North Korea criticized rival South Korea on Wednesday for removing a law that banned private activists from sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to the North, insisting that such activities amount to psychological warfare and threatening to respond with a “shower of shells.” The statement published by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency was the first time state media commented on the September decision by South Korea’s Constitutional Court to invalidate a 2020 law that criminalized leafleting. The ruling came in response to a complaint filed by North Korean defector-activists in the South.