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    Time Running Out

    Jul 02, 2020 4 minutes
    By Shi Yongming
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    The author is an op-ed contributor to Beijing Review and a senior researcher on international studies

    The Korean Peninsula has become restive again after thousands of propaganda leaf-lets were dropped into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) from hydrogen balloons sent from the Republic of Korea (ROK) on May 31. It was said to be the work of an organization of DPRK defectors.

    The DPRK has always been sensitive about leaflet propaganda, concerned that it could undermine its national security. Such actions also violate a bilateral agreement signed in 2018 that bans all hostile acts, including

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