Annyeonghaseyo! Welcome back, fellow Ask a North Korean-ers, to the NK News feature where you can email in your questions about real life in North Korea and have them answered by our very own defector writers.

We have a timely little piece for you this week. As you may know, inter-Korean tensions have been on the rise recently, apparently due to balloons carrying anti-DPRK leaflets launched northward by activist groups in the South (North Korea is planning its own imminent leaflet launch in response).

While many of the leaflets are intended to provide North Koreans with information about the outside