Following weeks of controversy with the North Korean Kim Jong-un government, the latest news sees South Korean activists' "The Interview" support, as a group plans to drop 100,000 copies of the Seth Rogen and James Franco political comedy from an air balloon!
For the North Korean government, the situation with the movie regarding an assassination attempt towards Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has gone vastly out of control, following a hacking stint that almost halted the film from being released; as a retaliation, for South Korean activists, "The Interview" is the latest form of fighting against Kim Jong-un.
According to the IB Times, the latest South Korean activists "The Interview" news comes just a few days after the film was finally released online and in select movie theaters across the United States.
Park Sang-hank, the leader of the South Korean activists "The Interview" campaign, says his group is planning on dropping 100,000 DVDs and USB drives loaded with the movie into his neighboring country, perhaps around late January, though it depends on weather conditions, Park told the Associated Press in a statement earlier this week.
Prosaically enough, the drop of the copies of the Seth Rogen and James Franco movie would be done through an air balloon. While interesting from a publicity standpoint, is unclear how effective the move would ultimately be, as it'd be attempting to fly a balloon over heavily guarded airspace, to drop footage that has been widely considered insulting by the airtight police State.
Over the last few weeks, the North Korean government of Kim Jong-un has been widely surrounded with controversy, as they've done everything in their power to keep the comedy from being released at all; though the government denies it, the FBI confirmed the Sony Pictures leak actually came from Pyongyang government hackers.
According to Mic.com, it seems that the strategy of sending air ballons between the two countries is actually fairly common among activists, though only time will tell whether the South Korean activists' "The Interview" plan will ultimately be able to function.
