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Park Sang-hak, center, a refugee from the North who runs the group Fighters for a Free North Korea from a small Seoul office, and South Korean conservative activists prepare to release balloons bearing leaflets condemning the North Korean leader during an anti-North Korea rally against the 99th anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth, called "The Day of the Sun," at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, on April 15, 2011. North Korea on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 criticized rival South Korea for removing a law that banned private activists from sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to the North, insisting that such activities amount to psychological warfare and threatening to respond with a “shower of shells.” The balloons read "Overthrow Kim Jong Il's dictatorship." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

North Korea threatens to respond to anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets with a ‘shower of shells’

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Plastic bags containing masks and medicines are placed in the border town Gimpo, South Korea, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. A South Korea activist said Thursday he launched more huge balloons carrying COVID-19 relief items toward North Korea, days after the North vowed to sternly deal with such activities and made a highly questionable claim they were a source of the virus. (Courtesy of Fighters For A Free North Korea via AP)

South Korean group floats balloons toward North amid animosities

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 23, 2020, file photo, police officers ride a boat to collect a ballon carrying a banner with images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the late leader Kim Il Sung and Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, released by Fighters For Free North Korea, in Hongcheon, South Korea. South Korean police said Tuesday, June 30, 2020, that they've summoned two activists accused of raising tensions with North Korea by sending propaganda balloons or plastic bottles filled with rice across the border. (Yang Ji-woong/Yonhap via AP, File)

Seoul police say they’re questioning anti-North activists

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE- In this Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, file photo, people walk past a TV screen showing a poster of Sony Picture's &quot;The Interview&quot; in a news report, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. A South Korean activist said Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014, that he will launch balloons carrying DVDs of Sony’s “The Interview” toward North Korea to try to break down a personality cult built around the country's leader Kim Jong Un. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

South Korean to drop Sony film in North by balloon

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press