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N. Korea warns S. Korea over propaganda activities

SEOUL, April 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's military warned Saturday that it would take "necessary measures" if South Korea does not draw up plans to prevent propaganda activities such as sending leaflets to the communist state.

The two Koreas agreed in 2004 to stop decades of propaganda warfare across the Demilitarized Zone dividing the nations, but the South Korean government says it can not prevent [right wing] activists from sending the leaflets, citing freedom of speech.

"We will take corresponding decisive measures soon unless the South side takes an understandable measure to discontinue the despicable psychological smear campaign and formally notifies the North side of it," the country's the official Korean Central News Agency cited comments by military officials.

For the past couple of years, South Korean activists have flown tens of thousands of leaflets criticizing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il into the North, and some of them also burned North Korean flags with Kim's picture printed on them.

"Such foolish acts are a wanton violation and blatant challenge to the agreement reached between the two sides to stop all the propaganda activities against each other," the agency reported.

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