North Korea on Wednesday threatened South Korea with military attack if propoganda from the South continued to cross its border, dpa reported.
"Our troops are ready to squarely aim and fire at strongholds of psychological warfare at any moment and move into real combat action when we want," state media quoted an unnamed military commander as saying.
The officer took particular aim at anti-North Korean leaflets sent over the border by balloon.
An organization of North Korean refugees in the South plans in the next several days to launch more of the leaflets critical of North Korea's Stalinist government. Pyongyang has blamed the South Korean government for these actions by private groups.
South Korea media reported, however, that South Korea's military had also sent its own propoganda leaflets, clothing, medicine and radios over the border, which prompted North Korea in late February to threaten attacks on its neighbour.
In Wednesday's warning, the commander referred to an artillery attack by North Korea in November on a South Korean island near the inter-Korean border in the Yellow Sea.
"If the South's puppet warmongers do not want to see the lesson of the Yeonpyeong artillery battle repeated, it must act discreetly and stop all its moves for psychological warfare, including the dissemination of leaflets," he said.
The attack on Yeonpyeong caused tensions between the two governments to sharply escalate. Four South Koreans were killed in that attack.
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