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South Korean Activist To Drop "The Interview" In North Korea Using Balloons

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-raining-movies dept.

Siddharth Srinivas writes Park Sang Hak, a North Korean democracy activist, said he will start dropping 100,000 DVDs and USBs with Sony's The Interview by balloon in North Korea as early as late January. 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.

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  1. And who will watch it? by damn_registrars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are there 100,000 DVD players or PCs in private hands in North Korea? This doesn't seem like it is likely to have much effect.

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    1. Re:And who will watch it? by jfdavis668 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Make sure it has the right location zone.

    2. Re:And who will watch it? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Informative

      DVD players are quite common in the North, the government produced a wide range of propaganda for public consumption. Computers, less so, but remember, they are connected to what is essentially a locked down "intranet".

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    3. Re:And who will watch it? by Charliemopps · · Score: 3, Informative

      Are there 100,000 DVD players or PCs in private hands in North Korea? This doesn't seem like it is likely to have much effect.

      http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-6...

      They don't even have electricity... so I doubt it.

    4. Re:And who will watch it? by magarity · · Score: 5, Interesting

      And you can bet they watch the propaganda, because in North Korea, TV watches YOU!.

      Worse, in North Korea your neighbor watches you. People can get executed, or worse, for possessing one of these DVDs or even finding one laying on the ground and picking it up when the wrong person is passing by at the same time. I wonder if this "activist" cares about that at all.

    5. Re: And who will watch it? by NoKaOi · · Score: 3, Informative

      Technically, it is an Internet, not an intranet. However, it's not the Internet.

      Technically, it's an internet, not an Internet. The Internet is an internet, but an internet is not necessarily the Internet.

    6. Re:And who will watch it? by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 3, Informative

      What? That's a ridiculous comparison. If someone was to send you a parcel of cocaine and you got arrested because the police did a random check that day, then you'd agree that the guy who sent the drugs screwed you over. This is contraband. Sending it over risks getting the recipients killed.

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    7. Re:And who will watch it? by rtb61 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The are two points of view on that. Most certainly the people of North Korea are suffering under the egotistical and lust driven machinations of psychopaths but it is the people of North Korea who are ultimately responsible for their being victims. The people of North Korea are teaching the rest of us a very valuable lesson, cowardice and obedience bring horrible punishments to by far the majority far worse than the suffering of a minority, two minorities, the minority who died bringing an end to the minority who killed them and that minority who dies being a necessary part of the majority who resist.

      So always choose to resist or become North Koreans living in fear and misery trapped by their own cowardice. Never ever allow your 'Political Leaders' to demand respect from the electorate, always demand that you 'Political Representatives' respect the electorate. Next time someone talks about political leaders rather than political representatives, demand they bend over and give them a swift kick up the arse for being idiots. In a democracy you never ever elect people to lead you, you elect them to represent you, otherwise you are destined to become another North Korean.

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  2. Work Camps by pawned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And how many innocent NK citizens will be consigned to labor camps, for possessing imperialist propaganda blaspheming the "Great Leader?"

  3. Haven't the North Korean people suffered enough? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    We have to subject them to Seth Rogen, too?

  4. S. Korean Idiot tries to piss off N. Korean idiot. by Tsolias · · Score: 3

    I'd rather drop 100.000 bags w/ food over Africa than try to impress the public with idiotic moves, or drop 100.000 DVDs full of e-books rather than a piece of useless crap to entertain several thousands for a couple of hours.

  5. Re:Nth Koreans will shoot anyone caught with it by wisnoskij · · Score: 4, Funny

    0/5 Stars: Totally not worth getting executed for.

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  6. Re:S. Korean Idiot tries to piss off N. Korean idi by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dumping food on countries kills off the local farms, causing even greater food insecurity.

    Think before you drop bags of food on people's heads, crushing their farm animals and houses.

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  7. I feel sorry for north koreans by bloodhawk · · Score: 4, Funny

    I feel sorry for north Koreans, haven't they suffered enough? Being given that dogshit movie could count as a war crime.

  8. So they're admitting... by stox · · Score: 4, Funny

    that this movie is a bomb?

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