South Korean and U.S. civic groups flew anti-North Korea leaflets across the border from Paju, Gyeonggi Province, on Saturday to mark the 13th North Korea Freedom Week. 

Members of Seoul-based Fighters for a Free North Korea and the U.S. North Korea Freedom Coalition flew ten massive balloons carrying some 300-thousand leaflets. 

The leaflets call on North Korea to abandon its nuclear and missile ambitions and become a member of the international community.

In an earlier news conference at the Imjingak pavilion near the border, North Korea Freedom Coalition Chairwoman Suzanne Scholte said the leaflets were an effective way to inform the North Korean people of the reality of their country.

She said that Chairman Park Sang-hak of the Fighters for a Free North Korea was doing what should be done by the South Korean and U.S. governments. Park vowed to continue sending leaflets to the North to introduce human dignity to the North Korean people who are deprived of all human rights.