Behind the iron curtain: A documentary revealing the brutal realities of life in North Korea features this footage of homeless boy Min, who was abandoned by his mother because she found it too difficult to look after him
Undercover In North Korea: Starving Children On The Streets Ignored By A Mercedes-Driving Elite... But Will Kim Jong-Un's Iron Rule Be Brought Down By Smuggled Soap Operas And Skyfall? -- Daily Mail
* Documentary reveals undercover footage of stark realities in pariah state
* Homeless boy, 8, tells how his mother found it too hard to look after him
* Escaped former political prisoner now sends popular culture into country
* He smuggles in DVDs and USB sticks while posing as a mushroom farmer
* Hopes they will 'get disillusioned with regime and want to live differently'
* Cracks start to emerge as official is filmed calling Kim Jong-Un 'hopeless'
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kim Jong-Un rules North Korea with such terrifying control that most of his subjects know very little about the world outside of their impoverished nation.
But thanks to the digital revolution, his totalitarian regime is now finding it increasingly difficult to hide the temptations of a better life from his brutalised people.
Nor can he prevent the world from seeing the stark realities inside the world's most secretive state where people have reportedly been executed simply for watching films and owning a Bible.
The erosion of Kim's iron rule at the hands of technological change has now been explored in fascinating detail in a new documentary which has gained access to astonishingly brave undercover film-makers and defectors.
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My Comment: I saw how music, movies, and TV shows from the West changed China in the 1980s (I have been a regular visitor to China since the mid-1980s). I can only assume (and hope) that if these movies and TV programs do become readily available in North Korea .... they will also have the same impact. This documentary will be broadcast on Thursday. If a YouTube version becomes available .... it will be posted on this blog.
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