Another Side of North Korea-video

We look at issues around the news and information that defectors are smuggling out of Pyongyang.

For 63 years, the governments of North and South Korea have been in a political stare-down, across a heavily guarded border and a demilitarised zone. And the two media scenes could not be more different. North Korea's media are among the world's most censored, with just one television network, a state-run mouthpiece pumping out the government line. In South Korea journalists have to watch what they say about their neighbour - a vague, antiquated law prohibits the publishing of anything sympathetic to North Korea. Operating under the radar is a growing network of North Korean citizen reporters who work with media outlets based in Seoul, funded by the US, and staffed with defectors from the north.