Dispatches: North Korea

Record ID: 108782
  • Title: Dispatches: North Korea
  • Date: 19th October 2000
  • Summary: This summer North Korean President Kim Jong-il made the first steps towards meeting the West. But while the reconciliation process of North and South Korea moves slowly forwards,Dispatches investigates a brutal regime that is abandoning its people to starvation an disease - even cannibalism. JOE LAYBURN reports from inside North Korea iwth 'AHN CHOL and discovers some of the malnourished street kids left to die.
  • Description:As the reconciliation between North and South Korea slowly advances,Joe Layburn investigates a brutal legacy of communist rule in North Korea,which has seen 2 million people die as a result of famine. Focus on starving children,human flesh trade etc.
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Unspecified
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:19/10/2000
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 2000s
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