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Based on my military experience gained from General Aladdin, HWASONG-17 seems better than HWASONG-15 because it's more pointy at the top whereas the latter is more round.
There is also Egyptian billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris who built North Korea's first mobile operator, and has $250 millions worth of investments in North Korea. He might be the link between Egypt, NK and Africa. The guy is too powerful to an extent that he was the only Egyptian business man to "criticize" Egyptian government and get away with it.
@@timgooding2448 north korea has a heavy presence in the black market, they don’t necessarily have to give the egyptian billionaire “capital”, they can give other things like drugs, slaves, etc me think
@@sinneryt1128 I just Google searched for his name and got a handful of returns in English. If I read Arabic or Russian or Italian there would be more stories.
So as in a TLDR; they're showing off their military strength like they always have and are possibly running out of money as well as food, which has been a thing since the 90s. Don't think they've played us.
@@spicychad55 Escape is also near impossible nowadays last I heard. They build or are building a fence across the popular river into China and other places.
"We had no idea," says the thumbnail, sorry to be snarky but there are 75 million people who knows exactly what's going on. It's a part of a Mexican standoff that has lasted 69(nice) years since the ceasefire in 1953. They build the Koksan, we build the K-9. They launch missiles, our live fire exercises are non-nuclear bunker-busters. That picture where two leaders shake hands in Panmunjom is funny, because it's between two leaders pouring billions to drop bombs to each other's heads. It is basically our little "mutually assured destruction", and South Korea is spending more on the military than the whole economy of North Korea just to maintain the balance without "playing dirty".
Only Kim Jong Un is allowed to be rich. Because he has the highest power in North Korea. Anyone richer than him is considered a disgrace to him, and his country.
It was kind of unnecessary to withhold the answer. We would have happily listened to your theory while knowing the conclusion. It would have been easier for the viewer to analyze and discuss your thesis if you had started with the conclusion. In fact, it would have made an excellent title for this video
They are certainly doing a lot to get foreign currency, but those new fields for farming are probably not one of those things. The North Korean soils are extremely overworked and are being depleted of nutrients. They just need new farmland to prevent further food shortages
not to mention that they most probably can't import artificial fertilizer since that may be made into a weapon and could be on the ban list of imports (no clue if it holds true or not)
This basically proves the meme about WMD. US: Hey Iraq, you have WMD? Iraq: Mate, no! We don't! US: Pretty sure you have them. Here's some freedom. NK: Hey we have nuclear. US: Nah you don't have, stop lying. NK: Yes we have, try us. US: ...
Unfortunately for Iraq, they didn't have a fat China right next to them. Iran was there, but they were kind of mortal enemies. So while Iraq was free real estate North Korea isn't.
@@tamasszabo9108 also North Korea was warming up relations with South Korea during the 90s and 00s after SK sent aid for the famine and the sunshine policy and North Korea pretended to cooperate with treaties so that no one could have time to suspect anything. Even China alerted the US straight away as soon as it got word about NK’s first test.
@@familyguyjokes Biological, chemical, and other things are also considered weapons of mass destruction. If I remember correctly, a lot of chemical weapons were used in WW1. Mustard gas the most known. I forget if either side used anthrax, but it was often brought up in discussions about weaponized diseases. I think mustard gas tended to settle in low places. Perfect for the trench warfare. Hussein used chemical or biological on Iran and dissident peoples in Iraq. Well documented. Most of the world did not care very much. Hussein got on the shit list for invading Kuwait. Our CIA, for whatever reason, misinformed the President and Congress about what Hussein was doing and probably why. Though it seems Hussein realized, after his defeat, that he had gone too far and had really dismantled the facilities, we did not believe him because we trusted our own intelligence organization.
The North Korean leader isn't a good one but I have to say that one thing they know is that having nukes is an effective way to keep themselves safe. No wonder Iran wants some too.
4:44 putting military bases under ground in a mountainous country is a no-brainer this means in a war it’s a lot harder to destroy a North Korean military base then if it was on the surface
But I'm pretty sure we've invented bunker busters and such? Those things can bust through at least 100 feet of dirt and oil and like 20 feet of reinforced concrete so enough of them you can probably dig a hole in a mountain Or you can just nuke an entire mountain with the same bunker buster design
@@saosaqii5807 dropping a nuke this close to China would most probably cause for China to get involved, which no matter if they win or lose there, it would lead to the same outcome, a nuclear winter with a dash of radioactive wind
7:47 the host county could kick them from the country (asking them to leave) and they have to leave, before you commit a crime and run to a random embassy keep in mind you're gonna be stuck there for your whole life because once you step out of the embassy you're gonna be arrested
"North Korea has plenty of land for its population" Yeah, but a very small percentage of that is fertile. They need to reclaim land in order to get more area for farming since the already existing land isn't enough to feed the population well. It isn't really any indication of them running out of money. It's just the sensible thing to do.
no they have a good amount of land. Rice has much more calories than wheat, so even though there is less land, it can keep tummies full longer. The only reason why people starve in north korea is because agricultural practices havent advanced and remained amateur.
@@jeostone5255 Yes, the agricultural practices aren't up to modern standards in many farms there and the rate of mechanization could be improved, but that isn't "the only reason". Far from it. The rice yield per hectare for example is close to international norms according to the UN. The surface area is indeed relatively large, but most of it is rugged and mountainous terrain. Only 11% of the landmass is suitable for cereal cultivation, the cropping season is short and rainfall is irregular. All that makes it very difficult to produce enough food with the international sanctions slapped on.
All those things are interesting and deserve more attention. But, I'm sorry to say, your conclusions are in line with the consensus of experts. North Koreas strategy since 1991 has been all about spreading fear and covering up weaknesses. Its a paper tiger. Everything they do is for show, from the guided tourist tours to rocket launches.
@@mrvan3491 If it was *just* North Korea, they wouldn't exist. But North Korea is basically a vassal state of the rebellious communist Chinese. Which are too profitable to the corporatists of the United States to risk war with, even as they continue to eliminate and enslave entire culture groups.
I wouldn't call polders "incredibly fertile" and "perfect for agriculture" Land reclaimed from the sea had a tendency to be useless for most agriculture There's a reason the dutch polders are mostly covered in either tulips or grass for grazing
I've been living here in Flevoland for most of my life and I'm pretty much surrounded by lots of different crops so I can confirm its pretty fertile soil :) You should look it up, it's the biggest artificial island in the world.
Sanctions are followed when it suits. Even the US, they have always played both sides. Money is money, sanctions are to give the impression you're doing something, while still doing back door deals.
@@doogus8728 in pretty much every single conflict in the past 70+ years. From starting most coups in the 20th century, to funding both sides of the various conflicts. War is profit, and profit exists on both sides.
@@RobertoCarlosM Well, I was more interested in the North-South Korean conflict. But I think it's understandable that the US is involved in global affairs, in good ways, and bad ways, since they are the world's superpower, and I think any country, be it China, the USSR, the British Empire would've acted with the same, if not worse conduct over the world.
Who makes the rules that certain countries get nukes and others don't? NKorea's actions make rational sense, and they have survived by playing their limited cards correctly.
It's an oppressive tyrannical government. People die trying to escape that place. It's a giant prison run by an insane man who thinks he is a God. Nothing about that place is rational, except for those who try to leave it behind.
NKorea’s actions only partially made sense in some areas lol. It definitely doesn’t make sense when it came to its international affairs and the management of its people
Preferably no countries should have nukes at all, I don't trust them to use it rationally. The more countries that have them, the higher risk for nuclear war.
There are no sources. All (or at least most) information about NK is so damn unreliable it even has a Wikipedia article. This video only feeds the misconceptions and disinformation presented by the South Korea (the south naturally hates the north).
There's so much we don't know about the DPRK and we can only wonder what are their endgame. It's a shame to spend all that effort into war while their population starves
The United States military general once sat down with one of the military general from North Korea, he said this to US general "you attack Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan because they don't have nuclear weapons, you're not gonna attack us because we have nuclear capability."
China isn't going to sit still if the US attacks North Korea. People keep citing NK's nuclear capabilities as an ultimate deterrent against the evil US imperialists, but the reality is that the US can't guarantee a second Chinese intervention. A second Korean war could break out into WW3. The Middle Eastern countries simply don't have the same effect.
@@mattyb117 those are some valid points, but China has been playing double side in terms of Russia-Ukraine war, even though Xi and Putin is best friends china still didn't intervene, but it might be different with North Korea since it is right on china's eastern border.
"Will never discover" Unless, of course, they started an invasion and send their army underneath there, dug the tunnel out for a couple of days and boom, they're in the middle of Seoul. Rushing out as South Korea scrambles in confusion as to why they never detected them.
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In early 2000s, South Korea began the Saemangeum land reclamation project. It uses a 33-km (20.5 mile) sea dyke to reclaim an area of 400 square kms (155 sq miles). Not surprised NK is using same bad idea.
I live in Zambia(Borders Zim, Mozambique and Namibia) and have discovered a few North Korean people here, and when I asked them why Zambia, they couldn't really answer me. coincidence I think maybe not
@@gigacanno750 can't argue, but that was not what it sounded like to me when talking to them, they keep saying North Korea is great and they are all surrounding a new hospital here in Lusaka Zambia, so that of building hospitals as a cover starting to make sense.
@@gigacanno750 the one even talked about how he is friends with the North Korean ambassador in South Africa, so these are not people that is running, or defectors they see North Korea as a positive and that's why it was so surpprising that they are in Zambia, didn't make any sense to me
@@rugbykliniek I mean, moving abroad and working for higher wage is not unusual even for developed countries, especially European ones, but that doesn't mean you dislike your own country if you move to make bucks elsewhere.
Weaponized Deep Drilling is also a scary thought. Dig deep enough under a major city like Seoul and set off explosions that rip open a huge sink hole and cause chaos for an invasion.
Why is it 'troubling' when other countries have nuclear weapons, we have them too? It only is logical from their point of view to also equip their military with such weapons.
Alternative theory.. they are simply building bridges rather than tunnels. Either way, not sure how you've come to the conclusion that "we've been played".
The tunnels would be more of a threat if it were in a larger part of the continent, but it's just the Korean peninsula. From there, it would be easier to spot via satellite imageries and destroy the entrances via missiles, artilleries, or whatever. You still need to pump oxygen deep underground (other than accounting for food and supplies for survival underground); it's not like air will circulate properly.
North Korea tactics 1. Threatened the World with war or nuclear war 2. The world got horrified 3. They ask for aid or food aid 4 . North Korea saying it's starting to dismantle its nukes Repeat
They cannot be underestimated because they have exhausted resources and that isn’t really normal. That usually means they are doing something with the resources and it’s not development.
@@johnbean9797 I don’t think sanctions really stop them from making weapons. Infrastructure isn’t really hard because raw materials are already there in North Korea, the Chinese help them and they sell their materials in a cheaper price to China, the north Koreans know what that are doing but they are clueless how to solve the food problem.
8:08 Few seconds ago you literally showed a North Korean embassy in London yet in this graph you only show specific countries....what are you trying to achieve with that?
Reclaimed land is not that fertile. It can only be used for flowers and cow pastures, which is why Netherlands is famous for flowers and cheese. If they really need more land to grow food, why not use normal land?
Most of North Korea has pretty poor soil quality. Rocky and shallow and hilly, like Japan to its east. I know they grow cabbage for kimchi and some potatoes, but the land itself is just hard to work.
Probably not important, but might wanna check your maps. You’ve placed Pyongsan smack dab on top of Pyongyang. Pyongsan is actually well south of there, about halfway to Seoul, South Korea.
i find it very interesting how in the span of 6 years trees of atleast 10 meters size suddently grew out of nowhere whilst you could obviously plant a bigger tree someplace its near impossible to do with a tree of thatt size with it also survinig the procedure mayby its fake trees?
North Korea made it through the 1990s or the "arduous march". They can make it through just about anything now. The North Korea of today and the North Korea of 20-30 years ago might as well be different dimensions apart.
OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) is a very powerful tool. Seek and you shall find. In the 21st century, just about everything is on the Internet. If you spend enough time on something and put the pieces of the puzzle together, you can solve such mysteries, even in a country like North Korea, which is cut off from the environment.
UN: Do you promise not to Nuke International Waters? So that no one has Tsunamis? North Korea: Sure! I promise-(remembers both USSR and America doing the same thing during the Cold War) Yeah…I promise(fingers crossed 🤞 )
Based on my military experience gained from General Aladdin, HWASONG-17 seems better than HWASONG-15 because it's more pointy at the top whereas the latter is more round.
the north koreans should really consider partnering with the republic of wadiya, they know a thing or two about missiles..
It’s Aladeen not Disney garbage
@@mrnavy1198 They are similarly a great Democrasay
@@AquaWeiner your so funny
@@InferKnow China is a democracy too. HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!
There is also Egyptian billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris who built North Korea's first mobile operator, and has $250 millions worth of investments in North Korea. He might be the link between Egypt, NK and Africa. The guy is too powerful to an extent that he was the only Egyptian business man to "criticize" Egyptian government and get away with it.
Where can we learn about him?
How can you have $250 millions worth of investments in North Korea. An investment expects a return. What does NK have to offer?
@@timgooding2448 money gets made through corruption and cheap slave labour
@@timgooding2448 north korea has a heavy presence in the black market, they don’t necessarily have to give the egyptian billionaire “capital”, they can give other things like drugs, slaves, etc me think
@@sinneryt1128 I just Google searched for his name and got a handful of returns in English. If I read Arabic or Russian or Italian there would be more stories.
So as in a TLDR; they're showing off their military strength like they always have and are possibly running out of money as well as food, which has been a thing since the 90s. Don't think they've played us.
they're also known to ignore food aid to intentionally control their population. if people are always hungry, then escape's lesser of a priority.
@@spicychad55 Escape is also near impossible nowadays last I heard. They build or are building a fence across the popular river into China and other places.
Yeah it was an interesting video but I don't see what's so insane about it.
@@Juneauite it’s been like that for quite sometime. They could never “waltz” into China.
"We had no idea," says the thumbnail, sorry to be snarky but there are 75 million people who knows exactly what's going on. It's a part of a Mexican standoff that has lasted 69(nice) years since the ceasefire in 1953. They build the Koksan, we build the K-9. They launch missiles, our live fire exercises are non-nuclear bunker-busters. That picture where two leaders shake hands in Panmunjom is funny, because it's between two leaders pouring billions to drop bombs to each other's heads. It is basically our little "mutually assured destruction", and South Korea is spending more on the military than the whole economy of North Korea just to maintain the balance without "playing dirty".
“Appear weak when you are strong, and ostentatiously display nukes when you are weak.” ― Kim Tzu, The Art of Weakness
I wondered where the Russian strategy came from.
@@sam_kant Rusicst motivation? Greedy belligerence + weakness.
So countries which flex strong armies are actually weaklings! Got it!
Mutt logic
Lessons from a wise scholar about posturing.
LMFAO (jk if yall couldn't tell.)
I wonder what life as a North Korean rich person is like
Only Kim Jong Un is allowed to be rich. Because he has the highest power in North Korea. Anyone richer than him is considered a disgrace to him, and his country.
Nonexistent
I've contracted your wonder
Shitty. Unless you have well paid and well fed lower and middle classes, all the money in the world won't provide you with much.
Execution time: TOMORROW 14:00
It was kind of unnecessary to withhold the answer. We would have happily listened to your theory while knowing the conclusion. It would have been easier for the viewer to analyze and discuss your thesis if you had started with the conclusion. In fact, it would have made an excellent title for this video
A lot of the video wasn't necessary imo
Yes! I even went, “What’s your point?”, as it got lost in all your innuendo.
watching the video just felt annoying because of it
This mfer doesn’t care about what his viewers think.. quite sad.
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Another reason for the polders could be a place to put the tailings from their tunnel digs without much suspicion
Unless, OBF is paid by the North Koreans to misdirect XD
I thought it was about their "secret" military airfield that you can clearly see on satellite and have their own ICAO designation
They are certainly doing a lot to get foreign currency, but those new fields for farming are probably not one of those things. The North Korean soils are extremely overworked and are being depleted of nutrients. They just need new farmland to prevent further food shortages
not to mention that they most probably can't import artificial fertilizer since that may be made into a weapon and could be on the ban list of imports (no clue if it holds true or not)
@@tehnosan5769 why don't they import it from China??
This basically proves the meme about WMD.
US: Hey Iraq, you have WMD?
Iraq: Mate, no! We don't!
US: Pretty sure you have them. Here's some freedom.
NK: Hey we have nuclear.
US: Nah you don't have, stop lying.
NK: Yes we have, try us.
US: ...
Unfortunately for Iraq, they didn't have a fat China right next to them. Iran was there, but they were kind of mortal enemies. So while Iraq was free real estate North Korea isn't.
@@tamasszabo9108 also North Korea was warming up relations with South Korea during the 90s and 00s after SK sent aid for the famine and the sunshine policy and North Korea pretended to cooperate with treaties so that no one could have time to suspect anything.
Even China alerted the US straight away as soon as it got word about NK’s first test.
The only difference is that Iraq was a strategical position in the region for the passage of oil ducts.
Hmm Iraq never had nuclear weapons
@@familyguyjokes Biological, chemical, and other things are also considered weapons of mass destruction. If I remember correctly, a lot of chemical weapons were used in WW1. Mustard gas the most known. I forget if either side used anthrax, but it was often brought up in discussions about weaponized diseases. I think mustard gas tended to settle in low places. Perfect for the trench warfare.
Hussein used chemical or biological on Iran and dissident peoples in Iraq. Well documented. Most of the world did not care very much. Hussein got on the shit list for invading Kuwait. Our CIA, for whatever reason, misinformed the President and Congress about what Hussein was doing and probably why. Though it seems Hussein realized, after his defeat, that he had gone too far and had really dismantled the facilities, we did not believe him because we trusted our own intelligence organization.
The North Korean leader isn't a good one but I have to say that one thing they know is that having nukes is an effective way to keep themselves safe.
No wonder Iran wants some too.
U do understand those nukes are mute if fuel isn't sold to them (caugh caugh china). It's a buffer state with a chinese puppet as leader.
Iran's 100x more open and free than north Korea.
@@Darkest_matter And how is that relevant to my comment?
Yeah because places that dont have them are always at risk of being invaded by the US or other Western Nations
UA-cam censorship is getting worse. Could not read dark matters reply
4:44 putting military bases under ground in a mountainous country is a no-brainer this means in a war it’s a lot harder to destroy a North Korean military base then if it was on the surface
sounds like top gun maverick XD
But I'm pretty sure we've invented bunker busters and such?
Those things can bust through at least 100 feet of dirt and oil and like 20 feet of reinforced concrete so enough of them you can probably dig a hole in a mountain
Or you can just nuke an entire mountain with the same bunker buster design
@@saosaqii5807it’s a good thing for The DPRK that mountain to hundreds of “feet” tall
@@saosaqii5807 dropping a nuke this close to China would most probably cause for China to get involved, which no matter if they win or lose there, it would lead to the same outcome, a nuclear winter with a dash of radioactive wind
North Korea does a little trolling to the International Community
7:47 the host county could kick them from the country (asking them to leave) and they have to leave, before you commit a crime and run to a random embassy keep in mind you're gonna be stuck there for your whole life because once you step out of the embassy you're gonna be arrested
Unless said embassy grants you asylum status and extradites you to their country.
Or sometimes the police just dont care and go into the embassy.
The host country could just cut off all water, food and electricity to embassy?
8:06 slight mistake Nepal too has north Korean embassy
"North Korea has plenty of land for its population"
Yeah, but a very small percentage of that is fertile. They need to reclaim land in order to get more area for farming since the already existing land isn't enough to feed the population well. It isn't really any indication of them running out of money. It's just the sensible thing to do.
no they have a good amount of land. Rice has much more calories than wheat, so even though there is less land, it can keep tummies full longer. The only reason why people starve in north korea is because agricultural practices havent advanced and remained amateur.
@@jeostone5255 Yes, the agricultural practices aren't up to modern standards in many farms there and the rate of mechanization could be improved, but that isn't "the only reason". Far from it. The rice yield per hectare for example is close to international norms according to the UN.
The surface area is indeed relatively large, but most of it is rugged and mountainous terrain. Only 11% of the landmass is suitable for cereal cultivation, the cropping season is short and rainfall is irregular.
All that makes it very difficult to produce enough food with the international sanctions slapped on.
i am really fascinated by north korea, its such a weird place and we dont know if we know anything about it
This guy is talking what governments knew decades ago. We know about NK more than you can imagine
North Korea is not as mysterious as you think they even have multiple UA-cam channels which sometimes post videos in English
All those things are interesting and deserve more attention. But, I'm sorry to say, your conclusions are in line with the consensus of experts. North Koreas strategy since 1991 has been all about spreading fear and covering up weaknesses. Its a paper tiger. Everything they do is for show, from the guided tourist tours to rocket launches.
Its not for us, its for their population. Its not a real country, just a detention camp.
That doesn't mean they ain't capable of nuking South Korea or Japan and kill millions of people.
If that was the case I'm pretty sure the US and SK would have attacked them along time ago
Isn’t that the case with mainly all communist countries, bar China?
@@mrvan3491 If it was *just* North Korea, they wouldn't exist. But North Korea is basically a vassal state of the rebellious communist Chinese. Which are too profitable to the corporatists of the United States to risk war with, even as they continue to eliminate and enslave entire culture groups.
I wouldn't call polders "incredibly fertile" and "perfect for agriculture"
Land reclaimed from the sea had a tendency to be useless for most agriculture
There's a reason the dutch polders are mostly covered in either tulips or grass for grazing
Not really though, the polders are among the most furtile and productive in the Netherlands.
@@JJMZQ plants don’t like salt
@@joenuts5167 take it from someone that can look out of his bedroom window onto the polders and see crops growing that what Jelle is saying is true
Lol what? I live near polders. There is allot of different crops grown on them. From lettuce to cabbage, to carrots and potatoes
I've been living here in Flevoland for most of my life and I'm pretty much surrounded by lots of different crops so I can confirm its pretty fertile soil :) You should look it up, it's the biggest artificial island in the world.
Sanctions are followed when it suits. Even the US, they have always played both sides. Money is money, sanctions are to give the impression you're doing something, while still doing back door deals.
*ESPECIALLY* the USA
What did the US do to play both sides?
@@doogus8728 in pretty much every single conflict in the past 70+ years. From starting most coups in the 20th century, to funding both sides of the various conflicts. War is profit, and profit exists on both sides.
@@doogus8728 "Children are cruel jack, and I'm very in touch with children" -Sundowner
@@RobertoCarlosM Well, I was more interested in the North-South Korean conflict. But I think it's understandable that the US is involved in global affairs, in good ways, and bad ways, since they are the world's superpower, and I think any country, be it China, the USSR, the British Empire would've acted with the same, if not worse conduct over the world.
The CIA should hire this guy
I think it's really just only the public that doesn't know.
@@willemvanoranje5724 Yeah, but this guy doesn't have the resources that the FBI has, but still found out about it.
You mean CIA. FBI is for local issues such as crime gangs.
@@KuldarJ true
@@Moses_VII I'm not an American, so idk and idc
If being broke is a masterplan, maybe I should put that on my resume
Who makes the rules that certain countries get nukes and others don't? NKorea's actions make rational sense, and they have survived by playing their limited cards correctly.
It's an oppressive tyrannical government.
People die trying to escape that place.
It's a giant prison run by an insane man who thinks he is a God.
Nothing about that place is rational, except for those who try to leave it behind.
NKorea’s actions only partially made sense in some areas lol. It definitely doesn’t make sense when it came to its international affairs and the management of its people
Preferably no countries should have nukes at all, I don't trust them to use it rationally. The more countries that have them, the higher risk for nuclear war.
Yeah, i can say that stuff too. At least some sources would be nice...
And not just a patreon link😉
I totally agree. In my opinion, sources would provide a benefit to channel by improving its credibility.
There are no sources. All (or at least most) information about NK is so damn unreliable it even has a Wikipedia article. This video only feeds the misconceptions and disinformation presented by the South Korea (the south naturally hates the north).
There's so much we don't know about the DPRK and we can only wonder what are their endgame. It's a shame to spend all that effort into war while their population starves
America is no different
@@FlipzPlayz ?
@@dislikebutton5713 does the same thing as DPRK
DPRK has one goal keep the Kim alive.
You're stuck in the 90's the famine ended in 1998 American media clown 🤣
@OBF Great videos man. Keep it up
The United States military general once sat down with one of the military general from North Korea, he said this to US general "you attack Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan because they don't have nuclear weapons, you're not gonna attack us because we have nuclear capability."
China isn't going to sit still if the US attacks North Korea. People keep citing NK's nuclear capabilities as an ultimate deterrent against the evil US imperialists, but the reality is that the US can't guarantee a second Chinese intervention. A second Korean war could break out into WW3. The Middle Eastern countries simply don't have the same effect.
@@mattyb117 those are some valid points, but China has been playing double side in terms of Russia-Ukraine war, even though Xi and Putin is best friends china still didn't intervene, but it might be different with North Korea since it is right on china's eastern border.
North korea has more diplomatic missions than shown in the map
Sometimes these make you think that maybe the ROK should reunify Korea now more than ever.
You mean the DPRK
And you think South Korea want to unify ? while they profit from cheap slave human resources ?
Do you really think those tunnels from NK to SK aren't used.
@@Darkest_matter No we absolutely don't
@@raghuls5914 No
"Will never discover"
Unless, of course, they started an invasion and send their army underneath there, dug the tunnel out for a couple of days and boom, they're in the middle of Seoul. Rushing out as South Korea scrambles in confusion as to why they never detected them.
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I did a satellite imagery analysis project on yongbyon and found irregularities which could not be explained, this could be why, amazing video
In early 2000s, South Korea began the Saemangeum land reclamation project. It uses a 33-km (20.5 mile) sea dyke to reclaim an area of 400 square kms (155 sq miles). Not surprised NK is using same bad idea.
I live in Zambia(Borders Zim, Mozambique and Namibia) and have discovered a few North Korean people here, and when I asked them why Zambia, they couldn't really answer me. coincidence I think maybe not
Almost anywhere’s better than north korea
@@gigacanno750 can't argue, but that was not what it sounded like to me when talking to them, they keep saying North Korea is great and they are all surrounding a new hospital here in Lusaka Zambia, so that of building hospitals as a cover starting to make sense.
@@gigacanno750 the one even talked about how he is friends with the North Korean ambassador in South Africa, so these are not people that is running, or defectors they see North Korea as a positive and that's why it was so surpprising that they are in Zambia, didn't make any sense to me
@@gigacanno750 You've heard of Russia, right ?
@@rugbykliniek I mean, moving abroad and working for higher wage is not unusual even for developed countries, especially European ones, but that doesn't mean you dislike your own country if you move to make bucks elsewhere.
Weaponized Deep Drilling is also a scary thought. Dig deep enough under a major city like Seoul and set off explosions that rip open a huge sink hole and cause chaos for an invasion.
Why is it 'troubling' when other countries have nuclear weapons, we have them too? It only is logical from their point of view to also equip their military with such weapons.
What is logical about imprisoning your own people?
They can not choose to leave, they are poor and they are deceived at a young age.
London has a North Korean embassy
Kim: "Food?! We need to weapons of mass distraction!"
Kim: Yes food, actually.
Alternative theory.. they are simply building bridges rather than tunnels. Either way, not sure how you've come to the conclusion that "we've been played".
We give them much food they should not starve, but are.
It’s confirmed: North Korea is Ordensstaat Burgundy.
The hospital being a discuss reminds me of Star Court Mall in Stranger Things
The tunnels would be more of a threat if it were in a larger part of the continent, but it's just the Korean peninsula. From there, it would be easier to spot via satellite imageries and destroy the entrances via missiles, artilleries, or whatever. You still need to pump oxygen deep underground (other than accounting for food and supplies for survival underground); it's not like air will circulate properly.
They've been playing everyone for decades. Anything goes.
When Gopher is your favorite cartoon character
Him: It turns out everything I just said was a decoy.
6:32 MozambiQUE???
Mozambeekway
North Korea feels like if you play a word simulator and that one guy is just trying to nuke everything
North Korea tactics
1. Threatened the World with war or nuclear war
2. The world got horrified
3. They ask for aid or food aid
4 . North Korea saying it's starting to dismantle its nukes
Repeat
I find it so funny how other countries meddle in the business of North Korea but don't want others to meddle in their business 🤡
which part is "we've been played" again? I heard they were poor years ago.
Just because we don't know, doesn't mean our government doesn't.
They cannot be underestimated because they have exhausted resources and that isn’t really normal. That usually means they are doing something with the resources and it’s not development.
@@johnbean9797 I don’t think sanctions really stop them from making weapons. Infrastructure isn’t really hard because raw materials are already there in North Korea, the Chinese help them and they sell their materials in a cheaper price to China, the north Koreans know what that are doing but they are clueless how to solve the food problem.
When not using the poulders to grow grain, they can be used as nuclear tailings and cooling ponds. Win, win, win right?
12:56 That is a first female president from South Korea, not North Korea. Thanks
The free nations should take actions to face all the dictatorships in the world.
I was so hoping for they were building those things with the dirt from the tunnels haha
Here in Brazil we have some people that think that North Korea is a democracy.
Pentagon: Write this shit down...
Why do they need foreign money
we did know about this, it was reported extensively by the BBC...
That thumbnail is *LEGENDARY*
8:08 Few seconds ago you literally showed a North Korean embassy in London yet in this graph you only show specific countries....what are you trying to achieve with that?
''We don't know about''
Proceeds to tell us what we already know.
Call up Colin Furze, Tunnel expert.
So NK is acting like an insecure teenager
if you would have played Ligma, you would've known about this way before the digging even started.
I knew Dave skylark took it a step too far when he told us about Kim and Katy
“MR PRESIDENT, WE MUST NOT ALLOW A MINESHAFT GAP!”
Reclaimed land is not that fertile. It can only be used for flowers and cow pastures, which is why Netherlands is famous for flowers and cheese. If they really need more land to grow food, why not use normal land?
Most of North Korea has pretty poor soil quality. Rocky and shallow and hilly, like Japan to its east.
I know they grow cabbage for kimchi and some potatoes, but the land itself is just hard to work.
They need the polders to dump all that tunnel dirt. Simple.
Very interesting. I'll definitely check out The Mole+
Thank you US State Department, very cool.
[war drum beating intensifies]
Sources?
thumbnail so enticing-
This is sick. I feel like I'm about to go on a mission
I'm more surprised of their technological prowess considering they are a hermit kingdom. Nuclear especially
Why do we give Egypt ANY military aid at all!!!?
Very interesting. It kind of makes sense. They are massively struggling with COVID for some time as well
8:08 there is also an Embassy in Vienna.
Want to be unicorn farmer in North Korea.
Ok but maby the fake islands are just the earth, that they get out of the tunnels. I mean that would be so obvious
They are fracking Mountains for Ore Extraction!
Probably not important, but might wanna check your maps. You’ve placed Pyongsan smack dab on top of Pyongyang. Pyongsan is actually well south of there, about halfway to Seoul, South Korea.
I still wonder how they get their money to do all this stuff.
i find it very interesting how in the span of 6 years trees of atleast 10 meters size suddently grew out of nowhere
whilst you could obviously plant a bigger tree someplace its near impossible to do with a tree of thatt size with it also survinig the procedure
mayby its fake trees?
Thank you for showing me how based NK actually is, literally the coolest modern dictatorship
now, this is investigative journalism
North Korea made it through the 1990s or the "arduous march". They can make it through just about anything now. The North Korea of today and the North Korea of 20-30 years ago might as well be different dimensions apart.
Was the inclusion of former South Korean president Park Geun-hye in 12:57 intentional?
U dont need a ^^deep^^ tunnel. Just a high enough mounten to drill in
North Korea thinking how the f did this UA-camr just discover our plan
OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) is a very powerful tool. Seek and you shall find. In the 21st century, just about everything is on the Internet. If you spend enough time on something and put the pieces of the puzzle together, you can solve such mysteries, even in a country like North Korea, which is cut off from the environment.
man, kim jong un looks like like his grandpa
Sanctions don't work. More actions are needed.
How about less ?
He knows too much. Silence him Kimmy!
So the documentary details a vacation resort as a disguise not a hospital. Furthermore they were going to build their own runway
UN:
Do you promise not to Nuke International Waters? So that no one has Tsunamis?
North Korea:
Sure! I promise-(remembers both USSR and America doing the same thing during the Cold War) Yeah…I promise(fingers crossed 🤞 )
And OBF was never heard from again...
12:58 is actually a pic of a former president of South Korea who was impeached
I just had a look on google maps the trees that grown up with in 6 years from 2013 to 2019 are gone in 2022 and are less than in 2013