In February of this year, BTJ hosted a Hackers Conference to focus on ways to smuggle Bibles into North Korea. One method to deliver Bibles into closed nations like North Korea is by drone. This is why BTJ has a dedicated Hacker’s team to help develop the newest drone technology that focuses on getting Bibles into closed countries.
Often times, our Hackers can learn a lot from what others are doing on the ground and this year they were surprised to see how cheap homemade unauthorized drones could easily breach North Korean defenses.
Early this year, several civilian drones reportedly flew over North Korea. These were just simple cheap, non-military drones, but they were able to go for considerable distances before being detected. In some cases, the drones were flown into North Korea and back out again without anyone in North Korea even knowing it.
One of the people that pulled off flying a drone into North Korean is a South Korean man surnamed Oh. Oh traveled to a border island and launched a fixed-wing drone over the water and flew it directly into North Korea.
North Korea caught the drone as reported on the news (pictured above from an X account), but not before Mr. Oh had already done it several times.
This week, the South Korean president apologized for the incident, though they had nothing to do with it. This means that flying drones in South Korea will most likely be more difficult in the future.
It is already more difficult on the other side of North Korea’s border in China where, starting next month, all drones will need to be registered and civilians will only be allowed a maximum of 3 small drones.
The country that makes the most drones – China – is also one of the most restrictive when it comes to operating a drone.
BTJ is currently working on special drones that cannot be discussed in public, but the capabilities to deliver Bibles safely and largely undetected in closed countries is an amazing development in 2026.
