South Korean activists have scattered 100,000 anti-North Korean leaflets near the border with North Korea and are going to spread the controversial American film "The Interview" if the country’s authorities refuse to cooperate with Seoul on talks about reuniting separated families.

MOSCOW, January 20 (Sputnik) — South Korean activists have sent balloons with 100,000 anti- North Korean leaflets across the border, Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday.

"As previously announced in November last year, [we] scattered 100,000 anti-North Korean leaflets near [the border town] of Paju last night," Park Sang-hak, the head of the Fighters for a Free North Korea movement, was quoted as saying by the agency.

Park noted that DVDs with controversial American film "The Interview" were not included on purpose, saying that the movement would spread the film if North Korean authorities refuse to cooperate with Seoul on talks about reuniting separated families.

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The activists are said to have carried out the campaign despite South Korean authorities' calls to abandon the practice. The head of the movement said that they were ready to stop their campaigns upon an official request from the South Korean government, but there had been no request so far.

"We are in a position in which we cannot refrain from the plan only upon a verbal request from the government," Yonhap quoted Park as saying.

The head of the movement said that the activists might start distributing DVDs with "The Interview", a film about a fictional plot to assassinate a North Korean leader, in mid-March.

South Korean government is said to have plans to intervene in the situation to prevent escalation, while North Korea has threatened to retaliate if the campaigns of this kind continued.