Government Initiates Legal Action and Corporate Cancellation Against Defector Group Distributing Anti-North Korea Leaflets

Two North Korean Defector Groups, Jayu Bukhan Undong Yeonhap and Keunsam
Ministry of Unification: "Distributing Leaflets to North Korea Violates Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Act"
"Poses Risks to the Lives and Safety of Residents in Border Areas"

Yeosang-gi, spokesperson for the Ministry of Unification, is giving a briefing on North Korean leaflets at the government Seoul office briefing room on the morning of the 4th.

The government filed a complaint against a defector group that announced plans to distribute leaflets to North Korea on the 10th and initiated procedures to revoke its corporate registration.

On the same day, the Ministry of Unification stated in a document titled "Government Position on the Distribution of Leaflets and PET Bottles to North Korea" that "Today, the government filed charges against the Free North Korea Movement Alliance (Representative Park Sang-hak) and Keunsaem (Representative Park Jung-oh) for violating the Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Act and decided to begin the process of revoking their corporate establishment permits."

The Ministry of Unification explained, "The two organizations violated the export approval regulations of the Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Act through their activities of distributing leaflets and PET bottles to North Korea. They also directly violated agreements between the South and North Korean leaders, thereby escalating tensions between the two Koreas and endangering the lives and safety of residents in border areas, which we judge to be a violation of the public interest."

The North Korean defector organization, the Free North Korea Movement Alliance, announced on the 1st that on the 31st of last month, they sent 500,000 leaflets titled "Kim Jong-un Threatens to Launch New Strategic Nuclear Weapons," 50 booklets, 2,000 one-dollar bills, and 1,000 memory cards (SD cards) attached to 20 large balloons from Wolgot-ri, Seongdong-ri, Gimpo City, flying them toward North Korea. The photo shows the defector organization distributing leaflets to North Korea.

Meanwhile, as North Korea strongly condemned the leaflet distribution and announced the severance of inter-Korean relations, defector groups have announced their intention to forcibly distribute leaflets to North Korea within this month.

The National Assembly is also pushing legislation to ban the distribution of leaflets to North Korea, and as North Korea’s level of backlash intensifies, conflicts between these groups and residents of border areas are growing.

According to the police on the 10th, the defector group Free North Korea Movement Alliance announced plans to send one million leaflets to North Korea on the 25th.

In particular, it is known that the Free North Korea Movement Alliance has already secured a large amount of hydrogen gas capable of launching ten balloons to North Korea.

On the 8th, members of Keunsaem and the Free North Korea Movement Alliance attempted to hold an event in Seokmo-ri, Samsan-myeon, Ganghwa-gun, where they planned to send PET bottles containing rice and masks into the sea to North Korea, but the event was forcibly stopped by local residents.

Residents of the border area in Gimpo City issued a statement on the 6th declaring that "If acts provoking North Korea such as leaflet distribution occur in the border area, we will block them by all means and methods," and delivered it to the mayor.

Since Kim Yo-jong, First Deputy Director of the Workers' Party, issued a statement condemning the leaflet distribution on the 4th, North Korea actually cut off all communication channels, including the hotline between the South and North Korean leaders, on the 9th.

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