Crossing the Line (2006 film)

Crossing the Line Korean , A BlueEyed Pyongyang Citizen in North Korea is a 2006 British documentary film by Daniel Gordon and Nicholas Bonner.

It was first screened in 2007 on the BBC. The film centred on Dresnoks history, highlighting his unhappiness in America, and particularly his desertion from the United States Army in 1962 to the DPRK. It also showed Dresnok in the present day in Pyongyang where he now lives, interacting with his North Korean family and friends. Dresnok spoke exclusively to the filmmakers about his childhood, his desertion, his life in a country completely foreign and quite hostile to his own, his fellow defectors, and his wife and children.Dresnok is also shown with fellow defectors, including Charles Robert Jenkins, who returned to Japan to be with his wife, Hitomi Soga a victim of kidnap by the North Koreans, while filming was taking place. Dresnok felt hurt by Jenkins allegations of physical abuse by Dresnok and the North Korean regime and angrily denied them. Towards the end of Crossing the Line, a North Korean doctor discloses to the BBC that Dresnok is in failing health, mainly due to heavy drinking and smoking. ........

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