Defector activist flies balloons with COVID aid toward North Korea again

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Defector activist flies balloons with COVID aid toward North Korea again

Park Sang-hak says he conducted his second launch this month despite Seoul’s appeal for restraint

Jeongmin Kim June 29, 2022

Defector activist flies balloons with COVID aid toward North Korea again

Park Sang-hak launches a balloon filled with COVID-19 aid toward North Korea (left); a poster attached to the balloons (right) | Image: Park Sang-hak (Provided on June 29, 2022)

A prominent defector activist said he launched balloons carrying COVID-19 aid toward North Korea for the second time this month on Tuesday, a day after Seoul’s unification minister requested that activists exercise restraint.

Park Sang-hak, head of activist organization Fighters for a Free North Korea (FFNK), told NK News on Wednesday that he released 20 balloons carrying 20,000 masks, 80,000 pain relief tablets and 30,000 Vitamin C pills from the city of Incheon near the inter-Korean border.

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Jeongmin Kim

Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau. Follow her on Twitter @jeongminnkim

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