Inside North Korea: Rare Footage of Daily Life in the DPRK (1995)
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- On 3 May 1995, ITN's cameras were given a rare opportunity to enter the hermit state of North Korea, officially named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Having historically closed itself off to the world, in the mid-90s a number of factors including the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union (North Korea's primary source of economic support) and the 1994 death of national founder and 'Great Leader' Kim Il Sung led North Korea to reach out to the world. This coincided with South Korea's implementation of a 'Sunshine Policy' of cooperation and reengagement with its northern neighbour as well as international efforts to bring North Korea into the world community, primarily through sports. Days before this footage was captured, World Championship Wrestling produced Collision in Korea, also known as the Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace. The professional wrestling pay-per-view event took place on 28 and 29 April 1995 at Pyongyang's May Day Stadium. Around the same time, North Korea invited Western nations to attend a mass gymnastics display at the Kim Il Sung Stadium to mark Korea Day.
Accepting the invitation to witness the Korea Day celebrations, ITN's cameras captured a great deal of footage of Pyongyang and the nearby suburb of Mangyongdae, revealing something of the rhythms of life in the country's governing district. Perhaps more significant, however, is what ITN's cameras were not allowed to capture on their one-day visit. Had the crew been able to venture further outside of Pyongyang, they might have seen something more of the realities of daily life for North Koreans. The country was, at the time of filming, in the grips of a nationwide famine. The loss of Soviet economic support saw a sudden drop in food supply and production, which was made worse by a series of floods and droughts. A year after ITN captured this footage, North Korea finally accepted UN food aid, though the crisis continued to worsen for another two years. It is estimated that during the North Korean Famine of 1994-1998, between 240,000 and 3.5 million people died of starvation and related illnesses.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:41 The border: Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) and the Joint Security Area (JSA)
00:12:16 Border city of Kaesong
00:18:47 Women at work: Kaesong textiles factory
00:30:02 Collectivised farm outside Pyongyang
00:34:32 Rakwon department store, Pyongyang
00:42:50 Riding the Pyongyang Metro
00:52:32 Korea Day celebrations at the Kim Il Sung Stadium
01:13:47 Pyongyang Housing
01:17:32 Playing games
01:24:30 Back in Rakwon department store
01:35:59 Pyongyang Maternity Hospital
01:38:58 Chimneys and smog: The city from above
01:41:15 The Arc of Triumph
01:42:53 Children learning at Mangyongdae Children's Palace
01:56:47 Putting on a show
02:07:34 Birthplace of Kim Il Sung
02:09:36 Mangyongdae funfair
02:25:40 Taekwondo demonstration
02:29:10 Kwangbok Street (Liberation Street)
02:35:07 Mourning the Great Leader
02:39:53 Taedong River
02:42:22 Juche Tower
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That amusement park scene is _wild_ A bunch of people silently riding carnival rides in their Sunday best creates a rather eerie scene.
Like some kind of Backrooms scene.
This was right in the middle of the mass famine in NK in the 90's. You better believe every angle of this film was staged and alot of effort was put into making North Koreans look normal and happy. This was mainly in Pyongyang too where many of the elite live and the suffering wasn't apparent. That amusement park was the most depressing one I have ever seen also. This film was pure propaganda.
Kim Jong Un at the time was getting a taste of freedom in Switzerland studying.
I stopped reading at "alot".
@@PrimericanIdol Class A Idiot here.
Si
i stopped reading at "this"
1:03:25 When there is a close up to the children. Just look at their faces. It is really unsettling.
# 1:05:26 당시 북한정권 2인자. 황장엽. 97년도에 북한탈출, 대한민국 망명. 2010년까지 대한민국에서 북한의 실체를 알리는 활동을 했고, 북한에서도 이 사람의 암살을 위해서 암살조를 서울로 여러번 보냈지만 실패했습니다. 현재까지도 최고위층의 탈북 사건입니다. (탈북 2년전에 공연을 관람하면서 생각에 잠겨있는듯한 모습이 인상적이네요)
Interesting fact, you can truly see the emptiness in his face.
Wow
김대중 때 거의 가택 연금 상태
welp adult playing at carnivals while children still watching them lol
Funny how there is tons of people in the shopping mall just aimlessly wandering around and inspecting items. Seems like nobody is buying anything.
I think they’re all extras. Just for show. What happened when the film crew left? i’d say they all left
It's funny you say that because this is actually the first footage I've ever seen inside of North Korea that looks genuine to me. I could also be wrong though.
@@calvinvandegrift3812out of the hundreds of hours of videos I’ve watched about NK, this gives me the same vibe as every other video - except there’s no interviews, guy behind the camera talking or a guide telling them they can’t film. That “act casual” staged feeling is still very much present
It always is like this, just women going through random clothes they will never buy
they acting. otherwise they were going straight to the gulag. how is this not marked official propaganda by NK is wild to me
1:06:05 If you look to the bottom left of the screen you can see wrestlers Ric Flair and Antonio Inoki as guests to the event, This was for a PPV wrestling event being held in N.Korea in 1995. Apparently Mohammed Ali was also there.
This is 1995 yet the North Korean still lives in the 60s
It's 2024 and N. Korea still lives in the 60s
60's? More like 50's. Remember they modeled themselves after the Soviets of that era. They are still fighting the Korean war as well.
You know its an act when full grown men in business suits are riding in amusement park rides made for kiddies. They can atleast find some woman and children to play the role instead.
Who wears a suit and tie to the “fun fair”? Plus, there aren’t any people walking around and only one ride is operating. Every other ride is still and empty. Something really sad about that.
It’s a Shyte hole
or maybe the culture and customs are just different from what you are familiar with where you live
To be fair, I’ve seen pictures of the Klan in 1920s America, where a full circus wheel is full of them, all head to tow in white robes and hoods. So this is less off than that
@@itzpro5951is having empty funfairs part of the culture and customs aswell?
어째 지금이랑 이질감이 하나도 없냐..30년 전 영상인데 최근 영상인줄 알았네
porque corea del norte no ha cambiado mucho desde entonces
Nur zum schlechteren , die Menschen hungern während ihr Diktator immer fetter wird ...er hält sich das Volk als Sklaven !!! Unter der Gehirnwäsche..und Angst vor seinen Mördern, tun die alles für den ...schade das das Volk keine Kraft hat ,sich gegen diese mörderische Familie zu wehren ...@@habinadadsadelsilvadiaz8700
Mid 90s was in the midst of the famine too. These are the elite class the county was truly suffering while this was filmed. Disgusting
If concrete grey blocs are for the elites...
You think the elite suffered in America during the 2008 crisis? Brother the most wealthy people doubled their wealth during the COVID crisis when people couldn’t even get basic goods in supermarkets. This isn’t the case in the Dprk, they are no capitalists who fundamentally rule over the masses due to their class character.
No different than USA.
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 r u serious? 😂 you’re pretty slow if so.
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398move to North Korea, see how you like it 😂
I thought I was the only person who wore my suit to the amusement park
That must be the saddest amusement park ever. As if they were extras for a film crew
Just think that hundreds of thousands of people were dying in the North Korean countryside right at this time
No cameras allowed there.
A lot of the people in the countryside were okay, because they were able to grow their own food. Most of the deaths actually came from the bigger cities
True, this is more like Pyongyang footage
Palestine??
@@arandomperson3516when the red cross brought in tons of food, it never left Pyongyang so their comments were correct. Most of the affected people lived in the country. The soil is pretty much stripped and they had no fertilizer as they depended on the ussr for that. They are using human fertilizer now and they're getting worms and parasites from it but it's all they have.
Great to see more older pieces uploaded - This is an intersting glimpse into the DPRK *just* before the Arduous March really kicked in.
Not an awful lot had changed in my last visit to the capital ~10years ago.
Under the most punishing sanctions ever imposed on another country by the US and its allies-it's no wonder the country is suffering.
Have you ever met Alejandro Cao de Benos in Pyongyang?
@@kennethblachlyjr3040 Never met him, but I've seen him (in his 'interesting' self-designed North Korean Army costume) at the Palace of the Sun. He's a *very* interesting character to read into...
@tompeddle did you see the movie by Mads Brugger called "the Mole" where he got a spy to infiltrate Alejandros organization? It's actually very good and here on UA-cam, didn't put Alejandro in a good light and now I bet that's why the FBI wants to see him but hey, you shouldn't trust no one if you gonna be doing international business dealings involving DPRK
North Korea had a stronger economy than both South Korea and China.
It was know as the fashion capital of the east due to their strong clothes manufacturing industry.
After Soviet Union collapsed in the 90's, the economy of North Korea started to collapse by 40% every single year.
They had to close most of their industries due to not having access to resources from the Soviet union like fuel.
They were very, very strongly economically dependent to USSR and only thanks to soviets their economy was quite good until 1990s. Later it was just only a decline and a struggle without Soviet help.
@@jakubz3177now however they have come out of the decline and r mostly self reliant...great achievement for them in the face of stringent sanctions...
@@surendramumgai631 Not at all
КНДР ПЛЕВАТЬ И НА США И НА ЕВРОПУ И НА ВСЕХ ЕЕ МАРИОНЕТОК. И НА ВСЕХ ТЕХ, КТО ПЛОХО ГОВОРЯТ О КНДР. В НАСТОЯЩЕЕ ВРЕМЯ, КНДР ЭТО САМАЯ ДИНАМИЧЕСКИ РАЗВИВАЮШАЯСЯ СТРАНА МИРА. У КНДР ЧЕТВЕРТАЯ АРМИЯ МИРА. НИ США НИ ЕВРОПА НЕ ОСМЕЛИВАЮТСЯ ОТКРЫТО ПРОТИВОСТОЯТЬ КНДР В ВОЕННОМ ОТНОШЕНИЕ. США И ЕВРОПА БОЯТСЯ КНДР, НЕ МЕНЬШЕ ЧЕМ СССР. ЭТО РЕАЛЬНОСТЬ. А ВСЕ ВАШЕ БЛА БЛА БЛА ЭТО ВСЕГО ЛИШЬ БЛА.😂😂😂😂😂
No, South Korea surpassed North Korea by the mid 1970s measured in GDP per capita. In fact, the South grew faster than the North in 1965 and given that higher growth rate they were able to first equal and then surpass the North. What I do recognize as correct is the effect the USSR's collapse had. As you mention, the North's economy went on a downwards spiral after the demise of the USSR.
영상 처음부터 끝까지 모든것이 "쇼윈도" 영상입니다. 북한이라는 집단은 모든것이 연출입니다. 한국인으로써 너무 많이 봤던거라 정확히 알고있어요. 이 세상 어디에도 유토피아는 없습니다!
그곳의 국민들은 진정으로 한 사람이 될 방법이 없는 것 같다
Does anyone have or know of a video with the full length of mass games in 1995?
I feel like I'm watching The Truman Show.
still cleaner than india in 2024
Wow, this is really amazing!
Never seen this video, i like it, the raw style and with chapters description
Crazy to see because who could have known that a horrible famine would devastate the country shortly after the videotaping of this footage?
this was probably recorded during the famine to try and prove north korea is doing good, just like all propaganda
fun fact: during this time, north korea is in a full-blown cannibalistic and catastrophic famine because of the soviet union ceasing to exist
Thank you for all this raw footage, no commentary, thank you. I enjoy these so much
30 years later it still looks like this
Nothing has changed
This looks more modern than videos of North Korea in 2022
Possibly because nothing's been updated during the intervening years. Wear and tear.
@@paulanderson7796that looks more like it. Back then north korea was more prosperous. But the famine hit nk hard
nk had a much stronger economy thanks to cheap, heavily subsidized Soviet oil and fertilizer, not to mention that the USSR also happily bought their sweat shop textile products . After the collapse of USSR, the cheap oils and fertilizers were gone and they only have the chance to barter with China who has a low demand to textile goods as they already have a robust textile industry. So, in a nutshell, the NK economy before 1991 was doing Ok and it went downhill since then.
The Truman Show in real life!
There is no difference between 30 years ago and today.
They still live better than the Capitalist countries of Congo, Somalia or Haiti😊 I guess communism is good
In the DMZ (heavily mined) they have found a great variety of wildlife.
Former gdr border also has interesting wildlife
4:35 do they still have that building at centre?
The DMZ is so eerie. What if they started kicking a football back and forth across the line? Or playing music in collaboration with each other? They know our music.
Watch NHK Japan. They don’t have footballs and they periodically kill South Korean soldiers with axes.
В это время в стране был страшный голод.
it is so comic that well dressed adults that barely fits into theme parks rides play on them.
I like how in the thumbnail the one official looks mortified and the other is like *wheeeeee!* It's like a North Korean Ernie and Bert.
No development in 30 years. If the title had not indicated the year, I would have thought that the film was shot recently.
how is this not marked official propaganda by NK is wild to me
0:40 Song??
The DPRA stands for Democratic Party of North Korea. I found this funny because they are nothing close to being anywhere near Democratic.
USA is also not democratic nation.
@@deviouspirate1374 yeah I know unfortunately despite being a democratic party and seems like we’re only having two types of government either the Democrats or the Republican or whatever you think the political landscape America is
This is not a rare opportunity. This is what every single tourist sees. Which is a show and only what they want you to see. It's ridiculous to say this is historic and rare.
100%
No
@@nomorelibsplease1975r 0:40 What the north Korean song of singing woman?
I think it is historic but one should understand it’s all fake. They are all extras
The Truman Show in real life!
Betacam SP?
Que increíble el show en el estadio!
어찌 북한은 저때보다도 못해보이냐 ㅠㅠ 😭
I can see North Korea had and has a lot of potential, but they are not democratic, so they have sanctions. A stadium 1:13:00 and many buildings.
lots of countries are not democratic but don't have sanctions
@@jess_lol4579human rights abuses from the leader.
Crazy....it looks like this could have been filmed today, so little has changed. At least you don't have to worry about your clothing going out of style.
That farming part around 30:00 is pure despair. It reminds me of the pesants in monty python holy grail mud farming
seria interesante conocer el corea del norte profundo..
El canal @jakaparker tiene buenos videos recientes en Norte de Korea.
Algo interesante de Norte Korea es que era mas rico que China y Sur Korea asta los 90's cuando la union sovieta collapso la economia empeso a caer a 40% cada a!no.
@@r3n736 No, Corea del Sur pasó a Corea del Norte a mediados de los 70 en términos de PIB per cápita. De hecho, desde 1965 el Sur empezó a crecer más rápido que el Norte y fue gracias a ese mayor crecimiento que lograron igualar y después superar al Norte. Lo que sí reconozco que es correcto es lo del colapso de la economía del Norte. Como dices, post caída de la URSS se fueron a pique.
@@r3n736
GDP per capita in 1990
South Korea : 6800 $
North Korea : 850 $
China : 350 $
South Korea had already surpassed North Korea in the 1970s, also SK had developed enough to host the Summer Olympics in 1980s.
These prisoners arent good actors.
u are a good one even for a npc
Bardzo dobry film który pozwala poznać Koreę Północną 🇰🇵
Is laughter not allowed?
its not Palestine..
Yes
Why would anyone move there?
North Korea, a country where people have to be happy, even though they are not…
byung shin gotten nara
Who goes to a fair and rides on it with their suits . 🤣🤣🤣
1:06:05 Ric Flair is in the audience. This is when they had a WCW show in NK
Everyone looks 1970's Soviet era poor and these are supposed to be the richest and most elite top of society in North Korea. Nah, nothing about that place is real or prosperous unless you like the feeling of being hungry and frustrated every day ever - and that's if you're allowed in the elite. Everyone else in the mid 90's was eating tree bark, hustling across the border with China, and trying to survive from not starving to death. Read about it. People were literally eating their dead family members in places.
No propaganda, no bias, no BS. Just raw, unedited footage. I'd like to see more of this
well most likely all of this is propaganda
This is most definitely propaganda, look at the footage of daily life outside Pyongyang shot in 1998.
@@Lukas4182So what isn't propaganda to you? The western mainstream media's extremely anti-communist take on the DPRK?
@@peachcore6455how would we know that the footage your telling me about isn't propaganda? Because it presents the DPRK in a negative light?
@@Lukas4182The posters and rallies are propaganda. I don’t know what you mean if you’re saying the footage itself is. It’s just filming life in North Korea.
Scary stuff...
this looks just like minimal spaces, love this
May 1995, so that means this footage will be 29 years ago soon. I hope many of these people are doing okay today and survived the famine. Truly sad what is happening to the North Korean people and not much can be done to rescue them from the Kim regime.
Almost 30 years ago.
If you want to know about the culture, history, people, monuments and cities etc of this country without politics getting in the way visit 'DPRK Explained' - +++ videos.....brilliant channel 👍
Very interesting footage but stil sad for all the peoples who live under this regime
Id rather be dead than live there.
I'm sure most people who do live there agree
I love this greetings from Indonesia
Fix audio
1:06:06 the Nature Boy Rick Flair!
WOOOOOOO
buen video
1:06:03 the blond guy was a famous American wrestler, Ric Flair
Por que lloran en la estatua?
Actúan así por obligación. Es una estatua de Kim Il-Sung, el primer dictador. Si no enseñan pura dedicación, las consecuencias pueden ser fatales
It's a statue of the past leader ,dead, I don't remember his name but they're crying cause they're "mourning him". I think
Xbox support says we are hacked
Kontras d
Sekaligus ironi, masih ada negara serumpun yg bermusuhan sangat dalam dan tiada akhir. Semoga mereka berdamai.
What a miserable existence living in this country!! Nothing fun to do here.
do they have food to eat
Not good food for most people. A border guard who defected had large worms in his intestines
Funny question😂
@@Sejarah_Dunia735the reality is like that
Staged propaganda 😂 only party officials can afford to use those amusement parks
It’s like Mr Bean amusement park
International 's Law Rules...
2:04:37 someone had had their cup of coffee ☕ this morning 😅
My beloved DPRK ❤
❤❤❤
00:04:16 He's eyeing that cameraman down like he really wants to ask him for a sandwich. (US soldier over there: I just had a wonderful lunch, too bad your leader doesn't care that you all are starving to death right now, this was around the famine).😢
I wouldn’t ride this roller coaster 🤨
на украине сейчас примерно так же
American military tourists take photos at the DMZ.
y Corea del Norte no ha cambiado mucho desde entonces
@10:19 in 3 years I'd be on the other side as a US Army Soldier watching them.
Do they wear suits to the beach?
North Korea in positively...
👍
95년도나 지금이나 똑같아 보인다 ㅋㅋ
어찌보면 저때보다도 못해보임 ㄹㅇ 저때는 사람 막 가두고 감시하는정도까진 아니어보임 ㄹㅇ
Awww everyone so happy and full of food and life!
I love the children singing while they walked with the teacher in back. So orderly. Obedient children. Wish the USA could be like that.
Opa Gang Nam Style!
QUE INTENSO QUE RITMO VERTIGINOSO QUE GLAMOUR DS COMO ESTAR EN EL FUTURO
While the whole country was suffering with no food, good one Kim jong IL 😢😢
주체사상을 만든 황장엽이 보이네요 이분은 탈북하고 한국에서 지내고있습니다
2010년에 돌아가셧는데 뭔 개솔?
1:06:19 Dude taking a nap
1:03:00 poor children
People walk around without talking to each other with indifferent faces. Even in the events that are supposed to be fun everything looks empty and sad.
Also 2:15:25 wtf is doing that man there 😂
What are you talking about? Even the one part of the video you reference shows happy children singing.
@@pinedrone2550and this is enough for u?
@@user-gq8rw6hf9v enough for what? Am I wrong? Plenty of people all throughout he video show their happiness. Seeing everything negative says more about you than Korea.
@@pinedrone2550 🤣🤣🤣 really ? Please inform yourself about dprk , DO NOT TRUST their propaganda.
@@pinedrone2550 Children will sing if they are told to, they are too young to understand. Yes, adults look sad everywhere.
The fact that you called North Korea only "Korea" may mean either you are a regime supporter or a North Korean.
I thank God my mother escaped from the North.