Yodok Stories - North Korea ( Trailer )

Yodok Stories is a documentary film directed by Pole Andrzej Fidyk and produced by Torstein Grude. Today, more than 200.000 men, women and children face torture, starvation and murder in North Korea's concentration camps. Few survive the atrocities, yet the camps population is kept stable by a steady influx of new persons considered to be 'class enemies'.

A small group of people have managed to flee the camps and start a new life in the prosperous South Korea. The film follows some of these refugees who despite fear of persecution and death threats produce an extraordinary musical about their experiences in the Yodok concentration camp.

[edit] Awards
Yodok Stories won the Planet Doc Review, Youth Jury Award in Poland and the Bergen International Film Festival, Youth Jury's Documentary Award in 2008. The film has been screened at numerous film festivals world wide, including the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009.

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[MagnesiumAlloy]

Too bad Barrack Obama turned his back on you guys after advocating freedom for Iranians.. I hate talking to people in the west about Iran who think everyone in Iran is a crazy religious fanatic and don't realize that you guys are controlled by a tyrannical theocracy that uses violence and oppression. I was friends with a guy at my work here in Canada who has refugee status because he will be killed if he returns to Iran.. he fought in that war with Iran.. hes a really good guy.

[WinchesterRanger]

So they get two bowls of rice a week now.

[melluvshinee]

just shut up man you're so annoying. how man videos do you comment?

[Jae Kim]

well. NK announced they increased the food distribution twice recently.

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