It's An Interesting Strategy For A North Korea Activist To Drop 80,000 Copies of "The Interview" To Try To Show Them How Bad Their Lives Are

Upr - North Korean defector-turned-activist Lee Min-bok said he had carried out four cross-border balloon launches since January – the latest one on Saturday. On each occasion he tied bundles carrying copies of The Interview and anti-Pyongyang leaflets to helium balloons, which he then released from the back of a truck. “I launched thousands of copies and about a million leaflets on Saturday, near the western part of the border,” Lee said. All the launches were carried out at night with little or no advance publicity, given the sensitivity on both sides. A CNN camera crew that followed Lee on Saturday filmed him attaching the bundles to the balloons in the middle of the night, before releasing them into the darkness. The balloons are wholly at the mercy of the prevailing winds, and it is impossible to determine how many will actually come down in North Korea. [TheGuardian]

The funny thing about this is that they are dropping “The Interview”. Like…a fucking Seth Rogan movie is the propaganda film of choice to try to get through to the North Koreans. I can’t imagine being some little North Korean, bright eyed, bushy tailed, and then popping in The Interview. I wouldn’t even know what to think. That movie was so over the top, so ridiculous. I’m not even sure NK’s know there is a world outside of North Korea, and then they are witnessing men shoving objects up their asses. But yet here we are, using that movie to try to show North Koreans that the world they live in is fucked up. Interesting tactic.