Posted on 12/17/2014 10:18:08 AM PST by rdl6989
North Korean defectors are planning to attach DVDs of The Interview to 15-foot helium balloons, which they will send over the border into their home country.
Fighters for a Free North Korea, led by former government propagandist Park Sang Hak, has for years used the tactic to smuggle transistor radios, DVDs and leaflets into North Korea.
If all goes to plan, the latest move will see dozens of copies of the Seth Rogen movie released from South Korea and drifting for several hours before scattering over Pyongyang.
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Did they also drop in DVD players?
Where did they get the DVDs of a movie that just got released?
Both are very good questions. Nobody in NK would likely have a DVD player and I doubt this will be on DVD for a awhile.
I think it is wrong to produce a movie about assassinating a foreign leader. That said, I figure any day now Obama will upgrade North Korea and normalize relations with them.
That’s easy. You get a good, quality video camera and take it into the movie theater, record the movie while it’s playing, put it on a DVD, and send it up on a balloon.
There are a fair number of DVD players there. Chinese and cheap. South Korean soap operas are forbidden, but very popular.
This is thanks to Chinese businessmen, who produce items according to the needs of the North Korean market. For about US$20, North Koreans may purchase a Chinese-made portable DVD player. In the past, a DVD was required; but now, people can watch movies off of a USB stick. This makes it even easier to conceal the set-up from the authorities, and is a perfect fit for ordinary North Koreans." source
I just wish Howard (surname withheld because he’s afraid of being assassinated) the first Un impersonator from Australia would have been in the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOaxe5C2nE
Commercial starring this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS7g1Mpl12o
Movie leaks happen.
A LOT.
There are a lot of people involved in the duplication & distribution process, and it’s not unusual for someone to make a copy. At some point it’s just a big file on a computer’s storage device, and at worst it’s just a matter of copying a 200GB file. Consequences may be severe, but leaks do happen; reasonable speculation includes it happening with guarded permission.
You know, this is all starting to sound like a massive hoax/publicity stunt to plug what looks to be a horrendously bad movie.
Inclined to agree (at least a real one). BUT...any media/content pulled because of threats of violence in retaliation for its release also inclines me to acquire a copy and see what the fuss is about.
If something is censored, that’s reason enough to acquire & review it.
It is the heighth of insanity to send in DVDs the ownership of which would be grounds for execution in North Korea.
People who can barely find enough food to eat, none the less have DVD players and big flat screens to view movies on.
This is the mental capacity of those who jacked Sony.
The overall average IQ of the planet would skyrocket if these folks were eliminated.
North Koreans threaten hair salon...
A hair salon in London had this in the window and some angry Norks from the embassy came in and threatened him.
Sony is getting exactly what it deserves, as the hands (maybe) of lowly North Korea. Now this will make a heck of a movie!
I like that idea.
The only problem is that most North Koreans don’t have DVD’s or TV’s or electricity.....
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