U.S. Cartoons made in North Korea

Apparently some U.S. cartoons are being made in North Korea. U.S. companies outsource the work to South Korean firms and these firms secretly subcontract some of the work to North Korea.

When someone involved in the subcontracting was asked if U.S. firms know about what is going on he said "They don’t want to know."

Well, it would be very easy to stop this. The U.S. could deny copyright protection to all cartoons that were done with North Korean labor. So let's say that today North Koreans work on some Disney cartoon. Ten years from now North Korea collapses and we find out that the Disney cartoon was made in part with North Korean labor. Disney would lose copyright protection on the cartoon. Fear of such a loss would give companies a strong incentive to stop North Koreans from working on their cartoons.

Given that financial pressure on North Korea is the only way we are going to get them to stop making atomic bombs, the U.S. government should stop this communist cartoonary.