Sanctions were eased, but others were imposed. Over the following years, some U.S. The United States imposed a near total economic embargo on the DPRK in 1950 after the DPRK attacked the South, sparking the Korean war. 'Bye.Bilateral Economic Relations.
North Korea is located in North-East Asia on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and has an area of 120,538 km². Most North Koreans do not know the truth about outer world, they do not realize how bad is their government. The North Koreans can't get out.For example South Koreans hot air balloons over the DMZ containing foreign writings about North Korea, anti-regime news, 2011-2012 Arab world uprising, or other news that are normally censored in North Korea, to incite to a regime change. North Korea has embarked on an accelerated buildup of weapons of mass destruction and the modernization of its already large conventional force. North Korea’s Military Capabilities.
It's high, isn't it? This was not here a year ago. If they're caught filming, they'd be locked up and may never be let out again.NARRATOR: Even filming on the Chinese side of the border is illegal.JIRO ISHIMARU: A barbed wire fence has been installed. In North Korea, even filming everyday life is considered a form of political treason. He has an undercover network which covertly films life inside the country.JIRO ISHIMARU: Obviously, it's an extremely dangerous thing to do.
Jiro has recruited a network of ordinary North Koreans living in towns across the country. These are pictures Kim Jong Un doesn't want the world to see. Stop filming.NARRATOR: They secretly film in areas no foreigners or journalists are allowed to visit. He inherited the world's most isolated country, where the people have no Internet and the state has almost total control on any information coming in or out.Even with the tight security, Jiro and his Japanese news organization manage to get the footage out.JIRO ISHIMARU: Let's get out here.NARRATOR: He's going to meet one of his contacts, who's made it across the border with new images from North Korea.JIRO ISHIMARU: I think you should turn off the camera when we're close. The North Korean border guards have been known to shoot to kill.The border has become even more tightly controlled since Kim Jong Un took over as Supreme Leader two years ago, the third ruler in the Kim dynasty after his father and grandfather. You can sense the psychological pressure they are starting to put on the North Koreans.NARRATOR: The people who work for Jiro smuggle their footage across the Tumen River, which divides China from North Korea.
But the United Nations says the country is still vulnerable to food shortages, and more than three quarters of the population don't have enough food to eat.STREET CHILD: Please give us a little money. Even if I have to sacrifice my life, someday something is going to change.NARRATOR: The famine which killed more than a million North Koreans in the 1990s has ended. I've got to do this, no matter what. And if I get caught, I know I'd immediately be executed as a traitor to the Korean people. He agreed to speak if his identity was concealed."STATE EMPLOYEE": This is dangerous.
Here, buy something to eat with this.NARRATOR: Very few of these orphaned children manage to escape North Korea, but we found one who did. She's a child wandering around with no place to go.REPORTER: Are you an orphan? How old are you?REPORTER: Eight years old? How did you end up here?2ndCHILD: My mom tried to look after me, but she said it was too hard, so I left, and now I live outside.REPORTER: Gosh. For the safety of the people filming, he disguises their voices.WOMAN: An orphan.
I lived like that until I was 14 years old. Because I was hungry, I stole and picked pockets. But when I starved, I didn't eat for two days. There were times when I ate a meal a day. I was almost always hungry when I was young. And then my mother left home and didn't return.
But as Jiro's footage shows, many of the items are not for sale.REPORTER: When will those clothes be for sale?STORE CLERK: None of these products are for sale.STORE CLERK: These are only products for display.STORE CLERK: We don't have anything to sell.REPORTER: What are these, then? Aren't they for sale now?NARRATOR: The department store is regularly featured on state TV, which tells its people they live in the best country on earth.One of the regime's senior propagandists defected and is now living in the South.JANG JIN-SUNG, Former Propagandist: As well as a physical dictatorship, they oppress people with an emotional dictatorship. Pyongyang's Department Store Number 1 is stocked with imported products from around the world. They show pictures of an advanced economy, happy, well-fed children and shops overflowing with goods. This woman was filmed getting into a newly imported Mercedes on her wedding day.North Korean State TV makes the country out to be a land of plenty.
This one was on a loop for three months, promising his people a bright economic future.Since the North and the South split in the late 1940s, hatred of America has been central to North Korean indoctrination. Kim Jong Un's speeches are pumped from speakers on street corners. We thought he didn't even go to the toilet.NARRATOR: North Koreans can't escape the omnipresent propaganda. You think of him as incredibly god-like. If you go too far, you freeze to death. If you go too close, you burn.
They believe that Americans started the Korean war in order to enslave or maybe commit large-scale genocide in Korea. They believe that America is a threat. They believe that Americans are ready to invade.
Oh, gosh.NARRATOR: The regime demands displays of total loyalty. They're practicing to death. Long live, long live.VILLAGER: Agh! What are they doing? Can't they hurry up? I'm starving. He's the leader of the peopleÄNARRATOR: Once a week whole villages are required to attend meetings glorifying the leader.WOMEN IN MEETING: Äcarrying forward the sun's cause.
This is how North Korea operates.NARRATOR: Recent satellite imagery analyzed by Amnesty International shows that since Kim Jong Un came to power, the political prison camps have grown.SUE MI TERRY: 200,000 civilians that are outside of the criminal penal system. They said, "I'm related to Hwang?" It was, like, a ninth cousin. These guys didn't even know they were related to Hwang Jang Yop when the security guys came knocking on their door. When the senior most North Korean defector, Hwang Jang Yop, defected, his relatives were rounded up in North Korea and were sent to prison camp. Often their whole family will be arrested for guilt by association.SUE MI TERRY: It's up to three generations.
I ate little bits of that as I went on my way. Before I left, I prepared a little bit of food. Lee, the former street kid, fled when he was 18."LEE": I was very scared, but I thought it's better to die than live like an insect. It's three times the size of Washington, D.C.NARRATOR: It's estimated that as many as one in a hundred North Koreans is a political prisoner, many of whom were caught trying to defect.Still, several thousand North Koreans try to escape through China each year.
I used the sun to get my directions and went inland.NARRATOR: Defectors like Lee risk getting caught and sent back by China, North Korea's closest ally. Then at night, I crossed the river when nobody was watching.I crossed the river alone and made it into China.
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