Posted on 02/16/2009 9:55:38 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Protesters mark Kim Jong Il's birthday by sending propaganda balloons into North Korea
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:35 AM on 16th February 2009
Protesters in South Korea launched balloons carrying tens of thousands of anti-Kim Jong Il leaflets into North Korea as its citizens enjoyed a national holiday to celebrate their leader's 67th birthday.
As crowds of North Koreans visited statues and displays to celebrate their 'heaven-made commander', his opponents ignored a warning from Pyongyang and launched their campaign.
For the first time, activists stuck North Korean cash into some of the vinyl leaflets to try and entice North Koreans to pick up the propaganda that urges an uprising against Kim. Activists on the Freedom Bridge launch a huge balloon during a rally near the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas. The letters on the balloon reads 'Overthrow Kim Jong Il's dictatorship'
The celebrations came amid high tensions over Pyongyang's reported moves to test-fire a long-range missile.
Despite growing calls to drop the plan, the North will press ahead with a launch, portraying it as part of a space program.
Park Sang-Hak, a leading activist and defector from North Korea, said: 'We're sending this money today so that our fellow North Korean people can buy food.'
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Defector Park Sang-hak, above, brandishes North Korean bills which were put with anti-Pyongyang leaflets and attached to balloons released into North Korea, below
North Koreans visit the Kim Jong-Il flower festival in Pyongyang, below. The letters on the wall read: 'Cheers! General Kim Jong-il, the sun of the 21st century!'
Ping!
Wasn’t there a song about a nuclear war starting like this...
Whenever Kim Jong Il dies, I certainly hope that the North Koreans will donate his brain to science, so we can see exactly what malfunction. And so badly.
That’s it, thank you.
Yeah it was 99 Luftballon by German band nena good song LOL!
Those are definitely interstellar craft with lighter than air drives.
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