You can help get information about life beyond NK by donating media drives: https://flashdrivesforfreedom.org/. Source: 12 months ago

e.g. Dropping flash drives into North Korea. Source: about 1 year ago

There are several media covering this story about the smuggling of USB drives, including Washington Examiner, The Guardian and Buisness Insider just to name few. There's even a website for people who want to participate to that. Source: about 1 year ago

A similar practice is used today with North Korea, where balloons are floated into the country with SD Cards and USB sticks - which are small enough to break and swallow in a pinch. It is easy to get involved with this through https://flashdrivesforfreedom.org. Source: over 1 year ago

You should check out https://flashdrivesforfreedom.org/ - the load the donated sticks with positive/freedom related content and get them into North Korea to show the people a different way of life exists. Source: over 1 year ago

Hi HN! For my senior thesis in CS, I built an SMS-based application to make journalism more accessible. It works like this: 1) You text the topics you're interested in to my phone number. Every day, you'll receive a text with 5 headlines from The Associated Press (https://apnews.com/) related to those topics. 2) If you have questions about any of the current events the headlines describe, you just text them back.... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Observe how news media treat story like this. https://time.com - first page, main story, no photos https://www.reuters.com - no mention https://apnews.com - first page, 2nd block in list, no photos https://www.nytimes.com - second page, tiny block in list, no photos https://www.washingtonpost.com - second page, tiny block, no photos https://www.theguardian.com/world - no mention https://www.aljazeera.com - first... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

If someone links to an article on the Associated Press's site (apnews.com) I'm fine with that. Source: 7 months ago

Same thing on apnews.com. I am afraid it is widespread. Source: 7 months ago

IRAN-US PRISONER SWAPAP has reported that Iran and the US are poised to exchange prisoners after a figure of $6 Billion has been “unfrozen” and forwarded to Qatar who are acting as an “honest broker” to facilitate the asset swaps with the receipt of the funds confirmed by Nasser Kanaani a spokesman for the Iran Foreign Ministry before he went on to confirm the swap would take place later today. At this stage... Source: 9 months ago