North Korea has commenced a multi-vector propaganda campaign to criticize South Korea for failing to stop defectors from sending anti-regime leaflets across the border, analysis of Sunday state media output by NK News shows.

The effort comes after Pyongyang said Friday it would withdraw from the inter-Korean liaison office due to the Moon Jae-in government’s inability to prevent the leaflets being sent North.

Coverage focused on a rally of youth and students held Saturday in protest at “the extreme anti-DPRK hostility of the south Korean authorities and the “defectors from the north”,” a Pyongyang Times write-up showed.

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