PBS Wide Angle: “Field Trip to the DMZ”

Yesterday, I received the following e-mail from WNET-13 in New York about a documentary about North Korean refugees that will air this summer. The message I received describes it as well as I could:

I’m writing from Wide Angle, the Emmy award-winning international current affairs documentary series on PBS. We recently launched a web-exclusive documentary shorts series called FOCAL POINT and I thought you might be interested in linking to the latest episode, “Field Trip to the DMZ.

As North Korea’s relations with its neighbors grow ever more strained, FOCAL POINT visits the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea. “Field Trip to the DMZ” trains its lens on one of the 15,000 North Korean defectors who have made it to South Korea, following twenty-year-old Haejung and her high school class on their annual trip to the DMZ.

You can watch a clip here:

Once again, it’s driven home that the peoples of the two Koreas are genetically identical yet culturally and psychologically centuries apart. What other nation tears families apart like this?

Update: I’ve changed the embed link at the producers’ request.