The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has sent around 1 million copies of propaganda leaflets across the border into South Korea amid mounting tensions after Pyongyang's claim of its first hydrogen bomb test.
South Korea's defense ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told a press briefing that DPRK forces scattered anti-South Korean leaflets on a nearly-daily basis since last Wednesday, saying about 1 million copies are estimated to have been dispersed.
The leaflets, criticizing the South Korean government and President Park Geun-hye, were floated by balloons from the DPRK into some areas of the capital Seoul and the northern regions close to the inter-Korean border.
The DPRK's leafleting came as tensions mounted on the Korean peninsula after Pyongyang's claim on Jan. 6 of its first H-bomb test.
As part of retaliatory measures, South Korea resumed blaring anti-DPRK propaganda messages from loudspeakers along the border. The DPRK also restarted its own propaganda broadcasts.
The two Koreas had stopped phycological warfare in border areas since 2004 after a historic inter-Korean summit in 2000. Seoul briefly resumed the propaganda broadcasts in August 2015 in protest against what it claimed was explosion of landmines planted by DPRK forces which maimed two South Korean soldiers.
