South Korean police have confirmed that hundreds of cigarette butts were found inside a stash of North Korean propaganda leaflets dropped in the vicinity of Paju, Gyeonggi Province last month.

But the rumors of “used toilet paper” being included, as other media have reported, were not confirmed by either police or the military.

North Korea has been sending propaganda leaflets to South Korea since mid-January in response to the South Korean loudspeakers that resumed earlier in the same month. The leaflets were revealed to contain bombastic slogans and harsh language, saying that opposing the North would “only bring calamitous results” for South Korea.

“In mid-January,