North Korea has threatened to use force in response to South Korean civic groups’ plan to send anti-Pyongyang leaflets to the North around March 26, the date that marks the fifth anniversary of the sinking of the South Korean warship, the Cheonan.
 
Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency warned on Sunday that the North’s firepower strikes would not miss balloons, drones or whatever the civic groups would use to spread their leaflets.
 
The North condemned the civic groups’ plan as a diabolical act that the South Korean government is overlooking while still linking the Cheonan incident with Pyongyang and thus causing inter-Korean conflicts.
 
North Korea said that the planned spread of the copies of the film “The Interview” is a grave provocation and effectively, a declaration of war. It added the launch of anti-Pyongyang leaflets and the film following joint military drills between the South and the United States is an act that further escalates tension on the Korean Peninsula.
 
A civic group recently said that it plans to send 500-thousand leaflets and 10-thousand copies of the film "The Interview" around March 26.