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North Korean defector Y H Kim speaks prior to the launch of bottles containing rice, money, and USB sticks, on Ganghwa island, west of Seoul on May 1, 2018. - North Korean defectors sent water bottles filled with rice and K-pop-loaded USB sticks floating towards their homeland, even as the Seoul government removed border loudspeakers following a rare summit with Pyongyang. The defectors have been throwing hundreds of bottles filled with food, cash, medicine and memory sticks into the sea twice a month for more than two years. There is no definitive way of verifying whether the items have been received, participants have said the South's coastguards have told them the bottles are often retrieved by North Korean fishing boats. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo credit should read ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)