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Inner circle, things that would never be allowed to be broadcast within north korea but things that some citizens can pick up if they are transmitting or listening in on illegal radios. sometimes they are smuggled in or the propaganda leaflets are flown in on balloons. that's why you see the north korean government trying to shoot those down as well because it's damaging information, which stays in power in large part because everything that people think and all the information that they consume is tightly controlled. so on the north korean side their speakers are broadcasting the type of prop...

To be watch closely. >> it's not unprecedented, words are one thing. one of the concerned that could spiral into something even worse. >> well, there is concern there could be more provocation from north korea. remember last year they opened fire to send some propaganda leaflets, and then back in 2010 there were a few deadly escalations that happened, one was artillery fire that killed four south korean soldiers, the other was an alleged torpedo attack on a ship, 46 sailors died in that attack. so of course the hope is this will de-escalate before it gets to anything like that, john. >> will r...

Across the dmz since the korean war. originally they would drop leaflets telling people what life was like in south korea. >> one of the women i interviewed her job was to pick up anti north korean propaganda leaflets flown on balloons into north korea. why did you pick these anti north korean propaganda leaflets up? because they taught me if i touched anything with my hands they would rot and fall off. >> today the balloons have gone high-tech. they are often gps guided and can drop the information that they contain on a more targeted area. new technology is starting to crack open the hermi...

Leaflets that were flown into north korea. how did you pick these propaganda leaflets up? because the regime taught me if i touched anything from south korea with my hands they would rot and fall off. >> today the balloons have gone high-tech they are often gps guided and can drop the information that they contain on a more targeted area. >> and the technology is starting to crack open the hermit kingdom. >> cell phones and the internet are starting to give them windows into the outer world they never thought of before. it may very well be that that will lead to much more radical change than h...

That i once hated. he and his family are adjusting to life in freedom but the same month they arrived in seoul his 7-year-old daughter died of an unknown infection. >> as a parent i always think about all of the things i could have given them and that weighs heavily on my mind. >> a sad ending to a long long journey. >> so many mixed emotions for refugees that come out of north korea to china to south korea. >> three generations of the kim family have maintained an iron grip on the isolated society of the north but it has not been completely impenetrable. >> balloons have been going across t...