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50% of the people on this sub believe it’s satire and the other 50% believe it’s real. It makes for an hilarious and fun experience.
The sub started as satire but it was hijacked by actual North Korea apologists with questionable claims of not being minors.
More likely 45% are there for satire, 45% think its real and 10% are NK agents spreading their propaganda.
@@basalgiraffe742that's really 😢
That describes most popular subreddits. Also, it's "a hilarious experience" not "an" as you do pronounce the starting H sound.
Its 95% satire. Most people underatand and just joke like they believe it.
Fyi: the sub was an ironical one, but from what i heard, a mod turned into an actual, unironic sub
Leftist and ex-lurker of the sub here: the only genuine side is probably the ''f*ck the usa'' part
I mean they are not wrong, its the USA which interferes in conflicts across the globe, not North korea
@@kartikeyatiwari2502 the only reason they don't is because their military and economy is complete garbage, and even then they sometimes do (sending rockets and (allegedly) troops to Russia in Ukraine, sending weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and Gaddafi's Libya, as well as many other conflicts in the past, sending troops to the Yom Kippur war, Angolan Civil War, Ugandan Bush War, Vietnam War, Vlora Incident (attempted Soviet invasion of Albania in 1960s), as well as, of course, the invasion of South Korea in the 1950s), not to mention they keep threatening countries that they don't like with nuclear war, seems like a pretty aggressive country to me
@@bighillraft on the other hand america has actually invaded countries. Also, since when is sending weapons to your allies a bad thing? Doesn't USA send weapons to ukraine and Israel?
Again, by any metric, USA is a much bigger threat to the world than North korea. They invaded Iraq for a fake reason in 2003 and caused the loss of lives of a million people.
@@bighillraft on the other hand america has actually invaded countries. Also, since when is sending weapons to your allies a bad thing? Doesn't USA send weapons to ukraine and Israel?
Again, by any metric, USA is a much bigger threat to the world than North korea. They invaded Iraq for a fake reason in 2003 and caused the loss of lives of a million people.
It started out as satire, but like all satire subreddits, it turned into the real thing
RIP Gamers Rise Up
Poe law be like:
For the better.
did liberals start out as satire?
@@misanthropyunhinged did conservatives start out as satire?
Screw Zodiac Signs, what is your favorite North Korean Government-Approved Haircut?
I like number 15 for girl
The state appove hair cut is fake made up by western media
North Korea be like a video game fr
This is just propaganda.
Everyone can have haircuts really.
@@thefox4944 least brainwashed north Korea supporter:
"Ayo, the empire's pretty chill. Maybe you could like join it or something!"
lmao
The DPRK was obliterated by the empire, having 20% of it's population slaughtered, and every single building bombed. Are you surprised that they're so militarized?
@@aleks484 Japan was hit with two nuclear bombs in World War 2 and they didn't become a military dictatorship.
@@aRandomShyGuy historically wrong
The empire is literally based off on US
Kim should just ban inflation like they did in Belarus. 😂
💀
You can do that???
apparently yes in belarus
@@victoralexandervinkenes9193
💀
@@victoralexandervinkenes9193 you can ban telling your people about it
Kim Jong Un is a big fan of video games, so yeah, it is possible that the steam account is actually his. Or well, it could be some other high ranking person in North Korea.
Imagine if Kim is Drew fan too
Wonder how Kim's Undertale run went
Pacifist, i bet
@@user-mu5sl4vh7m thought of genocidal.
FR, Kim Jong-Un's favorite game is actually World of Tanks. Wonder if I ever teamed up with him or against him..
Either advanced trolling or advanced stupidity
Or this is some kind of humiliation fetish.
Watch Boyboy Went To NK To Get A Haircut. All those news aboth haircuts were from Free Radio Asia Created and Financed by cia.
Bro why my comments got hidden?
Or paid propoganda
It is trolling 99.9% sure as someone who has been on the sub before
Fun fact South Korea counts every citizen of North Korea as a citizen of South Korea.
Gamer moment
Nice, actually worrying about people that you know that theyre miserable but cant do nothing about it because if you do you will go to war, so the least they did was counting those people as yours, SK 1 - 0 NK
Basically the same situation as when west Germany granted refugees from east Germany automatic citizenship if they managed to cross the border.
That is a good policy when it comes to legal stuff, less effort for both ppl who fled and the government. Also if they're your nationals the other country can’t take legal action.
Fake Korea at it again/^s
Thousands of the members of that sub are banned from it. There was a tankie mod takeover/resurgance which basically ended all active involvement in the sub as they banned anyone they suspected of satire. Comment numbers went from hundreds to the tens. RIP to all my fellow joppers.
Part of me wonders if it’s genuinely run by The DPRK to try and repair their public image, like how UA-cam had all those NK vlog channels a while ago.
No need there are so many chronically online western kid's who still believe in any type of idiotic ideology@@williambeisel5686
@@williambeisel5686 Nah, they used to have the mod list visible and it was mainly Western tankies moderating in other 'Marxist' subs. The North Koreans wouldn't have the cultural capital to properly run it.
It's weird because they've got tankie mods as well as mods that moderate anti communist subreddits
@@kaiserpiplup4486 horseshoe theory being too real
I think we should all support these people. I would even be willing to donate money to anyone who wants to emigrate to North Korea so that they can fulfill their dream.
Natural selection at it's finest lmao
If it's Ben Shapiro, I will be your first donor.
@@astoriarego8304Ben Shapiro never tweeted that and is probably someone who hates NK as much as anyone. Sorry to burst your bubble
The residence that steam account is located in is Kim's official residence. So it's Kim playing video games
That's just not fair man
I mean if osama bin laden had a steam account, theres a high possibility that kim jon un has one too
i'll just politely refuse to accept that they're serious
They are
Bro never heard of tankies
bro they are, shits crazy
@@Thedimensionalwarriorthat sub just screams tankie
Unfortunately, they are. look at the rules on there
They specifically say NO SATIRE
I was in a North Korea Facebook group that I thought was satire, until I got banned for posting a meme making fun of Kim Jong Un
Thing is you can both joke about North Korea being a good place (its clearly a hellhole) while also recognizing America does alot of awful stuff.
The problem with jokes being structured like that, is that you can't tell when the person is serious, or using satire.
A lot less awful stuff than those braindead anti-americans think they do.
@@thelegendaryorcgenocider4182Poe's law.
By which I mean, poe's law.
You don't know what you're talking about
8:05 Ironically, Redditors seem to love using birds' eye views of nearly identical houses to call US suburbs a dystopia.
US suburbs are a dystopia to anyone who knows livable, non car-exclusive cities
@@armelior4610 true
lmao Muricans are so defensive of their fenthives
@@armelior4610😂 nice one! But that's not true. US suburbs are the most livable, I have been in a suburb in South Dakota and Minnesota and can confirm people are really nice there and the infrastructure is also GOOD
@@nikitasharma7805If you have a car yes. Here most people can just walk, people being nice also isn't prefictet by what kind of style the suburb is.
Asking for directions in north korea isn't a thing. You're with a tour group with government minders watching you're every move.
They are redditors, What did we expect?
Saw a Soviet Neo-Nazi the day before
@@mage_mini1945 Wait, that doesn't make sense!
@@mage_mini1945nazbol
Bro contradicts himself 💀💀💀💀@@mage_mini1945
@@mage_mini1945 Last year I saw Vegan Butcher. Wouldn't eat or use Animal Products, but you know, their job was quite something
I love how the unique excuse they have for deny any bad thing of NK is: "ITz KApiTAliZt PRoPaGAnDa", lmao.
I am worried about people that think North Korea is a wellfare state and for the record I am Chinese, so generally we have a 'more' positive view on that place than anyone...
I don't think moving there is a good option
Thank you for your perspective
I mean they are not wrong, its the USA which interferes in conflicts across the globe, not North korea
@@kartikeyatiwari2502 While I agree that USA is a very conflict heavy nation, and that I agree that USA is a major problem to world peace, I doubt north korea is a good roadmodel to go after
@@caim3465 Further perspective: We Chinese have a easier way to travel to North Korea (Since chinese food imports is the only reason they still exist, North Korea cease if China ceases). But even at that point, Chinese travel companies advise to excercise caution and even many of my Chinese friends are too scared to go there. It should tell you a bit about just how truly isolated the hermit kingdom is.
And even if I believe China is more free than media and meme says, I still say this in the position as a Chinese.
@@AlexG3Z compared to USA, North korea is a saint
The main lesson lost on these people is USA bad ≠ Dprk Good.
They’re pretty much salty in the fact that the Pax Americana is a thing.
Fr even the people who are defending NK in these comments are simply saying
uSa BaD Nk bETteRr
exactly. like i agree usa sucks. doesn't mean nk is better
They didn't take the Queen's coffin to Scotland, she died in Scotland. They had a viewing for it in Edinburgh before leaving Scotland for England.
1:32
5. Going there
4. Going there
3. Going there
2. Going there
1. Going there
Accurate
True
4:56 BECAUSE THEY CANT AFFORD TO BUY EVEN TRASH LOL. how do people even unironically say this
Idiots : "Nooooo ! North Korea is peaceful and have an army only to defend against South Korea and the US !!!!"
4:58 *Casually build a statue with the unified Korean Peninsula*
Day 10 of asking drew to put a moldovan flag in the backround
@@ad3l547 Bro what that statue was built in hopes that the two countries would be unified peacefully and to end the Korea conflict. The divide is artificial and is there because of two superpowers had a silly argument whos better, yet 30 years after the cold war south-korea still has a large us military presence. Lets say USA was still divided into south and north and china had military bases all over the now socialist south and on top of that most of the world was socialist and all of those blocked trade to the capitalist north out of principle. Would you still agree to unifie and cut your military down if you lived in the north? NO Because that would be suicide.
@@elpi6213 I just made a silly joke and here's the team 1st degree that comes to proove they have the moral high ground.
@@ad3l547 this is such a boring reply. if you tell a lie you can call it what you want but it's still a lie
5 mistakes tourist make in north korea!
1: enter
2: enter
3: enter
4: enter
5: try to leave
Let them all go. Never let them return.
Oh they sure won't
I think North Korea will happily do the 2nd part of your comment for you.
I don’t think we’d have to do anything for the second step…
The sad thing is, they would probably get decent lives. All for the sake of propaganda. All the while, the average North Korean starves and lives in perpetual fear.
1:04 ooh the ironyyy
everyone does it, you're missing out.
@@neoieo5832 wdym, of course i know that there's a duck tone of special government organizations which collect my data, like come on dude every country does that i would be more surprised to find a country that doesn't do it
@@neoieo5832
At least we can legally look at a dog without having to go to a specific zoo.
@@non1263 Why do you think I support North Korea?
@@neoieo5832 North Korea has one of the most intrusive servaillence in the world.
The difference in height between North and South Korean men is a tragic but fascinating experimental case.
Imagine one of your viewers is the president of the most isolated countries
He is no actually the President of North Korea is still Grandfather who been died for thirty years. Though according to Wikipedia one of offices hold by Kim Jon Unis called the President of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, so maybe I am just wasting everyone time here.
i never thought north Korea had their own simps
You’d be surprised especially since some South Koreans actually tried running off to North Korea
@@dorreyeet1529 seriously?
@@gusbrowner4089 yup reasons vary but it can almost be the same for North Koreans that defect to the south
Work shy tankies probably, they wouldnt last one week in a system like DPRK.
@@dorreyeet1529 Some likely did to see family members, but I do believe in such simps existing. Nothing surprises me all that much anymore.
North Korea: why is everyone so mean to me! 😢
Also North Korea when they kill a South Korean person mistakenly crossing the border while fishing: THEY WERE A SPY PLEASE TRUST ME!
They could be though. The US spies on all of its allies even, do you think we wouldn't spy on our enemies? It's sad
also north korea almost starting a war with SK:
@@FreakyterThey did though with the Korean War
"Don't hesitate to ask for directions" - Okay. "HALLO, state-mandated tourguide/minder, can you tell me where I am?" "You are exactly where the State wants you, foreigner!!!"
Let us simply pray that this is all satire. It probably is, but still.
Edit: I just checked it out and they’ve seen this video, calling Drew a “Capitalist Pig!” lol
That's hilarious 😂
It isn't satire
Their rules specifically say "NO SATIRE POSTS OR YOU WILL BE BANNED"
Why do these people love North Korea when glorious Belgium exists?
Belgium exists???
@@skullrevenant9573 no
Belgium?? Do you mean the territory of Luxembourg.
Belgium? Never heard about it. Is it somwhere around the southern Netherlands?
It's a lie from the Goverment of France and Germany.@@skullrevenant9573
I'll give North Korea some credit. Their military marches and drills are fire. That is when they find enough spare WW2 vehicles and equipment that can still work. And their music is amazing too fr.
Coupled with the stayin alive song or Thomas n friends theme
3:04 Yet another person who forgets England isn't synonymous with the UK
Can you explain why the comparison is stupid like I'm 5 (I know it is I just don't know how to explain it).
@@matthewgigs3456 The UK is made up of four parts; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. England is the biggest part, but the others still count
@@osheridan UK IS England. Northern Ireland is inbhabited by englishmen so we can say it is same as England, Scotland and Wales are countries ruled ( or occupied, locals know better ) by England. Saying UK is not England is same as saying that USSR is not Russia.
@@ДАРТАНЬЯН-з2щ The USSR isn't synonymous with Russia either
@@osheridan it IS synonymous. If you don't understand why you have extra chromosome.
Just coming back to 3:06, "Also took the coffin to Scotland." She died in Scotland, Balmoral was her favourite place to be and she was our Queen. Between those three things of course her coffin would've been in Scotland.
I forgot the name of the phenomenon, but every time you have people pretending to believe something terrible, people who actually believe that terrible thing flock to it. And they either don't know that it's a joke, or they do know it's a joke and use it as an excuse when someone calls them out on their terrible ideology. "Come on dude! My 37 page manifesto is just satire! You're such a snowflake bro, r/whooooosh am I right?"
2:35 guess they casually forgot about North Korean weapons showing up in Iraq and other parts of Africa, and not just small arms, like full on tanks and massive SPGs....
Drew was never seen after this video
Yah he would be a shame by why is the good idea to post a video and he quite youtube
I can't even read this
@@RedBird7 grammar left the chat
you say quiet before North Korea hears us
🫡 he only told the truth
“Yo dudes! The empire is pretty chill, maybe you could like join it or something.”
ironically north korea trained brazilian guerillas in the 70's so NK did train rebels.
Are you talking about Guerrilha do Araguaia? They got Chinese tactics in the 60-80 in the US-supported dictatorship. Far as I know, NK didn't gave any support to guerillas here
Those 200000K North Korean Won are worth 222.22 USD
So they use the kilocent instead?
I gotta assume non of the users who are serious have ever lived under communism or had family that lived under communism
No one has ever liver under communism
@@deredlebaron ahh it wasn't true communism. Was waiting for a comment like this.
@@deredlebaroni mean if it's failing everytime maybe it's not worth it man
Have you lived in capitalist Dr congo or India or any other poor capitalist country, then you cant say anything about capitalism. See how stupid that sounds, its not an argument, of course people who were born into capitalist countries havent lived in communism. According to you they cant wish for a better future because your thinking is limited into this black and white, either capitalist wage slave labor or everyone works in gulags. You have your comfortable life in the west because people in the third world suffer. Commmunism is only fully achieved when its global, classless, moneyless, stateless thus no one person is exploiting others. All communist countries tried to achieve full communism but there wasn't enough time, some bad decisions and a lot of US aggression, but still all communist countries achieved what capitalism never could have even dreamt of in the second world. Marxism isn't this moralistic way of thinking you think it is, its trying to solve the systemic failures of capitalism with a new system of organizing, this takes time and tremendous amount of political power and philosophical/historical awareness that you dont have at all, so please quit your yapping and start using your brain.
look at the doumentary "the loyal citizens of pyongyang in seoul" if you want that
Petite petition to make Drew launch a Romanian plushie with a spear and vampire fangs.
He already launched a Romanian plush whit vampire fangs
@@Emano68 No, he hasn't.
@kaiserfranzjoseph9311 Yeah and my heart too.
@kaiserfranzjoseph9311 Let the joke die already
@kaiserfranzjoseph9311 Romania is safer than France yet you fail to realise that. Westoid much?
I read that some tourists can get North Korean SIM cards that provide cellular data and can access the outside internet, so maybe that's what happened.
Btw, there's a documentary from a few years ago, about germans delivering beef not good enough for EU market to north korea. It shows basicly whole country
Where
5 mistakes when you go to North Korea. Mistake number 1, going to North Korea.
Imagine playing Helldivers with Kim Jong Un.
He has every single red stratagems unlocked
Petition for drew to make a Malta countryball plushie (Day 107)
This guy is dedicated
Stay strong
Yes
Hi again
And San Marino
Dude I got banned from this sub for saying NK is insane for obvious reasons. I responded saying oh I see this is a troll sub and the mod said no it’s not
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Petition for drew to listen to Malta and make it a plush 🇲🇹
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@@malta_ball701hmmmmmm
There's no need to ask for directions, as you have no freedom of movement in N. Korea. So, I don't see how that's a mistake a tourist could make
Please be satire Please be satire Please be satire Please be satire
Apparently, it used to be satire, but some mods took over and turned it unironic and ban satire
@@AccordionCirno so they had a coup
@@danielhanna19 yeah basically
@@AccordionCirno its still satire lol, i say this as a member who posts stuff
@@sa1t938 that’s what I heard so
5:33 actually there are videos taken by chinese vloggers and tourists visiting other cities
I would love to see that if it is on UA-cam
@@zaynosman5162 search "Kaesong" or "Nampo" in your search bar
Drew listen to the Malta guy
fr
I saw the thumbnail, went to the sub, scrolled for a bit, saw "youtuber tries to call us out with liberal media," clicked on the link, I'm back here. The jokes write themselves
I can't believe this country is allowed to stop people from leaving
7:43 The question is whether you would consider it pop music
The only true Kpop lmaoo
it would be "dem music" for democratic, pop is for popular (so China)
Well pop means popular
ngl North Korean musics are a banger, but that's probably because I don't speak Korean
7:17 it's around 2.2k usd
I think you Confused cents with dollars
@@BulgarianCat its 200k north korean won, which is about 2.2k usd
95% chance they’ll send you to the work camp if you litter in Pyongyang
there is a group of people here in the netherlands planning to move to russia because they say there is more ''freedom'', i know the goverment situation is bad here but its way worse in russia😂
No it isn't. Come and see for yourself
@@d.whillmar1740 i live in the netherlands already,
@@stormtastic7083 I obviously meant Russia
@@d.whillmar1740 you mean its better there?
@@stormtastic7083 I don't know about better life quality in general, and it never was in discussion. I said it's more freedom here, so your friends are absolutely right.
6:20 let's not forget the DPRK was and still is the aggressor in the Korean War.
That’s not what ma boi Kim il-Sung said: “NOOO THE SOUTH KOREANS ATTACKED US ON ONGJIN PENINSULA, I MUST INVADE THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.”
The north Korean approved haircuts are not real, it was a north Korean TV program that ran for over a year and they laughed at people with bad hair.
And somehow the west made an anti-True Korea propaganda out of that tv show......... Why is this spinelessness of the west does not surprises me at all.....?
Most “facts” about north korea are just western propaganda
Sure buddy
We honestly don't know
Anyone from anywhere else can get a pic from a US barbershop with the numbers and spread it with the same title, US approved haircuts, and they will say the same thing about us in the us.
It's like how some people wonder why Americans don't just fix their potholes. Answer is, we just can't do that, legally that is.
The city or state has to fix it, and they spend like tens of thousands of dollars on a single pothole that only cost like a hundred dollars, 50 for the material and another fifty for the manhours/labour, to fix. A foriegner will ask why Americans are so stupid for driving on roads with potholes. No, it's not that. It's that try filling up a pothole on your own and see what happens. The city or state will come after you. Or fix a broken wall. The city will tear the wall down, the one you fixed, and fine you for repairing it, and then they'll say they will fix the wall in a year or so.
@@Hugealligator254 ok fed
The south Korea 21.5 hours a day work thing is that a company CAN employ you to work that many hours in a day not that they will make you work that many hours. Pretty sure some doctors do a full day's work and then work on call so this wouldn't necessarily be anything really bad.
No that is how much they actually work
@@RomanII499and your source for that...?
@@RealQuarlie L
my brain is getting microwaved from this
Yah drew just fired my brain every video i watch of him
@@RedBird7 grammar, you need study English
@TotallyNotSusCat English should be like this not this english, go to school ya lost to save you tankie.
@TotallyNotSusCat You had English with an “e”, not “E”
@@RedBird7 You are brainwashed to hell and back.
4:38 So is that coke in the vending machine? 1 of the biggest symbols of America after McDonalds.
That is just a vending machine taken in a western country , check the letters.
Swap people, let the people go out of NK, and sent Shapiro there.
5:45 that post got communited noted, if you use a translator you will see he didn't said that
the tankies invading the comment section lmao
Capitalist pig
@@RomanII499 Calm down there, Kim!
@@aRandomShyGuy Chill out Joe Biden
@@RomanII499 kim jung un alt spotted
@@RomanII499 Touché.
How do we have the internet and access to so much information and yet humanity is still this stupid?
That is a very good question.
0:54 oh........how...ironic
2:38 But instead it threatens the world every Monday with Nuclear Attacks 😂
Mistakes North Korean Tourists make:
1. Going to North Korea 🇰🇵
I believe we call this kind of thing natural selection.
Holy Roman Empire Batman! 2million North Korean smeckles is $2,222 US blarneys….. the Penguin got us again Batman.
Well one thing we do know: if you ever visit do NOT pull a poster off the wall and leave it on the floor. You will return "different".
RIP Otto
Don't tell them that NK is basically a monarchy
A “dynastic dictatorship” if you will.
Many nations just replace their monarchies with what are effectively the same thing, they just mask it with democratic processes and constitutions. Which North Korea both has, btw.
@@Fact-fiend_1000ASMR.agreed
@@wolfetteplays8894 These replacement regimes are also inferior. Monarchies, in their pure forms, are apolitical. In other words, they represent a unity beyond party. In Democratic/Republican systems, the head of state is necessarily political. They represent a party i.e. division.
Petition for drew to make a South Sudan plush (day 1)
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Wait when have Sudan been torn to two parts?
@@lorinctoth9402 July 9, 2011
I like that tankies always get really opinionated about the "correct" form of communism. The fact that they seem to think their opinion matters under communism says enough about their understanding.
Looks like brutal corrupt dictatorship than communism to me
Honestly all leftists get opinionated about the correct form of communism. Sadly only the tankies are willing to advocate for a system that doesn't care about what they think lmao
Yeah. No such thing as "real" communism, communism covers a pretty wide spectrum of beliefs and they're all "real" communism. It's just the No True Scotsman fallacy over and over again.
Yes, communism always becomes some type of command economy for some reason
@@caim3465couple together a revolution with the need to educate people and you aren't getting anything else
drew durnil encounters tankies:
Subs with "Not ironic!!1!" label are the best
That north korea doesnt get involved in foreign conflicts post didnt age well
5:05 nahh dawg that’s literally not the thing. Russian McDonald’s is called «Вкусно и точка» (vkusno i tochka) and definitely ain’t close to anything like what you’ve shown here
2:04 let me guess: That view was kim jong un
I mean, sure, the DPRK is not a great place to live, as it is clearly under authoritarian rule and the population especially in the countryside probably suffer a great deal, but some arguments here are just plain stupid. For instance, one can't just simply blame the dictator of the DPRK for not providing enough food and for widespread poverty in the country. That is at least pushed if not caused in the first place by the Korean War and its fallout, e.g. Trade sanctions by the US and the EU among others going back decades. Of course, South Korea is better off regarding wealth and supply. It is backed by the world's largest economic power, that being the US. All that while the DPRK is internationally basically completely isolated, which is in some part self-made through aggression and rhetoric, and in some part engineered by the western powers at be. GDP is another Thing. The DPRK is far behind the South ind GDP. Yes. BUT: The DPRK is at least on paper a socialist/communist state and has a planned economy. The Economy is not designed for using GDP as even a Metric to be taken into consideration. It's like comparing a Giraffe and a Dolphin on their ability to swim. Obviously the Dolphin, that is build for swimming, will win. With all that said, I'm not saying it is a better place to live than say any EU Country or the US. Just trying to say that this type of discourse warrants at least some form of antipolemic/ antipopulist rhetoric. Instead of just saying, "Communism bad cause no money" and "DPRK bad because people actually do be kinda short". There are very valid arguments to be made against the DPRK as a state. Why not use them, instead of just answering to propaganda with other propaganda.
Do you know that DPRK is backed by two super power namely russia and china?
The problem is that the DPRK has direct economic relations with the second largest economy on the planet, as well as the Russian Federation. There is little excuse for North Korea having such a piddly economy when there is such mineral wealth and a massive outlet market just north of them. They have allies, they have for decades, and they have had opportunities to open up. However, an authoritarian state which spends a vast majority of the nation’s economic revenue on it‘s military is what killed North Korea. Nuclear programs took precedence over social and agricultural programs. North Korea for many decades had a larger economy than the South mainly stimulated by trade with China and the Soviet Union.
@@KD-wl3fk that actually is very valid reasoning, thank you for that. If only the discourse about this Country would be as differentiated as the Argument we both had.
5:23 Actually there is a lot of videos in youtube from Hanhung, Kaesong, Nampo and other cities
Yeah they only let you film in the cities
@@Aaaaaaarrrpirate I dug deep in this, there is a little bit of rural areas in a video from a channel called "Mucuva" but most videos in youtube are in cities, I also never found videos from Samjiyon for some reason
they also have a tiktok and instagram channel and it's wild. Especially videos from "gourmet restaurants" or "fast food chain" and they show something that looks like prison food and flies flying around everywhere.
I assumed it was a joke sub until i got banned for saying something negative about the nk government
My goodness the tankies are beyond saving at this point
You useing the same old word over and over to the point its unfunny and useless
@@RedBird7 gdr pfp
@@RedBird7ofc a person with DDR profile says it. I was also one of you guys in my teens, very pro communist. Until I met my polish friend's dad and he made me change my views
Yes, because when you are talking about someone, you use their name...
@@RedBird7
Unfunny? Sure.
Is it false though?
11k members!? Thats more people than the town I live in 😭
3:30 the world is not okay 💀
Fr they vote North Korea just because of “FrEe PaLeStInE”
The university has an American professor for English. There’s quite a few Americans and Europeans there. I even have a North Korean friend I met in Bangkok. I’d volunteer there to teach English, but I only have TEFL
Slightly serious drew scares me
I once tried to ask this sub if it was satire, I got hit with a ban.
Even the rules sound ironic
0:25 As far as I know, in south korea, nearest area to north korea(DMZ), people can buy north korea's money as souvenir.
The fact he put Turkey next to Greece in the background is actually evil 😂
didn't expect drew to actually give his opinion, but should've expected it to be western nonsense
cope
@Qualcuno4000 He couldn't, because he would either be in prison for life, or in a labor camp worked to death if he did that, lmao
@@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10the united states has 25% of the worlds prison population what are you talking about little bro? no one imprisons more people than the USA.
@Very_Okay at least the country itself is not a prison. And people from around the world are risking their lives to get in the US. In North Korea they are risking just to escape 😂