L.A. Times on North Korean Dissent Video

The L.A. Times’s Barbara Demick, who was fiercely criticized for some of her past coverage of North Korea, has a new piece out about the North Korean dissent video that emerged in January. She even located an interviewed the person who made the tape. Links, partial translation, and some more interesting info here, at my original post. Translation of a longer excerpt here.

For new viewers who are interested in some of the videos that have emerged from North Korea recently, here are some links:

• Excerpt from a video of a public execution
• Starving street children in North Korea
• Defectors’ descriptions of North Koreans resorting to cannibalism
• Video of a detention center for defectors and a “street trial” for prostitution (unf, link broken; story here)
• Video of gulag inmates from outside the wire

Another video link of note is this clip from BBC documentary in which a defector describes North Korea’s gas chambers.

Take all of these with the usual cautions; there is simply no way to verify any “unofficial” information (or, for that matter, very much official information) from inside North Korea.