North Korea’s information media reported Saturday the reclusive regime’s declare that South Korea despatched unmanned drones carrying anti-North propaganda leaflets over Pyongyang thrice this month.
The Rodong Sinmun, the North’s predominant newspaper, in addition to the nation’s state radio and TV, reported the information by carrying a press release from the regime’s international ministry issued the day past.
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. It has, nonetheless, typically used the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA), its international information outlet, to criticize such strikes.
The Rodong Sinmun and Korean Central TV confirmed photographs of unmanned drones noticed within the evening skies over Pyongyang and anti-North leaflets allegedly dropped from the flights. The photographs had been first distributed by the KCNA the day past.
The choice to publicize the international ministry’s assertion to 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 counsel that the disclosure might be a strategic transfer to fire up anti-South Korean sentiment amongst its inhabitants, paving the best way for a attainable constitutional modification supporting the two-state principle.
On Friday, the international ministry assertion claimed that South Korean drones carrying leaflets had been detected within the evening skies over Pyongyang, Oct. 3, in addition to Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and threatened to reply with power if such flights happen once more.
South Korean Protection Minister Kim Yong-hyun, nonetheless, mentioned he couldn’t affirm the North’s declare. (Yonhap)