Flash Drives For Freedom

....Yes you read that right!

After being exposed to South Korean and Western media it made Jung Gwang-il abandon his illusions about North Korea. He was accused by a colleague for being a South Korean spy and imprisoned for 10 Months. During this torturous month he confessed to a crime he had not committed. In time he was shifted to the Yodok concentration camp, an awful prison where enemies of the state are punished for political crimes. Against the odds, he endured, and was freed in 2003 when the charges against him were seen as bogus. After 12 days of his release, he escaped from North Korea by swimming to China. After quite a journey through Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, he arrived in South Korea to a new life as an activist devoted to bringing down the regime that had tortured and detained him.

Now thanks to activities or defectors as others would call them are smuggling USB in their thousands across the North Korean border – either by hand, balloon or drone – to be copied and shared. As a collaboration between Jung activist group, No chain for North Korea, Human Rights Foundation (HRF) which, with the Silicon Valley nonprofit organization Forum 280 and USB Memory Direct In 2015 Launched The Flash Drives for Freedom. This project seeked to collect USB flash drive donations from Americans. The drives were wiped then loaded with films, music, soap operas and literature, before being smuggled across the border.

The North Korean government strictly prohibits access to outside information and media, and individuals found in possession of this material face severe punishment. Be that as it may, access to outside information in North Korea has grown significantly altogether over the most recent 20 years, and it is a valued and coveted commodity. What's more, HRF believes that access to information is a fundamental right, not a privilege

It’s difficult to believe that there are still nations which are so isolated, even in the age of Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google drive. But this is real; your old or disposed flash drives could be of so much use to North Korea people.

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