in a radek orwellian regime paranoid schizophrenic a place of modern day gulags. a red dynasty long headed by a despotic film buff and now by his son whose portly appearance is topped with a singular haircut. and then there's the country's nuclear arsenal 'd a threat that makes the self-proclaimed innocent nations of the world tremble with fear. when it comes to north korea why do we so often resort to cliches in light of the difficult and often tragic situation the country's people find themselves. hyperbole seems rather inappropriate. we're often told that foreigners are not permitted into the country that those who do manage to visit are not permitted to see much of anything and that those who do manage to see something should remember it's probably think. someone once insisted to us that there were no high rises in pyongyang. a disorienting claim given that one of us was living on the 24th floor of a building on quite a box street at the time. but. this film was shot over a period of 8 years by 3 people one of us is a translator of korean. between us we made m