From North Korea, With Dread
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The whole country “signed up”. Like they have a choice.
SST Lol true
More like forced to join
Not that easy. It truly is way more complex than that.
Except Jehovah's Witnesses
They don't want to end up like Libya or Iraq
ALL THESE PEOPLE AREN'T STUPID. They know their country is a joke. They're simply playing their role to stay alive.
That depends, there have been cases in China of people (often young children) who have been brainwashed to believe that mao was a god, and was amazing.
It's like that most of the times, but foreigners get deceived by the government propaganda...Happens everytime I mention my venezuelan nationality in an english speaking website, I get all kind of comments about how communism sucks and how we desserve it for "voting for Maduro/Chavez" when every latin american knows most venezuelans don't support their govt. When I try to explain it, they usually talk about stats and videos they saw in the official venezuelan media (propaganda).
JK...Like most of the world,, they are scared, they do not trust Americans...
You talk about people being brainwashed in China, yet listen to yourself...If you believe different then refute my claims using reality and fact,, not conjecture and false patriotism....where did I mention oil in any of my comments here???If it makes you feel better, nowhere are people being screwed over by elite corporations more than those in America, many working multiple jobs just to enjoy the benefits of foodstamps and poverty...never before has America been a more unequal society as it is now..
You're a joke
The boy in the library who couldn't even answer made me want to cry, he had so much pain in his eyes
@@evas6770 I worry the same thing.
They should not have included that footage. He would have been at least shamed and disciplined for not producing the right comments about the leader or death to America. Very careless choice for a non essential clip.
@@TheAnef88 That would have happened regardless of the footage being shown. At least if it's shown people can see for themselves what the people who live there are suffering from.
I stopped watching the video after that. I felt so bad for him, he was terrified. I don't understand what they hoped to gain by cornering children and asking them questions that could get them into so much trouble if they answered wrong.
He's worried if I say say something wrong my whole family will be sent to prison.
I hope no one ended up imprisoned or killed just for their interview answers
they definitely did something to that kid who didn't wanna answer at 18:25.
You can see in his eyes he doesnt think the reporter is a bad person, but he has to say he hates americans and wants to fight.
god bless his soul I hope he is okay
Yeah I wonder if it's even worth it doing these interviews. Half of the people clearly looked distressed at having to answer the questions.
You should probably stop believing the ridiculous narrative of the west and global north considering how often they lie about everything.
As if the NYT gives a crap.. haha I say the same thing when I see these types of documentaries filmed inside authoritarian states..
@@sauceyjim2135 doubtful. He’s just beyond nervous and has no idea how he should answer such an open ended question. No one has probably ever asked a question like that. Suddenly you have a couple Americans filming you with a minder saying all is well. Most other docs have the kids proudly talking about shooting Americans. The kids will be fine.
If you were really paying attention, you could see whenever the interviewee answered a question they always glanced fearfully at the minder or any gov official there.
I'd guess they're seeing if the minder is giving a signal not to answer. Of course they can't go to an interview and answer every question. North Korea has a micromanaging iron grip on their people.
Because they are shot dead if they do not go along!
Well that woman's look at 20:00 says frankly: "Sure I believe in......but I can't."
Joshua, until the miner coached her. by the way the man in the brown suit is a 3rd minder to make sure these people give "correct" answers.
You didn’t have to be “really paying attention”. These people are clearly terrified!
You shouldnt be asking them certain questions when you know at the end of the day you go home & they get sent to prison & tortured.
Yes! I understand it's an interesting subject but they're not being careful at all. They're not being mindful that the smallest thing could get these people in trouble. That's not good journalism
That doesn't happen in the DPRK. Y'all are being scammed.
Exactly.
@Epic you're gullible. I know more about this than you.
Darris Hawks let me guess, you read a about this for 2 minutes on 4chan and now you’re an expert?
I feel uneasy how it seems like these reporters are trying to get the everyday North Koreans to say something disparaging.
Wow I feel the same way
You should also feel uneasy that reporters would do that in the first place. Shouldn't reporters, you know, report? Instead of going in with a goal of what they're going to report BEFORE they do the newsgathering?
New York Times is a joke.
If only both countries can come to understand eachother.
Yeah same
@@darrishawks6033 this isnt really a 2 sides story though is it.
My heart bleeds for that little guy in the library. The terror in his face and his whole body just tensed up. So heartbreakingly sad.
Me too, I don't know if you could feel it, but it was just like him reflecting all the things he would like to say, like the truth, then thinking what would happen to him or his family if he would've decided to speak...I hope he's okay
you should let your hear bleed for the South Korea and US, UN fallen soildiers falling to fight for South Korea
they shed their blood to protect South Korean.
Me as well, poor kid was so afraid tht he didn't know wht to say so it's obvious tht thy are taught at such a young age tht thy can't never complain about the real life conditions in north Korea, so sad to see.
@@yourboyfriend9480 why?
@@yourboyfriend9480 this is such a weird comment to make
Did anyone else notice how the translators exaggerated and low key tampered the translation
Khadijah Aguila yeah I saw that happening
Yeah same
Khadijah Aguila Funny that you expected anything else.It’s been 30 yrs since the iron wall fell down in Europe. Time to learn something about the bloodiest political system in the human history - or stay silent.
I think only someone fluent in korean could say that, we can't take the NYT subtitles translation as the correct one either
@@Ben-dh1kt It's hard to understand the type of Korean they speak in N. Korea since the Korean we all are familiar with is the Korean they speak in S. Korea
''Feel free to speak frankly.'' 💀
That’s a death sentence is communism.
N. Korea has nobody named Frank..
I think that was an implied threat. She knew it too.
but not freely
I feel bad for that young kid who was very uncomfortable and nervous with all those questions.
man, i feel bad for those that was getting interviewed. this white dude could get them killed.
His inability to automatically praise the "Dear Leader" to the hilt will likely result in him, his immediate family and his teachers being "reassigned" to a labor camp. For a decade or three.
@@ballislife9834 because Americans ignorant nation. They don't care, what kind position he putting that kid. He will sell this interview for bunch if money in the USA .
I feel bad for them living in that country in general. North Korea sucks.
He had no idea how to reply! Poor kid.
My heart is totally broken for that kid that didn't know what to say. He is so scared, and he doesn't deserve that.
"Rocket man is on a suicide mission"
*clapping intensifies*
bizarre scene put together
Sometimes desperation outweighs logic. Any relief is welcomed... to end the helpless misery.
it means they don't speak english and clap when others clap. Some official that understands english probably laughed and then the crowd thought it was appropriate to cheer. In that society, if you don't cheer or cry loud enough, you can be punished.
They were at the aquarium! Nothing to do with his words.
@@ChristmasLore r/wooosh
18:52 that kid isn't nervous that he met Americans or is own camera, he's nervous because he knows if says something wrong he could get himself and his parents thrown into a labor camp.
he looks traumatized. looks like he might wanna say its terrible.
Who knows.. maybe he already lost someone because of other reasons and dont want this happening again.
WRONG! Try him, his parents and his grandparents and then any brother and sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins. When somebody in North Korea commits a crime against the state in North Korea, they punish their family for three generations. It really is a sad world that they live in.
I am worried for the people interviewed. They were born into a country they don’t deserve to live in.
So sad...
As a South Korean, I’m really upset with how they’re treated, and even worse, knowing that the old Korea was one. No North, no South, I hope we solve this soon.
Same, this may sound weird but I want a war on North Korea. I want them to be liberated and get an idea of freedom
I cannot being to imagine the huge project reintegration will be. Every person in that country... to free them, feed them, shelter them, teach them, unbrainwash them... make them feel safe.. but it will be worth any and all lives saved and made better.
@@caovuonglam You never have experienced the horrors of war on your soil like Russia,Germany,Japan and many more country's did.You dropped Atomic bombs on cities with no military installations killed hundreds of thousands people and many more generations irradiated so what i'm trying to tell you is that if you start a new war with them(N.Korea)you will get burnt real bad,not to mention their alliance with China which is allied to Russia.This is coming from a guy that like the west and NATO,you just like war too much and you leave that countries destroyed afterwards like Iraq so i understand the will they have to defend themselves from Americans
@@TheStormtrooper00 problems with Wars, it's just o great of a number on a very big scale as well Nato basically always looks to us to do something... other then Afghanistan which was 9/11 then moved to iraq
for example 37 wars in history that listed here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war, these are mostly major wars and not miner wars
these are the wars the u.s. was involved en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States we really didn't get invloved in other affairs till the Boxer Rebellion in (1899-1901)
which involved
British Empire United Kingdom
Russia
Japan
France France
United States
Germany
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Iraq war invloved
nvasion phase (2003)
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Poland
Peshmerga
Supported by:
Canada
Netherlands
Italy
followed by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq
it wasn't just the U.S. although we played the largest role, it was lead by U.S. since they basically had the most troops sent.
as for this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_battles ``for Early 14th century (1301-50)`` there was 290 battles alone in 49 years
this is a chart of people who died in ww2 compared to rest of the wars ua-cam.com/video/DwKPFT-RioU/v-deo.html and if you skipped ahead to here this how many wars we are in nowadays ua-cam.com/video/DwKPFT-RioU/v-deo.html
also the Japanese war crimes which they experimented on living people by cutting them open while alive, then you have the China with the Yellow River flood. I recommend watching the whole video
Rae Kyeong I have that idea to maybe they could escape
You can see very real childhood trauma in that boy who couldn't answer the question. Internal conflict. So sad.
I've never valued my Freedom of Speech so much in my life until now. I take my freedom of speech for granted but I realize how precious it really is not to be literally frightened to death of what you say at all times.
Joel Sommer dont feel bad for taking it for granted. Only crazy people would try to control what others say. Every human should have free speech. Its a basic human right
You obviously do not live in America. On Jan 6 we learned the extent of our freedom ends when we challenge the corrupt system
Try using free speech about Israel! You'll lose your job at least.
*Please don’t force any answers out of them because if they say the wrong thing they will be chucked into a labour camp. You could have put many people in danger.*
Natalie Draper are you talking about modern liberals and SJW's with their "tolerant policies" or North Koreans?
Fool.
Agreed Natalie, those girls looked terrified.
NK obviously
For real that girl at 20:20 definitely got murdered or sent to a camp
He shouldn’t have talked to kids.. I was terrified for them.
I doubt he chose the interview partners
Maybe not but he still could've declined to interview the kids. Not like they could force him.
Because what? They were going to be executed for not saying anything? No they weren't.
Could be kicked out of school , put in a labor camp
@@psychiatry-is-eugenics if they answer wrong yes, but not for saying nothing.
12:24 seeing those little kids sleeping peacefully just made me sad knowing the bizarre 1984-esque world they are growing up in
Its sad to see some of them unable to answer questions out of pure fear that they will answer "incorrectly" and be killed or "reeducated"
James Johnson it’s those that speak quickly and of vigor against America and the love they have for their beloved leader, they get perks with such actions. It’s those that hesitate or don’t speak that may have issues. I’m sure those people will be educated.
Sad huh.
The part where the young teenager us visibly afraid to speak, got to me.
He's probably afraid to say the wrong thing, and have his family enprisoned or killed because of it. This is heart breaking.
Yep.
Got to me as well. Pretty sad.
oh I was thinking the same thing.. he has a fearful look on his face.
Philippe Augustin you got that right. Know what the poor kid looks like? A young hitler youth kid holding a panzerschrek in 1945 Berlin just outside hitler’s bunker.
True. But in many American corporate offices, if you say the wrong thing, you will lose your job, pronto! Everyone lives under a pyramid of power. The DPRK is the most extreme example, but Americans are not as free as they believe they are.
North Korea: has anti American rallies, parades, gatherings, posters and propaganda throughout the nation
USA: *makes memes about North Korea*
Propaganda comes in lots of forms. What we think of them may not be correct, just as how what they think of us clearly is not. The people shouldnt be a reflection of its government.
*You are now banned from r/Pyongyang.*
And what’s sad is that the people in North Korea will never know what a meme is
Bell Iron Fist dame fax
@@belle369
Maybe one day one of them will see 'I put bee gees music over North Korean marching'
Someday...
19:09 I’ve heard that everyone in the capital are ‘paid actors’ not talking in the sense that they are paid but to live there they know what is expected of them if they ever come across this situation. That’s why the handlers weren’t bothered about interview strangers
And you believe that? You must be American.
I did lol am I wrong? I definitely could be. What do u think? Genuinely want to learn about what’s happening in North Korea. From the uk btw.
@@Evelynlouise089 Wow! You've heard that from someone else who doesn't know. I'm told only the elite live in Pyongyang. How great to be elite if you have to live in a home with no electricity or water and then you have to act in the streets. So, top military men, top bureaucrats, top anything, walk around pretending to be - an ordinary person? Great way to keep your best people on your side don't you think. It might be a "hermit society", but common sense should tell you it's rubbish.
@@petergilkes4391 you dont have to be an american to believe or to know something is way off. There is a man who visited NK and posted here in UA-cam. He was in a Train station and there were lots of people walking around, very robotic, coming and going. There were no trains that day before he arrived.
@@lukitasmol10 Well why do you believe that poster? Just because he posted it, it must be true? How is it he was hanging around in a NK station for any length of time to make this discovery?
20:02 was she about to say "But what if I say something wrong?" She also seemed like she was about to cry
Lindsey M.K. Yea I know I honestly also was about to cry
I agree
Nah.I read her body language and she was just camera shy and feeling nervous infront of camera.
Sadly yes.
@A very Stretchy V true
This interviewer put so many lives in jeopardy...
ForgingMyWins That trembling boy in the library was almost certainly punished.
I don't know why these journalists even bother going there. Like are they so gullible as to think that they'll get genuine answers?
Such is life.
Rite those kids were looking horrified they were scared to answer
None of their lives are in jeopardy. Y'all are ridiculous.
All the people look like they are starving. I feel so sorry for them ☹️
They are starving but why they accept such a situation they should do something about it there were many other totalitarian regimes for example in Romania tsaouseskou and they rebelled and they took their lives into their own hands
@@ΣτελιοςΠαυλιδης-ρ5η they ban grouping of people, so it’s difficult to plan. Plus they are taught to spy on each other. Is hard to trust some one. If you get caught escaping/ plotting/ or saying something bad about the regime, 3 GENERATIONS OF YOUR FAMILY WILL BE KILLED OR SEND TO THE CAMPS! Those camps are absolute horror. If you want to know more, you can find videos about defectors on YT. They also wrote books about their lives and their escape. “Nothing to Envy” is one of the books I highly recommend.
That’s because they are starving!
But look at Iraq ! America intervention only brought the worst situation and countless deaths to the areas they are interested in !
@@fladeann9348 Well, that's the dilemma. That's why we're heavily relying on South Korea to do a "liberation/unification" because tensions between the US and NK at the moment are extremely stressed. There are multiple countries at once almost pouncing on the koreas for their own motive, like China, Russia, Japan, and the US. However, Iraq is different. They are in an area in general where famine is prevalent and drought is consistent. It could be different with nations like Russia and SK surrounding to potentially help unification. So, who knows what will happen?
The kid talking about America causing alot of evil in the world and caused many fights betweens nations is actually VERY accurate like it or not.
It may be true but North Korea is evil in its own way as well
Bush did it, NOT ME!
Riiiight, because no other country has free agency to act in their interests
Very accurate, no. Completely false, no. Things are often way more complicated than people like them to be, all I know for sure is that in reference to Korea, the North is just plain wrong with how they teach the history.
It’s very true but Americans love to point fingers and refuse to acknowledge the evils of this country
That poor school boy is afraid to say ANYTHING!!
Plus, he's probably nervous about being interviewed. Personally, I would have cut out the footage of that interview. Showing it endangers his and his family's social standing, freedom and maybe even their lives.
This is horrifying. They have been brainwashed into submission and live in fear. They all seem like such nice people, too.
That’s what happens when the USA kills a third of your population in the Korean War of course they will be nuts
@@bennelong8451 if it wasn’t for the Russians, the USA would taken control of both south and north
@@Hello-uk5xp you mean Chinese
(Puts gun to head)
“Now answer honestly....”
Plasma Dirt AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
SF MF its that old guy in the background at the park I want to get my hands on. Alone he would shattered like glass.
Todd Craner Without a doubt brother, without a doubt
"Mankind must put an end to war
Before war puts an end to mankind"
- John F kennedy
17:21 the man said “feel freely to speak”
Sounds to me like “choose your words wisely or x-x”
Remember what to say😂
His mouth said "YES" but his eyes said "NO"!!!
The look on that poor kids face during that interview speaks volumes, he looked terrified to answer.
Is like Albania in the time of enver hoxha
@@vvhvvj6746 enver hoxha died in 1985 what are you talking about
@@anna-if8fi they mean during hoxha's rule
@@slickrick2420 oh right
18:44 I feel so bad for the kid. He's so afraid and doesn't know what to say. :(
Even if he was not petrified to give an answer, He has no information to form an opinion. He literally does not have a mind of his own on which to base even conversationally, a response! I dare say he went home crying hoping he did not get his parents into trouble by not knowing what to say!!
Yeah, I feel sorry for the kid too. He is terrified and seems like about to cry. Maybe not to said anything it's better for himself and for his family safety.
This man has balls of STEEL to ask questions like that in North Korea, major props to him
Rubbish! All he did was put locals at risk.
I noticed the man in brown. He seams to be an agent, monitoring the reporters and letting the ones being interviewed that they are being watched.
Brown-Streak Studios when?
Yes. There are many running loose in America who are also "secretly" watching and judging. Their religion is to "get away with MURDER...then say they've done NOTHING" (Read Jeremiah 5:1-12* and you'll understand why they hate the Bible).
Korean nkvd
Brown-Streak Studios yes, you noticed the man in brown, along with the rest of us, when it was pointed out and shown on film. Until then, he does not appear.
He's a member of the DPRK secret police
This makes me sad.. the history of the world. millions of people on all sides that just want to live a normal life but get caught up suffering due to the egos of a handful of men.
What a sad truthful sentence
that is why socialism in any form is a danger to personal liberty.
If people decided to not follow orders there would be war never again. But inside people want revenge.
Tertiary Adjunct - so well said.
@@LZRxHWK no sweetie, it is men
They're all like robots. The fear in their faces when asked questions requiring free thought to answer, is tragic. Look how long it takes this teenager to try and formulate an answer that would not get himself in trouble. 18:12 You can tell he wants to give an answer that is true from the heart, but he's paralyzed by fear.
Yes, they are like American politicians - mindless robots touting the party line
@@mi4johns not even close to the same
@@mi4johns more like they don't want to get in trouble so they play their roles as robots that obey the leaders when clearly, they are crying inside and want to leave north korea
why search for weapon that is vaguely known in iraq when there is obvious WMD in north korea
Yeah they're literally hostages in fear of the government and each other. One wrong thing and they could be sent to a labor camp to be tortured and worked for life.
I get the impression that if a war actually broke out, when the north koreans fire their weapons flags will pop out the end saying "boom" and "pow".
😂😂😂😂😂
Then get rid of that impression, North Korea has nuclear weapons which could destroy many cities. You cannot underestimate them as you did the Vietnamese.
We said that during Vietnam too
I pity that dolphin who has to live in North Korea.
@邵润泽 I know one thing though, that dolphin gets better treatment than the people in the prison camps. 😔
What about all the humans?
I feel stupid for asking, but where is the dolphin in the video?
Ham Burglar in the beginning. It was showing the war propaganda at the Dolphin show... haha.
@@MzClementine Oh ok, I see it now. There is also a seal just before it.
That mysterious guy at the amusement park was really disturbing. Never seen anything like that in any other dprk documentary/footage and I've seen a lot.
Seems to be very similar to the guy at the desk in Vice News North Korean Labour Camps part 7 video at about 3 minutes in. Spooky stuff.
timestamp?
@@jimvortakana7316 21:41 the guy is fishy af
Some sort of secret police.
Pretty par for the course in NK.
18:23 That poor boy and the look on his face as he looks at the govt. handlers for ques on how to answer. His eyes look so scared to answer. It could be if he answers wrong, his whole family could pay dearly. I feel for them so much.
Niklas Kristof is brain dead doing that to the kids. Doesn’t care- he just wants his story.
@@trentbateman yeah he shouldn't have questioned that child smh
As a Korean, I just wanted to say that every single interviewee was saying everything they said with very, very clear strain in the way they said everything and no Korean would normally talk the way they did. I recommend watching videos of Kim Jong Un's Korean or the Korean of North Korean escapees. The difference is very, very clear, and goes beyond an accent. Definitely forced under threat of something terrible.
That man whispered to the lady “Our supreme leader is watching”!
Exactly. As if they didn’t know. But I’m sure his job was simply to remind them.
And then her face afterwards! She was scared.
timestamp?
@@einzelganger6664 22:24
@@simbalion5220 i appreciate you
18:30 you can tell this kid was terrified to say anything wrong, he's looking around for anyone that could hear him, this guy put so many lives at risk
their conditions makes you appreciate what currently you have
@@MTC008 ask someone in America on how they feel about LGBT and they are just as speechless
18:38. That moment when he suddenly realises that he's been asked a question that he hasn't been given the answer to and needs the help of the minders..
That young man around the 18 minute mark, I’d love to give him a hug and let him live how he wants ♥️💔
This is really Orwell's 1984.. Amazing this type of country exists..
chris malcomson yeah or the handmaids tale or any sort f dystopia
The boy who wants to be a scientist to make h-bomb shooked me.
He said that like he had learned that line word for word 😔
Reminds me of the hunger games. Only the select few could reside in the Capitol. Smmfh.
i wonder what would happen if north korea started a hunger games of their own
@@NJHS92 PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE AND DO ALL THE TIME ONLY YOULL NEVER KNOW ABOUT IT
I know, and how can the people be blamed at all they, are all hostages
I thought the same thing!
Haha
Imagine doing an interview with your life on the line.
dam this reporter really want these people to risk their lives for speaking frankly.
The person who said: "feel free to speak frankly" was the minder. Aka the people making sure that reporters only see what the government wants them to see.
They are the elite of North Korea, they know exactly what to say not to get into trouble.
"Answer frankly." Now here is a suggested answer...
MrCordycep o
Don't forget the creeper in brown ominously pacing back and forth whispering in the interviewees ears
I inherently felt the anguish and fear of the young student when he was questioned. His silence spoke volumes. I also saw this this same emotion in the eyes of the woman at the amusement park. It makes me so happy that at this moment I can type that I abhor Trump as a person and his politics and not be afraid to be sent to a criminal war camp. God bless America! ......But, please God bless the North Koreans as well.
for certain
That 15 year old boy's silence didn't speak volumes. It just showed that all 15 year old boys around the world are the same. Go to any Junior High School anywhere in the world and start asking young teen boys questions about international things and you will get the same dumb blank stare. This is not unique to North Korea by any means.
Explorer Mike Maybe. I'm just going by my own unique human experience.
And weren't those babies precious? :-D LOVE
Your President, President Trump has no polotics, he has no side, but the side of the people who voted for him, and the people who also didnt vote for him. He only wants America out of the crapper that the last 3 presidents put us in......... and you have zero experience of anything......... I served my country for 22 years in the us army, combat infantry and fought Obama's illegal wars against muslims........ they should all die my my count, but Obama made ISIS and funded and armed them. Obama is worse than Kim Jong Un by aLOT !!!!!!
“Whats with the formalities? lets just get on with it.” oh you sure are in a hurry there Mr. Chey, ur only a senior diplomat of the Hierarchy of Kim.
"Dear Leader, our friendly father..." OMG, you can't get more deluded than that.
@@creeproot Many of them do believe it. Only the ones who dare to think, don't. Some defectors who make it to South Korea actually return to North Korea because they can't accept that everything they've been taught is a lie...they can't make the mental shift because they've been so indoctrinated.
Alan Dempsey. Yes, I have been thinking the same thing while watching this video.
Plus, IMHO, this indoctrination is very similar to religion indoctrination.
21:50-22:40 The man walked behind the interviewee again and again and agaiiin..... Whispered to an interviewee " Our Supreme leader is.......""" Lool these people have to have freedom before the second coming of Jesus!
@@bluetickbeagles116 Right from the foundation of man. We've been seeking spirituality, why?
Because for sure there is a Spirit realm, and there is good and evil.
Just hope you'll make the right choice.
this was extremely irresponsible to put lives in jeopardy for the entertainment of free people who have no risk of being killed by their own government.
Too bad for them i guess. They should have declined to speak.
E M S OP doesn’t mean literally.
@@Robespierre-lI PREACH
News stories are educational videos.
I don't know about you, but I am not here to be entertained. I am watching and learning. What is your problem????
My goodness, they are so afraid to speak to foreigners! Even when they're asked a simple question, they are totally аt a loss!
Poor, poor spooked people...
They have seen public executions. No freedom of speech.
18:35 he can’t comprehend an answer because they are never taught critical thinking. This part here shows how brainwashed everyone is. I hope and pray so much that things can change for them
💯
Don't be so mean, dude. Maybe he's traumatised. Maybe his family are in a concentration camp or something.
That “what if I...” says a lot
Twisky I know that feeling. It’s the same when you are in an abusive relationship. When you get out and look back, however, you see. But when you see someone go through it-you spot it right away.
22:20 that dude that kept walking past was creepy.
I feel bad for the people in NK. The US is a joke to them, but they are waaaayyy unaware. I want to save the people, not the government.
It really shows just how bad a country is even when despite their best efforts, the cracks in the facade are evident
@18:22 I want to stress this point to the fullest! Please stop interviewing these people. Does the media not understand how much danger you're putting these innocent people in? The kid is clearly terrified to answer any questions. When the media is long gone, these people you have interviewed will be severely punished, and all for what, a story? What have you uncovered that other media companies before you haven't? It's the same story, over and over again.
White Flour exactly. I feel bad for some of these innocent yet brainwashed people
White Flour:
The interviewer just want to make a living !
that look that kid gave broke my heart
How many more will die if the world just shuts up?
You can see in his eyes he's crying inside, but cannot express his OWN opinions
I worry for the interviewees who could not automatically supply the "politically correct answer" The camera just kept on rolling showing their fear, it is not surprising that normally north Koreans don't want to be caught on camera. The reporter here could very well have cost some of the people on camera their jobs, their homes, their lives. >:(
The one thing along those lines that kinda stuck out to me was how the interviewer was like "speak frankly". Like yeah, of course, they won't be the ones dealing up with the consequences.
And why are you blaming the cameraman?
Hes not the one pointing the gun. He only has a camera.
The kid was on the verge of crying when he was being interviewed. Come on, let's leave kids alone
I agree stop interviewing children
I don't hate the citizens of NK. I just hate the government who rules it. I wish us Canadians could do something to help them :(.
Dont throw your garbage in some countries.
Lee ̊.༄ ❪NeoTheater❫ೃ‧𖤐॰ I’ll help you get your polite hands on them.
Us Canadians do too much to help people from other countries. It's time for us Canadians to help us Canadians.
no offence but ur countrys military would probably lose to them, since u don't have a system guarding ur control like the usa, we have a system that shoots down incoming missles, so kims rockets wouldn't have a chance
Canada has a weak military, we won't be able to defeat the NK government, we'll need the support of the US and, LET'S HOPE CHINA DOESN'T INTERVENE...
Always remember Eyes never lie.
The boy's silence to his question was deafening .
Timestamp?
Avi bratz 18:15
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That kid and his reaction to the question @ 18:16 was the saddest part.
Me, too. He looked on the verge of tears. No telling what happened to him or his family. The reporter should be SO
proud, NOT.
As a Chinese, I kind familiar with that kind of feelings, that is not really fear（to the government） but confused. back to 80s, when I first saw a white man with his weird device (a bigass camera), I was like: mama it is that a human? and my mom told me：yeah ， that is the white ghost.the point is Asia was/is very different from the western ，no to mention a communist state， no multi-ethnic，less political activism，poor，didnt naturally get out of the stage of feudal society，the world hate us/them，but people have the “blindly pride”，the conflict are real
Reggie Johnson I agree. No child should be so terrified to answer a question 🙁.
The problem is this is not a question they practice, it caught them off guard and they didn't know how to answer. The one I want to get my hands on is the old guy in the back ground at the park. He's shows that it not only about brainwashing its about control.
@@toddcraner3843 Thats what I thought. It seems the other people here are complaining about brainwashed people in a brainwashed way.
9:08 when the kid is talking about how Americans killed many Korean people... um....Your own leader is killing thousands right on your own soil.
how do you know that? you in north korea?
MrMackyMKKK there’s much video evidence and escapees of the labor camps can tell you their stories.
MrMackyMKKK because of witness testimonies and reports from reputable sources
Mr Macky she watches crap like this to obtain information about the global situation...
MrMackyMKKK fool
"The smaller one country is, the stronger and bigger its pride and sovereignity should be"
Here is a great example of Napoleon Complex
13:31 Fire the translator. He didn't say it in the way a man meant to say so he showed him as someone really rude.
They only let them use North Korean translaters, so not much they can do I guess
@@PurpleMintSam I'd assume this video wasn't edited in North Korea or by North Koreans. North Koreans and South Koreans speak the same language. So it'd be easy to find a translator in the US.
@@jjangbeoms4346 Different dialect doesn't mean different intonation or meaning..
I've watched many North koreans and South koreans talk to each other and there is never any difficulty.
There are also different dialects of korean within South Korea, but they do not change the meaning of what they are saying.
I think the translator intentionally made the interaction look bad.
in this case i have to defend the translator, he just came right to the point, the interviewer wasnt able to phrase a complete sentence and started stuttering
@@UpQuick You think. But you don't know for sure. Let's leave it at that unless they release a statment, that's all we got.
8:48
''Well, they cause the wars''
Germany: *. _.*
Lol, am I a joke to you Germany
The first wasnt realy caused by germany and the second only happend because the winners of ww1 did germany dirty and hitler an austrian wanted revange and then started ww2.
Well at least germany learned from their mistake eventually, unlike america
Catyse more like the Treaty of Versailles caused the second war
*all of Europe slowly backs away whistling to themselves*
"But what if I.." what? say something "wrong" and get put in a concentration camp?
I cant imagine the fear they live in
Its a labor camp not concentration camp
DIMPLE is a solid UA-cam channel. It features North Korean defectors and some were military in North Korea. Them finding out about how powerful the United States military really is while sharing the lies they were told is super insightful.
They're also the guys who brought them tasty food like american ribs, subway sandwiches and even KFC
“Entire country signed up” we’ll see them infants in the battle then...
Wouldn’t be surprised. They would probably do kamikaze attacks like the Japanese pilots in WW2
They need to get a translator that won't cut out half the things that the interviewer says.
I'd imagine that's exactly why NK supplies their own translators.
These poor people.
That’s what I was thinking the whole time
you mean the US right
How in the world could you say, the US right? Please move to N.K. and go through what these poor people are going through. You think you have it rough in the US, you obviously live in your own little world where it appears you have no feeling for anyone, but yourself. Since this country is so BAD, please leave. Oh, let me guess you are a liberal who says things and then never does anything. EX. Cher, Whoopi, and others that said if Donald Trump got elected they would leave the country. All mouth and no DO.
I'm Korean, I know the meaning of the little boy's silence from 18:28, because it's the fear in reality that the whole family could be annihilated in the words of the boy, I know a little bit of the weight of the fear he must have felt. So this scene makes me sad,
This documentary didn't age well...
@@maggamoosie801 Trump literally threatened to completely destroy NK, are they not allowed to talk about the president?
As bob dylan said, "these n koreans now have god on their side", something like that.
Mario González what are you talking about? North Korea is STILL testing missiles in 2018. Kim just smiled and said whatever we wanted to hear to shut Trump up.
lmao
Max Backemark-Thunberg foreal im terrified and extremely embarrassed to have such a high tempered president, no one can deny that. They can say anything they want about “protecting” America but no one can deny that this man gets angry way too quick and doesn’t know how to control his words , no president should be tweeting there plans and personal thoughts, it’s so unprofessional.
i feel so bad for the boy around the 18:45 mark. you can tell he wanted to say something but he knew the cost of speaking his truth would be to great so he just chose silence instead... poor kid i hope he's able to live a good life :(
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
*_― George Orwell, 1984_*
( _in a nutshell_ )
Leena Stark „My book wasn’t a how to!“
war is peace only for the victor
Sorry but not everything Orwell said was true. War is not peace, freedom is not slavery and ignorance is certainly not strength. While you must certainly understand war to appreciate peace and understand slavery to appreciate freedom, Orwell was not correct in this quote.
@@joeciocco457 He used that quote as the slogan for the evil authoritarian government in his book. It's not Orwell's actual opinion. The comment you replied to just goes to show you how close fiction is to becoming reality.
Hope that boy in the library is still alive!!!
I felt so sad for him and their people. Don’t know why Kim don’t feel how we feel about his own people.
Even though they have worn tidy clothes at Kim’s given orders to face the interviews - they still looked extremely malnourished and shabby. I am sorry for all of them! 😔😔
This place makes Zimbabwe seem like paradise.
18:29 that expression is you need to know about their true situation. Its kinda haunting.
It feels like he wants to burst out all but cannot
12:11 oof that kid be like "In 195 countries in the world, why am I reincarnated in North Korea"
This regime must be end
The worst thing is sending somebody from the New York Times.
North koreans need help I feel bad for them.
We have sent aide in the past, but the people don't get it. The big shots at the top keep it or sell it. They are ruthless and care nothing for their people who are starving.
They mouths speak words they are threatened to say while their faces are shouting for help
“Politics aside”
*talks about a politic*
Donald Trump being crazy isn't a political statement: it's a fact of life that the entire world, unfortunately, has to contend with now, including in many a daily life. Just because it hasn't been your personal life yet negatively affected by him, that doesn't mean it never will be. Mark my words. One day, you'll regret voting for him.
@@8ug562 😂 thats not what hes talking about, hes talking about the president's personality
But truth is distinct from A WALL of LIES (Ezekiel 13:14) and deceptive "half truths".
Can't even imagine the mental health crisis there, bottling your feelings or just convincing yourself your feelings are wrong.
North Korea is exactly like China during the 1960s when my mom lived there. It’s really sad how in 2019 a country still acts like that.
True. :(
You could see that at 17:15 the girls was so scared to answer the question I feel so bad
And at 18:09 you could see the deep fear on the kids face😢😭
Jarrett Soto she had a deep breath! A symptom of fear!
OOH NOOOOO!!!!! SHE HAD TO BREEEEEEAAATH!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA
seriouslu tho me on the stage is 10 times worse.
I'm watching this from South Korea but North Koreans can't watch any South Korean materials that is sad.
what about the translation provided by the times?
Pretty accurate but I don't think that North Koreans were telling their real thoughts in front of camera, you clearly can see their fears and frustrations. Probably this is their first time in their lives to interview with so called reporters.
yes, indeed.
김관수
why should you care at all what north Koreans watch on television?
how does your comment justify any rational response?
coojsta69 she probably is sad that they can't watch any South Korean television
Dear North Korean people, thinking of you and praying for your freedom.
They are so damaged psychologically, sadly their freedom would need a generation of re education to reality and society. Most of their population doesnt even know what a bank is.
It saddens me that these people have to live this way.
The sadness in that babyboys eyes who was so scared to answer the question was heartbreaking. Knowing what you say may end you and your families up in prison is so scary.
Lol 😂😂
Interviewer: We appreciate your time.
Korean Dude: Lets just start, Whats with the formalities
OMG. The scene with the young man in the library is absolutely heartbreaking.