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North Korea has mobilized soldiers in a campaign to sweep up propaganda leaflets from South Korean activists, which are dropped in large quantities on the coastal areas in South Hwanghae Province, Radio Free Asia on Tuesday quoted North Korean sources in China as saying.
Soldiers collect them in the morning, the broadcaster claimed. Those in charge of food rationing pay more attention to the leaflets. Harsher punishment has reportedly been given to North Koreans who have either kept or read them. It claimed one farmer was interrogated by a state security office and sent to a camp for eight years of labor and indoctrination for having told his neighbors that he had read a leaflet.
North Korean authorities have reportedly ordered residents not to pick up leaflets themselves but report them to state security offices first.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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