Balloon Battles Over Korea

At the border of North and South Korea, a propaganda / psy ops battle rages:

"A South Korean activist group released balloons containing anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border in the dead of night on Monday, in defiance of the South Korean government’s attempts to prevent such acts amid heightened tensions with North Korea.  

Park Sang-hak, head of the organization Fighters for a Free North Korea, said six members of his group launched 20 balloons containing half a million leaflets, 500 books advertising the success of South Korea’s capitalist system, 2,000 one dollar bills and 1,000 memory cards across the border towards the North from a secluded location in Paju, Gyeonggi, from 11 p.m. to midnight.  

 One of those balloons was discovered stuck on trees on the banks of a stream in Hongcheon County, Gangwon, by police Tuesday afternoon.

 'In order to evade [South Korean] police surveillance, I trained members unaccustomed to dispatching leaflets to send the flyers,' Park announced, before delivering a tirade condemning the Moon Jae-in administration for attempting to silence defector groups from speaking out."

As a liberal president rules South Korea, the current government is trying to ease tensions between the two countries to foster talks.  Right-wingers (some of whom are actually defectors from North Korea) aren't having any of it, and are planning to continue sending over their Freedom Balloons.  Meanwhile, South Korean border residents live in fear of a retaliatory strike from the North.