27 May 2018

Mark Crysell: godwits open door for TV crew in North Korea

From Sunday Morning, 9:37 am on 27 May 2018

Crew from TVNZ’s Sunday programme spent two weeks in North Korea, and the story behind them being allowed in to film involves a West Auckland builder from the Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists' Trust, Winston Peters and the bar-tailed godwit. Mark Crysell tells the story.

Bar-tailed godwits on Sindo Island.

Miranda and TVNZ Sunday crew in Sinuiji - L-R Keith Woodley, Louisa Cleave (TVNZ), Mark Crysell (TVNZ), Adrian Riegen, David Melville and Martin Anderson (TVNZ)

The Sunday TV crew makes their way through a massive reed bed with Mr Ri Song Il, the NCUK director. NCUK is like our DoC.

L-R: Sunday producer Louisa Cleave, cameraman Martin Anderson and reporter Mark Crysell interviewing Mr Ri Song Il, the NCUK director.

Town Square on Sindo - no foreigner had been there before.

Mark Crysell and cameraman Martin Anderson.