Seoul, South Korea (AP) - South Korea on Monday prohibited activists from the anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the border region to North Korea, an unusual move, activists likened to surrender, they plan to launch.
North Korea's military warned last week, the Korean activists carried out their plans to fly balloons carrying propaganda leaflets across the border, it will strike. South Korea promised to retaliate if it is attacked.
South Korean police said they blocked the road to prevent activists and others gathered at the launch site for security reasons, and sent hundreds of officers. Residents in the area were asked to evacuate to underground facilities, according to local officials Jinjin.
Before Monday's action, the Government has implored activists to stop their activities, but did not make further attempts to intervene in reference to the freedom of speech.
South Korean activists send leaflets in the past, North Korea has not issued a similar threat across the border, through. Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported on Monday that and was sentenced prohibited from entering the border area detected Korea, North Korea has been found that the preparation of artillery muzzle cover and deployment of the army artillery positions attacks. Yonhap quoted sources of information.
South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told reporters Monday that is considered to be the DPRK to take action to carry out its warning. He declined to elaborate on the movement of North Korean troops, because this is a classified military information.
Kim said that Korea consolidate its military preparations, the North Korean threat, and will strongly retaliate if the attacks.
Dozens of activists, mostly North Korean defectors, and there are plans to float balloons carrying about 200,000 leaflets criticizing North Korea's young leader Kim Jong Un and his country's nuclear weapons program.
, Entry ban is tantamount to succumb to the threat of North Korea and his team will try to find another place floating 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.
China, North Korea's main ally and biggest source of aid, welcomed South Korea efforts to overthrow the balloon flight, and urges all parties to exercise restraint.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said: "As a close neighbor of the Korean Peninsula, China supports North Korea and South Korea for dialogue and discussion to solve the problem, and to oppose any action that might aggravate tension, and resolutely opposed to military conflict on the Korean Peninsula," in daily media TongQiHui. "We hope relevant parties to remain calm and exercise restraint."
The occasion of the latest outbreak of tension, almost all regional players consumed with domestic politics. The elections are being held or expected soon in South Korea, the United States and Japan, and the Chinese Communist Party in the transfer of the powers of a younger generation of leaders.



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