A group of six Americans has been arrested in a border area restricted in South Korea, according to Reuters y Hotnewswhile they loaded near 1,300 plastic bottles containing rice, dollar bills and bibles which later intended to deliver to North Korea.
The six have been accused of breaching the country’s disaster and security law for performing these actions in an area considered “risk “where these types of activities for residents are prohibited, as an official explained to the news agency.
For now, men remain retained, Waiting for authorities to decide their release. “We are investigating them through an interpreter and we will decide 48 hours if we release them or not,” added the same official.
These types of scenes It has become common In the area, because activists often try to send this type of articles in plastic bottles to the other country. In general, it is usually deserters who escaped from North Korea and/or belonging to Christian groups.
North Korea, meanwhile, has described these types of activists as “human garbage ” And he has responded with balloons full of garbage that he has launched towards his neighbor, in addition to having also disseminated anti-sex messages by the border.
(Tagstotranslate) Rice