Defector activist grilled by police over anti-North Korea leafleting
Posted : 2021-05-10 17:55
Updated : 2021-05-10 17:55
Park Sang-hak, the head of Fighters for a Free North Korea, speaks to reporters as he enters the Seoul Metropolitan Agency in central Seoul, May 10. Yonhap
A vocal North Korean defector and activist known for flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North by balloon was questioned by police on Monday over his recent claim to have sent leaflets, in the first violation of South Korea s anti-leaflet law that took effect in March.
Park Sang-hak, the head of Fighters for a Free North Korea, a North Korean defectors group, arrived at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency around 2 p.m. to be grilled as a suspect about his April 30 claim that his organization had sent a total of 10 balloons carrying around 500,000 leaflets, 500 booklets and 5,000 US$1 bills towards the North on two occasions earlier that week.
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Visitors look through a wire fence covered with prayer ribbons wishing for reunification of the two Koreas. Photo taken at Imjingak, near the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea, on June 20, 2019. | Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
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In December, South Korea s National Assembly passed the Development of Inter-Korean Relations Act, best known as the anti-leaflet law, that not only bans South Korean nongovernmental organizations from sending leaflets into North Korea, it also bans sending USB drives containing information about the outside world, along with posters and money. It also prohibits loudspeaker broadcast announcements along the Military Demarcation Line that divides th