Six US citizens were detained in South Korea near the restricted border of North Korea.
South Korea authorities have arrested six US citizens who are trying to send rice, US dollar bills and approximately 5,3 plastic bottles filled with Bible by sea by sea.
According to South Korea’s official Yonhah news agency, they were arrested on Friday morning at an attempt to release bottles from the Gwangwa Island near the restricted front-line area with North Korea.
The six persons were taken into custody after the army unit on the coast of the area was informed to the police. The area of question is limited to the masses after appointing the area of danger due to its views in the north in November.
Plastic bottles or flying balls on the border north north of the south Korea have created a long stress in the Korean Peninsula.
According to Yonhap, the administrative order of banning the launch of anti -Pyongianga campaign to the north is already applicable to this area.
On June 3, police have accused a worker of being a balloon flying from Gwangan Island to North Korea.
Two South Korean police officers confirmed the sixth arrest to the Associated Press News Agency but did not give further information.
In 223, the South Korean constitutional court destroyed the law of 2, which criminalized to send leaflets and other items to North Korea and called it excessive restrictions on open speech.
But since the beginning of June, the new liberal government President Lee Je-Tim Such a civil campaign is trying to break up with other security-related laws to prevent the tension with North Korea and to promote the safety of the front-line residents of South Korea.
Lee took the charge of resumption of long -term discussions with North Korea and promising peace in the Korean Peninsula. Their government has stopped the broadcast of the front-line anti-Pingianga propaganda loudspeaker, and since then, North Korea has not been heard in the front-line cities of South Korea.
It is unclear whether North Korea Lee will respond to a reconciliation gesture after promising to break relations with South Korea last year and to re -emerge a peaceful Korean reunion.
Since the US -led diplomacy on North Korea’s Diclorization has fallen from the back, the official discussion in Korea has been halted since 2019.
