{"id":1289072,"date":"2018-12-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=1289072"},"modified":"2018-12-06T03:26:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:26:24","slug":"north-korea-life-inside-the-secret-state-review-simple-animations-underpin-pessimistic-documentary-about-north-korean-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/de\/2018\/12\/north-korea-life-inside-the-secret-state-review-simple-animations-underpin-pessimistic-documentary-about-north-korean-life\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State, review:\u00a0simple animations underpin pessimistic documentary about North Korean life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year Michael Palin went on tour in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.<\/b>
\nE arlier this year Michael Palin went on tour in the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea. What he found was neither a democracy nor a republic. Would we be made any the wiser by North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State (Channel 4)? The title was a forgivable misnomer because the Dispatches team didn\u2019t once set foot on North Korean soil.
Instead, for this portrait of life under Kim Jong-un, it relied on defectors based in Seoul communicating by mobile with contacts over the border. These contraband conversations were hasty, and parsimonious with detail. And because they couldn\u2019t be filmed, the contacts were illustrated by effective animations.
In a timeline that moved from nuclear testing to…<\/p>\n