Kim Jong Un better look out … or up, rather.
Human rights groups are set to drop DVDs of “The Interview” into North Korea via hydrogen balloons, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
A group called Fighters for a Free North Korea in conjunction with the Human Rights Foundation located in New York has been implementing balloon drops of materials like radios, educational tools and DVDs into North Korea in order to expose its citizens to other cultures.
For example, some of the balloons have transported television shows like “Desperate Housewives” and “Battlestar Galactica” into the country.
Thor Halvorssen, creator of the Human Rights Foundation, said that he wants to sneak copies of “The Interview” into to the balloon drops as soon as he can.
“Viewing any one of these is a subversive act that could get you executed, and North Koreans know this, given the public nature of the punishments meted out to those who dare watch entertainment from abroad,” explained Halvorssen of the films and TV shows included in the drops.
“Despite all of that there is a huge thirst for knowledge and information from the outside world,” he continued. “North Koreans risk their lives to watch Hollywood films … and ‘The Interview’ is tremendously threatening to the Kims. They cannot abide by anything that portrays them as anything other than a god. This movie destroys the narrative.”
The hydrogen balloons, which take off from undocumented locations in South Korea, fly at a height at which they cannot be shot down. They are equipped with a timer that alerts them as to when to drop the packages from plastic bag containers.
“The Interview,” which has now been pulled from its December 25 opening by Sony Pictures following terror threats, centers on two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The group behind the terror threat and the Sony Pictures cyberattacks, “Guardians of Peace,” is suspected to be employed by the North Korean government.
