Heeding a government suggestion, a key anti-North Korean civic group said Friday that it will scale back its campaign to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border amid a burgeoning thaw in inter-Korean relations.
"We understand the government's position and accept its request," Lee Min-bok, head of the Campaign for Helping North Korean in Direct Way, a civic activist group, told Yonhap News Agency by phone. "We're not going to excessively spread anti-North Korea leaflets for the time being."
The Campaign is one of two major civic groups that have regularly flown large amounts of anti-Pyongyang leaflets by balloons across the border. The leaflet campaign targeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been a constant source of friction between the two Koreas.