South Korea's opposition leader, Lee Jae-Myung (pictured), on Tuesday stressed the importance of holding talks between Pyongyang and Seoul to help ease the tensions on the Peninsula in the face of North Korea's trash-filled balloon campaign, which led to South Korea's suspension of the 2018 tension reduction pact.
"If we insist on responding with a hard-line stance of 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' the damage will go straight to our own people," the Democratic Party leader stressed.
The South Korean Ministry of Unification is reportedly arranging a meeting with North Korean defector groups that send anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the inter-Korean border, according to Yonhap. Although the ministry will not formally request these activists to cease their leaflet campaigns, citing a ruling last year deeming such a clause "unconstitutional," the police may intervene if these activities threaten border city security.
