Sad (But Funny) Facts about North Korea

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024

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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects  8 місяців тому +13

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    • @TheLoxxxton
      @TheLoxxxton 8 місяців тому +2

      Damn fact boy! Bit of a rehash this one.

    • @Rorgash
      @Rorgash 8 місяців тому +2

      Normally I would HATE when someone does sponsor spots for these pay to win bullshit crap games but don't care as much here..
      But if you do these you might as well take that shadow legends money 💰

    • @chrisakaschulbus4903
      @chrisakaschulbus4903 8 місяців тому +1

      Conflict of nations... for when i want to continue the news segment while gaming.

  • @Elongated_Muskrat
    @Elongated_Muskrat 8 місяців тому +633

    North Korea has a haircut menu but Simon can't order anything on that menu.

    • @Pastronomer69
      @Pastronomer69 8 місяців тому +78

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    • @DIOsNotDead
      @DIOsNotDead 8 місяців тому +22

      💀💀💀

    • @AngelRivera-vh3df
      @AngelRivera-vh3df 8 місяців тому +18

      Ok this made me laugh

    • @BigJeremyBeyer
      @BigJeremyBeyer 8 місяців тому +9

      I guess I can't either, because I have a shaved head and a goatee 🤣

    • @LawfulNugget
      @LawfulNugget 8 місяців тому +22

      Maybe they have complimentary wigs for the follicley challenged.

  • @Frogmood
    @Frogmood 8 місяців тому +222

    only in north korea could someone say "what are you, the fashion police?" and get an unironic "yes" in response

    • @barneypaws4883
      @barneypaws4883 8 місяців тому +7

      Where being imprisoned by the fashion Police IS something to fear.

    • @systemakhaosu810
      @systemakhaosu810 8 місяців тому +11

      Not only North Korea, there's also Afghanistan, large parts of China, Iran, Saudi Arabia (And probably a few others I'm forgetting)

    • @freddiemercury2075
      @freddiemercury2075 8 місяців тому +5

      Iran also have fashion police.

    • @RealSaintB
      @RealSaintB 8 місяців тому

      But the fashion police are a secret police

    • @jenniferj5324
      @jenniferj5324 8 місяців тому +3

      Also in Iran or Saudi Arabia, but just for women.

  • @krisfinley6706
    @krisfinley6706 8 місяців тому +88

    Those actors were really lucky to get a chance to escape. The poor teenagers though💔😢

  • @chuckiefinster544
    @chuckiefinster544 8 місяців тому +145

    Seasons changed at his birth? Sure. New star? Ok. Eleven holes-in-one? Fine. Operas? Novels? Possibly. Walking-talking eight month old? Absolutely. But bro did not invent the hamburger.

    • @weirdshibainu
      @weirdshibainu 8 місяців тому +17

      Yeah, I was all in on the accomplishments, but inventing the hamburger was where he lost me.

    • @scottherzeg2741
      @scottherzeg2741 8 місяців тому +19

      "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament." -- Dr. Evil
      Sorry. It was the first thing that came to mind.

    • @chrisakaschulbus4903
      @chrisakaschulbus4903 8 місяців тому

      As a german i sadly have to inform all of you that we actually stole the hamburger idea from north korea.
      The whole gig with the city called hamburg... it's all just lies to cover up our diet consisting of sauerkraut and nothing else.

    • @patpierce4854
      @patpierce4854 7 місяців тому +5

      Guy sounds a lot like Trump’s ridiculous nonsense….

    • @Styxswimmer
      @Styxswimmer 7 місяців тому

      ​@patpierce4854 no. Sounds like the media covering for biden. Biden has been the biggest disaster and failure ever and the media says he is doing a good job.

  • @JohnDrummondPhoto
    @JohnDrummondPhoto 8 місяців тому +21

    Wait. You mean, "Team America: World Police" and "The Interview" have never been shown (legally) in North Korea? Shocking!

  • @cloppin
    @cloppin 8 місяців тому +72

    Kind of funny how the sponsor was “conflict of nations” does that ring a bell?

    • @Mart77
      @Mart77 8 місяців тому

      Just a happy little coincidence, am i right?

    • @cloppin
      @cloppin 8 місяців тому

      @@Mart77 Ssems so

  • @mathieubouchard5117
    @mathieubouchard5117 8 місяців тому +120

    He Also does not poop. I ,no pun indented, shit you not. An escaped north Korean women gave an interview and that was one of the things she says that she used to believe. She said that he was so perfect that he used energy with amazing efficiency to the point where he did not have any waste or poop.

    • @arcturionblade1077
      @arcturionblade1077 8 місяців тому

      Kim Jong Il also invented the toilet, the hamburger, and the Internet. True story.

    • @user-vm5ud4xw6n
      @user-vm5ud4xw6n 8 місяців тому +7

      Wow! He would make the perfect patient. Imagine never having to break your back from putting patients on and off the bedpan.

    • @edwardbateman3094
      @edwardbateman3094 8 місяців тому +3

      North Korean defectors will say whatever they’re told to make some money.

    • @gregbors8364
      @gregbors8364 8 місяців тому +3

      Well, of course angels don’t take dumps, so why would the Divine Leader?

    • @JonahTV
      @JonahTV 8 місяців тому +1

      Sounds like a nightmare, IDK what I'd do without my alone time

  • @jesseincognito.
    @jesseincognito. 8 місяців тому +30

    That hair pamphlet is some dictator level of trolling

    • @christiangauthier727
      @christiangauthier727 8 місяців тому +4

      The Fashion Police is the better Ultimate Dictatorial Trolling! 😂

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +5

      The most insane, trolling part is how King Jong-Un's own haircut is NOT one of the approved hairstyles, lol. Only HE is allowed to have that style.

    • @jesseincognito.
      @jesseincognito. 7 місяців тому +2

      @@MatthewTheWanderer it was also called the Chinese smugglers haircut by a news outlet once

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +1

      @@jesseincognito. What was? Kim Jong-Un's haircut?

    • @jesseincognito.
      @jesseincognito. 7 місяців тому +1

      @@MatthewTheWanderer yeah

  • @ericvantassell6809
    @ericvantassell6809 8 місяців тому +11

    The hair thing explains why you have the energy to do all these videos

  • @pirobot668beta
    @pirobot668beta 7 місяців тому +4

    He also invented jet engines, electric lights and the Technicolor film process!
    1976-1977, I was in South Korea...Camp Casey to be exact.
    We got propaganda leaflets from the North on the regular...they were pretty funny!
    My favorite were the oversized $10 bills..."Bring this to the North and get a real Ten Dollars!"
    Yep, people just swarming to defect for ten bucks...

  • @pmgn8444
    @pmgn8444 8 місяців тому +167

    "North Korea's golf course." Note the singular. Just one golf course. 🤣

    • @truecynic1270
      @truecynic1270 8 місяців тому +6

      One ski hill too

    • @EliKazmi
      @EliKazmi 8 місяців тому +5

      One more than any of us own

    • @bdrenfro
      @bdrenfro 8 місяців тому +1

      And it's a public one to boot.

    • @Zurvan101
      @Zurvan101 8 місяців тому +10

      ​@@bdrenfro 'public' in socialist dictatorships tends to mean something other than it does in the west and elsewhere.

    • @edwardbateman3094
      @edwardbateman3094 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Zurvan101how so?

  • @GeroldGarthcia
    @GeroldGarthcia 8 місяців тому +31

    There are only three Ron Swanson approved haircuts: 1. High and Tight, 2. Crew Cut, 3. Buzz Cut. Are the sissors in your house broken son?

    • @LiveFreeOrDie2A
      @LiveFreeOrDie2A 8 місяців тому +2

      *Scissors

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +1

      I tried cutting my own hair once. Never again!

    • @ItsAweeb
      @ItsAweeb 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@MatthewTheWanderer Me too! on that day I learned why people who work with hair have professional scissors..

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +1

      @@ItsAweeb Lol. When I tried cutting my own hair, I ended up missing several small spots.

  • @jonathanjrgensen6774
    @jonathanjrgensen6774 8 місяців тому +4

    Every time this man pops up on my recommended, its with a new channel, what a guy

    • @Galiant2010
      @Galiant2010 8 місяців тому +4

      Welcome to the Whistlerverse.

  • @RicardoAlmeidatm
    @RicardoAlmeidatm 8 місяців тому +20

    Simon is just BURSTING with nutrients.

  • @party4keeps28
    @party4keeps28 8 місяців тому +22

    Why would he invent the hamburger when the vast majority of his people cannot eat one anyway?

    • @reddwarfer999
      @reddwarfer999 8 місяців тому +11

      Yo'ud think that hamburgers, just like jeans, would be considered the very epitome of Western capitalism. So claiming that he invented them seems rather strange.

    • @Theoldenmage
      @Theoldenmage 7 місяців тому

      ​@@reddwarfer999maybe it's a type of "I'll show those dirty capitalists by fooling my people that I invented it first!" Type deal

    • @nathangamble125
      @nathangamble125 7 місяців тому +2

      @@reddwarfer999 I think the idea was that he claims to have invented them so that other Koreans don't think he's being a hypocrite for eating them.

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +1

      @@nathangamble125 The Kims don't seem very concerned with being seen as hypocrites, lol. Otherwise, they'd allow other people to copy their hairstyles and fashion.

  • @OlympusTimes
    @OlympusTimes 8 місяців тому +8

    Conflict of nations... he finally caved to the fremium gaming sponsors.

  • @K4rt80y
    @K4rt80y 8 місяців тому +18

    "My father would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark..." -Kim Jong Un

    • @tomsmith8515
      @tomsmith8515 7 місяців тому

      Is that who grandpa simpson is modelled after

    • @keeklawless9248
      @keeklawless9248 7 місяців тому

      I was scrolling too long for this

  • @marshallleevalentine
    @marshallleevalentine 7 місяців тому +2

    “Seemed short and sent to a labor camp.” Me at 5’4, “I am now tall”

  • @RandomNooby
    @RandomNooby 8 місяців тому +10

    Ever wonder how many times a week Great Leader wakes up at night in a raging cold sweat, from nightmares of Simon Whistler...

    • @jackgibsxxx0750
      @jackgibsxxx0750 7 місяців тому

      He's mad because he couldn't make SW stick to the haircut menu even if he could get him to come visit.😂😂😂

  • @misterramon7447
    @misterramon7447 Місяць тому

    VERY much appreciate the commercial being put at the BEGINNING and NOT while disrupting the video's flow!!!!!!

  • @JonahTV
    @JonahTV 8 місяців тому +4

    I'm glad you contextualized everything at the end. A lot of videos about how silly North Korea is fail to bring up how abjectly horrific it all is - in spite of the hilarity

  • @junkiejackflash
    @junkiejackflash 8 місяців тому +12

    Simon is so big brained because he doesnt have any hair on his head sucking up his precious nutrients

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +3

      Nah, his beard does that, instead. Notice how no one in North Korea seems to have a beard?

  • @pooryorick831
    @pooryorick831 8 місяців тому +70

    It is sad to think that right now, the people of North Korea are suffering at the hands of what I'd basically organized crime. I hope the people achieve liberty in their lifetime. Life under a tyrant is no life. I hope we in the USA don't have to find this out the hard way. 🙏🏻🙏🏻☮️ ☮️

    • @zengmaxxing
      @zengmaxxing 8 місяців тому

      Don’t believe everything you hear about DPRK

    • @gregbors8364
      @gregbors8364 8 місяців тому +13

      One of our two major candidates has expressed admiration for Kim Jong-Un, so…

    • @kenbrown2808
      @kenbrown2808 8 місяців тому +5

      @@gregbors8364that's the truly sad thing.

    • @kenbrown2808
      @kenbrown2808 8 місяців тому

      @gregbors8364 the only way he wins is if the russian troll farms convince progressives not to vote.

    • @freddiemercury2075
      @freddiemercury2075 8 місяців тому

      I use to support Trump because of his anti China stance, but you can't vote a guy who encourages Russia to attack your ally just because they don't pay you enough.

  • @TheRealArtimusKnight
    @TheRealArtimusKnight 8 місяців тому +7

    “The American scoundrels are about to start a war against us. Will we be able to defeat them?”
    No. Absolutely not. You’re doomed if you do.

  • @charlesmcmasters
    @charlesmcmasters 8 місяців тому +5

    For a brief moment I though Simon was doing a collaboration with Max Millers Tasting History channel due to the thumbnail looking remarkably like Waffles 😂 Sadly no waffles, but I am sure this is as mesmerizing in a way only Simon can pull off...

  • @jasonarthurs3885
    @jasonarthurs3885 8 місяців тому +13

    I noticed that "bald" was not offered on the haircut menu; does that mean Simon, as a North Korean would be expelled?

    • @freddiemercury2075
      @freddiemercury2075 8 місяців тому +3

      Expelled from North korea isn't really an option ...

    • @scottherzeg2741
      @scottherzeg2741 8 місяців тому +7

      Three seconds in North Korea Simon would quip about something and would immediately be put in front of a firing squad. Then they'd jail him for being bald.

    • @MosoKaiser
      @MosoKaiser 8 місяців тому +3

      ​@@freddiemercury2075 They expel you from your life instead.

    • @Galiant2010
      @Galiant2010 8 місяців тому +2

      @@MosoKaiser"Killed, or worse... expelled"

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +1

      Bald people get sent to prison, probably.

  • @tmhood
    @tmhood 8 місяців тому +7

    When short on ideas there's always North Korea to fall back on.

  • @jasons6021
    @jasons6021 8 місяців тому +5

    Imagine getting kidnapped by a crazy third World dictatorship, and then when you think things can't get any worse they lock you up with your ex.

  • @zaxapro
    @zaxapro 7 місяців тому +4

    Love that bald isn't on the menu 😂

  • @fredblonder7850
    @fredblonder7850 8 місяців тому +1

    Without actually seeing the golf course, I can’t agree that eleven holes-in-one is ridiculous.

  • @beatrixdobson4795
    @beatrixdobson4795 8 місяців тому +18

    Legend has it Kim Jong Un doesn't pee or poop either, but he once sharted during a live interview, shortly before getting blown up in a helicopter while Katy Perry's 'Firework' was being played.

    • @jesseincognito.
      @jesseincognito. 8 місяців тому

      Well they hate us cuz they ain’t us

  • @jujutrini8412
    @jujutrini8412 7 місяців тому +1

    When I glanced at the thumbnail I thought it was corporate approved hairstyles in USA in the Fifties. I think I saw something in a documentary that mentioned that some time ago. 😂😂😂

  • @derekmccoy2799
    @derekmccoy2799 8 місяців тому +45

    Honestly. Mullets should be outlawed everywhere.

    • @arcturionblade1077
      @arcturionblade1077 8 місяців тому +2

      Zoomer broccoli tops for all!

    • @tripsaplenty1227
      @tripsaplenty1227 8 місяців тому +1

      try to the players of the NHL "no mullets allowed". I believe you will find yourself engaged in fisticuffs.

    • @ALA9E
      @ALA9E 8 місяців тому

      😂

    • @low-phas
      @low-phas 8 місяців тому +1

      Same with K-pop....

    • @tripsaplenty1227
      @tripsaplenty1227 8 місяців тому

      @@low-phas
      being russian should be illegal in the USA.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 8 місяців тому +2

    1:40 - Chapter 1 - Meet the kims
    6:25 - Chapter 2 - Culture control

    • @BackyardFullOfPigs
      @BackyardFullOfPigs 8 місяців тому +2

      It’s a 12 minute long video who are these time stamps even for

  • @gaius_enceladus
    @gaius_enceladus 8 місяців тому +3

    I see that the "Glorious Leader"'s haircut doesn't appear on that "menu".
    Neither does "bald".
    I saw Clive James get a hairpiece in his "Postcard from L.A." episode - they called it a "hair unit".
    Might be time for a North Korea-approved "hair unit" ay, Simon?
    ( Just kidding! )

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +1

      The "Glorious Leader's" haircut is intentionally left off the menu, because only Kim Jong-Un himself is allowed to have it.

  • @BrutalJambon
    @BrutalJambon 8 місяців тому +4

    Another "funny" propaganda they do is, when the world cup of football (soccer) comes around, even though North Korea doesn't actually get qualified, they show doctored matches showing North Korea winning the cup with like a 11-0 victory (which for anyone who doesn't know is an outrageous score that just doesn't happens in footbal of this level. France's 3-0 victory against Brasil in 1998 is still legendary for this reason). I'm sure they'll be doing the same with the 2024 summer olympics in Paris since they're even scheduled to compete

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +2

      North Korea actually has qualified for the World Cup twice, in 1966 and 2010. In 1966, they actually won a game and ended up in 8th place. In 2010, they lost every game they played, including one game where they lost 0-7 to Portugal, lol. Not sure how they reported all this to their people, though.

    • @ccman322
      @ccman322 7 місяців тому +2

      @@MatthewTheWandererwasn't it also played live as well. Got to wonder what they did then.

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +2

      @@ccman322 They probably didn't let people in North Korea watch it.

  • @jessicalypsojessicakyliemc9879
    @jessicalypsojessicakyliemc9879 8 місяців тому +1

    I wonder why the escapee at 1:01 even bothered shutting that door...

  • @timstoy6447
    @timstoy6447 8 місяців тому +2

    Damn, I'd love to know how much Simon made for that ad. I know what he's said about Raid Shadow Legends

  • @Max_Mustermann
    @Max_Mustermann 7 місяців тому +1

    5:00 - that's almost verbatim what Putin said not that long ago regarding a potential nuclear war between Russia and the US

  • @mho...
    @mho... 8 місяців тому +4

    Oooh now we get snipbits from the long lost, but not forgotten Business Blaze NorthKorea Skript 🤫
    Well played, oh glorious factboy

  •  8 місяців тому +1

    So North Korea is in the year 112? That explains a lot.

  • @UnicornsPoopRainbows
    @UnicornsPoopRainbows 7 місяців тому +1

    I was curious so looked up Jongun's mother. Having studied a lot of Korean history, this was the first time I've heard his mother was Japanese. Her name is Ko Yonghui and she was born to a Korean father in Osaka, Japan. This isn't unusual, the Japanese army moved Koreans all over the place so there are Korean descendants in Japan and Uzbekistan. Her mother is supposedly Japanese but I can't find a name. Her father, reportedly Ko Gyontaek. Worked in a sewing factory run by Japan's ministry of war so that definitely didn't win her any points either, whether her father was forced or had no other options or not.
    I'm just surprised Kim Ilsung didn't arrange for something tragic to happen to her before she started popping out babies...It isn't like she gave birth to his first grandkids, Kim Jong IL had other children

  • @mitchellwatkins6123
    @mitchellwatkins6123 8 місяців тому +1

    Love CON!

  • @paulsheehan2998
    @paulsheehan2998 8 місяців тому +1

    Mate
    This has been done loads
    I've seen you do it a few times already...

    • @kneau
      @kneau 7 місяців тому +1

      I tell myself they're just creating a shell game for the eventual video wherein they expound on Kim's mother being Japanese. Like, say more on why it matters.

    • @MatthewTheWanderer
      @MatthewTheWanderer 7 місяців тому +1

      @@kneau Yeah, somehow, this is the first time I've heard of Kim Jong-Un being half-Japanese.

  • @LiveFreeOrDie2A
    @LiveFreeOrDie2A 8 місяців тому +1

    Haircut #5 and #27 look identical to me..

  • @EAcapuccino
    @EAcapuccino 8 місяців тому +2

    Elvis Presley hair on the thumbnail! LOL 😂

  • @manoz6194
    @manoz6194 8 місяців тому +3

    You must have a lot of nutrients than Simon :D, is that how you keep up with so many channels?

  • @Reallifeintheblue
    @Reallifeintheblue 7 місяців тому

    Simon! This is like Rage Shadow Legends! Lol

  • @claudettes9697
    @claudettes9697 8 місяців тому +1

    “Where are you, dear general”.

  • @ianray8823
    @ianray8823 8 місяців тому

    What an interesting ad for this video

  • @lekiscool
    @lekiscool 8 місяців тому +1

    We will never know whether or not this is THE North Korean episode.

  • @kenmcgovern8775
    @kenmcgovern8775 8 місяців тому +1

    "You get haircut! Rook rike Moe!!!"

  • @Mart77
    @Mart77 8 місяців тому

    Has anyone ever wondered how wild would Kim's LinkedIn profile be? Inventor of cheeseburger, world's best golfer, grandson of god etc...

  • @freddiemercury2075
    @freddiemercury2075 8 місяців тому

    I honestly Dont know how to feel when Simon introduce the sponsor Keeps.

  • @patrickbo2045
    @patrickbo2045 8 місяців тому +1

    I always love these North Korea videos. Not often that I get to "What the F" multiple times in such a short span of minutes.

  • @CannibalKen
    @CannibalKen 8 місяців тому +1

    I might need to go to NK to get a decent haircut

  • @CommisarHood
    @CommisarHood 7 місяців тому

    On the subject of haircuts a while ago a barber in I believe London put up an ad for his business taking the mickey out of Kim Jong Un's haircut. Soon after he was visited by two men from the Korean Embassy demanding he take it down or they'd have him arrested for disrespecting the dear leader. The barber told them to take a hike which eventually they did and presumably later they called the police who presumably also told them to take a hike. While that story is funny to me it also sums up just how consumed by propaganda they are that these guys thought they could walk up to a business in a foreign country and start throwing their weight around. Must have been a shock to the system for the two "officials" when they didn't get there way and I can't imagine it was any fun explaining it to their bosses.

  • @Joseph-z7s3b
    @Joseph-z7s3b 8 місяців тому

    In North Korea they have the Kim's,in America we have Kim Kardashian. I'm curious if they would make a trade straight across? If N. Korea needs an incentive, maybe I could start a GoFundMe.

  • @murraymclean9072
    @murraymclean9072 8 місяців тому

    Very heavy, nearly as restricted as Scotland and Canada.

  • @dezlix
    @dezlix 8 місяців тому

    Love your videos and often fall asleep to them, but your "s" sounds are often really sharp in the mix

  • @Bladeworkssystems
    @Bladeworkssystems 8 місяців тому +3

    skip to 55 seconds to skip ad

  • @DrlftySwlfty
    @DrlftySwlfty 8 місяців тому +1

    Those cuts go kinda hard though 🥵

  • @wesleynorton3079
    @wesleynorton3079 8 місяців тому

    Are these excerts from the infamous BB North Korea video?

  • @lightningrod1063
    @lightningrod1063 7 місяців тому +1

    Clearly they've cured baldness because it's not one of the approved styles. Just sayin'.

  • @anthonywatkins462
    @anthonywatkins462 8 місяців тому +11

    It would be pretty cool if the first Kim was legitimately a God or Demi-God but his son and grandson have significantly less power. So much less in fact the whole world thinks the first Kim was liar lol

    • @AaronLitz
      @AaronLitz 8 місяців тому +1

      What?
      _What?!_

    • @Alexander711
      @Alexander711 8 місяців тому +2

      You need to take it easy on the greens man

  • @sogerc1
    @sogerc1 8 місяців тому

    So, the fashion police actually exists, who knew.

  • @jamiekirkland2474
    @jamiekirkland2474 8 місяців тому

    Fun fact; Kim Il Sung was born on the day the Titanic sunk, April 15, 1912

  • @SmellySumtom
    @SmellySumtom 8 місяців тому +1

    *The 1976 tree chopping caused allot of NK's paranoia* As if that single tree hid entire battalions, one of the largest trees left over from the Korean Wars and winters, surviving being cut into fire wood all those many years, just to be chopped down through a single JSA Jr officer's ego tangent. Some of North Korea's paranoia has roots, in the end leaving no party involved blameless.

  • @gunner_melon445
    @gunner_melon445 5 місяців тому

    4:40 thats a lot coming from someone who's military could be convinced to turn on him with a box of slim jims and a happy meal

  • @Knights_of_the_Nine
    @Knights_of_the_Nine 8 місяців тому +2

    Imagine you're the most dedicated North Korean citizen, you make sure your approved haircut is PERFECT, but then they add it to the unapproved haircut list and you're executed.

  • @kcollier2192
    @kcollier2192 8 місяців тому

    Shouldn't Conflict of Nations sponsor War-O-graphics? Seems a natural fit...

  • @aanntthhoonnyy
    @aanntthhoonnyy 8 місяців тому

    I do appreciate that he gets that ad bullshit out of the way

  • @Dutchfalco
    @Dutchfalco 19 днів тому

    Kim Jong-il wasn’t satisfied with the films he was making? I thought Team America World Police turned out pretty good though 🤣

  • @Damons-Old-Soul
    @Damons-Old-Soul 8 місяців тому

    9:11 'Nile'istic; that is Nile as in the river.

    • @willmurphy4073
      @willmurphy4073 8 місяців тому +1

      No. Both pronunciations are acceptable.

    • @Damons-Old-Soul
      @Damons-Old-Soul 8 місяців тому

      @@willmurphy4073 I have never heard it pronounced the way he did. Is it a British English vs American English thing? Just curious.

  • @l.b8896
    @l.b8896 8 місяців тому

    3:22 North Korea’s golf course? Like singular? Does North Korea have one single golf course? Idk why but that’s a funny thought

  • @akhan4727
    @akhan4727 8 місяців тому +1

    how many channels does this man has?

    • @buknekkit3084
      @buknekkit3084 8 місяців тому

      At least 4 that I know of and follow

  • @ajar1900
    @ajar1900 8 місяців тому

    Damn it's been a fucking long time since Simon last had a video game ad

  • @roverdover4449
    @roverdover4449 8 місяців тому

    The funny thing is that the North Korean "skin fade" style haircut has become quite popular all around the world.

  • @hansdegroot652
    @hansdegroot652 8 місяців тому

    I just tried conflict of nations but I cant even get past the tutorial.

  • @apelsinuke
    @apelsinuke 8 місяців тому

    about birthdays used for calendar, in Japan they still use different years based on eras of each emperor's reign while also using the "western" calendar years, and celebrate currently reigning emperor's birthday as a public holiday - of which there can't be enough of, as people are still reluctant to use their actual holiday days and work really hard.
    tho, reigning years is more of a tradition and after wwii monarchy in Japan is more symbolic, and in contrast, in N Korea it's a cult of personality, which, from my "western" pov, is not very admirable.

  • @friedeggsonpancakesmad9525
    @friedeggsonpancakesmad9525 7 місяців тому

    It eould sldo take the general public (who are not in the capital) months to watch a single movie as they only have moments of electricity throughout the year.

  • @ME-ke7qc
    @ME-ke7qc 8 місяців тому +1

    ive always wondered how can one man control the masses?

    • @ianmacdiarmid1249
      @ianmacdiarmid1249 8 місяців тому +5

      He doesn't. He uses others who are willing to do the dirty work.

  • @scarecrow8004
    @scarecrow8004 8 місяців тому +1

    Gee ... I can't wait til we get our own dictator and he can tell me how to cut my hair ... hmmm ... wait a minute, I've got the same hairdo as Simon. I guess it's the gulag for us.

    • @bluehammer1245
      @bluehammer1245 8 місяців тому +1

      Don't worry, trump is not going to win.

    • @w.reidripley1968
      @w.reidripley1968 8 місяців тому

      Super short is kind of "in" in the GULAG.

  • @WaywardVet
    @WaywardVet 8 місяців тому

    Could I pull off a Kim cut? Probably. I'm a military veteran. Now could I pull off a Simon? No. My skull and mesiofacial fractures mean I gotta hide behind all the hair I have. (Keep your Hair with Keeps. They are a sponsor. I was not paid to say that, I just pay attention when Simon talks)

  • @zachNFL25
    @zachNFL25 7 місяців тому +1

    If you actually follow the majority of these claims right back to its original source you begin to realise these are the actual lies

  • @hairydino4568
    @hairydino4568 8 місяців тому

    I share my birthday with kim jong un.
    Thanks for ruining my birthday for the rest of my life.

  • @LiveFreeOrDie2A
    @LiveFreeOrDie2A 8 місяців тому +1

    I’m the smartest, most crever, most physicarry fit; but no one erse seems to rearize it..

  • @RIlianP
    @RIlianP 8 місяців тому

    When governments/regulations starts to get too intrusive, it gets sad long before it gets funny, in Japan most of the schools have strict code of appearance that includes clothing and hair color and student underwear color, one girl with naturally brown hair was forced by the school to dye her hair black as per the dress code, that caused a chemical burn on the head, the parents sued the school, but nothing came of it as the court in regards to the school rules, however the girl was awarded some compensation.

    • @gambitacio
      @gambitacio 8 місяців тому

      What’s wrong with a dress code again? Not your country.

    • @RIlianP
      @RIlianP 8 місяців тому

      ​@@gambitacio Nothing wrong with dress code, per se, but when some pedantic moron start chasing you with a ruler because your this or that is slightly out of whack with their rules, it gets stupid, I am from ex-communist country, guess what, uniforms, check, government sanctioned haircuts, check, beating the snot out of you because you didn't have time to shave in the morning before school, and got stubble, check. I gave the Japanese case as an example because, it is recent, utterly pathetically stupid and makes sense in the head on some god forsaken bureaucrat.

    • @jenniferj5324
      @jenniferj5324 8 місяців тому

      There are schools in the west with dress codes too. Thats fine, its kids in school. They don't control what people wear outside of school. Forced hair dyeing, I don't buy that ...

  • @TheRealArtimusKnight
    @TheRealArtimusKnight 8 місяців тому

    You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a North Korean man with facial hair.

  • @videogamevalley7523
    @videogamevalley7523 8 місяців тому

    I saw a doc that said the government told the people they won the FIFA World Cup in 1966….even tho that’s not true.

  • @Grommish
    @Grommish 8 місяців тому

    Today's North Korea video brought to you by a World Word 3 game..

  • @JamesSeaberry
    @JamesSeaberry 8 місяців тому +3

    I skipped the promo; I'm too old to spend time on that shit. 😜😜

  • @ursulap.6722
    @ursulap.6722 8 місяців тому

    Possible unpopular opinion ahoy: none of that was funny, 100% of it was sad & terrifying.

  • @behindyou529
    @behindyou529 7 місяців тому

    The approved haircut menu are just 15 slightly different versions of the stereotypical asian incel haircut

  • @hewhoshallnotbenamed5168
    @hewhoshallnotbenamed5168 8 місяців тому +5

    The saddest part about this is that there are people here in the west who see the authoritarian dystopia in North Korea and other communist countries both contemporary and historical and think "that's what we need here". Utter madness.

  • @jrfish007
    @jrfish007 8 місяців тому

    The irony of being sponsored by conflict of nations for a video about N. Korea lol

  • @Maryfs1
    @Maryfs1 8 місяців тому

    It's insane how many of these are also done by the mormon church! 😂

  • @Dorama1997
    @Dorama1997 8 місяців тому

    👀 jvn cameo

  • @jamiecantwell7480
    @jamiecantwell7480 8 місяців тому +1

    Yup, this is what happens to a country when you let one person, group, etc, rule with all power. The people suffer, you either gover yourself so you have freedom. Or you're a slave, kinda simple, really. Wish more people understood this, vote for yourself, and care about who runs the ship or else the "captain" might toss you off the "ship." Places like North Korea will get overthrown one day when someone is born who is more than happy to die to be free, but by some miracle simply doesn't die and builds a very angry army. On a day like that, it's going to be a very bad day to king in that country.