时间：2024-09-22 09:28:55 来源：摩登家庭人人影视网 作者：关于我们 阅读：852次

Police officers collect a balloon containing anti-Pyongyang leaflets at a mountain in Hongcheon, a town in South Korea's northeastern province of Gangwon, on June 23. Fighters for a Free North Korea, a Seoul-based organization of North Korean defectors advocating for North Korean human rights, claimed it sent such balloons toward North Korea in the South Korean border town of Paju, north of Seoul, the previous day. (Yonhap)The unification ministry on Wednesday welcomed a parliamentary committee's passage of a proposal to ban the flying of propaganda leaflets into North Korea, saying the measure will help protect residents in border regions and ease cross-border tensions.

The government and the ruling Democratic Party have been seeking to legislate a ban on the sending of anti-Pyongyang leaflets after North Korea bristled at such activity and even blew up an inter-Korean liaison office in June in anger.

Pyongyang has denounced the leafleting as a violation of inter-Korean agreements and demanded that Seoul take preventive measures.

The foreign affairs committee of the National Assembly convened a plenary session earlier in the day and passed the bill that would penalize leafleting. Opposition party members boycotted the meeting, saying its passage is tantamount to succumbing to pressure from North Korea.

"We welcome that the bill has been passed at the plenary meeting today," the ministry said in a press release.

The ministry noted that the bill, if enacted, will contribute to keeping people in border regions out of harm's way and pave the way for easing tensions and building peace on the Korean Peninsula.

The government has advised against sending such leaflets, citing concerns about the safety of residents in border areas where leaflet-carrying balloons are launched because the North could take retaliatory military action in the areas.

North Korean defector groups, however, have ignored the appeals, saying banning the sending of leaflets would violate their right to freedom of speech. (Yonhap)

(责任编辑：行业动态)

上一篇：Best smartphone deal: Google Pixel 8a on sale for $449 at Amazon
下一篇：Apple to start manufacturing iPhone Pro in India, report claims

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
•