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North Korea | As his people starve, Kim defiantly launches a missile | Jamie Dean

Associated Press/Photo by Ahn Young-joon

A day after North Korea launched a Taepondong-2 ballistic missile in direct defiance of international warnings against such a move, South Korean activists launched back with a different weapon: balloons. Six human-rights activists just south of North Korea's heavily fortified border released nine giant balloons carrying 90,000 fliers denouncing the Communist regime and its leader, Kim Jong-II.

The messages for North Koreans finding the fliers in the shuttered nation included: "Down with dictator Kim Jong-II" and "Missile [development] while letting people starve is nonsense." Park Sang-Hak, organizer of the project and leader of a group of North Korean defectors, said North Korea used the missile tests to divert attention away from the grim humanitarian conditions for its 23 million citizens.

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April 25, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 8

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