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South Korea blocks propaganda leaflet launch

South Korean police have blocked activists from sending propaganda leaflets over the border, after threats of military action from North Korea.

A group of North Korean defectors now living in the South had planned to launch balloons carrying the leaflets near the border town of Paju.

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