North Korea claimed the leaflets violated an agreement reached between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae in 2018 at their first summit, when both leaders agreed to suspend “all hostile actions and eliminate their means, including broadcasting through speakers and distributing leaflets. “along their common border.

On Monday night, a group of layoffs in South Korea sent an additional 500,000 leaflets to the North about the “truth of the Korean War.”

The group said it also sent 500 booklets about “prosperous South Korea,” 2,000 U.S. one-dollar bills and 1,000 SD cards with 20 balloons.

In retaliation for the initial leaflet crash, North Korea cut off communication lines with the South and blew up a joint liaison office, located in the city of Kaesong, north of the DMZ.

While the office was closed due to coronavirus and South Korean staff has not been in the building since then – the destruction was symbolic because the office was meant to facilitate dialogue between the two countries.

With the threat of heightened military pressure, the Korean People’s Army has reinstalled speakers at the border and announced it will launch its own propaganda campaign by sending millions of leaflets south.

Although the North has labeled its actions in retaliation over the past few weeks, Pyongyang has been expressing dissatisfaction for months that its diplomacy with South Korea and the United States has not brought relief from sanctions that disparage the North Korean economy.