Vox Borders
8.0CanceledDocumentary

Vox Borders

"If you want to know a country’s deepest fears, look at its border."

Reporting from six borders around the world, Emmy-nominated journalist Johnny Harris investigates the human stories behind the lines on a map in a new series for Vox.com.

3. Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan

Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan
0.0Oct 31, 2017 · 15 min

For this episode I found myself embedded with a small community in Japan. They were born there, they speak the language. But they're not Japanese citizens, or even ethnically Japanese - they're North Korean. There's about 150,000 of them living in Japan today, and they've been there for over a century. This community has close ties with the regime in Pyongyang, which supports them financially (and vice-versa). But more importantly, Pyongyang offers them an identity, a heritage, and cultural legitimacy - things that some elements of Japanese society work to deny them.