The huge balloons carrying leaflets float into the North on southerly winds
There are 10,000 in each bundle, all destined for one of the most information-starved countries on the planet.
They will get there with the help of helium gas, pumped from cylinders to fill giant plastic balloons, the vehicles for this exercise in paper bombardment.
Each bag of leaflets has its own timing mechanism, readied to burst open at different intervals and scatter the cargo over a wide area.
With a loud cheer, the first of the balloons rises up into the bright blue sky of the Korean autumn.
The wind is blowing gently from the south, and it should be over North Korea in a matter of minutes.
"North Korea is a feudal dictatorship hidden behind an iron curtain," says Park Sang-hak, a human rights activist who defected from North Korea in 1999.
"We're sending these flyers across the border to let the people in the North know about the concept of freedom, and to provide factual information about their leader," he says.
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