South Korean activists launched balloons across the North Korean border on Tuesday in protest against a series of missile test launches carried out by Pyongyang in recent weeks.

North Korean defectors activist group, Fighters for Free North Korea, gathered in the South Korean city of Paju and launched ten balloons carrying propagandist materials against the North.

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The group said that Pyongyang's weapons and artillery programs were using up precious funds that could have been used to help its impoverished citizens.

"Since the start of this year, the North fired missiles and artillery shells on dozens of occasions, firing away (monty) worth three months of food for North Korean people," said activist leader Park Sang Hak.

"We decided to launch the anti-Pyongyang leaflets since the government did not take any action," he added.

According to South Korean news agency, Yonhap News, materials attached to the balloons included satirical anti-Pyongyang posters and leaflets.

One such poster that hung from a balloon read, "What Kim Jong Un fears is 20 million North Korean people getting to know the facts and the truth."

The group also attached U.S. one-thousand-dollar bills in a bid to attract North Koreans.

The sending of balloons is not the first time that anti-Pyongyang balloons were launched in protest against the communist regime.

Earlier this year, Fighters for Free North Korea and U.S. human rights activists gathered in the border city of Paju to launch balloons condemning abuse and brutality in the North.

The balloons reportedly contained anti-Pyongyang leaflets, one thousand U.S. dollar bills, transistor radios, and USB flash drives and DVDs that detailed crimes against human rights rampant in the region.

"This is aimed at letting North Korean people know about (leader) Kim Jong Un's brutality... and deliver a message to North Koreans that now is the time for them to rise and finish the dictatorship," said Park.

Last Sunday, Tokyo filed a diplomatic complaint against Pyongyang for launching two ballistic missiles near its maritime border claiming that the test-fires were "violation(s) of U.N. Security Council resolutions."

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