Kim Il Sung's Children
Synopsis
From 1950 to 1953, one hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War. With no resources to mend the wounds, the two sides, North and South, took different paths to find homes and families for the war orphans. While the children of South Korea were sent to Europe and the United States through âInternational Adoptionâ, the children of North Korea were distributed across Eastern Europe through a method called âCommissioned Educationâ. As a result, more than five thousand children from the North had to spend nearly a decade living in foreign lands across Eastern Europe. This story is a record of their lives, which used to be kept hidden from the rest of the world. There is a key to understanding how North Korea's closed political structure began and how the âJuche ideologyâ was formed in this documentary movie. Understanding North Korea in the 1950s is an important way to understand North Korea at present.
Where to watch
Not currently available to stream in United States.
