Forget sanctions – campaigners say exposing residents to western TV is a powerful way to undermine the regimeSmuggling 20000 USB sticks loaded with the latest Hollywood films might seem like an unlikely way to try to overthrow the North Korean regime – but that’s exactly what Flashdrives for Freedom has in mind.
In the face of increasingly harsh sanctions imposed on Kim Jong-un after his recent nuclear tests, the project hopes to expose North Koreans to approved culture from the external world in a tender to undermine the regime’s rhetoric.
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Source: theguardian.com