Inside North Korea's Dynasty Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Kingdom of the Kims

Sun, Nov 11, 2018 60 mins

For decades, Korea and its people labor were under Japanese imperialist rule. In 1912, in a small town outside Pyongyang, a child is born, Kim Il Sung, coinciding with an omen of imperialism's doom.

Episode 2

The Son of God

Sun, Nov 11, 2018 60 mins

The decline of Kim Il Sung and the rise of his son, Kim Jong Il, is tracked.

Episode 3

Nuclear Family

Sun, Nov 18, 2018 60 mins

The Cold War ends and North Korea has lost Soviet patronage and the security it guarantees and the economic support that has sustained the country for nearly half a century.

Episode 4

Rocket Man

Sun, Nov 18, 2018 60 mins

The death of Kim Jong Il and the rise of the new leader of North Korea, his son Kim Jong Un, taking power at the age of 28.

Episode 5

Meet the Kims

Sat, Nov 14, 2020 60 mins

Episode 6

Going Nuclear

Sat, Nov 14, 2020 60 mins

Kim Jong Il started a nuclear program after losing economic support from Russia after the cold war. The program is meant to be used to blackmail Western countries into giving economic aid to his famine-stricken country. Kim Jong Un intensifies the nuclear arsenal build-up upon assuming the leadership of North Korea.