How One Man Wants to Free North Korea With USB Drives and Pirated Movies — gizmodo.com

North Korea is a quietly desolate otherworld, at least as far as we outsiders can tell from the bits and pieces of untouched, unpropagandized media that occasionally leak out. The key to freeing it? It could be sneaking American media in. Wired talked to one of the men who does it, and his story is fascinating. The North Korea Strategy Center is an organization founded by Kang Chol-hwan, who spent 10 years in a North Korean gulag along with his family when his grandfather was accused of treason. Imprisoned from ages 9 to 18, and subjected to such horrors as being forced to stone the bodies of captured escapees, Kang was eventually freed for reasons left unexplained.

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