Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul is a fantastic short (37:25) documentary centered around the interview of two citizens of the DPRK living in the south. A lot is said about the nature of anti-DPRK propaganda and the repression people face in the ROK. CWs for discussions of suicide and human trafficking.
My Brothers and Sisters in the North is feature-length (1:48:50) and very humanizing documentary about normal people living in the DPRK. It was shot by German director with Korean roots. Its been a long ass time since I last saw it but IIRC there wasn’t much of anything in terms of warnable content and while not pointedly political, it gets a little lib once or twice.
If you’d like a podcast about the earlier history of the DPRK then I highly recommend season 3 of Blowback. Really well researched and edited. There is a lot of discussion of war as well as massacres and sexual assault comes up a few times, so fair warning for those.
Like another poster mentioned, DPRK explained is GOATed and has been putting out bangers recently. I love their monthly roundup of events in the country.
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YouTube channel “DPRK Explained” is as good as it gets!
Aim High in Creation - Trailer Aussie documentary director gets access to DPRK through the cultural exchange program. She teams up with directors and actors in the DPRK to better understand their film style and creates a propaganda film against Coal Seam Gas drilling. The director is rather lib and can be kinda insulting to the North Koreans at times, but overall it’s a film that, I would say, shows the DPRK in a rather positive light. I very much enjoyed the fact that she gets access to folks outside the typical DPRK “press package” and talks candidly with people in the film industry. Much like Brothers and Sisters to the North I found it really humanized the North Korean people.
Determined to stop a gas mine being built near her inner-city Sydney home, Anna Broinowski, in a world first, goes to North Korea to meet the masters of propaganda filmmaking, who teach her how to make a revolutionary drama in which “heroic workers” overthrow the “evil gas miners” - all executed in the Dear Leader’s proudly melodramatic style. Back in Sydney, Anna’s brave western cast follow the North Koreans’ instructions, culminating in an uplifting, anti-capitalist drama.
The Battleship Island (2017) trailer less DPRK, more about how Japan has treated Korea. Movie, not documentary.
As World War II nears its end, the small island of Hashima (nicknamed “Battleship Island”) off the coast of Japan is the site of a massive coal mine, where 400 Koreans lead bleak lives as conscripted laborers. Tensions run high between the Japanese soldiers who maintain order with shocking cruelty and violence, and the Koreans from all walks of life who were tricked or forced into coming there. Then, just as the island’s dark secrets are revealed, the Koreans plot a daring escape.
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DPRK pirates and distributes western media. Pretty cool. https://youtu.be/BJ8lBVGWyRo
Weed is legal and cheap af
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marijuana-in-north-korea_n_4067341
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https://www.vice.com/read/north-korea-is-stoned-all-the-time-which-explains-a-lot
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https://web.archive.org/web/20120205193659/https://english.nkradio.org/news/286
If you see all of the contracting stories about hair cut laws this seems to be the inspiration for the western propaganda
Classic socialist documentary about people who want to go back to North Korea
DPRK cell phones
Misc interesting
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If you don’t mind using youtube generated subtitles (or knows Portuguese), comrades João Pitillo and Lucas Rubio talks a lot about the DPRK.
Lucas Rubio isThey are both part of Instituto Paektu, a institute that have pretty good relations with the DPRK where he and other comrades constantly visit the DPRK for multiple reasons.On this video they talk about a celebration they attended in the DPRK 7 months ago,
I don’t remember exactly what it was right nowit was the 80th anniversary of the Party, and comrade Pitillo actually managed to snap a photo of comrade Kim from pretty close.Comrade Rubio also have a lot of videos on his Instagram page about the DPRK with a lot of footage in there. There’s also Baú do Rubio, a kind of Digital Museum Instagram page he has where he posts high quality photos of Socialist coins, pins, money, gear, etc.
And just 10 days ago, both Pitillo and Rubio went to Podcast 3 Irmãos to talk about the DPRK. I haven’t watched this one yet, but it’s probably gonna be good to.
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YT won’t generate English subtitles. Makes me a little sad to not know Portuguese.
Just tested here and you can do the auto-translate of the portuguese generated subtitles and most of the time it will get it right
