Prepare Ze Hindenburg

A coalition of human-rights activists is to airdrop DVD copies of the Kim Jong-un baiting comedy The Interview over North Korea.

The Cinema For Peace Foundation, which is leading the project, said it would use hydrogen balloons to transport the controversial film to the country, in a symbolic gesture aimed at encouraging free speech.

  Guardian

Because that’s exactly what it will accomplish. Because the North Koreans only need encouragement to speak freely and they will.

“We will start sending hydrogen balloons with DVDs of The Interview to North Korea, so that the people there can watch the movie. They can copy the movie and have their own impression if it’s a good or bad movie,” said foundation chairman Jaka Bizilj during a press conference at the Berlin film festival. “Because for us, it’s not a question of whether it’s good or bad; no matter if you like something or not, you have to fight for freedom to exercise this art.”

Oh. Bravo. How old are you people? Twelve?

Other groups involved in the campaign include the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, as well as activists in both North and South Korea. Bizilj told the Hollywood Reporter the timing and location of the drop would be kept secret to ensure the safety of North Koreans. “The army will stop anyone even picking up a copy of the DVD,” he said.

So, if that’s the case, once these DVDs are dropped, and someone who picks one up (unseen by the army, of course, who will not get word of it until all the DVDs have been picked up by simple people who only need encouragement to speak freely),…wait, wait, wait. Is the army not supposed to find out about this dump until all the people have had a chance to sneak peak the movie with English translators?  Or will the DVDs be dubbed?

Hydrogen balloons?  How's that going to work, anyway?  Will the army not notice?  I'll grant you, they are quiet.  From where will they be launched?  How will they be guided?

 I’m a little fuzzy on how this is going to work. The North Korean army is getting a heads up here with this article, are they not?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

This article was amended on 10 February 2015. An earlier version said that Bianca Jagger and Pussy Riot supported the action to airdrop DVD copies of The Interview over North Korea. This has been corrected.