[Thud]

Given the significant smuggling and black market sales of Chinese-made TV sets and VCR's to North Korean regime elites (obviously for viewing videos given North Korean TV), I suggested the following to Trent:

1) Create our own dubbed-in-Korean pirated videos of whatever videos are popular in North Korea - porno, chock-socky, popular action/adventure, etc. With our own special trailers. Maybe advertising too.

2) Create our own black market distribution system for those in Manchuria, or form partnerships with existing Chinese criminal syndicates - we pay them to distribute the stuff.

3) Undercut the existing pirate dubbed-in-Korean video market by selling these videos, either by offering them for almost nothing in hard currency or for worthless North Korean currency.

4) And counterfeit our own North Korean currency.

5) Smuggle or even air drop the real and counterfeit North Korean currency into North Korea to further collapse its currency.

It would be fun too.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Quit your day job. You are needed ;-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

The US, in my opinion, for too long has not worked on ways to get the truth into North Korea on the standard AM band through some kind of clever technology to fiddle with the NK bandwith spectrum, and get broadcast in just below or above NK frequencies, (or silence and broadcast over), in order to reach the masses who have radios set in the factories only at select channels. (Literally, when you turn on a North Korean Radio or TV, you will see that it has three or four switches: On/Off, A, B, and C. ) The A, B, and C are all tuned/set to DPRK frequencies. You can tear the radio open and play around if you know what you are doing, and tune in S. Korea, but people have been caught and publicly executed for that.

[Steel Wolf]

I like your PSYOPs idea. I wish we were a lot more aggressive with them on this front, which could potentially have a very good return for what money we'd invest into it. The traditional line seems to be to not try and destabilize the regime, overtly or covertly. Reading your post makes me even more convinced that there is merit to the covert approach.