Update (Dec. 14, 2020 at 10:41 p.m. KST): South Korea’s National Assembly passed the “anti-leaflet” law on the evening of Dec. 14 with 187 votes.

For years, defector-activist Jung Gwang-il has tried to send USB drives full of foreign media to North Korea, one of the most isolated countries in the world. 

Each time, he carefully curates a mix of K-dramas, Hollywood blockbuster films, white papers and news articles, which Jung believes can plant the seed for “democratic thoughts” in the minds of North Koreans trapped in a regime of information control. But now, his send-overs could come to a screeching