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[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I saw this documentary a few months ago on EBS and assumed it was widely available. That doesn't seem to be the case, but it is A FANTASTIC documentary that anyone living in the ROK, or anyone who has lived here or who is interested in the geopolitical nature of Korea, would be fascinated by.

My comments from another thread:

Did anyone catch the North Korea documentary (by non-Korean filmmakers) that was aired on EBS a few months ago? The Korean title was Friends of Kim. The meat of the docu was a Venezualan (I think; don't kill me if he's Columbian or Peruvian or something) guy named Alejandro, who's a sympathizer for the DPRK, taking a bunch of foreigners across zee border on a propaganda trip. Problem is, half the tourists, including the documentary's director, are against the North's regime and lied to get on the tour. Damned if I know how, but an American journalist even got to go (his story makes up the conflict of the docu when he returns to his hotel room to find his computer disks missing and his laptop smashed to pieces).

Really, this is a fantastic documentary: both the funniest and most serious I've seen since the sublime Grizzly Man (and if you haven't seen that, get thee to ye illegale download programme).

I've been bigging up this documentary for many moons; surely someone else has seen it?

The film's website can be found here:

http://www.friendsofkim.com/

Trust me when I say it's a terrific film. The DVD can be ordered from the site.

[Benicio]

The dude is Spanish and is a grand deluded psycho.

He spouts off pro-NK, anti-US retoric with the best of them!