National Geographic’s Explorer documentary series, Inside North Korea
by Richardson ~ March 5th, 2007. Filed under: Axis of Evil, Defectors & Refugees, Hunger & Famine.As Joshua notes, this will be at 9:00 PM EST/8:000 PM CST on 5 March. Probably a must see:
…Explorer correspondent Lisa Ling and a camera crew managed to get inside [North Korea] last year, disguised as part of a medical team traveling with a Nepalese eye surgeon helping cataract victims.
Their footage, packaged with interviews of North Korean defectors and video shot by human-rights activists and refugee smugglers, paints a profoundly disturbing picture of the country and its bizarre ruler, Kim Jong Il. North Korea seems less a society than a sadomasochistic fantasy, where Kim starves and slaughters his people, and they sob with gratitude for the boot on their throat.
For more information, see the NG blog. [Ironically, I don’t get that channel.]
March 6th, 2007 at 6:03 am
I would appreciate if anyone finds out what time/channel this is to air in Korea (if at all) that they would kindly post it here.
Thanks in advance.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
I was able to watch this show…..very distrurbing. Lisa Ling did a good job exposing as much as she could about the North Korean culture, people & the system of brutal oppression they live under. The little things we take for granted in the west could get you killed in DPRK. Like taking a partial picture of a painting of “Dear Leader”….this could get your whole family thrown into a concentration camp. The starvation in the DPRK is apalling….the children…..some tough scenes to be sure. Evil is alive & well in the heart of Pyongyang.
In my opinion this show should be mandatory viewing for all high school students. They should see what communism leads to before they sit in front of some idealistic liberal professor spouting the virtues of Socialism/Communism.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Mark,
No info on a schedule for Korea, yet. Sorry. I posted the question at OFK with negative response as well.
Bodhi,
Thanks for the input. I’ll have to get someone to record that for me…
March 8th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Sorry I couldn’t give schedule info, but I just happened to stumble onto the program & then found the posting about it on this site (also accidently).
March 11th, 2007 at 3:44 am
A DVD will be released on 20 Mar 07.
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