North Korean Defector to Airdrop 100,000 DVDs and USB sticks with copies of The Interview into North - Polidicks

[QUOTE=nikomo;46835734]I'm slightly impressed that they subtitled the movie in like what, a week or something? It might sound like a lot of time to do something like that, but fucking with timecodes etc. is about the most painful fucking thing you can ever do.[/QUOTE] You work in translations too? A 20 minute episode, (from spanish to english) take me a whole day, it's crazy.

[QUOTE=w00tf1zh;46836803]This is just immature, and further fuels the hate that North Korea has for the west. People should think twice before they do stuff like this.[/QUOTE] Only the goverment hates the west. Your average North Korean has more things to worry about than hating America, like getting sent to a workcamp for being "against the revolution" Blame the man in power, not the man in the street

This is a stupid fucking idea, seriously. Not only that, but a dangerous one. If you're going to do something like this, don't airdrop some stupid fucking movie. I wonder if those USBs and DVDs go good with some bread.

[QUOTE=w00tf1zh;46836803]This is just immature, and further fuels the hate that North Korea has for the west. People should think twice before they do stuff like this.[/QUOTE] those guys gave us free movies and money fuck those guys

Maybe North Korea will get liberated from a movie about North Korea being liberated.

[QUOTE=OvB;46836516]Streisand effect.[/QUOTE] "You can't stop the signal, Mal."

They should drop less DVDs and USB sticks and drop miniature DVD players instead to ensure that people will be able to view it

[QUOTE=DrDevil;46835715]This should give a little insight into the current state of technology in the DPRK. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuxlLLeKZZ8[/media][/QUOTE] Since it seems like none of you are bothering to watch this, I'd like to point out that he mentions that his students knew how to use computers and some of them even had personal laptops running Windows XP. It's a pretty safe assumption that those laptops have DVD drives and USB ports. It doesn't seem like computers are an "in-every-household" thing in NK, but computers do seem to be fairly common. He also mentions going to a mall with an electronics section every couple of weeks which had a "bunch of computers, generally running Windows [...] imported from China."

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;46836628]I can imagine the NK government retaliating by having giant fans blow the balloons away.[/QUOTE] They're Korean Giant fans would kill everyone

honestly a movie is fine but food is also pretty good to a very malnourished population

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;46838972]Since it seems like none of you are bothering to watch this, I'd like to point out that he mentions that his students knew how to use computers and some of them even had personal laptops running Windows XP. It's a pretty safe assumption that those laptops have DVD drives and USB ports. It doesn't seem like computers are an "in-every-household" thing in NK, but computers do seem to be fairly common. He also mentions going to a mall with an electronics section every couple of weeks which had a "bunch of computers, generally running Windows [...] imported from China."[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure university students in a country as impoverished as North Korea are among the top 0.01% [editline]2nd January 2015[/editline] So why the hell would this guy tell everyone about his plan first. "The thing is that if South Korea or the United States Air Force dropped a bomb, there's a way that [North Korea] would react to it, but the thing is with leaflets there's no way to react." Now that you told everyone, they can just call up South Korea and tell them you better get into a car accident or they're gonna launch the fucking nukes.

[QUOTE=Suff;46835575]Provided most North Korean citizens have computers and dvd-players. The common argument is that most North Koreans live quite frugally. The last reports suggested a 'television' was uncommon. Eathier we're being lied too, or it's indeed true that North Korea's infrastructure is perhaps more than World Leaders let on. Not to suggest North Korea is a healthy state, but rather it's definitly possible the common household has more than a television. I've heard of NK Sailors having computers and smartphones in their homecountry. I wouldn't discount it.[/QUOTE]Don't worry guy, I think he's got this. I'm pretty sure a North Korean who defected to South Korea knows what North Koreans have in their homes. [QUOTE=DrTaxi;46839107]Now that you told everyone, they can just call up South Korea and tell them you better get into a car accident or they're gonna launch the fucking nukes.[/QUOTE]You mut have missed the part where they talk about how this guy was arrested a shit ton of times by South Korea for doing exactly what he's going to do now.

Except now it's international news, on a much larger scale and with more high-caliber material.

These guys can be bad for international relations. When SK and NK were in talks at the end of last summer, NK got angry when defectors were ballooning NK. The talks halted. Imagine the political gridlock that comes from Cuban defectors being arrogant.

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;46839421]Except now it's international news, on a much larger scale and with more high-caliber material.[/QUOTE]Uh, lol... Here's why you're wrong: Most of the DPRK is totally fucking ignorant of the outside world. They might now a little, but for the most part the entire planet is basically inhabited by alien life forms to them. That's why their propaganda apparatus, even the one aimed at the outside world, is [i]hilariously delusional[/i] and it builds the stereotypes of the government. Their propaganda people aren't strategic thinkers, they're not privy to the highest level shit, they're just an apparatus of a larger government. All of that means jack shit when we switch our focus to the policy makers and the leadership. Thouse guys, the ones who call the shots in the DPRK, they know [u]very[/u] [u]well[/u] what would happen in a war without Chinese support and South Korea remained on the defensive. There's no way in hell that the North Korean military would be able to project themselves very far into South Korea without having it's tender anus violently ravaged by a trio of South Korean, Japanese, and American war boners. Nobody who can actually influence national policy is under any delusions of how a North Korean attack would go, and it would also force a decision to be made about of the North Korean question. Meanwhile an attack [i]on[/i] North Korea would go equally as bad for a variety of reasons, so it's basically in everyone's best interest to [i]not[/i] fight it out. This guy with his balloons is essentially giving everyone another option: using the North Koreans to change the country. While they do arrest him when it will clearly cause so much trouble that North Korea will definitely respond with an artillery strike, his recent efforts have been very smart and it works out for everyone. South Korea won't bother because they technically can't stop him, (nobody knows when and where the balloon bandit will strike) North Korea will respond by internally cracking down and thus save face internationally, (but they still get fucked, but who cares) and this guy gets to fly his giant inflated condoms.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;46838972]Since it seems like none of you are bothering to watch this, I'd like to point out that he mentions that his students knew how to use computers and some of them even had personal laptops running Windows XP. It's a pretty safe assumption that those laptops have DVD drives and USB ports. It doesn't seem like computers are an "in-every-household" thing in NK, but computers do seem to be fairly common. He also mentions going to a mall with an electronics section every couple of weeks which had a "bunch of computers, generally running Windows [...] imported from China."[/QUOTE] even if every north korean had a dvd player, what would this achieve? do you really think a seth rogen stoner flick get north koreans to rise up? they won't get it, and that's provided that they actually get a chance to see the movie before they and their entire family get put into a concentration camp/ shot for being enemies of the state.

[QUOTE=Comcastic;46838054]This is a stupid fucking idea, seriously. Not only that, but a dangerous one. If you're going to do something like this, don't airdrop some stupid fucking movie. I wonder if those USBs and DVDs go good with some bread.[/QUOTE] get a sense of humour you over-sensitive twat

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;46840328]even if every north korean had a dvd player, what would this achieve? do you really think a seth rogen stoner flick get north koreans to rise up? they won't get it, and that's provided that they actually get a chance to see the movie before they and their entire family get put into a concentration camp/ shot for being enemies of the state.[/QUOTE] Obviously a NK defector thought it was worth it to spend thousands on sending them over.

I haven't seen this movie but im almost sure that this is one epic piece of shit.

this movie is seriously going to actually make a difference? oh my god, i love history. its so weird, to think that like if this actually does cause some incite amongs the population, in history courses we'll be learning about how a stoner movie made a global impact on dictatorship.

[QUOTE=Viva;46840466]this movie is seriously going to actually make a difference? oh my god, i love history. its so weird, to think that like if this actually does cause some incite amongs the population, in history courses we'll be learning about how[B] a stoner movie[/B] made a global impact on dictatorship.[/QUOTE] they smoke weed in this movie?

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;46836628]I can imagine the NK government retaliating by having giant fans blow the balloons away.[/QUOTE] They'll put the fans in their bedrooms, just to prove to South Korea how hardcore they are.

[QUOTE=Gordon Frohm;46840549]they smoke weed in this movie?[/QUOTE] i'm not sure as i haven't seen it myself actually, so i did jump the gun there sorry, but seth rogan's whole gimmick is stoner comedy. So i assumed the movie would at the very least have bit of that humor if not an actual scene.

[QUOTE=Suff;46835575]Provided most North Korean citizens have computers and dvd-players. The common argument is that most North Koreans live quite frugally. The last reports suggested a 'television' was uncommon. Eathier we're being lied too, or it's indeed true that North Korea's infrastructure is perhaps more than World Leaders let on. Not to suggest North Korea is a healthy state, but rather it's definitly possible the common household has more than a television. I've heard of NK Sailors having computers and smartphones in their homecountry. I wouldn't discount it.[/QUOTE] In Iran it is illegal to have access to satellite tv, since they don't want people to watch channels from other countries. Especially the Iranian channels broadcasted from the US and BBC Persia. And yet, everybody has access to it. The police raid homes frequently and destroy people's satellite dishes but it doesn't help, if people want it, they will find a way to get it. Same way for North Koreans who want tvs and unauthorized dvds.

[QUOTE=Viva;46840594]i'm not sure as i haven't seen it myself actually, so i did jump the gun there sorry, but seth rogan's whole gimmick is stoner comedy. So i assumed the movie would at the very least have bit of that humor if not an actual scene.[/QUOTE] Believe it or not, I don't believe they once reference weed in the entire movie, and if they do, its a one off joke that was pretty forgettable.

[QUOTE=Viva;46840594]i'm not sure as i haven't seen it myself actually, so i did jump the gun there sorry, but seth rogan's whole gimmick is stoner comedy. So i assumed the movie would at the very least have bit of that humor if not an actual scene.[/QUOTE] There is a scene where James Franco smokes joints with Kim Jong Un but it's less than 10 sec

[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;46839499]There's no way in hell that the North Korean military would be able to project themselves very far into South Korea without having it's tender anus violently ravaged by a trio of South Korean, Japanese, and American war boners.[/QUOTE] That is.... beautiful...

Do most North Koreans even have computers capable of using USB sticks? Or perhaps the question should bee: Do most North Koreans even have computers?

[QUOTE=Saigon;46842309]Do most North Koreans even have computers capable of using USB sticks? Or perhaps the question should bee: Do most North Koreans even have computers?[/QUOTE] I suppose some of those portable DVD players have USB support. I also suppose some of those DVD players have batteries or rural Nork homes have power. Then it's a matter of smuggling cheap Chinese DVD players into North Korea and selling them on the black market.

If there's any demand for the Interview, there are people who do have the capability of reading USB who will rip them into any formats that can they sell