A side of North Korea you would never see on western corporate television. With the way things are going who knows how long it'll be on YouTube. Without western Imperialism Korea would be one country, whether capitalist or communist.
"Award-winning documentary filmmaker Sung-Hyung Cho was the first South Korean filmmaker to ever receive an official permit to film in North Korea. Traveling the country, she accompanies ordinary people during their everyday life and work routines, talking to them about their hopes and dreams. The resulting film ventures beyond the usual clichés and portrays the country and its people in a unique and respectful way.

Growing up in South Korea, Cho was taught in school that her Northern neighbors had red skin and two horns on their heads. With her film, she took the chance to bid farewell to her prejudices and revise her preconceived image of people in North Korea." LINK TO VLTCHEKS DOCUMENTARY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqBrDsXXwc

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    Great Power Leader Xi Jinping: International Perspectives on China's Leader(not on his early life much I haven't found a good source for that in depth in English yet, just know the bits and pieces)

    Some Books on China in general that id recommend:

    Fanshen , and everything William H. Hinton ever wrote.

    Constructing China by Gao Mobo (also has a very useful bibliography)

    Maos China and After A History Of The Peoples Republic by Maurice Meisner

    China and Ecological Civilization: John B. Cobb, Jr. in conversation with Andre Vltchek

    Media Transparency in China: Rethinking Rhetoric and Reality by Baohui Xie (Author), Mobo Gao ( quite critical but good)

    Anything published here http://www.chinabookinternational.org/en/