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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Alice Peacock

Kim Jong-un's ban on foreign media defied as USBs in bottles sent into North Korea

Activists are thwarting Kim Jong-un’s crackdown on foreign media by sending thousands of movies and television shows on flash drivers over the border to North Korea.

According to the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), a U.S. nonprofit loaded scores of USB flash drives and SD cards to the Asian country over the course of the year.

An image provided to local news outlet NK News showed a flash drive packaged into a tightly-stoppered glass bottle, sitting atop a pebbly beach, which had supposedly been floated into the waters bordering North Korea.

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