North Korea dropped thousands of propaganda leaflets over the border with the South for the second time this year.

North Korea dropped thousands of propaganda leaflets over the border with the South for the second time this year.

South’s defense ministry said Tuesday said its soldiers soldiers have collected about 17,000 leaflets, which were floated by balloon over the frontier on Saturday.
"They were found scattered in western border areas," a ministry spokesman told AFP.

The leaflets criticize the defense ministry's "anti-Pyongyang" education program for its military and praise pro-North Korean activists in the South, he said.

In 2004 the two sides agreed to halt all official-level cross-border propaganda following a landmark 2000 summit.
The South's defense ministry resumed the practice in late 2010 after the North shelled a border island in an attack that killed four South Koreans.

The ministry's propaganda balloon launches were suspended a year later, but the North resumed its own leafleting campaign in July this year.