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The Fifty-four-year-old man went to an area of South Korea's Gyeonggi Province close to the border to drop the balloons inside the North Korean territory.
Jung, who was sentenced to three years in a North Korean prison camp for a crime he claims did not commit, is based out of South Korea.
"All the balloons dropped in the Mount Kumgang area which is located on North Korea's side of Kangwon Province, we confirmed by Global Positioning System," Kwang-il said. "This launch is the last one for the year. Because the direction of the wind is due to change."
The North Korean defector often sends USB drives, SD cards, and other devices carrying Hollywood movies, South Korean television shows and testimonials from North Korean defectors across North Korea's borders, according to reports. He uses helium balloons, human smugglers and helicopter drones.
About 10 percent of North Korean households have a computer at home, around half of urban households own a Chinese-made portable media player, according to unofficial estimates.
According to Rev. Eric Foley, president of Voice of the Martyrs Korea, "in North Korea, even children are aware of the risks of possessing a Bible. Even socks, clothes or food are dangerous. People who pick up a Bible know their choice is very risky, they could probably end up being executed."
It is believed that up to 70,000 Christians are currently suffering in labor camps in North Korea.
Recently, a North Korean defector, 26-year-old Hee Yeon Lim, alleged in a media interview that the country's dictator Kim Jong Un keeps teenage sex slaves whom he takes from schools, enjoys a luxury lifestyle while his people starve, and forces children to watch public executions.
Lim, who now resides in Seoul, South Korea, said she was able to flee with her mother and younger brother from Pyongyang, North Korean two years ago. Her father, Colonel Wui Yeon Lim of the Korean People's Army, who died at 51, was permanently on-call, and it was his job that gave her exclusive insight into
Kim's regime. She spoke of one instance when she and other classmates were ordered to watch the public execution of 11 North Korean musicians accused of making a 'pornographic video'.
"The musicians were brought out, tied up, hooded and apparently gagged, so they could not make a noise, not beg for mercy or even scream," she recalled.
"What I saw that day made me sick in my stomach. They were lashed to the end of anti-aircraft guns."
In 2016, a report by the U.K. based Christian Solidarity Worldwide alleged that the communist government in North Korea has crushed Christians under a steam roller, hung them on crosses above raging fires, herded them off bridges and used other brutal forms of torture.
"Documented incidents against Christians in in North Korea include being hung on a cross over a fire, crushed under a steamroller, herded off bridges and trampled underfoot. A policy of guilt by association applies, meaning that the relatives of Christians are also detained regardless of whether they share the Christian belief," the report said.
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump, threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea. North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, blasted back on Thursday saying, "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire."
Also on Thursday in New York, Pyongyang Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho boasted that North Korean might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean.
On Friday, the US President, in a post on his official Twitter page, said, "North Korean leader is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people and he would be tested like never before".
US plan B on North Korea
Now banks anywhere in the world that facilitate trade with North Korea would be locked out of the US; aircraft and ships that visited the North would be barred from landing and berthing in the US for six months.Surgical military strike against North Korea imminent
Many say that the US maybe planning a cyber attack to turn out the lights in North Korean cities; or a strike designed to take out a North Korean missile in test flight.US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, who earlier in this round of the North Korean crisis, warned that war on the Korean Peninsula could only be "tragic on an unbelievable scale," said it was possible to take some kinds of 'surgical' military action against North Korea, without necessarily provoking retaliatory attacks by Kim on South Korea, whose capital is just 56 kilometres from the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), or on any of the military bases that are home to thousands of US troops.
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