Children of the Secret State

Children of the Secret State is a documentary on homeless North Korean orphans, released in 2000. It was shot by a UK film duo in conjunction with underground North Korean cameramen.

Layburn and Roberts then travel across the border to China to rendezvous with Ahn Chol and document the border and border town, using their own footage and interviews and the footage provided by Ahn Chol. Ahn Chol, who planned to meet up with the couple at the border, fails to turn up, but Layburn proceeds to interview refugees who have fled into China from North Korea. He then heads for South Korea and makes more interviews. They also interview a man who has fled a factory complex, as well as a former North Korean prison guard. These interviews cover the wellguarded ChineseNorth Korean border, the starvation in North Korea, and hostels where, according to Layburn and the children interviewed, paraphrased orphan children are deliberately left to die.He also states that the factories, and most industry, in the country have stopped running this is later referred to by Layburn as paraphrased the crisis in the North Korean economy. An interviewed farmer who states that most North Korean foodproducing farms have been made to produce opium for the profit of party officials, and several refugees speak of inhuman treatment in North Koreas prison camps. ........

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