SEOUL, December 17 (AJP) - South Korea floated propaganda leaflets into North Korea at least 23 times under the former Yoon Suk Yeol administration, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
According to the ministry's recent internal investigation, the leaflet drops, halted in July 2017 under Yoon's predecessor, resumed from February to November last year after a decision was made at a security meeting in October 2023, attended by then-Defense Minister Shin Won-sik, then-Unification Minister Kim Young-ho, and then-National Intelligence Service Director Kim Kyu-hyun.
Specific reasons for the resumption remain undisclosed, as the meeting records are classified as presidential documents.
Whether it was a calculated move to provoke the North or not, leaflets targeting around 35 locations in North Korea including Pyongyang and Wonsan, were floated for about a year just before Yoon's botched Dec. 3 declaration of martial law.
In response, North Korea launched its bizarre campaign of seeing trash-filled balloons toward the South about 32 times from May to November last year.
The latest revelation comes after independent prosecutors wrapped up their investigation earlier this week, concluding that Yoon prepared for his martial law fiasco as early as October 2023, more than a year before.
According to the ministry's recent internal investigation, the leaflet drops, halted in July 2017 under Yoon's predecessor, resumed from February to November last year after a decision was made at a security meeting in October 2023, attended by then-Defense Minister Shin Won-sik, then-Unification Minister Kim Young-ho, and then-National Intelligence Service Director Kim Kyu-hyun.
Specific reasons for the resumption remain undisclosed, as the meeting records are classified as presidential documents.
Whether it was a calculated move to provoke the North or not, leaflets targeting around 35 locations in North Korea including Pyongyang and Wonsan, were floated for about a year just before Yoon's botched Dec. 3 declaration of martial law.
In response, North Korea launched its bizarre campaign of seeing trash-filled balloons toward the South about 32 times from May to November last year.
The latest revelation comes after independent prosecutors wrapped up their investigation earlier this week, concluding that Yoon prepared for his martial law fiasco as early as October 2023, more than a year before.
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