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Inside North Korea’s movie industry

“Glare fiercely! Hatred in your eyes!” the director shouts at a team of actors on a war-torn movie set. “Comrades! I don’t see any resentment towards the Japanese in your faces.”

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Jun 6, 2013

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Japan’s yakuza gang wars

KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Visibly nervous, the chairman of a local construction company asks that we lower our voices at the lunch table, and that his name be withheld from publication.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

May 7, 2013

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Gulags? Missiles? Not to fear, Choco Pies are here

SEOUL, South Korea — In the classic Korean mystery film JSA: Joint Security Area (2000), a South Korean soldier strays north of the demilitarized zone at the border between North and South Korea and unexpectedly befriends a handful of North Korean enemies.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

May 3, 2013

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