Seventy years after the Korean War began in 1950, the conflict is officially still ongoing. What is more, the propaganda battle that has long characterized relations between North and South Korea also shows no sign of abating.

"We cannot commemorate the Korean War in a genuine manner yet. That is because it has yet to come to an end," South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in said yesterday, during a ceremony held at Seoul Air Base, commemorating the anniversary of the commencement of hostilities.

Last week, North Korea’s official news agency reported that the country is preparing to drop 12 million anti-Seoul leaflets on its southern neighbor. The Korean Central News Agency made it public that “the largest-ever distribution of leaflets against the enemy is almost complete,” including over 3,000 balloons, which it said will be used to carry the propaganda over the border. 

The leaflets are to be sent in retaliation to similar balloon drops by defectors and activists based in the south, who have sent fliers denouncing leader Kim Jong-un to North Korea. Pyongyang has described these unwanted deliveries as a “provocation graver than gun and artillery fire.”