The younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Yoo-jung today expressed dissatisfaction over the dispersal of North Korean dissidents in South Korea by anti-North Korean flyers across the border, and made new threats that the military agreement between the two Koreas could be canceled.
Kim, First Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party, issued a statement saying, "It warns of a full withdrawal from the Kaesong industrial complex after stopping the tours to Mount Kumang."
She added, it also threatens to close the inter-Korean liaison office or cancel the inter-Korean military agreement, if South Korea does not take appropriate measures against anti-country publications, according to the South Korean Yonhap News Agency.
She noted that South Korea "cannot say that it does not know what is included in the terms of the Panmunjom Declaration and the inter-Korean military agreement, regarding the pledge to suspend all provocative actions on the military border."
Kim's younger sister warned that South Korea "should expect to face the worst crisis soon, if it permits these actions on the pretext of individual freedom and freedom of expression," as this year celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the June 15 inter-Korean declaration.
It called on the South to enact a law that prohibits sending anti-North Korean publications or campaigning.
In the statement, Kim specifically referred to a civilian group of North Korean defectors, who on May 31 sent anti-North Korean leaflets across the border toward the North.
On May 31, the Combatants for a Free North Korea, a civilian organization made up of North Korean refugees stationed in South Korea, sent 500,000 leaflets, 50 brochures, two thousand dollar papers, and 1,000 memory cards across the border to North Korea, according to Yonhap News Agency.