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I highly recommend everyone head over to VBS.TV and watch the first five episodes of The Vice Guide to North Korea which scheduled to air a as a 14 part series. The series chronicles the adventures of an independent journalist’s trip into North Korea. We have seen plenty of footage before from journalists in North Korea, but the footage VBS.TV came up with is highly impressive because they were using a hidden camera, which has skillfully captured many images of life in North Korea that is not usually seen by outsiders.
For example in one episode a banquet hall is filled with food for one guest just to give the impression that North Korea does not have a food shortage. In another episode which is one of the strangest North Korea encounters I have seen filmed is when the journalist plays pool and ping pong with a North Korean tea girl. This is the first time I have seen strange scenes such as these coming out of North Korea.
Below are the links to the series first five episodes:
Part 1 – The South’s DMZ
Part 2- Shenyang
Part 3 – Hello Pyongyang
Part 4 – The Pueblo
Part 5 – The Tea Girl
I am definitely looking forward to the release of the rest of the series.
10:33 am on March 10th, 2008 1
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10:18 pm on March 11th, 2008 5
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9:37 am on March 12th, 2008 6
[...] Korea at ROK Drop has found this gem. “The Vice Guide to North Korea” is an independent journalist’s hidden camera [...]
4:18 am on March 21st, 2008 7
[...] to DPRK Studies, One Free Korea, ROK Drop, and Zen [...]
10:02 am on March 22nd, 2008 8
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2:29 am on July 16th, 2008 9
[...] man behind the creation of the VBS.TV documentary The Vice Guide to North Korea that was featured earlier this year on the ROK Drop has now been interviewed about his trip on CNN. Video of the CNN interview is available [...]
7:04 am on February 10th, 2010 10
Looks like cnn has taken interest in this.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/vbs.n…