[imText1]Ministry of Unification urged human rights organizations not to distribute leaflets into North Korea, and the groups were outraged.
Last Friday, the Ministry addressed that North Korean government protested South Korea’s violation of June 4 agreement since August. The North and South agreed to stop slander each other on June 4th. As South Korean government asked for evidence of violation, the North forwarded collected leaflets.
In the leaflets, there are written the names of North Korean Democracy Movement and North Korean Christian Alliance. Ministry of Unification demanded the two organizations to end distribution of leaflets.
North Korean Democracy Movement, on Saturday, made a statement that criticizing Kim Jong-Il’s corrupt and luxurious lifestyle in the midst of people’s starvation is not a slander.
Also, the Movement upbraided South Korean government for disregarding just criticism because of the absurd agreement.
In the statement, it is argued that spreading outside information among North Korean people and awakening them of Kim Jong-Il’s brutality are noble undertaking to initiate North Korean democratization.
And it continued that South Korean government should rather focus on North Korea’s democracy and human rights and stop suppressing free North Koreans.
Park Sang Hak, executive director of Democracy Network againt North Korean Gulag that the private organization found no reason to be obliged to obey the North-South agreement and it would go on to distribute leaflets.
