Every day at 6:30am in Pyongsong, we were woken up by North Korean propaganda blasted into our rooms from megaphones outside. Filmed at the Jangsusan Hotel in September 2015.
Not really. Do you know how good the phones these days with their low apertures and optical stabilizations? MY S7 edge records even in 4K. Im just saying.
Mom soooooo he banned everything on the internet except propaganda... and you don't consider that a ban on the internet? Save it for the semantics dome E.B. White
Orwell based 1984 on his real-life experience with communists (as a socialist fighting against nationalists in the spanish civil war). It's unsurprising that the place where they got in power is so similar.
Glad you could film a culture that’s stuck in the 1960s. That TV in your room looked like it was the most advanced piece of technology and it was still a CRT TV lol. The music playing out there are like my previous neighbors who played their Mexican music 24 hours a day.
Calski not really. since i bet you have never been to North Korea, all of the bad things you know about it is from western fake news and people who want to get views.
Liam Foran - apparently you haven’t been abroad ! ! - countries that are ran by dictators like this homosexual Kim Jung has his own ppl killed for the smallest things like trying to eat scraps of his plate in one of his many opulent homes...he is also a male rapist as reported by his personal secretary who either fled the country or defected,i cannot remember which,either way they usually do not kill,they have that person imprisoned ; it’s much better to use them as a Slave Force in their prison system. The End.
My colleague spent the night there once. She tossed and turned her first night. The next morning a girl from the front desk asked her if she needed a sleep aid to help her sleep. That's when she knew they watch the rooms on video while you sleep. Creepy.
But I really love the room. It's such a time travelling experience. Last time I experienced this architecture, furniture, TV and stuff when I was in an old Eastern nuclear-shelter-museum from the 1970s.
It's "Brutalism" architecture style which came up in the 1950's and was common until the late 1970's or early 1980's. Whole North Korea is kinda stuck in that era.
You're late. He's probably gone now. This was in 2015 Kimmy. Also don't be mad about your failed rocket test. Super powers can have performance problems sometimes.
Im shocked that you had the BALLS to even RECORD at ALL while you were there. Id have been so paranoid that any of the windows directly in front of the hotel would have people watching me.
Watching life play out in the window. It's like a nation sized Truman Show. Everyone is moving at the same pace, and posture. It's like they're all in sync. Products of the state and one way of thinking.
That's a fantastic observation, actually. There is a very "painted on" look to their movement. The cyclists, walkers, the spacing they occupy on the roads. It is so singularly eerie that little things like that could possibly be different somewhere. It's like the gait of their walks even seem like they're sort of "practiced." Odd feeling, that.
@@DeerJerky No, we need to discuss how biden and the democrats are essentially trying to destroy America and turn it into north korea part 2...., i know that triggers you because you voted for the ignoramus but it will be discussed
Well I think he's being really smart about it because in the video he doesn't say anything bad about Korea. He simply states that there is morning music and shows it but doesn't call it ridiculous or crazy or any other stuff like that. I mean they probably would still be mad at him for recording but he at least isn't slandering their country.
@@DuffyGabi Yeah sure I'm not saying that it's not risky but he definitely is trying to make sure not to say a bad thing. I think it's good that there are some brave people that show how the situation there is. I for example really thought that people overreact a bit when they talk about NK but people recording the country really showed me how serious it is. They also don't immediately imprison everyone who records something. If he'd talk bad about them on the other hand it might give them even more an excuse for taking him in. They could say that he's a danger for their country and wants to spread propaganda against NK in western country. Otto Warmbier for example also stole a propaganda poster and was not just recording. Not saying that it's not dangerous but they usually try to find a "good excuse" to imprison a tourist.
@@blaqai well technically he stole a poster yes. That doesn’t make it ok to turn him in to what amounts to a vegetable that’s also been in the fridge for 6 months. He was beaten into a coma for trying to take a piece of paper. Also, North Korea is one of the countries that teaches their youth in schools to hate the west and particularly the US. It’s an extremely unpredictable and dangerous place for anyone in the west to travel there.
There's something similar in Japan when around voting season. There drive around this truck with their name written all over it and yell out through their megaphones about their regime or something. During the day they'd park outside of train station and do the same. Very annoying.
@Helen Brown Because it's entirely a propaganda tool of the North Korean government? And based on an alleged "Sinchon Massacre" that never really happened in the way that the Kim governments have claimed? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinchon_Massacre A massacre where U.S. troops likely never participated according to independent outside historians? So, it's a nonsense museum in a nonsense country.
The loud speakers distorted voice gives it that extra punch of eerie vibe. In every movie hearing that equals missiles incoming or a nuclear power plant nearby failed
They say prisons sort of freeze time, because longterm prisoners become time capsules. North korea is a country sized prison, and an interesting preservation of a late 20th century soviet-style dictatorship
@WorldFlex That's the opposite of accurate. You've just literally been indoctrinated to think communism means "dictatorship" and probably have never read the manifesto and can't define it without bringing in some heavily policitized bias.
Depressing horn music: "Citizens of our fair city; by order of the Regent, the curfew is now active. Any and all foot traffic along Kaldwin's Bridge after sunset will be met with force by the city watch." Depressing horn music.
He is actually so smart. He never calls them out or slanders the propaganda nor the country, instead he makes sarcastic remarks, but it's those sarcastic remarks (being portrayed positive) that could possibly save his life if he ever gets caught with the recording.
North Korean hotel clerk: "Would you like a wake up call?" Guest: "Yes, thank you." 5AM: Military truck rolls up outside your window and blares for hours.
Hhahaha! Forgot the endless guy screaming pro-communist slogans! Catch is... If you refuse to agree to the wake-up call the next day... Its gulag time for you!
I would love to visit there, my only issue is I’m not clued up on currency and photography / videography as i read that you have to use your own country’s currency? And also do they not take your phone away from you?
I'm impressed by the posh conditions of your room, more certainly impressed by the high end technology put into the TV. Gotta give you kuddos for filming.
Trust me, this is all a thinly veiled facade. The whole place is like a game from the early 90s where if you go out of bounds, you can walk behind the false walls and see the emptiness.
@@LambGoatSoup I mean the movie is definitely not 100% accurate but North Korea has many spots that are in extreme poverty, there was even an issue of cannabalism due to hunger in the 90’s…
They were 100% watching and listening to you the whole time. I know it's six years later, but I hope you're okay. They do some crazy shit to people they don't like.
They have no jurisdiction outside the country. If you make it out of the country you can relax. That's why they determined to make sure you never leave once you get caught doing something they don't like. The fact that people travel there as tourists is madness. Safer to go to Chernobyl.
He was right to be paranoid. Tourists in the slightly friendlier China get assigned a dedicated surveillance officer (each officer is usually monitoring several people or an organized tour group). If China is doing it then North Korea is DEFINITELY surveilling every single second of a tourists time in North Korea.
You are mistaken. China does NOT assign anyone to tourists. I've been to China four times. I was told that secret security is everywhere, but no one ever bothered me and I never detected their presence. I wasn't entirely comfortable 100% of the time, mainly due to the propaganda we're fed here in the U.S., but I was able to do basically anything I wanted and I could travel throughout the country at my leisure.
It IS a fascinating and mysterious country. Nowhere else like it on earth. I see the appeal and why people would want to visit. But I can’t understand why an American would want to MOVE there. I don’t think they do, actually.
Yup. Seeing people in our generation openly promote communism and hardcore socialism is terrifying. They are beyond stupid and refuse to acknowledge videos like these.
Luv Pancake Yeah I get the epic memes, but I literally know hardcore left wing people from my school who promote communism and have communist flags in their bedrooms. Scary shit.
The countries in the Warsaw Pact were never this harsh. North Korea for me is a monarchy because the countries leaders run by bloodline, while Warsaw Pact countries leaders were members of the political party.
@@pomeranianproductions647 let's say, East Germany wasn't as posh as West Germany, but at least things were adequate enough there. No extremes, like no extreme rich and poor. People were normally rich and poor. Ofc people evacuated to the West cuz their family was there and higher gambling chance for a better job.
I feel like the whole collective consciousness there is stifled, enslaved, imprisoned. It’s like a dark spot on the globe where consciousness is suppressed.
I like how they painted the first row of the houses, so that tourists from the hotel room can see how good it is in N. Korea but then they just gave up on the highrises in the background.
I wonder *After watching the fake car dealership* if the cars and, trucks driving around are like the ones on "The Truman Show"..just going in circles, back n forth in front of the hotel..not really going anywhere
+barniculas while that can be true, and there is no reason not to entertain such a notion, there is also the possibility of it being that it isn't and they have enough people in cars actually going about. I'm skeptical but not sure :/
+barniculas Actually it seems you're right. There are at least 3 vehicles I see that appear twice in this video. For example, at 2:26, there's a blue truck. And at 2:56 there's the same blue pickup truck again going the opposite direction. I think there's a few other cars that are also making loops, but it's hard to tell. I actually think it's possible that they may have made either side of each vehicle, slightly different looking....such as one side with hubcaps, other side without, one side with door trim, other side without, to make the cars look slightly different when they turn around and loop back.
+C “N7” North I'm sure some of the vehicles are political party member vehicles, some are local buses, but I would not put it past NK to have extra vehicles driving around the blocks to make it appear as though the streets busy. NK's are pretty good at faking things including empty buildings, skyscrapers, etc. NK have a huge fuel shortage and most of the fuel is reserved for the military, so I doubt they would waste gas for private owners other then members of the Korean workers party.
If they wanted to record you they would need to spend alot money on good cameras and hide them well. Youre probably not being watched but the rooms are most likely bugged anyways the Kim jong un is always listening
@@kan12372 or at least that military truck is there to spy on everyone in the hotel, but I mean I'm not surprised, who would want to to to north Korea? Probably a spy or someone that doesn't agree with the dictatorship, so no wonder that they spy on people in hotels
This is what is scary though; I saw some footage where the camera man asks a person on the street about the music and the person looks dumbfounded and asks what music?
The music sounds like it’s from the 40’s. Take away the fact that it’s meant for propaganda and it’s kind of nostalgic in a creepy, wartime kind of way.
Julia Crawford Wartime? NK is still at war with SK. They only signed a peace treaty. NK needs perpetual war to feed the party’s loyalty. They like to take a few pages out of 1984, don’t they?
Yeah in fact it’s not even the year 2021 over there LMAO. They count their years based on when Kim Il Sung first took power back in the 50’s, right now they’re only in like AD 70 something.
@@thatperformer3879 Also their military still uses Early Cold War equipment. Hell they even think that the U.S wears 50s Uniform and uses the M1 Garand as standard issue.
Wonder why. Almost like 90% of their infrastructure was bombed by the United States and 3 million people were killed, with thousands of tons of napalm poisoning the soil.
Let's just take a moment to appreciate filming horizontally.
Zioxei, wonderful
I'm pretty sure he's not filming on a phone based on the quality and how steady the video is
Not really. Do you know how good the phones these days with their low apertures and optical stabilizations? MY S7 edge records even in 4K. Im just saying.
Yes i do know what phones are capable of, no i still think its a camera
Elbert JF I'd agree with you as i myself have a galaxy, but it just would not be capable of keeping that level of quality with the zoom that he did.
When kim drops his mixtape but he remembers he banned the internet
Mom he did
sorry Mom
Mom ;( did someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed
Mom soooooo he banned everything on the internet except propaganda... and you don't consider that a ban on the internet? Save it for the semantics dome E.B. White
Mom do you know what semantics means...
It’s eerie how similar North Korea is to 1984. Every video I watch about NK just furthers the case
Orwell based 1984 on his real-life experience with communists (as a socialist fighting against nationalists in the spanish civil war). It's unsurprising that the place where they got in power is so similar.
@@VieneLeaand elements of fascism too ofc
Every country is similar to 1984
@@averygamerdude7911 not st all imbecile
Glad you could film a culture that’s stuck in the 1960s. That TV in your room looked like it was the most advanced piece of technology and it was still a CRT TV lol. The music playing out there are like my previous neighbors who played their Mexican music 24 hours a day.
what kind of Mexican music specifically?
I've had those same neighbors, bastards!
@@Dumaski I have them now. They had an actual concert going on a couple weeks ago.
@@fosty. Welcome to our future! Diversity is our strength!
yep sanctions ruin countries
This guy has serious balls
DarkAccolades LMAO
DarkAccolades lol he has radioactive sperm then
Calski i survived an attack from the corner of the table to my pinky an diddnt even shed a tear so i think. im the real man lol
Calski not really. since i bet you have never been to North Korea, all of the bad things you know about it is from western fake news and people who want to get views.
joe read my comment. i was referring to "calski".
Should’ve pulled out a speaker and played “Party in the USA” in response
Brennen Caad - Then we wouldn’t be watching him right now !
Livestream it then
I'd play Waterloo by ABBA just to mess with them.
Then get sent to "correctional center" for confusing the glorious people of North Korea.
YaowBucketHEAD - better yet,born in the USA 🇺🇸 Springsteen 😁
Liam Foran - apparently you haven’t been abroad ! ! - countries that are ran by dictators like this homosexual Kim Jung has his own ppl killed for the smallest things like trying to eat scraps of his plate in one of his many opulent homes...he is also a male rapist as reported by his personal secretary who either fled the country or defected,i cannot remember which,either way they usually do not kill,they have that person imprisoned ; it’s much better to use them as a Slave Force in their prison system. The End.
My colleague spent the night there once. She tossed and turned her first night. The next morning a girl from the front desk asked her if she needed a sleep aid to help her sleep. That's when she knew they watch the rooms on video while you sleep. Creepy.
I would have booked the FIRST FLIGHT out of there. Absolutely fuckin not 💀💀
@@tabora_ and how do you book a flight out of there ? The only airline that flies is north korean state owned.
@akiraraiku idk, I've never been there. But you can pay to go, they just won't let you out of their sight, and you can't leave your hotel room
F*ck I just fapped on my room TWICE while on north korea
Could've just saw she was tired...
Looked to me like the guy standing in the door of the truck had binoculars trained right on you.
I think the guy in the truck had his back turned
"I don't want to push things" *Travels to North Korea and films a military truck secretly* ...
QNXDR lmao 😂
lol
QNXDR good one
QNXDR Then uploads it to internet.
QNXDR I think this video is the propaganda.
Ah yes, my favorite alarm:
*PROPAGANDA*
Ah brainwash o'clock...oh no, I'm late 😬
1984 style.
Lol it’s like a metaphor
Better than waking up to CNN
@@myman8336 It isn't.
This guys know that the cameraman is immortal that’s why he’s recording the whole time
This sounds like something I'd hear in half-life 2...
_[Comment deleted by the Glorious Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea]_
Yeah, i agree.
tots agreeed
Oh yeah i agree
Khushwant Singh right the fuck on, dude!
spot on man
Military truck looks like it hasn't moved since the beginning of the Korean War in the 1950s
That truck is far too modern, The Koreans were using Soviet built GAZ trucks back then, that one looks like a Chinese one.
China is allied with North Korea. Last I heard.
*THE* Military truck looks like it hasn't moved since the beginning of the Korean War in the 1950s.
@@flash7308 *THE* military truck looks like it hasn't moved since the beginning of the Korean War in the 1950s.
@@flash7308 *THE* poop fell out of my butt.
I’d be afraid to record in the hotels considering someone literally ended up dying after trying to take a propaganda poster from one of the hotels.
But I really love the room. It's such a time travelling experience. Last time I experienced this architecture, furniture, TV and stuff when I was in an old Eastern nuclear-shelter-museum from the 1970s.
"Nice concrete balcony"
It's "Brutalism" architecture style which came up in the 1950's and was common until the late 1970's or early 1980's.
Whole North Korea is kinda stuck in that era.
@@fillgollinsdergroarticheme8442 north korea is also kinda stuck being poor asf
As a concrete worker i felt anxious and bad for that balcony lol
maybe he said it just incase they get hold of his footage when he's there, just a theory
Aww yes the concrete is looking quite nice
YOU CANT BE RECORDING HERE I WILL FIND YOU
You're late. He's probably gone now. This was in 2015 Kimmy. Also don't be mad about your failed rocket test. Super powers can have performance problems sometimes.
kim jong un OH S*** IT'S YOU
C
Said the man who can't launch a missile over 5 feet off the ground.
don't bother because a MOAB wil find you
Excellent footage, left me wanting to see more. The streets looked well groomed and busy, but also eeriely somber 😔 I wish I could visit
Oh this is by Erick Tseng!
I remember binge watching your videos a few years ago. Man what a trip!
Cars sounding their horns, even when there is almost no traffic.
I think they're told to make the city sound busy, lmao.
There was more cars in East Germany in 1949 than there was here . .
Just friends spotting each other
India is their role model.
Maybe they drive like India
Those mountains! It actually looks like it would be a beautiful place to live if it weren't for... you know...
if it weren't for capitalist western spies!
Damn western spies, they ruin our great country. LONG LIVE KIM!
the orange juice? I mean, it's freshly squeezed every morning, so it can't be that bad... can it?
You are right though, North Korea has some of the most pristine wildlife and natural beauty in the world
It is supposed to be pretty beautiful from what I've heard
If you gotta constantly reafirm to your citizens that your country is great, it's probably, NOT, all that great. But what do I know?
Same with America. They aren't much better
Welcome. Welcome to Pyongyang 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers...
Nostalgia...
HL2
filming in north korea? dude could be your last vacation!
Pablo Escobar, wtf u got 189 likes and no comments
Deep Red dude it’s pablo escobar
Big Dick Bazuso, 😂
Well he probably left NK, and uploaded the footage.
Pablo Escobar its strict but not as strict as you think
I got that song on CD. The Greatest Hits of NK!
+RGTelesound lucky!!
would be the no 1 hit in hollywood
+RGTelesound Same, burned my house down it was so lit
signed by THE Dennis Rodman?
Lmao these comments have me choking on my rice
That is very considerate of your hosts to play such wonderful music for you in the morning. ♥
There's a lot of horn beeping for 3 cars on the road....
Im shocked that you had the BALLS to even RECORD at ALL while you were there. Id have been so paranoid that any of the windows directly in front of the hotel would have people watching me.
The hotels are rigged
It's not that bad...
@@shivamsharma-gg3iv how so?
@@DavidLopez-tj7jl They're bugged and they listen in on you and take you away at the slightest suspicion
Its kinda dumb ngl. Especially talking instead of just saying these things back in your home country.
“I’m actually staying back because of that military truck” good plan
porqueerpineほもか lmfao like this happened last time somebody confronted them ua-cam.com/video/9dfMCVa-4Es/v-deo.html
@@plopkoekmovies5566 goddamn I actually got rickrolled in 2021
@@Vincent-pd9vo dang I didn’t even remember I did this
@@plopkoekmovies5566 FUCK
@@plopkoekmovies5566 why u do this
Thanks for the footage, Erick!
What an absolute hellscape.
Officer: HEY! Is that a camera ?
No, no... That's a gun.
Officer: Oh, ok then
Also officer: ...
Wait, *WHAT?!*
Also officers..
U need disciplined by me! **Get the mouth gags ball.*
@@annatascha3979 way to sexualize a horrifying country.
He is in North Korea, not US high school...
Talking about USA?
Looks as if this was filmed back in time, like in the 60's...
BLUEFISH PRODUCTIONS eh I say more like the mid to later 50's
ikr its like the whole country is stuck in the 50s while the world moved on
BLUEFISH PRODUCTIONS Kim Jong In is about to invent space rockets.
@@bronze9005 so did america in the 60's
North Korean camera quality: 50s-80s (or 90s)
Our camera quality (Russia, USA, Philippines etc.): 21st century.
Watching life play out in the window. It's like a nation sized Truman Show. Everyone is moving at the same pace, and posture. It's like they're all in sync. Products of the state and one way of thinking.
That's a fantastic observation, actually. There is a very "painted on" look to their movement. The cyclists, walkers, the spacing they occupy on the roads. It is so singularly eerie that little things like that could possibly be different somewhere. It's like the gait of their walks even seem like they're sort of "practiced." Odd feeling, that.
With all of the music, singing, and working, it’s kind of like being in Santa’s workshop.
Wait a minute…
Hold up
No f*cking way!
I can’t believe this place actually exists it’s still hard to fathom
imagine what the North Koreans would say if they saw Skid Row or venice beach in LA, or rampant shoplifting in SF
And sadly it's not the only one. China and cuba are just as Terrible for example.
The US under biden democrat dictatorship is not far from becoming another N Korea
@@dutchman063 can we shut up about US politics for now thanks
@@DeerJerky No, we need to discuss how biden and the democrats are essentially trying to destroy America and turn it into north korea part 2...., i know that triggers you because you voted for the ignoramus but it will be discussed
I would be super scared of the rooms being mic’d up. Better to record and do a voice over after you get home
Well I think he's being really smart about it because in the video he doesn't say anything bad about Korea. He simply states that there is morning music and shows it but doesn't call it ridiculous or crazy or any other stuff like that. I mean they probably would still be mad at him for recording but he at least isn't slandering their country.
@@DuffyGabi Yeah sure I'm not saying that it's not risky but he definitely is trying to make sure not to say a bad thing. I think it's good that there are some brave people that show how the situation there is. I for example really thought that people overreact a bit when they talk about NK but people recording the country really showed me how serious it is. They also don't immediately imprison everyone who records something. If he'd talk bad about them on the other hand it might give them even more an excuse for taking him in. They could say that he's a danger for their country and wants to spread propaganda against NK in western country. Otto Warmbier for example also stole a propaganda poster and was not just recording. Not saying that it's not dangerous but they usually try to find a "good excuse" to imprison a tourist.
Maybe he overdubbed ?
@@DuffyGabi Otto was a thief… this dude did nothing wrong
@@blaqai well technically he stole a poster yes. That doesn’t make it ok to turn him in to what amounts to a vegetable that’s also been in the fridge for 6 months. He was beaten into a coma for trying to take a piece of paper. Also, North Korea is one of the countries that teaches their youth in schools to hate the west and particularly the US. It’s an extremely unpredictable and dangerous place for anyone in the west to travel there.
My heart breaks for the people of North Korea.
What? Why? They are much better.
@@soulxslayerchanNo
@@lenoirx go see Philadelphia streets. They are extremely happy.
we just need to lift the economic and financial embargo.
@soulxslayerchan are you even living in this world? 😭😭😭
those cars and motorbike driving in circles pretending they got something to do lol
Plot twist
The military truck was spying on the camerman instead
so they were spying who was spying them? ahahahh
Double twist! They were both spied by kim jong un
LOL
And the cameraman is playing the propaganda
@@-Jack. the Plot thickens, it was Kim filming all along.
2:00 sniper: “clear shot”
It's now or never, take the shot 😀
@Are you toon enough? +500 testicle shot
@@wedmunds wtf weirdo
@ツIvory dumbass its a video game reference from sniper elite
@@yavuzkrat3858 CAPTAIN MACMILLAN!!!!!!!!!!
‘5:30 in the morning’ makes sense, they don’t have lights at night, so they need to do everything while the sun is up
Morning/day/night propaganda in the West: turns on literally any tv channel
no
“Honey you didn’t listen to the morning propaganda, is everything okay?”
I read this in Randy marsh’s voice lmfao
@@madiiiiib123 So did I lol
HE DIDNT TAKE HIS *propaganda*! HES A DOWNER!
Wife proceeds to report husband to the authorities and the kids for good measure 😐
*gets redacted*
Its like a theme park with a really really tense atmosphere
Even I felt something like that
@@chhayangnaik2195 Did you go To North Korea
@@MichaelWite19 No, sir
This is the best way I’ve ever seen anyone describe NK.
It’s such a discomforting feeling.
This is the greatest explanation I've ever heard someone give NK 👏
Do they have the sound of random horn honks and cars breaking on the speakers?
Good for you for putting this up on UA-cam.
NK is weird man, some guy went there and said it felt like an unfinished game where none of the NPC's had good ai yet
Yea this shit give me a bad gut feeling
That's why it's blocked off from public access/viewing it's not finished yet.
did you seriously use an acronym for "north korea"?
@@llVIU yeah he did, it was quite obvious
@@llVIU yeah what about it
This guy hasn’t uploaded in two years ...?
he’s back
@@nocturalTragedy HELLLLOOOOOIOIO
8 hours ago
He posted a video 6 hours ago from 1/5/2020
Sir Straus rip
In the West we replaced propaganda on loud speakers for commercials and advertising, not sure if I can tell the difference.
There's something similar in Japan when around voting season. There drive around this truck with their name written all over it and yell out through their megaphones about their regime or something. During the day they'd park outside of train station and do the same. Very annoying.
Notice how the buildings in front of the tourist hotel were painted recently but everything else in the back looks 50 years old without being cleaned
Notice the TV is a CRT
@Helen Brown it's all staged though, to make it seem like North Korea is the "best country in the world"
@Helen Brown well how do expect to to throw waste when they cant even produce waste
@Helen Brown If you are being forced to clean up regularly at gunpoint, that helps.
@Helen Brown Because it's entirely a propaganda tool of the North Korean government? And based on an alleged "Sinchon Massacre" that never really happened in the way that the Kim governments have claimed? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinchon_Massacre
A massacre where U.S. troops likely never participated according to independent outside historians?
So, it's a nonsense museum in a nonsense country.
Damn I wish our country had a sick sound system like that. Then again I'm happy that we chose to have food instead.
@@ursoj1235 Israel isn't a shithole and you made Iraque the actual shithole it is lol
@@ursoj1235 do Americans actually belive they saved Iraq by going to war with them over lies and bombing the hell out of it?
@@damian597 Don't worry. *Most* of us don't believe that
North Korea is self sufficient. Read. Fuck.
@@ursoj1235 israel is a first world country lol
The loud speakers distorted voice gives it that extra punch of eerie vibe.
In every movie hearing that equals missiles incoming or a nuclear power plant nearby failed
I know this is 7 years ago, but damn there’s a CRT tv in your room? 😂
Damn, for a Russian guy that hotel room feels like a room back at Grandma's place
True
Yeah, feels like some USSR vibes
Babushka
Действительно, похоже
Without carpet on a wall? Nah
Man, Half-Life 3 looks insane.
LMFAOOOO
I'm surprised Gordon got voiced
OML LOL
so true😂😂
@@YellowTailHorse kinda ruins his carracter but oh well, you couldnt kill friendly npcs since half life 1 anyways
North-Korea feels like Half-Life 2, but real life and without aliens
C17
its taking a while for gordon freeman to come out of statis
do you think, that car traffic you see there is only for tourists?
The new 1984 trailer looks good!
At least it's 1984!
Probably still good and reliable
@@flyingbanana4179 You know what's also good and reliable? An M1 Abrams.
@@nekotfarmer True but lets not forget the Kornet ATGM
Dude, that was exactly what i thought.
They say prisons sort of freeze time, because longterm prisoners become time capsules. North korea is a country sized prison, and an interesting preservation of a late 20th century soviet-style dictatorship
Can you imagine going to prison pre internet and smart phone and then trying to reintegrate? Rough
Spot on wordings. This is literally the 70s in every way
@WorldFlex absolute monarchy or totalitarian dictatorship are more accurate
@WorldFlex That's the opposite of accurate. You've just literally been indoctrinated to think communism means "dictatorship" and probably have never read the manifesto and can't define it without bringing in some heavily policitized bias.
@WorldFlex I am not too educated upon communism/socialism but this seems more like this is a monarchy/fascist regime
I wonder where they hid the cameras, microphones, and other bugs in your hotel.
I love it how he studied what to say so they wont delete his video
Depressing horn music: "Citizens of our fair city; by order of the Regent, the curfew is now active. Any and all foot traffic along Kaldwin's Bridge after sunset will be met with force by the city watch." Depressing horn music.
“Alexei lives!”
Shall we gather for whiskey and cigars tonight?
@@fractallusion7121 Indeed, I believe so.
@@anthonygingerich7606 Never doubt it
no rape no murder on the streets
"Why were you late for school today?"
"Oh, my North Korean propaganda wasn't working."
The only reason kids are late for school in North Korea is because they have to harvest crops and they can't say no .
Why didnt you do your homework?
I did, but kim jong un ate it :(
@@romanhorak5503 What's crazy is that's actually believable
@@kookamunga2458 Suggesting they have crops.
For some reason NK reminds me of the Disney ride “it’s a small world”
Deadass the room from Portal 2 you start in
im moving to NK and opening up a bike shop
How's the bike shop going a year later?
Edit: 6 months later, still no word. Bike shop presumed enemy of the state .
@@Nate-dv5dp I think the Glorious North Korean government took him into one of their labor camps
@@centauria9122 hahahaha xD
@@centauria9122 i was last year in North korea it isn't that bad but very scary
@@sunshineeeraiii1995 Visiting the country, living, or setting up a business in North Korea?
He is actually so smart. He never calls them out or slanders the propaganda nor the country, instead he makes sarcastic remarks, but it's those sarcastic remarks (being portrayed positive) that could possibly save his life if he ever gets caught with the recording.
You think zero people for their government understand our speaking nuances?
Taking this risk at all automatically disqualified him as “so smart”
Sarcasm is not a feature of the english language.
Anyone who has a basic grasp of a language knows if someone is sarcastic.
He has the opportunity to deny any claims on him being sarcastic.
@@rasmustagu They aren't stupid.
Dude you have guts for doing these videos
I don’t understand why anyone would want to visit a country where they could just snatch you up and make you a political prisoner.
Because the USA never did that, huh?
@@haraldschmidt8828 do you have a case you can mention?
North Korean hotel clerk: "Would you like a wake up call?" Guest: "Yes, thank you." 5AM: Military truck rolls up outside your window and blares for hours.
Hhahaha! Forgot the endless guy screaming pro-communist slogans! Catch is... If you refuse to agree to the wake-up call the next day... Its gulag time for you!
@@Arelak "Wake you up" becomes "Pick you up".
The hotel clerck : " just in case you having a bad sleeping habit sir :) "
Now that’s what I call good service
Would suck to have a night shift around there.
Literally, the sun is not allowed to shine there. It's in their constitution.
Collins Ongaya Of course I'm joking.
Collins Ongaya tard
Collins Ongaya no shit idiot
No, it shines... but Dear Glorious Leader Kim Jong-Un's gigantic ass blocks it all out!
Steve Kapschock and the comment of the year award goes to...
How many cameras and listening devices did you find in the sweep of your room? 😂
I would love to visit there, my only issue is I’m not clued up on currency and photography / videography as i read that you have to use your own country’s currency? And also do they not take your phone away from you?
Who else thought he mispronounced "Pyongyang" at the beginning?
Me I’m like tf
Daniel Smith it’s not pyongyang it’s another city north
@@evilemoji420 pahahahah
Whenever i try to pronounce it, it comes as PORNGANG
No I have something called I dont give a fuck about petty bullshit syndrome!
Do you think they force them to all walk by the hotel to make it look extra productive?
I agree, and you can hear horns beeping but I don’t see any Traffic 😔
Bianca Caba Im not sure we watched the same video then cause I was quite surprised at the steady stream of cars and trucks going by in the distance.
Or have fake fruits and vegetables?
No probably actually real stuff but idk really
Real people just their lives arent good
I am impressed that he didn’t get offed after this
looks and sounds better than most american cities
looks and sounds like you'd be more welcomed in NK anyway.
and who tf asked you anything lil bro 💀
@@raulvsr likewise 💀
It probably is
I'm impressed by the posh conditions of your room, more certainly impressed by the high end technology put into the TV. Gotta give you kuddos for filming.
Trust me, this is all a thinly veiled facade. The whole place is like a game from the early 90s where if you go out of bounds, you can walk behind the false walls and see the emptiness.
Dude has balls to be filming tbh
@@MiaogisTeas lol. It's not the interview
@@LambGoatSoup I mean the movie is definitely not 100% accurate but North Korea has many spots that are in extreme poverty, there was even an issue of cannabalism due to hunger in the 90’s…
Is that a COLOR TV?!?!?
car crashes are called "friendly encounters" in North Korea
Quinn Greenlee LMFAO!
There are no cars mostly cycles
Patrick C thats the joke.
LMAO
in canada too
They were 100% watching and listening to you the whole time. I know it's six years later, but I hope you're okay. They do some crazy shit to people they don't like.
They have no jurisdiction outside the country. If you make it out of the country you can relax. That's why they determined to make sure you never leave once you get caught doing something they don't like. The fact that people travel there as tourists is madness. Safer to go to Chernobyl.
@@MrWolfSnackNot right now it isn’t
@@MrWolfSnack Even the worst parts of the US are probably safer than this. Crazy.
He was right to be paranoid. Tourists in the slightly friendlier China get assigned a dedicated surveillance officer (each officer is usually monitoring several people or an organized tour group). If China is doing it then North Korea is DEFINITELY surveilling every single second of a tourists time in North Korea.
You are mistaken. China does NOT assign anyone to tourists.
I've been to China four times. I was told that secret security is everywhere, but no one ever bothered me and I never detected their presence.
I wasn't entirely comfortable 100% of the time, mainly due to the propaganda we're fed here in the U.S., but I was able to do basically anything I wanted and I could travel throughout the country at my leisure.
@@datcat15 because AI does it nowadays through an array on cameras
And the masks that the majority of the population wear make even THAT more difficult for their surveillance....@@ridottech1902
@@datcat15 shut up 50 cent army guy
@@antbereishit You have no clue....
people can go any where in the world and they choose north korea.
not anywhere
Daddy o
It IS a fascinating and mysterious country. Nowhere else like it on earth. I see the appeal and why people would want to visit. But I can’t understand why an American would want to MOVE there. I don’t think they do, actually.
Tyler Barker lmao you can't move there...
Daddy curiosity killed the cat
How do you know they’re not monitoring you in that room?
Why would they
Why wouldn't they
@@zonnenrad remove that tin foil hat bro
@@alexx1156 Tin foil hat? You do know it's North Korea, you're talking about
alexx1156 the same reason Otto warmbier got sent back to the US in a vegetive state.
Friend: So what kind of music do you listen to?
Me: It's complicated
Damn this is like to travel in time back to soviet Russia, even the vehicles.jeez.
I think it's even worst than USSR.
@@unspecifiedvirusofunknownr2931 it had it's great points about it though but yeah
Yup. Seeing people in our generation openly promote communism and hardcore socialism is terrifying. They are beyond stupid and refuse to acknowledge videos like these.
@@101Potatoproductions Well memes are memes for some. New generation humour, though. Big OOf
Luv Pancake Yeah I get the epic memes, but I literally know hardcore left wing people from my school who promote communism and have communist flags in their bedrooms. Scary shit.
This makes East Germany of the 70's look like the land of milk & honey. 😟
The countries in the Warsaw Pact were never this harsh. North Korea for me is a monarchy because the countries leaders run by bloodline, while Warsaw Pact countries leaders were members of the political party.
Yep. In East Germany you had atleast adequate pay and could buy stuff IF it was available.
@@pomeranianproductions647 let's say, East Germany wasn't as posh as West Germany, but at least things were adequate enough there. No extremes, like no extreme rich and poor.
People were normally rich and poor.
Ofc people evacuated to the West cuz their family was there and higher gambling chance for a better job.
@@sooryan_1018 no, cause they where all poor
@@sooryan_1018 people evacuated west cause in the east there was no liberty
I feel like the whole collective consciousness there is stifled, enslaved, imprisoned. It’s like a dark spot on the globe where consciousness is suppressed.
Yep, cause Kim can even read your mind because he is a god... seriously this has been thaught to generations in NK by now.
I like how they painted the first row of the houses, so that tourists from the hotel room can see how good it is in N. Korea but then they just gave up on the highrises in the background.
I wonder *After watching the fake car dealership* if the cars and, trucks driving around are like the ones on "The Truman Show"..just going in circles, back n forth in front of the hotel..not really going anywhere
+barniculas while that can be true, and there is no reason not to entertain such a notion, there is also the possibility of it being that it isn't and they have enough people in cars actually going about. I'm skeptical but not sure :/
+barniculas Exactly what I thought.
+barniculas Exactly what I thought.
+barniculas
Actually it seems you're right. There are at least 3 vehicles I see that appear twice in this video. For example, at 2:26, there's a blue truck. And at 2:56 there's the same blue pickup truck again going the opposite direction. I think there's a few other cars that are also making loops, but it's hard to tell. I actually think it's possible that they may have made either side of each vehicle, slightly different looking....such as one side with hubcaps, other side without, one side with door trim, other side without, to make the cars look slightly different when they turn around and loop back.
+C “N7” North I'm sure some of the vehicles are political party member vehicles, some are local buses, but I would not put it past NK to have extra vehicles driving around the blocks to make it appear as though the streets busy. NK's are pretty good at faking things including empty buildings, skyscrapers, etc. NK have a huge fuel shortage and most of the fuel is reserved for the military, so I doubt they would waste gas for private owners other then members of the Korean workers party.
You're 100% being monitored at all times, I'm sure there's a multitude of recording devices in your room.
If they wanted to record you they would need to spend alot money on good cameras and hide them well. Youre probably not being watched but the rooms are most likely bugged anyways the Kim jong un is always listening
No you're not
there to poor to afford all that
@@kan12372 or at least that military truck is there to spy on everyone in the hotel, but I mean I'm not surprised, who would want to to to north Korea? Probably a spy or someone that doesn't agree with the dictatorship, so no wonder that they spy on people in hotels
No theres a person at te door
This is what is scary though; I saw some footage where the camera man asks a person on the street about the music and the person looks dumbfounded and asks what music?
Hilarious part is, this actually looks nicer and cleaner than where I lived in Toronto, Canada.
The music sounds like it’s from the 40’s. Take away the fact that it’s meant for propaganda and it’s kind of nostalgic in a creepy, wartime kind of way.
Julia Crawford Wartime? NK is still at war with SK. They only signed a peace treaty. NK needs perpetual war to feed the party’s loyalty. They like to take a few pages out of 1984, don’t they?
a tomato Well I wouldn’t call ceasefire a war....
@@atomato5989 well they both wanted Korea to be reunited by 2045...
It's like north korea paused the game in the 1950's and everyone else's game is still going.
Yeah in fact it’s not even the year 2021 over there LMAO. They count their years based on when Kim Il Sung first took power back in the 50’s, right now they’re only in like AD 70 something.
@@thatperformer3879 Also their military still uses Early Cold War equipment. Hell they even think that the U.S wears 50s Uniform and uses the M1 Garand as standard issue.
Wonder why. Almost like 90% of their infrastructure was bombed by the United States and 3 million people were killed, with thousands of tons of napalm poisoning the soil.
@@arandomperson5434 they do not actually think that.
@@Katalci And now their own Civilians are being abused by NK
Damn, a balcony? Literally never had that in any other hotel Ive been to.
Make a random video out a window; zero views. Do in North Korea; 6 million views!
“Citizen, pick up that can”
Welcome, welcome to pyongyang, you have chosen or have been chosen to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers...
I’d much rather live in C17 than NK. At least the Universal Union will make me into an immortal cyborg