Police said that six Americans were arrested on Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, US dollars bills and gospels towards North Korea by sea.
A police officer speaking on condition of anonymity was not disclosed because he was not authorized to speak to the media about this issue.
He said they were investigating allegations that they violated the Safety and Disaster Administration Law.
The second South Korean police officer confirmed the spread of the Americans.
Police officers have not provided any other details, including whether any of the six had made previous attempts to send bottles towards North Korea.
Activists who float plastic bottles or flying balloons that carry publicity publications from North Korea across the border that have long caused tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea expressed its anger at the balloon campaigns by launching its bulbs carrying garbage into South Korea, including at least two landing in the presidential complex in Seoul last year.
In 2023, the South Korean Constitutional Court canceled a law in 2020, criminalizing the transmission of publications and other things to North Korea, describing it as excessive restrictions on freedom of expression.
But since he took office in early June, the new liberal government is pushing Lee Jay Meong to take strict measures against such civil campaigns through other safety -related laws to avoid famous tensions with North Korea and encourage the safety of South Korea residents in the front lines.
On June 14, the police detained an activist claiming to fly a balloon towards North Korea from Guangua Island.
He took office with a promise to restart the long permanent talks with North Korea and establish peace on the Korean Peninsula.
The government of Lee stopped the live broadcast of the anti -program loudspeakers on the front lines to try to reduce military tensions.
The North Korean broadcast has not been heard in the cities of the front lines in South Korea since then.
But it is unclear whether North Korea would respond to the Sophie of Lee after it pledged last year to cut ties with South Korea and abandon the goal of peaceful Korean monotheism.
Official talks between the Koreans have stopped since 2019 when the US -led diplomacy came out of North Korean nuclear disarmament.
