In May 1995, ITN cameras gained rare access to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, filming in Pyongyang and beyond at a moment when decades of isolation were starting to crack. The film sets the scene with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, North Korea's chief patron, and the death of founding leader Kim Il Sung, both of which forced the regime to loosen its grip on the outside world just enough to let a foreign crew in. Footage shows monuments, staged public displays, and ordinary streets alongside signs of the famine beginning to take hold in the countryside. The report threads through politics and propaganda, contrasting the state's official narrative with what the camera actually catches. It stands as an early record of a country that rarely let journalists past its border, made just as the Sunshine Policy era of tentative engagement with the outside world was starting to take shape.