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If you found this at all interesting, I would highly recommend watching the Vice Guide to North Korea - http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-

If you found this at all interesting, I would highly recommend watching the Vice Guide to North Korea - http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3 http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-n...

simondlr 15y ago
Watched it yesterday. Incredibly strange and unreal to think such a fabricated society is possible in these times.
- megablast 15y ago
  We all do. You would be surprised what u believe that isn't true.
- euccastro 15y ago
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730
  - nodemaker 15y ago
    wow....thanks for that!...kinnof reignited my interest in Chomsky and his ideas of libertarian socialism!...If anyone wants to learn more about the role of propaganda in our society I highly recommend the documentary "The Century of the self". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM
jritch 15y ago
watched this a few times - very interesting yet also disturbing at times. Hats off to vice, I find most of their guides really interesting
- spodek 15y ago
  This National Geographic episode about an eye doctor who visited North Korea shows North Korea from the inside without showing off how cool the film makers are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLBywKrTf4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLBywKrTf4
  - jritch 15y ago
    will give this a watch tonight.
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- watmough 15y ago
  The documentary 'A State of Mind' is available for streaming on Netflix. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/A_State_of_Mind/70038815 http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/A_State_of_Mind/70038815 Excellent documentary that follows a couple of young gymnasts through family life and training for a big event.
spodek 15y ago
I would recommend not watching the Vice Guide to North Korea. That series is more about Vice (which I've read and enjoyed for over a decade and otherwise recommend), using North Korea and their preconceptions to show themselves off, than about North Korea (though North Korea does show through). Yes, the place is weird, but Vice sensationalizes it out of proportion and shows themselves off. Great for Vice, but at the expense of understanding. My bibliography -- http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-bibliography http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-bibliography -- has many sources more valuable for learning about North Korea. I found the New Yorker pieces particularly valuable, as well as the work by Barbara Demick. I blogged extensively on North Korea since my visit there -- http://joshuaspodek.com/category/northkorea http://joshuaspodek.com/category/northkorea. My goal is to promote understanding, not to sensationalize. I've gotten good reviews on - My series on North Korean strategy --http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-strategy-preview http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-strategy-preview - My series on playing in the first ever Ultimate Frisbee tournament and about sport in creating bonds -- http://joshuaspodek.com/ultimate-frisbee-north-korea-part-1 http://joshuaspodek.com/ultimate-frisbee-north-korea-part-1 To Vice's credit, their recent series on exploring the North Korean logging camps in Siberia is more mature, though is outside North Korea.
- hobonumber1 15y ago
  That was a great bibliography + blog about NK.
  - spodek 15y ago
    Thanks! Please also see http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephferris76/sets/72157627450542765 http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephferris76/sets/72157627450... for stunning pictures of our trip there. Joseph is an amazing photographer. We found by treating our guides well, we got great access (as opposed to Vice's condescension).
- Untitled 15y ago
  Personally I found the movie "Children of the secret state" http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b50_1188117332 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b50_1188117332 extremely moving. It is video shot inside N. Korea illegally and exported to China. Be warned though, it is extremely horrific and shocking! I'm a grown adult and it reduced me to tears.
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simondlr 15y ago

Watched it yesterday. Incredibly strange and unreal to think such a fabricated society is possible in these times.

megablast 15y ago
We all do. You would be surprised what u believe that isn't true.
euccastro 15y ago
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730
- nodemaker 15y ago
  wow....thanks for that!...kinnof reignited my interest in Chomsky and his ideas of libertarian socialism!...If anyone wants to learn more about the role of propaganda in our society I highly recommend the documentary "The Century of the self". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM

jritch 15y ago

watched this a few times - very interesting yet also disturbing at times. Hats off to vice, I find most of their guides really interesting

spodek 15y ago
This National Geographic episode about an eye doctor who visited North Korea shows North Korea from the inside without showing off how cool the film makers are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLBywKrTf4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxLBywKrTf4
- jritch 15y ago
  will give this a watch tonight.
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watmough 15y ago
The documentary 'A State of Mind' is available for streaming on Netflix. http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/A_State_of_Mind/70038815 http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/A_State_of_Mind/70038815 Excellent documentary that follows a couple of young gymnasts through family life and training for a big event.

spodek 15y ago

I would recommend not watching the Vice Guide to North Korea. That series is more about Vice (which I've read and enjoyed for over a decade and otherwise recommend), using North Korea and their preconceptions to show themselves off, than about North Korea (though North Korea does show through). Yes, the place is weird, but Vice sensationalizes it out of proportion and shows themselves off. Great for Vice, but at the expense of understanding. My bibliography -- http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-bibliography http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-bibliography -- has many sources more valuable for learning about North Korea. I found the New Yorker pieces particularly valuable, as well as the work by Barbara Demick. I blogged extensively on North Korea since my visit there -- http://joshuaspodek.com/category/northkorea http://joshuaspodek.com/category/northkorea. My goal is to promote understanding, not to sensationalize. I've gotten good reviews on - My series on North Korean strategy --http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-strategy-preview http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-strategy-preview - My series on playing in the first ever Ultimate Frisbee tournament and about sport in creating bonds -- http://joshuaspodek.com/ultimate-frisbee-north-korea-part-1 http://joshuaspodek.com/ultimate-frisbee-north-korea-part-1 To Vice's credit, their recent series on exploring the North Korean logging camps in Siberia is more mature, though is outside North Korea.

hobonumber1 15y ago
That was a great bibliography + blog about NK.
- spodek 15y ago
  Thanks! Please also see http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephferris76/sets/72157627450542765 http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephferris76/sets/72157627450... for stunning pictures of our trip there. Joseph is an amazing photographer. We found by treating our guides well, we got great access (as opposed to Vice's condescension).
Untitled 15y ago
Personally I found the movie "Children of the secret state" http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b50_1188117332 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b50_1188117332 extremely moving. It is video shot inside N. Korea illegally and exported to China. Be warned though, it is extremely horrific and shocking! I'm a grown adult and it reduced me to tears.

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