In the day and age of Tweets and FaceBook it’s somewhat
refreshing to see old school operations. According to the Times, Lee Min-bok is
a North Korean defector with a self-avowed mission to foster popular subversion
against the North Korean government.
Mr. Kim’s efforts do not receive any government support.
Rather he supports himself through lecture fees and receives donations from
various groups. According to the article, A Japanese group because they want
him to send leaflets to help find Japanese citizens in North Korea. Other
donors include Christians who provide Bibles and food.
Kim summed up his efforts this way “My leaflets are a poison
for Kim Jong-un’s regime, because they help North Koreans wake up to his lies”.
The leaflet bundles are high enough to avoid small arms
fire. Kim has developed is own ‘timer’ that opens the bundles allowing the
leaflets to drop down.
While Kim receives security support from the Republic of
Korea, his efforts are chiefly his own and is only job.
While we can only assess Mr. Kim’s production and not his effectiveness,
his story is an interesting one. On the launch end Mr. Kim choses to assume a
low profile and not launch from villages or populated centers so as to avoid
conflicts.
One wonders if this type of grassroots approach could be
adopted in other areas, especially where a regime controls the information
channels. Of course leaflet drops are wind dependent and the receiving terrain
must be open enough to allow the leaflets to reach their targets.
Readers are invited to contribute any other examples of
Self-Help PSYOP.
2 comments:
While not a PSYOP per se, many missionaries distribute their own leaflets by airplane drops. They sometimes also drop small gifts, for lack of better words.
#DIYPsyOps
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