Correction: a previous version of this article said the candlelight protests which outed South Korean President Park Geun-hye took place in October 2017, when in fact they took place in October 2016. It has been corrected to reflect that fact.

Inter-Korean relations are quickly unraveling: North Korea recently pledged to send roughly 12 million propaganda leaflets into the South using carrier balloons and declared inter-Korean relations “dead” over the weekend.

The looming leaflet launch is yet another retaliatory move from Pyongyang, which recently condemned Seoul for failing to stop defector-activists from sending anti-regime leaflets over the border.[/p