This picture, launched by North Korea’s official Korean Central Information Company on Friday, reveals a purported drone (in giant circle) and a pack of leaflets (in small circle) that Pyongyang claims had been despatched by South Korea. (Yonhap)
North Korea’s information media for the home viewers on Saturday reported the reclusive regime’s declare that the South despatched unmanned drones carrying anti-North propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang 3 times this month.
The Rodong Sinmun, the North’s important newspaper, in addition to the nation’s state radio and TV, reported the information by carrying a press release from the North’s overseas ministry issued yesterday.
It’s uncommon for North Korea to publicize the South’s sending of anti-North propaganda leaflets in its information shops largely aimed toward native residents. The North, nevertheless, has usually used the Korean Central Information Company, its overseas information outlet, to criticize such strikes.
The Rodong Shinmun and the Korean Central TV confirmed pictures of unmanned drones noticed within the evening skies over Pyongyang and anti-North leaflets allegedly dropped from the flights. The pictures had been first distributed by the KCNA yesterday.
The choice to publicize the overseas ministry’s assertion amongst North Korean residents, regardless of implications of potential points with Pyongyang’s air protection, appears to be aimed toward justifying chief Kim Jong-un’s characterization of inter-Korean relations as these between “two states hostile to one another” late final yr.
Some analysts recommend that the disclosure might be a strategic transfer to fire up anti-South Korean sentiment amongst its inhabitants, paving the way in which for a doable constitutional modification supporting the two-state idea.
On Friday, the overseas ministry assertion claimed that South Korean drones carrying leaflets had been detected within the evening skies over Pyongyang on Oct. 3, in addition to Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and threatened to reply with power if such flights happen as soon as once more.
South Korean Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun, nevertheless, mentioned he couldn’t verify the North’s declare. (Yonhap)