North Korea's Biggest Open Secret: Black Market Foreign DVDs
It's illegal to watch foreign media in North Korea. But according to defector interviews, nearly every segment of North Korean society consumes it.
When Yeonmi Park was a young girl, she went to her uncle's house to watch a movie. This wasn't a state-run broadcast that praised the Dear Leader. The movie at her uncle's house was illegal.
She covered the windows with blankets, turned the volume down low, and huddled-in close around the TV. She watched a pirated copy of Titanic.
"When I saw that movie for the first time, I was very confused," Yeonmi Park says. "I never heard my father telling my mother that he loved her. And my mother never told me she loved me, either. To me, love was only expressed [for] the
