The South Korean police on Monday evening prohibited an activist group from launching balloons carrying Bibles into North Korea, citing a previous exchange of gunfire between the two Koreas in the area.

Activists from the Voice of the Martyrs NGO attempted to release the balloons from Yeoncheon County, the site of an exchange of gunfire in October 2014 provoked by a launch of anti-Pyongyang leaflets.

Monday saw police cite a 2016 judgment by the South Korean Supreme Court prohibiting balloon launches from the whole Yeoncheon County area, according to video provided by the NGO to NK News.

Voice of the Martyrs, however, insists