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North Korea?!

I have no idea what www.vbs.tv is but they have amazing documentaries about some extremely interesting and hard to know stuff, such as the drug trade in Lebanon and Columbia (Oh yeah I forgot North Korea). Well the documentary I watched was about reporter Shane Smith 'sneaking' into North Korea. He spends what seems to be about a week or so in North Korea. I thought this documentary was great. I've always been so fascinated with the whole 1984 society of North Korea. Below is a brief synopsis of the documentary:
Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists into the country to cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Then, ten days before we were supposed to go, they said, “No, nobody can come.” Then they said, “OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists.” We had no idea what that was supposed to mean. They already knew we were journalists, and over there if you get caught being a journalist when you’re supposed to be a tourist you go to jail. We don’t like jail. And we’re willing to bet we’d hate jail in North Korea.
I have attached the first three episodes of 14 (each are about 4 to 5 minutes long). If you fancy watching more I've attached the link to the website below.
















For the rest of the episodes click here.

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