20 helium balloons carrying "medical supplies" to the North Korea from South

1. Dispatching unauthorized materials at the border is against the law in South Korea.
The South Korean government since 2020 has banned sending leaflets across the border.
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2. A defector identified as Park Sang-hak used 20 helium balloons to send Covid-19 supplies into North Korea from a city in the South on September 5, 2022.
The shipment was sent weeks after the sister of the North’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un had warned of a “strong retaliatory response” to such packages that she claimed were to blame for a coronavirus outbreak in the reclusive state. [VIDEO: South China Morning Post]
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3. A North Korean defector group in Seoul claimed on Tuesday to have launched air balloons carrying medical supplies near the inter-Korean border.

The Fighters for Free North Korea, an activist group of North Korean defectors who send anti-propaganda leaflets across the border, said they flew 20 air balloons carrying 50,000 pain relief pills, 30,000 vitamin C and 20,000 N-95 masks. Dispatching unauthorized materials at the border is against the law in South Korea.

The South Korean government since 2020 has banned sending leaflets across the border. Sending them carries a maximum prison term of three years or fines up to $27,400.

The non-government organization has been gathering help from human rights support groups based in Seoul and the U.S. to send medical supplies to the North since the Kim Jong Un regime acknowledged the outbreak on May 13.
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