Seoul mulls banning anti-North leaflets after threat


Seoul is mulling to ban anti-North Korea leaflet campaigns by defectors from the North after Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-un's influential sister, threatened to scrap a military agreement with the South. – EPA pic, June 4, 2020.

SOUTH Korea may ban defectors from flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North, officials said today, hours after leader Kim Jong-un’s sister threatened to scrap a military agreement with Seoul.

Kim Yo-jong, the influential younger sister and key adviser to the leader, issued the warning with inter-Korean ties in a deep freeze despite three summits in 2018 between her brother and the South’s President Moon Jae-in, who has consistently promoted engagement with Pyongyang.


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