South Korea Sent 10,000 Choco Pies Over to North Korea in Balloons

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In South Korea, about 200 people — South Koreans along with North Korean defectors — packed 770 pounds of Choco Pies into plastic bags, which they attached to 50 giant balloons and released into North Korea from a park in the border city of Paju, according to organizers of the event. It was an act of rebellion against the alleged North Korean ban on the chocolate confections.

Choco Pies have occasionally been doled out in North Korea as bonuses to workers in the Kaesong Industrial Complex. Employees make around $100 a month there, according to the news site Daily NK, but only take home about 30% of their wages as a result of deductions by the North Korean government. The pies were used to supplement low wages and give the workers a literal taste of the outside world.

"Choco Pies are an important mind-changing instrument ... [North Koreans] are suffering and starving, but thanks to Choco Pies, DVDs and large-scale labour migration to China, people don't buy the old story [that the South is even poorer] and the government does not sell it any more," Andrei Lankov, an expert on Korean studies, told The Guardian. Other items like DVDs have also been transported to North Korea via balloons.

South Korea Sent 10,000 Choco Pies Over to North Korea in Balloons

 

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In South Korea, about 200 people — South Koreans along with North Korean defectors — packed 770 pounds of Choco Pies into plastic bags, which they attached to 50 giant balloons and released into North Korea from a park in the border city of Paju, according to organizers of the event. It was an act of rebellion against the alleged North Korean ban on the chocolate confections.

Choco Pies have occasionally been doled out in North Korea as bonuses to workers in the Kaesong Industrial Complex. Employees make around $100 a month there, according to the news site Daily NK, but only take home about 30% of their wages as a result of deductions by the North Korean government. The pies were used to supplement low wages and give the workers a literal taste of the outside world.

"Choco Pies are an important mind-changing instrument ... [North Koreans] are suffering and starving, but thanks to Choco Pies, DVDs and large-scale labour migration to China, people don't buy the old story [that the South is even poorer] and the government does not sell it any more," Andrei Lankov, an expert on Korean studies, told The Guardian. Other items like DVDs have also been transported to North Korea via balloons.

South Korea Sent 10,000 Choco Pies Over to North Korea in Balloons

Conspiracy to make North Fat,Seriously don't get addicted to this thing

 

[cirr]

This sort of silly act is really not called for。

There are tens of thousands of South Korean families subsisting on 500000 Won a month，barely enough to buy 1000 packs of instant noodles。

 

[Edison Chen]

They need real food like preserved meat or pickled vegetable, not the snacks....

 

[xesy]

One time South Koreans sent bibles over to the North, then whenever the NK police discovered someone who took possession of a bible (even if it was the kid who found the bible and kept it as a play thing), the whole family would be sent to the labor camp for "re-education". Could be a propaganda of the West but seriously, I think NK govt is capable of carrying out such act. And I know that there are actually SK who use balloon like those to carry bible over the DMZ.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

They need real food like preserved meat or pickled vegetable, not the snacks....

Or at least packets of vegetable seeds. Choco pies are useless

 

[xesy]

Or at least packets of vegetable seeds. Choco pies are useless

Actually choco pies are pretty popular among NK. They can even be used a foreign currency. And kids love them. Why are they useless? NK might not accept food because they fear SK might put poison in it, but choco pies, they are welcome. I think it got famous because choco pies were first given to NK workers in the joint industrial complex, who brought them home and gave other a taste of "capitalism honey".

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Actually choco pies are pretty popular among NK. They can even be used a foreign currency. And kids love them. Why are they useless? NK might not accept food because they fear SK might put poison in it, but choco pies, they are welcome. I think it got famous because choco pies were first given to NK workers in the joint industrial complex, who brought them home and gave other a taste of "capitalism honey".

Of the millions of items people can attach to a balloon Choco pies shouldn't be at the top.

 

[xesy]

Of the millions of items people can attach to a balloon Choco pies shouldn't be at the top.

Many of those ballons won't make it pass the DMZ too far, I don't think there are many things that SK will want the NK army take hold of.

 

[ExtraOdinary]

Kim must be happy. More food for him

 

[Kolaps]

South Korean should send credit card instead.

 

[C130]

they banned choco pies?
i bet lil kimmy got a nice little stash for himself though

 

[khujliwal]

But NK has its own ABM shield (anti balloon). Conspiracy to make the great slim leader fat wont work.

 

[Edison Chen]

South Korean should send credit card instead.

Does North Korea have POS?

 

[55100864]

like giant condoms.