Children of the Secret State (2003)

Children of the Secret State follows Ahn Chol a 29yearold North Korean man who escaped from the country in 1997 by swimming across a river to China after his parents died of starvation Chol has slipped back into North Korea several times since 1997 with a hidden camera to reveal a side of the communist nation that its government tries to hide from the outside world In the documentary viewers are exposed to many gruesome realities including a food supply only available on the black market and small children fending for themselves to survive scooping up spilled rice and corn