The unification ministry says it will file a complaint with the prosecution against two North Korean defector groups for sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.
The ministry said in a press release Wednesday it will begin the process of annulling the business permits granted to the groups, Fighters for a Free North Korea and Keunsaem.
The remarks came a day after Pyongyang severed all inter-Korean communication lines with Seoul.
The ministry accused the groups of putting the safety of people living in border regions at risk by floating leaflets to the North, saying they "violated public interest by heightening tensions" between the two Koreas.
Earlier, Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of the North’s leader Kim Jong-un, threatened to terminate all inter-Korean exchanges in protest over the defectors' actions.
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