The North Korea I wasnt meant to see

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  • Опубліковано 5 сер 2013
  • My military minder tells me to turn my camera off and it soon becomes clear why.
    The poverty I see through the bus window is not the view of North Korea the regime wants to be seen. We are traveling from Hyangsan, three hours north of Pyongyang back to the capital but the main road and the sanctioned route has been flooded. This is the only way back.
    Buildings are in disrepair, some barely look inhabitable.
    Residents of this small town walk or sit by the side of the road, many seeming to have little to do. A number of official-looking men dressed in brown Mao suits stand silently on street corners. It is impossible to know who they are or which element of the party or military they might work for but they clearly seem to be observing.
    Despite the driver traveling as quickly as possible through these inhabited areas, you could still sense the local community being monitored.
    Dozens of men are working on the outskirts of town, building a stone wall between their crops and the swollen river.
    Boulders and stones are carried by hand and stacked without adhesive. This intensive labor force is seen repeatedly in the North Korean countryside, but I see no heavy equipment to help building or farming.
    One man trims hedges with a rusty scythe, other men repair part of the pavement with small hand held pick axes.
    Cars are rare, most people either walk or cycle.

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  • @elderblackdragon
    @elderblackdragon 7 років тому +16566

    "Can't afford"
    More like not allowed to afford.

    • @insidiouspancake5590
      @insidiouspancake5590 5 років тому +369

      same thing about the North Koreans who "can't eat".

    • @ekermann
      @ekermann 5 років тому +17

      Fake news!

    • @giannegoma8716
      @giannegoma8716 5 років тому +177

      they are allowed to afford, though if they want to buy a car they must ask permission from the government

    • @devilman5505
      @devilman5505 5 років тому +9

      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

    • @thile6742
      @thile6742 5 років тому +1

      ekermann Fake claim

  • @98Tejma
    @98Tejma 5 років тому +33514

    "He takes whatever he has caught to a man sitting by the side of the water"
    You mean he is fishing with his dad?

    • @Sefz99
      @Sefz99 4 роки тому +1440

      Lmao that hilarious

    • @jew_world_order
      @jew_world_order 4 роки тому +2677

      Maybe it's his dad, maybe it's a government official forcing the kid to catch food for him.

    • @98Tejma
      @98Tejma 4 роки тому +495

      Primping grow up man

    • @sponish0
      @sponish0 4 роки тому +2913

      @@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

    • @gw3zn
      @gw3zn 4 роки тому +501

      sponish0 it’s quite normal for children to fish in America

  • @MrFring13
    @MrFring13 2 роки тому +5138

    There’s something about North Korea that just feels weird, it feels like purgatory, and it feels like no one ever goes outside.

  • @Mythic_Echoes
    @Mythic_Echoes 7 місяців тому +1036

    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.

    • @AdblockAccount
      @AdblockAccount 7 місяців тому

      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.

    • @sirsceptical2805
      @sirsceptical2805 7 місяців тому +49

      hes a lucky guy then, hope he has a better life then in north korea

    • @bevvvy1374
      @bevvvy1374 7 місяців тому +139

      @@sirsceptical2805 Hope? He's guaranteed a better life outside of that hell hole.

    • @mybloodyvacuum
      @mybloodyvacuum 7 місяців тому +2

      tell me more

    • @cobby-lz4bh
      @cobby-lz4bh 7 місяців тому +20

      The chinese government isnt exactly nice to everyone either.

  • @quickz187
    @quickz187 7 років тому +10965

    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.

    • @rickrolld1367
      @rickrolld1367 3 роки тому +1725

      You're correct, that IS only 5 inches of pavement over some dirt/clay.

    • @jovenfrantzborigas4554
      @jovenfrantzborigas4554 3 роки тому +679

      @@rickrolld1367 you just literally repeated what he said

    • @crazymonkeymw2
      @crazymonkeymw2 3 роки тому +2951

      @@jovenfrantzborigas4554 You're correct, he just literally repeated what he said.

    • @TejYT
      @TejYT 3 роки тому +921

      @@crazymonkeymw2 you literally repeated what he literally repeated

    • @donttryitjohn364
      @donttryitjohn364 3 роки тому +1252

      @@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.

  • @teopini
    @teopini 3 роки тому +31758

    I find it really Ironic how, while the whole nation is starving, the Great Leader is some spoiled chubby kid.

    • @tillerman7272
      @tillerman7272 3 роки тому +500

      yes he is

    • @rajinfootonchuriquen
      @rajinfootonchuriquen 3 роки тому +2020

      It's not ironic. It's distribution of resource

    • @321scully
      @321scully 3 роки тому +280

      @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.

    • @icouldntcomeupwithaname8783
      @icouldntcomeupwithaname8783 3 роки тому +222

      just like the middle ages lol

    • @icouldntcomeupwithaname8783
      @icouldntcomeupwithaname8783 3 роки тому +415

      @@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.

  • @tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224
    @tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224 2 роки тому +640

    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.

    • @HowDoYouTurnThisOn_
      @HowDoYouTurnThisOn_ 2 роки тому +3

      From wich part of america? Thats a big continent.

    • @tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224
      @tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224 2 роки тому +9

      @@HowDoYouTurnThisOn_ From California if I remember correctly. We're from New Zealand BTW.

    • @vc8160
      @vc8160 7 місяців тому

      The Fiji coup was bad but not comparable to North Korea in the slightest.

  • @Daniel-ox1sb
    @Daniel-ox1sb 2 роки тому +3639

    It's insane the contrast between North and South Korea. Shows you how important a free society is for peoples' livelihood.

    • @cikembra2389
      @cikembra2389 2 роки тому +3

      And america investing money into your economy jump shooting its development at an unprecedented rate

    • @GrandLordGeek
      @GrandLordGeek 2 роки тому +185

      Maybe the sanctions have something to do with it

    • @Ark1986
      @Ark1986 2 роки тому +1

      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..

    • @JohnnyWad309
      @JohnnyWad309 2 роки тому

      @@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.

    • @Daniel-ox1sb
      @Daniel-ox1sb 2 роки тому +50

      @@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.

  • @suico778
    @suico778 3 роки тому +15013

    2:21
    My man Chong Byok is definitely a full-time gamer. There's no hiding that headset head.

    • @caleb7612
      @caleb7612 3 роки тому +3241

      Monk at day
      Gamer by night

    • @jackmrsich3178
      @jackmrsich3178 3 роки тому +545

      What do you think he plays?

    • @jackmrsich3178
      @jackmrsich3178 3 роки тому +224

      @@SomeNewGuy that explains a lot.

    • @raja7775
      @raja7775 3 роки тому +946

      Prays in the morning
      Plays in the night

    • @Aaryan.S
      @Aaryan.S 3 роки тому +168

      @@SomeNewGuy raiden is probably his favourite guy.

  • @fallingbed1
    @fallingbed1 5 років тому +47591

    I can stop thinking about the movie “the interview” where Dave finds out the grocery store was fake Dx

  • @2steaksandwiches665
    @2steaksandwiches665 2 роки тому +1374

    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.

    • @lich109
      @lich109 2 роки тому +35

      You should thank the nation's that helped get him into power through military actions and economic sanctions as well.

    • @AbdulAli786o
      @AbdulAli786o 2 роки тому +19

      Maybe, but literally anything is better then their current conditions

    • @2steaksandwiches665
      @2steaksandwiches665 2 роки тому

      @@AbdulAli786o their citizens may not know any different. We are looking at this through the eyes of a westerner.

    • @seanpecson2858
      @seanpecson2858 2 роки тому +113

      @@lich109 The Kim rose to power after veing endorsed by tje Sovier Union, ut wasnt theough economic sanctions.

    • @lich109
      @lich109 2 роки тому

      @@seanpecson2858 It was through economic sanctions and the vast majority of the country's infrastructure being obliterated during a war.

  • @christopherb4015
    @christopherb4015 Рік тому +261

    I love that the tourists are upset that the lights came back on its an experience that made the trip more memorable.

    • @SuperKREPSINIS
      @SuperKREPSINIS 10 місяців тому

      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

    • @ilikespagett1514
      @ilikespagett1514 7 місяців тому +14

      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

  • @bluebull2006
    @bluebull2006 2 роки тому +16624

    “He takes whatrver he has caught to a man by the side of the river”
    The fish pimp

    • @numbnutone
      @numbnutone 2 роки тому +533

      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.

    • @MaritimeFox
      @MaritimeFox 2 роки тому +145

      @@numbnutone He's got no sole!

    • @orangechicken1517
      @orangechicken1517 2 роки тому +12

      🤣

    • @69THGILF
      @69THGILF 2 роки тому +22

      @@MaritimeFox You said SOLE ..

    • @Nefarious_Bread
      @Nefarious_Bread 2 роки тому +90

      @@69THGILF Them shoes was pretty busted though...

  • @wmwardwell
    @wmwardwell 2 роки тому +8500

    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.

    • @rubicunduseratiudas1264
      @rubicunduseratiudas1264 2 роки тому +79

      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
      @joshuagrall1352 2 роки тому +273

      @@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.

    • @dominiquexo4772
      @dominiquexo4772 2 роки тому +3

      Florida 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @gapebonganingwanaamotho2445
      @gapebonganingwanaamotho2445 2 роки тому +22

      @@joshuagrall1352 then why do US people like complaining about the government watching them? 🤔😂

    • @rubicunduseratiudas1264
      @rubicunduseratiudas1264 2 роки тому +52

      @@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.

  • @tsgmer
    @tsgmer 2 роки тому +189

    I do actually feel really bad for these people. Hopefully one day they will be free !

    • @Testingthisname
      @Testingthisname Рік тому +1

      Yeah, we gotta dstroy the US to free them

    • @NetBattler
      @NetBattler 10 місяців тому +7

      Of course (they won't as long kim and his family still alive)

    • @Volpe88
      @Volpe88 7 місяців тому

      Free to watch BBC porn and have trans children

  • @benm5407
    @benm5407 10 місяців тому +44

    Imagine feeling so entitled that you think it's acceptable to film someone bathing, and be surprised when you're told not to

  • @stevebob240
    @stevebob240 3 роки тому +37243

    CNN would never do something like this today. Wish we still had journalism like this.

    • @G59forlife.
      @G59forlife. 3 роки тому +2237

      Hearing CNN makes me want to puke

    • @yewweilim714
      @yewweilim714 3 роки тому +973

      Asian boss does really good reports of Asia especially in East Asia if that's your cup of tea

    • @jacobdaniels3246
      @jacobdaniels3246 3 роки тому +985

      This is only 7 years old, not 20

    • @catonthecob99
      @catonthecob99 3 роки тому +1821

      @@G59forlife. The video is literally from CNN lmao

    • @G59forlife.
      @G59forlife. 3 роки тому +207

      @@catonthecob99 wait a minute
      😔

  • @clairecelestin8437
    @clairecelestin8437 2 роки тому +5998

    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.

    • @rumfordc
      @rumfordc 2 роки тому +98

      its probably a lot easier to rebuild because of that.

    • @meandillar69
      @meandillar69 2 роки тому +43

      Doesn't matter how good the road is with a washout like that.

    • @yuristremel
      @yuristremel 2 роки тому +318

      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

    • @wenomechainasama6161
      @wenomechainasama6161 2 роки тому +1

      Every thing there that is first world is either fake or only used by the military or Kim

    • @ManofOneGod
      @ManofOneGod 2 роки тому +2

      Incase you are implying what I think you are implying, they have nuclear weapons...

  • @intensemaster
    @intensemaster 2 роки тому +92

    “Paula Hancox, CNN, North Korea”
    That sounded crazy to me, feel like she’s the only journalist to ever say that lol

    • @avrilyaxley2084
      @avrilyaxley2084 2 роки тому +4

      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.

  • @hooman1200
    @hooman1200 2 роки тому +114

    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

    • @doomywoomymawine
      @doomywoomymawine 10 місяців тому +3

      Lebanon is definitely not on the same level of north korea bro lol.

  • @wparo
    @wparo 2 роки тому +27073

    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.

    • @d.altounian244
      @d.altounian244 2 роки тому +1231

      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.

    • @burritodog3634
      @burritodog3634 2 роки тому +202

      i probably wasnt a machine gun dude

    • @worldlinezero4783
      @worldlinezero4783 2 роки тому +649

      A... heavy machine gun? That seems unlikely. I don't thing police just carry a Browning around while patrolling, that shit's heavy

    • @dominiquexo4772
      @dominiquexo4772 2 роки тому +71

      Dominican Republic is like that but they don’t care about filming 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @blakechandler167
      @blakechandler167 2 роки тому +648

      @@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

  • @ShifTac
    @ShifTac 3 роки тому +30791

    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.

    • @Kaiyats
      @Kaiyats 3 роки тому +408

      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!

    • @paddaboi_
      @paddaboi_ 3 роки тому +3200

      @@Kaiyats more like 700 years lol

    • @KolchaksGhost
      @KolchaksGhost 3 роки тому +3167

      @@Kaiyats well it’s completely wrong, since the population is still increasing and is twice the size as the North’s lol

    • @jimmylives
      @jimmylives 3 роки тому +632

      @@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.

    • @KolchaksGhost
      @KolchaksGhost 3 роки тому +2026

      @@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

  • @conradlarrson6182
    @conradlarrson6182 2 роки тому +75

    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?

    • @sunviewer7
      @sunviewer7 2 роки тому +5

      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

    • @lagtowns
      @lagtowns 2 роки тому +5

      My man.

    • @mistermann3455
      @mistermann3455 2 роки тому +5

      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.

    • @lagtowns
      @lagtowns 2 роки тому +7

      @@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.

    • @mistermann3455
      @mistermann3455 2 роки тому +3

      @@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.

  • @murciegacoco
    @murciegacoco 2 роки тому +41

    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.

    • @Videoswithsoarin
      @Videoswithsoarin 8 місяців тому

      first world people see the third world as hell because theyre coddled

    • @fenrirgg
      @fenrirgg 4 місяці тому +2

      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).

  • @stoneocean4760
    @stoneocean4760 5 років тому +16039

    "We drove over this buckled bridge very slowly.
    *it collapses the very next day* "
    Holy shit

    • @a.j.deutsch1792
      @a.j.deutsch1792 5 років тому +514

      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.

    • @chelwesch68
      @chelwesch68 5 років тому +161

      @@a.j.deutsch1792 do you live in beaver county lol. Two years to fix one bridge.

    • @dylanm9109
      @dylanm9109 5 років тому +39

      chel wes exactly, on 81, it takes forever for one little bridge

    • @St0ckwell
      @St0ckwell 5 років тому +64

      Holy shit is right CNN make up some pretty bold lies

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 5 років тому +12

      @@chelwesch68 At least they fix it. In my country you only talk about it if someone dies.

  • @Manmanmanboyawesome6456
    @Manmanmanboyawesome6456 5 років тому +9738

    Wii Sports Golf when you miss a hole: 1:21

  • @diannshoemaker6419
    @diannshoemaker6419 Рік тому +19

    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.

  • @DaveTan65
    @DaveTan65 2 роки тому +2

    Meanwhile, Kim Jong is eating 3 buckets of fried chicken at his palace.

  • @bananachild1936
    @bananachild1936 2 роки тому +37137

    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.

    • @HickoryTrees
      @HickoryTrees 2 роки тому +80

      Yes

    • @bradthunderpants3283
      @bradthunderpants3283 2 роки тому +733

      I mean it's just kind of like living in the 1500s I'd imagine. Just pre industrial human life.

    • @YSleepish
      @YSleepish 2 роки тому +2289

      @@bradthunderpants3283 except everyone's poor and there's a dictator

    • @YSleepish
      @YSleepish 2 роки тому +140

      Hope they can escape

    • @Sanjay-ub7eq
      @Sanjay-ub7eq 2 роки тому +464

      @@bradthunderpants3283 nah that time there was much freedom inside the territory

  • @peytonc18
    @peytonc18 7 років тому +1590

    They grow a lot of rice and crops, but Mr. Kim keeps eating it all.

    • @captainrobots1
      @captainrobots1 3 роки тому +56

      That's why he is fat
      Just don't tell him I said that he would probably bomb us for saying that.

    • @moaksim17y65
      @moaksim17y65 3 роки тому +11

      Hes stealing all the food like king Dedede

    • @baldrickthedungspreader3107
      @baldrickthedungspreader3107 3 роки тому +6

      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
      @pedrojuan8050 3 роки тому +1

      Surprisingly, Kim eats a lot of western foods.

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 3 роки тому +2

      @@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.

  • @alaefarmestatesllc
    @alaefarmestatesllc 7 місяців тому +6

    So severe weather and torrential rain cause damages and power outages? I mean who would’ve thought?

  • @neal5807
    @neal5807 7 місяців тому +2

    It is kinda weird that you noticed these random people just trying to bathe and your first instinct is to record them

  • @fjdndjsnxb8488
    @fjdndjsnxb8488 5 років тому +3403

    1:21 when the lights come back on at school.

    • @ayushkr5123
      @ayushkr5123 5 років тому +14

      Hejejejej

    • @EatGymSleep
      @EatGymSleep 4 роки тому +9

      😂

    • @santiagooarg6990
      @santiagooarg6990 3 роки тому +70

      I find it a little bit sad when the lights come back after a black out

    • @zondor8123
      @zondor8123 3 роки тому +68

      70% of children got disappointed immediately. They hope the lights stay out until school over

    • @kaperskyplays8016
      @kaperskyplays8016 3 роки тому +1

      Loool 😂😂

  • @BerlinUKn0w
    @BerlinUKn0w 3 роки тому +25633

    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.

    • @gm_altus
      @gm_altus 3 роки тому +1476

      @@Bi6M4C you do know north korea is a shitty facist dictatorship? I would say its okay to laugh at their gov

    • @Bi6M4C
      @Bi6M4C 3 роки тому +194

      @@gm_altus no, it's simply pathetic

    • @vxunaTM_xuandanhphan
      @vxunaTM_xuandanhphan 3 роки тому +771

      What's your favorite breakfast, mine is egg n bacon

    • @vxunaTM_xuandanhphan
      @vxunaTM_xuandanhphan 3 роки тому +286

      @@cdfactory ikr, btw do you eat it with runny egg? I do

    • @msatrio_luhur
      @msatrio_luhur 3 роки тому +126

      @@vxunaTM_xuandanhphan why so random 😂😂😂

  • @punchbowlhaircut
    @punchbowlhaircut 2 роки тому +1

    I think the scariest part would be seeing a security guard appear from nowhere!

  • @alexcj3250
    @alexcj3250 2 роки тому +1

    How did you manage to keep this footage? I thought the North Korean military didn’t allow filming?

    • @damisslave2406
      @damisslave2406 2 роки тому +1

      You can only film certain areas. There is strict rules on filming

  • @ExponentMars
    @ExponentMars 2 роки тому +8443

    "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

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 2 роки тому +16

      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

    • @k_tin7083
      @k_tin7083 2 роки тому +273

      @@AxxLAfriku But it was a valid complaint though. News services and the media can often use words to influence our opinons.

    • @consume_arsenic
      @consume_arsenic 2 роки тому +339

      @@k_tin7083 it's a bot

    • @sirnikkel6746
      @sirnikkel6746 2 роки тому +57

      You are right. It seems wholesome. At least there is a bit of wholesomeness there.

    • @kennyc388
      @kennyc388 2 роки тому +47

      CNN and it's biased, phony and exaggerated journalism.

  • @bosatsu76
    @bosatsu76 3 роки тому +2827

    Even that "poorer view" was within the radius of the Capital... Officially sanctioned as a tourist and foreign propaganda theater.

    • @alexanderfretheim5720
      @alexanderfretheim5720 3 роки тому +132

      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.

    • @roshs5619
      @roshs5619 3 роки тому +1

      @@alexanderfretheim5720 what's your problem with India?

    • @alexanderfretheim5720
      @alexanderfretheim5720 3 роки тому +123

      @@roshs5619 How in the world would you read my comment and come to THAT conclusion?

    • @sohini9990
      @sohini9990 3 роки тому +59

      @@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.

    • @alexanderfretheim5720
      @alexanderfretheim5720 3 роки тому +27

      @@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.

  • @JohnSmith-vu6zd
    @JohnSmith-vu6zd 2 роки тому +1

    8 years ago, I was going to say- it’s been a long time since FNN did any real journalism.

  • @lordsiomai
    @lordsiomai 7 місяців тому +2

    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?

  • @ziggy7571
    @ziggy7571 2 роки тому +11183

    This literally just makes me think "How are the people who filmed this still in one piece"

    • @user-nf1bz3sn4z
      @user-nf1bz3sn4z 2 роки тому +328

      they are an retired professional Assassin

    • @xtcchewy2483
      @xtcchewy2483 2 роки тому +33

      @@user-nf1bz3sn4z hello skittle

    • @DaddynHay
      @DaddynHay 2 роки тому +231

      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

    • @theendereyes4395
      @theendereyes4395 2 роки тому +65

      @@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!

    • @Dzeividz
      @Dzeividz 2 роки тому +28

      Dude if you follow the rules then you’ll be alright, easy as that...

  • @vengeance5020
    @vengeance5020 3 роки тому +3484

    R.I.P The man who build the roads and Bridge

    • @loganadams1519
      @loganadams1519 3 роки тому +125

      its probably just concrete poured over the grass

    • @Henrique-iy2lk
      @Henrique-iy2lk 3 роки тому +320

      I heard he killed himself with three gunshots in the back

    • @ian.ambrose
      @ian.ambrose 3 роки тому +60

      @@Henrique-iy2lk that's understandable

    • @rxonmymind8362
      @rxonmymind8362 3 роки тому +41

      @@Henrique-iy2lk
      Well DAMN that's an open and shut case if there ever was one.

    • @capitaopacoca8454
      @capitaopacoca8454 3 роки тому +8

      @@Henrique-iy2lk Where did you get this information?

  • @felipesoares5900
    @felipesoares5900 10 місяців тому +3

    "It collapses the very next day".
    How do you know?

  • @xenobenoit
    @xenobenoit 2 роки тому +1

    This makes squid game look alright. At least there’s a chance of a reward

  • @kosmologist
    @kosmologist 3 роки тому +12814

    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.

    • @LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial
      @LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial 3 роки тому +769

      "trust me, im an engineer!"

    • @aayushtripathi3799
      @aayushtripathi3799 3 роки тому +155

      It is a bot. Stop liking this comment , the original comment is somewhere on the top

    • @LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial
      @LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial 3 роки тому +6

      @@voli293 ua-cam.com/video/rp8hvyjZWHs/v-deo.html

    • @voli293
      @voli293 3 роки тому +227

      @@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial Trust him, he an an engineer

    • @Shobs1
      @Shobs1 3 роки тому +58

      @@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial “oh shit I think I’m outta here”

  • @princesspop123
    @princesspop123 4 роки тому +7564

    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.

    • @MybeautifulandamazingPrincess
      @MybeautifulandamazingPrincess 3 роки тому +356

      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

    • @mateuszskrzypinski6512
      @mateuszskrzypinski6512 3 роки тому +51

      @@MrGruffteddybear i'm pretty sure that china is capitalist

    • @jacobbass6437
      @jacobbass6437 3 роки тому +86

      @@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.

    • @jacobjohnson4801
      @jacobjohnson4801 3 роки тому +87

      @@jacobbass6437 well, considering china had over 100 billionaires, has advertisements for capitalist companies and so on, I'd say it's marginally communist.

    • @jacobjohnson4801
      @jacobjohnson4801 3 роки тому +124

      @@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.

  • @larsworldh2106
    @larsworldh2106 Рік тому +1

    cameraman always makes it out alive

  • @EpochIsEpic
    @EpochIsEpic 7 місяців тому

    That major road being less than two inches thick is crazy

  • @TheRandomMuffinMan
    @TheRandomMuffinMan 7 років тому +2765

    Kim is eating all the food

    • @johnvonshepard9373
      @johnvonshepard9373 7 років тому +113

      No wonder he so fat.

    • @LindelweJNcube
      @LindelweJNcube 7 років тому +2

      crippling sanctions sent by people who don't like their way of government

    • @relentless5321
      @relentless5321 7 років тому +59

      God, that fat fuck!

    • @thsthkeiassou8171
      @thsthkeiassou8171 7 років тому +5

      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

    • @conthos9540
      @conthos9540 7 років тому +1

      Alucard backwards is draculA

  • @electric9049
    @electric9049 5 років тому +3767

    *Kim Jong Un wants to know your location*

  • @michealdahomie2057
    @michealdahomie2057 10 місяців тому +8

    "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.

    • @CommunistBot
      @CommunistBot 10 місяців тому +3

      Also there's UN sanctions on agricultural equipment and machinery

    • @lordlopikong6940
      @lordlopikong6940 10 місяців тому +1

      Even if they had most 3rd world countries doesn't have farming machinery

    • @bebedor_de_cafe3272
      @bebedor_de_cafe3272 7 місяців тому

      @@CommunistBotno there isnt

    • @CommunistBot
      @CommunistBot 7 місяців тому +1

      @@bebedor_de_cafe3272 Yes there is, check UN sanctions resolution 2397

  • @avus-kw2f213
    @avus-kw2f213 2 роки тому

    This is the equivalent of a North Korean journalist going to Texas when it froze

  • @maxwellweiss9849
    @maxwellweiss9849 2 роки тому +18838

    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

    • @alanmiraanime
      @alanmiraanime 2 роки тому +1696

      Fr 😂
      It’s recording him like he’s some wild animal.

    • @brandonfitzgerald8705
      @brandonfitzgerald8705 2 роки тому +685

      @@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

    • @Shimeih
      @Shimeih 2 роки тому +1924

      @@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 🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @wolf6462
      @wolf6462 2 роки тому +55

      @@cyndaguy because it doesn’t 😂😂

    • @shaii5526
      @shaii5526 2 роки тому +532

      @@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.

  • @SWINDLA87
    @SWINDLA87 7 років тому +1664

    That road had about 4 inch of asphalt

    • @EduardA-xs8ls
      @EduardA-xs8ls 7 років тому +18

      Do you even know how small 4 inches is?

    • @SWINDLA87
      @SWINDLA87 7 років тому +199

      I meant 4 inches deep

    • @TatzkaTube
      @TatzkaTube 7 років тому +14

      Schindlers fist Was it too thick or too thin in your opinion?

    • @SWINDLA87
      @SWINDLA87 7 років тому +76

      Viininpunainen huppari Thin

    • @TatzkaTube
      @TatzkaTube 7 років тому +14

      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

  • @josephjackson1956
    @josephjackson1956 2 роки тому +1

    Looking at those school children makes me realize just how many people actually live there.

  • @AkbarNurPribadi
    @AkbarNurPribadi 2 роки тому

    Is this a repost? But this channel really have good contents in it, too bad the last vid is from 8yrs ago :(

  • @s4dg
    @s4dg 2 роки тому +11129

    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.

    • @nathan7627
      @nathan7627 2 роки тому +64

      facts

    • @tariik.h
      @tariik.h 2 роки тому +232

      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

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 2 роки тому +690

      @@tariik.h Nobody f*cking uses those definitions anymore we're in 2021 not 1970 😂😂😂

    • @Yahushaiskingforever
      @Yahushaiskingforever 2 роки тому +62

      Allowed ??

    • @user-dr8yh6mv7o
      @user-dr8yh6mv7o 2 роки тому +13

      That not something most third world countries do take latinoamerica as a example

  • @cozmic2486
    @cozmic2486 3 роки тому +5791

    "you're like hitler, but even
    hitler cared about Germany or something..."

    • @kabu3992
      @kabu3992 3 роки тому +661

      I think Kim is honestly way worse.

    • @distraction2803
      @distraction2803 3 роки тому +1298

      @@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.

    • @averagechapstick
      @averagechapstick 3 роки тому +548

      Let's just say they're both bad?

    • @HottestTot
      @HottestTot 3 роки тому +258

      @@averagechapstick what’s the fun in that?

    • @mehoymenoy8841
      @mehoymenoy8841 3 роки тому +283

      When the entire thread doesn't watch Rick and Morty...

  • @dankthegank4315
    @dankthegank4315 2 роки тому

    Looks dope, but if I move there will I be able to find work?

  • @marypritchett1267
    @marypritchett1267 2 роки тому +2

    The Rocket man isn't missing any meals!

  • @ErikDanielHernandezCantu
    @ErikDanielHernandezCantu 5 років тому +3296

    North Korea is actually pretty beautiful, regime aside

    • @ameenferry4988
      @ameenferry4988 4 роки тому +65

      You know how stupid you sound

    • @antoniovecchio508
      @antoniovecchio508 4 роки тому +711

      Dolan Darkest for saying it’s a beautiful country besides the government?

    • @saintsilk
      @saintsilk 4 роки тому +255

      @@ku_kuzzz uhm they acknowledge the regime is bad...

    • @saintsilk
      @saintsilk 4 роки тому +5

      @Son of Europa no it's not...

    • @saintsilk
      @saintsilk 4 роки тому +22

      @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.

  • @BTSisMONDELYNWA
    @BTSisMONDELYNWA 7 років тому +7712

    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.

    • @jimmyhernandez2837
      @jimmyhernandez2837 5 років тому +386

      that will not happen if kim dosent get assasinated

    • @bakskejbf9389
      @bakskejbf9389 5 років тому +38

      Youre propaganda

    • @PateRiot
      @PateRiot 5 років тому +25

      Wasn't there a summit back in june which increased a chance of peace?

    • @hart5346
      @hart5346 5 років тому +84

      ​@@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

    • @user-gh6je5zs3g
      @user-gh6je5zs3g 5 років тому +9

      It did happen, all thanks to trump

  • @NaughtyKlaus
    @NaughtyKlaus Рік тому +14

    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.

    • @godamnit9453
      @godamnit9453 Рік тому

      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.

    • @atoucangirl
      @atoucangirl 7 місяців тому +4

      "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

  • @laporelli236
    @laporelli236 2 роки тому +1

    Watch it without sound and you will see a father having a good time fishing with his son, beautiful scenery and one road which was hit by a flood. I have traveled to different asian countries and pictures of people washing their clothes in the next river is totally common in rural areas.

  • @shaswotkhadka8430
    @shaswotkhadka8430 3 роки тому +4728

    "The official line in North Korea is that they are non-religious, really the religion is the kim dynasty" -Savage from the reporter 🤣

    • @antoniovasquez9946
      @antoniovasquez9946 3 роки тому +35

      And false according to what the Buddhist monk says. What an obnoxious reporter.

    • @JimmyBoy9878
      @JimmyBoy9878 3 роки тому +234

      @@antoniovasquez9946 That's not obnoxious means. Ignorant would work better but you're still wrong.

    • @antoniovasquez9946
      @antoniovasquez9946 3 роки тому +12

      @@JimmyBoy9878 she’s obnoxious because of her tone, idiot.

    • @noahmay7708
      @noahmay7708 3 роки тому +204

      One might say the same about you, Antonius.

    • @JimmyBoy9878
      @JimmyBoy9878 3 роки тому +95

      @@antoniovasquez9946 What tone? What tone should she be using?

  • @tsja1989
    @tsja1989 7 років тому +4366

    I love this trailer of the first hunger game movie

  • @t.kahraba763
    @t.kahraba763 2 роки тому +1

    I don't know about BBC or whatever channel this is but I've spent a long time In Asia and I've seen people bathing and washing their clothes in rivers in almost every asian country

  • @czr7j9
    @czr7j9 2 роки тому +1

    This makes my trip to Cambodia seem like Disneyland

  • @ucwer
    @ucwer 2 роки тому +3416

    As a Latinamerican I can relate with all of those situations: bad roads, power outages, people washing and bathing in rivers etc.

    • @sachinsgowda159
      @sachinsgowda159 2 роки тому +52

      India is also spoiled due to corruption,politics and police. There ain't any strong rules.

    • @Jon-jd2vc
      @Jon-jd2vc 2 роки тому +34

      @@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.

    • @ucwer
      @ucwer 2 роки тому +61

      @@leroybrown5048 I guess I didn’t use the right word. Sorry, English is not my first language. Will bathing make more sense?

    • @ucwer
      @ucwer 2 роки тому +27

      @diztiinct Nicaragua

    • @zopoua.992
      @zopoua.992 2 роки тому +14

      @@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.

  • @SteakFries
    @SteakFries 2 роки тому +3148

    “Boy I sure wonder how we could improve our world image, guess we’ll never know.”
    *Spends all of the countries money on nukes*

    • @SkillzMFG
      @SkillzMFG 2 роки тому +89

      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.

    • @mariamatedei
      @mariamatedei 2 роки тому +37

      literally the US as well, except it's not nukes, it's other kinds of weapons and military expenditures

    • @braindavidgilbert3147
      @braindavidgilbert3147 2 роки тому +11

      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.

    • @AbstractTraitorHero
      @AbstractTraitorHero 2 роки тому +30

      @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.

    • @AbstractTraitorHero
      @AbstractTraitorHero 2 роки тому +2

      @Rami Runner I included and missles, not just nukes, I'm not a moron.

  • @Harakan21
    @Harakan21 2 роки тому

    The narrator said "growing maize" which also means corn.

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 2 роки тому

    her bio says she was born in louisiana but her accent is british. where is she from?

  • @alejandrotobienne584
    @alejandrotobienne584 3 роки тому +3274

    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.

    • @megmoody3450
      @megmoody3450 3 роки тому +421

      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 😕

    • @Picachki
      @Picachki 3 роки тому +65

      It hurts to see them suffer

    • @Meteorknite
      @Meteorknite 3 роки тому +59

      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

    • @patrickfrost9405
      @patrickfrost9405 3 роки тому +65

      Power does something to people. It somehow makes you less human.

    • @completelymindfucked
      @completelymindfucked 3 роки тому +13

      @@Meteorknite Is that the way? I'm not convinced, Kim wants his privileges to endure

  • @bryanlafferty4631
    @bryanlafferty4631 2 роки тому +1444

    She said “crudely made net” at a perfectly normal net it was just a 2 person net being used by 1 person…

    • @BlazRa
      @BlazRa 2 роки тому +4

      Would be better off taking a piece of bamboo and some string and making a fucking hook out of a nail if need be

    • @Azsunes
      @Azsunes 2 роки тому +23

      @shbang It is, but from both sides one trying to portray it as bad and the other as good.

    • @dylanlewis3206
      @dylanlewis3206 2 роки тому +44

      It's a poor country and there was a lot of rain. What's so crazy about this piece?

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 2 роки тому +5

      @shbang Yeah well it's not exactly hard to make NK look bad lol

    • @kristinn605
      @kristinn605 2 роки тому +1

      Are you the new CNN net correspondent for South East Asia? 😁

  • @aldomir
    @aldomir 7 місяців тому

    10 years later and the title still hasn't been fixed.

  • @helenwhs
    @helenwhs Рік тому

    The thumbnail looks like it would be a great painting though!

  • @bananarama9000
    @bananarama9000 7 років тому +2109

    So she went there for a three minute video?

    • @mubarak8840
      @mubarak8840 7 років тому +301

      bananarama9000 Obviously the North Koreans removed parts of the original video.

    • @XPHALCON
      @XPHALCON 7 років тому +10

      lol Too funny. Intidings link has more of North Korea, very interesting too.

    • @grizwoldmayor6671
      @grizwoldmayor6671 7 років тому +11

      +Mubarak X "Obviously"

    • @bananarama9000
      @bananarama9000 7 років тому +5

      So what? That doesn't explain why the video is so short.

    • @grizwoldmayor6671
      @grizwoldmayor6671 7 років тому +100

      +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.

  • @Lily-wd7dz
    @Lily-wd7dz 2 роки тому +2063

    "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

    • @auheckna
      @auheckna 2 роки тому +18

      Ikr

    • @lilpicnicattac9207
      @lilpicnicattac9207 2 роки тому +213

      right 😭😭 i know north korea is crazy but he’s still a person

    • @Lily-wd7dz
      @Lily-wd7dz 2 роки тому +170

      @@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.

    • @own4801
      @own4801 2 роки тому +8

      Yeah well you're normally allowed to use a camera in public.

    • @rumfordc
      @rumfordc 2 роки тому +1

      @@own4801 how do you know this was in public?

  • @Kaytee48
    @Kaytee48 Рік тому +2

    Didn't see anything in this video that i couldn't have filmed here in the UK or indeed in the US.

  • @Airbag15
    @Airbag15 Рік тому

    Thank you for the free comedy film.

  • @La-Machina
    @La-Machina 3 роки тому +848

    “We drove along this bridge very slowly. It collapses the very next day,”
    ANXIETY LEVELS INCREASED TO 100

    • @vinny1883
      @vinny1883 3 роки тому +1

      Wouldn't driving fast be putting less weight on it? 🤔

    • @mathze
      @mathze 3 роки тому +47

      @@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.

    • @AwwScam
      @AwwScam 2 роки тому +3

      @@mathze ok

    • @quenderasjuaro7028
      @quenderasjuaro7028 2 роки тому

      Failing Bridge Moments part 2
      Warning ⚠️ GRAPHIC - ua-cam.com/video/jF1OsrCAAyQ/v-deo.html

    • @verneo1
      @verneo1 2 роки тому +1

      @@quenderasjuaro7028 reported for spam lmao

  • @HunterShows
    @HunterShows 8 років тому +367

    North Korea, doing their part to fight global warming.

    • @mrdylanwintle
      @mrdylanwintle 8 років тому +1

      +HunterShows At least they care, eh?

    • @MrCilliman
      @MrCilliman 8 років тому +29

      Yeah, thats the funny thing, north korea is one of the few countries with the least pollution xD

    • @Jim-pq9pm
      @Jim-pq9pm 8 років тому +53

      +MrCilliman NK is probably polluted with mass graves.

    • @SovietKia
      @SovietKia 7 років тому

      ^LOL ikr

    • @YoungSavage
      @YoungSavage 7 років тому +23

      yeah and those decomposing corpses will enrich the land with nutrients =)

  • @felixthibeault4195
    @felixthibeault4195 2 роки тому

    1:20 the lights killed grandpas mood

  • @elroyblackbean
    @elroyblackbean 2 роки тому +1

    9 years ago. Would love to see an update.

  • @MrTynanDraper
    @MrTynanDraper 8 років тому +2168

    to be fair that footage could just as easily have been typical Chinese countryside. . only cleaner water and air.

    • @jonnykong4290
      @jonnykong4290 8 років тому +277

      +Daniel Tynan could have been typical countryside in most countries in the world

    • @gilbertnordhammar3677
      @gilbertnordhammar3677 8 років тому +8

      +Hatsune Miku He said COULD HAVE...

    • @MrMartDK
      @MrMartDK 8 років тому +7

      +Jonny Kong Bar the western world (mostly).

    • @bristoled93
      @bristoled93 8 років тому +60

      +Jonny Kong No you NEVER see people washing their clothes in the river in my country.

    • @hapiestar7164
      @hapiestar7164 8 років тому +16

      +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.

  • @stephenmanchester3805
    @stephenmanchester3805 5 років тому +279

    that road is almost entirely aesthetic, just asphalt on top of mud

    • @FerdinandFake
      @FerdinandFake 2 роки тому

      When you only have enough gas to drive a handful of vehicles over it every day, thats good enough for a while

    • @stephenmanchester3805
      @stephenmanchester3805 2 роки тому

      @@FerdinandFakeaye until it rains

  • @pranjalvw2193
    @pranjalvw2193 Рік тому +3

    South Korea:- 2023
    North Korea:- 2023 BC

    • @famousplan2693
      @famousplan2693 Рік тому +1

      YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SEE THIS ONE COLLAPSED ROAD, ITS A BIG DEAL.
      For fucks sake, this was a waste of time. This was during floods that happened 10 years ago. We truely live in the west's version of North Korea.

  • @natanaelveronaminossi6985
    @natanaelveronaminossi6985 2 роки тому +3

    Well to me it looks better than what I see everyday living in Brazil!

  • @someguy2594
    @someguy2594 5 років тому +238

    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.

    • @crazydragy4233
      @crazydragy4233 3 роки тому +16

      Trees are not an indicator of untouched environment lol

    • @bradleytimm5349
      @bradleytimm5349 2 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @sadcrouton
    @sadcrouton 3 роки тому +1089

    I can't stop thinking about grandpa's magic trick at 1:19

  • @BJackson.
    @BJackson. 2 роки тому

    The north korea part i was not allowed to fart in.

  • @braydenkaye4827
    @braydenkaye4827 2 роки тому +1

    Is that what real journalism sounds like? I forgot

  • @lazydaisee3997
    @lazydaisee3997 3 роки тому +357

    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

    • @beans5762
      @beans5762 2 роки тому +19

      Bruh

    • @rumfordc
      @rumfordc 2 роки тому +12

      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.

    • @rumfordc
      @rumfordc 2 роки тому +13

      @@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.

    • @lunalowlight470
      @lunalowlight470 2 роки тому +13

      @@rumfordc okay you've defended North Korea enough, heres your paycheck for propaganda

    • @rumfordc
      @rumfordc 2 роки тому +8

      @@lunalowlight470 yep, saying they have cops doing what cops do is "defending" them alright. give me my medal now.

  • @ojiidroid
    @ojiidroid 3 роки тому +202

    it's amazing how one family get to decide millions fate of others

    • @cl0p38
      @cl0p38 3 роки тому +9

      Amazingly terrifying

    • @sultankebab1587
      @sultankebab1587 2 роки тому +26

      Human history in a nutshell

    • @KalenAlmeida
      @KalenAlmeida 2 роки тому +13

      I can assure you Queen Elizabeth really isn't that bad

    • @angelamagnus6615
      @angelamagnus6615 2 роки тому +2

      Bush dynasty

    • @jbli19
      @jbli19 2 роки тому +3

      Yet there is one family that gets to decide the fate of billions, but yet nobody cares or know..

  • @Thatit777
    @Thatit777 2 роки тому

    question: is she still alive? I mean, that woman making videos of what she is not spouse to make would've put her in serious problems.

  • @anthonydiaz2437
    @anthonydiaz2437 2 роки тому +1

    “The interview”

  • @MNHambali
    @MNHambali 7 років тому +2033

    It's like hunger games "panem". Capitol is good and prosperity unlike the districts.

    • @MNHambali
      @MNHambali 7 років тому +21

      Just like hunger games

    • @zachburke8835
      @zachburke8835 7 років тому +78

      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

    • @ybsfinest4961
      @ybsfinest4961 7 років тому

      Zach Burke z00°

    • @sharm1015
      @sharm1015 7 років тому +1

      M Nur Hambali every country has a panem

    • @sharm1015
      @sharm1015 7 років тому +1

      M Nur Hambali every country has a capitol

  • @BarryBruh
    @BarryBruh 2 роки тому +486

    Is it true their dictator listens to Katy Perry

    • @dailysacrificedoublee
      @dailysacrificedoublee 2 роки тому +23

      Somehow you are a checkmark person with no replies.

    • @squwuid7940
      @squwuid7940 2 роки тому +3

      💀

    • @Kimjongun19841
      @Kimjongun19841 2 роки тому +48

      No
      I’m more into deep house

    • @autokrator_
      @autokrator_ 2 роки тому +4

      It’s rumored he likes to play World of Tanks, I’d guess it’s true.

    • @Kimjongun19841
      @Kimjongun19841 2 роки тому +21

      @@autokrator_ no
      I’m more into the fallout series

  • @LxftRxght
    @LxftRxght 2 роки тому +5

    It was kinda wholesome how the people in the hotel were disappointed when the power came back on
    I can relate to those intimate conversations by candlelight 🙂

  • @bingolinging
    @bingolinging 2 роки тому +2

    They talk about people in korea as if they arent people.
    "And here you can see Koreans in there natural habitat washing there clothes.."