The idea of flooding North Korea w/ cell phones is tantalizing. But could it happen?

The same way they’re getting DVD’s — people smuggle them across the border. People are willing to take the risk of possessing them, as well as every cell phone they can get their hands on. The greater technical problem is cell phone reception, which really only works within range of cell phone towers along the Chinese border. One answer might be to use phones that piggyback on NK military communications. Another might be to piggyback on the Orascom network currently being built exclusively for the elite. Unless someone figures out a technological fix, expensive satellite phones may be the only alternative.

I am not asking these questions to mock. I am asking because I am hoping there is a way to do this.