I can't even imagine these 2 nations reuniting anymore. They're all koreans but the 2 cultures are drifting and drifting farther apart that reunification will be a challenge.
Do not worry my friend I heard news that South Korea may go completely in a hundred years because of the lack of children being born then Korea will be one let the capitalists pigs die!
@@KolchaksGhost They've the lowest fertility rate in the world. They aren't having enough children. They don't like immigrants either just like Japan. I think there will be talks of reunification or diarchy system within 2 decades or less. They would rather have Koreans than import third world from other race.
@Navid Soleimani This will come to all of us all over the World. I hope I don't live that long but it's very likley I will. I fear for the future of our children.
@@321scully this is a really ignorant comment, on the same level of ignorance where children watch savage people on a cartoon and they think wow so cool i wish i was one of them. lol.
I'm from china, there were some north korean students that studies abroad in the university I was in. One of them managed to escape to south korea disguised as a plane baggage. The whole story was way better than james bond.
China is just as bad. You do everything too to hide what others are not supposed to see, and kill people for being against the government. And you steal products from other countries and make cheap illegal copies of them, which doesn't bother you one bit.
@@jumper-us7ct the point is they are clearly fishing for their food, that's not exactly normal for a kid to be fishing for his own dinner is it? it shows the poverty they are living in
I feel great sympathy for the people who were unfortunate enough to be born in North Korea. Especially the children who had to grow up and live there for the rest of their lives.
@@TejYT stop literally repeating what he literally repeated when talking to the guy who literally repeated what was a repetition of what was originally said.
I've seen similar treatment in Lebanon 2 years ago. Everywhere I went a policeman would come out of nowhere carrying heavy machine gun and ask me to stop filming. I hope to never return there again.
My parents and grandparents had similar stories when they lived there. Especially during wartime when young soldiers would come and try to steal stuff from them or use their property without their permission. Most of them were pretty crazy, and some were really funny.
@@worldlinezero4783 the police in Lebanon are more like Military police than normal police. Or armed mafia members working for the government depending on where in Lebanon
Around 70% of the world's population is a lot poorer than this. It's ridiculous how western media always try to protray NK as one of the worst places on earth. Of course it is poor in comparison to central Europe. But hey..go and check out all the wonderful democratic countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean..
@@Ark1986 It's not just the 'democratic' nations in places like Africa and South America. It's most all of them in general. Which is exactly why we should be trying to protect and preserve what we have here instead of behaving like a bunch of whiny ingrate shit bag ideologues who are squandering away what better men and women than us built.
@@Ark1986 That's absolutely untrue. Where are you basing 70% from? The democratic countries that struggle economically are corruptly ruled and even they are richer than NK.
0:57 that road has no subsurface; it's just asphalt on dirt. No wonder it's so easily destroyed by erosion. In a way, that's a metaphor for the whole country.
It doesn't matter if it's easy to rebuild if the road is always punctured and destroyed by every rain and cars that passes by. There is a reason why the best roads of the world aren't built like this
Unfortantely, even if the country fell apart today, it would take 100 years to change the culture. Nice work Kim family. You should be proud of what you have done for your people.
Yeah your right. I heard he is a gang master. He kidnaps young kids, grooms them into being fishermen or rather fisherboys and then steals their grub. Nasty piece of work that no good fish stealing bum.
@@cyndaguy I remember sky news filming dirty old rugged cars parked right next to me in Zimbabwe and they didn’t show the Bentley and the other fancy cars parked there too. They just take the sad stuff for shock value and clicks 🤦🏾♂️
@@cyndaguy Poorest? A woman who escaped of North Korea said that this was an every day on one of the RICHEST cities. Building their own stuff, finding food, is terrible.
North Korea has the potential of being an amazing country, but until the dictatorship falls apart, that will never happen. It truly breaks my heart. All of those people suffering.
Russian government also protects this shit. They claim communism and the sovie "union" fell but they're still in bed with communism. There's a reason the NK airlines only flies to China and Russia. I'm myself ethnically Russian, descendant of Imperial Russia loyalists (white army) that and to flee when Bolsheviks took over Russia after murdering Tzar Nicholas and his family. Ever since that disgraceful day millions of people in Europe and then around the world suffered and died, because of the disgusting shit of communism
@@MrGruffteddybear. By “allows capitalism” what that really means is there are areas like Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that are legally to be kept that way. Though China has already broken those promises. Honestly, the capitalist parts should leave. But China will do everything to prevent that.
@@jacobbass6437 well, considering china had over 100 billionaires, has advertisements for capitalist companies and so on, I'd say it's marginally communist.
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess tiiight, because the tsar regime wasn't responsible for murdering millions of people either was it?? Last I checked the white army would murder entire villages of pro bolshevik areas, but let's all just remember that communism bad, capitalism is good bs, nevermind that millions starve in capitalist countries too.
I heard the reason for their famines was a load of industrial ventures like dams and so forth, to prove they were a fully industrialist nation yet all it did was flood a lot of the fertile land so yeah that and kimmy likes to scoff his gob
@@pedrojuan8050 It's not surprising. Everybody who can afford it in China, South Korea, and Japan eats plenty of Western foods. Just as the middle classes in the West stuff themselves with Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and of course Indian food. Taste-buds and stomachs don't recognize national boundaries.
Any country that restricts filming of normal everyday life, makes one wonder about the word normal. I keep wondering where the coin slot is on kims back.
Any country that is constantly filming normal everyday life makes one wonder about the word "normal". The US and Britain are the countries where they spy on their citizens 24/7. Kim Jong-un could only dream with that kind of surveillance power on his citizens...
@@joshuagrall1352 You and I both know that is not true. Privacy means NOBODY can spy on you and collect your data. In the US and Britain, not only the government collects your data, but also a multitude of private corporations.
For those who dont know why koreans cant afford cars. Its because west sanctions for 70 or so years. No imports no exports, no visas to leave kore, no jobs for koreans in west... economy cripling sanctions that hurts ppl and then blocking them to come to the west and find better life... cars is lucury because they are not alowed to import any
Honestly when the power used to go out in my home town, as kids we'd love it. There would be candles and everything was so mysterious, we would always do some sort of family activities during that time. Good memories
Yeah... the truly poor view would break your heart. We get to see it in India because they're the worlds largest democracy and have, if anything, greater respect for free speech than America does. We don't get to "see" it in North Korea, but the statistics seem to indicate that it's similar, but wider spread, to the worst of what you would see in India.
@@alexanderfretheim5720 " largest democracy" and " greater respect for free speech than America" are not really the sentences I would use to describe India especially under the current government.
@@sohini9990 I'm sorry, that just sounds like the kind of bullocks we in America used to hear about Trump. No, the fact that someone is proud of their country and doesn't worship the UN doesn't prove they're a fascist totalitarian.
I'm south korean but reading the comments somehow hurt me so much... We all know that North Korea is not the best country. But I am just hoping one day north and south Korea will reunite and live fair and square... South Korea is living peacefully while north Koreans don't get freedom and don't get treated properly by the government.
@@PateRiot only chance has increasd is North takeover that summit is show for Press and media we south koreans seeing that from the Beginning of north South have two type of politician one is keeping north Alive(민주당계열) and Other one want north Regime fall(보수당계열) Current President moon(민주당) is fulliy commitied in Sunshine policy i think Sunshine policy is a bullshit in 20 years we give money/food to north and still wont give up their nuclear missiles Clinton should bombed 영변 Nuclear facility in 1994
I love Wano but man its draggin on too much. I don't know if I can handle another 20 episodes of Luffy running up a staircase that isn't even that big lol. Last nights episode was good though. Zoro put in work
@@DaddynHay wasn’t talking bout that one piece but anyways, I also wish it’s pacing was a lot better. But if it was, it would catch up to the manga real fast. Which in turn would mean breaks. I’d rather prefer that bc then we would have quality episodes!
I don't feel sorry for them, because you have to stand up for what you want. You only get one life, and these people are using it to BE slaves. They're not "forced" to do anything. If THEY wanted to change their lives, they could. The early Americans were willing to risk their lives and futures to disagree with the British. Eventually the British left. It doesn't matter who or where your "oppressor" is from, it's possible to change, but you may not get out "free of danger". If you refuse to change your life because "it will kill me", then sit there and rot. Don't ever complain again.
0:56 I AM an engineer and I can tell you that normal countries don't just pour a few inches of asphalt on top of dirt to make a road. You're supposed to have gravel and stuff under the road for additional stability, not to mention making a concrete or brick retaining wall so that the river does not erode the dirt. The civil engineers in the DPRK are either undereducated, underfunded, or uncaring; likely all three.
if a government says you aren't aloud to film in a country, then everyone should just expect it to be a third world country, despite them saying its first world.
Nobody said N. Korea was a First World country. It's a Second World country. First World = NATO Bloc Second World = Communist Bloc Third World = Unaffiliated
Michael Palin went there and showed this collapse of the rosd and showed a lot of weid stuff like restaurants only serving a camera crew and hotels only a couple of people staying there.
"He takes whatever he catches to a man sitting by the river," they make it sound like as though the boy's working for some secret fish catching corporation instead of just a boy fishing with his dad haha
I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear e
Maybe if they didn't live under constant threat of invasion he could spend more on farming and social workings, rather than trying to prevent NK of becoming the next target of Murican freedom
I would think the children were bused in, for the foreign journalists. This IS supposedly a "tourist" area. I seriously doubt you'll find Buddists temples, much less this well preserved, elsewhere in North Korea.
@@luxinvictus9018 >It's a country with nukes that does not adhere to the UN nor any international law Why should they? The U.N is a puppet organization of the U.S which is they were allowed to invade Iraq in spite of it being deemed illegal by the U.N security council. Also, what's wrong with them owning nukes? They clearly saw what happened to Libya and Iraq when they gave up their weapons programs and thus wished to not suffer the same fate.
@@Jon-jd2vc I’d rather be the leader of any country who’s a puppet of the United States, rather than be a country who excludes themselves away from the US. SK EU Japan Taiwan All “puppets” of the United States, yet all their countries are thriving and prosperous. Sure, the US won’t allow them to reach its level, but their levels aren’t trash at all.
@@michaeljordan5724 Objectively, from the perspective of living conditions and general rights, North Korea is a far worse place to reside than Nazi Germany ever was, unless you were part of the actively persecuted population. Hitler is obviously responsible for far more atrocious things than little Kimmy here, but his government at least had a semblance of proper function.
While I agree with the majority of the conclusions drawn, notice how accustomed we are to biased reporting. Surely, we would never cast doubt on a reporting like this, but even in here there are so many pro-Western biases shining through. The title of the video is fringe clickbait: "The North Korea I wasn't meant to see", yet the only thing you showed us that was "the real North Korea" was a man bathing in the river. How disturbing! The reporter even admits to not being able to see much, so what's the significance of the title? It promises something you can't get. It's inherently negative. Oddities are presented under a negative light as if they are exclusive to North Korea, such as not having stable access to water/clean water, yet we try and forget Flint, Michigan here in the US. My point isn't that anything in this video wasn't outright wrong, but if you look hard, you can really see the biases that we're bringing with us when talking about North Korea, and furthermore, you can see just how much we're used to it. Most people watching this probably don't even realize. If our innate bias to present anything related to North Korea as malignant and evil is this rooted in the media we consume about it, how much more/less brainwashed are we than them?
Well said. They are showing poverty which is everywhere in the imperalized global south. These conditions are created and maintained by western imperialists and capitalists
I think that's it's much less about the poverty/poor infrastructure and more the lengths the government goes to convince the world that its citizens are not in a living hell. But even in this one video you see that their roads have little to no thought put into them, the reporter mentions that the water wasn't running consistently, and filming is actively silenced. Did you know that in 2016 an American tourist named Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in prison just for taking a propaganda sign? He ended up being sent out of the country in a coma, completely blind and deaf with misaligned teeth, and died days later. The North Koreans said he contracted botulism, which US physicians could not find any traces of. If you don't have some implicit bias towards North Korea, that's your choice. But there is grounds for it. As for the Flint situation, it's not that it was purposefully hushed up, rather that the nation moved on. Unless you're a die-hard Flint fan, there's no reason to write about the boring side of litigation, although you can still find articles being written about it. Hopefully there will be some good press when the whole situation is finally resolved, but the $641 million settlement was approved for Flint residents, the people that caused it(including Snyder) are being charged for their crimes, and more than 10,000 pipes have already been replaced.
@@mistermann3455 I don't think his point is that North Korea is a good country. I think its more that he's more pointing to underlying biases inherent in much of western reporting which subconsciously push us towards a forming a view of a country (or a community) that may be very uninformed to push a certain perspective that the media wants to push. But, I probably shouldn't speak for him.
@@lagtowns But what I'm trying to get at here is that the media *is* informed. There is credible evidence that the North Korean government is trying(and failing, by the looks of this video) to keep quiet that their country is suffering under the mask of "the purest race". It is true there are factors in western reporting that affect how neutral it truly is. But the reason a man bathing in the river is a point of interest is because the North Korean government previously denied that their citizens lived like that. This is not an example of representing them in a purposefully bad light, they dug their own grave.
It is hard to believe and accept, but unfortunately alot of the people in power couldn't give less of a shit about anyone but themselves and those they care about...There seems to be no empathy. Most people get to power by taking out what ever and who ever gets in their way..and they don't feel remorseful because that would just be a distraction from their goal. Im sure Kim is fully aware of what's going on, but he doesn't care. I'd give anything to help these people, and it is sad to know that the person who can, doesn't care. It sucks but it's just the way it is unfortunately 😕
Its not like thats happening to them because of sanctions but only due to regime. The regime will never change by sanctions but diplomacy as shown by trump who actually got NK on nego table
Well, live in Colombia seems akwardly similar to that shown on the video. People wash clothes in the river sometimes, goes fishing and a very typical activity is go cooking on the river. Also a lot of people walks in rural areas. The problems with roads is so so common that are expected. I have to deal with dangerous roads to go to my workplace. North Korea is not portrayed in this video as a hell spot, at least no until you listen the woman who admits only to be describing what she think it is watching on the window.
In Colombia you have freedom so other options if you desire, but in North Korea there are no options of anything. Saying that, here in Mexico there's also people fishing for food in not very healthy places and people washing clothes in a river, and roads destroyed by storms, even the people working the fields with manual labor haha (electric shortages are not common though).
If he didn't they would get some 'freedom and democracy' asap and then the entire country would be stripped of resources and there would be civil war for the next 5 decades or something.
I mean they clearly dont give a shit about their public image cause they know its not going to recover well. Best to spend that money at a place so that no one can attack you, cause you have nukes.
@Rami Runner I kind of disagree, it's very obvious north korea has only not been invaded because of missiles and nukes and the united states is one of the most hostile and least peaceful foreign policy wise in the world. Favoring the killing of civilians, resource extraction and worse, most country's have a right to be wary of the us.
Schindlers fist xD how thick it is in your country? Or have you even ever seen how thick it should be? I know because in my country we have cold winters and they cause cracks in asphalt
1:03 - you can see the road is built like crap, just asphalt on top of dirt. No base, no foundation, no resistance basically. Its junk. Its a road made for bicycles not cars. Terrible.
+Martin Skjøtt I have never seen anywhere in the 'western' world where that happens. Rivers and lakes are usually polluted with fertilizers, and clean water isn't difficult to get. Farm equipment is cheap and readily available... The only place I consider to be absolutely impoverished are in localized areas in the U.S., mainly the South West (around the Mexican boarder and Native American reserves). I'd like to point out that many of the areas are impoverished due to, well, stubbornness; particularly from Native Americans. I don't like it but you can't forcefully help someone against their will. That's not to say I think everyone is like that, I'm saying that a substantial amount are like that.
+bananarama9000 It's short because they only wanted to show you the things that suited their own agenda. All we see is literally the same thing you see across the Asian world. This is nothing more than propaganda.
@@crazydragy4233 Yeah, in Northern Idaho around Wallace there's a bunch of trees. But photos from 100 years ago show the hills clear cut from logging. Also there's a bunch of trees in Quintana Roo, Mexico, but if you go back to the Mayan age all those trees would be corn crops and market places instead.
I understand the dilemma the people go through; but I must say for what it's worth, the country is quite beautiful and quite clean, a luxury that is underappreciated.
Ah, yes, the grass is green, appreciate that, stop whining about being a slave and getting put in a concentration camp because you simply disagree with your dictator.
"dilemma"? sure, between "clean and beautiful" and "having human rights, access to the outside world, not probably the worst infrastructure and living conditions in the world, no constant famines, and not being under the permanent threat of getting arrested and probably tortured even killed for thinking the governement might be bad for the afor mentionned reasons" i'll take my pick
@@vinny1883 no. because the bridge is buckled, you're putting more stress on the bridge and for shorter amounts of time. it's like a knife; knives cut things because the material they cut cannot withstand those large amounts of force concentrated on such a small surface area. driving quickly over a buckled bridge might be faster, but what happens when the bus goes down a slope and then suddenly has to go up? it bounces, and for that short moment, the stress on that part of the bridge is massively increased, which is the opposite of what you want when you're driving over a bridge that might collapse at any moment.
I know someone who went to North Korea (U.N) and stopped their driver to help a cyclist injured by the side of the road (everyone was ignoring him). The driver was scared to stop but did, the cyclist was taken to a nearby hospital. Then the security agency showed up at the guys hotel and interviewed him for 3 hours; 'why did you stop?' ... 'how did you know the injured man?' 'Why would you help a stranger? Were you trying to recruit him?' 'what did the injured man say to you?' and on and on... Eventually they left....and seemingly unsure what to do...or embarrassed...they came back a couple days later and gave the guy a medal for bravery lol...pretending that was the reason for the initial interrogation. true story
so they gave the person who helped a medal... that's the moral of your story. you know if you report a crime in USA the police ask you questions too, right? they'll ask you why you were there, what you were doing, if you knew the victim personally, what you talked to the victim about, ask to see your ID, etc, and then they don't give you a medal for helping.
@@llamawalrushybrid if you are at a crime scene when police arrive, they'll ask you questions especially if the victim can't speak for themselves. if you're spotted interfering with a crime scene or the victim, you're a suspect. if you flee the scene after interfering, they'll probably follow you since the victim couldn't clear you. its just standard procedure for cops regardless of the country. they would be bad cops if they just ignored you dropping off a severely injured person.
@@irgendeinname9256 You say that, but recording some random dude bathing is kind of a breach of privacy. And if I was a security officer, confronting someone like that would be part of my responsibility. Though, I don't think North Korea gives a shit about citizen privacy lol.
"No farming machinery" probably because they dont need any? i used to work in an onion field in the U.S., and we didn't use machinery. it was all by hand. some agricultural jobs just can't be done with machinery, you know.
South Korea, too, doesn't really use farming machinery (I'm South Korean, and that's why I know this). The Korean peninsula is filled with hills and mountains, making it hard to use any sort of machinery. Usually, the farmers bring their townsfolk to harvest. Also, South Korea has regulations that discourage corporations from dominating the farming industry, which might explain the lack of farming machinery.
Buddhism is more a philosophy than a religion. The Buddha states that one should not believe in things simply because they hear it, and the Buddha encourages followers to investigate his teachings for themselves. The Buddha’s teachings emphasize personal practice and adhering to moral principles above any kind of dogma.
Buddhism has its fair share of unfalsifiable concepts. Trying to remove the label of religion won't make it more grounded. Philosophy and religion are not mutually exclusive, either. Christianity has a philosophy, as has Hinduism, Judaism, Satanism, or any other compilation of dogmas you can name.
No. Buddhism is a dogmatic religion in every way. Siddhartha taught that indifference to and involvement in life was the answer to suffering through the extinction of the self. If you love your child or feel someone else's pain as keenly as your own, that is the same kind of badness as hating your child and delighting in torture.
@@staceixan Anything that is held true and obeyed on the basis of said so. The 10 commandments, for instance. Or your country's constitution, teachings about reincarnation, enlightenment, resurrection, karma, judgement day, etc.
Not saying that North Korea is a good place But the footage literally didn't show anything horrible. Streets and electricity being damaged from bad weather is normal. People washing in rivers isn't too strange in many countries. I am aware that they don't allow to film or visit many places, but from the title of the video you would except something actually shocking.
@@stormcloudsabound In the video she even said the power went out during a storm, I think 'unfixed powerlines' is a little harsh when they were broken less than 24hr ago
Don't worry, I dont think they have any idea, not even a glimpse of how much ahead technologically even their neighbours are. You can't miss something you have never seen or experienced. These people probably think the whole world is like this.
Is it just me or does this video give off some AoT vibes? Almost all the common people in north korea are trapped inside their country, similar to being trapped inside the walls without knowledge of what's beyond. And if anyone becomes a bit too curious, they're killed/jailed. Just like the case of Erwin's father...
@@sadkritx6200 that's why it's been so successful because it tries to (sort of) capture what humans have done, are doing and are capable of doing in the present. Other than the fantasy element of the titan power etc., the basic government and life is pretty much grounded in reality.
@@rohilthomson It's almost like Pol Pots Cambodia without the constant butchering and with a medium of technology reserved for the handpicked affluent and 'Dear Leader's' relations....kinda like the Trump Regime was aspiring to be in the next 5 or 6 years.
The broken and washed away road is something you'll see all over the UK. The bloke having a wash in the river is something you'll only see in Barnsley.
@@blankmandastankman if they weren't such a shit country their roads wouldn't collapse. look at that road bed its like 2 inches thick total. there is nothing good about communism and this is proof
Honestly I'm amazed they even let them in those places knowing there's heavy rains and the roads might be destroyed or what. They do have weather forecasting in North Korea right?
I think it's reminiscent of some naturally occurring cliffs. Edit: I'm sure there's an even more similar example, but here's what I was thinking of ua-cam.com/video/OW5MlvvqGjM/v-deo.html
We have no idea how other countries struggle, even this report was heavily restricted. Western charitable aid doesn't always reach the people it should.
@@Zunawe you do realise north korea is the most embargoed country in human history. They can't get oil or any materials due to the embargo. The West can lift the embargo demilitarise the south and begin the process of unification which both sides want
@@luxinvictus9018 When I say culture, it encompass the thinking and way of life of the masses. North and south Korea now has a lot more differences in the “culture “. Culture plays a big role but not the only factor.
If you go to other parts of rural Southeast Asia this is incredibly common. I’m unsure where the surprise is really... people washing in rivers, fishing for their food and damage from heavy rain is totally normal in this part of the world
It really is sad that the whole world understands what North Korea is like and how the people are actually living. The mere fact they’re spending this much to cover it up despite people knowing what is actually happening is mind boggling. It really is sad seeing how one persons pursuit of power brings a whole country down.
Kim is an awful person, but he's not the only one bringing the country down and pretending he's the only one is farcical. The obliteration of the country's infrastructure during the Korean War, the sanctions imposed after the war (which continue to this day) and being surrounded by enemies all played a part in making the nation what it is today.
It's more insane how there aren't any massive rebellions and coup attempts. I guess they actually enjoy living like this. Belarus had millions of protesters, while they failed, they showed some backbone that they won't just get fucked over. Meanwhile in NK, it's just depression, desperation ad complete hopelessness.
@@MJ-uk6lu yeah I’ve thought about that too, if people are so brainwashed to enjoy the circumstances, or really do believe in Kim Jong Un as a god. Maybe they don’t rebel just because of how bad the repercussions would be, just sad.
@@VonDoughBoy But at the same time, they most likely know to some extent how life is abroad and yet there's not much rebellious action there in half of century.
Maybe they just don't want to be destroyed and humiliated by the US government. If the US left everyone alone, there might not be a need for such precautions.
This is almost exactly what I imagined Pyongyang looked like after reading _The Orphan Master's Son_ That said, the poor side of a country is always different from the side presented to tourists. That's how it is wherever you go. Ain't nothing particularly shocking about that.
Whoever said that hasn't been to India. The poor side exists alongside the tourist spots. There's no space for a nice view, except private property of course.
No shit...you can literally drive a half hour east of Chicago's Gold Coast, lined with 2 million dollar condos on the lake and find yourself drifting around Gary Indiana, tripping over crackheads, needles and empty foreclosures.
“A boy catches some fish in crudely made net and takes it to a man”, ahh yes the evil past time of fishing with ones father. No but for real I’ve been there and it’s definitely more simple, there are hungry people, and the infrastructure is bad, but it’s no worse than most African or other southeast Asian countries. The problem is that North Korea tries to appear as a first world country, and has a first world country sized military, so people are surprised when they get there, and it’s really second or third world for most of the population.
Seems like the government is worse though than something like Africa, I don't know much about African laws but I don't think they put as much effort into making sure you don't say anything bad about the country
Dude, the first world country is an outdated term already and it doesnt reflect quality of life at all. First world country refers to european power while second world country refers to communist. Third world countries are those supporting neither of these associations.
@@alexosow The vigilante governments in Africa are much more cruel that the North Korean government. The North Korean Government is bad, and more oppressive than most of the world, but there are still different punishments for crimes. I’m many African countries government is extremely decentralized to the point where there are different warlords that control regions, and the punishment for most crimes is just death. That’s also if you don’t get raped and killed for no reason because there’s no official law enforcement.
The ONE good thing about North Korea's country side is that its so lush and green and most of it is untouched. It looks GORGEOUS and too bad North Korea is such a shit hole because I would be there ASAP. The North Korean people need to hurry up and overthrow the current regime.
Dan Zena yeah that whole thing about the people not being able to build buildings because the current regime pays citizens mere dollars a month, BUT WE GET PRETTY TREES!
Some of this report is indeed interesting but don’t pretend that all of what you showed is unusual to North Korea. In quite a few Asian countries it is possible to see people (including children) fishing in the most unusual (and polluted waterways) trying to catch tiny fish in their nets (or by rod) to eat or sell. This is not only in the provinces, but also in major cities. It is also much more common to see people swimming or even bathing in all kinds of waterways, especially around the poorer areas where there are shacks built right on the waterway (even under bridges etc.) There is less of the “stigma” of just getting in the water as there is in the West.
What is unusual is the lack of farming machinery, plumbing and electricity. Every developing country has some squalor, the thing is NK isn’t developing.
@@crown9413 They lack farm machinery because they are cut off by US sanctions. But they are still developing, it's just slow and difficult when you can hardly trade with anyone
@@wabc2336 They can trade with China, India, Russia etc. And do get some equipment from them. They just can't afford much because they believe in autarky and spend everything on the military.
It’s almost like if they actually gave a crap about their people they’d be able to have all these luxuries they’re pretending to have...weird how that works.
Lol the DPRK is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world, mostly because of the west's aggressive imperialist policy. First the West fucks up a country, then it says they need to liberate it lmao
@@AmarEcd1233 You must be one of those people like Tony Blaire who want liberalism spread throughout the world by armed missionaries. What a great success that was in Iraq.
CNN would never do something like this today. Wish we still had journalism like this.
Hearing CNN makes me want to puke
Asian boss does really good reports of Asia especially in East Asia if that's your cup of tea
This is only 7 years old, not 20
@@G59forlife. The video is literally from CNN lmao
@@catonthecob99 wait a minute
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I can't even imagine these 2 nations reuniting anymore. They're all koreans but the 2 cultures are drifting and drifting farther apart that reunification will be a challenge.
Do not worry my friend I heard news that South Korea may go completely in a hundred years because of the lack of children being born then Korea will be one let the capitalists pigs die!
@@Kaiyats more like 700 years lol
@@Kaiyats well it’s completely wrong, since the population is still increasing and is twice the size as the North’s lol
@@KolchaksGhost They've the lowest fertility rate in the world. They aren't having enough children. They don't like immigrants either just like Japan.
I think there will be talks of reunification or diarchy system within 2 decades or less. They would rather have Koreans than import third world from other race.
@@jimmylives I understand this, but the country isn’t going to collapse any time soon because of the low fertility rate, like Pixel seems to think
I find it really Ironic how, while the whole nation is starving, the Great Leader is some spoiled chubby kid.
yes he is
It's not ironic. It's distribution of resource
@Navid Soleimani This will come to all of us all over the World. I hope I don't live that long but it's very likley I will. I fear for the future of our children.
just like the middle ages lol
@@321scully this is a really ignorant comment, on the same level of ignorance where children watch savage people on a cartoon and they think wow so cool i wish i was one of them. lol.
I'm from china, there were some north korean students that studies abroad in the university I was in. One of them managed to escape to south korea disguised as a plane baggage. The whole story was way better than james bond.
China is just as bad. You do everything too to hide what others are not supposed to see, and kill people for being against the government. And you steal products from other countries and make cheap illegal copies of them, which doesn't bother you one bit.
hes a lucky guy then, hope he has a better life then in north korea
@@1nnator Hope? He's guaranteed a better life outside of that hell hole.
tell me more
The chinese government isnt exactly nice to everyone either.
"Can't afford"
More like not allowed to afford.
same thing about the North Koreans who "can't eat".
Fake news!
they are allowed to afford, though if they want to buy a car they must ask permission from the government
things are a little better in north korea you dont hear anyone say that but i see it maybe its a trend that will continue
ekermann Fake claim
"He takes whatever he has caught to a man sitting by the side of the water"
You mean he is fishing with his dad?
Lmao that hilarious
Maybe it's his dad, maybe it's a government official forcing the kid to catch food for him.
Primping grow up man
@@jumper-us7ct the point is they are clearly fishing for their food, that's not exactly normal for a kid to be fishing for his own dinner is it? it shows the poverty they are living in
sponish0 it’s quite normal for children to fish in America
I feel great sympathy for the people who were unfortunate enough to be born in North Korea. Especially the children who had to grow up and live there for the rest of their lives.
Yes
I mean it's just kind of like living in the 1500s I'd imagine. Just pre industrial human life.
@@bradthunderpants3283 except everyone's poor and there's a dictator
Hope they can escape
@@bradthunderpants3283 nah that time there was much freedom inside the territory
There’s something about North Korea that just feels weird, it feels like purgatory, and it feels like no one ever goes outside.
Its like they're stuck in the 70s. Time stopped for them when they separated.
@@devvv4616 Stuck in *1870*
Who's gonna tell em?
@@RandomPerson-tw8mn You, get talking.
Yes
0:56 I'm not an Engineer but that just looks like 5 inches of pavement pored over dirt/sand/clay. No reinforcement what so ever.
You're correct, that IS only 5 inches of pavement over some dirt/clay.
@@rickrolld1367 you just literally repeated what he said
@@jovenfrantzborigas4554 You're correct, he just literally repeated what he said.
@@crazymonkeymw2 you literally repeated what he literally repeated
@@TejYT stop literally repeating what he literally repeated when talking to the guy who literally repeated what was a repetition of what was originally said.
I've seen similar treatment in Lebanon 2 years ago. Everywhere I went a policeman would come out of nowhere carrying heavy machine gun and ask me to stop filming. I hope to never return there again.
My parents and grandparents had similar stories when they lived there. Especially during wartime when young soldiers would come and try to steal stuff from them or use their property without their permission. Most of them were pretty crazy, and some were really funny.
i probably wasnt a machine gun dude
A... heavy machine gun? That seems unlikely. I don't thing police just carry a Browning around while patrolling, that shit's heavy
Dominican Republic is like that but they don’t care about filming 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@worldlinezero4783 the police in Lebanon are more like Military police than normal police. Or armed mafia members working for the government depending on where in Lebanon
"We drove over this buckled bridge very slowly.
*it collapses the very next day* "
Holy shit
Meanwhile in PA they close a bridge if it shows any signs of weakness then take months to fix it. Especially if it's a less traveled road.
@@a.j.deutsch1792 do you live in beaver county lol. Two years to fix one bridge.
chel wes exactly, on 81, it takes forever for one little bridge
Holy shit is right CNN make up some pretty bold lies
@@chelwesch68 At least they fix it. In my country you only talk about it if someone dies.
It's insane the contrast between North and South Korea. Shows you how important a free society is for peoples' livelihood.
And america investing money into your economy jump shooting its development at an unprecedented rate
Maybe the sanctions have something to do with it
Around 70% of the world's population is a lot poorer than this. It's ridiculous how western media always try to protray NK as one of the worst places on earth. Of course it is poor in comparison to central Europe. But hey..go and check out all the wonderful democratic countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean..
@@Ark1986 It's not just the 'democratic' nations in places like Africa and South America. It's most all of them in general. Which is exactly why we should be trying to protect and preserve what we have here instead of behaving like a bunch of whiny ingrate shit bag ideologues who are squandering away what better men and women than us built.
@@Ark1986 That's absolutely untrue. Where are you basing 70% from? The democratic countries that struggle economically are corruptly ruled and even they are richer than NK.
I can stop thinking about the movie “the interview” where Dave finds out the grocery store was fake Dx
"Do you think that margiritas are gay dave?"
Fake fruits
hahaha
Fake taxi
fallingbed yea thats based on real information from north korea. there have been reports of fake stores
0:57 that road has no subsurface; it's just asphalt on dirt. No wonder it's so easily destroyed by erosion. In a way, that's a metaphor for the whole country.
its probably a lot easier to rebuild because of that.
Doesn't matter how good the road is with a washout like that.
It doesn't matter if it's easy to rebuild if the road is always punctured and destroyed by every rain and cars that passes by. There is a reason why the best roads of the world aren't built like this
Every thing there that is first world is either fake or only used by the military or Kim
Incase you are implying what I think you are implying, they have nuclear weapons...
It's so pathetic how they keep trying to hide what's going on even though the whole world knows and is laughing at them.
@@Bi6M4C you do know north korea is a shitty facist dictatorship? I would say its okay to laugh at their gov
@@dysgusted_irl no, it's simply pathetic
What's your favorite breakfast, mine is egg n bacon
@@cdfactory ikr, btw do you eat it with runny egg? I do
@@vxunaTM_xuandanhphan why so random 😂😂😂
Unfortantely, even if the country fell apart today, it would take 100 years to change the culture. Nice work Kim family. You should be proud of what you have done for your people.
You should thank the nation's that helped get him into power through military actions and economic sanctions as well.
Maybe, but literally anything is better then their current conditions
@@AbdulAli786o their citizens may not know any different. We are looking at this through the eyes of a westerner.
@@lich109 The Kim rose to power after veing endorsed by tje Sovier Union, ut wasnt theough economic sanctions.
@@seanpecson2858 It was through economic sanctions and the vast majority of the country's infrastructure being obliterated during a war.
2:21
My man Chong Byok is definitely a full-time gamer. There's no hiding that headset head.
Monk at day
Gamer by night
What do you think he plays?
@@SomeNewGuy that explains a lot.
Prays in the morning
Plays in the night
@@SomeNewGuy raiden is probably his favourite guy.
“He takes whatrver he has caught to a man by the side of the river”
The fish pimp
Yeah your right. I heard he is a gang master. He kidnaps young kids, grooms them into being fishermen or rather fisherboys and then steals their grub. Nasty piece of work that no good fish stealing bum.
@@numbnutone He's got no sole!
🤣
@@MaritimeFox You said SOLE ..
@@69THGILF Them shoes was pretty busted though...
I know that North Korea can be rude about filming, but I think it’s fair for them to tell you to stop filming a man taking a bath
Fr 😂
It’s recording him like he’s some wild animal.
@@cyndaguy as a ukrainian i can assure you america is better
america cops maybe beat you little bit but in NK you disappear and die like the 70’s
@@cyndaguy I remember sky news filming dirty old rugged cars parked right next to me in Zimbabwe and they didn’t show the Bentley and the other fancy cars parked there too. They just take the sad stuff for shock value and clicks 🤦🏾♂️
@@cyndaguy because it doesn’t 😂😂
@@cyndaguy Poorest? A woman who escaped of North Korea said that this was an every day on one of the RICHEST cities. Building their own stuff, finding food, is terrible.
My mother had the same intense experience in Fiji when they had their first military coup. And she was just flying back from America at that time.
From wich part of america? Thats a big continent.
@@HowDoYouTurnThisOn_ From California if I remember correctly. We're from New Zealand BTW.
The Fiji coup was bad but not comparable to North Korea in the slightest.
North Korea has the potential of being an amazing country, but until the dictatorship falls apart, that will never happen. It truly breaks my heart. All of those people suffering.
Russian government also protects this shit. They claim communism and the sovie "union" fell but they're still in bed with communism.
There's a reason the NK airlines only flies to China and Russia. I'm myself ethnically Russian, descendant of Imperial Russia loyalists (white army) that and to flee when Bolsheviks took over Russia after murdering Tzar Nicholas and his family. Ever since that disgraceful day millions of people in Europe and then around the world suffered and died, because of the disgusting shit of communism
@@MrGruffteddybear i'm pretty sure that china is capitalist
@@MrGruffteddybear. By “allows capitalism” what that really means is there are areas like Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that are legally to be kept that way. Though China has already broken those promises. Honestly, the capitalist parts should leave. But China will do everything to prevent that.
@@jacobbass6437 well, considering china had over 100 billionaires, has advertisements for capitalist companies and so on, I'd say it's marginally communist.
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess tiiight, because the tsar regime wasn't responsible for murdering millions of people either was it?? Last I checked the white army would murder entire villages of pro bolshevik areas, but let's all just remember that communism bad, capitalism is good bs, nevermind that millions starve in capitalist countries too.
They grow a lot of rice and crops, but Mr. Kim keeps eating it all.
That's why he is fat
Just don't tell him I said that he would probably bomb us for saying that.
Hes stealing all the food like king Dedede
I heard the reason for their famines was a load of industrial ventures like dams and so forth, to prove they were a fully industrialist nation yet all it did was flood a lot of the fertile land so yeah that and kimmy likes to scoff his gob
Surprisingly, Kim eats a lot of western foods.
@@pedrojuan8050 It's not surprising. Everybody who can afford it in China, South Korea, and Japan eats plenty of Western foods. Just as the middle classes in the West stuff themselves with Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and of course Indian food. Taste-buds and stomachs don't recognize national boundaries.
Any country that restricts filming of normal everyday life, makes one wonder about the word normal. I keep wondering where the coin slot is on kims back.
Any country that is constantly filming normal everyday life makes one wonder about the word "normal". The US and Britain are the countries where they spy on their citizens 24/7. Kim Jong-un could only dream with that kind of surveillance power on his citizens...
@@rubicunduseratiudas1264 People in the US and Britain have privacy. I don’t know what you mean that the US and Britain spy on their citizens 24/7.
Florida 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@joshuagrall1352 then why do US people like complaining about the government watching them? 🤔😂
@@joshuagrall1352 You and I both know that is not true. Privacy means NOBODY can spy on you and collect your data. In the US and Britain, not only the government collects your data, but also a multitude of private corporations.
I love that the tourists are upset that the lights came back on its an experience that made the trip more memorable.
For those who dont know why koreans cant afford cars. Its because west sanctions for 70 or so years. No imports no exports, no visas to leave kore, no jobs for koreans in west... economy cripling sanctions that hurts ppl and then blocking them to come to the west and find better life... cars is lucury because they are not alowed to import any
Honestly when the power used to go out in my home town, as kids we'd love it. There would be candles and everything was so mysterious, we would always do some sort of family activities during that time. Good memories
Even that "poorer view" was within the radius of the Capital... Officially sanctioned as a tourist and foreign propaganda theater.
Yeah... the truly poor view would break your heart. We get to see it in India because they're the worlds largest democracy and have, if anything, greater respect for free speech than America does. We don't get to "see" it in North Korea, but the statistics seem to indicate that it's similar, but wider spread, to the worst of what you would see in India.
@@alexanderfretheim5720 what's your problem with India?
@@roshs5619 How in the world would you read my comment and come to THAT conclusion?
@@alexanderfretheim5720 " largest democracy" and " greater respect for free speech than America" are not really the sentences I would use to describe India especially under the current government.
@@sohini9990 I'm sorry, that just sounds like the kind of bullocks we in America used to hear about Trump. No, the fact that someone is proud of their country and doesn't worship the UN doesn't prove they're a fascist totalitarian.
I'm south korean but reading the comments somehow hurt me so much... We all know that North Korea is not the best country. But I am just hoping one day north and south Korea will reunite and live fair and square... South Korea is living peacefully while north Koreans don't get freedom and don't get treated properly by the government.
that will not happen if kim dosent get assasinated
Youre propaganda
Wasn't there a summit back in june which increased a chance of peace?
@@PateRiot only chance has increasd is North takeover
that summit is show for Press and media
we south koreans seeing that from the Beginning of north
South have two type of politician
one is keeping north Alive(민주당계열) and Other one want north Regime fall(보수당계열)
Current President moon(민주당) is fulliy commitied in Sunshine policy
i think Sunshine policy is a bullshit
in 20 years we give money/food to north and still wont give up their nuclear missiles
Clinton should bombed 영변 Nuclear facility in 1994
It did happen, all thanks to trump
This literally just makes me think "How are the people who filmed this still in one piece"
they are an retired professional Assassin
@@白キロ hello skittle
I love Wano but man its draggin on too much. I don't know if I can handle another 20 episodes of Luffy running up a staircase that isn't even that big lol. Last nights episode was good though. Zoro put in work
@@DaddynHay wasn’t talking bout that one piece but anyways, I also wish it’s pacing was a lot better. But if it was, it would catch up to the manga real fast. Which in turn would mean breaks. I’d rather prefer that bc then we would have quality episodes!
Dude if you follow the rules then you’ll be alright, easy as that...
I do actually feel really bad for these people. Hopefully one day they will be free !
Yeah, we gotta dstroy the US to free them
Of course (they won't as long kim and his family still alive)
Free to watch BBC porn and have trans children
I don't feel sorry for them, because you have to stand up for what you want. You only get one life, and these people are using it to BE slaves. They're not "forced" to do anything. If THEY wanted to change their lives, they could. The early Americans were willing to risk their lives and futures to disagree with the British. Eventually the British left. It doesn't matter who or where your "oppressor" is from, it's possible to change, but you may not get out "free of danger".
If you refuse to change your life because "it will kill me", then sit there and rot. Don't ever complain again.
0:56 I AM an engineer and I can tell you that normal countries don't just pour a few inches of asphalt on top of dirt to make a road. You're supposed to have gravel and stuff under the road for additional stability, not to mention making a concrete or brick retaining wall so that the river does not erode the dirt. The civil engineers in the DPRK are either undereducated, underfunded, or uncaring; likely all three.
"trust me, im an engineer!"
It is a bot. Stop liking this comment , the original comment is somewhere on the top
@@voli293 ua-cam.com/video/rp8hvyjZWHs/v-deo.html
@@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial Trust him, he an an engineer
@@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial “oh shit I think I’m outta here”
if a government says you aren't aloud to film in a country, then everyone should just expect it to be a third world country, despite them saying its first world.
facts
Nobody said N. Korea was a First World country. It's a Second World country.
First World = NATO Bloc
Second World = Communist Bloc
Third World = Unaffiliated
@@tariik.h Nobody f*cking uses those definitions anymore we're in 2021 not 1970 😂😂😂
Allowed ??
That not something most third world countries do take latinoamerica as a example
R.I.P The man who build the roads and Bridge
its probably just concrete poured over the grass
I heard he killed himself with three gunshots in the back
@@Henrique-iy2lk that's understandable
@@Henrique-iy2lk
Well DAMN that's an open and shut case if there ever was one.
@@Henrique-iy2lk Where did you get this information?
“Paula Hancox, CNN, North Korea”
That sounded crazy to me, feel like she’s the only journalist to ever say that lol
Michael Palin went there and showed this collapse of the rosd and showed a lot of weid stuff like restaurants only serving a camera crew and hotels only a couple of people staying there.
@intensemaster do you have a point or did you just wanna see your own words on the screen?
"He takes whatever he catches to a man sitting by the river," they make it sound like as though the boy's working for some secret fish catching corporation instead of just a boy fishing with his dad haha
I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear e
@@AxxLAfriku But it was a valid complaint though. News services and the media can often use words to influence our opinons.
@@k_tin7083 it's a bot
You are right. It seems wholesome. At least there is a bit of wholesomeness there.
CNN and it's biased, phony and exaggerated journalism.
Kim is eating all the food
No wonder he so fat.
crippling sanctions sent by people who don't like their way of government
God, that fat fuck!
Maybe if they didn't live under constant threat of invasion he could spend more on farming and social workings, rather than trying to prevent NK of becoming the next target of Murican freedom
Alucard backwards is draculA
1:21 when the lights come back on at school.
Hejejejej
😂
I find it a little bit sad when the lights come back after a black out
70% of children got disappointed immediately. They hope the lights stay out until school over
Loool 😂😂
My parents told me stories like this of when I was little in Lebanon and how armed guards wouldn’t let you take pictures of certain places
Lebanon is definitely not on the same level of north korea bro lol.
Wii Sports Golf when you miss a hole: 1:21
😂
😂😂😂
😂😂
fking gold
Ahahhaahha
*Kim Jong Un wants to know your location*
He already knows our location
Lol, I know he hired assassins and hitmen to kill people he wants dead😅
A c c e p t
vlad omg 666
president Donald trump "has left the chat"
North Korea is actually pretty beautiful, regime aside
You know how stupid you sound
Dolan Darkest for saying it’s a beautiful country besides the government?
@@ku_kuzzz uhm they acknowledge the regime is bad...
@Son of Europa no it's not...
@Son of Europa yeah I'd rather live here than in a place where I can get killed for saying the leader is bad. I'm happy.
I would think the children were bused in, for the foreign journalists. This IS supposedly a "tourist" area. I seriously doubt you'll find Buddists temples, much less this well preserved, elsewhere in North Korea.
In short, even their "curated" areas are bad.
As a Latinamerican I can relate with all of those situations: bad roads, power outages, people washing and bathing in rivers etc.
India is also spoiled due to corruption,politics and police. There ain't any strong rules.
@@luxinvictus9018
>It's a country with nukes that does not adhere to the UN nor any international law
Why should they? The U.N is a puppet organization of the U.S which is they were allowed to invade Iraq in spite of it being deemed illegal by the U.N security council.
Also, what's wrong with them owning nukes? They clearly saw what happened to Libya and Iraq when they gave up their weapons programs and thus wished to not suffer the same fate.
@@leroybrown5048 I guess I didn’t use the right word. Sorry, English is not my first language. Will bathing make more sense?
@diztiinct Nicaragua
@@Jon-jd2vc
I’d rather be the leader of any country who’s a puppet of the United States, rather than be a country who excludes themselves away from the US.
SK
EU
Japan
Taiwan
All “puppets” of the United States, yet all their countries are thriving and prosperous.
Sure, the US won’t allow them to reach its level, but their levels aren’t trash at all.
"you're like hitler, but even
hitler cared about Germany or something..."
I think Kim is honestly way worse.
@@michaeljordan5724 Objectively, from the perspective of living conditions and general rights, North Korea is a far worse place to reside than Nazi Germany ever was, unless you were part of the actively persecuted population.
Hitler is obviously responsible for far more atrocious things than little Kimmy here, but his government at least had a semblance of proper function.
Let's just say they're both bad?
@@averagechapstick what’s the fun in that?
When the entire thread doesn't watch Rick and Morty...
"The official line in North Korea is that they are non-religious, really the religion is the kim dynasty" -Savage from the reporter 🤣
And false according to what the Buddhist monk says. What an obnoxious reporter.
@@antoniovasquez9946 That's not obnoxious means. Ignorant would work better but you're still wrong.
@@JimmyBoy9878 she’s obnoxious because of her tone, idiot.
One might say the same about you, Antonius.
@@antoniovasquez9946 What tone? What tone should she be using?
While I agree with the majority of the conclusions drawn, notice how accustomed we are to biased reporting. Surely, we would never cast doubt on a reporting like this, but even in here there are so many pro-Western biases shining through. The title of the video is fringe clickbait: "The North Korea I wasn't meant to see", yet the only thing you showed us that was "the real North Korea" was a man bathing in the river. How disturbing! The reporter even admits to not being able to see much, so what's the significance of the title? It promises something you can't get. It's inherently negative. Oddities are presented under a negative light as if they are exclusive to North Korea, such as not having stable access to water/clean water, yet we try and forget Flint, Michigan here in the US.
My point isn't that anything in this video wasn't outright wrong, but if you look hard, you can really see the biases that we're bringing with us when talking about North Korea, and furthermore, you can see just how much we're used to it. Most people watching this probably don't even realize. If our innate bias to present anything related to North Korea as malignant and evil is this rooted in the media we consume about it, how much more/less brainwashed are we than them?
Well said. They are showing poverty which is everywhere in the imperalized global south. These conditions are created and maintained by western imperialists and capitalists
My man.
I think that's it's much less about the poverty/poor infrastructure and more the lengths the government goes to convince the world that its citizens are not in a living hell. But even in this one video you see that their roads have little to no thought put into them, the reporter mentions that the water wasn't running consistently, and filming is actively silenced. Did you know that in 2016 an American tourist named Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in prison just for taking a propaganda sign? He ended up being sent out of the country in a coma, completely blind and deaf with misaligned teeth, and died days later. The North Koreans said he contracted botulism, which US physicians could not find any traces of. If you don't have some implicit bias towards North Korea, that's your choice. But there is grounds for it.
As for the Flint situation, it's not that it was purposefully hushed up, rather that the nation moved on. Unless you're a die-hard Flint fan, there's no reason to write about the boring side of litigation, although you can still find articles being written about it. Hopefully there will be some good press when the whole situation is finally resolved, but the $641 million settlement was approved for Flint residents, the people that caused it(including Snyder) are being charged for their crimes, and more than 10,000 pipes have already been replaced.
@@mistermann3455 I don't think his point is that North Korea is a good country. I think its more that he's more pointing to underlying biases inherent in much of western reporting which subconsciously push us towards a forming a view of a country (or a community) that may be very uninformed to push a certain perspective that the media wants to push.
But, I probably shouldn't speak for him.
@@lagtowns But what I'm trying to get at here is that the media *is* informed. There is credible evidence that the North Korean government is trying(and failing, by the looks of this video) to keep quiet that their country is suffering under the mask of "the purest race". It is true there are factors in western reporting that affect how neutral it truly is. But the reason a man bathing in the river is a point of interest is because the North Korean government previously denied that their citizens lived like that. This is not an example of representing them in a purposefully bad light, they dug their own grave.
Don’t understand how Kim can’t feel some type of way seeing his children like this. Like even Cartel bosses don’t do this to their people.
It is hard to believe and accept, but unfortunately alot of the people in power couldn't give less of a shit about anyone but themselves and those they care about...There seems to be no empathy.
Most people get to power by taking out what ever and who ever gets in their way..and they don't feel remorseful because that would just be a distraction from their goal.
Im sure Kim is fully aware of what's going on, but he doesn't care.
I'd give anything to help these people, and it is sad to know that the person who can, doesn't care. It sucks but it's just the way it is unfortunately 😕
It hurts to see them suffer
Its not like thats happening to them because of sanctions but only due to regime. The regime will never change by sanctions but diplomacy as shown by trump who actually got NK on nego table
Power does something to people. It somehow makes you less human.
@@Meteorknite Is that the way? I'm not convinced, Kim wants his privileges to endure
I love this trailer of the first hunger game movie
Alex lol
Fuck
Hell Dragon Gaming Dude calm the fuck down it's just a joke
XD
Do you not get the joke
She said “crudely made net” at a perfectly normal net it was just a 2 person net being used by 1 person…
Would be better off taking a piece of bamboo and some string and making a fucking hook out of a nail if need be
@shbang It is, but from both sides one trying to portray it as bad and the other as good.
It's a poor country and there was a lot of rain. What's so crazy about this piece?
@shbang Yeah well it's not exactly hard to make NK look bad lol
Are you the new CNN net correspondent for South East Asia? 😁
Well, live in Colombia seems akwardly similar to that shown on the video. People wash clothes in the river sometimes, goes fishing and a very typical activity is go cooking on the river. Also a lot of people walks in rural areas. The problems with roads is so so common that are expected. I have to deal with dangerous roads to go to my workplace. North Korea is not portrayed in this video as a hell spot, at least no until you listen the woman who admits only to be describing what she think it is watching on the window.
first world people see the third world as hell because theyre coddled
In Colombia you have freedom so other options if you desire, but in North Korea there are no options of anything.
Saying that, here in Mexico there's also people fishing for food in not very healthy places and people washing clothes in a river, and roads destroyed by storms, even the people working the fields with manual labor haha (electric shortages are not common though).
“Boy I sure wonder how we could improve our world image, guess we’ll never know.”
*Spends all of the countries money on nukes*
If he didn't they would get some 'freedom and democracy' asap and then the entire country would be stripped of resources and there would be civil war for the next 5 decades or something.
literally the US as well, except it's not nukes, it's other kinds of weapons and military expenditures
I mean they clearly dont give a shit about their public image cause they know its not going to recover well. Best to spend that money at a place so that no one can attack you, cause you have nukes.
@Rami Runner I kind of disagree, it's very obvious north korea has only not been invaded because of missiles and nukes and the united states is one of the most hostile and least peaceful foreign policy wise in the world.
Favoring the killing of civilians, resource extraction and worse, most country's have a right to be wary of the us.
@Rami Runner I included and missles, not just nukes, I'm not a moron.
that road is almost entirely aesthetic, just asphalt on top of mud
When you only have enough gas to drive a handful of vehicles over it every day, thats good enough for a while
@@FerdinandFakeaye until it rains
That road had about 4 inch of asphalt
Do you even know how small 4 inches is?
I meant 4 inches deep
Schindlers fist Was it too thick or too thin in your opinion?
Viininpunainen huppari Thin
Schindlers fist xD how thick it is in your country? Or have you even ever seen how thick it should be? I know because in my country we have cold winters and they cause cracks in asphalt
1:03 - you can see the road is built like crap, just asphalt on top of dirt. No base, no foundation, no resistance basically. Its junk. Its a road made for bicycles not cars. Terrible.
to be fair that footage could just as easily have been typical Chinese countryside. . only cleaner water and air.
+Daniel Tynan could have been typical countryside in most countries in the world
+Hatsune Miku He said COULD HAVE...
+Jonny Kong Bar the western world (mostly).
+Jonny Kong No you NEVER see people washing their clothes in the river in my country.
+Martin Skjøtt I have never seen anywhere in the 'western' world where that happens. Rivers and lakes are usually polluted with fertilizers, and clean water isn't difficult to get. Farm equipment is cheap and readily available... The only place I consider to be absolutely impoverished are in localized areas in the U.S., mainly the South West (around the Mexican boarder and Native American reserves). I'd like to point out that many of the areas are impoverished due to, well, stubbornness; particularly from Native Americans. I don't like it but you can't forcefully help someone against their will.
That's not to say I think everyone is like that, I'm saying that a substantial amount are like that.
So she went there for a three minute video?
bananarama9000 Obviously the North Koreans removed parts of the original video.
lol Too funny. Intidings link has more of North Korea, very interesting too.
+Mubarak X "Obviously"
So what? That doesn't explain why the video is so short.
+bananarama9000 It's short because they only wanted to show you the things that suited their own agenda.
All we see is literally the same thing you see across the Asian world. This is nothing more than propaganda.
The only positive I can see in this footage is that it seems the natural environment is mostly untouched. The mountains and fields are full of trees.
Trees are not an indicator of untouched environment lol
@@crazydragy4233 Yeah, in Northern Idaho around Wallace there's a bunch of trees. But photos from 100 years ago show the hills clear cut from logging. Also there's a bunch of trees in Quintana Roo, Mexico, but if you go back to the Mayan age all those trees would be corn crops and market places instead.
I understand the dilemma the people go through; but I must say for what it's worth, the country is quite beautiful and quite clean, a luxury that is underappreciated.
Ah, yes, the grass is green, appreciate that, stop whining about being a slave and getting put in a concentration camp because you simply disagree with your dictator.
"dilemma"?
sure, between "clean and beautiful" and "having human rights, access to the outside world, not probably the worst infrastructure and living conditions in the world, no constant famines, and not being under the permanent threat of getting arrested and probably tortured even killed for thinking the governement might be bad for the afor mentionned reasons"
i'll take my pick
“We drove along this bridge very slowly. It collapses the very next day,”
ANXIETY LEVELS INCREASED TO 100
Wouldn't driving fast be putting less weight on it? 🤔
@@vinny1883 no. because the bridge is buckled, you're putting more stress on the bridge and for shorter amounts of time. it's like a knife; knives cut things because the material they cut cannot withstand those large amounts of force concentrated on such a small surface area.
driving quickly over a buckled bridge might be faster, but what happens when the bus goes down a slope and then suddenly has to go up? it bounces, and for that short moment, the stress on that part of the bridge is massively increased, which is the opposite of what you want when you're driving over a bridge that might collapse at any moment.
@@mathze ok
Failing Bridge Moments part 2
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@@quenderasjuaro7028 reported for spam lmao
I know someone who went to North Korea (U.N) and stopped their driver to help a cyclist injured by the side of the road (everyone was ignoring him).
The driver was scared to stop but did, the cyclist was taken to a nearby hospital.
Then the security agency showed up at the guys hotel and interviewed him for 3 hours;
'why did you stop?' ...
'how did you know the injured man?'
'Why would you help a stranger? Were you trying to recruit him?'
'what did the injured man say to you?'
and on and on...
Eventually they left....and seemingly unsure what to do...or embarrassed...they came back a couple days later and gave the guy a medal for bravery lol...pretending that was the reason for the initial interrogation.
true story
Bruh
so they gave the person who helped a medal... that's the moral of your story. you know if you report a crime in USA the police ask you questions too, right? they'll ask you why you were there, what you were doing, if you knew the victim personally, what you talked to the victim about, ask to see your ID, etc, and then they don't give you a medal for helping.
@@llamawalrushybrid if you are at a crime scene when police arrive, they'll ask you questions especially if the victim can't speak for themselves. if you're spotted interfering with a crime scene or the victim, you're a suspect. if you flee the scene after interfering, they'll probably follow you since the victim couldn't clear you. its just standard procedure for cops regardless of the country. they would be bad cops if they just ignored you dropping off a severely injured person.
@@rumfordc okay you've defended North Korea enough, heres your paycheck for propaganda
@@lunalowlight470 yep, saying they have cops doing what cops do is "defending" them alright. give me my medal now.
it's amazing how one family get to decide millions fate of others
Amazingly terrifying
Human history in a nutshell
I can assure you Queen Elizabeth really isn't that bad
Bush dynasty
Yet there is one family that gets to decide the fate of billions, but yet nobody cares or know..
"It collapses the very next day".
How do you know?
"and tells me to stop filming." Yeah, tbh I think I would do the same if a stranger was recording some random dude taking a bath in the river lol
Ikr
right 😭😭 i know north korea is crazy but he’s still a person
@@irgendeinname9256 You say that, but recording some random dude bathing is kind of a breach of privacy. And if I was a security officer, confronting someone like that would be part of my responsibility. Though, I don't think North Korea gives a shit about citizen privacy lol.
Yeah well you're normally allowed to use a camera in public.
@@own4801 how do you know this was in public?
North Korea, doing their part to fight global warming.
+HunterShows At least they care, eh?
Yeah, thats the funny thing, north korea is one of the few countries with the least pollution xD
+MrCilliman NK is probably polluted with mass graves.
^LOL ikr
yeah and those decomposing corpses will enrich the land with nutrients =)
Is it true their dictator listens to Katy Perry
Somehow you are a checkmark person with no replies.
💀
No
I’m more into deep house
It’s rumored he likes to play World of Tanks, I’d guess it’s true.
@@autokrator_ no
I’m more into the fallout series
"No farming machinery"
probably because they dont need any? i used to work in an onion field in the U.S., and we didn't use machinery. it was all by hand. some agricultural jobs just can't be done with machinery, you know.
Even if they had most 3rd world countries doesn't have farming machinery
@CommunistBotno there isnt
South Korea, too, doesn't really use farming machinery (I'm South Korean, and that's why I know this).
The Korean peninsula is filled with hills and mountains, making it hard to use any sort of machinery.
Usually, the farmers bring their townsfolk to harvest.
Also, South Korea has regulations that discourage corporations from dominating the farming industry, which might explain the lack of farming machinery.
Buddhism is more a philosophy than a religion. The Buddha states that one should not believe in things simply because they hear it, and the Buddha encourages followers to investigate his teachings for themselves. The Buddha’s teachings emphasize personal practice and adhering to moral principles above any kind of dogma.
Buddhism has its fair share of unfalsifiable concepts. Trying to remove the label of religion won't make it more grounded. Philosophy and religion are not mutually exclusive, either. Christianity has a philosophy, as has Hinduism, Judaism, Satanism, or any other compilation of dogmas you can name.
No. Buddhism is a dogmatic religion in every way. Siddhartha taught that indifference to and involvement in life was the answer to suffering through the extinction of the self. If you love your child or feel someone else's pain as keenly as your own, that is the same kind of badness as hating your child and delighting in torture.
dogma? what's dogma? (no please dont say "dogma nuts")
@@staceixan Anything that is held true and obeyed on the basis of said so. The 10 commandments, for instance. Or your country's constitution, teachings about reincarnation, enlightenment, resurrection, karma, judgement day, etc.
@@MrSamulai aight thank u, appreciate it
It's like hunger games "panem". Capitol is good and prosperity unlike the districts.
Just like hunger games
M Nur Hambali in North Korea not even the capital is prosperous, just the elites get to eat three meals a day ad have internet access
Zach Burke z00°
M Nur Hambali every country has a panem
M Nur Hambali every country has a capitol
Plot twist - This is actually a backup fake North Korea and you have to get past a second set of obstacles to see the real North Korea
This but unironically
This but ironically
Ah yes, the real Korea : *West Korea*
xqcl
It's not actually a joke sadly
How did you manage to keep this footage? I thought the North Korean military didn’t allow filming?
You can only film certain areas. There is strict rules on filming
There are certain programmes you can use to store and hide files that aren't permitted.
Not saying that North Korea is a good place
But the footage literally didn't show anything horrible. Streets and electricity being damaged from bad weather is normal. People washing in rivers isn't too strange in many countries.
I am aware that they don't allow to film or visit many places, but from the title of the video you would except something actually shocking.
You think unfixed power lines are normal?
@@stormcloudsabound they actually are even in some first world countries like Brazil
@@stormcloudsabound In the video she even said the power went out during a storm, I think 'unfixed powerlines' is a little harsh when they were broken less than 24hr ago
@@jackmakila3776 there is nothing first world about Brazil
@@holywaterbottle3175 can you give examples?
I can't stop thinking about grandpa's magic trick at 1:19
Majick*
@@fafa-tt3cg Magik*
@@jimhalpert9803 Mejic*
@@averageguy6774 *Mahjehk
@@Bear-kb4kt mejihake*
My hearts go out to all the people who was born in this country who had to endure this pain in the present technological world
Don't worry, I dont think they have any idea, not even a glimpse of how much ahead technologically even their neighbours are.
You can't miss something you have never seen or experienced. These people probably think the whole world is like this.
Is it just me or does this video give off some AoT vibes? Almost all the common people in north korea are trapped inside their country, similar to being trapped inside the walls without knowledge of what's beyond. And if anyone becomes a bit too curious, they're killed/jailed. Just like the case of Erwin's father...
@@sadkritx6200 that's why it's been so successful because it tries to (sort of) capture what humans have done, are doing and are capable of doing in the present. Other than the fantasy element of the titan power etc., the basic government and life is pretty much grounded in reality.
@@rohilthomson It's almost like Pol Pots Cambodia without the constant butchering and with a medium of technology reserved for the handpicked affluent and 'Dear Leader's' relations....kinda like the Trump Regime was aspiring to be in the next 5 or 6 years.
Was and had? These people are still living shitty lives in a shitty country
Meanwhile, Kim Jong is eating 3 buckets of fried chicken at his palace.
The broken and washed away road is something you'll see all over the UK.
The bloke having a wash in the river is something you'll only see in Barnsley.
River? LUXURY.
@@mxbx307 I know right. When I was a kid we were lucky to have a muddy puddle to bathe in.
Westerners really want to be the victims don’t they
@Pakifag ok tankie
@@audellaroque4730 not sure how you derive that sentiment from my statement, but go victimise your mother.
"Military Checkpoints because of the heavy Rain" had me rolling for hours
Well, roads were collapsing from a storm the day before sssooo not sure there’s any hidden propaganda w this one
For hours? You must have a serious medical condition then.
@@blankmandastankman if they weren't such a shit country their roads wouldn't collapse. look at that road bed its like 2 inches thick total. there is nothing good about communism and this is proof
We have the same thing… are you just propagandized?
No that actually does make sense, people would be banned from traveling in adverse weather. We do the same in the west
1:19 (lights come back on)
Old man in red shirt: "Rats, there goes my story telling time".
Honestly I'm amazed they even let them in those places knowing there's heavy rains and the roads might be destroyed or what. They do have weather forecasting in North Korea right?
0:57 is strangely beautiful in a surreal way.
I didn't appreciate it until I looked again, but yeah
Yeah I kinda see what you mean
I see... thank you for pointing that out, op
Salvador Dali painting!
I think it's reminiscent of some naturally occurring cliffs.
Edit: I'm sure there's an even more similar example, but here's what I was thinking of ua-cam.com/video/OW5MlvvqGjM/v-deo.html
2:19: is it me or does the segment where the lady is talking about the monks seemed green screened?
Lucas Laboucan CNN so everything is possible
CNN so if it was a green screen not a surprise
It was probably a green screen. Good catch on your part.
Ahungry Spoon it does look like it. Doesnt surprise me its CNN
I can see that, looks like a picture as well. The woman on the left wasn’t even moving! Would be weird, but it’s definitely a green screen.
We have no idea how other countries struggle, even this report was heavily restricted. Western charitable aid doesn't always reach the people it should.
It's about the culture.
It never does and what money does reach the people in need it is only a small fraction of what was sent.
@@luxinvictus9018 this country's poverty is no different to anything I've seen across myanmar, India or Thailand
@@Zunawe you do realise north korea is the most embargoed country in human history. They can't get oil or any materials due to the embargo. The West can lift the embargo demilitarise the south and begin the process of unification which both sides want
@@luxinvictus9018 When I say culture, it encompass the thinking and way of life of the masses. North and south Korea now has a lot more differences in the “culture “. Culture plays a big role but not the only factor.
Looks dope, but if I move there will I be able to find work?
If you go to other parts of rural Southeast Asia this is incredibly common. I’m unsure where the surprise is really... people washing in rivers, fishing for their food and damage from heavy rain is totally normal in this part of the world
The surprise comes from the fact that NK tries to make the west, especially tourists and journalists, believe they're a first world country
O_O we dont do/have that in America
@@3u-n3ma_r1-c0 well duh, thats why the OP said "other rural parts of southeast asia"
@@3u-n3ma_r1-c0 you don't have people fishing?
Yeah people are just brainwashed, this video looks great
You know your government is bad when half of the road collapses due to "heavy rain".
government it's always bad
yeah, it has never happened in the west, never....
Yeah, landslides don't happen in the west. We are protected by democracy and capitalism.
@@Regexion yeah only 5 this month where I’m at
@engineer main Co, i-70 was destroyed that month from rain causing mudslides
It really is sad that the whole world understands what North Korea is like and how the people are actually living. The mere fact they’re spending this much to cover it up despite people knowing what is actually happening is mind boggling. It really is sad seeing how one persons pursuit of power brings a whole country down.
Kim is an awful person, but he's not the only one bringing the country down and pretending he's the only one is farcical. The obliteration of the country's infrastructure during the Korean War, the sanctions imposed after the war (which continue to this day) and being surrounded by enemies all played a part in making the nation what it is today.
It's more insane how there aren't any massive rebellions and coup attempts. I guess they actually enjoy living like this. Belarus had millions of protesters, while they failed, they showed some backbone that they won't just get fucked over. Meanwhile in NK, it's just depression, desperation ad complete hopelessness.
@@MJ-uk6lu yeah I’ve thought about that too, if people are so brainwashed to enjoy the circumstances, or really do believe in Kim Jong Un as a god. Maybe they don’t rebel just because of how bad the repercussions would be, just sad.
@@VonDoughBoy But at the same time, they most likely know to some extent how life is abroad and yet there's not much rebellious action there in half of century.
Maybe they just don't want to be destroyed and humiliated by the US government. If the US left everyone alone, there might not be a need for such precautions.
Is this a repost? But this channel really have good contents in it, too bad the last vid is from 8yrs ago :(
This is almost exactly what I imagined Pyongyang looked like after reading _The Orphan Master's Son_
That said, the poor side of a country is always different from the side presented to tourists. That's how it is wherever you go. Ain't nothing particularly shocking about that.
nah, when I was in Greece I travelled to a rather poor part.
Whoever said that hasn't been to India. The poor side exists alongside the tourist spots. There's no space for a nice view, except private property of course.
The main difference, though, is that other countries don't send a government minder to monitor and curtail your visit.
No shit...you can literally drive a half hour east of Chicago's Gold Coast, lined with 2 million dollar condos on the lake and find yourself drifting around Gary Indiana, tripping over crackheads, needles and empty foreclosures.
@@gplito oh god dont remind me. that was a wrong turn I'll never make again
2:26 "We cross a buckled monk. His skull collapses the very next day."
At least the human skull is better constructed than that "road" from earlier
@Sore Sage LOL if you say so. Cambodia was also a very prosperous place to live when it was under Pol Pot.
@Sore Sage Glory to North Korea. Glory to Supreme Kim jong Un! Glory to Communism! Salute my brother!
@Sore Sage and may we watch (and record) with utter admiration!
Omg lol
“A boy catches some fish in crudely made net and takes it to a man”, ahh yes the evil past time of fishing with ones father. No but for real I’ve been there and it’s definitely more simple, there are hungry people, and the infrastructure is bad, but it’s no worse than most African or other southeast Asian countries. The problem is that North Korea tries to appear as a first world country, and has a first world country sized military, so people are surprised when they get there, and it’s really second or third world for most of the population.
Seems like the government is worse though than something like Africa, I don't know much about African laws but I don't think they put as much effort into making sure you don't say anything bad about the country
It may have the size of a first world military but they’re outfitted like the Soviet Union just after ww2
Dude, the first world country is an outdated term already and it doesnt reflect quality of life at all. First world country refers to european power while second world country refers to communist. Third world countries are those supporting neither of these associations.
@@fid.firdhaus that's the official term but it changed and now this is how it's used. What's wrong with that?
@@alexosow The vigilante governments in Africa are much more cruel that the North Korean government. The North Korean Government is bad, and more oppressive than most of the world, but there are still different punishments for crimes. I’m many African countries government is extremely decentralized to the point where there are different warlords that control regions, and the punishment for most crimes is just death. That’s also if you don’t get raped and killed for no reason because there’s no official law enforcement.
It is kinda weird that you noticed these random people just trying to bathe and your first instinct is to record them
This reminds me so much of The Hunger Games
Hunger games is about America
Hmm, im from bangladesh, gotta say the "poorer" view doesnt look all that bad, i mean its CLEAN
That's because they're so poor they haven't anything to make trash with and no doubt, littering is a capital offense....
I can relate mate. I'm from Sri Lanka, from the polluted side of the city of Colombo.
@@BoggWeasel you say this like it's a bad thing. I'd like to see littering punished more heavily elsewhere.
@Old Chunk of Coal Yeah you're right, apparently a man was executed for having a South Korean drama.
@password 12 Yeah, that’s crazy.
Imagine getting sent 10 years in prison for a marijuana seed…
So severe weather and torrential rain cause damages and power outages? I mean who would’ve thought?
fr fr😂 there standards are just too high bro
The ONE good thing about North Korea's country side is that its so lush and green and most of it is untouched. It looks GORGEOUS and too bad North Korea is such a shit hole because I would be there ASAP. The North Korean people need to hurry up and overthrow the current regime.
Dan Zena try Estonia. im born in this country. just google the country its pretty nice
That Completely Random Guy Will do
Dan Zena Yeah, so would 200'000 people a year and baaam, less than 10 years until ot looks as futuristic as south korea
Dan Zena If you want lush and green then you should move over here to Ireland
Dan Zena yeah that whole thing about the people not being able to build buildings because the current regime pays citizens mere dollars a month, BUT WE GET PRETTY TREES!
Corrupt government treating their people like shit. It's sad.
Welcome to the world
It's not that corrupt, really.
It's working the way it's designed to.
@@trenchcoatjoe1891 That's probably the worst part, a system meant to subjugate its citizens and deprive them of liberty and care.
@@mysteryboy1462 - just like every other country, then
@@danielcrafter9349 that’s not true at all. That’s just communism. America sure as hell don’t do that
To be fair I see people wash themselves and their clothes everyday in Florida
We dont like to talk about florida lol
True, they act like there's not millions of homeless people all over the streets here lol
Bruh Florida isn’t like that but only in some areas like oneco and other manatee county areas
That's cause america is also a 3rd world country disguising themselves as a first world one
@@Zuignap damn third world countries aint that bad then
so... does North Korea just need farm equipment and civil engineers/planners to transform the country?
Is this the reporter that got sent to a labor camp?
No. That was a different one. She now works for a different TV outlet... Can't remember what it's called
Can only hope
I get it,she was actually decoding the location of her prison in the whole video.
That "poorer view" was nothing compared to the rural places you were unable to go.
If people are washing themselves in the river in that part, imagine what they're doing in the really poor part.
@@devononair I know, it's so sad. I heard one defector say that they would wash in a river once a month, even in winter.
Some of this report is indeed interesting but don’t pretend that all of what you showed is unusual to North Korea.
In quite a few Asian countries it is possible to see people (including children) fishing in the most unusual (and polluted waterways) trying to catch tiny fish in their nets (or by rod) to eat or sell. This is not only in the provinces, but also in major cities.
It is also much more common to see people swimming or even bathing in all kinds of waterways, especially around the poorer areas where there are shacks built right on the waterway (even under bridges etc.) There is less of the “stigma” of just getting in the water as there is in the West.
What is unusual is the lack of farming machinery, plumbing and electricity. Every developing country has some squalor, the thing is NK isn’t developing.
@@crown9413 They lack farm machinery because they are cut off by US sanctions. But they are still developing, it's just slow and difficult when you can hardly trade with anyone
@@wabc2336 They can trade with China, India, Russia etc. And do get some equipment from them. They just can't afford much because they believe in autarky and spend everything on the military.
@@crown9413 well, so are you telling me that being sanctioned by the whole world is bad for development? Who would tell
@@homerosouza2353 I'm telling you their economic system is so toxic they don't even have anything to trade with.
Well to me it looks better than what I see everyday living in Brazil!
It’s almost like if they actually gave a crap about their people they’d be able to have all these luxuries they’re pretending to have...weird how that works.
Lol the DPRK is one of the most sanctioned countries in the world, mostly because of the west's aggressive imperialist policy. First the West fucks up a country, then it says they need to liberate it lmao
@@flavioardizio7242 Because it's a Tyrinical regime that we shouldn't support?
@@AmarEcd1233 You must be one of those people like Tony Blaire who want liberalism spread throughout the world by armed missionaries. What a great success that was in Iraq.
One in four children in America face food insecurity every day, just saying.
@@tristanclarkhawes976 yikes