My grandparents were both from North Korea, and they had an insane 6th sense of knowing what North Korea would become. They told me Kim Il Sung gave them nothing but bad vibes and didn't want to stick around. As soon as the Korean War ended, they, as well as my grandfather's little brother, escaped North Korea to the South when the borders were still being built up and defenses were nonexistent. They pretty much left the rest of their family behind and are presumably still in North Korea. It's kind of crazy to think that I, as well as the rest of my current family, could have been stuck in North Korea if my grandparents didn't go with their hunch and remained in the regime.
Wtf that’s insane. Living must be a trip knowing that. Hopefully the country falls honestly or the next generation of power takes all this down. Who knows but what a horrible living experience that must be in there.
Remember this, along with what’s happening in Xinjiang in China, what’s being done to Ukraine by the Russians, and more. If future generations manage to somehow exist, they will not look kindly upon this era of history.
I'm hoping that I get to experience the fall of NK in my lifetime. One of my friend's parents fled North Korea back in the 70's and made their way to the United States. Hearing the stories from my friend's dad really puts it into perspective on how lucky we are in the US.
I think we should appreciate more the way we live en Occident. I am from Mexico, and even though I don’t live in a first world country, I am thankful for not living In a country with no liberty
The fall of NK will come with consequences for South Korea, Russia, and China. Mainly SK, they will have to deal with the aftermath, they will have to take care of the North Koreans and rebuild/integrate them into their own society. This is why SK tolerates, and even punishes those South Koreans who try to persuade North Koreans to revolt against the regime.
I'm from Eritrea, a country known as Africa's North Korea. When you live in a country like this, escaping is the only choice you have left. Staying there feels like you're in prison and dying a slow and torturous death. Trying to escape doesn't seem as scary as it was when you first thought about it. You start to say "if I die trying to escape, then so be it" I know what they go through to some extent. My heart truly hurts for them. 💔
At least you've got internet. Nobody in No Ko has internet; if you lived there and tried to say this online you would be gone in under a week. Be grateful for what you have. Shut it and be grateful
@@gigi9301wow. How rude. Who tf are you tell them to "shut it" ..I don't particularly get into banter in comments, but this one counts. They are describing their fears and also proclaimed that they did escape their experience. You didn't catch that part did you. Be a better human. Thank you.
Atleast when I know I am being like you (I am aware of me being ignorant, or arrogant), are you even aware? Narcissistic (I'm better than you, la,da,deladadaa? Bs)? I am 34 and I know better 😂
I used to be neighbours with NK refugees and the PTSD they had was harrowing to listen to through the walls. We had to be careful to close our doors gently, because slamming them could trigger them into thinking that they were being shot at.
@@censored4christ162 you’re in favor of the second amendment, yes? according to a study that was well-researched and reviewed, people carrying armed guns were more likely to be killed by police than those without the weapons. white men with guns were even more likely to die than black men with guns- but it’s important to note that most black people who were killed by police were unarmed. that gun is putting you in danger. please stay safe and do a little research if you want to confirm :)
Those 210 people who managed to escape during the pandemic must have balls of absolute steel. I can't imagine feeling like you have no choice but to walk into certain death for a better life.
My mother and (supposedly) father are defectors. I dont know them since my father disappeared and my mom decided to allow me to be adopted. I did a project on defection from North Korea and there has been a massive decline in defectors over the past few years due to massive crackdowns in the country. Its depressing to me to know that there are kids who wont be able to live civilized lives outside of the DPRK because their parents couldnt escape
@@marcuz8278 none that grew up in North Korea. I have met other adoptees at the Korean heritage camps for adoptive fams, and they have brought other native Koreans in for various activities and stuff, but I haven't had the chance to go over to Korea proper. I hope I can meet my birth parents someday though. Would be nice.
@@KikoBean I don't know how they managed to do it, but to me it seems like they did the impossible. Out of thousands of people who tried, they were the winners. It's heartbreaking to know that even those few people who make it out don't get to enjoy their happy ending in the slightest. In fact, seems like it is the opposite, they are completely broken. I am very sorry...
@@yoitsvenus616agreed, i guess its really just the way humans are, we could create power for the entire world with nuclear energy. But we'd rather use it to destroy it.
unfortunately they both have nukes & allies & at the moment and all out world war is not something the USA & Nato want to start & honestly i dont think we would win. the West has made the decision to allow North Korea to exist rather than lose millions & wreck the world economy forcing them to stop
What you didn't even mention was that for many of the people who actually did manage to save up the money for a broker, they were immediately sold into slavery in China and Russia by the very brokers themselves. And if they did manage to escape slavery at some point, they almost immediately ended up in police custody and got deported back into NK where the only thing awaiting them was more slavery.
They don't know that the outside world has changed drastically. People there dream of going to long gone countries because they think it still exists. It's very depressing to think about...
You'd also need to consider that it is very hard to even obtain all the needed information. Like, knowing which country is safe and which isn't surely isn't written in school books.
Maybe some of the earlier defectors left clues in old school books or something in case they didn't succeed. Or they had to hire people for info (And as mentioned in the video that isn't as easy as it sounds)
I know at least 3 people who have visited the DPRK and your western propaganda is BS and the biggest issues facing the DPRK are western imperialism, I mean the US literally made world record of dropping bombs on the DPRK, and the CIA openly admits to running lies and propaganda to convince y'all they are your enemy, but reality is y'all have fallen for the lies of the real evil empire
A friend’s dad was an interrogator in South Korea when he was in the army. He was sent in to interview a North Korean man who walked straight through the DMZ. As he put it, he just started going through the DMZ. Crossed tigers, saw guards, etc. The dude straight up just said fuck it and crossed the DMZ. WHAT A CHAD
My grandfather from my dad’s side escaped from north korea during the 625 war at the age of 5 He had to walk on corpses, leave his father behind cuz he was captured by the government and had to hide anytime he saw north korean soldiers Luckily he made it out but few of his family members had been either killed by the bombings or got captured He’s still alive and healthy at 78 years old but he still remembers that event clearly.
What should we do instead? it's good to know it's happening but other than knowing there is nothing the average person can do, getting depressed over it does the North Korean citizens nothing and it does you nothing.
I volunteered with an organization that worked with NK refugees in Seoul. Talking with them was wild. The stuff they've gone through even as children was insane.
@@benblakemore745read The Girl with Seven Names! If you don’t feel like reading, I do remember one story where her brother had to bring his own feces to school for fertilizer because they didn’t have money to pay tuition. So fertilizer was the best they could do
people in china can still leave and millions do compared to north corea where very few can make it out.@@Dayvit78 I live in the other side of the world and there is so many Chinese here that we all call the supermarket the Chinese. you can stop any person in the street ask them where is the closest Chinese and they will point you to the nearest supermarket. and has no racism associated with it. is just that like 95% of supermarkets that are not part of big franchises like wallmart are all Chinese own and run by Chinese inmigrants.
Every communist country is always like this. The only people that deserve to be trapped in such places are the spoiled brats that still support the ideology even after knowing it never fails to lead to stuff like this.
@@jjanggulane Most likely fake. Do you really think a North Korean who's been through a strictly oppressive life for so many years suddenly speaks perfect English and goes by the name "yolo"?
Just imagine how incredibly difficult was it for the few people who successfully made it out of the country since 2020. Even just to plan a complete escape while constantly being inspected everywhere is challenging but managing to get thorugh the country’s heavily patrolled borderlines and then making a long journey through China or Russia without knowing any foreign languages and barely having any money… It is absolutely incredible that there are still several successful escape attempts with these circumstances.
Yeah... I can't even imagine it, MUCH respect to all those who made it, AND to those who tried it, but didn't make it... RIP to them (and their families)... 🤐😢 It's such a shame that such medieval regimes like this still can be in power nowadays... The people in North Korea deserve SO much better than this shithole that their country is right now! 🙄😢
i suspect a good portion of the recent defectors are soldiers themselves who were already on guard duty in the dmz, i dont see how it can be done any other way
@@TheManofthecross - WTF are you even talking about? The United Nations didn't "make an exception" for North Korea, due to "politics and more" or indeed for any other reasons. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is like every other UN resolution - it only applies to countries who specifically chose to ratify them and who more broadly respect the authority of the UN (or the wider global community). North Korea don't respect the UN, nor does it care what most of the rest of the world thinks either. It's a totalitarian dictatorship in the most insular country in the world. What else exactly are you suggesting the UN could or should have done? Used its member nations to invade North Korea to bring universal human rights to its citizens? Because that would very clearly lead to World War III. Perhaps try actually thinking before you comment next time? 😂
My grandpa was only 7-10 years old when he escaped NK with his brother and sister, he came to US not knowing any English and raised 3 very successful children (my aunt, uncle, and father) all ended up being doctors….On the other side of my family, my grandmother made it out of Vietnam and to the US by marrying a soldier from the US during the Vietnam war, they also raised successful children , my mother being one who became a dentist and started her own practice…I am very thankful that my grandparents on both sides of the family pursued freedom, and also my parents both worked hard and sacrificed time, allowing me to have the lifestyle I do today
You are a perfect example of what immigrants should strive towards. Success like that of your family is rare, and admirable. It's what made America the country it was meant to be. Success is earned and can only be taken if you surrender your freedom. "Entitlements" and "rights" are awarded by the state in exchange for freedom. Which has more value? A juicy steak that you sweated and earned before eating, or one that someone gave to you "for free". Nothing is free and if you believe that then you are enslaved.
@@MrWayne6363 so what your saying is she is one of the "good ones" not like those other ones.🤨 Her story is one out of millions some aren't as lucky, they work just as hard but poverty is a hard hole to climb out of, especially now when everyone no matter immigrant or natural born citizen is in the same boat of working hard but the gap between the ultra rich and the working poor are the only two classes left in this country. When her grandparents came here a house cost 70k , my salary is the same as that house now in 2023 yet i can't even think of buying a home because saving money is laughable after rent, utilites, medication, health insurance, car insurance oh and i need to eat. I'm eating what some would consider a college diet because there isn't money for more. Do you think people enjoy living on the street, in their cars, without food, or paycheck to paycheck never able to get ahead NO, No one is expecting free, we all pay taxes, (well not the rich and not the mega churches) and we want our money to pay for healthcare, higher education, and for better services for homelessness, senior, and veterans not more money into the huge military budget. So no those things people want are not free but we sacrifice our time and bodies making some overlord richer and want at the very least our taxes to pay for what we need to live. We do not need people especially those in office spouting hate and false flags of grooming to distract people from them trying to take more of our rights away like the right to my own body and how i choose to deal it, or the right to not be discriminated against because of the color of my skin, my sexual orientation or gender. Freedom is not being scared that my own country will turn into a theocracy which it could if religon and politics don't stay seperate.
The next time someone manages to defect, they should keep their route a secret. They tell their story but not where, how and when they escaped. That keeps the path open for other possible defectors
I have been to the other side of DPRK's northern boarder. There are lots of Korean ethnic Chinese people living in villages near the boarder. Lots of people are willing to give defectors food, water, and shelter for free - the villagers are not wealthy, but they are very kind people.
I remember when Kim Jong Il died and Kim Jong Un was stepping up. Many people even back then were commenting how much worse things were going to get for the poor people of NK, as Kim Jong Un was educated in the US, and so understands the outside world and how to crack down on things (what to look for etc). I feel so bad for all those stuck in the country.
The elite people all studied at the same places, they all know each other and are friends often. Not all, but a lot of them and it pretty much still is all connected. Some of them are even blood related, some presidents are related with each other.
I’m a North Korean who as a toddler was smuggled into South Korea by either my aunt or uncle (I’ve been unable to confirm specific details) back in 1986. In 1988 I was adopted by my parents and have been an American citizen since 1995. I’ve gone onto serve 8 years in the 82nd 1st/504th and 3 years with Triple Canopy as well as pursuing a degree in network engineering. I consider myself quite fortunate and lucky and often reflect on what my life would have been like had I not escaped. I wonder what became of my biological parents and other family, although I’m fairly certain they died of famine. I did and still have quite a few relatives in the South but it’s been difficult to get empirical quantifiable data or metrics on my family due to numerous variables.
Your journey is incredibly moving and positions you uniquely to raise awareness about North Korean issues. Have you considered leading an awareness campaign? Your voice could be powerful in sparking change and honoring your heritage.
Truely, the biggest prison on Earth. Born into prison. A doom you can only escape in death. The fact that such a horror exists on our world and we allow it is depressing.
Fear of nuclear warfare. The US would’ve raided it already if it wasn’t for the North Korean ruler now. He is an evil, evil man. It would’ve been all of Korea if the US didn’t help fight against communism with the south in the Korean War. It was the third largest war in American history and it was right after WWII. If we had another Korean War nowadays, it would be so incredibly ugly. Potentially causing a WWIII with nuclear bombs. 🤮
Yeah, it's honestly making me feel bad. I don't know why we allow this to happen. Nukes made things impossible when they are in the hands of psychopaths
It’s more proof god isn’t real and that strong humans need to set aside personal delusions and rise up and fight evil corruption and communism. The US needs to start stepping up like the old days or the future of the world is truly doomed. North Korea is just the start of evil regimes winning
it's just terrible. I've always wondered how much mistreatment a person can take before taking any risk to improve what's going on in their life. In this case, it is a country with a population of over 20 million. But the government manages to control them. This level of isolation is a terrifying weapon.
It WAS a country of over 20 million. I suspect that at this time their population numbers have significantly dropped. I wonder what their current birth rate, and infant survival rates are?
@@TricaGamerI don’t believe in god either, but sending some one to prison for reading it is fucking ridiculous. What they did was even worse, they sent someone to prison for someone else reading it.
I'm very happy for people who have managed to escape, if it's 2000 or 30 people. Just the fact some people manage to do it means it's not impossible. You are heros and I hope you live a good life, if you are reading this.
But when you are one of these people, whether is impossible or not matters little. What matters is if it's possible for *you*. Sad to see they have cracked down so hard on escaping.
Those small amount of people are usually NK citizens who are allowed to leave for business reasons (usually to go to China or Russia) and they just don't come back.
For anyone wondering, North Korea’s military and soldiers don’t actually leave the country to do battle. They are used within the country to act as local police. They are used as laborers to construct civil projects like road and infrastructure building. There are many military checkpoints all throughout the countries roads, where soldiers check for travel permits. They patrol the boarders with china and South Korea, as well as the ocean. China has even permitted the dprk soldiers to enter china to locate and bring boarder crossers back into North Korea.
I feel so bad for the people in that country. Every single day is a struggle and no one knows if they'll be killed or arrested for something they didn't do, but a family member or a friend did. Who arrests a 2 year old child who barely knows how to speak let alone do a bad thing?
"Traitor of the Motherland family members" (Russian: ЧСИР: члены семьи изменника Родины, lit. 'members of the family of a traitor of the Motherland') was a term in Article 58 of the Criminal Code of Russian SFSR (as amended from the original wording of 1927). The amended Article dealt with the criminal prosecution of wives and children (kin punishment) of all people who were arrested and convicted as "traitors of the Motherland" in the Soviet Union during Stalinist purges of the 1930s and later.
What isn't discussed, which should be, is the difficulty of even acquiring this information. Finding someone that has and is willing to share information about the rest of the world, let alone how to escape to it. It is very possible that many of those escapees had no idea that China was deporting back but Malaysia was not. North korea is the definition of a dystopia.
Exactly my point. Just think about it tho...the many survivors who have managed to escaped without knowing that China was deporting back them in Nk. IT is sad to think that they got hope for an only amount of time and then again going back to that hell hole to being tortured to death.
I can't imagine something as petty and unjust as literally sentencing a 2 year old to life in prison. The more I learn about North Korea the more devoid of humanity and general morals or ethics I learn it is. And I always knew it was a corrupt dictatorship, it just somehow never fails to stoop even lower.
Humanity includes benevolence and good but it also includes malicious self interest. A free and fair world is fragile, and can only be maintained by standing against tyranny and separating powers to keep them in check
Living in Haiti 🇭🇹 is just as bad , the government there is so corrupt and have associations with gangs that have overrun the country , imagine sleeping in your home at 1am and armed gangs invade your town and force you to have sex with your daughter at gunpoint force you to have sex with your mom dad have sex with daughters all at gunpoint brothers and sisters force to have sex , and imagine you’re lucky enough to flee that area running for your life and taking your kids with you you don’t have a chance to grab anything to take with and you don’t know where you’re going to spend the night or where you’re going to stay, and literally there are no police to help the police is also corrupt the few good police officers that are there are being killed and being set up by corrupt police , it’s just as bad in Haiti as it is in North Korea I pray for Haiti 🇭🇹 and North Korea 🙏🏾
I mean there was Chattel slavery in the US where they made slaves impregnate their own mothers and then sold the children. I think NK is nicer than that...
I feel great sympathy for the people who were unfortunate enough to be in North Korea. 😔 May I also remind you the fact that around 15-20% of innocent North Korean civilians perished due to indiscriminate aerial bombardment during Korea war.. Moreover, over a million innocent North Korean civilians also perished in famine due to never-ending Western sanctions. 🤷
@@kevinkevinkevin1909Are you seriously saying that reducing the crime for reading a book from 10 years to 9 would make north korea a good place to live?
Also, a reminder that North Korea can only do most of what it does thanks to massive support from China. China sends regular supplies to North Korea, in direct violation of sanctions, to prop up the autocracy. Because the only thing worse to China than the shit happening in North Korea is having no buffer between themselves and an American allied country. Without this critical support, both official, and under the table unofficially, North Korea probably would have collapsed long ago. Or at least they'd be a minor player who would increasingly have little ability to enforce the oppression they have upon their population.
It’s not even just about a buffer anymore. With how unstable Kim is, he might genuinely be using nuclear blackmail against China. If his regime was about to fall because of China cutting off aid, he just might nuke them.
Perhaps thats why America is focusing so heavily on reforming China into a friendly republic through internal strife and revolution. Make China an ally, NK regime dies out. Two birds, one stone.
Not to mention if NK collapsed right at this moment, who's to stop mercenaries and criminals from turning the country into another Bosnia or Syria? Only this time, there's Nuclear Weapons to steal and sell to the highest bidder, or even worse, they take everyone with them. No matter how you spin it, there's no real way to win here.
What, no reminder about the people starving because of sanctions imposed by the United States, which it forces countries throughout the world to uphold? We're just going to maintain the delusion that the Americans are the good guys, are we? The Chinese have helped to prevent the North Koreans from dying of starvation, caused by the Americans, yet you want to twist things around and make China the bad guys? The brainwashing of people like you simply beggars belief!
So glad my grandparents both escaped North Korea otherwise I wouldn’t be born in the USA. My grandma escaped during the Korean War along with many others, and my Grandpa got captured twice during the war but somehow made it out both times. I’ve thought about it a couple times like what if they didn’t make it out, where would I be now? Crazy to ponder that sometimes.
@@Foprop1 Pretty crazy for sure! One of the few lucky ones who could make it out. They still had family in North Korea for years until they were smuggled out and they told some harrowing stories as well.
I read about a harrowing escape from North Korea. This girl and her elderly mother went on a long, nearly unsurvivable journey. It was only by sheer luck and the kindness of random border guards that they were able to get out. I feel so horrible for everyone who lives there.
You're probably referring to Yeon-mi Park. Her story has been heavily questioned in the last couple years as her story kept changing and now she's a far-right podcast and interview personality. So.... Maybe take that story with a grain of salt.
@JLo83 Intresting how ALL defectors of ALL countries that find their way to free countries become conservative. 🤷🏻♀️ Also, as a child of parents also escaping persecution? My parents told stories that seemed to change, it wasn't that their stories were changing but that the journey was so vast that it sounded disintegrated. You heard how long her journey may have taken, many events can happen in this long journey, causing stories to overlap.
Crazy to even comprehend what life is like in North Korea to even imagine it is impossible I do pray one day everyone in this country gets a chance to live whatever life they want
North Korea is one of those countries where I feel the only way it could be freed is through rebellion that ends with the execution of the tyrants or through intervention of a much more powerful country and neither seems likely to happen. It's a tragedy.
Lol, yea im sure North Koreans are begging for the US to come in and drop thousands of tonnes of "liberation" on them, just like when they "liberated" Korea after literally murdering a 1/4th of the entire population using more bombs than were used on Japan including the two nukes. Read a book.
A defector said when he escaped to S. K. He saw somebody wearing blue jeans sitting at an outdoor restaurant eating a big plate of food and he couldn't believe his eyes!! He knew nothing of reality outside of N.K.
@@pewdiepiee8033 I don't want to argue with you, as you seem combative without provocation. But I will say that you have ignored the specifics of the original comment, specifics like "blue jeans" and "outdoor" and "[lots of] food", all things that he would never see in a North Korean "restaurant". I am also taking you at your word that there are restaurants that are widely available and affordable to North Koreans, which I *heavily* doubt is actually the case. Provide a source for your counterargument, or accept that you are a hypocrite for asking for one.
@@greenwin01 keep believing dumb stories on the internet about the poor north koreans. Soon enough people will talk like this about russia and china too. Cuz they dont support the US suddenly theyre a poor 3rd world country with people straving everyday
Its heartbreaking to think about how many North Korean people actually get caught nowadays because of the tightened enforcement security. From over 2000 to less than 100 successful escapes is scary enough, but to think that behind those ~60 successful defections there's thousands of failed ones each year is truly heartbreaking to me.
Can't forget that out of the successful defections, how many of them are North Korean spies sent out to recapture or harass legit defectors or other nefarous schemes.
In 10th grade, I had a NK classmate. His family I believed escaped and at first we didn't like him. His ideology was so effed up! We were studying in an international school. He was really smart though. After 3-4 months, he started to loosen up and more open-minded because even if we didn't like him at first, we understand what he's been through. He changed for the better and we're happy he's happy:)
Damn that’s honestly a nightmare. One day part of your family or a close friend decides it’s time to try escaping, and once they’re gone odds are essentially certain you’ll never hear from them again or even learn what happened
Imagine having absolutely no idea what the rest of the world is like and what rights they have and what technology they have and never having the chance to leave and see what you’re missing. It’s like their country is the whole world to them
The only advantage of that is that they don't have to be ennoyed and bothered by some things... Like idk pride shit this... Extreme stuff like in USA or Canada or other things
@@placidqualm you seem to have absolutely no plan about how incredible bad that movement got, and I just mentioned it I never said it was worser to see that than live like there I just said that's the only advantage that that has, it keeps them away from western stupidity problems I never said what you implemented it just shows that you are either too stupid to look behind that or your one of these "things"
The crazy thing is that Kim Jong Un went to school in Switzerland. He experienced life in one of the most free and peaceful environments anywhere in the entire world, first hand, only to go back to North Korea and perfect the hellish dystopia he inherited from his ancestors.
He has to, China needs a buffer zone between any ally of the US government. If he decided one day that things need to change he would be assassinated very quickly, and he can't step down either because of the family dynasty. That being said I doubt he would rather his people be free in the first place.
Honestly, the tragedy of all this makes me feel sick. I'm in no way related to the situation, but being human and thinking that real people are going through this...
@@Brixster because i am speakinh with the voice of the rules of the universe -- here to warn you not to be too sure of yourself ! and maybe you'll see me fightinh . . i am a demon who play-fights !
This feels genuinely wrong, you only live once and I can’t imagine having to live in the same country your whole life serving under a leader without being able to do things you want. This is very wrong and I feel extremely bad for people who live in North Korea. I hope the people who escaped are doing well.
North Korea be like: Do anything that is related to North Korea rules or get device that is allowed by government or else you will get prisoned for x10+ jail time multiplier in total of average of 10y Jail Time or even a easy execution because they have over 600M+ CCTVs!! Even attempt to escaping you get OOF'd by government rules breaking
I’ve never seen a country with THIS MUCH contempt for its own people. Every law I’ve seen enacted and enforced has been done in a effort to make people’s lives more miserable and never EVER to make it better. I’m ashamed as a human being that such a nightmarish place continues to exist on the modern day and nothing can be done about it
Hate to break it to you but a lot of countries want the same control, they just try and hide it better. I mean shit, Outside of any other opinions of china or russia. The fact that they would deport people back to north korea knowing their fates and their reasons for escaping proves within itself that they have the same ambitions for their people...
Actually, North Korea is not the only country that made it illegal for its citizens to leave without approval. Eritrea also forbids its citizens from leaving the country.
As per my cousin who was raised in Ethiopia and lived with Eritreans, the rule in there is that once you turn 15, you can’t leave the country. That’s why many parents usually send their kids out of the country so that they don’t have to stay there
my parents where from north korea. when they were escaping they were caught but the soldiers let them go. i really thank those soldiers for letting them go because then i would of grew up in north korea (i was like 1 when they escaped so i dont remember anything) i try to ask my parents about north korea but they dont like talking about it. they have been helping other peope get across but they now stopped bc its basically impossible now. they first went to Mongolia then back to south korea then they moved to the UK
Thats great that they made it. I doubt that the soldiers even want to kill anyone because who would truly enjoy killing people who are just trying to escape that horrible prison of a country
Can't help but think that if this continues, there might come a generation that might not even know that there is anything outside North Korea, and the rest of the world would start to treat them like an uncontacted tribe.
It's already worse. They know there's a world out there but they are disinformed about it. They're taught the US is an evil imperial force, for example, and they use real facts when it suits this agenda. So its not like they're going to wake up and realize its all lies when a big chunk of it is based on actual fact, they will have to learn through experience like everyone must.
Lol! Imagine? Nah. As long as WAR exist, I'm pretty sure at any given generation, they'd know the outside world exist just for the simple fact that the men are forced to join the military, and I'm pretty sure they would know that they're defending their country from other countries. Lol!
I'm a German from Berlin and it's so strange to think that only a little over 30 years ago, there also was a border where defectors would get shot on sight and people trying to escape with crazy plans like hiding in car seats - and yet today there's parks and open streets where the Wall used to be and the only way you can tell whether you're in former East or West Berlin is whether there are trams or not. The situation was far from the same as in North Korea but it still gives me hope.
Probably the most crucial border here that needs to be broken is the one between North and South. But the leaders will have to figure out how to reconcile such a vast difference in society, economy and ideology. None of that can begin unless South Korea first sends the USA packing. If Koreans can work out a reunification independent of interference from other nations, I believe we can eventually see true peace and freedom there. No nuclear disarmament is necessary either. A unified Korea would be best served by maintaining status as a responsible and self-restrained nuclear power.
Why say Finally in This video title? its a Hell Hole living there in the State of North Korea for citizens just watch the Interview of Defectors....May Jesus Bless and Keep Blessing those people who are trying to Escape the Tyranie of the Government there in North Korea💯🙏💟In Jesus Powerful Name!
@@EssieKaye-f3qit won’t work for at least another 50 years. Modern South Koreans already tend to dislike and discriminate against North Korean defectors, and SK doesn’t seem to have any plans or reasons to reunify the North and South.
We don't give the North Korean people enough credit. Defecting is no easy feat, but despite physical and ideological obstacles and decades of programming, they still find a way.
@@hobomike6935 I don't think so honestly. I've studied them, their language and their culture for my work. North Korea is a black box, but its people are far more imaginative than most people think. It's almost impressive how well they fend for themselves in such a shitty regime.
@@sickcallranger2590 they're not dumb, they're human like everyone else. Even with no outside information they know their situation is horrible and many will attempt to escape by any means necessary
@@ENZOxDV9 That is my point. I've had the pleasure of speaking face to face with and receiving lectures from a former high-ranking Bureau 39 official who defected some years ago. Fascinating stories, truly extraordinary man.
I’ve always had a bit of a morbid fascination with North Korea, and have read a number of North Korean defector memoirs, so I was familiar with the general landscape described here, but I wasn’t aware of how much worse things have gotten since 2020. Most of the escape accounts I’ve read took place in the 90s and early 2000s and followed the “easiest” China route, however they are all incredibly harrowing. To think that now it is many times harder than it was then is just unimaginable. My heart breaks even more for the poor innocent people trapped inside that horrifically evil regime.
If you're a woman or girl and being smuggled out you would get R worded for "protection" and to keep your family safe, that's a common thing I always heard in those memoirs. It being so much harder now my heart truly aches for all of them
My parents are from turkey and after the war we emigrated to germany, to find work. Everytime I return to our home village, my grandma tells me about the soldier of our home village that was sent to south korea to help defend the country. He didn't return. While I don't truly know how south koreans feel about unification, I pray to witness the unification between north and south korea. My prayers are with the koreans.
@@monaezytwo6513 At least they died escaping the regime instead of being captured alive. Defectors that were brought back to NK probably had a worse fate coming to them
I highly recommend everyone reads 'The Girl With 7 Names'. An amazing and tense account of a girl's early life in NK and her attempted and eventually succesful escape. One of the best books I've ever read.
Another great book is Nothing to Envy, the title describing the propaganda North Koreans tell their people about other parts of the world compared to their lives. Great read for anyone who’s looking for another book.
As someone who meet someone from that country who made it out in the 1990s, it is appalling with the abuse of basic human rights and many kids and people starving from constant food shortages. He told me how his mom and grandma died trying to feed him and his brother. 😢 They send you to prison for even asking the wrong questions, and anything that can mildly turn to doubt the leader/government.
@@andreasottohansen7338i guess it's basically slavery. Leaders get everything , others get nothing. Money keep flowing. And others are too hungry and unequipped to make any coup..
@@andreasottohansen7338it doesn't collapse because North Koreans are way too scared (and with reason) to do anything that isn't following the dictator. The only way North Korea's "government" can collapse is by help from other countries such as the US. It's literally almost impossible to make a move from the inside without getting you, your whole family and the next like 4 generations to come (if you somehow survive) locked in a camp.
That's the right way of thinking. I myself being serbian moved to america. However... both of my parents died when I was 7 & it pains me to see people not realizing how lucky they are to have parents. Sometimes people just don't take things for granted from what I seen. Keep up the positivity no matter what because in this crazy ass world.... some positivity is a good thing Basically my grandparents adopted me and were my parents but man... they were old school but in the end helped raise me and for that I will always be indebted to them forever
Staying in China for over a decade, I would speculate that a significant factor was also the Chinese COVID tracking system. For a couple of years you couldn't enter any establishment (restaurant, apartment building etc) in China without a green code, and even with the coffee, domestic travel was heavily restricted - your code in one city or a province would not automatically allow you freedom of movement in another. This made things extremely difficult for migrants in China - and I imagine that out made it absolutely impossible for North Korean illegal immigrants to do the necessary trek described in this video.
this is accurate, we have the Covid tracking system for a few years and you will be found if you're an illegal immigrant because you need to show you ID to sign up for the system, if you're not in the system it's hard to get by daily life
True that. The digital lifestyle has made day to day easier however it’ll always come at a cost. Most times, people don’t mind it. Let’s be honest, it’s not anyone truly have privacy or freedom anyway, NSA works hard to make sure that’s the case.
'Escape from Camp 14' was one of the most thrilling, engrossing (not in a positive way, but nonetheless) books I have ever read. Absolutely amazing to think it is even partially true. APPALING.
I think it's mostly due to how little we can even do, all laws say NK can do what they want, only way to help here would really be with an invasion, and those have a lot of other problems.
Im a South Korean and I heard a story of North Korea soldier's escape through DMZ. The cage got destroyed because of the tornado and he ran fast as he can. However the soldiers knew he was gone and started to shoot at him. Luckily the bullet missed his head by slight inches and he made it to South Korea..
Starting 2010s, China started to require identification on all public transportation, including trains and inter-city buses (实名制车票). This could be potentially another reason for the increased difficulty for NK defectors to cross China. Previously, train tickets were sold anonymously, allowing a foreign person to travel a long distance without being identified.
The best thing China could do is just show a bit of humanity for once - stop sending NK defectors back when caught and start busting the people traffickers and pimps. That sort of crime is not acceptable in China when perpetrated against anyone else. It's a very simple policy decision and it's not like they owe North Korea anything, and all North Korea could really do is block inbound Chinese travel out of spite. Other countries either offer asylum to NK defectors or hand them over to the South.
@@longiusaescius2537Surveillance and preventing reselling. Russia did the same in the 1990s - all long-distance train tickets are named and train stewards check passports on boarding.
Here's a bit of existential dread for y'all. You could've come into consciousness as a baby in North Korean to spend life in prison starting at age 2 just easily as you came into consciousness in whichever part of the world country you were born. Every one of us should feel immense gratitude despite our individual situations because our first breath wasn't drawn inside North Korea
@@soffa93 so long as north Koreans are having babies, those babies has to come into consciousness. And unfortunately they don't get to choose their parents any more than you did. So unless you had a some say in who your parents would be before coming into this world, then it's really up to chance where you'll first open your eyes
I still can’t believe that a place like North Korea even exists. The level of dictatorship and mistreatment that millions have to go through everyday even in 2023 is crazy.
If it can happen there with no one doing a damn thing to stop them, it can happen here and there will be no one willing to step in and put a stop to it. There are absolutely people who want to bring this kind of authoritarian, mass surveillance state hell to other places.
You better believe it heck there's still a population of humans that are still tribes people on the North Sentinel Island which is even more isolated then North Korea. NK at least has some technology unlike those tribes people on top of that they will kill and eat you
Can you imagine the terror that 2-year old has had to grow up with? At that age it’s frightening to lose your parents for a short period of time. Can’t imagine what it would be like to get sent to prison. On the plus side he probably didn’t even understand what was happening. Evil.
@@TheAnswer70He definitely may remember this. At that age many people tend too remember traumatic events. My first memory I can remember was from when I was a year and a half. My father, who was a horrible man, punched my mother in the face while holding me and then smashed my music box my grandmother had made for me. I remember the whole thing and as an older child I brought it up to my mother one day and she was shocked that I remembered it so accurately. I have multiple memories between the ages of 1 and a half to 6 that all involve my father and are all horrible traumatic memories. My mother and grandparents never discussed these events or my father in front of me so these weren't things I just overheard and took on as memories. They were true memories. My first good memories begin when I was around age 4. At age 2, having something that traumatic happen that changed your whole life, he could definitely remember it. Such an awful thing for that child.
@@Xessa82 sorry that happened to you. I meant kids may not remember in general, some kids can't remember even but still live with the trauma... All kids deserve loving parents, but not all parents deserve kids... Look at it this way, you will be a better parent than your father. 💕
my step dad in uni taught a man in Australia around 60 years old who escaped North Korea, he was so interested and had passion in everything he was always doing work. This shows how glad and happy they are to be out of the country and how much of a hell hole North Korea could have been. I wish I could have questioned the dude but it was 3 years ago.
@@CJOlin uni is common slang for university in Australia. And no one expects or cares about proper grammar in a youtube comment, no one's appreciating your pedantic insult.
Dude, after watching this video, I don't think I will ever complain about my life ever again. I'm so lucky to be living in Netherlands and to have freedom. I'm so sorry for all those people who were born in North Korea without their choice. Newspaper, websites, no movies or tv shows, only information that's related to North Korea and not to the outside world is so sad. They all look like they've been brainwashed.
@@striderzarnickLook at it this way, at the very least you have internet access, otherwise you wouldn’t have been able to write this comment. Thats STILL a step up from the average north korean.
I came from 3rd world country, I'm actually from Croatia. I used to live there for 21 years, I just moved here recently, 2 and a half years ago. It was my own choice, I wanted a better life conditions, but Croatia wasn't so bad either, just not enough opportunities for development of yourself. Especially after seeing this video.@@striderzarnick
The Korean peninsula has such a crazy history that in a parallel universe, it'd be impossible to believe. A nation unified for centuries, suddenly split between the globe's foremost superpowers. One side developed into a derelict impoverished bastion of communism, headed by a single man, while the other developed into a cyberpunk dystopia of capitalism and technology, headed by several conglomerates. Unbelievable.
Indeed, the South has A LOT of flaws that become evident as soon as you dig past the colorful KPOP and modern skyscrapers. Their society is messed up in very different ways. Still, there is no doubt where I would rather live.
7:38 I hate to be the one to correct people, but Vietnam is actually not a country that deports North Korean Defectors to South Korea. Just in November 2019, Vietnam deported 14 North Korean defectors back to China, where they were sent back to North Korea.
@@xymoriintus Well, I hate to break it to you, but the video is wrong. They can’t always be 100% accurate. They’re humans, after all. You can search it up on Google if you can’t believe me.
Preventing people from leaving a country is the most evil shit a country can do in my opinion. Every other crime against humanity a country does can be countered by people leaving in masses and try there luck some other place that accepts them in. Forcing people to stay gives them no option. I honestly don't get why north korea is still considered a state and not wild territory anyone can occupy.
because of geopolitics. Also because of civilized world. Most of the current countries do geopolitics without conqueroring the land (last time of that in civilized world openly was done in WW2, not-openly by russia a couple of years after USSR collapse). By less developed worlds it was much more frequently (India\Pakistan, Somali, constant wat in Israel, etc.). But ok, let's assume that developed world decided to stop NK as a dictatorship "holy grail" place. Who would do that? America or NATO? Nah, won't happen. China is a bit of a bad enemy to play against, counting that such war will create hundreds of thousands dead bodies very easily. Asian countries? South Korea won't attack own people, they are not russia. Japan won't do that as a sideeffect of WW2. China won't do that, because why? It won't give benefits to China (trading is more profitable than investment in dead area), also it will involve war wtih South Korea, which is not good too. Russia is not interested in this small piece of land, neither it can have war at all there (see how they suck in Ukraine, while being :second army in the world". Only options are for less developed countries (for them it may be free land and possibiltiy to spread influence), but most of such countries are too far from NK. In short, even if you say that NK is a wild zone and can be taken by many countries, nobody will do that. Unless we develop army of iron men type droids (a lot of armoury, completely automatic, good AI to distinguish civilian from military, precise shots to destroy military and not bomb areas, etc.), it just won't happen.
@@maksymisaiev1828India did not conquer any land recently. The last time India captured a different country's land was in 1971 , when it had taken control over East Pakistan and declared it as an independent country called Bangladesh. If you are talking about the most recent war between India and Pakistan, then I must tell you , the "developed" countries have fought wars more recently than India/ Pakistan. Especially the US , which has a habit of invading other countries every now and then. Therefore I don't know on what basis you are claiming that your "civilized" and "developed" countries haven't captured any land since WW II.
As far as I can tell, the only remaining viable way to leave North Korea is to go by sea, but more specifically from the East Coast as you will end in Japan instead of China if you drift too far. You’re still very likely to be caught by their navy or drown or something but it is still possible and probably the safest move at this point
And even that is very hard. For one you have to simply be lucky that you and your family live on the shoreline and on the right side. Another thing is that you have to have a boat, which very few North Koreans have. You have to be very fortunate that you live in the right place and that your family has been in the fishing industry for a very long time.
Imagine when taking one's own life GREATLY, significantly outweighs the idea of existing. The concept of "pursuing one's dreams" doesn't exist. Certain emotions are meaningless as well--things like happiness, fulfillment, hope, and true love. Sad. 😓
As a Korean, I've never ever heard of any successful escape attempts on the Sea of Japan. North Korean navy patrol those waters regularly and even used several routes to abduct Japanese citizens off the west coast of Japan.
@simon6556 not just the nukes. The amount of conventional rocket artillery pointed at Seoul is ridiculous. Very confident that if South Korea was attacked by the North that they would be very successful in defeating any invasion attempt. Also confident that with a coalition of Pacific nations along with the non-intervention of China( highly unlikely) that North Korea could be successfully liberated. Both of these options would cause major destruction and disruption of global economy... so North Korea is tolerated, unfortunately.
No Surprise, it just sounds like the Kim Regime is paranoid of losing his grip on the nation knowing full well its a shithole nobody truly wants to be in
How to escape: 1 be in a state with shoreline 2 make a makeshift swomming mask 3 go to the shore at night and jump in it and be under the water 4 swim 200 KILOMETERS outside the demilitariarised zone to south korea and enjoy ur new life!
The sad part is we only saw the numbers for the successful detectors. We have no idea how many have perished trying to escape. If I had to guess it may be in the hundreds of thousands.
That’s a thought I had as well, just wonder how many attempts were made. There was a successful North Korean girl who did escaped in 2007 that was on the Shawn Ryan show channel her name is Yeonmi park. All I can say is how absolutely absurd, insane & horrific that place. Makes me thankful to be an American
@@CollectorsCorner777 Whether it's hundreds of thousands or thousands, the latter are still enough to fill an entire football stadium. Imagine that. I believe the numbers could be in the middle, therefore tens of thousands, because North Korea isn't a particularly big country and many have starved to death already or have been executed. On second thought you might be closer to the truth, but please don't use the word "just" while describing genocide.
@@RebrnKingI read her first book, absolutely heartbreaking and disgusting how badly north Koreans are treated by Kim regime and how china treats the escaped north Koreans
The saddest part for me about North Korea is the complete hopelessness of it. At least with other matters, you can blame people for being complacent. It doesn't make it any less upsetting, but it at least gives the *illusion* of control, like as if my endless complaining online will change anything. But there's quite literally nothing we can do about North Korea without having millions of people vaporized.
Instead of soldiers like the kids at my sons school being targeted, how about nearly hopeless but yet ready to give something of worth to this out of control situation. I will offer my life as a decoy. We need a country of decoys that NK can go ahead and nuke. Ofc it doesnt work that way. But think outside the box. They’re generations of lost and hopeless Souls that would infinitely gladly prefer to give their own lives than watch their children be recruited for the racket of endless war. Let’s end this shit
@@mirandalynch9065 that is not correct. With the Soviet Union, people still travelled outside, they had influence from the world, etc. USSR would cease to exist anyway, as it wasn't such a dictatorship land already in 80th. This is not the case for NK. China is now more like USSR of 50-60th. NK is more like Stalin Area. It will need complete random accident to change the situation (death of whole leader lineage). And even then it may not work, as regime, while focused on one person, is based on a group of people. You need to remove whole group of people in some way (create internal conflict, assassination, jealous, corruption, etc.) and than the chance will appear. But chance is one thing, people's movement is other. Even if regime collapses, most people will be in vacuum and don't know what to do next (that is why communism is dangerous - you stop to think), which will lead to easy new dictatorship.
@@maksymisaiev1828 the communism comment was unnecessary considering how many people in the US are brainwashed by extreme hateful propaganda, BUT! I'll give it to you, you make a good damn point.
@@mirandalynch9065 the problem is that the soviets themselves didn't vanish during the collapse, they consolidated their power on Russian and their renmants are trying to restart the union.
Every time I watch a video about North Korea, I learn something new about that horror of a country and feel disgusted over the fact that somebody is doing such things to those poor people. I feel sorry for also the people in Africa or wherever where the famine is present, but I think those people can be much more happier as they have freedom, they don't need to fear they will go to prison or get executed for just moving around the country, or watch something on a mobile phone, or read a freaking book... Very very sad 😢
Ah yes, these African countries exploited by the western nations who you think are so much better than North Korea. How many countries have NK invaded or exploited in the last 70 years? America have invaded over 40, lol.
I was stationed in south korea for three years as air defense. There's a little red book inside our "engagement control station", soldiers are allowed to read it if you have a security clearance. It is the USA expectations if we go to war with NK. NK also does a lot more provoking than anyone knows.
My grandparents were both from North Korea, and they had an insane 6th sense of knowing what North Korea would become. They told me Kim Il Sung gave them nothing but bad vibes and didn't want to stick around. As soon as the Korean War ended, they, as well as my grandfather's little brother, escaped North Korea to the South when the borders were still being built up and defenses were nonexistent. They pretty much left the rest of their family behind and are presumably still in North Korea. It's kind of crazy to think that I, as well as the rest of my current family, could have been stuck in North Korea if my grandparents didn't go with their hunch and remained in the regime.
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Wow
Damn... can't imagine what the rest of your family is going through in North Korea, that's unfortunate to hear.
Or maybe you werent born if they didnt leave
Wtf that’s insane. Living must be a trip knowing that. Hopefully the country falls honestly or the next generation of power takes all this down. Who knows but what a horrible living experience that must be in there.
The worst part about this is that this isn't history, its happening right now.
It's current yet historically big, making this history in the making
Uh yea, that's how history happens. First it's news, then it's history, then it's archaeology.
But… white supremacy
American inspires me.. My parents said if i get 40K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
Begging...
Remember this, along with what’s happening in Xinjiang in China, what’s being done to Ukraine by the Russians, and more.
If future generations manage to somehow exist, they will not look kindly upon this era of history.
I'm hoping that I get to experience the fall of NK in my lifetime. One of my friend's parents fled North Korea back in the 70's and made their way to the United States. Hearing the stories from my friend's dad really puts it into perspective on how lucky we are in the US.
I think we should appreciate more the way we live en Occident. I am from Mexico, and even though I don’t live in a first world country, I am thankful for not living In a country with no liberty
Even if it fell tomorrow, the people of North Korea wouldn't know what to do. They would basically be useless for at least three generations.
I don't think it would happen soon. NK hides behind China and Russia backs. That's kinda plenty of potential help for the regime.
US ? Really ? The prostitution capital of the world.
The fall of NK will come with consequences for South Korea, Russia, and China. Mainly SK, they will have to deal with the aftermath, they will have to take care of the North Koreans and rebuild/integrate them into their own society. This is why SK tolerates, and even punishes those South Koreans who try to persuade North Koreans to revolt against the regime.
I'm from Eritrea, a country known as Africa's North Korea. When you live in a country like this, escaping is the only choice you have left. Staying there feels like you're in prison and dying a slow and torturous death. Trying to escape doesn't seem as scary as it was when you first thought about it. You start to say "if I die trying to escape, then so be it"
I know what they go through to some extent. My heart truly hurts for them. 💔
Luckily, Eritrea doesn't have the technology nor the allies to keep as much of a grip on its citizens like NK.
I'm glad you made it out.
@anoon- Thank you!
At least you've got internet. Nobody in No Ko has internet; if you lived there and tried to say this online you would be gone in under a week. Be grateful for what you have. Shut it and be grateful
@@gigi9301wow. How rude. Who tf are you tell them to "shut it" ..I don't particularly get into banter in comments, but this one counts. They are describing their fears and also proclaimed that they did escape their experience. You didn't catch that part did you.
Be a better human. Thank you.
Atleast when I know I am being like you (I am aware of me being ignorant, or arrogant), are you even aware?
Narcissistic (I'm better than you, la,da,deladadaa? Bs)? I am 34 and I know better 😂
I used to be neighbours with NK refugees and the PTSD they had was harrowing to listen to through the walls. We had to be careful to close our doors gently, because slamming them could trigger them into thinking that they were being shot at.
God that sounds like hell for them. I can’t even imagine how they must feel like…
FUCKING HELL that shit is so fucking terrible, and that slamming door thing is tragic 😖
Okay well thats not a good quality to have in a neighbor i hope they dont see me carrying my guns and get scared
@@censored4christ162 you’re in favor of the second amendment, yes?
according to a study that was well-researched and reviewed, people carrying armed guns were more likely to be killed by police than those without the weapons. white men with guns were even more likely to die than black men with guns- but it’s important to note that most black people who were killed by police were unarmed.
that gun is putting you in danger. please stay safe and do a little research if you want to confirm :)
@@censored4christ162 why would you openly carry guns in front of a ptsd stricken neighbor
Those 210 people who managed to escape during the pandemic must have balls of absolute steel. I can't imagine feeling like you have no choice but to walk into certain death for a better life.
fr, i have nothing but respect for the people who escaped. cant even begin to imagine what they went through
Will you are put into that kind of situation you do whatever it takes that's what Americans do all colleges are race religions color religion
lol what are you saying the pandemic was walking into certain death
If i was in north korea, i would atleast try escaping, hell no im not living in that strict area.
but if you had no knowledge of the outside world it's even worse - they are censored, they are told they'll be killed if they leave
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My mother and (supposedly) father are defectors. I dont know them since my father disappeared and my mom decided to allow me to be adopted. I did a project on defection from North Korea and there has been a massive decline in defectors over the past few years due to massive crackdowns in the country. Its depressing to me to know that there are kids who wont be able to live civilized lives outside of the DPRK because their parents couldnt escape
Have you met any other nk?
@@marcuz8278 none that grew up in North Korea. I have met other adoptees at the Korean heritage camps for adoptive fams, and they have brought other native Koreans in for various activities and stuff, but I haven't had the chance to go over to Korea proper.
I hope I can meet my birth parents someday though. Would be nice.
@@KikoBean I don't know how they managed to do it, but to me it seems like they did the impossible. Out of thousands of people who tried, they were the winners. It's heartbreaking to know that even those few people who make it out don't get to enjoy their happy ending in the slightest. In fact, seems like it is the opposite, they are completely broken. I am very sorry...
@@BEN-ys6guPeople who are free are much happier than before. Paranoid, sure. But much happier.
Fellow kinsman, I am glad you made it out alive. I pray for North Korea's fall so that our people can finally be free.
How we as humans allow places like this to exist to begin with has always been insane to me
The nuclear weapons they have are pretty much the only thing that allows them to do this so unilaterally
And yet the slow incremental mentality of total authoritarian control is here in America, mostly from Leftists. That should concern you too.
@@CalebRoenigk nuclear weapons have got to be one of the worst abomminations that humanity has ever created
@@yoitsvenus616agreed, i guess its really just the way humans are, we could create power for the entire world with nuclear energy. But we'd rather use it to destroy it.
unfortunately they both have nukes & allies & at the moment and all out world war is not something the USA & Nato want to start & honestly i dont think we would win. the West has made the decision to allow North Korea to exist rather than lose millions & wreck the world economy forcing them to stop
What you didn't even mention was that for many of the people who actually did manage to save up the money for a broker, they were immediately sold into slavery in China and Russia by the very brokers themselves. And if they did manage to escape slavery at some point, they almost immediately ended up in police custody and got deported back into NK where the only thing awaiting them was more slavery.
Even worse it is probably execution what is awaiting them in NK 😢
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@@SkyyKeiron nah, that's a bit different. I'm talking about the slavery and unreliable brokers part in particular.
That's so focked up. How could you double cross someone and not feel bad about it? You basically killed them at that point
@@iamdalibor Money.
The craziest thing about stuff like this is that people who live there and don't hear about the outside world just assume it's like this everywhere.
As someone who was isolated from city life until adulthood that's horrifying.
No. They are sure they have it the best
They don't know that the outside world has changed drastically. People there dream of going to long gone countries because they think it still exists. It's very depressing to think about...
Kim really knows how to brainwash his people
Maybe in the borders in China between NK. There's a lot of snuggling there.
It’s good to hear that South Korea takes them in. If only getting out was easier!
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And many defectors wish to go back but South Korea doesn't let them, strange how that works huh
@@weomxdif they go back they will surely die or serve life in prison, so good?
You can always tell how crazy a country is by the bounciness of their military's parade march...
😂😂😂 omg stop
"The bounciness" hahahaha it's true tho
Emma and her two moms is already crazy enough 🙄🙄
So that's why they call them "boobs"...
The presence of military parades is a major clue already. It's not as normal as some people think.
You'd also need to consider that it is very hard to even obtain all the needed information. Like, knowing which country is safe and which isn't surely isn't written in school books.
Maybe some of the earlier defectors left clues in old school books or something in case they didn't succeed.
Or they had to hire people for info (And as mentioned in the video that isn't as easy as it sounds)
@@findtheshuaibs3888so theyre all zombies in a way.
For sure. They’ve also been lied to about the rest of the world since birth.
I know at least 3 people who have visited the DPRK and your western propaganda is BS and the biggest issues facing the DPRK are western imperialism, I mean the US literally made world record of dropping bombs on the DPRK, and the CIA openly admits to running lies and propaganda to convince y'all they are your enemy, but reality is y'all have fallen for the lies of the real evil empire
There are no school books, at least not of maps I'd imagine. Education is basically null.
A friend’s dad was an interrogator in South Korea when he was in the army. He was sent in to interview a North Korean man who walked straight through the DMZ. As he put it, he just started going through the DMZ. Crossed tigers, saw guards, etc. The dude straight up just said fuck it and crossed the DMZ. WHAT A CHAD
What’s the saying again? Live free or die
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Hii if it's possible, do you remember the person's name?
its made up story.@@dramalover0203
My family knows this man! His story is so wild, he literally crashed a car into the wall and crawled over
My grandfather from my dad’s side escaped from north korea during the 625 war at the age of 5
He had to walk on corpses, leave his father behind cuz he was captured by the government and had to hide anytime he saw north korean soldiers
Luckily he made it out but few of his family members had been either killed by the bombings or got captured
He’s still alive and healthy at 78 years old but he still remembers that event clearly.
American inspires me.. My parents said if i get 40K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
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@@namantherockstar Dude can you stop spamming this shit everywhare.
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Idk if it truly is impossible
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It’s absolutely insane that we as humans know this exists and just go about our lives. This is literally crimes against humanity.
What should we do instead? it's good to know it's happening but other than knowing there is nothing the average person can do, getting depressed over it does the North Korean citizens nothing and it does you nothing.
we can't do anything bcs kim jong un has nuclear. war also is just going to have more victims and destruction. we are all powerless
@joecobb5520 i think he means more of our government and our people in positions of power who would shake his hand (trump)
with nk's nukes now, i doubt there's much any country can do at this point without triggering all out nuclear war 😥
@@joecobb5520 SEND THAT BALD EAGLE OF JUSTICE. 😂😂😂.
I volunteered with an organization that worked with NK refugees in Seoul. Talking with them was wild. The stuff they've gone through even as children was insane.
What kind of stuff?
@@benblakemore745 a) you don't want to know b) there are interviews and documentaries out there
@@benblakemore745read The Girl with Seven Names! If you don’t feel like reading, I do remember one story where her brother had to bring his own feces to school for fertilizer because they didn’t have money to pay tuition. So fertilizer was the best they could do
@@davejenvey3598”haha i just insulted someone for helping people”
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8this comment has nothing to do with what you just said
Imagine living in a country so terrible they have to build massive walls and barbed fences to keep people IN.
I think over a billion people can imagine it, since China is doing the same thing. Complete wall across the whole border - didn't used to be there.
american brainwashing is mighty powerful, the masses need to be saved from themselves
@@guyuscoolius2326 dafuq
wtf_@@guyuscoolius2326
people in china can still leave and millions do compared to north corea where very few can make it out.@@Dayvit78 I live in the other side of the world and there is so many Chinese here that we all call the supermarket the Chinese. you can stop any person in the street ask them where is the closest Chinese and they will point you to the nearest supermarket. and has no racism associated with it. is just that like 95% of supermarkets that are not part of big franchises like wallmart are all Chinese own and run by Chinese inmigrants.
You can tell how great a country is by the fact it has to put in this much effort to keep its people from leaving.
Every communist country is always like this.
The only people that deserve to be trapped in such places are the spoiled brats that still support the ideology even after knowing it never fails to lead to stuff like this.
Great? 🤡
@@b2frblx comment meant that if a country is great, people would not have to escape from in in the first place.
@@b2frblxsarcasm.
@@b2frblx You should talk with people more often.
North Korean here, now living I’m Seoul for 5 months. Its nearly impossible, but I’m here
how did u manage to get out? i cant imagine what it mustve been like, living there and leaving
do you feel comfortable sharing your story? i would love to read it. i’m so happy for you 🥹
@@jjanggulane Most likely fake. Do you really think a North Korean who's been through a strictly oppressive life for so many years suddenly speaks perfect English and goes by the name "yolo"?
😂@@MIZZKIE
Just imagine how incredibly difficult was it for the few people who successfully made it out of the country since 2020. Even just to plan a complete escape while constantly being inspected everywhere is challenging but managing to get thorugh the country’s heavily patrolled borderlines and then making a long journey through China or Russia without knowing any foreign languages and barely having any money… It is absolutely incredible that there are still several successful escape attempts with these circumstances.
Yeah... I can't even imagine it, MUCH respect to all those who made it, AND to those who tried it, but didn't make it...
RIP to them (and their families)... 🤐😢
It's such a shame that such medieval regimes like this still can be in power nowadays...
The people in North Korea deserve SO much better than this shithole that their country is right now! 🙄😢
I am not one of them.Sorry guys.
It's probably weathy people with connections in and outside. if not wealthy, at least well off enough to gather the money
i suspect a good portion of the recent defectors are soldiers themselves who were already on guard duty in the dmz, i dont see how it can be done any other way
Good for them, don't come to America
“Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own” - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and yet due to politics and more they make an exception to the norks.
Rights are an illusion
@@TheManofthecross NORKS IS A NEW ONE LMAOOOOO 💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@TheManofthecross - WTF are you even talking about? The United Nations didn't "make an exception" for North Korea, due to "politics and more" or indeed for any other reasons. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is like every other UN resolution - it only applies to countries who specifically chose to ratify them and who more broadly respect the authority of the UN (or the wider global community). North Korea don't respect the UN, nor does it care what most of the rest of the world thinks either. It's a totalitarian dictatorship in the most insular country in the world.
What else exactly are you suggesting the UN could or should have done? Used its member nations to invade North Korea to bring universal human rights to its citizens? Because that would very clearly lead to World War III.
Perhaps try actually thinking before you comment next time? 😂
udhr isn't a legally binding document, it's just a recommendatory document written by countries after ww2 which countries follow to avoid conflict.
My grandpa was only 7-10 years old when he escaped NK with his brother and sister, he came to US not knowing any English and raised 3 very successful children (my aunt, uncle, and father) all ended up being doctors….On the other side of my family, my grandmother made it out of Vietnam and to the US by marrying a soldier from the US during the Vietnam war, they also raised successful children , my mother being one who became a dentist and started her own practice…I am very thankful that my grandparents on both sides of the family pursued freedom, and also my parents both worked hard and sacrificed time, allowing me to have the lifestyle I do today
You are a perfect example of what immigrants should strive towards. Success like that of your family is rare, and admirable. It's what made America the country it was meant to be. Success is earned and can only be taken if you surrender your freedom. "Entitlements" and "rights" are awarded by the state in exchange for freedom. Which has more value? A juicy steak that you sweated and earned before eating, or one that someone gave to you "for free". Nothing is free and if you believe that then you are enslaved.
@@MrWayne6363 so what your saying is she is one of the "good ones" not like those other ones.🤨 Her story is one out of millions some aren't as lucky, they work just as hard but poverty is a hard hole to climb out of, especially now when everyone no matter immigrant or natural born citizen is in the same boat of working hard but the gap between the ultra rich and the working poor are the only two classes left in this country. When her grandparents came here a house cost 70k , my salary is the same as that house now in 2023 yet i can't even think of buying a home because saving money is laughable after rent, utilites, medication, health insurance, car insurance oh and i need to eat. I'm eating what some would consider a college diet because there isn't money for more. Do you think people enjoy living on the street, in their cars, without food, or paycheck to paycheck never able to get ahead NO, No one is expecting free, we all pay taxes, (well not the rich and not the mega churches) and we want our money to pay for healthcare, higher education, and for better services for homelessness, senior, and veterans not more money into the huge military budget. So no those things people want are not free but we sacrifice our time and bodies making some overlord richer and want at the very least our taxes to pay for what we need to live. We do not need people especially those in office spouting hate and false flags of grooming to distract people from them trying to take more of our rights away like the right to my own body and how i choose to deal it, or the right to not be discriminated against because of the color of my skin, my sexual orientation or gender. Freedom is not being scared that my own country will turn into a theocracy which it could if religon and politics don't stay seperate.
@@MrWayne6363lol, lmao even
gross
@@Emmet_Bryanyou gay
The next time someone manages to defect, they should keep their route a secret. They tell their story but not where, how and when they escaped. That keeps the path open for other possible defectors
What makes you think theres not hundreds of people who did that already
thats pretty much what every defector does for that exact reason
I have been to the other side of DPRK's northern boarder. There are lots of Korean ethnic Chinese people living in villages near the boarder. Lots of people are willing to give defectors food, water, and shelter for free - the villagers are not wealthy, but they are very kind people.
nice
Aww, that’s very sweet :)
Because in general, people are kind and human, governments, not so much...
@@makeitpay8241 *rice
kind..not sure. most refugees are female were cos many f are born in hunger and can be sold to marrage in china so profit is not kindness
I remember when Kim Jong Il died and Kim Jong Un was stepping up. Many people even back then were commenting how much worse things were going to get for the poor people of NK, as Kim Jong Un was educated in the US, and so understands the outside world and how to crack down on things (what to look for etc). I feel so bad for all those stuck in the country.
Kim Jong-Un was not educated in the US, he was educated in Switzerland
I remember reading it was a private school in Switzerland?
@@LimitBreakr424that’s correct
The elite people all studied at the same places, they all know each other and are friends often. Not all, but a lot of them and it pretty much still is all connected. Some of them are even blood related, some presidents are related with each other.
So an actual school for supervillians.
I’m a North Korean who as a toddler was smuggled into South Korea by either my aunt or uncle (I’ve been unable to confirm specific details) back in 1986. In 1988 I was adopted by my parents and have been an American citizen since 1995. I’ve gone onto serve 8 years in the 82nd 1st/504th and 3 years with Triple Canopy as well as pursuing a degree in network engineering. I consider myself quite fortunate and lucky and often reflect on what my life would have been like had I not escaped. I wonder what became of my biological parents and other family, although I’m fairly certain they died of famine. I did and still have quite a few relatives in the South but it’s been difficult to get empirical quantifiable data or metrics on my family due to numerous variables.
Your journey is incredibly moving and positions you uniquely to raise awareness about North Korean issues.
Have you considered leading an awareness campaign? Your voice could be powerful in sparking change and honoring your heritage.
Well sir, if you're speaking truth then you very much are remarkably lucky and fortunate; also quite a badass.
Their dead my boy. It's best to not think about it.
What an amazing story. Sorry about your family. The only thing you can do is keep moving forward and focus on your life there. All best.
What are you doing nowadays?
The VPN advertisement focusing on vacation and airfare pricing was WILD to put after this specific video lol
Truely, the biggest prison on Earth. Born into prison. A doom you can only escape in death. The fact that such a horror exists on our world and we allow it is depressing.
The war needed to help them would be too heavy a toll unfortunately. They got treaties with China, any army going in is gonna kick off WW3.
Fear of nuclear warfare. The US would’ve raided it already if it wasn’t for the North Korean ruler now. He is an evil, evil man. It would’ve been all of Korea if the US didn’t help fight against communism with the south in the Korean War. It was the third largest war in American history and it was right after WWII. If we had another Korean War nowadays, it would be so incredibly ugly. Potentially causing a WWIII with nuclear bombs. 🤮
Yeah, it's honestly making me feel bad. I don't know why we allow this to happen. Nukes made things impossible when they are in the hands of psychopaths
It’s more proof god isn’t real and that strong humans need to set aside personal delusions and rise up and fight evil corruption and communism. The US needs to start stepping up like the old days or the future of the world is truly doomed. North Korea is just the start of evil regimes winning
"Allow it" you go die on the front line and hope they don't blow up the nearby countries at the same time. Have fun...
it's just terrible. I've always wondered how much mistreatment a person can take before taking any risk to improve what's going on in their life. In this case, it is a country with a population of over 20 million. But the government manages to control them. This level of isolation is a terrifying weapon.
mind control and influence
Even if you escape unharmed, the regime will still kill your family because of you
It WAS a country of over 20 million. I suspect that at this time their population numbers have significantly dropped. I wonder what their current birth rate, and infant survival rates are?
@@WWZenaDoProbably astronomically low.
@@sumredpillgaysian2090 Yes, that's very likely. I suspect that cases of infanticide are higher there, too.
Imagine sending a two-year-old to life because their parents read a book. It's almost literally unbelievable.
Right and thinking that seems reasonable.
imagine believing it
@@TheChadD315What are you implying?
@@TricaGamertankie
@@TricaGamerI don’t believe in god either, but sending some one to prison for reading it is fucking ridiculous. What they did was even worse, they sent someone to prison for someone else reading it.
NEVER take your freedom for granted! This is possible ANYWHERE if people don't pay attention.
This!
I'm very happy for people who have managed to escape, if it's 2000 or 30 people. Just the fact some people manage to do it means it's not impossible. You are heros and I hope you live a good life, if you are reading this.
Imagine how many have failed
But when you are one of these people, whether is impossible or not matters little. What matters is if it's possible for *you*.
Sad to see they have cracked down so hard on escaping.
For real. I've never met someone from NK, but if I ever do I will make sure they will be made to feel extremely welcomed by me and my piers.
Those small amount of people are usually NK citizens who are allowed to leave for business reasons (usually to go to China or Russia) and they just don't come back.
each escape from North Korea weakens that country.
For anyone wondering, North Korea’s military and soldiers don’t actually leave the country to do battle. They are used within the country to act as local police. They are used as laborers to construct civil projects like road and infrastructure building. There are many military checkpoints all throughout the countries roads, where soldiers check for travel permits. They patrol the boarders with china and South Korea, as well as the ocean. China has even permitted the dprk soldiers to enter china to locate and bring boarder crossers back into North Korea.
Proving china is the problem.
Sounds like the national guard, army core of engineers, and metropolitan police departments in the US
@@CommonDaeze "sounds like police" 😐 man, your IQ is really really low or your extremely out of reality.
oh
THEY ARE NOT MEAN
I feel so bad for the people in that country. Every single day is a struggle and no one knows if they'll be killed or arrested for something they didn't do, but a family member or a friend did. Who arrests a 2 year old child who barely knows how to speak let alone do a bad thing?
It’s about setting an example and promoting fear into the population
Pretty sure it's a rethorical question.@@anotherweasleymore
Pure evil.
"Traitor of the Motherland family members" (Russian: ЧСИР: члены семьи изменника Родины, lit. 'members of the family of a traitor of the Motherland') was a term in Article 58 of the Criminal Code of Russian SFSR (as amended from the original wording of 1927). The amended Article dealt with the criminal prosecution of wives and children (kin punishment) of all people who were arrested and convicted as "traitors of the Motherland" in the Soviet Union during Stalinist purges of the 1930s and later.
They have Kim's unconditional love and care. What more could one want?
it's really heartbreaking that this is not a history but rather an ongoing thing💀💀
Right in the 21 century unreal
What isn't discussed, which should be, is the difficulty of even acquiring this information. Finding someone that has and is willing to share information about the rest of the world, let alone how to escape to it. It is very possible that many of those escapees had no idea that China was deporting back but Malaysia was not. North korea is the definition of a dystopia.
Exactly my point. Just think about it tho...the many survivors who have managed to escaped without knowing that China was deporting back them in Nk. IT is sad to think that they got hope for an only amount of time and then again going back to that hell hole to being tortured to death.
That is so true.
Because nk is china colony
many bothans died to bring us the death star plans
you only think this because you believe everything you hear about the country.
I can't imagine something as petty and unjust as literally sentencing a 2 year old to life in prison.
The more I learn about North Korea the more devoid of humanity and general morals or ethics I learn it is.
And I always knew it was a corrupt dictatorship, it just somehow never fails to stoop even lower.
Humanity includes benevolence and good but it also includes malicious self interest.
A free and fair world is fragile, and can only be maintained by standing against tyranny and separating powers to keep them in check
There's also another piece to the puzzle, they wouldn't have got all of that without the help of a pair of countries to the north.
Living in Haiti 🇭🇹 is just as bad , the government there is so corrupt and have associations with gangs that have overrun the country , imagine sleeping in your home at 1am and armed gangs invade your town and force you to have sex with your daughter at gunpoint force you to have sex with your mom dad have sex with daughters all at gunpoint brothers and sisters force to have sex , and imagine you’re lucky enough to flee that area running for your life and taking your kids with you you don’t have a chance to grab anything to take with and you don’t know where you’re going to spend the night or where you’re going to stay, and literally there are no police to help the police is also corrupt the few good police officers that are there are being killed and being set up by corrupt police , it’s just as bad in Haiti as it is in North Korea I pray for Haiti 🇭🇹 and North Korea 🙏🏾
it’s unbelievable because it’s fake. You can’t trust the US State department
I mean there was Chattel slavery in the US where they made slaves impregnate their own mothers and then sold the children. I think NK is nicer than that...
I feel great sympathy for the people who were unfortunate enough to be in North Korea. 😔
May I also remind you the fact that around 15-20% of innocent North Korean civilians perished due to indiscriminate aerial bombardment during Korea war.. Moreover, over a million innocent North Korean civilians also perished in famine due to never-ending Western sanctions. 🤷
Me too.
If this is video is complete truth, absolutely.
@@kevinkevinkevin1909 it is
@@kevinkevinkevin1909Are you seriously saying that reducing the crime for reading a book from 10 years to 9 would make north korea a good place to live?
I say this with all seriousness-God help anyone who lives in North Korea!
Really love all your work. Keep it up!!
Rrr
Also, a reminder that North Korea can only do most of what it does thanks to massive support from China. China sends regular supplies to North Korea, in direct violation of sanctions, to prop up the autocracy. Because the only thing worse to China than the shit happening in North Korea is having no buffer between themselves and an American allied country. Without this critical support, both official, and under the table unofficially, North Korea probably would have collapsed long ago. Or at least they'd be a minor player who would increasingly have little ability to enforce the oppression they have upon their population.
It’s not even just about a buffer anymore. With how unstable Kim is, he might genuinely be using nuclear blackmail against China. If his regime was about to fall because of China cutting off aid, he just might nuke them.
Perhaps thats why America is focusing so heavily on reforming China into a friendly republic through internal strife and revolution. Make China an ally, NK regime dies out. Two birds, one stone.
Not to mention if NK collapsed right at this moment, who's to stop mercenaries and criminals from turning the country into another Bosnia or Syria?
Only this time, there's Nuclear Weapons to steal and sell to the highest bidder, or even worse, they take everyone with them.
No matter how you spin it, there's no real way to win here.
It's a giant buffer country and it's so sad
What, no reminder about the people starving because of sanctions imposed by the United States, which it forces countries throughout the world to uphold? We're just going to maintain the delusion that the Americans are the good guys, are we? The Chinese have helped to prevent the North Koreans from dying of starvation, caused by the Americans, yet you want to twist things around and make China the bad guys? The brainwashing of people like you simply beggars belief!
So glad my grandparents both escaped North Korea otherwise I wouldn’t be born in the USA. My grandma escaped during the Korean War along with many others, and my Grandpa got captured twice during the war but somehow made it out both times. I’ve thought about it a couple times like what if they didn’t make it out, where would I be now? Crazy to ponder that sometimes.
'Murica.
A couple of times? You must have misspoken.
@@akizmetkat999 nope. My grandpa told us he got caught twice by the North Korean army. So if he lied then sure I guess.
Omg, thats honestly crazy, I honestly salute them
@@Foprop1 Pretty crazy for sure! One of the few lucky ones who could make it out. They still had family in North Korea for years until they were smuggled out and they told some harrowing stories as well.
I read about a harrowing escape from North Korea. This girl and her elderly mother went on a long, nearly unsurvivable journey. It was only by sheer luck and the kindness of random border guards that they were able to get out. I feel so horrible for everyone who lives there.
You're probably referring to Yeon-mi Park. Her story has been heavily questioned in the last couple years as her story kept changing and now she's a far-right podcast and interview personality.
So.... Maybe take that story with a grain of salt.
Yeon mi Park. He actually referenced her story in his previous video on escaping North Korea.
Yes, dictatorships are rather nasty when it comes to human rights.
@@JLo83 She's not a far-right podcast. She's conservative, which you should know is different.
@JLo83 Intresting how ALL defectors of ALL countries that find their way to free countries become conservative. 🤷🏻♀️ Also, as a child of parents also escaping persecution? My parents told stories that seemed to change, it wasn't that their stories were changing but that the journey was so vast that it sounded disintegrated. You heard how long her journey may have taken, many events can happen in this long journey, causing stories to overlap.
Crazy to even comprehend what life is like in North Korea to even imagine it is impossible I do pray one day everyone in this country gets a chance to live whatever life they want
North Korea is one of those countries where I feel the only way it could be freed is through rebellion that ends with the execution of the tyrants or through intervention of a much more powerful country and neither seems likely to happen. It's a tragedy.
Intervention of foreign countries is too risky as it might kickstart WW3
Lol, yea im sure North Koreans are begging for the US to come in and drop thousands of tonnes of "liberation" on them, just like when they "liberated" Korea after literally murdering a 1/4th of the entire population using more bombs than were used on Japan including the two nukes.
Read a book.
Personally I think the most likely is that china loses need for North Korea and stops funding it.
@@arisufizu5698 well. Ww3 is already on the brink of starting and it is not with NK
@@theflashgirl2057pretty much its been goin on for ages now
A defector said when he escaped to S. K. He saw somebody wearing blue jeans sitting at an outdoor restaurant eating a big plate of food and he couldn't believe his eyes!! He knew nothing of reality outside of N.K.
That’s… really sad.
North koreans have restaurants too and they can afford them. Where tf youve taken this info from?
@@pewdiepiee8033A North Korean government agent detected spreading propaganda?
@@pewdiepiee8033 I don't want to argue with you, as you seem combative without provocation. But I will say that you have ignored the specifics of the original comment, specifics like "blue jeans" and "outdoor" and "[lots of] food", all things that he would never see in a North Korean "restaurant".
I am also taking you at your word that there are restaurants that are widely available and affordable to North Koreans, which I *heavily* doubt is actually the case. Provide a source for your counterargument, or accept that you are a hypocrite for asking for one.
@@greenwin01 keep believing dumb stories on the internet about the poor north koreans. Soon enough people will talk like this about russia and china too. Cuz they dont support the US suddenly theyre a poor 3rd world country with people straving everyday
Its heartbreaking to think about how many North Korean people actually get caught nowadays because of the tightened enforcement security. From over 2000 to less than 100 successful escapes is scary enough, but to think that behind those ~60 successful defections there's thousands of failed ones each year is truly heartbreaking to me.
Can't forget that out of the successful defections, how many of them are North Korean spies sent out to recapture or harass legit defectors or other nefarous schemes.
It’s seriously heartbreaking. Like I cried during this video…. I can’t imagine how a single person there feels
@@oliviasooooksk😂😂😂
@@crimsonbehelit99explain what is funny, seriously explain
@@crimsonbehelit99 nothing is funny about this, these people practically live in real life hell
23:56 it sounds completely unconstitutional but here we are
We are very lucky to not have been born into a country like this. I cannot imagine how hard these people have it there 🙁
Imagine how hard it must be not having to worry about being jobless or homeless your entire life, what a disaster
@@kariisawa_ ???
@@kariisawa_north korean fed 😭
@@reinhartdevera2644LMFAO
not once will I say my life is shit again, imagine being born in a prison and living there until your death
In 10th grade, I had a NK classmate. His family I believed escaped and at first we didn't like him. His ideology was so effed up! We were studying in an international school. He was really smart though. After 3-4 months, he started to loosen up and more open-minded because even if we didn't like him at first, we understand what he's been through. He changed for the better and we're happy he's happy:)
Indoctrination is insidious and hard to combat, like any political cult, or religion.
What are his ideologies? I'm curious
@@zatzu I'm also curious
@@zatzuWhatever it is I’m sure it was forced onto him. They brainwash all their citizens in NK and I’m sure they do it while they are children.
Aight im curious too
Damn that’s honestly a nightmare. One day part of your family or a close friend decides it’s time to try escaping, and once they’re gone odds are essentially certain you’ll never hear from them again or even learn what happened
Not only that you're almost certainly getting executed or sentenced to life in a work camp for being affiliated with an escapee.
And then you and your entire family get imprisoned and punished harshly for it 😔
Or you will learn what happened when everyone, 3 generations above and below them, in your family is thrown in a concentration camp.
Welcome to America
You go to prison too.
It truly boggles my mind how a country can be like this
Imagine having absolutely no idea what the rest of the world is like and what rights they have and what technology they have and never having the chance to leave and see what you’re missing. It’s like their country is the whole world to them
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The only advantage of that is that they don't have to be ennoyed and bothered by some things... Like idk pride shit this... Extreme stuff like in USA or Canada or other things
@@Lennxd12because seeing people love each other is so much worse than “living” in extreme poverty and being one breath away from slavery 🙄
@@placidqualm you seem to have absolutely no plan about how incredible bad that movement got, and I just mentioned it I never said it was worser to see that than live like there I just said that's the only advantage that that has, it keeps them away from western stupidity problems I never said what you implemented it just shows that you are either too stupid to look behind that or your one of these "things"
@@Lennxd12my dude i am so sorry you have to see that... it must be so detrimental to your well-being, prayers for everyone in the states 🙏
The crazy thing is that Kim Jong Un went to school in Switzerland. He experienced life in one of the most free and peaceful environments anywhere in the entire world, first hand, only to go back to North Korea and perfect the hellish dystopia he inherited from his ancestors.
You seem to forget that Switzerland was pro nazis.
He has to, China needs a buffer zone between any ally of the US government. If he decided one day that things need to change he would be assassinated very quickly, and he can't step down either because of the family dynasty. That being said I doubt he would rather his people be free in the first place.
I think it's from narcissism and possibly some kind of child abuse from his family. He's definitely not sane.
@@OriQinzzidoubt any dictator is sane
@@vortexriver1071 true
Honestly, the tragedy of all this makes me feel sick. I'm in no way related to the situation, but being human and thinking that real people are going through this...
making the world better is a puzzle , so prepare to understand the complexity of conflict . .
@@iidoyila_live_Why does this sound suspiciously like a threat 🤨
@@Brixster because i am speakinh with the voice of the rules of the universe -- here to warn you not to be too sure of yourself ! and maybe you'll see me fightinh . . i am a demon who play-fights !
When using a death note seems justified...
@@LostSoulchild89dmt
“Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.” - Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This feels genuinely wrong, you only live once and I can’t imagine having to live in the same country your whole life serving under a leader without being able to do things you want. This is very wrong and I feel extremely bad for people who live in North Korea. I hope the people who escaped are doing well.
North Korea be like: Do anything that is related to North Korea rules or get device that is allowed by government or else you will get prisoned for x10+ jail time multiplier in total of average of 10y Jail Time or even a easy execution because they have over 600M+ CCTVs!! Even attempt to escaping you get OOF'd by government rules breaking
YOLO 🤑
They should stay there forever
very appropriate pfp
@@theguyof360U should stay a virgin forever do not reproduce
I’ve never seen a country with THIS MUCH contempt for its own people. Every law I’ve seen enacted and enforced has been done in a effort to make people’s lives more miserable and never EVER to make it better. I’m ashamed as a human being that such a nightmarish place continues to exist on the modern day and nothing can be done about it
USSR
Thank China. The only reason why NK even still exists
@user-oc7wm2hp9sKys.
Hate to break it to you but a lot of countries want the same control, they just try and hide it better.
I mean shit, Outside of any other opinions of china or russia. The fact that they would deport people back to north korea knowing their fates and their reasons for escaping proves within itself that they have the same ambitions for their people...
Its a very hard life here living in luxury and freedom. I am very intelligent and would therefore prefer living in North Korea@@Valdraya
Actually, North Korea is not the only country that made it illegal for its citizens to leave without approval. Eritrea also forbids its citizens from leaving the country.
Eritrea is also called Africa’s North Korea btw
Ruled by a communist party.
Gotta blow it up
It's also the only country that has overseas citizens file for taxes within the countries, alongside the USA lmao
As per my cousin who was raised in Ethiopia and lived with Eritreans, the rule in there is that once you turn 15, you can’t leave the country. That’s why many parents usually send their kids out of the country so that they don’t have to stay there
my parents where from north korea. when they were escaping they were caught but the soldiers let them go. i really thank those soldiers for letting them go because then i would of grew up in north korea (i was like 1 when they escaped so i dont remember anything) i try to ask my parents about north korea but they dont like talking about it. they have been helping other peope get across but they now stopped bc its basically impossible now. they first went to Mongolia then back to south korea then they moved to the UK
Thats great that they made it. I doubt that the soldiers even want to kill anyone because who would truly enjoy killing people who are just trying to escape that horrible prison of a country
Were, not “where”
honestly crazy to think a country like this still exists
America is right behind
@@joeyvillarreal761 America and North Korea are nowhere near the same I have no idea why you think this
@xavierharris7123 Oh yes,democracy is flourishing in usa🤦♂️🤭.
@@stavrostelka2252compared to freaking North Korea it sure as hell is
@@milo5315 I suppose your "truth telling" TV channels told you that 🤷♂️🤭😁. You modern slave,be well 🤝.
I genuinely wish we could do something to help the citizens. The world is a messed up place
We can. Our nations are just afraid that Kim will launch nukes if we try to abolish him
Apparently there’s a price that can be paid to smuggle them out. 20k a person? A million dollars could free 50 people :/ I dunno…
@@zombreon6021 A million dollars is pocket change for governments. They could easily do it
@@zombreon6021thats gotta be cap
@@squish162 they said 21k in the video
Can't help but think that if this continues, there might come a generation that might not even know that there is anything outside North Korea, and the rest of the world would start to treat them like an uncontacted tribe.
It's already worse. They know there's a world out there but they are disinformed about it. They're taught the US is an evil imperial force, for example, and they use real facts when it suits this agenda. So its not like they're going to wake up and realize its all lies when a big chunk of it is based on actual fact, they will have to learn through experience like everyone must.
Lol! Imagine? Nah. As long as WAR exist, I'm pretty sure at any given generation, they'd know the outside world exist just for the simple fact that the men are forced to join the military, and I'm pretty sure they would know that they're defending their country from other countries. Lol!
This is already a reality i fear.
Most uncontacted tribes dont have access to Nuclear ICBMS and regularly threaten peaceful countries with them
Lmao nah they watching south korean movies from the black market w a VPN
And people say our government is corrupt, atleast you have the freedom to complain how corrupt we are.
I'm a German from Berlin and it's so strange to think that only a little over 30 years ago, there also was a border where defectors would get shot on sight and people trying to escape with crazy plans like hiding in car seats - and yet today there's parks and open streets where the Wall used to be and the only way you can tell whether you're in former East or West Berlin is whether there are trams or not. The situation was far from the same as in North Korea but it still gives me hope.
I was stationed in Germany when the wall fell and reunification occurred the next year. My second Heimat.
Probably the most crucial border here that needs to be broken is the one between North and South. But the leaders will have to figure out how to reconcile such a vast difference in society, economy and ideology. None of that can begin unless South Korea first sends the USA packing. If Koreans can work out a reunification independent of interference from other nations, I believe we can eventually see true peace and freedom there. No nuclear disarmament is necessary either. A unified Korea would be best served by maintaining status as a responsible and self-restrained nuclear power.
Why say Finally in This video title? its a Hell Hole living there in the State of North Korea for citizens just watch the Interview of Defectors....May Jesus Bless and Keep Blessing those people who are trying to Escape the Tyranie of the Government there in North Korea💯🙏💟In Jesus Powerful Name!
@@EssieKaye-f3qit won’t work for at least another 50 years. Modern South Koreans already tend to dislike and discriminate against North Korean defectors, and SK doesn’t seem to have any plans or reasons to reunify the North and South.
Hallo mein lieber Mitbürger
We don't give the North Korean people enough credit. Defecting is no easy feat, but despite physical and ideological obstacles and decades of programming, they still find a way.
I think we’ve given the North Koreans enough credit.
@@hobomike6935 You sound racist?
@@hobomike6935 I don't think so honestly. I've studied them, their language and their culture for my work. North Korea is a black box, but its people are far more imaginative than most people think. It's almost impressive how well they fend for themselves in such a shitty regime.
@@sickcallranger2590
they're not dumb, they're human like everyone else. Even with no outside information they know their situation is horrible and many will attempt to escape by any means necessary
@@ENZOxDV9 That is my point. I've had the pleasure of speaking face to face with and receiving lectures from a former high-ranking Bureau 39 official who defected some years ago. Fascinating stories, truly extraordinary man.
I’ve always had a bit of a morbid fascination with North Korea, and have read a number of North Korean defector memoirs, so I was familiar with the general landscape described here, but I wasn’t aware of how much worse things have gotten since 2020. Most of the escape accounts I’ve read took place in the 90s and early 2000s and followed the “easiest” China route, however they are all incredibly harrowing. To think that now it is many times harder than it was then is just unimaginable. My heart breaks even more for the poor innocent people trapped inside that horrifically evil regime.
Same, just I hope you don't mean Yeonmin Park.
@@iloveevil86go live there then
If you're a woman or girl and being smuggled out you would get R worded for "protection" and to keep your family safe, that's a common thing I always heard in those memoirs. It being so much harder now my heart truly aches for all of them
@@osheridanWhat's wrong with Yeonmi Park?
@@osheridanwhy??😮
My parents are from turkey and after the war we emigrated to germany, to find work.
Everytime I return to our home village, my grandma tells me about the soldier of our home village that was sent to south korea to help defend the country. He didn't return.
While I don't truly know how south koreans feel about unification, I pray to witness the unification between north and south korea. My prayers are with the koreans.
and yet people still escape . the indomitable human spirit
We have no way of knowing how many are killed trying to escape. Has to be a lot.
@@monaezytwo6513 oh yeah that's true
@@monaezytwo6513 At least they died escaping the regime instead of being captured alive. Defectors that were brought back to NK probably had a worse fate coming to them
@@QuiVierge Hearing the horrors of North Korea alone, I would rather be dead than live through it.
Escape is never impossible
I highly recommend everyone reads 'The Girl With 7 Names'. An amazing and tense account of a girl's early life in NK and her attempted and eventually succesful escape. One of the best books I've ever read.
Looks super interesting, thanks for the recommendation! Btw it's "7 names" :))
I’m going to check it out i think I saw her interview
Sounds interesting. Will look this book up and add it to my tbr list. Thank you.
Another great book is Nothing to Envy, the title describing the propaganda North Koreans tell their people about other parts of the world compared to their lives. Great read for anyone who’s looking for another book.
Commenting so I remember
“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in” - J.F.K.
That quote originally was about the Soviet Union and Berlin Wall. Interesting to see it in a new meaning/context!
Yet...
Yet there is a wall now on the south boarder
@@dinojack5567It's not cool lol, it's sad that that quote still fits as a description for a place in earth..
They put a wall in Mexico
You can check out at anytime but you can never leave
As someone who meet someone from that country who made it out in the 1990s, it is appalling with the abuse of basic human rights and many kids and people starving from constant food shortages. He told me how his mom and grandma died trying to feed him and his brother. 😢 They send you to prison for even asking the wrong questions, and anything that can mildly turn to doubt the leader/government.
It is crazy how a state with all that shit going on has managed to not collapse in the decades of existing
@@andreasottohansen7338i guess it's basically slavery. Leaders get everything , others get nothing. Money keep flowing. And others are too hungry and unequipped to make any coup..
Don’t worry the US will get there soon enough with the Biden regime and fellow communists
@@andreasottohansen7338China is their paypig and Russia is their friend. That's the only reason why they are alive.
@@andreasottohansen7338it doesn't collapse because North Koreans are way too scared (and with reason) to do anything that isn't following the dictator. The only way North Korea's "government" can collapse is by help from other countries such as the US. It's literally almost impossible to make a move from the inside without getting you, your whole family and the next like 4 generations to come (if you somehow survive) locked in a camp.
As someone who was born in SK and was adopted into an American household, I find myself incredibly incredibly blessed
That's the right way of thinking. I myself being serbian moved to america. However... both of my parents died when I was 7 & it pains me to see people not realizing how lucky they are to have parents.
Sometimes people just don't take things for granted from what I seen.
Keep up the positivity no matter what because in this crazy ass world.... some positivity is a good thing
Basically my grandparents adopted me and were my parents but man... they were old school but in the end helped raise me and for that I will always be indebted to them forever
Imagine if a north korean kidnapped you and smuggled you into the country
@@censored4christ162 bro what
@@censored4christ162 ‼️⁉️❗️
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Staying in China for over a decade, I would speculate that a significant factor was also the Chinese COVID tracking system. For a couple of years you couldn't enter any establishment (restaurant, apartment building etc) in China without a green code, and even with the coffee, domestic travel was heavily restricted - your code in one city or a province would not automatically allow you freedom of movement in another. This made things extremely difficult for migrants in China - and I imagine that out made it absolutely impossible for North Korean illegal immigrants to do the necessary trek described in this video.
this is accurate, we have the Covid tracking system for a few years and you will be found if you're an illegal immigrant because you need to show you ID to sign up for the system, if you're not in the system it's hard to get by daily life
True that. The digital lifestyle has made day to day easier however it’ll always come at a cost. Most times, people don’t mind it. Let’s be honest, it’s not anyone truly have privacy or freedom anyway, NSA works hard to make sure that’s the case.
literally none if this is true lolll
@@kuirivitobut it is true
Talking about China. They really sending refugees from NK back to NK. Lmfao.
'Escape from Camp 14' was one of the most thrilling, engrossing (not in a positive way, but nonetheless) books I have ever read. Absolutely amazing to think it is even partially true. APPALING.
It amazes me how focused we are on past human atrocities when there's one happening right now, yet I rarely hear anything about NK anymore.
This comment deserves 1k likes
I think it's mostly due to how little we can even do, all laws say NK can do what they want, only way to help here would really be with an invasion, and those have a lot of other problems.
Amen
we rarely hear much bc NK doesn’t talk much, especially since covid happened
Maybe it’s because NK barely talks
The fact there are 200 escapees in USA and I’ve met one, makes it incredible.
I would love to talk with someone who escaped. It would be fascinating.
@@feraltaco4783 no it wouldn't already exists online someone who didn't escape with a uncensored opinion is much more valuable maybe google stuff
Who did you meet?
@@feraltaco4783same 😮
@@nightshadehelis9821nice try Kim jun un
Im a South Korean and I heard a story of North Korea soldier's escape through DMZ. The cage got destroyed because of the tornado and he ran fast as he can. However the soldiers knew he was gone and started to shoot at him. Luckily the bullet missed his head by slight inches and he made it to South Korea..
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yeah i heard of another story where a NK guy ran his car into the DMZ and ran across the border... genuinely terrifying to think about
Does your country teach you about all the citizens South Korea murdered during the Korean War?
@@case8987 We know that both sides committed war crimes but North Korea did more
@@case8987 This is not taught a lot but North Korea killed thousands of injured soldiers and citizens in Seoul hospital
It’s crazy because if north korea ever went to war they’d lose, their soldiers would all take the chance to flee
Starting 2010s, China started to require identification on all public transportation, including trains and inter-city buses (实名制车票). This could be potentially another reason for the increased difficulty for NK defectors to cross China. Previously, train tickets were sold anonymously, allowing a foreign person to travel a long distance without being identified.
Probably
The best thing China could do is just show a bit of humanity for once - stop sending NK defectors back when caught and start busting the people traffickers and pimps. That sort of crime is not acceptable in China when perpetrated against anyone else. It's a very simple policy decision and it's not like they owe North Korea anything, and all North Korea could really do is block inbound Chinese travel out of spite.
Other countries either offer asylum to NK defectors or hand them over to the South.
@@halfbakedproductions7887 why would they though
@@longiusaescius2537Surveillance and preventing reselling. Russia did the same in the 1990s - all long-distance train tickets are named and train stewards check passports on boarding.
@@longiusaescius2537 Because China is a totalitarian hellhole almost, but not quite, as bad as NK.
Here's a bit of existential dread for y'all. You could've come into consciousness as a baby in North Korean to spend life in prison starting at age 2 just easily as you came into consciousness in whichever part of the world country you were born. Every one of us should feel immense gratitude despite our individual situations because our first breath wasn't drawn inside North Korea
no i couldn't
It really makes you consider the laws of Karma
No. We just get to watch the USA turn into North Korea
@@soffa93 so long as north Koreans are having babies, those babies has to come into consciousness. And unfortunately they don't get to choose their parents any more than you did. So unless you had a some say in who your parents would be before coming into this world, then it's really up to chance where you'll first open your eyes
We decide everything before birth. We forget once we come out the womb.
I still can’t believe that a place like North Korea even exists. The level of dictatorship and mistreatment that millions have to go through everyday even in 2023 is crazy.
If it can happen there with no one doing a damn thing to stop them, it can happen here and there will be no one willing to step in and put a stop to it. There are absolutely people who want to bring this kind of authoritarian, mass surveillance state hell to other places.
@@phoenixofmetalyes, it's happening in Russia rn. Not nearly as bad as NK right now but the government is definitely aiming for it
You better believe it heck there's still a population of humans that are still tribes people on the North Sentinel Island which is even more isolated then North Korea. NK at least has some technology unlike those tribes people on top of that they will kill and eat you
@@ratspew932it's everywhere around the world lmao, even in your country. Some nations are just more subtle about it
Boarder lined with garden hose with razor blades taped to it 😂😂😂 north korea is a joke
As a Laotian American I’m ashamed that Laos returned escapees back to N. Korea.
Can you imagine the terror that 2-year old has had to grow up with? At that age it’s frightening to lose your parents for a short period of time. Can’t imagine what it would be like to get sent to prison. On the plus side he probably didn’t even understand what was happening. Evil.
He probably won't even remember. He just will know he is being punished by the "sins" of his family. Extremely sad. For reading a book!!!
@@TheAnswer70Gods word.
@@TheAnswer70He definitely may remember this. At that age many people tend too remember traumatic events. My first memory I can remember was from when I was a year and a half. My father, who was a horrible man, punched my mother in the face while holding me and then smashed my music box my grandmother had made for me. I remember the whole thing and as an older child I brought it up to my mother one day and she was shocked that I remembered it so accurately. I have multiple memories between the ages of 1 and a half to 6 that all involve my father and are all horrible traumatic memories. My mother and grandparents never discussed these events or my father in front of me so these weren't things I just overheard and took on as memories. They were true memories. My first good memories begin when I was around age 4. At age 2, having something that traumatic happen that changed your whole life, he could definitely remember it. Such an awful thing for that child.
@@Xessa82 sorry that happened to you. I meant kids may not remember in general, some kids can't remember even but still live with the trauma...
All kids deserve loving parents, but not all parents deserve kids...
Look at it this way, you will be a better parent than your father. 💕
just imagine how African slaves were treated around the planet if you actually consider this to be horrible to you
my step dad in uni taught a man in Australia around 60 years old who escaped North Korea, he was so interested and had passion in everything he was always doing work. This shows how glad and happy they are to be out of the country and how much of a hell hole North Korea could have been. I wish I could have questioned the dude but it was 3 years ago.
Wonder how's he doing 🤔 .... a job maybe a child with a gf ...
So... Apparently you didn't go to "uni", hence the appearance that your comment was written by a 12 year old.
@@CJOlin uni is common slang for university in Australia. And no one expects or cares about proper grammar in a youtube comment, no one's appreciating your pedantic insult.
Work ethic isn't necessarily related to The state of north korea No need to go to propaganda tactics My dude
@@CJOlin Did this comment achieve anything?
Dude, after watching this video, I don't think I will ever complain about my life ever again. I'm so lucky to be living in Netherlands and to have freedom. I'm so sorry for all those people who were born in North Korea without their choice. Newspaper, websites, no movies or tv shows, only information that's related to North Korea and not to the outside world is so sad. They all look like they've been brainwashed.
You're so lucky you're in the Netherlands. I'm still hoping to get out of my 3rd world country 😭😭
@@striderzarnickLook at it this way, at the very least you have internet access, otherwise you wouldn’t have been able to write this comment. Thats STILL a step up from the average north korean.
Either brainwashed or full of fear
I came from 3rd world country, I'm actually from Croatia. I used to live there for 21 years, I just moved here recently, 2 and a half years ago. It was my own choice, I wanted a better life conditions, but Croatia wasn't so bad either, just not enough opportunities for development of yourself. Especially after seeing this video.@@striderzarnick
@@tijankusacic8079Croatia is a first world country wtf are you talking about?
It’s so difficult to imagine that a place like this is allowed to exist
The Korean peninsula has such a crazy history that in a parallel universe, it'd be impossible to believe. A nation unified for centuries, suddenly split between the globe's foremost superpowers. One side developed into a derelict impoverished bastion of communism, headed by a single man, while the other developed into a cyberpunk dystopia of capitalism and technology, headed by several conglomerates. Unbelievable.
the south may have it's flaws but the choice has been made effortless by just how crappy things are in the north.
Indeed, the South has A LOT of flaws that become evident as soon as you dig past the colorful KPOP and modern skyscrapers. Their society is messed up in very different ways. Still, there is no doubt where I would rather live.
@@ethanwmonster9075South Korea occupied by the US and pretending a democracy 😂😂😂😂
There's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution
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7:38 I hate to be the one to correct people, but Vietnam is actually not a country that deports North Korean Defectors to South Korea. Just in November 2019, Vietnam deported 14 North Korean defectors back to China, where they were sent back to North Korea.
Oh
The video says deport to South Korea not North
@@xymoriintus Well, I hate to break it to you, but the video is wrong. They can’t always be 100% accurate. They’re humans, after all. You can search it up on Google if you can’t believe me.
@@xymoriintus and the commenter is correcting it
Bummer
Sending a baby to life in prison literally sounds like something out of the movie The Dictator.
But we both know he wasn't that cruel
NORTH KOREA WOULD NEVER DO THAT
@@NigerianCrusaderno one's believing your bs propaganda. That baby most likely died in that prison. Tragic
@@squid1313 IM SPEAKING THE TRUTH
@@NigerianCrusader 😂
I hope the numbers recently are higher and they're being more secretive about it, to not raise suspicious of new tactics Prayge
Preventing people from leaving a country is the most evil shit a country can do in my opinion. Every other crime against humanity a country does can be countered by people leaving in masses and try there luck some other place that accepts them in. Forcing people to stay gives them no option. I honestly don't get why north korea is still considered a state and not wild territory anyone can occupy.
because of geopolitics. Also because of civilized world. Most of the current countries do geopolitics without conqueroring the land (last time of that in civilized world openly was done in WW2, not-openly by russia a couple of years after USSR collapse). By less developed worlds it was much more frequently (India\Pakistan, Somali, constant wat in Israel, etc.).
But ok, let's assume that developed world decided to stop NK as a dictatorship "holy grail" place. Who would do that? America or NATO? Nah, won't happen. China is a bit of a bad enemy to play against, counting that such war will create hundreds of thousands dead bodies very easily. Asian countries? South Korea won't attack own people, they are not russia. Japan won't do that as a sideeffect of WW2. China won't do that, because why? It won't give benefits to China (trading is more profitable than investment in dead area), also it will involve war wtih South Korea, which is not good too. Russia is not interested in this small piece of land, neither it can have war at all there (see how they suck in Ukraine, while being :second army in the world". Only options are for less developed countries (for them it may be free land and possibiltiy to spread influence), but most of such countries are too far from NK.
In short, even if you say that NK is a wild zone and can be taken by many countries, nobody will do that. Unless we develop army of iron men type droids (a lot of armoury, completely automatic, good AI to distinguish civilian from military, precise shots to destroy military and not bomb areas, etc.), it just won't happen.
@@maksymisaiev1828I take it back he's not smart
Ukraine did the same thing
@@jp9519 Ukraine did what thing? Clarify
@@maksymisaiev1828India did not conquer any land recently. The last time India captured a different country's land was in 1971 , when it had taken control over East Pakistan and declared it as an independent country called Bangladesh. If you are talking about the most recent war between India and Pakistan, then I must tell you , the "developed" countries have fought wars more recently than India/ Pakistan.
Especially the US , which has a habit of invading other countries every now and then. Therefore I don't know on what basis you are claiming that your "civilized" and "developed" countries haven't captured any land since WW II.
As far as I can tell, the only remaining viable way to leave North Korea is to go by sea, but more specifically from the East Coast as you will end in Japan instead of China if you drift too far. You’re still very likely to be caught by their navy or drown or something but it is still possible and probably the safest move at this point
And even that is very hard. For one you have to simply be lucky that you and your family live on the shoreline and on the right side. Another thing is that you have to have a boat, which very few North Koreans have. You have to be very fortunate that you live in the right place and that your family has been in the fishing industry for a very long time.
Don’t the straights between Japan and China have crazy currents between them?
Imagine when taking one's own life GREATLY, significantly outweighs the idea of existing. The concept of "pursuing one's dreams" doesn't exist. Certain emotions are meaningless as well--things like happiness, fulfillment, hope, and true love.
Sad. 😓
nothing says safe like riding a dinghy boat through the rough tides of sea and a whole-ass navy looking for you
As a Korean, I've never ever heard of any successful escape attempts on the Sea of Japan. North Korean navy patrol those waters regularly and even used several routes to abduct Japanese citizens off the west coast of Japan.
The fact that this country is allowed to exist is a tragedy.
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Get on then Rambo!
North Korea is holding South Korea and Japan hostage.
@simon6556 not just the nukes. The amount of conventional rocket artillery pointed at Seoul is ridiculous.
Very confident that if South Korea was attacked by the North that they would be very successful in defeating any invasion attempt. Also confident that with a coalition of Pacific nations along with the non-intervention of China( highly unlikely) that North Korea could be successfully liberated.
Both of these options would cause major destruction and disruption of global economy... so North Korea is tolerated, unfortunately.
No Surprise, it just sounds like the Kim Regime is paranoid of losing his grip on the nation knowing full well its a shithole nobody truly wants to be in
How to escape: 1 be in a state with shoreline 2 make a makeshift swomming mask 3 go to the shore at night and jump in it and be under the water 4 swim 200 KILOMETERS outside the demilitariarised zone to south korea and enjoy ur new life!
patrol, need food, water and you need to swim really good
The sad part is we only saw the numbers for the successful detectors. We have no idea how many have perished trying to escape. If I had to guess it may be in the hundreds of thousands.
That’s a thought I had as well, just wonder how many attempts were made. There was a successful North Korean girl who did escaped in 2007 that was on the Shawn Ryan show channel her name is Yeonmi park. All I can say is how absolutely absurd, insane & horrific that place. Makes me thankful to be an American
It's most definitely not that many. Maybe just thousands.
@@CollectorsCorner777 Whether it's hundreds of thousands or thousands, the latter are still enough to fill an entire football stadium. Imagine that. I believe the numbers could be in the middle, therefore tens of thousands, because North Korea isn't a particularly big country and many have starved to death already or have been executed. On second thought you might be closer to the truth, but please don't use the word "just" while describing genocide.
even millions
@@RebrnKingI read her first book, absolutely heartbreaking and disgusting how badly north Koreans are treated by Kim regime and how china treats the escaped north Koreans
The saddest part for me about North Korea is the complete hopelessness of it. At least with other matters, you can blame people for being complacent. It doesn't make it any less upsetting, but it at least gives the *illusion* of control, like as if my endless complaining online will change anything. But there's quite literally nothing we can do about North Korea without having millions of people vaporized.
That's what they thought about the Soviet Union, and it collapses with no actual war. Stay hopeful
Instead of soldiers like the kids at my sons school being targeted, how about nearly hopeless but yet ready to give something of worth to this out of control situation. I will offer my life as a decoy. We need a country of decoys that NK can go ahead and nuke. Ofc it doesnt work that way. But think outside the box. They’re generations of lost and hopeless
Souls that would infinitely gladly prefer to give their own lives than watch their children be recruited for the racket of endless war. Let’s end this shit
@@mirandalynch9065 that is not correct. With the Soviet Union, people still travelled outside, they had influence from the world, etc. USSR would cease to exist anyway, as it wasn't such a dictatorship land already in 80th. This is not the case for NK. China is now more like USSR of 50-60th. NK is more like Stalin Area. It will need complete random accident to change the situation (death of whole leader lineage). And even then it may not work, as regime, while focused on one person, is based on a group of people. You need to remove whole group of people in some way (create internal conflict, assassination, jealous, corruption, etc.) and than the chance will appear. But chance is one thing, people's movement is other. Even if regime collapses, most people will be in vacuum and don't know what to do next (that is why communism is dangerous - you stop to think), which will lead to easy new dictatorship.
@@maksymisaiev1828 the communism comment was unnecessary considering how many people in the US are brainwashed by extreme hateful propaganda, BUT! I'll give it to you, you make a good damn point.
@@mirandalynch9065 the problem is that the soviets themselves didn't vanish during the collapse, they consolidated their power on Russian and their renmants are trying to restart the union.
Every time I watch a video about North Korea, I learn something new about that horror of a country and feel disgusted over the fact that somebody is doing such things to those poor people. I feel sorry for also the people in Africa or wherever where the famine is present, but I think those people can be much more happier as they have freedom, they don't need to fear they will go to prison or get executed for just moving around the country, or watch something on a mobile phone, or read a freaking book... Very very sad 😢
Depends. In the worst African countries similar losses of freedom have also occurred, in addition to child slavery.
@@leaveleague3491Are you going to repeat this over again by spamming the same thing on other comment sections and replying the exact line?
Ah yes, these African countries exploited by the western nations who you think are so much better than North Korea.
How many countries have NK invaded or exploited in the last 70 years? America have invaded over 40, lol.
@@leaveleague3491 Lol trol
@@sixten8493 speaking facts is troll?
I was stationed in south korea for three years as air defense. There's a little red book inside our "engagement control station", soldiers are allowed to read it if you have a security clearance. It is the USA expectations if we go to war with NK. NK also does a lot more provoking than anyone knows.