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Choi Tae-min

South Korea and US soldiers stand guard during a commemorative ceremony for the 64th anniversary of the Korean armistice at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas July 27, 2017.

North Korea bombards South Korea with propaganda leaflets

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According to local media reports, more than 2 million of these papers have been found scattered on the streets of the capital and in provinces near the border since the end of 2015 — a volume not seen since the 1970s and ’80s.

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