A $50 device is breaking North Korean government’s grip on media

When a North Korean defector and the Human Rights Foundation planned to distribute Sony Pictures' The Interview to North Korea via balloon air-drops of DVDs and USB sticks late last year, they knew there was a good chance that the movie would be seen by at least some of the secretive country's citizens. That's because the North Korean government hasn't been able to stop the spread of low-cost digital media players smuggled in from China—many of them manufactured almost exclusively for the North.

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