South Korea acts to stop defectors’ aid

SEOUL: A day after North Korea suspended communication hot lines with South Korea over defectors who send propaganda and contraband into the North, South Korea said it would take legal action against two organisations that conduct such operations.

North Korea gets enraged when the defectors in the South send material such as anti-North leaflets and rice – usually by balloon over the heavily fortified border or in bottles by sea – and its media has in recent days denounced the “mongrel dogs” who do it.

Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, recently called defectors “human scum little short of wild animals”. | Reuters