'Great ideology creates great times': What is the reality of life beyond the propaganda bubble?
Featuring Anna Broinowski, Suki Kim and Michael Kirby.
Anna Broinowski is a filmmaker and writer. She is known for films including Forbidden Lie$ (about hoax-author Norma Khouri) and Helen’s War (about anti-nuclear crusader Helen Caldicott). Her film Aim High In Creation! pays tribute to the cinematic genius of North Korea’s late Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il. Determined to stop a new gas mine near her Sydney home, she traveled to North Korea to learn about propaganda from the masters. She has written about her experiences in her 2015 book, The Director Is the Commander.
Suki Kim is the author of a New York Times bestselling memoir, Without You, There Is No Us, My Time with the Sons of North Korean Elite, which chronicles her undercover investigation during the last six months of Kim Jong Il's reign. Her first novel, The Interpreter, was a finalist for a PEN Hemingway Prize. Since 2002, she has travelled to North Korea as a writer, witnessing both Kim Jong-il’s 60th Birthday celebrations as well as his death at age 69. Her essays and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, and the New York Review of Books. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, and an Open Society fellowship. Born and raised in Seoul, she lives in New York.
The New York Times bestseller, Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
www.sukikim.com / twitter: @sukisworld
Michael Kirby was Australia’s longest-serving judge when he retired in 2009. Following a distinguished legal career, he served on the High Court of Australia from 1996 to 2009. Among his many contributions to public life in Australia and internationally, he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea, which issued its report in 2014.
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