A lost attempt. Six American nationals were arrested to this South Korean police on Friday, June 27 on Gwanghwa island on Friday, on the border with North Korea.
According to several sources, including Associated Press, the latter tried to send between 1,300 and 1,600 plastic bottles full of rice, US dollars and biblical tickets for the country governed by Kim Jong-un.
“An interpreter has been provided and we have started the interrogation for a long time,” said police station manager of the Police Station on Ganghwa Island to AFP.
A tensions practice source
According to a source close to the Local Police, the six Americans were arrested and an investigation is opened for alleged violation of the Disaster Safety and Management Law. It should be said that the practice is not new.
An area of tensions between the two countries, the border between the two Korea is often the scenario of artisanal humanitarian aid attempts. It is not uncommon for northern-corean antipimum activists to float plastic bottles or balloons that transport anti-co-eraied propaganda brochures from the other side of the edge.
A practice that irritates the diet and the source of regular tensions on the border. Last year, North Korea expressed his anger for these balloons by launching their own waste -loaded balls to South Korea, at least two of which landed in the Seoul presidential complex.
Always reunification at a dead point
However, in 2023, the Constitutional Court of South Korea invalidated a 2020 law that criminalized brochures and other articles to North Korea, describing it as an excessive restriction of freedom of expression.
On June 14, another activist was arrested for the same reason as the six Americans, still on the island of Gwanghwa, located less than 3 kilometers from North Korea.
From the election of Lee Jae-Myung on June 4, South Korea is doing everything to appease its relations with neighboring Korea. Anti-Pyongyang propaganda emissions are no longer transmitted by border speakers.
A gesture of appeasement that seems to have found echo since in the programs of North Korea it was no longer heard in the cities of South Korea located in the front.
An appeasement that could monitor a reunification between the two countries, separated since 1948? Nothing is less safe since official negotiations between the two Koreas have stagnated since 2019, when diplomacy directed by the United States on the denuclearization of North Korea has been deranged.
Source: BFM TV
