South Korea sending signals to the Northerners!
One DVD sent north on February 16 -- to commemorate Kim Jong-Il's birthday -- shows footage of the Egypt uprising with text on the screen that reads: "The lesson to be learnt from the anti-dictator, pro-democracy struggles in Tunisia and Egypt is that freedom and democracy can only be won through physical sacrifice." The DVD was made before the unrest started in Libya. The power of the people is now being shown to a population that has no power and little if any knowledge of the outside world. One defector tells CNN he read these propaganda leaflets before he left North korea and DVDs showing Seoul to be a modern and affluent city helped him make the decision to escape. And even though only a small population of the country -- mainly those closer to the border -- will ever see the propaganda, he believes it is still effective. "You'd be lucky if 10% ever pick up a leaflet, but given the speed that word travels, I think people who hear about it could probably re