Because the footage you see is only of pyongyang, and it's what they want you to see. The rare footage is the forbidden side of north korea very few films show...the starving people being tortured in labor camps.
They may not have a choice. These things are staged and planned. Not to mention that all tourists will have to go with a guide that will take you to places that you will have to go to and you cannot go anywhere else.
well think about this, why airplane crashes appears a lot on news while a single car accident wont do anything? BC airplane crash is a lot more rare therefore, can attract attentions
I know this may not be the norm, I truly hope one day within a decade from now, North Koreans will succumb to happiness and serenity; referring to no longer having to live in a brutal regime.
@@OutragedPufferfish it’s not thinking 💭 it’s the actual truth. Simple google searches or a few videos here on UA-cam will tell you everything you need to know 😊
@@heheheha5726 Nothing I said isn't true. The majority of North Koreans live in the poor countryside while the rich Capital city residents are the "1 percenters".
+천사 Thank you for the compliment! I was thinking of getting a tattoo that says "Diamond Dog" on my back. This is why I like UA-cam. you can meet interesting people who have similar views as you and I. #peace #onelove #holyganja #freedomofspeech
I simply agree because drug smugglers and criminals wandering everywhere here in most of the western nations, please ignore the communist/leftist sympathizers comments.
@@Maitreya888 Ah yes, the simplicity of not having the freedom of movement and freedom of speech, of a crumbling healthcare infrastructure, and of not having food.
I don't understand if north korea is really in mess or the Western media is presenting them as mess, as the north korean's say. In either case I hope one day the whole world will come together with ❤️ . I always dreamt of a world without any weapons and ammunitions. In the name of safety and self defence the World is getting fuc*ed up.
Εσύ κύριε που λες πως στη ΛΔΚ πεινανε είναι από το εμπάργκο που έχουν κάνει όλοι οι καπιταλιστές της γης αλλά και στη Μέκκα του καπιταλισμού που εκθιαζετε της ΗΠΑ για δημοκρατία ελευθερία 50 εκατομμύρια ανθρώποι είναι άστεγοι πεινασμένοι με τα πιάτα άδεια και πηγαίνουν στης εκκλησιες στην φιλανθρωπικές οργανώσεις να τούς δώσουν φαγητό είναι 5 Ελλάδες πεινασμένοι και άστεγοι κοιμούνται στους δρόμους στης γέφυρες από κάτω γυμνοί στους καμπινεδες εσείς που τα λέτε αυτά για την ΛΔΚ να πάτε να δώσετε φαγητό στα εκατομμύρια πεινασμένους καπιταλιστές στης πατρίδες σας και να σταματήσετε το εμπάργκο στη ΛΔΚ
+TheGermansarecoming yes, why not? why would people overthrow their own govt? simply because there are lack of freedom? first of all, north korea people had never enjoy any freedom.- during japan colonial rule,
I love it how if North Korea is shown as a bad place you say it's western propaganda but if they show it as ok then you'll all say that it's North Korean propaganda
Robbie Coombes First of all, don’t you notice that they only film the best scenes in the capital only? Did you ever wonder about that? Also the recent footage of a young soldier risking his life to escape truly shows many things. Even when you visit, you must have a guide and can only stay in the capital. Doesn’t that make you wonder?
They’re making NK sound like a great place. BBC needs to talk more about the millions of starving people and the concentration camps in the rural areas that rival Nazi concentration camps in the holocaust.
Not much different? These are elitist members of the Korean workers party who live in the emerald city of Pyongyang. The show place of the DPRK. Of course their showing the world how great it is in NK, but only in Pyongyang.
It's all made up for the camera's that's all. We don't really see what it's like in NK because they constantly use smoke, and wires to fake everything we see. Russia used to do that until their system collapsed and they needed assistance from around the globe. NK has to keep up their facade to the outside world, typical Stalinist.
So I’m just imagining the people who went to collision in Korea and got to hear first-hand what rock ‘n’ roll and rap/hip-hop sounded like they probably were like what is this strange music and why do I strangely like it
Überfat Kraych It's kind of dystopian, it looks good on the face of it but has its underlying fatal flaws. Pyongyang is the capital, it's where all the resources flow, like in hunger games' Panem
+blazednlovinit Slaves did not build the pyramids, well paid and fed farmers did. There is no evidence any of them disliked their job any more than farming.
Vladimir Komarov Food for thought but it was an analogy, so not strictly related to what we're talking about, it was meant to be a comparison, if anyone didn't understand that then i'll find a more suitable example to form an analogy with :)
Recently they started letting journalists in because they want to spread their propoganda outside North Korea but it's still strict. That reporter won't be allowed to go wherever he wants and film whatever he wants. Instead there is someone with him probably a group who dictate where and what he can do. Do you think the BBC journalist choose to film at all these places knowing what the BBC is like and what they would like to do? Notice how he doesn't get to speak with anyone on the street and ask questions? He only gets to speak to those who are loyalists, the ones who get all the benefits while the rest of their countrymen and woman live in poverty.
Why can't BBC find a reporter who can speak Korean? Why can't BBC find a reporter who is less naive? These people are being filmed on camera and you ask their opinion, you think they're going to say, Hey, Fat Kim is a real drag on the economy, and I'd love to go to South Korea to see if it's really like all those contraband CDs we watch (risking hard labor to do so)....
This is so biased to Pyongyang the people close to the Kim dynasty and those with lots of money can afford these things. The military and the elite classes get food but the majority of North Koreans are starving in prison camps, in cities and the countryside. Even farmers have their food taken off of them. If the BBC want to please Kim Jong Eun with this bullshit then they need to look at what human rights really are and how a country can be "rapidly developing" when people are starving on the streets.
ooo Americans please show one more with this standard of infrastructure with north Korean gdp? ? it clearly and openly proves that without being prejudice that north Korean government is very honest to their public
I have seen other documentaries on North Korea and then this one by BBC.I have got to say BBC is in no comparison with others.Others , even in a controlled environment guarded by the guides, presented a true state of the people there, while BBC just depicted a false side of the story.Disappointed!
"All those people are actors" Yes and no, they are the most loyal to the North Korean Government and so they get benefits like a modern apartment with modern technology and the freedom to travel outside of North Korea if they choose along with getting cash. They are acting but its not for our benefit, it's for their own. A mixture of fear and wanting to keep the benefits that they have.
This is one badly done video, Every country has statues etc in the capital, and it's seems strange to be critical of increasing living standards, there is so much to talk about but this was just just lazy.
One positive aspect of the North Korean environment - absolutely no ads around the streets.
True
And very clean streets. Even cleaner than Japan!
Less car = better environment ;)
+supersonic yeah less cctv too
addblock super +
Why are these "rare footage" videos becoming rediculously common?
they're probably being more open to boost tourism. i dunno
Kim jong un has a plan, it involves publicity like this.
Because the footage you see is only of pyongyang, and it's what they want you to see. The rare footage is the forbidden side of north korea very few films show...the starving people being tortured in labor camps.
They may not have a choice. These things are staged and planned. Not to mention that all tourists will have to go with a guide that will take you to places that you will have to go to and you cannot go anywhere else.
well think about this, why airplane crashes appears a lot on news while a single car accident wont do anything? BC airplane crash is a lot more rare therefore, can attract attentions
Just another happy day in North Korea.
Yes
Yep
I know this may not be the norm, I truly hope one day within a decade from now, North Koreans will succumb to happiness and serenity; referring to no longer having to live in a brutal regime.
@@JosephPagepublic not even in the next 4 decades
That's not the middle class, it's the elite.
Why do you think so?
@@OutragedPufferfish Pyongyang is the capital and richest part of North Korea.
@@OutragedPufferfish it’s not thinking 💭 it’s the actual truth. Simple google searches or a few videos here on UA-cam will tell you everything you need to know 😊
Only I can see people having a good time even they were under pressure. Life is going on whatever it is. Wish them all the best.
Worth noting that these people in Pyongyang are the 1 percenters of North Korea.
@@_MaxHeadroom_ ah yes, because millions of people in a country are selected to live in a city, what a JOKE
@@heheheha5726 Nothing I said isn't true. The majority of North Koreans live in the poor countryside while the rich Capital city residents are the "1 percenters".
@@_MaxHeadroom_ 3 millions of people live in Pyongyang, and Samjiyon is a better city
Wow, at the end, you either dont use electricity in the building or you light up all your lights in your building.
+hookah604 yeah it's kind of creepy
They turn them off at night.
Dolphins have more intelligence that the North Korean leader.. not a joke.
But North Korean leader can speak to dolphins, as said in The Interview
B-based
@@emiliobello2429as yes the documentary film "the interview". Definitely not just a shit propaganda film.
they performed quite well considering that they were at gun point....
I feel so sad for the real poor people of North Korea. They are treated worse than house dogs in western countries.
at least everyone is educated and working.the other 10% are in jail :/
+천사 Thank you for the compliment! I was thinking of getting a tattoo that says "Diamond Dog" on my back. This is why I like UA-cam. you can meet interesting people who have similar views as you and I. #peace #onelove #holyganja #freedomofspeech
+homer because I have seen it.
I simply agree because drug smugglers and criminals wandering everywhere here in most of the western nations, please ignore the communist/leftist sympathizers comments.
+Freddie Garcia lol wtf
I hope one day these people will get the freedom they deserve
They already have m8.
Maybe its us that needs the freedom. A a simple life with simple means.
@@omegajg7459 You are delusional m8
@@Maitreya888 Ah yes, the simplicity of not having the freedom of movement and freedom of speech, of a crumbling healthcare infrastructure, and of not having food.
@@vectorhacker-r2 Are you describing the US ?
I don't understand if north korea is really in mess or the Western media is presenting them as mess, as the north korean's say. In either case I hope one day the whole world will come together with ❤️ .
I always dreamt of a world without any weapons and ammunitions.
In the name of safety and self defence the World is getting fuc*ed up.
This is only for the privileged people in the capital. The rest of the people live in poverty.
Εσύ κύριε που λες πως στη ΛΔΚ πεινανε είναι από το εμπάργκο που έχουν κάνει όλοι οι καπιταλιστές της γης αλλά και στη Μέκκα του καπιταλισμού που εκθιαζετε της ΗΠΑ για δημοκρατία ελευθερία 50 εκατομμύρια ανθρώποι είναι άστεγοι πεινασμένοι με τα πιάτα άδεια και πηγαίνουν στης εκκλησιες στην φιλανθρωπικές οργανώσεις να τούς δώσουν φαγητό είναι 5 Ελλάδες πεινασμένοι και άστεγοι κοιμούνται στους δρόμους στης γέφυρες από κάτω γυμνοί στους καμπινεδες εσείς που τα λέτε αυτά για την ΛΔΚ να πάτε να δώσετε φαγητό στα εκατομμύρια πεινασμένους καπιταλιστές στης πατρίδες σας και να σταματήσετε το εμπάργκο στη ΛΔΚ
BBC, what are you trying to tell us?
+comeonfhqwhgads1 The article is about North Korean life
That Beeb headquarters champagne stock is getting low, need to put the licence fee up.
+TheGermansarecoming yes, why not?
why would people overthrow their own govt? simply because there are lack of freedom?
first of all, north korea people had never enjoy any freedom.- during japan colonial rule,
+TheGermansarecoming the people are his wealth... one of the greatest secrets hidden from the mind controlled west
+comeonfhqwhgads1 That the west is poor, blind and naked
I love seeing these families
These girls are just enjoying themselves 💀
at least one can breath fresh air in north korea.
ড়াফী এ্যাল এ্যামীণ fresh air of chemicals lol
they tested another ICBM last night!! think about it. what I said is beyond your understanding kid.
Is Pyongyang the only city in North Korea? All I ever see is that one televised
There is Hanhung and Wonsan and a few others
Cool
Yes
apoorv lawande what?
0:08-IS SONY SOLD IN THE DPRK?(Look at the brand of the video camera.)
I love it how if North Korea is shown as a bad place you say it's western propaganda but if they show it as ok then you'll all say that it's North Korean propaganda
Robbie Coombes First of all, don’t you notice that they only film the best scenes in the capital only? Did you ever wonder about that? Also the recent footage of a young soldier risking his life to escape truly shows many things. Even when you visit, you must have a guide and can only stay in the capital. Doesn’t that make you wonder?
@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj why you have a guide is for you to not be able to corrupt the juche idea among the citizens, but their gvtmt somehow works,,,,
The Dolphins have nukes on them 🐬🚀
Thats not even 2% of the country.
rising middle class???? that is not north korea's middle class.
Beautiful land Korea
No tik tok no fb no insta they living the old times now
They are living in their way and we are living in our way. Why do we have to tell them to live in our way ?..
Starving citizens should be allowed? Oh okay.
@@CityChristina sanctions should be allowed ? Oh, okay.
@@CityChristina you're more likely to die from cancer than starvation in North Korea, the starving idea was from the famine in the 1990s.
@@Xiphactinus How much did Kim pay you to post that?
@@CityChristina 170 billion XiBucks
They’re making NK sound like a great place. BBC needs to talk more about the millions of starving people and the concentration camps in the rural areas that rival Nazi concentration camps in the holocaust.
@@FuckShorts Not necessarily so! There have been some real horror stories from North Koreans who managed to escape from the labor camps.
This video has to be deleted because at 1:16 the statues' legs were cut off by the tramway!
Seems like a nice place
"seems" :-)
4TheRecord exactly
It is actually horrifying there. Go through UA-cam and listen to some of the people who have escaped.
LasVegas Showgirl I know, I'm joking
You should type North korean people in prison damn its really terrifying
Long live the DPRK. The only nation on earth Imperialism could never and will never defeat.
I love dprk. Everytime i feel bad for my economic situation i could think to these people and i suddenly feel lucky again
See that world, even in the most oppressive country in the world people can have a good time
Emilio Bello yes, that is true
Exactly
@@emiliob7428 and the kids are so cute
@@emiliobello2429 true
Let them live peacefully pls don't make another Afghanistan or iraq
Big Brother is watching you
Wow interesting! That woman filling the dolphin balloon with a hand pumped inflater?
“You WILL have fun!”
BBC MADE SUCH A POSITIVE DOCUMENT ABOUT NORTH KOREA.
Great
@@emiliobello2429 CAN U ELABORATE ON YOUR DEEP COMMENT?
@@mcqcjc8409 that its great that they are talking positively about North Korea
@@emiliobello2429
Elaborate on that one - why do u think it is great they talk about North Korea positively
@@mcqcjc8409 i don't like it when people talk negatively about any country... at all
2:17 to 2:23 that is such a great view.
thank you for your video, some errour in the commentes
Not much different? These are elitist members of the Korean workers party who live in the emerald city of Pyongyang. The show place of the DPRK. Of course their showing the world how great it is in NK, but only in Pyongyang.
+Bryan Rodgers And it still sucks. Even their show looks bad.
It's all made up for the camera's that's all. We don't really see what it's like in NK because they constantly use smoke, and wires to fake everything we see. Russia used to do that until their system collapsed and they needed assistance from around the globe. NK has to keep up their facade to the outside world, typical Stalinist.
0:07 The Little Mermaid song.
So I’m just imagining the people who went to collision in Korea and got to hear first-hand what rock ‘n’ roll and rap/hip-hop sounded like they probably were like what is this strange music and why do I strangely like it
Rising? The only thing I see rising are those fireworks. Nothing else.
I'll admit this, looks fun. Still wouldn't get close to that country
"Stop fighting North and South Korea You're both basically Chinese" (Bruno)
No
@@SatishKumar-rc4pl Korean once used Chinese language.
@@tobyroyparkerjr.233 yeah when China occupied them
@@SatishKumar-rc4pl Japan also for numerous Decades
Biggest question do they know about pizza???
yes
Do the dolphins also suffer from malnutrition?
Has anyone here been to Washington DC???? It’s like the same thing what
Hey, that first lady was in he NYT video when they were at the fair!
seriously? same lady?
'Relaxing' and 'North Korea' in the same sentence?
I bet no North korean city smells as bad as New York
but that place looks beautiful
+Überfat Kraych Like the great pyramids of Egypt, spectacular vista which belies the untold suffering needed to create it
blazednlovinit yeah but its not soo bad pippl in middle east and africa are FUCKED compared to north korea . but we all know it couldev been much more
Überfat Kraych It's kind of dystopian, it looks good on the face of it but has its underlying fatal flaws. Pyongyang is the capital, it's where all the resources flow, like in hunger games' Panem
+blazednlovinit Slaves did not build the pyramids, well paid and fed farmers did. There is no evidence any of them disliked their job any more than farming.
Vladimir Komarov Food for thought but it was an analogy, so not strictly related to what we're talking about, it was meant to be a comparison, if anyone didn't understand that then i'll find a more suitable example to form an analogy with :)
The reporter's suit fits horribly.
Isn't it against the rules to have NK residents or even anyone to talk about the leaders and former leaders no matter positive or negative?
thats not true, in fact many of the super strict laws that you hear about on western media is not true
Anybody else felt bad for the dolphins?
Pyongyang is like Panem in Hunger games.
Where's Dave Skylark???
Hahaha
This is a very irritating video, as these are the best situated 1% of the North Koreans
how did bbc news get into north Korea? Isn't it strick?
Recently they started letting journalists in because they want to spread their propoganda outside North Korea but it's still strict. That reporter won't be allowed to go wherever he wants and film whatever he wants. Instead there is someone with him probably a group who dictate where and what he can do. Do you think the BBC journalist choose to film at all these places knowing what the BBC is like and what they would like to do?
Notice how he doesn't get to speak with anyone on the street and ask questions? He only gets to speak to those who are loyalists, the ones who get all the benefits while the rest of their countrymen and woman live in poverty.
soooooo brain wash
no... this is the elite that live in pyong yang
We may never know
Seems like beautiful infrastructure
Everything looks very clean, but it reminds me of 60s USSR architecture and environment.
@@MCShvabo Still looks far better than where I live.
is it just me or did anybody else hear under sea from the little mermaid at the beginning haha
You are wrong. Kim Jun Un made. That song himself. 😂
fake smiles from fake people.. but the true north korean happiness is still trudging!
Just lift the sanctions you will see a boom in economy as well.
what makes this country looks like its in the 90s
its not the fashion, but its because they dont have phones
Why can't BBC find a reporter who can speak Korean?
Why can't BBC find a reporter who is less naive?
These people are being filmed on camera and you ask their opinion, you think they're going to say, Hey, Fat Kim is a real drag on the economy, and I'd love to go to South Korea to see if it's really like all those contraband CDs we watch (risking hard labor to do so)....
Still a lack of food.
They have to smile or get shoot by a sniper watching them.......
Where are the poor people trying to scape from hell?
I like north korea..
Yet, the BBC doesn't realize the British have a royal family.
So it’s baisically North Korea’s SeaWorld
if u want taste something ridicules go to north Korea
"Relaxing"
This is so biased to Pyongyang the people close to the Kim dynasty and those with lots of money can afford these things. The military and the elite classes get food but the majority of North Koreans are starving in prison camps, in cities and the countryside. Even farmers have their food taken off of them. If the BBC want to please Kim Jong Eun with this bullshit then they need to look at what human rights really are and how a country can be "rapidly developing" when people are starving on the streets.
Why are they playing under the sea..?
ooo Americans please show one more with this standard of infrastructure with north Korean gdp? ?
it clearly and openly proves that without being prejudice that
north Korean government is very honest to their public
Pretty Dank yes I'm how you find out
You are so clever
Pretty Dank you are very clever man
Pretty Dank you are very very clever
if it wasent for the prison camps and the 24/7 surveillance north korea would been a pretty decent country to live in
I have seen other documentaries on North Korea and then this one by BBC.I have got to say BBC is in no comparison with others.Others , even in a controlled environment guarded by the guides, presented a true state of the people there, while BBC just depicted a false side of the story.Disappointed!
Why wouldn't all the people, general's, soldiers, Jim's body guards, civillians one day attack Jim kung un.
Hello
Rather live here than in South Korea.
must suck not being able to travel
well they have something that suck more, no internet
+mango chili so true lmao
I love the DPRK soooo much
You re an idiot
Where's hans brix?
Fuckin creepy! :-/
north korea admiration for their leader
bears strong similarities to US media coverage on
worship of dalai lama
Folks, which nation is the most harmonious on earth?
Google 'Most Harmonious Nation/China Daily' for God's honest truth.
which nation is the most harmonious on earth?
At least the air is clean not like in western cities
looks like iraq and libya before USA invaded it .
All those people are actors
"All those people are actors"
Yes and no, they are the most loyal to the North Korean Government and so they get benefits like a modern apartment with modern technology and the freedom to travel outside of North Korea if they choose along with getting cash.
They are acting but its not for our benefit, it's for their own. A mixture of fear and wanting to keep the benefits that they have.
introduce McDonalds and see how the country collapses
Streets look clean, bet there are no theifs on mopeds to steal your fake rolex (or even real who knows?)
How North Korea wakes up in reality😩
be sounds like the narrator from the original Thomas the tank engine :D
Poor dolphines, there shouldn't went there😓😥
How fake do you want this to be?
Kim: *YES*
How did the guy get a Japanese video camera? (Sony)
People in privileged class get foreign brands, to some degree.
Sony's a South Korean brand
This is one badly done video, Every country has statues etc in the capital, and it's seems strange to be critical of increasing living standards, there is so much to talk about but this was just just lazy.
Hahaha. To see reactionary commentators asserting that the BBC is making propaganda for the DPRK is just so hilarious :D Omg
The power of juche gang compels the west to leave them alone
Would be a great video if the Brit would stop speaking