This is the reason why I tend to look at all the US-based North Korean human rights groups with skepticism - because you don't hear a peep about this incredible campaign. They think Moon admin is oppressing NK defectors, when Park admin literally jailed them under false charges. https://twitter.com/BluRoofPolitics/status/1344040557656477697
Hong Gang-cheol and Yu U-seong (another NK defector framed as spies) received no int'l attention, because they were enemies of the balloon-launching NK defectors like Park Sang-hak. Hong, for example, consistently criticized how Park's campaign was a scam. https://news.v.daum.net/v/20200612110918956
탈북민 "삐라 매단 풍선 하나 150만원.. 돈 되니 하는 것"

정부와 여당이 연일 ‘대북 전단 살포를 멈춰달라’고 요구하는데도 탈북민 단체가 대량 살포를 지속하는 이유가 ‘돈’ 때문이라는 탈북민의 전언이 나왔다. 대형풍선에 소위 ‘삐라’를 매달아 북한에 보내는 활동의 대가로 미국 우익 단체로부터 막대한 지원금을 받고, 심지어 대형풍선을 대신 띄워주는 대가로 풍선 한 개당 150만원까지 뒷돈을 받는 업체도 있다는 주장이

https://news.v.daum.net/v/20200612110918956
Hong: "The small balloons cost about KRW 80k, large ones KRW 120k. But Park's organization claim they cost KRW 1.5m. They exaggerate the cost by over tenfold and collect donations from far-right evangelicals and US right wing groups."
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