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We analyzed 838 cigarette butts discovered amongst the seditious propaganda in South Korea. The seditious propagandas are consistently distributed from North Korea to South Korea and most of the found cigarette butts were currently circulated only in North Korea. It suggests that these cigarette butts are presumed to be smoked by North Korean. Through the autosomal STR analysis for 15 autosomal short tandem repeat loci and 1 sex determination locus using AmpFLSTR Identifiler Plus PCR Amplification kit, 123 profiles were confirmed. For all 15 STR markers, observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.642 to 0.894 and gene diversity ranged from 0.6016 to 0.8721. The accuracy probability according to the Hardy-Weinberg law showed from 0.091 to 0.921. This study shows the first investigation of the allele frequencies and statistical parameters for autosomal STR profiles of a population assumed to consist of the North Koreans.