Six Americans arrested in South Korea as they tried to send to North Korea About 1,300 plastic bottles full of rice, dollars and Bible banknotes, as announced Friday (27.06.25) police official.
The American team attempted to let the bottles float at sea on an island on the border, west of the capital Seoul and near the isolated North Korea, before being found by a military patrol, the official at Reuters at the Inchon Police Station told Reuters.
The six arrested are considered suspicious that by their actions violated the law on natural disasters and safety in an area recently described ‘risk zone“, Which prohibits actions that are considered harmful to residents, the official said.
‘We interrogate them through an interpreter and we will decide After 48 hourswhether we will leave them free or not, “he said.
Since he took office earlier in June, the president of South Korea Lee Ja-Mung He pledged to improve relations with neighboring North Korea after a rise of tension between the two countries.
Lee interrupted anti -regional transmissions from speakers on the border and called the activists to South Korea, who use sun balloons that carry leaflets that criticize the country’s authoritarian leadership, To stop this practice so that the tension in the two countries’ relations is not triggered.
THE Chunng Dong-Jung, Proposed for Minister of Unification to the South Korean Government, he said on Wednesday that the balloons carrying brochures were acting as a “catalyst for confrontation and hostilities” between the two cubes and expressed hope that communications with North Korea would be restored.
Activists, often apostates who abandoned North Korea and members of Christian organizations, sometimes try to send objects such as Bible and USB stick with South Korean TV series Inside plastic bottles throwing into the sea.
North Korea has described the activists as “scums” and reversed last year by sending South Korea balloons full of rubbish.
Residents’ protests that their activists are at risk have led some border areas in South Korea, including the Gangua Island, to be described as “danger zones” by the end of last year, allowing the authorities to intensify.