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South Korean activists launched balloons carrying leaflets critical of the North’s ruling Kim family across their shared border Sunday to coincide with the regime’s 64th anniversary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some 10 activists including North Korean defectors in Seoul floated the 10 giant balloons carrying 200,000 small leaflets and 300 DVDs <\/strong>at the Imjingak park near the heavily-militarised border with the North.<\/p>\n

“Rise up, our 20 million compatriots! Don’t be fooled by the deception of Kim Jong-Un!” read one leaflet, referring to the North’s young new leader, who took over from his father Kim Jong-Il after his death last December.<\/p>\n

The family has ruled the impoverished communist state with an iron fist and pervasive personality cult for more than six decades.<\/p>\n

The balloons also contained 1,000 US one-dollar bills aimed at encouraging North Koreans to read the leaflets despite heavy punishment by the regime when caught.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Let’s put an end to the third-generation dictatorship, and free North Koreans!”<\/strong> the activists chanted in unison amid heavy security involving some 100 South Korean police officers.<\/p>\n

South Korean activists and North Korean defectors have regularly sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border using balloons.<\/p>\n

Across the border in the North, Jong-Un marked the anniversary by visiting the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in the capital Pyongyang<\/strong>, where the embalmed bodies of his predecessors are lying in state.<\/p>\n

He paid his tributes along with top party and army cadres including his powerful uncle Jang Song-Thaek and the military chief Hyon Yong-Chul, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said.<\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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