The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Sunday that South Korea will have to pay a “dear price” for sending propaganda leaflets across the border the previous day.
Kim Yo-jong, vice department director of the central committee of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, said “various kinds of political agitation leaflets and dirty things” were dropped by the South near the border and further inland.

North Korea has reacted angrily to South Korean activists sending balloons across the border carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets and South Korean consumer goods.
Kim said North Korea’s security forces have blocked off the areas where the leaflets were found and are carrying out disposal work.
“There is a limit to patience,” she said. “The DPRK people’s anger at the most disgusting curs has reached the extremes. The scum will have to pay a dear price.”
Yonhap

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