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A documentary filmed covertly during a trip to Korea (similar to the one described in this article): probably the bravest and most stupid journalistic stunt of all time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ixGYzbLz0&feature=PlayL... It makes for an Oscar quality documentary.

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I'm up to part 6, and this documentary is awesome. The only problem I have with it is that any of the North Korean citizens depicted have probably been sent to "re-education" camps for letting this filming happen. The makers of the film have essentially killed anybody they interacted with them.

It's possible, but I wouldn't estimate the possibility as "probably." Odds are no one from North Korea has any idea this film exists.

If you like crazy, here's a blog of a guy who went from Vienna to Pyongyang by train, entered North Korea through the border with Russia and spent 36 hours without a guide...until he got to Pyongyang http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/

This guy's blog is so much better than the Vice video. Even when alienated by whats going on, they continue to try to be respectful of the people they are with. What a novelty.

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