Dear Pyongyang is an account of the reconstruction of the bonds of affection between a father and daughter that had been sundered by the father′s political choices. Director Yang Yong-hi is a second-generation ethnic Korean born and raised in Japan to a Korean mother born in Japan and a father born on Jeju Island who emigrated to Japan when he was 15 years old. Having lived through the period of Japan′s imperial domination of Korea, Korea′s independence and division, and the Korean War, Yang′s father chose North Korean nationality and devoted his life to political activity in support of the North Korean regime led by Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Thirty years ago, as teenagers, Yang′s three older brothers went to North Korea as ′returnees′. Yang first visited North Korea when she was 17 and was the first of her family to see her brothers in 11 years. Her stay in Pyongyang gave her an opportunity to experience the reality of life in The City of Revolution′. For the past 20 years she has made repeated visits to North Korea and has recorded the lives of her divided family members, who live (concurrently) in two very different worlds.