Seoul , South Korea ( CNN ) Lee Min-bok did n't laugh once when he watched `` The Interview . '' The North Korean defector calls the Hollywood comedy `` vulgar , '' admitting he could n't even watch the whole film . Yet he is still sending thousands of copies across the border from South to North Korea in balloons , determined his people will see the movie in which the leader Kim Jong Un is assassinated on screen . `` The regime hates this film because it shows Kim Jong Un as a man , not a God , '' says Lee . `` He cries and is afraid like us and then he 's assassinated . '' Kim is portrayed in the movie as a Katy Perry-loving , sensitive soul with daddy issues , clashing with the all-powerful image beamed out by Pyongyang 's tightly controlled state media and propaganda machine . At 1 a.m. , Lee makes a final check of the wind speed and direction , then heads towards the border with North Korea . He has company . The South Korean police and military drive closely behind . After Pyongyang fired on similar propaganda balloons recently , they are monitoring launches very closely . This irritates Lee . `` We can help towards reunification with these balloons , '' says Lee . `` It costs millions of dollars to buy a F-22 fighter jet which the South Korean government insist they need and that 's not for peaceful purposes . So why do civilians like me have to do this under cover of darkness ? '' At 3 a.m. , Lee fills the balloons with helium and ties the bundles of DVDs , dollar bills and political leaflets to the bottom . A timer is attached which will release the bundle once safely in North Korean territory . He has no way of knowing what will happen to the goods after that . He does n't know if ordinary North Koreans will watch the movie and read the leaflets . The fact that Pyongyang acts with fury against these so-called propaganda balloons suggests some information is seeping through to the hermit kingdom . `` If you tell the truth in North Korea , you die . But by using these balloons from here , I can tell the truth in safety , '' Lee adds . The decision to launch the balloons in the dead of night is not just to avoid confrontation with North Korea , but also with South Korea 's local residents . After Pyongyang fired on balloons last October and South Korea returned fire , those living close to the border have been trying to physically stop the launches , arguing they are being put in the line of fire . The chances of at least some North Koreans having watched the film that North Korea sees as `` an act of terrorism '' is certainly possible .
Defector deploys himself with ` ` The Interview '' to avoid Korea . dong dong - bok says he finds the message vulgar , but sends it anyway .