NK defectors fly north chocolate sweets with balloons

North Korean defectors are tieing 2,500 Choco Pies to ten giant balloons to fly to the northern state. / Courtesy of JoongAng Ilbo

By Ko Dong-hwan

North Korean defectors wooed their people left in the hungry northern state by sending hundreds of chocolate confectionaries with giant balloon carriers, according to Seoul Shimmun Tuesday.

Thirty defectors were gathered at a parking lot near Odu Mountain Unification Observatory in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, on Tuesday at 2 p.m. with 2,500 Choco Pies.

They put the sweets inside ten balloons separately, and watched them fly away toward unmarked destinations within the state.

The goodwill performance, carried out for 40 minutes, was to commemorate the North Korea Freedom Week from Apr. 27 to May 4.

The report quoted a senior staff of the members as saying the delivery was meant to let known southern nation’s opulence and show a symbolical gesture against the political prison governed by Kim Jong-un.