Kang Chol-Hwan

The cast of the sitcom "Friends," which is one of the Western shows being smuggled to North Koreans by human rights activists and defectors.

Seeking to overthrow North Korea, one American sitcom at a time

March 25, 2015Media

It turns out you don’t need your own propaganda department to counter North Korea’s indoctrination of its citizens and maybe start a revolution — just sitcoms like “Friends” and the will to make the dangerous attempt to smuggle it into the North, where citizens lap up Western media.

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