While the Russian documentary was pretty similar to most of the other North Korean documentaries I have watched, there were some huge differences that I noticed.  The first thing I noticed was that it was the first time I had seen any North Korean citizen who was being interviewed say anything even sort of negative about the North Korean regime.  The biological scientist who was being interviewed admitted that the country was in a difficult situation, and remarked how they still had not reached a western standard, and that the government was relying on people like him for improvements.  That amazed me that we said it as frankly as he did, and he seemed at lease somewhat aware of the dire situation that his country was in.  The second thing that stood out to me was the Spaniard who was working as president of the North Korean Friendship Association.  This association Ive found, was in fact started and is operated  by the Spanish, and has official representatives in 28 countries including the United States. The KFA pages provides DPRK related material, including tourism tips and political essays, and it is possible to hear views from a DPRK point of view. The KFA Forum site is hosted and administered in Europe and gives links to Korean language teaching sites. The KFA also denies allegations of human rights violations and concentration camps in North Korea.  Their objectives as stated by the KFA are to: show the reality of the DPRK to the world, defend the independence and socialist construction of the DPRK, and to work towards the peaceful reunification of  the Korean peninsula. Due to many of these beliefs, they have lost much of their role in the international arena, and are now reduced to serving domestic purposes in North Korea.  Which in my opinion, makes it safe to say that they are under the direct control of Pyongyang.