I Smuggled Posters for ‘The Interview’ Into North Korea

FLOATING IDEAS

Kim Jong Un has total control over information-sharing in North Korea, so one group of exiles flies in leaflets and posters inside balloons.

Published Jan. 20 2015 8:43AM EST

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PAJU, SOUTH KOREA — They may not look dangerous, but to North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un the 100,000 pro-democracy leaflets and a giant advertisement for The Interview secretly launched into the air on hydrogen balloons Monday night are very threatening indeed.

In the past, Pyongyang has called the North...

James Kirchick

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I Smuggled Posters for ‘The Interview’ Into North Korea

Kim Jong Un has total control over information-sharing in North Korea, so one group of exiles flies in leaflets and posters inside balloons.

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James Kirchick