Meet the North Korean defectors enraging Kim Jong-un with leaflet balloons

Fighters for Free North Korea vows to keep sending informational leaflets for as long as Kim Jong-Un threatens the South with nuclear arms, as Donald Kirk reports

Park Sang-hak launches balloons toward North Korea (AP)

North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, is not giving up his nuclear warheads, and a pair of brothers who defected from the North 20 years ago refuse to stop bothering him with news items blown his way by balloons.

“The police are trying to find any clue as to whether we committed an illegal action,” the younger brother, Park Jung-oh, 51, tells The Independent. “They keep asking, ‘What are you doing here?’ It is very difficult to answer all their questions.”

Nonetheless, he and his older brother, Park Sang-hak, 52, both of whom defected from North Korea via China 20 years ago, promise to keep up their campaign regardless of the risks.

“As long as Kim continues to threaten South Korea with nuclear arms, we will continue to send leaflets,” says Park Sang-hak. 

It’s a standoff from which neither is likely to back down despite efforts of South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in to reconcile with Kim, while forcing the brothers to stop jeopardising all attempts at dialogue by firing off those annoying leaflets.