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Activist Plans to Bring 'The Interview' to North Korea by Balloon
NBC News ^ | 12/31/14

Posted on 12/31/2014 1:26:28 PM PST by Libloather

A South Korean activist said Wednesday that he will launch balloons carrying DVDs of Sony's "The Interview" toward North Korea to try to break down a personality cult built around dictator Kim Jong Un. Activist Park Sang-hak said he will start dropping 100,000 DVDs and USBs with the movie by balloon in North Korea as early as late January. Park, a North Korean defector, said he's partnering with the U.S.-based non-profit Human Rights Foundation, which is financing the making of the DVDs and USB memory sticks of the movie with Korean subtitles.

**SNIP**

It is not clear how effective the DVD drop will be, as only a small number of ordinary North Korean citizens are believed to own computers or DVD players.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balloon; interview; korea; movie
Maybe go with videotape instead?
1 posted on 12/31/2014 1:26:28 PM PST by Libloather
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Yeah, that'll work...


2 posted on 12/31/2014 1:31:27 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: Libloather

or “The Interview” freeze dried food


3 posted on 12/31/2014 1:31:50 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Libloather

More PR scamming by Sony.


4 posted on 12/31/2014 1:31:53 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Libloather

“The Interview” news is like a circle jerk in Gay New York.
Drop it.


5 posted on 12/31/2014 1:32:22 PM PST by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but the culture embraced that degrades.)
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To: Libloather

Great, so some poor schmoe picks this turd of a movie with no idea what it is and gets a 9mm in the back of the neck for his troubles.

Great way to spread freedom.


6 posted on 12/31/2014 1:33:27 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Libloather

7 posted on 12/31/2014 1:38:24 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Libloather

And the worst part, even though id love it to be seen there, is that anyone caught with it will be sent to a concentration death camp. As far as I know the only nation using them right now.


8 posted on 12/31/2014 1:41:28 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Libloather
Balloon drops from South Korea into South Korea are actually a common activity.

Everything from Bibles to pro-democracy literature to thumb drives to transistor radios are launched.

The North Korean government is aware of them, and will shoot them down if they can, and arrest people caught with the materials. Since possession can carry the death penalty, it's not something people take lightly.

9 posted on 12/31/2014 1:41:46 PM PST by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: Libloather

He’d better plan on dropping some hand-crank DVD players too...


10 posted on 12/31/2014 1:51:30 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Libloather

DVDs can be used as scrapers for leveling out dirt floors.


11 posted on 12/31/2014 1:57:16 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Libloather

Wonder if DVD’s taste good.. maybe better than NOTHING!...
DVD cases made out of hard candy could be useful.. with some propaganda..

HEY!... 4 DVD’s could make wheels on a wagon..


12 posted on 12/31/2014 2:19:16 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: Libloather
By balloon? Brilliant. New Year's Eve is the perfect time! They'll never see it coming!
13 posted on 12/31/2014 2:35:48 PM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of *them*.)
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To: justlurking

That idea seems idiotic.....not wisdom to cause an international incident. The North Korean Leader does not appear to me to be all that stable, and to set him off over a movie seems less than intelligent.


14 posted on 12/31/2014 3:06:09 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: hosepipe
HEY!... 4 DVD’s could make wheels on a wagon..

I keep one on my boat as an emergency signaling mirror: It'll never rust!

15 posted on 12/31/2014 3:58:13 PM PST by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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To: Libloather

This movie stinks....America & the entire world, you have been scammed by shysters, Sony & Obama!!! LMAO, at you idiots that paid out one cent to see this farce of film making. One word....Buffoons!!!


16 posted on 12/31/2014 4:01:15 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: Libloather

Without electricity, it would be like dropping printed leaflets on a herd of cows. “Why are you dropping little round mirrors on us?”. ....No electricity, folks.


17 posted on 12/31/2014 4:28:33 PM PST by Scooter100
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To: Libloather

By balloon or “burroon?”


18 posted on 12/31/2014 4:59:40 PM PST by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: Kirkwood

DVDs are good 200 yard + targets. Not so good at 100.


19 posted on 12/31/2014 5:58:20 PM PST by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: Scooter100

I watched this movie on the Internet [for free of course] and it was funny and entertaining. Yes it was trash and ridiculous, but that’s what we brain dead, slob Americans go for. A few more movies like this, a free Obama phone and I may go for a third term for Dear Leader Omama!


20 posted on 01/01/2015 6:42:18 PM PST by RicocheT (Only a few prefer liberty--the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories)
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