The Human Rights Foundation, a nonprofit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally, has conducted the ‘Flash Drives for Freedom‘ movement. Through this initiative, Westerners can donate their used USB drives or SD cards to help smuggle outside information to North Korean citizens, effectively bypassing the strict censorship of the North Korean regime.
For individual in North Korea outside information is an effective tool to question their leader and their government’s propaganda and actions.
Flash Drives for Freedom aimed to erased the drives and filled it with films, books, and Wikipedia articles which is send through several methods.
- Through balloons (Typically these are send from South Korea filled with foods, flash drives, and other accessories and travel throughout the night so North Korean soldiers don’t spot it.
- Through drones (risk free, more expensive but provide the person controlling the drone free to move around and see what’s going around over the border)
Info on the Donated Parts
Apparently on their website as of May 2026, over 140,007 flash drives have been donated and pledged reaching over 1.40 million North Koreans overall. 2.67 million hours of footage smuggled to North Korea, and 63.64 million hours of reading material disseminated.
Pretty cool innit?
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