North Korea TV from Jeffrey Marlow on Vimeo.
Today’s video postcard from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea features three excerpts from state television broadcast. The TV in our tourist-accessible hotel received 10 channels, only one of which was an official North Korean channel. Presumably there are other channels broadcasting a more diverse range of programming, but our state media network transmitted a nearly continuous stream of patriotic music videos. The subject matter of these dated, grainy, over-acted videos invariably involved soldiers, monuments, or crashing waves.
This video compiles three short clips. The first is a live performance of dancers in soldier attire; the second demonstrates the requisite patriotic fervor and leads into a newscast; the third goes for the heartstrings, showing a wounded soldier, supported by his regiment. And there are even helpful subtitles (in Korean) if you’d like to sing along…
