Police install a checkpoint near the inter-Korean border in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday, to prevent access by people who send anti-North Korea propaganda leaflets across the border. / Yonhap

By Jun Ji-hye

The Gyeonggi Province Government designated four cities and one county bordering North Korea as "danger zones," Wednesday, to stop North Korean defectors and activists from sending anti-North Korea propaganda leaflets across the border.

In an administrative order, the provincial government placed the cities of Pocheon, Paju, Gimpo and Goyang as well as Yeoncheon County off-limits to senders of anti-Pyongyang leaflets.

The order will be valid until Nov. 30, it said.

This is the first time that the South has designated such zones in relation to the sending of the leaflets.