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Activists send more leaflets to NKorea despite pleas, threats
AFP - Thursday, November 20
GIMPO CITY, South Korea (AFP) - - South Korean activists Thursday launched tens of thousands of leaflets attacking North Korea's regime towards the border, ignoring threats from Pyongyang and pleas from Seoul.
"Return the abductees!" shouted Choi Sung-Young as he released a towering gas-filled balloon carrying leaflets into the wind blowing towards the heavily fortified frontier.
Some 10 activists who gathered on a hillside outside Seoul said they plan to send 100,000 plastic pamphlets castigating the hardline communist regime and its leader Kim Jong-Il.
The launches have worsened already tense relations. Last week the North vowed to shut the border from December 1, a move that would cripple a major joint industrial estate developed at Kaesong as a symbol of reconciliation.
The Seoul government Wednesday appealed again for a halt to the leaflet war but says it has no laws to ban the launches.
On Thursday a police car and a military jeep followed a convoy of activists and reporters to the launch site west of Seoul but did not intervene.
Choi heads a group linking families of people abducted by Pyongyang in past decades, and has helped arrange the escape of some abductees.
"The South Korean people should understand and share the pain of the families of the abductees held in North Korea," he told AFP.
Also involved in Thursday's launch were the Fighters for Free North Korea (FFNK), a defector group.
Activists filled each giant balloon -- 10 metres (33 feet long) and one metre in diameter -- from bottles of hydrogen before releasing them and their cargo of leaflets into what they hope is a favourable wind.
One new leaflet depicts what it says is Kim's family tree and suggests he has had nine wives or consorts.
Other pamphlets call for the overthrow of what they term a dictator and repeat claims he has suffered a stroke -- an especially sensitive topic.
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