A North Korean defector claims that he launched thousands of propaganda fliers over the border in defiance of a controversial South Korean law that could potentially jail information dissemination activists for that very act.

Defector-activist Park Sang-hak claims that his group, Fighters for a Free North Korea (FFNK), used balloons to launch 500,000 leaflets and other items from South Korea’s Gyeonggi or Gangwon province sometime between April 25 and April 29. 

“We are sending the leaflets to the North in April 2021, marking the 18th anniversary of the North Korea Freedom Week,” Park said in a video sent to NK