Undercover Documentary-Making in North Korea

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North Korea represents a sort of black hole in our modern world: not a Columbus-style mystery waiting to be solved, but rather an ominous enigma formed by our exclusion from it, the only 120,540 km² on a 510 million km² planet to which we are prohibited access. This restriction forces us to imagine horrors within its borders, relying upon satellite images to gain insight into its day to day reality. Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky decided he wanted to break down these barriers, determined to…