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Vice Documentary: North Korea new article content ... The Vice Documentary of North Korea is a video travel guide on how to travel to North Korea that was created by a group known as VBS and Vice magazine. In the Vice Guide to Travel to North Korea, correspondents from VBS and Vice magazine traveled to North Korea. The guide is also a documentary on how it is like to be an outside tourist in North Korea. Considering how virtually no one is allowed in North Korea, as well as the fact that cameras and computers are permitted inside of North Korea, it is amazing to have footage on the country. In the video documentary, the narrator, Shane Smith, is followed by fellow cameramen, Jaimie James Medina and Eddy Moretti, as he comments and describes each day and teaches his audience. The first way that you can at least see North Korea is to travel to the D.M.Z., which is located about 90 minutes away from Seoul, South Korea, by bus. To get to the D.M.Z, it is necessary to complete approximately 15 checkpoints along the way. Each checkpoint basically teaches you how to behave once you have reached the D.M.Z. and to make sure that you are not bringing anything illegally. The D.M.Z. is the border that splits South Korea and North Korea. From the South Korea side, the D.M.Z. serves as a pilgrimage to families that are unable to see family members that are stuck in North Korea due to the Korean War. It is possible to set foot on North Korean territory in through one of the checkpoints, Checkpoint Charlie. The other way to actually go into North Korea, after receiving permission from North Korean officials and agreeing to their rules, is to travel to Shenyang, China. In Shenyang, you rendezvous in a North Korean hotel, where you meet your North Korean guards and later fly to North Korea. In North Korea, you are treated as a tourist. It is easily noticeable that the entire tourist trip is fixed to get you to believe that North Korea is a great nation. For example, they force you to go to all of their sight-seeing places, where they attempt to brainwash people, whether they are tourist or civilians, by teaching the greatness of North Korea's leaders, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, their army, and their nation, as well as teach you the horrors of the "American Imperialists." The video explains in detail how North Korea tries to make their country seem great to the people of North Korea, when in reality, it is thought of being one of the most dangerous and countries in the world.