The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has warned that South Korea will face unspecified “new counteraction” by the North if it keeps sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets and playing its loud-speaker broadcasts across the border.
The statement by Kim Yo-jong came after the South resumed propaganda loud-speaker broadcasts toward the North for the first time in six years in retaliation against the North’s repeated sending of trash-carrying balloons, reports Yonhapnews agency.
“If the ROK simultaneously carries out the leaflet scattering and loudspeaker broad-casting provocation over the border, it will undoubtedly witness the new counteraction of the DPRK,” Kim said in the English statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency on Sunday, using the acronyms for the official names of the South and the North.
Kim claimed that the North had sent some 7.5 tons of “waste paper” in 1,400 balloons across the country over the weekend, arguing that they were just garbage that contained nothing related to political propaganda, unlike anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent by North Korean defectors in the South.
Kim claimed that the North had planned to stop sending balloons, but the “situation has changed” as the South resumed loudspeaker broadcasting across the border.