Anchor: A South Korean civic group sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets to North Korea on Monday, but the package didn't contain DVDs of the controversial film "The Interview." The group said it plans to look into using drones instead of balloons in its future leaflet campaigns.
Our Kim In-kyung has more.
 
Report: A South Korean civic group sent five balloons carrying 100-thousand leaflets to North Korea from Paju, Gyeonggi Province at eleven p.m. on Monday.
 
Park Sang-hak, president of the civic group Fighters for Free North Korea, said the package didn't contain DVDs of the Hollywood comedy "The Interview," which depicts a fictitious plot about the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
 
Park said he will wait until the Lunar New Year in mid-February, but if Pyongyang continues to refuse to hold inter-Korea dialogue or family reunions, he will send stacks of the DVDs.
 
About 20 members of the U.S. Human Rights Foundation (HRF) also participated in Monday night's leaflet campaign.
 
At a press conference Tuesday held in front of the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul, Park and the HRF members said they will look into using drones instead of balloons in their future campaigns to send a large number of leaflets to the North.
 
They will decide on a specific method in March when members of the U.S. civic group return to Seoul.
 
A unification ministry official reconfirmed on Tuesday that the government has no legal means to bar civic groups from sending leaflets to North Korea, noting that the campaign is a matter of freedom of expression.
 
The official said the government is committed to its position that it will only take steps to stop the campaign if flying the leaflets poses a clear threat to the senders.
 
The official said the government isn't considering sending an official letter to Park asking him to refrain from the leaflet campaign, but will look into meeting him again to explain the government's position.
Kim In-kyung, KBS World Radio News.