Reclusive country’s entire internet infrastructure wasn’t showing up on monitoring systems for several hours before it ...

North Korea said it righted a capsized destroyer and moored it at a pier in a northeastern port as it continued to repair the ...

So when we go out to an interstitial, some little thing about North Korea, when we come back to ... “Beyond Utopia” is landing key documentary nominations on the road to the Oscars.

The harrowing, riveting documentary Beyond Utopia, captures what life is like for refugees after escaping North Korea. What happens to the family you left behind? How hard is it to adjust to life ...

North Korea is an earthly paradise – at least ... Just how dreadful conditions are in the country becomes clear in the documentary Beyond Utopia, directed by Madeleine Gavin.

wrenching counterpoint to any narrative of North Korea that foregrounds the bizarre at the expense of the citizens suffering. Documentaries with life-or-death stakes, not to mention wider ...

In “Beyond Utopia,” a Korean ministry has helped over 1,000 people escape the brutal regime. For pastor Seungeun Kim, accompanying North Korean defectors as they trek toward freedom through ...

who fled North Korea 25 years ago. Lee’s recollections are woven throughout the film, but Gavin says above all she wanted her documentary to reveal the reality of what’s happening right now.

and has made the Oscar shortlist and Bafta longlist for documentary. Potential pushback was always on the filmmakers’ minds given how North Korea reacted to the release of Sony’s 2014 comedy ...

They were not North Koreans. They sent their three ... “Soup and Ideology,” now screening in Japan and South Korea, will be the final documentary in her trilogy about her family’s history.

InvestigationOn December 7, 2023, a French TV program aired excerpts from a documentary shot in 2018 in North Korea, in which Gérard Depardieu makes obscene remarks about women. The never ...