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Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

In 2006 NG correspondent Lisa Ling traveled to North Korea under the guise of a humanitarian program that performed eye surgeries. With unprecedented access she exposed us to this closed, authoritarian society. Since then the coun...

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They will be met with fire and fury
like the world has never seen. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never...

What does Kim Jong Un want? - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

What does Kim Jong Un want?

Across the three Kim dictators, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Across the three Kim dictators,

People treat you differently
as a nuclear power. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

People treat you differently as a nuclear power.

The two successful
ICBM launches in July 2017 - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

The two successful ICBM launches in July 2017

It puts the U.S. and North Korea
on a collision course - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

It puts the U.S. and North Korea on a collision course

The nation even issues
commemorative stamps - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

The nation even issues commemorative stamps

North Korea has one
of the largest militaries in the world. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

North Korea has one of the largest militaries in the world.

Parades like this boast
awesome power to its people - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Parades like this boast awesome power to its people

And the North Korean people believe
they are still at war with America, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And the North Korean people believe they are still at war wi...

But the roots of North Korea's antagonism
toward foreign powers - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

But the roots of North Korea's antagonism toward foreig...

In 1910, Korea was colonized by Japan. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

In 1910, Korea was colonized by Japan.

The brutal occupation ended
more than 1,000 years - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

The brutal occupation ended more than 1,000 years

Japan lost Korea in World War II,
and the country was split - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Japan lost Korea in World War II, and the country was split

In 1950, Kim Il Sung invaded the south
to unify the country, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

In 1950, Kim Il Sung invaded the south to unify the country,

As many as four million people
died in the Korean War, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

As many as four million people died in the Korean War,

In a four-month period alone, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

In a four-month period alone,

Most major cities in North Korea
were at least half obliterated, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Most major cities in North Korea were at least half oblitera...

In 1953, after three years of fighting,
Korea remained divided - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

In 1953, after three years of fighting, Korea remained divid...

There never was a peace treaty,
rather a perpetual state of ceasefire. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

There never was a peace treaty, rather a perpetual state of ...

The joint security area on the border
is the one place where North Korean forces - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

The joint security area on the border is the one place where...

On one side of this concrete marker
is North Korea, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

On one side of this concrete marker is North Korea,

Neither side wants to blink,
and nobody has for over 60 years. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Neither side wants to blink, and nobody has for over 60 year...

You can see on the North Korean side - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

You can see on the North Korean side

And then they have their leader
to the north, making sure - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And then they have their leader to the north, making sure

With everyone
watching, no one can cross here. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

With everyone watching, no one can cross here.

And defecting anywhere else
along the DMZ is nearly impossible. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And defecting anywhere else along the DMZ is nearly impossib...

The DMZ, or de-militarized zone, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

The DMZ, or de-militarized zone,

With more than a million landmines,
high voltage electric fences, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

With more than a million landmines, high voltage electric fe...

South Korea's capitol, Seoul, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

South Korea's capitol, Seoul,

North Korea, officially
the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republi...

The American intelligence agencies
don't take much heat for this - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

The American intelligence agencies don't take much heat...

But we know some basic facts: - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

But we know some basic facts:

It has 25 million people,
a showcase capital, Pyongyang, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

It has 25 million people, a showcase capital, Pyongyang,

All three Kims were
and are absolute dictators, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

All three Kims were and are absolute dictators,

Not only do you have a population - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Not only do you have a population

I'd never experienced
a kind of roboticism - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

I'd never experienced a kind of roboticism

Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Un. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Un.

And it was really difficult
to tell whether people really felt, um, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And it was really difficult to tell whether people really fe...

Everyone is trained from birth
to love the leaders, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Everyone is trained from birth to love the leaders,

Newspapers and television
are controlled by the state. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Newspapers and television are controlled by the state.

Many here don't even know
a man has walked on the Moon. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Many here don't even know a man has walked on the Moon.

While the elites at the very top
of North Korean society may have access - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

While the elites at the very top of North Korean society may...

And those elites with cell phones
can only speak within its borders. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And those elites with cell phones can only speak within its ...

It is this isolation from the
rest of the world - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

It is this isolation from the rest of the world

I had always been so curious
about North Korea - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

I had always been so curious about North Korea

And so, when my renowned
cataract surgeon friend Dr. Sanduk Ruit - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And so, when my renowned cataract surgeon friend Dr. Sanduk ...

I had to go under the auspices
of being part of his medical team. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

I had to go under the auspices of being part of his medical ...

Thousands of people in North Korea
go blind - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Thousands of people in North Korea go blind

The annual number of surgeries performed - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

The annual number of surgeries performed

And the blindness magnitude is one
of the highest in the world. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And the blindness magnitude is one of the highest in the wor...

Dr. Sanduk Ruit planned
to travel from Nepal to North Korea - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Dr. Sanduk Ruit planned to travel from Nepal to North Korea

Our entire crew posed as members
of Dr. Ruit's medical team. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Our entire crew posed as members of Dr. Ruit's medical ...

We were going to document his work
and show the world what life - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

We were going to document his work and show the world what l...

This meeting in a Kathmandu hotel room - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

This meeting in a Kathmandu hotel room

So there will be a North Korean man - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

So there will be a North Korean man

From here to Pyongyang
and back to Kathmandu. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

From here to Pyongyang and back to Kathmandu.

North Korean minders met us in Nepal - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

North Korean minders met us in Nepal

Dr. Ruit knew our South African cameraman,
Brian, and I - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Dr. Ruit knew our South African cameraman, Brian, and I

And he was concerned that the cameras - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And he was concerned that the cameras

And wanted to pack them more carefully, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And wanted to pack them more carefully,

A North Korean official
checks our luggage - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

A North Korean official checks our luggage

Two North Korean minders - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Two North Korean minders

I think you should
shut the camera down now. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

I think you should shut the camera down now.

In retrospect,
I think I was a little naive. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

In retrospect, I think I was a little naive.

I was surprised that
no one Googled who I was, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

I was surprised that no one Googled who I was,

But I thought that if
it was ever discovered - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

But I thought that if it was ever discovered

After hours in the air,
we stole these shots - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

After hours in the air, we stole these shots

Normally, Americans were not
welcome there, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Normally, Americans were not welcome there,

On the ground, we got
our first glimpses of Pyongyang - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

On the ground, we got our first glimpses of Pyongyang

We passed 12-lane highways
with hardly any cars - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

We passed 12-lane highways with hardly any cars

Pyongyang was and still is
a city of the relatively privileged. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Pyongyang was and still is a city of the relatively privileg...

The government rewards strong supporters
by letting them live there. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

The government rewards strong supporters by letting them liv...

And unless you're
a high-ranking official, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And unless you're a high-ranking official,

So from the moment we landed in Pyongyang, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

So from the moment we landed in Pyongyang,

All of our technological devices
were removed from our possession. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

All of our technological devices were removed from our posse...

And we were assigned
eight government minders, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And we were assigned eight government minders,

They even stayed in the guest houses
where we were housed. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

They even stayed in the guest houses where we were housed.

And at a certain point, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And at a certain point,

When we reached the hospital,
hundreds of blind people - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

When we reached the hospital, hundreds of blind people

This hospital was probably
as fancy as it got in North Korea. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

This hospital was probably as fancy as it got in North Korea...

Most of the cutting-edge equipment
had been donated by other countries, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Most of the cutting-edge equipment had been donated by other...

The government let
Dr. Ruit and his team come - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

The government let Dr. Ruit and his team come

Our team had to bring
most of our equipment - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Our team had to bring most of our equipment

And because blackouts were common,
even here in the capital, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And because blackouts were common, even here in the capital,

I hoped we could see
what life was really like here, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

I hoped we could see what life was really like here,

And the rare times that it had granted
foreigners access, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

And the rare times that it had granted foreigners access,

In this scene, a mother sings
nursery rhymes - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

In this scene, a mother sings nursery rhymes

♪ The pathetic Americans
kneel on the ground ♪ - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

♪ The pathetic Americans kneel on the ground ♪

Back at the hospital,
Dr. Ruit continued his mission. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

Back at the hospital, Dr. Ruit continued his mission.

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In 2006 NG correspondent Lisa Ling traveled to North Korea under the guise of a humanitarian program that performed eye surgeries. With unprecedented access she exposed us to this closed, authoritarian society. Since then the coun...

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Production: National Geographic

Genre: documentary

Year: 2017

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Released: 01 Oct 2017

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