Kim Il-sung

Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman is on a mission. After forging an unlikely friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, he wants to improve relations between North Korea and the US by staging a historic basketball game between the two countries. But the North Korean team isn’t the only opposition he’ll face. . . Condemned by the NBA and The Whitehouse, and hounded every step of the way by the press, can Dennis keep it together and make the game happen? Or will it all go up in a mushroom cloud of smoke?

Exclusive interviews and intimate archival information give a look at Kim Jong Un's life and reign.

Ruling with an iron fist requires an aspiring dictator to know the art of absolute power, as history's despots prove in this sardonic documentary series.

In 1962, a U.S. soldier in South Korea deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth and defected to the enemy, the communist state of North Korea. He became a coveted star of the North Korean propaganda machine, but then disappeared from the face of the known world. He later found fame acting in North Korean films.