North Korean Defectors - Movie | Crossing 6 of 10

Movie | Crossing 6 of 10

Crossing is a Korean movie which is going to be aired in late June 2008. The movie is based on a real story about the life of a North Korean defector and his family.

Actor Cha In-pyo starred as a North Korean coal miner who crossed illegally into China to get medicine for his wife. His wife passed away soon after he crossed the border, and he was separated from his 11-year-old son (played by Shin Myung-chul) who was trying to trace him from North Korea.

The story shares the hardship of North Korean refugees in the late 1990s, with famine striking the country and killed an estimated 1 million people.

The North Koreans couldnt cross into South Korea directly because of landmines and heavy military presence at the border these defectors had to cross into China and made a de-tour to South Korea instead.

The Chinese government, an ally of the North Korean regime, does not recognize the defectors as refugees and would send them back to North Korea to face stiff action.

Crossing will represent South Korea as a candidate for the foreign film category at the 81st Academy Awards.

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• north korea
• documentary
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• kim jong il
• concentration camps
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• Crimes against humanity
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• Dear Leader
• Kim Yong il
• Arirang
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• Juche ideology
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• nuclear politics

[volgg]

seriously, all those tourist videos you see from north korea is just propaganda, they only show the city of Pyongyang to cover the dark side of north korea. ughhh makes me so mad how people are treated like trash over there.......

[volgg]

@everythingasian17 i really want to do something about it.......but i feel so helpless.......

[yourdailycydiafix]

guys, this is still a good shape of north korea... the real north kroea is even worse, like his mother dying noone would give two shits, and the body would probably be burnt, clothes and things stolen.. the neighbours wouldn't even care to 'sell' the shit, since it's actually plain illegal to sell the goods..

[charltonsz]

fuck you kim jong ILL

[Jmjager1]

@Butmunch666 Bullshit, They have more than a million soldiers. I don't know the exact number, they have nucleair weapons. But yeah, America could invade North Korea. Problem is, they will get massive problems with China. North Korea is their bufferzone from the south. The Chinese government doesn't want to lose that bufferzone.

[weRaussies]

LOL kim jung il is ill and dead

[dailyplanet123456]

@jyp523 u did a fuckin good damn well hella job man. thx to u, kim jong il has been sent to penis hayull. gud jawb

[jyp523]

@guitarhamster102 killing motherfucking commies is my job. 82nd airborne infantry. this movie is starting to piss me off so much im about to go SF just so i can go into NK and assassinate this fucking piece of shit kimjong

[P3RSONALANG3L]

I read this article by this North Korean guy who escaped to S.Korea. He said that back when he use to be a camp guard, their number 1 rule was to NOT TREAT THE PEOPLE THERE LIKE HUMANS. They were told that those in the camps are nothing but traitors so they don't deserve to be treated like humans. He also drew a map of the camp too... like torture room, brainwashing school for kids, work area, and such.

[JinNOSify]

@volgg It's all Kim Jong il's fault!