2 Films & TV Shows Set In North Korea (DPRK) During The 1990s

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  The Spy Gone North

  🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 1990s

  In the lasting days of the Cold War — South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing with the assignment of infiltrating a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about the North Korean nuclear program.

  Released in 2018 • 138 minutes
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  Repatriation

  🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990s The 2000s

  In the spring of 1992 documentary filmmaker Dong-won Kim met Cho Chang-son and Kim Seak-hyoung, two North Koreans arrested by South Korean authorities years before. Convicted of spying for the North, they were incarcerated and spent thirty years as political prisoners. These men, and many others like them, underwent conversion schemes in prison that involved torture: those who renounced their communist beliefs were released from prison early. The others, known as "the unconverted," served their full terms. None could return home to the North, however, until the turn of this century, when tensions between North and South eased significantly. Director Dong-won Kim followed these men for ten years, documenting how they survived -both physically and psychologically, the dehumanizing time spent in prison, and their quest, once released, to finally go home.

  Released in 2004 • 149 minutes