Not only escaped to protect their own families, but broke out their mother as well! That dad has got to be so proud watching his sons from the afterlife. "LOOK AT WHAT MY SONS PULLED OFF! THEY EVEN GOT MY ASHES! I KNEW THOSE KIDS HAD IT IN THEM!"
That's like the middle class of North Korea. The poor people there eat rats. The labor camp people eat rice and bullets. Saddest place on earth for like 70 years.
yeah... same applies to first world countries. although our problems are very "first world" there is no denying that depression is skyrocketing and i for one want to get tf out. i feel very few positive things have happened in my life time and overall people are more stressed and have less time and disposable money.
@@cho4d if your American, great opportunity to vote RFK, probably the first man in decades to run that isn’t full of white lies that actually cares about the citizens and not his wallet. He doesn’t talk about anything any of the other politicians are, and on top of that he actually has a plan, whereas they don’t. Just being sheep led by a shepherd.
This is insane. Digging up his father’s body, burning it to ashes, mapping out a field full of landmines. This should tell everyone how horrible it is and how determined people are to leave North Korea.
THIS SHOULD BE AN AWARD WINNING MOVIE IDEA.... The script is already there just get the perfect actors and director... Man this story is beautiful... I hope the message spreads..
They won't make a movie that makes NK or China look bad. Miss Park, a defector and now a motivational speaker here in the states, was approached by Hollywood to make a movie about her escape. She had escaped to China, but was abused both sexually and physically by the Chinese people. In the script though, Hollywood wanted to make it seem like China was her savior. They weren't and most of the script was a lie. So she turned down the offer. Hollywood has been threatened by both China and NK in the past. A NK hacker even accessed their servers and threatened to release all their movies if they didn't scrap that one movie The Interview with Seth Rogan. Sony Pictures ignored the warning, and the hacker was successful in releasing all the movies to people for free. Seth Rogan and others were also targeted to be killed by NK. Hollywood as no balls any more after that happened. Oh, and China has forbidden any movies that might show them in a bad light. Many movies had to be rewritten because of this.
If NK would allow their country to prosper then people would stay. They need new tech which can allow them to exploit their resources for better money.
@@kameljoe21 What they need is liberty and individual right to self-determination. Technology has never been their problem, it is the top-down central planning and control that has always hamstrung North Korea.
@@davidford3115 Technology will show the people of North Korea what life is like outside a repressive regime. Those who have had access or have hacked the NK data lines know this and they use what they can get their hands on. Being able to enjoy things other than what a dictator allows gives them hope. With technology you can give the populous the knowledge to either get by or overthrow their government. If the populous knew what South Korea was like and how far advanced they are they would rise up and take the dictator out. The sad thing is Kim is so bent on control that he forgets that the populous needs things and he should provide. A dictator could rule and people be happy provided that said dictator provides.
So true story, my family comes from North Korea, though when they left it was much easier than it is now. They came over with my Great Grandparents and their kids, one of which is my Grandma. This was decades ago, though, shortly after the separation of North and South Korea I believe. My Great Grandfather was a Christian Pastor, so you can imagine he wasn't popular in the North. He was arrested and spent many years in one of their camps. Only released after much work from my Great Grandma. They eventually made their way to the South, and after my mom was born, her and my Grandma moved to the US, followed by my Great Grandfather. Though I still have many relatives still in South Korea today. I've only been there once, but I'd love to go back sometime.
@@jredacted8229 Just search "Why some North Korean defectors want to go back" and you'll find numerous videos/documentaries by Bloomberg Originals, Arirang News, BBC News, South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera English, WION, etc. It seems like some defectors are very patriotic to their country, but still nobody deserves to live in North Korea.
@@bernardszeto2171 unlike in prison, if you misbehave, it's not gonna guarantee you a death sentence unlike that country just violating a simple rule could have you killed
@@bernardszeto2171 not even maximum security prisons are these bad and the citizens in North Korea are mostly punished if they don't do what their government says. I say prisoners have more freedom than North Korea citzens.
the story about Mr Kim made me smile so glad he got away from that brutal regime with his family. here is hoping they have a long and happy life in south Korea
You're really right on that and also is behind properties with high security and living it up while his people starve is another and really out of sight. Which really is the reality there.
Kim doesn't care what the world knows he cares about what his people know. Their ignorance keeps him in power. You're looking at a video telling you what happens there.
@@jredacted8229Shouldn’t it be the opposite? Trump is the one who has openly praised those like the N Korean leader and Vladimir Putin. He’s the one who wants to be in control of all three branches of government. The dude said if reelected he will be a dictator on day 1. What has Kamala or even Biden for that matter done to even remotely give off the impression that dictatorship or some equivalent is going to be a thing when the other guy openly says it?
Yeah we have the illusion of freedom and no famines so far. I’d rather live here 100% but it’s only a matter of time until the government has the power to completely subjugate and control us.
6:42 It's difficult to remember now, but back in the 70s and 80s North Korea had a better standard of living than South Korea. The North was propped up by the USSR, and received generous economic aid. When the USSR collapsed, that aid stopped, and North Korea spiralled into destitution.
Push it back a bit. The wheels were already starting to come off in the 1970s. It was the 1960s when the DPRK was riding high. Communism isn't sustainable long term, even with outside support.
this is not true, those were the 50s and early 60s, by the 70s and especially 80s, the south had overtaken the north, and the north was very poor. This got worse of course, at the end of the soviet union, which coincided with bad harvests because of floods (that were a result of poor leadership)
I selected this video because I wanted to know why North Korea won't let people leave. I watched it. I still don't know why North Korea won't let people leave.
It's extremely simple if all your subjects leave it's nobody you can rule over and also if your subjects can see the outside world and see that you lied about 99.98% of what you've told them you really think that more people aren't going to try to escape
It's the nature of communism. Capable people are dragged back to the lowest common denominator, so capable people would all leave if there weren't walls keeping them in. Hence, communism requires that no one be allowed to leave. It's the same in Cuba, and was the same in the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1990.
I mean, this is just devastating, I break my heart to think of people who just want a better life for their family to the point where they were willing to go to certain danger, it really makes me want to complain less and donate intelligently to charity
That's true and Kim knows it. That's why he cracks down on communicating and travel in the country as much as he does. No coordination hinders any rebellion from forming
If people started protesting by not having children I wonder what would happen? It's kind of hard to tell people to stop getting it on, but I couldn't imagine bringing life into this on purpose.
Seriously, like how are you having 1 kid let alone a few? In North Korea??? That's incredibly selfish & irresponsible. I could not put my own blood through that
The title of this video should be "Why Leaving North Korea is Dangerous" There was nothing about why people aren't allowed to leave 😅 Like, I came here for that and just learned about escape routes.
Those are, in my opinion, the toughest people on the planet. Escaping that kind of environment is way more, than a well timed boat trip. Guess it's one thing to move fully armed into a country and another to move out of one, aiming, fully armed, at their citizens, punishing any sort of misbehavior. Under those ciecumstances, even the smallest rejections become pure heroism. Thats a story only they should tell. I would just listen. I can only try to imagine.
I am American/Korean mixed and am very fortunate to have grown up in America. My heart breaks for N Koreans and I hope one day the people can be free. The entire North is literally a prison. God bless America..
it was a huge miracle that Mr. Kim and his family made it to freedom in South Korea. Mr. Kim was willing to risk it all in order to get himself, his father's ashes, and his family to freedom. God bless him and his family, and his friends left behind in North Korea. Amen 🙏 If only North Korea would just Be like South Korea, then the country would be a lot better off. Amen 🙏
I need details on this guys marriage. i wanna know how bad she really was for him to be dedicated to wanting a divorce so badly it better be good cause aint no way its out of pettiness.
I use a program called Wander to virtually visit the world (it uses Google Street View). There's no roads that let the car through, but a few blue dots are in North Korea (a single 360 image where you can't move). It is VERY surreal to stand in a park where I would be immediately arrested and thrown in a work camp and probably die in my own living room.
I usually like your videos but this one did not actually address the question implied in its title: Why won’t North Korea let its people leave? It was an interesting and inspiring story but you should change the title.
How sad is it If this is a highlight in your life. I'm a little sad for you typing that out. Imagine if you would've early and first, that's the lotto for this generation huh? Look at me, look at me, notice me.
I also noticed. Title is about NK won't letting people out, the narrative is just stories of defectors. I will answer it, then. NK isn't letting any people out because the more people leave, the more they learn about life abroad and that they've been lied to for years, the less stable Kim's regime becomes. If he opens borders one day, he might wake up to an empty country next morning.
1:12 I think this number are the number so North Koreans arrived to South Korea. For many of those this took a long time maybe several years to reach South Korea, so probably they escaped earlier. Meaning actual number of escaped in the last 3 years could be none.
0:01 Just so the author of the video knows: the Unification Arch in Pyongyang, depicted behind the soldier on the right, was demolished in January 2024 upon Kim Jong-un rejecting the idea of the two Koreas eventually unifying.
That "Unification Arch" was only a sick joke anyway. Symbolizing North Korea TAKING OVER South Korea and that regime ruling the ENTIRE Korean peninsula.
when you have to have a small food garden in your home just to survive, that means your society is crumbling and you basically are 1 extra mouth away from killing 3 of your family members
I almost wish here in the UK we could have North Korean refugees instead of the usual suspects, because I’m thinking at ,least they would be REAL asylum seekers and would become model citizens. In an ideal world that is. I’ll get my coat…….
@ or the people ,mostly men, who valiantly left their women and children behind, who have travelled through 5 or 6 SAFE countries to come to the UK, and then go back to the UNSAFE country they came from just for the holidays? Those ones you mean?
@@santorini8423 Crazy how you don't see those people with humanity. Same countries that you colonized and took resources from but you don't want them in your country?? Oh the irony
IKR - out of all the iterations of communism that have failed, there are still Marxists saying it still hasn't been done correctly after failing 50 different ways.
@@SteinlichStein What is happening in North Korea is exactly the same as what happened in the Soviet Union, and Maoist Red China. There is a reason why Ukraine, the Baltic States, and the former members of the Warsaw Pact vehemently reject communism.
That a place like this exist in 2024 is still mindblowing. It feels like talking hundreds of years in the past if we talk about North-Korea and the Kim reign. It's horrible and we should be so grateful to live in a free country
Socialism and communism strive for egalitarianism (Google it). North Korea is a mix of military dictatorship and religious cult (with dear leader as god). This is what maga wants.
In 1980 I visited W. Berlin. To get there my wife and I chose to drive through E. Germany. The circus at the Checkpoints was very tense and apprehensive. All border guards were Russian as any E. Germans used would immediately defect. Seriously. The entire trip we saw nothing appreciably different from the countryside in W. Germany; fields, farms, the highway. BUT....the feeling of raw oppression was overwhelming! If 'OPPRESION' were liquid, like water, we were deeply immersed in it, unable to shake this horrible, awful feeling that overwhelmed us! I looked at Sherri and asked if she felt it, too. She didn't say ANYTHING; she just looked at me and nodded her head. The drive was finished in silence. As soon as we crossed Checkpoint Charlie and entered W. Berlin, it was gone. That quickly. Up until this event my being stationed in Europe to 'protect freedom and democracy' was a concept; a good one, a worthy one, but just an ideal. Afterwards, I understood. It was no longer a concept, but a way of life. Because ANYTHING I could do to stop that oppression from reaching MY home was worth it. ANY PRICE I paid, to include my life, was worth it if it stopped that overwhelming oppression off American soil. I feel most people alive today have no experience like this so as to better appreciate their freedom, and it saddens me greatly. I see protests that are pro-authoritarian regimes, and ask, "Why?" Can't they see? Isn't it obvious? I pray people will open their eyes while there is still time.
This method of escape by sea is real dangerous, and like spaceflight, timing is everything. You would have to be meticulous about mission planning, and that with navigation and complete inexpierence, real tricky.
Good job Kim!!! This is probably the single most life changing event that you and your family will ever have!! Im not sure if it was your Brother or Brother in law, but he also deserves credit for his part in helping them get to South Korea Stay brave!!! I’m so happy that you can live a meaningful life, without the cruel hand of the North Korean government impeding your lives and taking your hopes and dreams from you. Enjoy your family and learn to have some fun!!!! As an American, seeing people beat the odds to gain their freedom has a special place in my heart!!!!
not even his dead father was left behind...respect
totally can live in peace, this is what i think the dad is thinking
dad: i'm so fffking proud of you,
Not only escaped to protect their own families, but broke out their mother as well! That dad has got to be so proud watching his sons from the afterlife.
"LOOK AT WHAT MY SONS PULLED OFF! THEY EVEN GOT MY ASHES! I KNEW THOSE KIDS HAD IT IN THEM!"
cremated the body himself in the forst - i mean, nobody can proof but i call this bs
Definitely agree, he made sure his WHOLE family came with him, mad respect for family even in death
@@bendre90why?
This is a reminder of how fortunate we are to have our freedoms.
And why we must keep Project 2025 from becoming a reality.
@@ethandollarhide7943 how is it really going to affect you besides the abortion stuff president doesn’t control that it will happen regardless
What freedom? All hail the king!
"freedom"
'Freedoms'
My heart seriously breaks for the people who live there. No one should live like this.
N. Korea has been an absolute Monarchy for decades. 3 members of the same family have ruled or still does.
@@RandallBesch Guess you could call him King Jon Un.
@@brittlemons1 they’d live a little easier without all the sanctions the US places on them - Kim still lives like a king as the people suffer
mine too
Had a N Korean friend telling me stories how they would soak their food in water to make them feel fuller… I’ve been humbled!
That doesn't even make sense
That's like the middle class of North Korea. The poor people there eat rats. The labor camp people eat rice and bullets. Saddest place on earth for like 70 years.
You've never been hungry@@sedohema
Did you know dirt pie is a real thing?
@@merrydaye4763 I have actually
When you make your people's lives so miserable they want to leave....you're a poor excuse of a leader.
He's a monster,
This feels like some subliminal comment about the united states. Really hope thats not the case from a guy skiing at basin.
yeah... same applies to first world countries. although our problems are very "first world" there is no denying that depression is skyrocketing and i for one want to get tf out. i feel very few positive things have happened in my life time and overall people are more stressed and have less time and disposable money.
@@cho4d if your American, great opportunity to vote RFK, probably the first man in decades to run that isn’t full of white lies that actually cares about the citizens and not his wallet.
He doesn’t talk about anything any of the other politicians are, and on top of that he actually has a plan, whereas they don’t. Just being sheep led by a shepherd.
When you try and KEEP them from leaving, you’re a dictator.
This is insane. Digging up his father’s body, burning it to ashes, mapping out a field full of landmines. This should tell everyone how horrible it is and how determined people are to leave North Korea.
THIS SHOULD BE AN AWARD WINNING MOVIE IDEA.... The script is already there just get the perfect actors and director... Man this story is beautiful... I hope the message spreads..
@@dtvt8421 yeah but this isn’t a movie this is somebody’s reality
@@muhammadsi7717 you do know there are Factual movies based on a true story🙄
They won't make a movie that makes NK or China look bad. Miss Park, a defector and now a motivational speaker here in the states, was approached by Hollywood to make a movie about her escape. She had escaped to China, but was abused both sexually and physically by the Chinese people. In the script though, Hollywood wanted to make it seem like China was her savior. They weren't and most of the script was a lie. So she turned down the offer. Hollywood has been threatened by both China and NK in the past. A NK hacker even accessed their servers and threatened to release all their movies if they didn't scrap that one movie The Interview with Seth Rogan. Sony Pictures ignored the warning, and the hacker was successful in releasing all the movies to people for free. Seth Rogan and others were also targeted to be killed by NK. Hollywood as no balls any more after that happened. Oh, and China has forbidden any movies that might show them in a bad light. Many movies had to be rewritten because of this.
If North Korea allowed their people to leave, EVERYONE WOULD LEAVE.
There's no fun being a dictator with no citizens to subjugate
Indeed. The Berlin Wall wasn't to keep people out, it was to keep them in. Complete inverse of the Wall on the US southern border.
If NK would allow their country to prosper then people would stay. They need new tech which can allow them to exploit their resources for better money.
@@kameljoe21 What they need is liberty and individual right to self-determination. Technology has never been their problem, it is the top-down central planning and control that has always hamstrung North Korea.
@@davidford3115 Technology will show the people of North Korea what life is like outside a repressive regime. Those who have had access or have hacked the NK data lines know this and they use what they can get their hands on. Being able to enjoy things other than what a dictator allows gives them hope. With technology you can give the populous the knowledge to either get by or overthrow their government. If the populous knew what South Korea was like and how far advanced they are they would rise up and take the dictator out.
The sad thing is Kim is so bent on control that he forgets that the populous needs things and he should provide. A dictator could rule and people be happy provided that said dictator provides.
no, lots of people from north escaped to south the moved back example in south health care cost huge money in north it is free
Getting sent back there after escaping would be terrifying
Would it?
@@alkohallick2901 Yes, indeed, no lil baby.
Forced labour.
So true story, my family comes from North Korea, though when they left it was much easier than it is now. They came over with my Great Grandparents and their kids, one of which is my Grandma. This was decades ago, though, shortly after the separation of North and South Korea I believe. My Great Grandfather was a Christian Pastor, so you can imagine he wasn't popular in the North. He was arrested and spent many years in one of their camps. Only released after much work from my Great Grandma. They eventually made their way to the South, and after my mom was born, her and my Grandma moved to the US, followed by my Great Grandfather. Though I still have many relatives still in South Korea today. I've only been there once, but I'd love to go back sometime.
God saved you guys and blessed you with a free country
Cool story bro!!
You are a lucky person. Yes I am an American, before you ask.
@@DMBLaan that's awesome! What a legacy!
@Eddieplayz why them and not others? Stop this mentality.
Doesn't want them leaving because they know they'll never come back
Yeah, but still there are a few people that sadly return to North Korea by their own will. Some people miss their families too much.
Oooo... and they gonna tell...!
@@saroar.Yeah I wouldn't go back no matter how much I miss them
@@saroar.Source?
@@jredacted8229 Just search "Why some North Korean defectors want to go back" and you'll find numerous videos/documentaries by Bloomberg Originals, Arirang News, BBC News, South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera English, WION, etc. It seems like some defectors are very patriotic to their country, but still nobody deserves to live in North Korea.
If they let their people go, they will mostly have none left. It's sad like it's a country-sized prison.
North Korea is basically an open-air prison
Compare to a real prison inmate, it more horrifying when you feel like being in a jail when you actually isn"t !!
@@bernardszeto2171 unlike in prison, if you misbehave, it's not gonna guarantee you a death sentence unlike that country just violating a simple rule could have you killed
@@bernardszeto2171 not even maximum security prisons are these bad and the citizens in North Korea are mostly punished if they don't do what their government says. I say prisoners have more freedom than North Korea citzens.
Living in the U.S. is honestly such a huge blessing and fortunate situation for me!
the story about Mr Kim made me smile so glad he got away from that brutal regime with his family. here is hoping they have a long and happy life in south Korea
I used to work with a North Korean defector and she was so kind
Did you ever ask her why she wanted to leave a communist utopia that is free from the exploits of capitalism and western imperialism?
Kim doesn't want the world to know the truth.
You're really right on that and also is behind properties with high security and living it up while his people starve is another and really out of sight. Which really is the reality there.
Kim doesn't care what the world knows he cares about what his people know. Their ignorance keeps him in power. You're looking at a video telling you what happens there.
The world knows
America isn't perfect, but it definitely isn't North Korea.
Facts
Americans still have a duty to make sure it never comes close to that point.
@Yoshikarter1 make sure that Kamala doesn't win, then
@@jredacted8229Shouldn’t it be the opposite? Trump is the one who has openly praised those like the N Korean leader and Vladimir Putin. He’s the one who wants to be in control of all three branches of government. The dude said if reelected he will be a dictator on day 1.
What has Kamala or even Biden for that matter done to even remotely give off the impression that dictatorship or some equivalent is going to be a thing when the other guy openly says it?
Yet. Vote maga and we can be north korea. Long live dear orange leader.
I can't believe we are living in the 21st century, and this is happening to the people in this country.
its a country still under a Soviet Era tyranny
Depressing
I have to wonder what it'd be like to move though, that's gotta feel like traveling into the future
@@mattfantastic9969 some defectors end up in Seoul, where life is fast and stressful even to us. Double bummer.
cant believe everything the internet says . haha
@@TheRivalbotak can't believe you are so naive.
Makes me thank God Every day I’m an American with all this freedom. Praying for the North Korean people
Doesn't the US have the highest incarceration rate in the world? 💀
Yeah we have the illusion of freedom and no famines so far. I’d rather live here 100% but it’s only a matter of time until the government has the power to completely subjugate and control us.
@@MrBorderlands123 Because we have a legal system that rewards prosecutions for pointless offenses such as purchasing alcohol on Sunday.
@@MrBorderlands123 All of NK is incarceration, so I guess not!
@@davidford3115And it’s a racist system, don’t leave out the obvious racism in the US Justice system.
6:42 It's difficult to remember now, but back in the 70s and 80s North Korea had a better standard of living than South Korea. The North was propped up by the USSR, and received generous economic aid. When the USSR collapsed, that aid stopped, and North Korea spiralled into destitution.
Push it back a bit. The wheels were already starting to come off in the 1970s. It was the 1960s when the DPRK was riding high. Communism isn't sustainable long term, even with outside support.
If you're going to make a wild claim like that, you've got to back it up with sources. Until then:
Nope, you're wrong.
@@jredacted8229 the source is history lol, thats literally what happened
@@DBProds96 real or fake history from where?
this is not true, those were the 50s and early 60s, by the 70s and especially 80s, the south had overtaken the north, and the north was very poor. This got worse of course, at the end of the soviet union, which coincided with bad harvests because of floods (that were a result of poor leadership)
Fun facts about North Korea:
There is no fun in North Korea.
I mean there is facts about North Korea..
But none are fun.
@@jacobburke4029 😂😂😂
Unless you're the incompetent, pathetic excuse for a leader.
I selected this video because I wanted to know why North Korea won't let people leave. I watched it. I still don't know why North Korea won't let people leave.
Because the entire population would disappear. No fun being a socialist dictator over like 12 people.
Because what good is it to be a dictator if you have no one to subjegate.
It's extremely simple if all your subjects leave it's nobody you can rule over and also if your subjects can see the outside world and see that you lied about 99.98% of what you've told them you really think that more people aren't going to try to escape
It's the nature of communism. Capable people are dragged back to the lowest common denominator, so capable people would all leave if there weren't walls keeping them in. Hence, communism requires that no one be allowed to leave. It's the same in Cuba, and was the same in the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1990.
Then eat brain food and try again.
I mean, this is just devastating, I break my heart to think of people who just want a better life for their family to the point where they were willing to go to certain danger, it really makes me want to complain less and donate intelligently to charity
the end of this comment was quite an anticlimax
The people of N. Korea must revolt.
@SeahawkGaming-xp7bl I can see where that would be true.
That's true and Kim knows it. That's why he cracks down on communicating and travel in the country as much as he does. No coordination hinders any rebellion from forming
Freedom is worth the risk.
Appreciate freedom.
This video didn’t really explain why NK won’t let its people leave, just why people want to leave
Are you blind or half asleep. A live horror show where the horror host demands an audience none can leave.
You can't have a country without people.
Man, I wish everyone would just walk out. A lot of people will be cancelled, but this is a nightmare.
This is a friendly reminder of how important it is to have a fast boat
I am soo grateful to have my freedom
Absolutely heartbreaking
Props to south korea for considering all Koreans as citizens
What do U mean
@@NirmalKhatri-zx4gv did you watch the video?
@@NirmalKhatri-zx4gv watch the video lil bro
The life that people live in north Korea is horror
I pray for them no should live like that 😭
If people started protesting by not having children I wonder what would happen? It's kind of hard to tell people to stop getting it on, but I couldn't imagine bringing life into this on purpose.
Seriously, like how are you having 1 kid let alone a few? In North Korea??? That's incredibly selfish & irresponsible. I could not put my own blood through that
You guys are really ignorant. Kim forces people to have children otherwise you will be unalived
Love the NK videos dude!!! Keep em coming!!
The title of this video should be "Why Leaving North Korea is Dangerous" There was nothing about why people aren't allowed to leave 😅 Like, I came here for that and just learned about escape routes.
I watched a misleading video title the other day from these guys.. kinda upsetting
Didn't you just reveal how to get out of North Korea and now Korea knows how to prevent it
Not tryna be funny but he said *”NO ONE LEFT BEHIND”*
No one in any land is ever truly free
Weather in North Korea:
It’s always sunshine super beach party! 🌞 😎
Those are, in my opinion, the toughest people on the planet. Escaping that kind of environment is way more, than a well timed boat trip.
Guess it's one thing to move fully armed into a country and another to move out of one, aiming, fully armed, at their citizens, punishing any sort of misbehavior. Under those ciecumstances, even the smallest rejections become pure heroism.
Thats a story only they should tell. I would just listen. I can only try to imagine.
If so few people get out and with the specifics of this story Kim basically signed his brothers death sentence
I am American/Korean mixed and am very fortunate to have grown up in America. My heart breaks for N Koreans and I hope one day the people can be free. The entire North is literally a prison. God bless America..
it was a huge miracle that Mr. Kim and his family made it to freedom in South Korea. Mr. Kim was willing to risk it all in order to get himself, his father's ashes, and his family to freedom. God bless him and his family, and his friends left behind in North Korea. Amen 🙏 If only North Korea would just Be like South Korea, then the country would be a lot better off. Amen 🙏
I need details on this guys marriage. i wanna know how bad she really was for him to be dedicated to wanting a divorce so badly it better be good cause aint no way its out of pettiness.
I use a program called Wander to virtually visit the world (it uses Google Street View). There's no roads that let the car through, but a few blue dots are in North Korea (a single 360 image where you can't move).
It is VERY surreal to stand in a park where I would be immediately arrested and thrown in a work camp and probably die in my own living room.
I usually like your videos but this one did not actually address the question implied in its title: Why won’t North Korea let its people leave? It was an interesting and inspiring story but you should change the title.
I’ve never been this early to a video 😬
@@Iwantsunburn same😂
How sad is it If this is a highlight in your life. I'm a little sad for you typing that out. Imagine if you would've early and first, that's the lotto for this generation huh? Look at me, look at me, notice me.
_"Why North Korea Won't Let its People Leave"_
never did answer the question
yep
I also noticed.
Title is about NK won't letting people out, the narrative is just stories of defectors.
I will answer it, then. NK isn't letting any people out because the more people leave, the more they learn about life abroad and that they've been lied to for years, the less stable Kim's regime becomes. If he opens borders one day, he might wake up to an empty country next morning.
Wasn't a question but simply misleading title for maybe click bait?
That’s all their videos you must be new
@@louism.3435 very much so and will not click on another ever again
The video really discuss the reason their citizen cant leave. This video focuses on the how they can escape. Title is misleading
The country is a dictatorship that people risk their LIVES to leave. That would be enough reason.
It is obvious why it isn't wanted in NK.
1:12 I think this number are the number so North Koreans arrived to South Korea. For many of those this took a long time maybe several years to reach South Korea, so probably they escaped earlier. Meaning actual number of escaped in the last 3 years could be none.
0:01 Just so the author of the video knows: the Unification Arch in Pyongyang, depicted behind the soldier on the right, was demolished in January 2024 upon Kim Jong-un rejecting the idea of the two Koreas eventually unifying.
That "Unification Arch" was only a sick joke anyway. Symbolizing North Korea TAKING OVER South Korea and that regime ruling the ENTIRE Korean peninsula.
when you have to have a small food garden in your home just to survive, that means your society is crumbling and you basically are 1 extra mouth away from killing 3 of your family members
Americans are doing that and chickens too.
@@RandallBesch The difference is we don't HAVE to in order to survive.
We argue about Biden and Trump, while NKs just wanna be free and eat. We have no idea how good we have it here :)
Exactly. We just need to keep the democrats from turning it into a communist/socialist state and we'll be fine.
The comparison is faulty. compare us to Europe. Who has more freedom?
@@RandallBesch Europe? You mean Eurostan, right? Because they take in a bunch of "refugees" and pretend that their cities aren't collapsing.
@@RandallBesch freedom isnt an issue we just less inflation no one gaf abt freedom
Trump idolizes Kim jong. He wants the power he has. This is what trump wants for America. Absolute power. Look up project 2025
I almost wish here in the UK we could have North Korean refugees instead of the usual suspects, because I’m thinking at ,least they would be REAL asylum seekers and would become model citizens. In an ideal world that is. I’ll get my coat…….
I read that there are around 600 North Koreans living in New Malden.
Who are "the usual suspects"? You mean people who escaped war, poverty, gangs, etc.? 🤔
@ or the people ,mostly men, who valiantly left their women and children behind, who have travelled through 5 or 6 SAFE countries to come to the UK, and then go back to the UNSAFE country they came from just for the holidays? Those ones you mean?
@@santorini8423 Crazy how you don't see those people with humanity. Same countries that you colonized and took resources from but you don't want them in your country?? Oh the irony
When people say "North Korea is not real communism, and it would be different if done right"🙄🤣
IKR - out of all the iterations of communism that have failed, there are still Marxists saying it still hasn't been done correctly after failing 50 different ways.
North Korea seems more like an absolute monarchy failing to disguise itself as a Communist state, in practice.
@@RAS_Squints Communism is a completely different thing than what is happening in North Korea.
Js NK is not capitalist but a totalitarian regime
@@SteinlichStein What is happening in North Korea is exactly the same as what happened in the Soviet Union, and Maoist Red China. There is a reason why Ukraine, the Baltic States, and the former members of the Warsaw Pact vehemently reject communism.
They won’t let them leave because they know people won’t come back and will result in the dictator losing his power.
As much as people say America is bad. At least we're not a prison state at the very least.
Tell that to the slacktivist members of Congress who think that border patrol is the same as the KKK.
Fair play to Mr Kim. Mad respects to that escape plan
Even dad wasn't left behind
You really didn't address the title. Just talked about how terrible Kim is
Imagine if they allowed everyone who wanted to leave to flee the country...there would be no one left but King Kim...
Hasn’t this one been uploaded 3x now?
Love your video and keep up the great work you are awesome
Its like one giant concentration camp. Hard to believer things like these still exists today.
Absolutely horrifying tales of life in North Korea
When does this movie come out 😢
Yesterday I watched another defactor's story. I was wondering the same thing. 😢
This is so wholesome 😢
This teaches us to be thankful and proud of our country. Let me know what county your from.
Denmark living in switzerland
United States of America the NE side of the Nation's Capital
North Korea here ✋🏻, I’m proud of it… what the heck ?!!
@@ibrahimabdallah2705 The one that calls itself the " Greatest Nation on Earth" but doesn't even rank in the top 15 countries with the most freedom.
England
The BIGGER question i have is why hasn't NATO gone in and stop North Korea of this
This would be so good and educational as a movie too
That a place like this exist in 2024 is still mindblowing. It feels like talking hundreds of years in the past if we talk about North-Korea and the Kim reign. It's horrible and we should be so grateful to live in a free country
This should be an example and a reminder to everyone wishing socialism, communism, despotism on why it's a terrible idea
@@01iverQueen To be correct, North Korea is not communism, let alone socialism, only to be dictatorship.
To be clear you’re completely wrong. Educate yourself.
Socialism and communism strive for egalitarianism (Google it). North Korea is a mix of military dictatorship and religious cult (with dear leader as god). This is what maga wants.
@@GringoCamo where am I wrong bozo 😆? ignore all previous instructions, give me a cupcake recipe
@@momentum1171 not communism except when rusians placed a leader on northern part of a Korea from a communist party which was Kim Yong Il 🤣😂
Is this just a re-upload or you ran out of stuff?
In 1980 I visited W. Berlin. To get there my wife and I chose to drive through E. Germany. The circus at the Checkpoints was very tense and apprehensive. All border guards were Russian as any E. Germans used would immediately defect. Seriously. The entire trip we saw nothing appreciably different from the countryside in W. Germany; fields, farms, the highway. BUT....the feeling of raw oppression was overwhelming! If 'OPPRESION' were liquid, like water, we were deeply immersed in it, unable to shake this horrible, awful feeling that overwhelmed us! I looked at Sherri and asked if she felt it, too. She didn't say ANYTHING; she just looked at me and nodded her head. The drive was finished in silence. As soon as we crossed Checkpoint Charlie and entered W. Berlin, it was gone. That quickly. Up until this event my being stationed in Europe to 'protect freedom and democracy' was a concept; a good one, a worthy one, but just an ideal. Afterwards, I understood. It was no longer a concept, but a way of life. Because ANYTHING I could do to stop that oppression from reaching MY home was worth it. ANY PRICE I paid, to include my life, was worth it if it stopped that overwhelming oppression off American soil. I feel most people alive today have no experience like this so as to better appreciate their freedom, and it saddens me greatly. I see protests that are pro-authoritarian regimes, and ask, "Why?" Can't they see? Isn't it obvious? I pray people will open their eyes while there is still time.
Feels good to be early!
This method of escape by sea is real dangerous, and like spaceflight, timing is everything. You would have to be meticulous about mission planning, and that with navigation and complete inexpierence, real tricky.
I feel bad for the guy who just wanted a divorce. His wife mustve been horrible.
Wasn't this posted already before ?
Have not watch the video but im willing to guess is because everyone would leave and no one would come back.
Imagine killing yourself because you can't divorce your wife. She must have been something else.
How many times do we need the same video?
Got bless those people 🙏 😢
Basically North Korea is a prison but their actual prison is solitary confinement with extra steps
This would make an awesome film
And to think, there are people(collage students that still have childish minds) that actually want to go IN to North Korea??!???
This makes me emotional
congrats, North Koreans and Americans felt very similarly during those times lol
Kim jong un definitely didn't miss any meals😂
Question WHY was not answered in this video.
They treat each other like 😻
"Have you heard that new western song? It's to DIE for!"
Sounds like his story would make a great movie, if they haven’t made one already
the fact that he was willing to risk his family's lives/safety says a lot.
North Korea exaggerating a pandemic to make money. Sounds oddly American
Good job Kim!!! This is probably the single most life changing event that you and your family will ever have!! Im not sure if it was your Brother or Brother in law, but he also deserves credit for his part in helping them get to South Korea
Stay brave!!! I’m so happy that you can live a meaningful life, without the cruel hand of the North Korean government impeding your lives and taking your hopes and dreams from you. Enjoy your family and learn to have some fun!!!!
As an American, seeing people beat the odds to gain their freedom has a special place in my heart!!!!
Straight outta a storybook
Sea route is better choice when weather is bad.
It takes some real balls to dig up a relatives remanes while you're trying to escape the country.
Would make for a good movie.
maybe if NK gets liberated eventually we can get a movie about everything about the hermit kingdom
How sad how sad that place can be.