I literally commented like 20 seconds in the video just cause it just seemed to make sense but he just mentioned it now ( 24:50), and yeah no surprise it's to protect future escapees and their networks. There is one thing i do find puzzling tho... now i'm not a conspiracy guy at all, and i had to guess chances are i'm confused because i'm, we all are, lacking the real precise sensitive details which obviously is the point of keeping a secret and i didn't notice any statements that could be actually used to crack down on espaces, at a macro level. But on a personal level... this video makes no sense whatsoever. Like reasoning is pretty straightforward. You we probably helped by some kind of underground network that helps NK defectors, probably crossed path with at least 2 intelligence agencies at some point and if a single loyal NK saw this any info would be used both at a political level, like idk destroying some route but more so on a personal level. NK doesn't seem to enjoy people trying to simply leave, imagine how so much the must hate this kind of inside "secrets" to leak, àd this guy makes it seem like he wasn't a top tier dude but still had WAY higher social standing then most, went to elite military units studied abroad, and just doesn't give the same "holocaust survivor" vib3 for lack of a better word most NK defectors i ve seen give, who suffered starvation etc So he is not a nobody to the regime. If he's worrizd about people back there, isn't this like the best way to get them locked up? I mean u made it, escaped and managed to pass it as something else, now if any brainwashed NK sees this... i wouldn't wanna be a relative
Y’all, he would need authorization from the authorities in South Korean and American intelligence he told what he knew about the regime and its military. Not only for his own safety, but had he told this story publicly before now the intelligence he passed along about Kim or the regime could be worthless. He was given citizenship in America in exchange for this information, in all likelihood. A lot of the details he gave are probably still classified and included in analyst reports given his family’s status in North Korea, but enough time has passed they deemed this safe. It’s no different than someone retired from the CIA getting their past operations published in a book after 30 years. They are who authorized this; he wouldn’t have been brought to live in America through the channels he likely did if he wasn’t of any intel value. There are other interviewers of defectors who specifically disclose they were interviewed by the CIA and SK equivalents with regard to what they know as well
Slight correction. CIA doesn’t care what they know. People get interviewed for the CIA to learn what they are trying to find out ie what mission they were given.
I don't think anything he says is secret or classified. There are hundreds, even thousands of NK defectors out there, all of whom have told very similar stories with much the same details and many with even more compromising information. There's a lot he's not even saying here, like how many North Koreans, even ambassadors and other diplomatic staff, are part of major smuggling, hacking, money-laundering and counterfeiting rings. All this is public knowledge and has been since the late 90s. Governments around the world have no interest in classifying any of this because it helps them easily paint a picture of NK as a rogue state. Frankly there is nothing classified about NK. We know more about their weapons and nuclear infrastructure just reading the mainstream news than we know about America's own weapons and nuclear infrastructure, or many other countries.
@michelle8190 Ehh I’m sorry.. Yes, they do care. They obviously have counterintel folks interview defectors too, but firsthand intelligence from behind the veil of any modern surveillance state is hard to come by, and NK is the epitome of this. They couldn’t care more because these people hear information by mouth that no billion dollar satellite can. This guy would’ve been interviewed from top to bottom and left to right on tape and given things collected by analysts to confirm, all the while wearing a polygraph and being watched behind a window by a psychiatrist and case officer. He was within two degrees of separation from Kim. People like that don’t defect every day and they know a heck of a lot more than the average military conscript, which are still likely interviewed for their military-related intel by the same people. It’s not like defectors are all spies, and the SK pipelines to get North Korean escapees from China to SK is well established and experienced with this sort of thing. You’re right in that North Korea has sent spies as defectors many times, but don’t think the CIA would give someone any information at all before they are fully vetted, have given verifiable information before, and have been proven to be truthful etc. This is more like a 4d chess game, not checkers.
They use water to clean themselves which is a lot cleaner than you yankees. I dare to ask, is it enough for you to use toilet paper to clean your entire body with when you "shower" or is water necessary?
There are reports of some of them standing still when a suicide drone approaches, thinking it can't see them if they don't move. It's honestly pretty horrifying how unprepared they are by their government. A lesson to all about what fascism produces for the common people and why it's critical to always fight right-wing ideologies wherever they appear.
@@SuperlunarNimcommunism is left wing and so is facism. Your a weird commie that knows nothing. Democrats are pawns for one world government cloaked by the cloud of liberals take this from someone whos whole family came from communism and sees what the democratic party is doing.
Was wondering that too. I would guess CIA through State Dept which handled his defection, which would prefer Kim regime not explicitly knowing what exact details he revealed. They won't necessarily know what he knew or didn't. It's always better for an adversary to not know what you know and/or think you know more or less than you do. Creates either too much or too little be changed as result to the advantage of US.
Was wondering that too. I would guess CIA through State Dept which handled his defection, which would prefer Kim regime not explicitly knowing what exact details he revealed. They won't necessarily know what he knew or didn't. It's always better for an adversary to not know what you know and/or think you know more or less than you do. Creates either too much or too little be changed as result to the advantage of US.
@someperson8649 Yeah. "Big-nose yankee" is a kind of typical stereotype. Not all American are Caucasian. Such an old-fashioned and outdated stereotype comes from the colonial periods, when my grandfather was educated by Imperial Japan. Some expressions North Korean defectors have introduced to me (I have personally meet some of them occasionally) are strikingly similar to that of my grandfather. He passed away more than a decade ago, and I still love & miss him while remaining rejecting his old & outdated ideas from the late 19th & early 20th century. So, the expressions North Korean defectors often use, such as "big-nose Yankee", gives me a mixed feeling. It reminds me of the fact that we are the same people who have the same language, culture, sentiment, and history, while exposing how huge the gap is, which we have to deal with.
@@jwhan2086 I am Caucasian. My whole family has small noses too. Don't take any offense from it. Just curious where the stereotype came from. 🛡 🇺🇸 ♥ 🇰🇷🛡
@someperson8649 It's me who should be worried about whether I did some offence toward you. If you've felt so, I'm really sorry. Anyhow, regarding the stereotype of the "big-nose Yankee," it's not clear where exactly such a stereotype has come from. As far as I know, the term 'Ko-jaeng-yi (코쟁이.. It literally means a guy with a big nose')' was quite commonly used in South Korea. We can find it in some literature from the 1960s. As far as I remember, some old people still used the term in 1990 when I spent most of my childhood. Interestingly, the term was mainly used to refer to Americans. I think this was because Americans, particularly politicians, diplomats, business leaders, scholars, Christian missionaries or military personnel, were the foreign group most frequently exposed to Korea at that period. And most of them were somehow Caucasian males. And somehow, again, there was a stereotype that Caucasians are big-nosed. We don't know when it was derived. It may be imported from Japan or China. For example, we can find the term 'Daebi-Dalja(대비달자)' was introduced to Koreans in the 17th century. This 'Daebi-Dalja' is a Korean version of the pronunciation of Chinse word '大鼻㺚子,' which means 'big nose barbarian,' originally referring to Tartar or Cossack. In 17th century Korea, the term was used to refer to Russians, who employed Cossacks in the border conflict with the Chinese Qing empire. But I cannot find this expression in 18th or 19th-century literature. So quite sceptical. Maybe the term independently originated in 19th-century Korea. Koreans at that time may have thought that the most distinctive physical feature of 'Westerners' was a 'big nose' So they might have invented the expression by themselves. Whatever the origin of the term would be, the term 'Kojaengyi' must have a negative sentiment. Because the Korean suffix '-jaengyi' is used to mean a guy with a certain characteristic in a quite negative way. For example, 'Gupjaengyi(겁쟁이)' is literally a guy with a lot of fear(겁), which means a coward. It seems that the term 'Kojaengyi' is rarely used in South Korea today. At least, the younger generation may not know this expression. For example, several months ago, I was asked what kojaengyi means. The guy asked the question had heard the word from an old lady who saw a group of foreign tourists. "It's kojaengyi, it's kojengyi!' He said he had no idea.
@@MOME914 Ah, I see you follow a bunch of far left socialist UA-camrs, that explains it. So you think this guy is an actor or he’s lying or do you tell yourself other lies to make you feel better about supporting brutal authoritarian regimes?
North Korean defectors stories need to be taken with a pinch of salt. Many have been proven to be fabrications by other defectors. Interviewing a NK defector is a lucratively business and the juicier the story, the more they can charge per hour. This guys dad was a very important party member with a high ranking position within the government that was responsible for a ton of the countries income. He had a lot more freedom and benefits than he makes it out to be and lived a luxurious life.
This is one hundred percent lies and propaganda buddy. I am a journalist who focuses on that part of the world and I can tell you first hand that none of this is true.
@@PibrochPonder you literally have free access to the Internet, an education, human rights. Your arrogance is blatant proof of how spoiled you are compared to people in N. Korea. People in N Korea get executed for watching non N Korean media
It’s hard to know if that’s even true or if it’s just a lie to make them look bad. Why would Western countries say good things about a country They view as an enemy? I have trouble believing that a Nuclear state lacks food. But it’s definitely possible.
how is it spectacular? It isn't at all, he is from the elite class in NK, he traveled the entire world and studied all his life, and even then he still talks worse than random European teenagers who also have English as their second or third language.
@@freshrockpapa-e7799 English and Korean have very different accents, you know that? Most European languages have their roots in Indo-European languages and Most Europeans understand English usage better than non-Europeans.
@@TheUrisiO Most Europeans aren't the social elite of their country and haven't traveled the entire world. Many haven't studied English their entire lives either. Also not all European languges have a Germanic origin. Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese...
@@freshrockpapa-e7799 His English is spectacular for a North Korean, elite or not. He probably also speaks Chinese. Most European teenagers start leaning English at kindergarten. You need to chill and think before you speak
His English sounds like a second language learned at a young age. In a dictatorship shutoff from the world, the ‘Elite’ are the last people you’d want to travel a lot and be able to speak a bridge language this well. Everything about him feels wrong, once he talked about ‘unification’, I couldn’t see him as a ‘defector’ or ‘evacuee’… He sounds like a spy trying to hide in plain sight.
Man, it is so depressing seeing what these people have to go through. I can only hope the North Korean people can one day live free lives. I hope this guy has a good life in the US. Prayers to his family.
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it is part of the soviet style 1950's dehumanization programs. They are designed to foster aggression, and break down personal bonds and unit bonds, while making them deferential to the most senior soldier present. This means men can be transferred in and out of units easily, losses can be ignored from a morale perspective, and it reduces the chances of unit rebellion since everyone fears the head solder (or officer), and only listens to them. Russia does similar things with their "meat wave" units today.
I wonder why though... Clearly they had enough for each person. What a psyche out power move I guess, nothing is yours and sacred... Yes soldier, even that which touches your Korean plums! Make the officer angry and you're getting skid mark joes beige badly washed crime against humanity to slip into for the day.
Apparently you didn’t watch the whole video before you commented. The part about disappearing 3 generations of a family because some guy said something anti govt didn’t shock you?
I've seen a couple of these type of videos and I'm always amazed how much emphasis is placed on hating Americans. Obviously there were plenty of times in US history where certain groups have been targeted, I'm in no way saying historically and even at present, the US has clean hands, but if you ask the average American, on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis, how much you think about North Korea---they'd probably confuse it with South Korea or say not at all. It must be quite a shock to those that have made it to the US, to first come to the "land of their enemies," or to find out that people are just existing and doing there own things and not talking about them or "addressing their enemies."
It shouldn't be surprising. NK is literally still in a state of war with the South and the US has been a key ally since the 50s, and is the source of most of the sanctions that have severely limited the NK economy. The US has built up its economy and affluence and been able to move on (I mean, think of how many wars they've started or been in since the Korean War); meanwhile, NK has been stuck in this state the whole time, still sanctioned and treated like a global enemy. It's why they still literally use the term "deserter" rather than "refugee" or even just "someone who leaves"; it's a country that treats every citizen like an active combatant and to leave is equivalent to deserting an army.
Maybe because of what the USA did to North Korea? Almost every country who hates the USA is because of something the USA did to Them. It’s never for no reason…😅
When ever I think about this I just remember that NK has an Agitation and propoganda department (APD that is one of their key government programs. Food for thought for sure
To compare, America is that loud and proud child. They show off everything and say they are the best at everything, thats why its a common thing to other country to hate American culture
⏱️ Timestamps by TimeSkip ⏱️ 00:00:00 - Introduction to Defection Story 00:00:56 - North Korean Propaganda Against America 00:01:39 - American Movies in North Korea 00:02:51 - Access to Information in North Korea 00:07:51 - The Songbun System Explained 00:10:09 - Military Service in North Korea 00:11:25 - Training and Conditions in the Military 00:17:13 - Storm Corps and Special Forces Training 00:18:22 - Current Situation of North Korean Soldiers 00:19:06 - Personal Background and Business in China 00:20:02 - North Korean Executions Explained 00:21:11 - Impact of Kim Jong Un's Policies 00:22:48 - Planning Our Defection 00:25:21 - Threats from North Korean Regime 00:27:49 - Life in North Korean Prison Camps 00:28:41 - Three-Generation Punishment System 00:31:11 - Kim Jong Un's Leadership Critique 00:33:53 - North Korea's Propaganda and Control 00:37:13 - Future of North Korea After Kim Jong Un 00:37:57 - Life Without Freedom in North Korea 00:38:52 - Reflections on Life in America 00:40:03 - Differences in Accents 00:40:55 - Critical Thinking in US Education 00:42:17 - Safety Concerns for North Koreans 00:43:00 - Consulting on Korean Reunification
I think the authority that authorized the authorized insider authorization for this somewhat authorized interview is right now under authorization review due to authorization breach, thus being not authorized as it was authorized previously.
To me one of the most interesting parts was him coming to America thinking he was going to see the pinnacle of western society and being met with a run down filthy city full of drugs and homelessness. Then hearing him go on to yearn to return to North Korea one day (albeit after serious reform).
@38:30, I think the CIA and other agencies have found this out the hard way. A regime must leave by being unwelcomed from inside, by the people. A foreign interdiction will not end well. Maybe the UN could hold an open debate and election but that would require UN forces to control large portions of North Korea. There is a world where South Korea absorbs the entire peninsula. Making a unified democratic Korea. Yet that is an invasion which will be costly.
Authorized account is a figure of speech. Authorized in this case doesn’t mean give permission. An AUTHOR is someone who tells a story. Account is their own personal story, their experience. The guy on screen is authorizing (telling a story) about his account (story) of life in North Korea.
I think most Americans look at NK and they despise the government. They do not blame or dislike the people who live there. When they are born and throughout their lives, they only know what NK allows them. I can't imagine any North Korean would want to come to the US. How difficult it would be to realize their government has been lying and oppressing them for their own gains. American government is far from perfect but to one day realize that the rest of the world has been watching NK suffering would be so hard to process.
Fairly certain many North Korean want to escape to US given the choice. Even in a highly controlled place like NK, there's still a lot of contraband, especially of movies. So a fair number of people are aware that the US may not be what is shown in propaganda. And they would also be aware of their own real situation.
I’ve watched quite a few former North Koreans talk about there time but this is the first time I seen someone actually express a way for the North Koreans to be in a more free and market economy. I can only imagine the amount of smart hard working people are being lost in a society that is so xenophobic and controlling. There is a difference between “I don’t want to live anymore “ and “I don’t want to live LIKE THIS anymore”
Do you and dozens of others in the comments really think you are smart by pointing out that "sugar and cyanide are both bad for your health, its all the same!", or something?
I'm polish, and I was born after the authoritarian USSR client government collapsed, but tales from my parents, and especialy grandparents from 40s and 50s really resonate with this story. Poland was lucky to sit in the middle of europe, and we couldn't be as easly isolated, but the point system, disappearing, bribery and beaurocracy built to supress - it all happened here too. I really hope that North Koreans can enjoy the freedom one day.
I am ashamed of some things we do here in the West, but... the grass is not greener on the other side, especially since we are prohibited from seeing the other side. nope. if it were a great place, the common people who live there wouldn't be prohibited from showing it to us.
shee-it they do that in most jails and prisons here in the good old U S of A imagine getting a batch back from laundry and one of your pairs of undies got a big old stain that you did not leave there imagine it, bro. cause I didn't have to lol
What he describes is happening pretty much the same in China but to a lesser degree. China was like this in the 1960s and 70s, and gradually evolved to a less suffocating state since normalisation of diplomatic relationship with the west in the late 1970s. Since Xi came to power in 2012, he has been trying to revert back to this N. Korean like state.
@@RKarmaKill Yes, at the moment, metropolitan areas of Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen etc are not that bad, but the less developed 2nd, 3rd and 4th tier cities, especially the ones that are further inland around the central and western China are still very "conservative" in the Communist sense. Furthermore, the level of leader worship and anti west sentiment was quite rampant during Mao's era of Cultural Revolution, which was in the late 1960s to 1970s. I am afraid Xi is attempting to bring back the Communist zeal of that era, and fortunately not very successful so far.
I’m curious to know how he and his father justified defecting while knowing it would destroy the lives of their family members. In his own words, the family was fired from jobs, relocated, heavily monitored, and even sent to prison camp. When he spoke about seeing the fear on his grandmother’s eyes in her plea for his return, I started to wonder if I could do that to my family. I wish he had talked about his justifications for defecting with respect to the family punishment, and whether he feels a sense of guilt or regret. On the surface, it appears to be a selfish act, but I don’t know what I’d do unless I was in the same situation.
Imagining how you’d act when facing a life-or-death decision is completely different from what you’d actually do in that moment. Yes, his entire extended family and future generations paid a terrible price for his defection, and that’s tragic. But that cruelty is the regime’s burden to bear, not his. Blaming him alone overlooks the fact that an oppressive system punishes innocent relatives to maintain control. None of us can fully know how we’d weigh our personal freedom against an entire family’s future unless we were in that impossible situation ourselves.
That is part of the entire point to the three generations punishment. The threat against your entire bloodline is one of the main reasons NKs aren't defecting in mass numbers. If the risk was just to their own lives we'd see millions try. If it was just the immediate family we might see thousands of families try. So the dear leader makes sure everyone knows that even if you and your kids get out, your first, second, third cousins, friends, neighbors, people that saw your face in passing in the last 30 years, will all get disappeared and tortured. Strong incentive to stay and suffer together. So it is the rare few who defect, and without having gone through what they and theirs have, I cannot stand in judgement of their choice.
The fear is what keeps the regime in power. The threat of severe punishment is what gives this dictatorship its power, but it is also its greatest weakness. It's better to live on your feet than die on your knees.
@@stormtempterf8058 Yes and it also combines with the fact that the people who tend to have enough resources to defect are those already elites. Together with the 3 gen rule and their relative standing in society, it makes the number of potential defectors very small.
The comments did not pass the vibe check. This is his story to tell, as he was the one who lived through it. Who are you to question the “authorization”. Imagine going through all the just for people to hint that your lying. Everything he has said has tracked with other other defectors. Why y’all want to hate so bad?? Thank you insider for this very informative interview, we really have no idea the cruelty that goes on there,
Obviously North Korea hasn’t authorized anything except his assassination. That’s referring to what he may be authorized to tell about western intelligence agencies or his own route for escaping.
Thank you kindly Business Insider for this wonderful piece. Most of the United States doesn’t understand how these lives are for North Koreans or realize it.
imagine only knowing about Morse code and 1930s tech, then being thrown into Ukraine, wondering what these small buzzing things in the air are, only noticing there's a granade strapped to it when it's already too late. insane.
His comments on North Korea were what I expected. The comments on America were truly sad. His first impressions were everything we chose to ignore. Dilapidated buildings, homeless, and massive drug problem. Our federal and global institutions are still believing in a hollywood America that died 30 years ago. Ironically we are living in a North Korea of our own mind.
The real life example of being in the right place, at the right time. No audio needed to show terrified his family was in that video. You know it’s not because they missed him. His uncle, holding his grandma’s hand 😢
Even though Fleming wrote the novels and was British (like Bond) every movie has been a Hollywood production since the very beginning. Plus the Broccoli family who are American are still involved to this day.
It's similar to russian conscripts. They also traditionally shoot much fewer times than others. Though in their case, it's not because Putin fears assassination, but rather the bullets may be used against their superiors potentially.
I actually find it inspiring that he calls himself North Korean still. It shows that even the embers of hope for a future survive the biggest and most oppressive of hammers.
He „defaced“ and this is everything he is „authorized“ to tell you… let that sink in. NK doesn’t have any power over him anymore, so there are no repercussions from NK authorities. Make of his information what you will.
They only showed footage from the 80s. I think most people there know the truth and they are not blind. They just cant do anything about it and have to deal with
North korea is a very fragile nation, i am pretty sure 70-80% of their army would defect or surrender less than a month into war with south... the problematic stuff is just nuclear weapon, political willingness and some damages to Seoul..
Well nobody can confirm who first invented the hamburger, there are some claims it was invented in America, and the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans were eating a type of “pizza”.
Im pretty sure he's not authorized to tell us anything
Thank you for your service to the family, comrade!
But i was puzzled too at first lol
I literally commented like 20 seconds in the video just cause it just seemed to make sense but he just mentioned it now ( 24:50), and yeah no surprise it's to protect future escapees and their networks.
There is one thing i do find puzzling tho... now i'm not a conspiracy guy at all, and i had to guess chances are i'm confused because i'm, we all are, lacking the real precise sensitive details which obviously is the point of keeping a secret and i didn't notice any statements that could be actually used to crack down on espaces, at a macro level.
But on a personal level... this video makes no sense whatsoever.
Like reasoning is pretty straightforward. You we probably helped by some kind of underground network that helps NK defectors, probably crossed path with at least 2 intelligence agencies at some point and if a single loyal NK saw this any info would be used both at a political level, like idk destroying some route but more so on a personal level.
NK doesn't seem to enjoy people trying to simply leave, imagine how so much the must hate this kind of inside "secrets" to leak, àd this guy makes it seem like he wasn't a top tier dude but still had WAY higher social standing then most, went to elite military units studied abroad, and just doesn't give the same "holocaust survivor" vib3 for lack of a better word most NK defectors i ve seen give, who suffered starvation etc
So he is not a nobody to the regime. If he's worrizd about people back there, isn't this like the best way to get them locked up? I mean u made it, escaped and managed to pass it as something else, now if any brainwashed NK sees this... i wouldn't wanna be a relative
Hey Kim i know ure browsing the internet,give me a shout😊
@@vincentdecastro4838 He's so ronery and sadry arone
Y’all, he would need authorization from the authorities in South Korean and American intelligence he told what he knew about the regime and its military. Not only for his own safety, but had he told this story publicly before now the intelligence he passed along about Kim or the regime could be worthless. He was given citizenship in America in exchange for this information, in all likelihood. A lot of the details he gave are probably still classified and included in analyst reports given his family’s status in North Korea, but enough time has passed they deemed this safe. It’s no different than someone retired from the CIA getting their past operations published in a book after 30 years. They are who authorized this; he wouldn’t have been brought to live in America through the channels he likely did if he wasn’t of any intel value. There are other interviewers of defectors who specifically disclose they were interviewed by the CIA and SK equivalents with regard to what they know as well
Slight correction. CIA doesn’t care what they know. People get interviewed for the CIA to learn what they are trying to find out ie what mission they were given.
dude works for Global Peace Foundation in Washington, DC.. that is the Moon sect.... just swapped one weird belief system for another
I don't think anything he says is secret or classified. There are hundreds, even thousands of NK defectors out there, all of whom have told very similar stories with much the same details and many with even more compromising information. There's a lot he's not even saying here, like how many North Koreans, even ambassadors and other diplomatic staff, are part of major smuggling, hacking, money-laundering and counterfeiting rings. All this is public knowledge and has been since the late 90s. Governments around the world have no interest in classifying any of this because it helps them easily paint a picture of NK as a rogue state. Frankly there is nothing classified about NK. We know more about their weapons and nuclear infrastructure just reading the mainstream news than we know about America's own weapons and nuclear infrastructure, or many other countries.
@michelle8190 Ehh I’m sorry.. Yes, they do care. They obviously have counterintel folks interview defectors too, but firsthand intelligence from behind the veil of any modern surveillance state is hard to come by, and NK is the epitome of this. They couldn’t care more because these people hear information by mouth that no billion dollar satellite can. This guy would’ve been interviewed from top to bottom and left to right on tape and given things collected by analysts to confirm, all the while wearing a polygraph and being watched behind a window by a psychiatrist and case officer. He was within two degrees of separation from Kim. People like that don’t defect every day and they know a heck of a lot more than the average military conscript, which are still likely interviewed for their military-related intel by the same people. It’s not like defectors are all spies, and the SK pipelines to get North Korean escapees from China to SK is well established and experienced with this sort of thing. You’re right in that North Korea has sent spies as defectors many times, but don’t think the CIA would give someone any information at all before they are fully vetted, have given verifiable information before, and have been proven to be truthful etc. This is more like a 4d chess game, not checkers.
Why aren't you fancy with all your book smarts
No toilet paper and shared underwear. That is a bad combination.
They use water to clean themselves which is a lot cleaner than you yankees. I dare to ask, is it enough for you to use toilet paper to clean your entire body with when you "shower" or is water necessary?
brings a whole new meaning to "commando"
No shi... err... umm... I mean, I agree... 🙃
At least they don't have to share the toilet paper.
It could be no underwear and shared toilet paper. Silver linings...
It has become very clear that the storm corps were not told about drones with explosives attached to them.
Not told about anything
its mad how 80s movies never predicted drones as they evolved.
There are reports of some of them standing still when a suicide drone approaches, thinking it can't see them if they don't move. It's honestly pretty horrifying how unprepared they are by their government. A lesson to all about what fascism produces for the common people and why it's critical to always fight right-wing ideologies wherever they appear.
@@SuperlunarNimcommunism is left wing and so is facism. Your a weird commie that knows nothing. Democrats are pawns for one world government cloaked by the cloud of liberals take this from someone whos whole family came from communism and sees what the democratic party is doing.
@@SuperlunarNim communism* which inherently leads to fascism.
whole country is literally a facade and everyone knows it but their own people.
So is the US.
@eigelgregossweisse9563 No its not 💀
@alexandernunez8360 It really is. We might have more liberties, but the United States is very much a propaganda state.
@@eigelgregossweisse9563 The US don't have internet? Don't have food? Can't travel?
@alexandernunez8360 you just proved him right…
Dennis Rodman and little rocket man has got to be the strangest friendship in the world
this is true but somehow at the same time it makes complete sense
Kim Jong Il loved American movies and basketball
Stephanie Soo has a really interesting video on “little rocket man” and his odd friendships are included.
Make KIMCHI Great Again 😎 Kim Jong Un
Authorized by whom?
Exactly! by North Korean government or the US government?
Was wondering that too. I would guess CIA through State Dept which handled his defection, which would prefer Kim regime not explicitly knowing what exact details he revealed. They won't necessarily know what he knew or didn't. It's always better for an adversary to not know what you know and/or think you know more or less than you do. Creates either too much or too little be changed as result to the advantage of US.
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That was my question 10 sec in
Was wondering that too. I would guess CIA through State Dept which handled his defection, which would prefer Kim regime not explicitly knowing what exact details he revealed. They won't necessarily know what he knew or didn't. It's always better for an adversary to not know what you know and/or think you know more or less than you do. Creates either too much or too little be changed as result to the advantage of US.
I laughed when he said, "Big-nose Yankees!" because my grandfather, who came from North Korea, said the same thing.
Im a Yankee and my nose is a lot smaller than his 😕
@someperson8649 Yeah. "Big-nose yankee" is a kind of typical stereotype. Not all American are Caucasian. Such an old-fashioned and outdated stereotype comes from the colonial periods, when my grandfather was educated by Imperial Japan.
Some expressions North Korean defectors have introduced to me (I have personally meet some of them occasionally) are strikingly similar to that of my grandfather. He passed away more than a decade ago, and I still love & miss him while remaining rejecting his old & outdated ideas from the late 19th & early 20th century. So, the expressions North Korean defectors often use, such as "big-nose Yankee", gives me a mixed feeling. It reminds me of the fact that we are the same people who have the same language, culture, sentiment, and history, while exposing how huge the gap is, which we have to deal with.
@@jwhan2086 I am Caucasian. My whole family has small noses too.
Don't take any offense from it. Just curious where the stereotype came from.
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@someperson8649 It's me who should be worried about whether I did some offence toward you. If you've felt so, I'm really sorry.
Anyhow, regarding the stereotype of the "big-nose Yankee," it's not clear where exactly such a stereotype has come from.
As far as I know, the term 'Ko-jaeng-yi (코쟁이.. It literally means a guy with a big nose')' was quite commonly used in South Korea. We can find it in some literature from the 1960s. As far as I remember, some old people still used the term in 1990 when I spent most of my childhood.
Interestingly, the term was mainly used to refer to Americans. I think this was because Americans, particularly politicians, diplomats, business leaders, scholars, Christian missionaries or military personnel, were the foreign group most frequently exposed to Korea at that period. And most of them were somehow Caucasian males. And somehow, again, there was a stereotype that Caucasians are big-nosed.
We don't know when it was derived. It may be imported from Japan or China. For example, we can find the term 'Daebi-Dalja(대비달자)' was introduced to Koreans in the 17th century. This 'Daebi-Dalja' is a Korean version of the pronunciation of Chinse word '大鼻㺚子,' which means 'big nose barbarian,' originally referring to Tartar or Cossack. In 17th century Korea, the term was used to refer to Russians, who employed Cossacks in the border conflict with the Chinese Qing empire.
But I cannot find this expression in 18th or 19th-century literature. So quite sceptical. Maybe the term independently originated in 19th-century Korea. Koreans at that time may have thought that the most distinctive physical feature of 'Westerners' was a 'big nose' So they might have invented the expression by themselves.
Whatever the origin of the term would be, the term 'Kojaengyi' must have a negative sentiment. Because the Korean suffix '-jaengyi' is used to mean a guy with a certain characteristic in a quite negative way. For example, 'Gupjaengyi(겁쟁이)' is literally a guy with a lot of fear(겁), which means a coward.
It seems that the term 'Kojaengyi' is rarely used in South Korea today. At least, the younger generation may not know this expression. For example, several months ago, I was asked what kojaengyi means. The guy asked the question had heard the word from an old lady who saw a group of foreign tourists. "It's kojaengyi, it's kojengyi!' He said he had no idea.
Everyday I am euphoric by the fact I wasn't born in North Korea.
Or in any developing nation
@@Happy_Spatulaindeed we are blessed
Wired could take some advice from this channel; a nice, warm background instead of the BLINDING white of their Tech Support series
100%!!
You got a lot of time in your life it seems😂😂😂
@@scrubsjlI think that’s a good thing they have time on their hands. Better than someone who doesn’t.
@@kryptomarco3024 Wow that’s incredibly interesting 😀
i could listen to this guy for forever. no crazy stories. everything lines up. super entertaining to listen to.
3 bullets a year and sharing underwear is cap
Why are you lying
He truly is a wonderful storyteller.
@@MOME914 Ah, I see you follow a bunch of far left socialist UA-camrs, that explains it. So you think this guy is an actor or he’s lying or do you tell yourself other lies to make you feel better about supporting brutal authoritarian regimes?
North Korean defectors stories need to be taken with a pinch of salt. Many have been proven to be fabrications by other defectors. Interviewing a NK defector is a lucratively business and the juicier the story, the more they can charge per hour.
This guys dad was a very important party member with a high ranking position within the government that was responsible for a ton of the countries income. He had a lot more freedom and benefits than he makes it out to be and lived a luxurious life.
What an experience. America has its problems, but I’m thankful I was born here every day.
This guy is speaking from an elite family in North Korea, not the general.
and he still defected! Says everything!
If he came from a working class family, he wouldn’t know anything or have any inside info
I look forward to when we can welcome the North Korean people into the world. Thank you Hyungseung Lee!
I think the South Koreans are gonna have to be the ones to do it
Slava SAMSUNG 🤳
I DON'T think it will ever happen
Never lol
@@SoldadoAntiBalas2008wrong Korea
I have to say that I laughed quite hard at his comment that "President Trump wrote a love letter to Kim Jong Un."
Trump wants to be the western equivalent
I was sad back when it occurred
Imagine living under such opressive regime... poor guy... I'm glad he's doing better now...
Should send all the oppressed americans there to see how they like it.
I live in the U.K. I don’t need to imagine it.
@@PibrochPonderhomie that is not an apt comparison at all
This is one hundred percent lies and propaganda buddy. I am a journalist who focuses on that part of the world and I can tell you first hand that none of this is true.
@@PibrochPonder you literally have free access to the Internet, an education, human rights. Your arrogance is blatant proof of how spoiled you are compared to people in N. Korea. People in N Korea get executed for watching non N Korean media
It is funny to hear him say he's from one of north Kores elite units when they don't even have food
If they really didnt have food like we propagandize they wouldn't still have 26 million people. Cant have a population without food.......
It’s hard to know if that’s even true or if it’s just a lie to make them look bad. Why would Western countries say good things about a country They view as an enemy? I have trouble believing that a Nuclear state lacks food. But it’s definitely possible.
you know, in the land of blinds, one-eyed man can be a king.
Supposedly They have no food yet They seem to have plenty of Nuclear warheads….
Something isn’t adding up 🤔
@@daisaq Damn
his english is spectacular
how is it spectacular? It isn't at all, he is from the elite class in NK, he traveled the entire world and studied all his life, and even then he still talks worse than random European teenagers who also have English as their second or third language.
@@freshrockpapa-e7799 English and Korean have very different accents, you know that? Most European languages have their roots in Indo-European languages and Most Europeans understand English usage better than non-Europeans.
@@TheUrisiO Most Europeans aren't the social elite of their country and haven't traveled the entire world. Many haven't studied English their entire lives either.
Also not all European languges have a Germanic origin. Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese...
@@freshrockpapa-e7799 His English is spectacular for a North Korean, elite or not. He probably also speaks Chinese. Most European teenagers start leaning English at kindergarten. You need to chill and think before you speak
His English sounds like a second language learned at a young age. In a dictatorship shutoff from the world, the ‘Elite’ are the last people you’d want to travel a lot and be able to speak a bridge language this well. Everything about him feels wrong, once he talked about ‘unification’, I couldn’t see him as a ‘defector’ or ‘evacuee’… He sounds like a spy trying to hide in plain sight.
Can you imagine someone hatching north korea television channels and starts playing the real news for once and one channel with cartoon network😂
Western news isn't real either
Don't you republicans think the news are lying
Man, it is so depressing seeing what these people have to go through. I can only hope the North Korean people can one day live free lives. I hope this guy has a good life in the US. Prayers to his family.
Out of everything he said, the most shocking thing for me is at 11:50. " You can't have your own underwear" in the North Korean Army. 😆🤣
I've never heard that before either. You would think they could learn how to sew their own underwear.
This is my underwear. There are many like them but this pair is mine. My underwear is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My underwear, without me, is useless. Without my underwear I am useless.
- The Underwearman's Creed
it is part of the soviet style 1950's dehumanization programs. They are designed to foster aggression, and break down personal bonds and unit bonds, while making them deferential to the most senior soldier present. This means men can be transferred in and out of units easily, losses can be ignored from a morale perspective, and it reduces the chances of unit rebellion since everyone fears the head solder (or officer), and only listens to them. Russia does similar things with their "meat wave" units today.
I wonder why though... Clearly they had enough for each person. What a psyche out power move I guess, nothing is yours and sacred... Yes soldier, even that which touches your Korean plums! Make the officer angry and you're getting skid mark joes beige badly washed crime against humanity to slip into for the day.
Apparently you didn’t watch the whole video before you commented. The part about disappearing 3 generations of a family because some guy said something anti govt didn’t shock you?
I've seen a couple of these type of videos and I'm always amazed how much emphasis is placed on hating Americans. Obviously there were plenty of times in US history where certain groups have been targeted, I'm in no way saying historically and even at present, the US has clean hands, but if you ask the average American, on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis, how much you think about North Korea---they'd probably confuse it with South Korea or say not at all. It must be quite a shock to those that have made it to the US, to first come to the "land of their enemies," or to find out that people are just existing and doing there own things and not talking about them or "addressing their enemies."
It shouldn't be surprising. NK is literally still in a state of war with the South and the US has been a key ally since the 50s, and is the source of most of the sanctions that have severely limited the NK economy. The US has built up its economy and affluence and been able to move on (I mean, think of how many wars they've started or been in since the Korean War); meanwhile, NK has been stuck in this state the whole time, still sanctioned and treated like a global enemy. It's why they still literally use the term "deserter" rather than "refugee" or even just "someone who leaves"; it's a country that treats every citizen like an active combatant and to leave is equivalent to deserting an army.
I wonder what the USA did in the Korean peninsula to make NK hate us so much 🤔 guess we'll never know! Introspection is for commies
Maybe because of what the USA did to North Korea?
Almost every country who hates the USA is because of something the USA did to Them. It’s never for no reason…😅
When ever I think about this I just remember that NK has an Agitation and propoganda department (APD that is one of their key government programs. Food for thought for sure
To compare, America is that loud and proud child. They show off everything and say they are the best at everything, thats why its a common thing to other country to hate American culture
⏱️ Timestamps by TimeSkip ⏱️
00:00:00 - Introduction to Defection Story
00:00:56 - North Korean Propaganda Against America
00:01:39 - American Movies in North Korea
00:02:51 - Access to Information in North Korea
00:07:51 - The Songbun System Explained
00:10:09 - Military Service in North Korea
00:11:25 - Training and Conditions in the Military
00:17:13 - Storm Corps and Special Forces Training
00:18:22 - Current Situation of North Korean Soldiers
00:19:06 - Personal Background and Business in China
00:20:02 - North Korean Executions Explained
00:21:11 - Impact of Kim Jong Un's Policies
00:22:48 - Planning Our Defection
00:25:21 - Threats from North Korean Regime
00:27:49 - Life in North Korean Prison Camps
00:28:41 - Three-Generation Punishment System
00:31:11 - Kim Jong Un's Leadership Critique
00:33:53 - North Korea's Propaganda and Control
00:37:13 - Future of North Korea After Kim Jong Un
00:37:57 - Life Without Freedom in North Korea
00:38:52 - Reflections on Life in America
00:40:03 - Differences in Accents
00:40:55 - Critical Thinking in US Education
00:42:17 - Safety Concerns for North Koreans
00:43:00 - Consulting on Korean Reunification
Why are you here?
@AutismSurvivor they're merely providing useful information.
imagine what you could achieve if you chose to do something useful
He does this for free. He's sacrificing his time for us. He is risen
@@BradW-ye8cni'm sure it is a bot / ai based
This guy's English is actually fantastic !
The "Somewhere between the gravel and the rumbly bits" cop had me dying
The idea of Home alone and The hunchback of notre dame being shown in a north korean school is just so funny and sad.
you know you messed up bad if you have a North Korean defector criticizing your country...
It's nice that he acknowledges the freedom most take for granted.
Who authorized him to authorize this insider authorization
another insider
the CIA obv they love a good old north korean defector
I think the authority that authorized the authorized insider authorization for this somewhat authorized interview is right now under authorization review due to authorization breach, thus being not authorized as it was authorized previously.
@@whynow4306that clears it
@@whynow4306 authorized previously by whom?
To me one of the most interesting parts was him coming to America thinking he was going to see the pinnacle of western society and being met with a run down filthy city full of drugs and homelessness. Then hearing him go on to yearn to return to North Korea one day (albeit after serious reform).
@38:30, I think the CIA and other agencies have found this out the hard way. A regime must leave by being unwelcomed from inside, by the people. A foreign interdiction will not end well. Maybe the UN could hold an open debate and election but that would require UN forces to control large portions of North Korea.
There is a world where South Korea absorbs the entire peninsula. Making a unified democratic Korea. Yet that is an invasion which will be costly.
if you think north korea is shitty, south korea is exactly like that only its not a communist hellscape but a capitalist one
China will oppose US ally South Korea absorbing North Korea. The US would basically be at their border.
Authorized account is a figure of speech. Authorized in this case doesn’t mean give permission. An AUTHOR is someone who tells a story. Account is their own personal story, their experience. The guy on screen is authorizing (telling a story) about his account (story) of life in North Korea.
What a confusing way of saying "this is my story"
When he says "authorized" he means what the S. Korean and US governments will allow him, he probably knows some top secret stuff etc.
This guy is very smart, he's going to be a success at whatever he does and in whatever country he does it.
He should live among his own people.
This was fascinating.
Respect to this man and anyone who manages to escape that situation
Excellent topic. Thank you.
Dennis Rodman is legendary to go and come out of a place like that.
That video of two North Koreans against a drone pretty much confirmed his testimony….. they didn’t look like special forces
Mad respect for Mr Lee 🙏🏽
I think most Americans look at NK and they despise the government. They do not blame or dislike the people who live there. When they are born and throughout their lives, they only know what NK allows them. I can't imagine any North Korean would want to come to the US. How difficult it would be to realize their government has been lying and oppressing them for their own gains. American government is far from perfect but to one day realize that the rest of the world has been watching NK suffering would be so hard to process.
you're a white guy, aren't you?
Fairly certain many North Korean want to escape to US given the choice. Even in a highly controlled place like NK, there's still a lot of contraband, especially of movies. So a fair number of people are aware that the US may not be what is shown in propaganda. And they would also be aware of their own real situation.
I’ve watched quite a few former North Koreans talk about there time but this is the first time I seen someone actually express a way for the North Koreans to be in a more free and market economy. I can only imagine the amount of smart hard working people are being lost in a society that is so xenophobic and controlling. There is a difference between “I don’t want to live anymore “ and “I don’t want to live LIKE THIS anymore”
It works the same way most countries work. By taking advantage of the poor to benefit the rich. It’s just a lot worse.
Do you and dozens of others in the comments really think you are smart by pointing out that "sugar and cyanide are both bad for your health, its all the same!", or something?
modern tec can be hacked so what we do? use tec from ww2.... genious!
the old 'Independence Day' trick.
Sign language
I'm polish, and I was born after the authoritarian USSR client government collapsed, but tales from my parents, and especialy grandparents from 40s and 50s really resonate with this story. Poland was lucky to sit in the middle of europe, and we couldn't be as easly isolated, but the point system, disappearing, bribery and beaurocracy built to supress - it all happened here too. I really hope that North Koreans can enjoy the freedom one day.
Think again, were you lucky to be in the middle?
I am ashamed of some things we do here in the West, but... the grass is not greener on the other side, especially since we are prohibited from seeing the other side. nope. if it were a great place, the common people who live there wouldn't be prohibited from showing it to us.
6:05 Holy 💩! Imagine being part of the "elite" and still only being allowed 1-2 hours of electricity PER DAY!! 🤯
His account is so enlightening. Thank you for sharing.
13:08… So NK can be “hacked” pretty easily with radio and a 20 year old computer
this needs more views
I feel horrible for the people in North Korea
Bro is risking his whole life for this video
Imagine next week having your neighbors worn underwear. Damn
shee-it they do that in most jails and prisons here in the good old U S of A
imagine getting a batch back from laundry and one of your pairs of undies got a big old stain that you did not leave there
imagine it, bro. cause I didn't have to lol
That was super interesting! Thank you for sharing this man's story.
They showed a propaganda clip of homeless Americans but at least they got to eat food
"...I call us escapees but I prefer to be called 'North Korean'" made me tear up. God damn
What he describes is happening pretty much the same in China but to a lesser degree. China was like this in the 1960s and 70s, and gradually evolved to a less suffocating state since normalisation of diplomatic relationship with the west in the late 1970s. Since Xi came to power in 2012, he has been trying to revert back to this N. Korean like state.
Ehm. Not quite
@@RKarmaKill Yes, at the moment, metropolitan areas of Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen etc are not that bad, but the less developed 2nd, 3rd and 4th tier cities, especially the ones that are further inland around the central and western China are still very "conservative" in the Communist sense. Furthermore, the level of leader worship and anti west sentiment was quite rampant during Mao's era of Cultural Revolution, which was in the late 1960s to 1970s. I am afraid Xi is attempting to bring back the Communist zeal of that era, and fortunately not very successful so far.
I can see
China had the great Deng Ziaoping. Mao was an idiot
Lies. I live in China and I am replying to you from China. More free than anywhere else in the world. @@joeyu7563
I’m curious to know how he and his father justified defecting while knowing it would destroy the lives of their family members. In his own words, the family was fired from jobs, relocated, heavily monitored, and even sent to prison camp. When he spoke about seeing the fear on his grandmother’s eyes in her plea for his return, I started to wonder if I could do that to my family. I wish he had talked about his justifications for defecting with respect to the family punishment, and whether he feels a sense of guilt or regret. On the surface, it appears to be a selfish act, but I don’t know what I’d do unless I was in the same situation.
Imagining how you’d act when facing a life-or-death decision is completely different from what you’d actually do in that moment. Yes, his entire extended family and future generations paid a terrible price for his defection, and that’s tragic. But that cruelty is the regime’s burden to bear, not his. Blaming him alone overlooks the fact that an oppressive system punishes innocent relatives to maintain control. None of us can fully know how we’d weigh our personal freedom against an entire family’s future unless we were in that impossible situation ourselves.
That is part of the entire point to the three generations punishment. The threat against your entire bloodline is one of the main reasons NKs aren't defecting in mass numbers. If the risk was just to their own lives we'd see millions try. If it was just the immediate family we might see thousands of families try.
So the dear leader makes sure everyone knows that even if you and your kids get out, your first, second, third cousins, friends, neighbors, people that saw your face in passing in the last 30 years, will all get disappeared and tortured. Strong incentive to stay and suffer together.
So it is the rare few who defect, and without having gone through what they and theirs have, I cannot stand in judgement of their choice.
The fear is what keeps the regime in power. The threat of severe punishment is what gives this dictatorship its power, but it is also its greatest weakness. It's better to live on your feet than die on your knees.
You answered it
@@stormtempterf8058 Yes and it also combines with the fact that the people who tend to have enough resources to defect are those already elites. Together with the 3 gen rule and their relative standing in society, it makes the number of potential defectors very small.
do the jail guards have bullets in their rifles?
Probably. Fearless Leader organizes fewer photo ops with prisoners than with soldiers.
They probably dont even feed the prisoners so they cant even revolt.
The comments did not pass the vibe check. This is his story to tell, as he was the one who lived through it. Who are you to question the “authorization”. Imagine going through all the just for people to hint that your lying. Everything he has said has tracked with other other defectors. Why y’all want to hate so bad?? Thank you insider for this very informative interview, we really have no idea the cruelty that goes on there,
Who authorized this?
Only THREE bullets shot in a year. Only 3 because the leaders are worried the troops will use the bullets against them. That is mind blowing.
7:03 found a typo
Authorized to tell us? Uh, buddy, you’re free now.
This is about the saddest thing I’ve ever seen.
Topic idea: You could do one about the Canadian Dairy Cartel.
Just imagine what he isn't authorised to say.
Obviously North Korea hasn’t authorized anything except his assassination. That’s referring to what he may be authorized to tell about western intelligence agencies or his own route for escaping.
Thank you for sharing this video
Thank you kindly Business Insider for this wonderful piece. Most of the United States doesn’t understand how these lives are for North Koreans or realize it.
Who authorized this
1:02 upside down banana mag is wild
imagine only knowing about Morse code and 1930s tech, then being thrown into Ukraine, wondering what these small buzzing things in the air are, only noticing there's a granade strapped to it when it's already too late. insane.
His comments on North Korea were what I expected. The comments on America were truly sad. His first impressions were everything we chose to ignore. Dilapidated buildings, homeless, and massive drug problem.
Our federal and global institutions are still believing in a hollywood America that died 30 years ago. Ironically we are living in a North Korea of our own mind.
It's the things your not authorized to say that I want to hear.........
The real life example of being in the right place, at the right time.
No audio needed to show terrified his family was in that video. You know it’s not because they missed him. His uncle, holding his grandma’s hand 😢
American movies like 007 🙃
I thought the same😂
Even though Fleming wrote the novels and was British (like Bond) every movie has been a Hollywood production since the very beginning. Plus the Broccoli family who are American are still involved to this day.
When you realize there is no toilet paper, Use Your Socks! This information is a game changer!!!!!!!! Thank you, North Korea.!
Kim Jong Un was part of Leo mania 😂
He was definitely one of the regime's "good boy's"
well spoken
This guy has better pronunciation than most Americans
So, do North Koreans think they won the World Cup in 2010?
congrats Hyunseung
The 3 bullet one really had me😂 i wasnt expecting any class leading military training but that is a sick joke
It's similar to russian conscripts. They also traditionally shoot much fewer times than others. Though in their case, it's not because Putin fears assassination, but rather the bullets may be used against their superiors potentially.
Hopefully this dude doesn’t mysteriously vanish
Unauthorised by dear leader Kim Jong-un
7:03 hostile classS???? oops, didn't proofread, off to the labor camps
Sooo everything that was said in the movie The Interview is true
Lol our thanks obama is their thanks america
I actually find it inspiring that he calls himself North Korean still. It shows that even the embers of hope for a future survive the biggest and most oppressive of hammers.
He „defaced“ and this is everything he is „authorized“ to tell you… let that sink in. NK doesn’t have any power over him anymore, so there are no repercussions from NK authorities. Make of his information what you will.
Very Interesting. Thank you.
poor family members who were sent to the rural camps :(
They only showed footage from the 80s. I think most people there know the truth and they are not blind. They just cant do anything about it and have to deal with
no it's just editing that makes it look that way
North korea is a very fragile nation, i am pretty sure 70-80% of their army would defect or surrender less than a month into war with south... the problematic stuff is just nuclear weapon, political willingness and some damages to Seoul..
I’d pick Larry the Cable Guy’s “Delta Force” over storm corps 😂😂
They’ve armed his explosive implant for this
Like they could afford that.
Hold up..."american food...hamburger and pizza"? neither are American good sir
Well nobody can confirm who first invented the hamburger, there are some claims it was invented in America, and the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans were eating a type of “pizza”.
@@rttrttyan Hamburg Germany….
Great video I really appreciate it thanks so much for sharing
It's so strange the countries like North Korea still exist