Story highlights Defector deploys balloons with "The Interview" to North Korea

Lee Min-bok says he finds the movie vulgar, but sends it anyway

An earlier version of this article stated that Lee Min-bok had sent tens of thousands of copies of "The Interview" to North Korea by balloon. But there appear to be numerical discrepancies from Lee, so the amount has been removed from the text.

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) Lee Min-bok didn't laugh once when he watched "The Interview." The North Korean defector calls the Hollywood comedy "vulgar," admitting he couldn'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.

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