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SEOUL, Nov 25, 2008 (AFP) - South Korean rights activists said Tuesday they would continue sending leaflets critical of North Korea over the border, reversing an earlier decision to suspend the campaign.
"We have decided to continue our campaign. We will continue to send leaflets to our northern brothers," said Park Sang-Hak Park, leader of a defector group called Fighters for Free North Korea.
"We were supposed to announce (Tuesday) our earlier decision to stop sending leaflets. But we changed our mind at the last moment after the North's outrageous move yesterday," Park told AFP.
On Monday North Korea announced that from December 1 it will suspend tours by South Koreans to its city of Kaesong, halt a historic cross-border rail service and strictly restrict other frontier crossings.
The North said its move was in protest at the South Korean government's failure to honour summit agreements reached in 2000 and 2007. It has also complained at the failure by Seoul authorities to halt the leaflet launches.
Yonhap news agency earlier quoted Park as saying his group had decided to suspend the leaflet launches for the time being, but later issued a corrected version.
The bundles of leaflets, launched by gas balloon across the heavily fortified border, strongly criticise the North's ruling regime and its leader Kim Jong-Il.
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