The Wall Between North And South Korea: A Border Story | Real Stories Full-Length Documentary
The Korean Demilitarized Zone DMZ is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula. It is established by the provisions of the Korean Armistice Agreement to serve as a buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea.
Shot in stunning 4K and narrated by the 2018 Emmy® Award-winning actor Matthew Rhys, this compelling series explores six of the world’s most iconic walls and borders. It features the wall between the US and Mexico, the Korean DMZ, the Israel-Palestine Separation Barrier, the walled communities in Northern Ireland, Cyprus’ Green Line, and the now-demolished Berlin Wall.
From the crumbling ruins of ancient walls to brick barriers that are currently under construction, each episode uncovers the human stories behind these walls and asks why they were built, how they affect people’s lives, and what happens when the walls come down. This is a series about hope and unity in the face of division and about the triumph of the human spirit in spite of separation.
[Released In 2018]
From The Wall Season 1 Episode 4
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I teared up when the guy said that it was his mum’s dream to be able to give him a big bowl of rice and to feed him one last time and that he can tell she misses him.
same here...it is so sad
I know. I was sitting here all teared up at that part. I will never understand the evil in some people. People like the Kim family. Or people who just hurt each other, by being selfish, unkind, etc., in every situation, every day, all over the world. I can't understand it. I can't wrap my head around it.
Same :')
Just like the berlin wall. History repeats itself. A wall cannot stand forever.
as an asian women, are you that brain dead you will believe white supremacist propaganda
I hope I get to see the people of North Korea have freedom in my lifetime
North Korea and Russia, it's way past time the peoples in these countries receive their freeom.
@@vivalarazausarmyvet4453 russia is not anything comparable to north korea, sure it's democracy is not like that of the west but russian people can leave their country anytime they want
@@vivalarazausarmyvet4453 lol let me guess china is awesome
True.
Me too:)!
I hope someday North Koreans will be able to read our comments and know how different people all around the world cares for them.
Earthie, very nice, I agree
That's a great thought... I also hope that one day they will have that freedom...
@@robertjackiii1751 do you have freedom to watch N.Korean TV? If not how are you free if the US doesn’t allow you to watch their “propaganda”
@@harrisn3693 can we watch it? I'm pretty sure they see less what's going on in the world than we do...I doubt North Korea would allow anyone from the US to watch what they watch...
Yeah right but first they must have internet connection in order to read all the comments which is prohibited by their government and second the must know how to use the internet which is prohibited by their government.
So much respect to the artist who didn’t disclose any information to save his family from getting at risk.
It seems to me a completely normal behavior. On contrary, it'd be very selfish for a defector who still has a family in NK to go publicly against the regime while he himself is safe. Wouldn't you conceal your identity to prevent a massacre of your family whom you left behind? It's a basic thing one can do. Nothing to praise him for.
"One of a handful of authorized artists..." I'm sure they know who he is.
My heart... hurts after watching this. We are all so lucky.
You're right....You're lucky for now BUT this mentality is on the march......Its called LEFTISM !.....It starts slowly but it's picking up momentum !
@@fedupwithfedforever4151 You sound delusional
My heart goes out for all those seperated families ❤️
same. it's so heartbreaking to see them separated and the tears of longing making it more even worst.
I think they should alteast allow those families that have other family members in the south, to go join them if they choose. Like if the mom, for example, is free in the south then the children should be considered free as well. if that makes sense. I could only wish though, sadly.
This beautiful woman that survived so much is an inspiration to me. Sometimes I think I have it so bad until I hear a inspiring story like hers. She is truly my hero!
She indeed is !!!! Hollywood can try making a fantastic epic story of that lady ....with some fictional scenes ....
It saddens me that peoples life are more difficult than others, shes very strong!
I just want to hug that woman that now lives in the UK. I'm so glad she escaped again, found her son and made it to the UK. My prayer & hopeful wishes are that all N Koreans get to experience freedom in their life!!! It just breaks my heart that they live like that and know nothing else💔
Gut wrenching. A mothers love and will for her child to pull of what she did is miraculous. The courage and strength she has. Just amazing.
It’s such a sad story. Did you see the pain in their faces when they were being bussed back to the north? Wow just heartbreaking
I think the south was being bused back and the visit was in the north
Yes, the meeting was held in North Korea.
lol those were the south koreans being bused back. you've been so brainwashed by propaganda that you can only see a distorted view of reality, like that kim jong un has died 18 times in the past year.
Yes, visit was in the north and they went back south. NK government won't allow its people to see the south, if they did the lies would be exposed.
@@lt1caprice57l what lies?
That is absolutely heartbreaking. Those people are so old. Just let them stay with their loved ones for the time they have left.
I wish the N Korean people knew how much the international community cares about them and hopes and prays that every citizen would at least have enough to eat, if not completely unleashed from their stark existence.
Yeah and they think we r bastards which is sad since they don’t know that there are actually nice Americans out there but they are literally brainwashed
@@adriannasanchez -Nice Americans who care about them. :)
The saddest part is how unexpectedly the families were separated. You think you'll be back once the fighting is over, only for the borders to clamp down shut. It just came down to which half you happened to be in when it happened :(
God those reunion bus videos are heart wrenching. I can't imagine the pain for those families. It seems like such a cruel horrible thing to treat your citizens like this....
In GOD's due time, the wall will be destroyed...
@@iscezbal8 Amen, we need to keep North Korea lifted up in prayer !
What would that do
what is title of that movie??
Touching documentary. I wish the peoples of North Korea could be free & live in a caring global society.
No!....That's where you're WRONG.....The GLOBAL SOCIETY thing is what will bring the same style of government the poor North Koreans are living under !.....Don't be FOOLED by the "caring and compassionate "......Those ideals are great BUT UNFORTUNATELY those that push for those ideals are usually the most EVIL !
@@fedupwithfedforever4151 yo can u pls sdfu
Yeah.. I hope I can see them someday free that would be incredible
Countries have to come together and take over or their own people have to take stand and destroy it’s leader and military.
Global society is not caring.
Hard to watch especially when there was reunion between the families and them chasing after the bus broke my heart. Sending love to all the people of Korea who have relatives or family in north Korea. No one deserves to not be able to contact with their loved ones or to not be able to see them whenever they want to
It's not normal for a child to grow up hating someone you have never met no matter how you may try to spin it. It's because of things you have been told but not by the government to have that effect it has to be on someone far more trusted by the child like parents and the such,school teachers etc
I agree hate like this is taught... Not convinced their government don't have anything to do with that hate though.
*In this case I don’t blame the parents, school teachers etc. Reason being is that they are very very afraid of their headmaster and in order to survive, the people have to oblige.*
The government controls what is taught in schools, shown on TVs and discussed on news outlets. People are tortured and killed for standing up for their beliefs
Man these reunions and the emotions give me goosebumps and chills. I wish all of them could stay with their families for the rest of their lives.
This is so heartbreaking. Praying and hoping that someday North Koreans will be saved and will experience freedom.
I lived in Seoul, Korea in 1967 my dad in military. He took us to visit off post often,even once to the DMZ which then was barren except for a great fence.Poverty was very extreme,but I remember a very humble ,meek an kind people ( the Koreans)as a child.
@31:46 Awww, the old Korean guy doing a love heart with his hands. Makes my so sad. 😔💜
She’s been thru so much,may god keep her safe,she deserves all that life has to offer
Brave Filipino soldiers prevented the extension of communist North Korea to the South. They were guided by the Americans and fought against the communist soldiers.
@Realist Pinoy She is just proud. Nothing to worry about.
I am always grateful to be an American but every now and then you see a film like this and that gratitude becomes something more.
A war that's never finished. Frozen back in time of where it once began. So heartbreakingly sad.
The woman who went through so much really shows the spirit of us humans. I imagine it isn't easy to go through such things and come out of it as a normal person, but it is possible and I pray for all the North Korean people to one day experience happiness and fulfillment. God is the answer. Even after all she had endured she was able to experience happiness through something we don't even think twice about in most every other country, a smile or laughter. May The Lord help the Korean people. I don't think there is any place on earth worse than North Korea and it breaks my heart to know that no real help is getting to them. God bless all of the defectors who advocate for them but they need so much more help.
This documentary made me so emotional💔
My love to all the beautiful people who shared their story. Totally heartbreaking seeing their loved ones leave on the buses. I had to stop halfway through to pray. I hope in my lifetime, peace is made between South and North Korea. God bless you all. It would not have been easy for them to speak so openly of their experience. Much love from New Zealand ❤️
The art guy should not have done this documentary if he is worried about his family. He would be easily identified by what he is saying, especially where he was only one of a handful of propaganda artists for the Kim regime.
At first I figured it was ok since he was shielding his face somewhat, but after reading your comment, you're absolutely correct. For someone who knows the artists and situations, it wouldn't be hard to figure out who he is thus setting his remaining family in NK up unintentionally to a terrible fate.
I was thinking the same thing...
"Crash landing on you" was so heart wrenching to watch even if it's just a movie they show a lot of true condition that happens in North Korea my tears can't stop rolling watching that movie
My heart goes out to the people of North Korean…so sad to watch that this is how they’re living to this day.
No wall ever built stood forever. Greetings from Germany.
Well this one seems forever unlike your country...
@@epahyop6877 a lot can happen between now and forever.
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My older sister has a North Korean friend that had ran away with her daughter around 3 years old my first reaction was shocked as I wondered why she would choose to live in Alaska out of all the places but my sister helps her out a lot
Woah what a friend. Your sister is the sweetest.
This is heart breaking. I couldn’t do it without my family.
O God...he kept his mom rice containers...😢hope she sees from heaven he can fully fill them up .
*All this situation is absolutely heartbreaking*
my heart just goes out to these people and especially jihyun :(( horrible torture these people had to endure, they deserve to be delivered to a place where they can be safe.
I lost it when I saw the family on the bus crying. So heartbreaking. 😭
Those reunion buses really broke my heart🥺
I never thought that in my lifetime I would see so many wars, so many suffering people, a pandemic. The wars hurt. I don't understand them. I live in a country of freedom, I'm Canadian and I couldn't imagine having such a divided country. The pandemic did cause problems in Canada, but we do not have no where near the issues as shown in this documentary, and other countries like the Ukraine. I just don't understand. 😔🇨🇦
I felt so sad watching the guy talking about his mom and how she was not able to realize her dream because of a wall constructed by someones views or greed makes me so mad and i felt so sad form him all he has left is his mothers memories.
Very good documentary! Kudos to those that helped compile this..Well done 👍 awesome work!
Even though i knew the story .... I was moved with the story projection of the video... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Imagine living your entire life inside a box that even writing,music & other form of art is controlled by one family & group alone .
So heartbreaking to see a nk leader put all this resources to weapons then feeding and stabilizing its country with compassion and humanely.🙏🙏😞
It's really heartbreaking to see family separated.
💔💔💔💔💔💔
It is more than sad that the same country is divided and not reconciled because of politics and war. It breaks my heart to see those old people on the bus crying wishing to see and reunite with their love ones, you can see in their eyes the great longing and grief. 💔😭 I hope and pray that all the people from North Korea will not suffer from starvation and they will have plenty of food to eat. I also pray that all the relatives and friend's who have been separated from each other will meet again. God is good..they will be able to reunite with their loved ones soon. 🕊️🤍🙏
Imagine someone drawing a line in the sand and arbitrarily deciding your fate forever....someone is born into South Korea, an affluent nation that it's advancement is rivalry the biggest economies in the world and their next door neighbour is someone born in north Korea.... born into dictatorship and living in perpetual abject poverty for generations with no improvement in sight.
No one has decided a South Korean's fate. They can come and go as they please. North Koreans are trapped because communism is a failure, and when people have the choice, they flee.
@@_lithp I just meant we don't have a choice in where we're born at....
@@_lithp But that is how their fate has been decided. North Korean's are trapped, many die trying to flee, then ever actually succeed. South Korean's can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Because of an arbitrary line, their fate was set before even their parents were born.
It’s heart wrenching and to think what the country could contribute to the world and how much better they would be if the north would just give up their evil regime ! I pray for the north to be freed !
I'm extremely sad for the plight of North Koreans, i was crying watching this. At the same time, i'm glad to see South Koreans freely maintain as South Koreans with kids speaking in the Korean Language. Lately i've seen so many other cultures adapt to the "American" way of life that they've abandonded their language. Language is the heart of culture, and if that's gone, so will be the culture and identity of peoples around the world. MAY KOREA STAY AND FREELY THRIVE AS KOREA!!
My sisters first husband is from Seoul South Korea. He and his sister were adopted by an American family just after the Korean War, their parents had been killed in front of them and they were left orphans. Sadly they were so young and only had each other they lost their language. But at least they are alive and have wonderful lives here in the USA, they have a Korean southern accent, which is quite cute !!!! He is the kindest person you could possibly ever meet 😍 It is heartbreaking that so many weren’t as fortunate ☹️
There's no risk of seeing Koreans stop speaking Korean. Not sure who put this idea in your head.
Yes, I agree African Americans really lost their culture during slavery. Native Americans have lost so much as well. North America is letting many illegal Mexicans stay in the states, but they are sending them across states. Someone as a certain goal for them and their child. Not sure what's the goal. The wall Trump wanted never happened so if he becomes president I'm sure he will want to finish what he started years before. Praying 🙏 for the U.S. as well as people around the world.
@@serenity8901 you’re wrong. Black Americans do have culture unique only in the US. And Native Americans have been and still do practice their cultures. And Trump lied about making Mexico pay for the wall, and Hillary Clinton actually won majority votes in 2016 election not trump. The Electoral College ignored majority votes and made trump president. We’ll look at how that resulted mess turned out
Which cultures do YOU think have lately abandoned their languages because of the American way of living??? 🤣🤣🤣 You're very funny in your own stupidity and ignorance.
Let's pray for a peaceful unification on the Korean peninsula. While governments sabre rattle, the people on both sides of the border suffer. The people want change and their reapective governments should give it to them.
Such a powerful documentary
Amazingly well done.
Watching this documentary makes me think twice and thankful what I had and where I'm
Jiyhyun’s story is absolutely heartbreaking. I hope she finds happiness.
It really a very sad story. I like to share, "my father was one of the Philippine soldiers fought, to help South Korea against North Korea." South Korea enjoy their FREEDOM ...💖
I pray someday there is hope, harmony, peace and freedom of that country.
Such a strange, and ever increasingly complex situation. It’s crazy to think that my grandfather fought in the Korean War as a young man and he passed away a decade ago at 82 - the war he served in still at a stalemate today.
this brought me to tears
The struggle power can steal the joy from your life. Instead of see the beauty in life and love🙏🏻May things prosper for both countries and the world❤️
really hope that one day..i will see this reunification in my lifetime!
Don't call them defectors. They're freedom fighters. Liberators. Incredibly brave. Defector makes it sound like they've done something wrong. The meaning of defector is someone who's abandoned their country. They didnt abandon, they escaped for a damn good reason.
Hoping one day people of the north korea have a freedom to go their neighbor place,to see thier relatives and family to have a unity because life is amazing to live in this world freely❤️❤️
It's crazy how lucky you feel to not have been born there sometimes.
praying for your unifications...one day you'll get there..... i had tears watching that old man's rice bowl and he's mother's memories o it..
That bus scene teared me up tf.
This is so heartbreaking
So sad, I wish they could have Peace!🙏🏽 The two of them smiling at the end just seemed very genuine. Obviously I don’t know for sure, but I’m just saying it looks so nice the 2 looking each other in the eye with respect and smiling and inviting each other over to one side, then to the other side, it seems so genuine, it’s a damn shame!😞
Absolutely heartbreaking.
Loved ones should not be separated like this period
Good to know the history of these feuding neighbors. Same country with different Idealism and political aspiration.
I've never known the feeling of being lived in a totalitarian country...until I watched the handmaid's tale
This made me cry 😞
Seeing Old people cry just breaks my heart
The thumbnail says it all 💔 heartbreaking 😓
Heart breaking :(
Hi hope you are well i look forward to more of your podcast
This was great 👍
every person who is so obsessed with Kdrama's and Kpop or K- entertainment industry in general needs to see this. They need to realize the sacrifices and pain these people go every day. God give them strength. May they get peace as soon as possible.
I rlly dont understand why yall always have to bring kpop and kdrama when it comes to the conflict between nk and sk. Yall be "korea isnt only abt kpop and kdrama" but then would bring up kpop and kdrama when its abt the political state of separated countries. Its just unnecessary. like why r yall so desperate to make korean entertainment so political? I dont see yall saying this to any other type of foreign media. Coz like u dont see weirdos like u telling anime fans "go and see what japan did when they were colonizers" 💀
That’s South Korea’s entertainment industry which is booming and only in the last 10 or so years has it really been recognised in the west, it has nothing to do with the conflict between north and south.. it’s like saying all you who love Samsung phones have to see this… Sorry but I just don’t get your point
Kdrama is a testament to the success of the Free South when compared with the Socialist North…it’s a good thing
Automobile and electronic products are not only popular in world now K-pop and TV series, K- cosmetic, now Korean food is getting popular in the world. You can buy Kimchee and bibigo mandu at US super markets in suburban cities. Power of South Korea 🇰🇷
So happy for this woman
I would love to see what the North Korean people could accomplish with freedom...who knows what great minds,that are now being repressed, could then achieve without the brainwashing of their government...
with China becoming more authoritarian and the Hong Kong crisis and the threats to Taiwan this scenario will only become worse. NK has a free pass for now.
That old lady on the wheel hair and her sister waving from the bus broke my heart.
Fascinating.
This is so hard. Having your family separated from you. My heart breaks for this hopeless situation
I feel sad for the true victims of this war, the people.
So painful to see the reunion part. So touching...atleast every month they must organise reunions as their is no other way to contact their families on the other side of the border..
I regret watching such stories😢 it's heart wrenching 😭, but satisfying curiousities at the same time learning the other side of this world's nations' plight ...
Thankyou so much to this kind of documentary this make me inspiring me, when i grow up i will going to be a journalist and make kind of videos like this
I enjoy seeing kids educating themselves rather than playing video games all day. Good for you kid. Work hard and you can do anything…
Well documented story
I hope this monarchical regime stops one day so this good souls will experience freedom. When I heard the north Korean lady talk about how she first experienced happiness within o felt sad. She's been through a lot. Happy she and her son found a way out
This is so heartbreaking 🥺💔
I was there, in South korea and I Saw the family gathering between North and South, am crying that time because my haraboji(grandpa) cant stop crying when they have to separated again, miss to see they are living in freedom❤
God, if I could use my last breath to help this people, I would. I wish I could, I would without a second thought
You can...Keep an eye on the democratic party wherever you live !
Living in an area and knowing so many Korean people, I cant imagine for a second they would be happy in a place like North Korea.
This really really makes me so heartbroken that people struggle with life this badly😢
Heartbreaking
Pray for the unification of North and South Korea..... Pray for all those families who has fallen apart from this war !!! Let the peace prevail on every part of world !!
Was gonna watch this then saw how many ads it has. I'll just download it instead
Good documentary
Very good documentary.