Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: Hyangsu Park grew up in Japan’s small North Korean community, a group centred around the idea that the secretive authoritarian state was actually a “paradise on Earth”. For Park, the notion of a North Korean paradise was more than just an idea – it was a daily reality for her relatives who were convinced to move there by a long-running PR campaign offering ethnic Koreans from Japan citizenship, flats and jobs. But when her uncle, aunt and cousins suddenly disappeared, it became clear that the reality in North Korea was far from paradise. Related story: ‘I led people into hell’: how North Korea lured immigrants Support us: Follow us on: Website: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: Linkedin: #scmp #SCMPFilms #Japan
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