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North Korea’s ‘Return to Paradise’ nightmare

South China Morning Post 1,713,044 1 year ago
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Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Silver award winner at the New York Festivals Film and TV Awards 2024 in the category of Documentary Short Form: Hyangsu Park grew up in Japan’s small North Korean community, a group centred around the idea that the secretive authoritarian state was actually a “paradise on Earth”. For Park, the notion of a North Korean paradise was more than just an idea – it was a daily reality for her relatives who were convinced to move there by a long-running PR campaign offering ethnic Koreans from Japan citizenship, flats and jobs. But when her uncle, aunt and cousins suddenly disappeared, it became clear that the reality in North Korea was far from paradise. Related story: ‘I led people into hell’: how North Korea lured immigrants https://sc.mp/barqup Support us: https://subscribe.scmp.com Follow us on: Website: https://www.scmp.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/scmp Twitter: https://twitter.com/scmpnews Instagram: https://instagram.com/scmpnews Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/south-china-morning-post/ #scmp #SCMPFilms #Japan

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