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Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling

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00:09:14
Uploaded
Jul 06, 2025
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documentary
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National Geographic

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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...
And defecting anywhere else along the DMZ is nearly impossible. - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling 00:04
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 00:08
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 00:09
With more than a million landmines, high voltage electric fe...
South Korea's capitol, Seoul, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling 00:12
South Korea's capitol, Seoul,
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling 00:19
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 00:07
The American intelligence agencies don't take much heat...
But we know some basic facts: - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling 00:07
But we know some basic facts:
It has 25 million people, a showcase capital, Pyongyang, - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling 00:08
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 00:13
All three Kims were and are absolute dictators,
Not only do you have a population - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling 00:27
Not only do you have a population
I'd never experienced a kind of roboticism - Inside North Korea: Then and Now with Lisa Ling 00:06
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 00:05
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 00:12
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 00:09
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 00:04
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 00:04
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 00:12
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 00:05
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 00:06
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 00:09
I had always been so curious about North Korea