cshchan
03-28-2006, 08:55 AM
By Charles Scanlon
BBC correspondent in Seoul
Some of the cast thought Yoduk Story would never reach the stage
It is probably the least cheerful musical since Les Miserables - a three-hour song and dance extravaganza set in one of North Korea's notorious labour camps.
Yoduk Story opens with goose-stepping communist soldiers and rousing revolutionary arias. Before long the action shifts to the hell of Yoduk - a North Korean prison camp that is believed to hold 20,000 political prisoners and their families.
Link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4841876.stm)
BBC correspondent in Seoul
Some of the cast thought Yoduk Story would never reach the stage
It is probably the least cheerful musical since Les Miserables - a three-hour song and dance extravaganza set in one of North Korea's notorious labour camps.
Yoduk Story opens with goose-stepping communist soldiers and rousing revolutionary arias. Before long the action shifts to the hell of Yoduk - a North Korean prison camp that is believed to hold 20,000 political prisoners and their families.
Link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4841876.stm)