Balloons Over North Korea: Inside the High-Stakes Propaganda Feud on the Korean Peninsula
Seoul, South Korea – Tensions on the Korean Peninsula continue to rise as activists and defectors from South Korea challenge North Korea with a unique form of protest. In a small apartment in the bustling capital city, a man known only by the pseudonym Choi carefully monitors the GPS coordinates of large “smart” balloons floating towards North Korea. For years, South Korean activists and North Korean defectors have utilized these balloons to send propaganda materials …