Seoul, South Korea (AP) - South Korea prohibition activists launch anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the heavily fortified border into North Korea on Monday in an unusual move to stop their propaganda activities.
North Korea's military said last week that if South Korean activists carry out their plans to fly a balloon carrying leaflets across the border, it will strike. South Korea promised to retaliate if it is attacked.
The police said, was mobilized, hundreds of South Korean police blocked roads to prevent activists and others into a launch site near the border. Before Monday's action, the Government has implored activists to stop their activities, but it citing freedom of speech, and did not make further attempts to intervene.
Launch site near residents were asked to evacuate to underground bunkers, according to local officials Jinjin.
North Korea, by regularly issued similar threats, no. Seoul, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that South Korea detected North Korean artillery muzzle cover is opened, the deployment of troops ready to attack the artillery fire positions, and immigration ban. Yonhap quoted sources of information.
South Korean Defense Ministry said it could not confirm the report, but said its forces have been placed in a heightened state of alert to cope with any potential North Korean aggression.
Most of the dozens of activists and North Korean defectors, plans to send about 200,000 leaflets criticizing North Korea's young leader Kim Jong Un and his country's nuclear weapons program.
Entry ban is equal to succumb to the threat of North Korea and his research team will try to find another place float leaflets the lead activist Park Sang Crane said. "This is surrender. Apparently had given up," he said.
After two deadly attacks blamed North Korea killed 50 South Korean rival Koreas in 2010 was extremely tense.
Formal war, because of the armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula in the 1950s to the end of the armistice agreement, not a peace treaty.



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