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The movie includes — and ends with — footage secretly shot inside North Korea and smuggled out by the pastor’s network, showing everything from the country’s barbaric gulags, to the bleakness of everyday life
The pastor arranged for the family to travel in secret through Communist-ruled China, Vietnam and Laos, braving police checkpoints and a treacherous jungle border crossing. On arrival in the south, many defectors attend a “resettlement facility” where they are taught about the rest of the world, the lies of Kim Jong Un’s brutal regime, and basic modern practices such as how to use an ATM.
One slip-up could see them also repatriated to North Korea, lending the documentary a dramatic tension more associated with Hollywood thrillers.
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