North Korea has completed the printing of 12 million propaganda leaflets to be scattered “deep inside South Korea” by more than 3000 balloons, state media reported on Monday.

In a report that follows claims that the country’s citizens were preparing a major anti-South leafleting campaign — aimed at retaliating against a similar campaign by activists in the South — state media said “various equipment and means of  distributing leaflets” would be used.

“Publishing and printing institutions at all levels in the capital city have printed 12 million leaflets of all kinds reflective of the wrath and hatred of the people