Kim Jong-un loses the plot as defectors flood North Korea with banned copies of the hit movie Titanic
NORTH Korean defectors are flooding their homeland with banned movies like Titanic and pop songs in a bid to bring Kim Jong-un's ruthless regime to its knees.
They are ramping up a campaign to sneak flashdrives and balloons full of news bulletins. movies and documentaries over the border to counter state propaganda.
The Flashdrives for Freedom campaign aims to show those living in the rogue state that life really is a lot, lot better on the outside.
Backed by the US-based Human Right Foundation (HSF), the ultimate aim is to bring down the pariah regime from within.
In the South Korean city of Paju, thousands of balloons have been silently floated into the skies to catch the winds and blow over the border.
Up to 10,000 flashdrives have been successfully smuggled into North Korea, revealed Alex Gladstein, the HSF’s chief strategy officer.
However, the organisation aims to send in TEN TIMES that amount in 2018 saying it is on the “the only way to inspire change.
Kim's state media has called those behind the scheme “scum” and “enemy zero.”
However, Mr Gladstein insisted: “We’re creating little windows to the outside world so that the North Korean people can make decisions for themselves about what they want to do with their lives.”
He revealed the appetite for entertainment within the hermit kingdom ranges from popular films such as Titanic and music from Gangnam Style megastar Psy to news and documentaries.
The content is chosen by those lucky enough to have already escaped the dictatorship.
The USB-sticks are smuggled at great risk via towns on China’s border with North Korea, where the black market for goods and information is flourishing.
The project has already smuggled in 2 million hours worth of footage, and 48 million hours of reading material to estimated an estimated 1.1 million North Koreans.
Balloon projects are ongoing during seasons with favourable winds but the group’s focus has shifted mainly to flashdrives which have dramatically increased the amount of content that can be sent in.
Evidence of the increasing foreign influence on the secretive regime was borne out in the recent daring defection of a young soldier.
He awoke from life-saving surgery to bullet wounds to reveal his passion for South Korean girl bands.