Just weeks before the United Nations released a report graphically detailing human rights violations in North Korea, the Human Rights Foundation continued to employ a wireless way to spread information to North Koreans—balloons.

"North Koreans know little to nothing about the world we live in," Human Rights Foundation president Thor Halvorssen said in a press release. "We are helping to change that."

The foundation works with Freedom Fighters of North Korea on the project which recently released 20 large, oblong balloons across the border between North and South Korea, carrying not just messages in large characters, but written information about democracy, DVDs of entertaining shows, transistor radios and flash drives holding the Korean Wikipedia. The balloons are intended for the average North Korean, to plant seeds of information that could disrupt the air-tight environment of propaganda and control. The next release is planned for March of 2014.

The organization said that no word has yet come from any North Koreans who may have received the balloon-carried messages from the world outside. Last summer, a similar launch was attempted, but deadly North Korean threats prompted the South Korean government to halt the balloons' flight to avoid conflict, according to the Human Rights Foundation. Balloons have been launched in past years, dropping mostly leaflets if they manage to travel past the borders at all.