South Korea’s unification ministry plans to meet with organizations involved in sending leaflets into North Korea in the near future, after the DPRK launched thousands of trash balloons over the border in retaliation for such anti-regime leafleting.

The ministry told NK News on Tuesday that the meetings will mark a continuation of long-running communication with such groups, without specifying what it would discuss with the activists.

Seoul previously indicated that it would not interfere in launches by defector activists to protect freedom of expression, after the previous Moon administration cracked downon leafleting in an effort to manage inter-Korean tensions