tonight inside the North Korea the regime wants to keep hidden the way
North Korean regime keeps the regime going is this pervasive security
apparatus and fear tactics if people stopped believing in the regime that
means central control is breaking down it with undercover footage and exclusive
interviews frontline uncovers a new generation risking their lives to
smuggle images out and information in North Korean defectors have emerged as
very quiet agents of social progress threatening Kim jong-un's total control
of what the world sees of North Korea and of what North Koreans see of the
world there really is a potential here that
something quite dramatic could happen but how far will the new dictator go to
hold on to power if a government is feeling to kill as many people as
necessary to stay in power it usually stays in power for very long time
tonight frontline takes you inside the secret state of North Korea
motakay so
hopefully
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come on Avenue asana garnish the gyro issue Maru was a journalist trying to
expose what Kim jong-un's regime wants to hide the secret world of the North
Korean people he has an undercover network which covertly films life inside
the country
put on what you don't know quarter obviously it's an extremely dangerous
thing to do that's a sort of North Korea even filming everyday life is considered
a form of political treason we're not getting coid if they're caught filming
they'd be locked up and may never be let out again even filming on the Chinese
side of the border is illegal dilwala whoa come on court Jonah a gene knockout
done this yo what that box ah that's an eye on that dude she woke Syria but Siri
she talked simply taking out a serial quote that just another do minikappa
doing that now even your window
the people who work for zero smuggled their footage across the Tumen River
which divides China from North Korea 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 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 zero and his Japanese news organization managed to get the footage
out he's going to meet one of his contacts who's made it across the border
with new images from North Korea it's government era englishdom while
they secretly film in areas no foreigners or journalists are allowed to
visit
these are pictures Kim jong-un doesn't want the world to see
Jero has recruited a network of ordinary North Koreans living in towns across the
country they risk their lives to get the footage one of his contacts is a state
employee but has been smuggling footage out for five years he agreed to speak if
his identity was concealed he is dangerous and if I get caught I know I'd
immediately be executed as a traitor to the Korean people but I've got to do
this I've got to do this no matter what I'm just one person even if I have to
sacrifice my life someday something is going to change
the famine which killed more than a million North Koreans in the 1990s has
ended 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
over the past three years zeros undercover Network has filmed orphaned
street kids gathering in the markets begging for money and on the lookout for
scraps of food for the safety of the people filming he disguises their voices
very few of these orphan children managed to escape North Korea but we
found one who did he asked to be identified as Lee and agreed to speak to
us if we concealed his true identity says Arthur my father passed away when I
was three and then my mother left home and didn't return listening they thought
all job honors yourself pillow Picciotto I was very hungry
that was almost always hungry when I was young there were times when I ate a meal
a day what they cold but when I starved I
didn't eat for two days that will cover this raisin because I was hungry I stole
and I picked pockets I lived like that until I was fourteen years old
crooked you're your lesser cozy master there were many others puzzle and there
were children who start to death did any of your friends die
no yes they did how old were you are then your
I was about eleven
undercover footage from last March shows a group of homeless orphans trying to
stay warm in below zero temperatures
there is an elite in the capital city Pyongyang and despite tough
international sanctions they live a comfortable life with the latest luxury
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 they show
pictures of an advanced economy happy well-fed children and shops overflowing
with goods
Pyongyang's department store number one is stocked with imported products from
around the world but as euros footage shows many of the items are not for sale
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
needs of dr. yoken okay come on dr. Rocha means as well as a physical
dictatorship they oppress people with an emotional
dictatorship in North Korea they promote the leader to be the son if you go too
close you burn you go too far you freeze to death you know whatever you think of
him as incredibly godlike we thought he didn't even go to North Koreans can't
escape the omnipresent propaganda
Kim jong-un's speeches are pumped from speakers on street corners 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 this government video
shows a North Korean dreaming of New York City being destroyed by a missile
attack the average North Korean believes a significant part of the anti-american
propaganda they believe that Americans are ready to invade they believe that
America is a threat they believe that Americans it's not is the Korean War in
order to enslave or maybe commitee large-scale genocide in Korea they
believe it not all but majority in Pyongyang State TV news is broadcast on
public squares warning of imminent war with America
once a week whole villages are required to attend meetings glorifying the leader
the regime demands displays of total loyalty if you don't attend these weekly
meetings you could come under suspicion the way North Korean regime keeps the
region going one of the reasons is fear tactics in Korea it's not only the
person who commits the crime that is punished often their whole family will
be arrested for guilt by association it's up to three generations when the
senior-most North Korean defector Hong Kong he up defected his relatives were
rounded up in North Korea were sent to prison camps these guys didn't even know
they were related to hunger when when the security guys came knocking on their
door they say what one related to home it was a good night because this is how
North Korea operates
recent satellite imagery analyzed by Amnesty International shows that since
Kim jong-un came to power the political prison camps have grown 200,000
civilians that are outside of the criminal penal system the one of the
camp's Pausanias 540 sports filmmaker who sees three college size of
Washington DC it's estimated that as many as one and 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 Lee the
former street kid fled when he was 18 my name is also then I was very scared but
I thought it's better to die than live like an insect
so that the log is on that before I left I prepared a little bit of food core I
roasted some beans well as you own taco Gazoo I ate little
bits of that as I went on my way mobile myself gotcha it's unreal awesome
I went to the top of the mountains to see where the guards were positions here
somebody said Paul paddle douga Tony who is it then at night I crossed
the river when nobody was watching til hunter and I crossed the river alone and
made it into China's a header Vogel I used the Sun to get my directions and
went inland to us
defectors likely risk getting caught and sent back by China North Korea's closest
ally but Lee says he met a broker who smuggled him two thousand miles to the
South Korean embassy in Thailand he was granted asylum and flew to Seoul where
he has lived for the last two years
he still hides his identity because he's afraid of North Korean agents
discovering him chu Angela I graduated from high school in February this year
I'm currently looking for a job but I'm not working yet Hong who is hired
tournesol although I live in South Korea now it still troubles me to think about
the North Korean children who suffer out there like I used to listen II thought
young North Korea's a society that has fallen ill it's a disease society that
needs to be cured our footage is forcing North Korea to acknowledge the hardship
that their people face the authorities don't like it at all because if the
truth gets out it would put Kim Jong Un's power under threat
Jerusha morrow smuggles footage out of the country but there is also a steady
flow of information back in junk Rangel is a defector living in Seoul who
smuggles foreign films and TV shows into North Korea the men prefer watching
action films men love their action films I sent them a Skyfall recently the women
enjoy watching soap operas and dramas they like that kind of film now they're
sharing thumb drives a lot even officials have one or two thumb drives
later go to North Korea is trying to hunt them down because the thing that
changes people's mindsets is popular culture
it probably has the most important role in bringing about democracy in North
Korea
young and his partner also a defector are on their way to the Chinese border
to smuggle in laptops radios thumb drives and DVDs of course there's a risk
what I should know that I want to send them in so I just do it tomorrow in
North Korea rumor has it there are a hundred people that are desperate to get
their hands on me but they don't know what I go do they they are filming their
trip with a hidden camera
posing as mushroom importers they bribed a border guard to let them across the
border guard isn't where he said he'd be so they call him
yeah
I'm Monica cause I'm thank you condom thank you
know that's what his own caucus IQ to never wonder that's how I want another
lucky boy
the guard says he can't get them across so they decide to wait until night
before defecting Jung is to cross the border illegally as a smuggler until he
was caught and accused of being a spy he was taken to a notorious political
prison camp yo doc turn how early on in this hole when I arrived at the prison
camp it was April 6 2002 other till of warning Kong was awful when I went
inside hold on and that day they completely beat the hell out of me
if you caught me they put a wooden stick behind your knees and make you sit down
like this other hello fellow cook why I'm very moved on to know the crew love
me if they push down on it it collapse and then you'd hear your kneecaps
cracking Weaver thought amok I got beaten up and tortured for about nine
months no sir boy boy boy before I got arrested
I weighed 165 pounds sushi bo hello don't go no volunteer securely you know
don't go after ten months I had a physical to comes on and be good the
moment when I looked at what I weighed I was 79 pounds come to me I couldn't
endure it anymore Topol team Othello
after three years in yo dirt he says the authorities determined he wasn't a spy
and let him out a year later he defected and has been working against the regime
ever since tonight he's going back to the border
young weights on the Chinese side of the Tumen River for his North Korean
smuggler they find each other by sparking their cigarette lighters
it'll be coming later
you have no money
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the dvds and thumb drives make their way to markets across the country that are
filled with goods illegally smuggled from China
within days Jung smuggler delivers some of his thumb drives and DVDs to two
teenage girls and films them watching
yeah
it's been reported that almost half of the North Koreans who defect had watched
foreign television even though it's illegal information and knowledge of the
outside world is beginning to widen out this is far more inner penetration of
North Korean society today than before if North Korean people themselves
stopped believing in the regime and the story they tell themselves that means
central control is breaking down in some ways Kim jong-un has reportedly been
sending his security forces house-to-house searching for illegal
DVDs and last November ordered the execution of as many as 80 people some
for watching foreign television
Oh de puta Sigonella new connections I want a piece a point in this Oh chucka
una muchacha gitanos home una parte mezzo folk and on Gogi yamuna hou poder
etc eaten sushi for eternity Ronnie Jo underneath open radio for North Korea is
a station staffed by defectors transmitting stories into the country
from across the border in the south come to one is a go on what the North Korean
regime fears the most is information about the outside world going into the
country we tell the North Korean people how vicious their dictatorship is if
someone listens to these broadcasts and passes the story on to other people and
if the story is political it becomes a very serious matter in these cases I
understand that some even face public execution another classic the story they
are broadcasting today that Kim Jong Un's wife a former pop star recorded a
pornographic video is quickly spreading around North Korea on has provoked a
vicious reaction the station reports that the singer of the popular song
horse lady and other performers in this video have been executed for starting
the rumor
I don't because I'm do what because North Koreans are so cut off they're
incredibly curious when yoga comes and we found that people take the risk of
listening to these broadcasts and uh how would that align with you and tell you
to come in surveys of defectors suggests that more than a million North Koreans
listened to illegal foreign radio
I think of come on the more I listen to the radio the more I thought what we've
learned isn't true I've been fooled tyro service business I mean you want to
become free
ken yang is 22 she lives in Seoul but grew up in a remote region of North
Korea her father bought the family a radio which he modified to pick up
foreign stations takeoff my father was preparing to come here since I was 9
years old living constantly in fear like that was really difficult
Hoku me home on just a time if we got caught the whole family would get taken
away too much I was exhausted by it all so I asked my father even if it's North
Korea can't we just live safely but he said no I want your generation to learn
freely when Chong yang was 17 her family decided to defect to avoid raising
suspicion they left at different times she was the last to leave
well I think I'm just okay so I was always being watched told sure if it
comes outside people watching weren't just from the government money comes to
people who are watching me were my friends and neighbors told us I knew all
of this but had to act as if I didn't I'm just young get her hat and coat
after two years laying low Channing escaped through China and
reunited with her family in Seoul both my brother and sister has grown up so
much when I saw them and their accents had all changed to go toyou know connect
but we were all back together again in a circle we're a family of five we were
all just so happy that we didn't even need to say a word the first thing we
did was just eat together
can hang now appears on a weekly TV show with other defectors called on my way to
meet you it's broadcast in South Korea but as a popular shows smuggled back
into the north my friends back home watch it and all the children of the
party officials in North Korea watch it and say they will defect we're gonna
talk about that today
so when my friends see me on the show they'll fantasize about South Korea
they'll say I've changed a lot in North Korea and never smiled
don't know word on this mootai yeah Gina yeah
the show is parked current affairs
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North Korean defectors have emerged as very quiet agents of social progress in
North Korea because people often assume that they just leave North Korea and not
sir and at this point where you have over 20,000 North Korean refugees that
we settled in South Korea that's a significant population that are joining
forces to reconnect with their families back inside and when they see that one
of them can leave that community go to South Korea that's a huge wake up for
them that shows just how much more advanced and how much more open South
Korea's
Chung is back in Seoul meeting with a group of defectors who are plotting
against the North Korean regime oh oh given all on the pitch ability to alter
TT shame upon her visa young-hee and her husband jungle have found another way to
penetrate Kim jong-un's secret state
good you seen Tony what the new coupe what kind of doing yes I'm Dominican and
a community girl code my sister cousin
is like Chong young he says she suffered at the hands of the North Korean regime
her brother was caught trying to defect and she was punished
she says she was locked up and tortured by security agents and cone Union - and
McComb my buddy Bob Italian man Marvin and a yogi no chick American Dream Yan
who a token banner salute a nigga my Nana and I could have a three-minute
human circadian
any idea no no you got some cojones huh mind in that she says the officers tied
her brother's hands to the back of a truck and dragged him along a dirt road
as an example to others nobody got you could you take all you
got Anamika automatic is it rather you come to stay answer me doctor new
Tatiana whatever human shit doctor cocoon young you keep driving it so your
mama talk göransson and it matter what I say Oh
party but the mother of the year deity
today openam onto my motto don't cream a significant get some coveted say oh by
my name not ammonia Katya young he escaped with her husband and son leaving
her brother and mother behind
you know you only gonna for mother Queen - nothing money die so don't go any
penny Kissinger captain
I'm gonna turn up on their honey says gonna do this in that
our new warning of all-out war for the first time the mysterious and secretive
nation there is nothing imminent but these threatening statements have
everyone on edge are we on the brink of a nuclear war last spring North Korea
became the first country since the Cold War to threaten the United States
mainland with a nuclear attack when watching this I thought wow even from
North Korean sellers this is really over the top they always through the cycle of
provocation it's just the intensity of the recent provocation was even greater
I don't think anybody you really believed in North Koreans we're gonna
launch a nuclear missile at the United States but the basic question that rose
does this guy know where the red line is does he know when it the bluster should
stop or is he really gonna do something stupid this fellow may not know what is
real and what is a video game
Western intelligence agencies were concerned because they knew so little
about the young leader it's really sad but when kim jonghwan first came noon
the CIA had this one that picture of 11 year old boy with with that Freddy grin
and that's what we were working with that's what is the photo that we had and
what we knew about it was already in the New York Times it wasn't really much
more than that Kim jong-un was brought up by his mother opera singer kyunki one
of Kim Jong Il's four wives he spent three years in a school in Switzerland
posing as the son of a diplomat at the age of eighteen he was called back to
Pyongyang where he was secretly groomed to become leader state media had never
shown Kim jong-un or mentioned him by name until the year before his father's
death in December 2011 he was then unveiled to the North Korean public in
this state produced documentary the result I took the han dong-su ship
some fun
Kim jong-un succeeded his father and grandfather to become the new leader of
North Korea in North Korea reverence for aged experience these
things matter and now you are sort of parading around just 29 year old guy who
did not serve a day in the military I doubt that people genuinely have that
kind of feeling towards Kim jong-un as they did for Kim jong-il he got some did
to me we would say how can this boy who's still wet behind the ears being
power but the North Korean government spread these rumors that although he was
young he was very wise that's what the government kept saying
Garos undercover footage shows people all over the country being forced to
prove their dedication to the new leader but some resenting having to do it these
soldiers were ordered to build a railroad from Kim jong-un's birthplace
to Pyongyang to mark him coming to power
the undercover footage even shows a local official criticizing Kim jong-un's
succession
to compensate for his lack of experience the regime made parallels with his
grandfather Kim Il Sole who is still widely worshipped and is officially
eternal president of North Korea there's all kinds of rewards that Kim Jong and
even had cosmetic surgery to look like his grandfather but certainly his style
he seems to be more like human song as well trying to be a reincarnation of his
grandfather was actually smart in a way because his grandfather is remembered by
law of North Koreans as a much more benevolent leader than his father
it's PR style at the moment according to the defectors that I've spoken with
who've left the country fairly recently the economy is no improve under Kim
jong-un the problem for Kim jong-un is that North Koreans expectations are
changing because more information is flowing in it's getting very difficult
to make people obey somebody there are very few people left who blindly obey
every command that comes from outside
behind closed doors even members of the North Korean elite have voiced
unhappiness with the regime like this businesswoman filmed at a private lunch
window about us - I'm okay lipstick 11 I can't remember a machine for the animals
the cynicism about their leaders comes partly from radical change in the way
people make a living looking at footage shot inside North Korea we can see that
a huge number of people have started doing business with each other who hold
up this used to be illegal and anyone caught buying or selling for personal
gain was severely punished illegal markets first began to appear when the
state became unable to feed its people during the famine today the state
tolerates them but people are pushing the limits of private enterprise this
woman is running an illegal private bus service an army officer tries to stop
her from picking up passengers
Kendu weightage to more people's willingness to confront doors nor
authority has become more and more comedy ridiculous sakaram of stove
oxytocin stop the people around the world have this image of North Koreans
as being brainwashed that's very mistaken kids I've seen
first of all he that's gonna cock shit often now when North Koreans are
challenged for infringing a certain law as long as the offense is not political
they don't hesitate to protest if they believe the law to be irrational pink
was suitable to get updated until recently it was illegal for women to
wear pants soldiers are arguing with this woman
about breaking the dress code the soldiers put an armband on her to mark
her offense but before long she rips it off and a senior officer steps in
five years ago cellphones arrived in North Korea the undercover footage shows
dozens of people lining up to buy SIM cards the phones can only make calls
inside North Korea but they can be modified to call outside the country a
very serious crime there's an awareness and ability for the population to
communicate instantaneously that was never there before North Korea went from
zero to 1 million cell phone registrations in three years and but to
get from 1 million and probably to get from 2 million to 3 million will we take
6 months that concrete wall that has been there for 60 years or so will
become more porous
these changes cannot be stopped monetization information flows all of
these kind of trends lead to a transformation one way or another of
North Korea system as it stands is just unsustainable Kimberlin faces the
dictators dilemma which is they need to open up to survive but the process of
open AMP could lead to the collapse of the regime not the state but other
regime and so this is a dilemma that he faces it's when his father faced that's
what his grandfather face this dilemma has led to a power struggle at the very
top of the government according to the regime's former propagandist in the past
there weren't hardliners and reformers there was only party loyalty today
however rival factions have formed the fact a split exists shows he hasn't got
a stable leadership like his father so the only way for Kim jong-un to hold on
to power is through a reign of terror confident
Kim jong-un came to power surrounded by his father's generals
since then he has purged almost half of the top military
in December 2013 his uncle Jang song-thaek an advocate for reform who'd
served at the top of the government for 30 years was forcibly removed from a
party meeting a week later he was executed if a government is willing to
kill as many people as necessary to stay in power it usually stays in power for
very long time there are many people who are not happy there are many people who
in the privacy of their bedrooms sometimes say something very very
subversive to their wives and most trusted friends but no networks and Nord
give it is yet because the government is brutal even if let's say the public is
more aware of the outside world is equal to necessarily lead them to have a
revolution several people cannot get together to talk about it with what's
happened in the Middle East there's a Twitter there is Facebook there is
people can get mobilized they can get together we create system is set up
right now they don't have any kind of mechanism to do that I think in the case
of North Korea there are credible pieces that you can put together and say there
really is a potential here that something quite dramatic could happen no
one could predict the collapse of the Soviet Union no one could predict the
Arab Spring afterwards everybody said it was obvious
so it's not easy to predict when the regime will fall
however the foundations of change in North Korea are being laid oh that's
also understood that's North Koreans have undergone a huge shift in their
collective mindset pink anuradha red O'Connell's I think changeable
you
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