks and other consumer goods is released by the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday. [YONHAP]

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

Kim Sung-joong, vice governor of Gyeonggi, announces the designation of danger zones within the province in a briefing in Suwon, Gyeonggi, on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

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