I see no way this could ever backfire!

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In that type of society, it'd be virtually impossible for those in power to not realize that their citizens are being given smuggled ipads or what have you. In the end they'll be the ones to suffer for it.

If it's to be done, no half measures: saturate the country with miniature libraries. Plant them in the belongings of important generals and bureacrats who help perpetuate the system. N. Korea is smaller than Missisippi (maybe we can test it on Mississippi, they could use more information too). It's doable.

There's no easy solution to the north korea problem, but I don't think this would be one of the avenues. They barely have enough food to eat, I watched this documentary and the streets are so empty, these people are incapable of mounting a revolution even if they want one.

Unless a significant portion of the military is turned, a key portion of most revolutions. The starvation could be alleviated substantially by lifting economic sanctions. Apparently we are incapable of learning how counterproductive that tactic is. The people suffer, but the psychopathic dictator's position is strengthened: now he can blame all of the country's problems on the Western imperialists.

If we're talking about giving them a better quality of life, I have to say food trumps books any day when they're starving so badly.

We're talking about a revolution. The Il regime depends on control of information. Especially in this day and age, we can make that control impossible.

And one of the things books are good for is teaching how to improve food production.

The miniature solar-powered library thing was just off the top of my head, but breaking the N. Korean government's stranglehold on information is vital if things are to change.

Is it just the sanctions? They don't have electricity for a lot of things either, I highly doubt they'll be able to do proper farming that can feed the entire nation without that. Without that and fertilizers, manpower, land, etc. etc.

I agree that information is vital but resources is very important as well. They're pretty depleted from the looks of it, well, the citizens are. I'm sure they still have a strong military, but I think it'll collapse on itself soon. They aren't sustaining their own civilization. Either case, I don't think a revolution would work, unless the military turns, but I'm pretty pessimistic about that, these people have been brainwashed, they'd be very suspicious of things they hear from the outside.