Crossing The Line

Of all the strange stories that can be told about North Korea, few are as compelling at that of James Joseph Dresnok, a Private First Class with a U.S. Army unit who, in May 1962, defected to that most secretive of nations. Granted access to Dresnok, whose existence was denied in the west for years, and access to whom was impeded by Pyongyang, British filmmaker Daniel Gordon (who had been allowed to travel to North Korea to film the Mass Games for his documentary A STATE OF MIND) tells that unusual story exceedingly well.

Born in 1941 only to be abandoned first by his alcoholic single mother, then later by his father and his father's new wife, James Joseph ...