hey drew! i've been following you for a few years now, just wanted to share that i'm actually from dandong! (although i've been living overseas for about 18 years now). that weird looking circular orange building you see from across the river actually belonged to my great-grandparents before the start of the korean war. they used to do business in north korea, and that building was a hotel-restaurant. however since the start of the war, the building has been vacated and bought over by the north korean government! please help me bump this comment so drew will see it someday!!
The reason you are being asked to delete these footage is to protect North Koreans in China, but also for your own safety. Some North Koreans will do whatever it takes to protect their identities because they have nothing to lose. And there must have been some foreign spies in Dandong, especially at a time when the situation on the Korean Peninsula was very tense.
Exactly. It’s just frustrating that westerners are just so paranoid of being “watched”. Like dude, you’re nobody, no one cares about you unless you break the law.
2:08 to be sitting beside someone who both of your grand fathers were enemies is crazy can you imagine how this world has changed . Now I bet you they crossed paths when they were alive if not you guys wouldn’t have crossed paths in your life
He kept saying he come to see north Korean, taste north Korea food, north Korea culture in the video, all he actually experienced is just Chinese ethnic minority Korean people. They have been living here for generations and centuries. They're locals. He apparently trying to make it more appealing to western viewers.
Agree. One more thing to add is that there are also other ethnic minorities in Dandong, including Manchu, Xibe, Mongolian, and Hui. These four along with the Korean-Chinese are the major ethnic minorities in this city. The population of Korean-Chinese in the city is about 20,000, which is not a big number.
Minus the skies being so grey the country itself is so beautiful. It’s sad on how the ruling class decides who we speak to. Government destroys humanity because we the people allow it to happen. It is not the individual person the average person that is mean it is the government that trains the minds of people starting from a child. So here in America you are slowly and methodically trained to hate other countries so when they open the borders to other countries we are trained to hate fight each other. So in the end is to divide & conquer the people. In the Bible it says my people know who they are because of lack of knowledge. I’m not a Bible scholar I do not memorize scripture but one thing I do know is having faith in whom who created the earth. Once again I love watching & learning different cultures the people you meet are such beautiful people. I would to be able to see another country.
@@larissatom6910 FYI Changbai County and Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture are also places where you can get a glimpse (or probably a better view) of North Korea.
To be honest, there are not so many Korean Chinese people living in Dandong, they account for less than 1% of Dandong's population. Most Korean Chinese live in Yanbian and Changbai, close to the northeastern border of North Korea. There you can feel the real Korean Chinese culture. The Korean signs you can see in Dandong are basically written for real North Koreans, who had close personnel and economic exchanges with Dandong before Covid, since it is North Korea's largest gateway to the outside world.
Filming North Koreans in Dandong is actually crazy. it's somewhat a life/death problem if your film exposed the identity of the North Korean and he might get caught and sent back to North Korea.
China will not catch North Koreans who are law-abiding and don't want run to South Korea, for the ones want run to South Korea, China will try to drive them to Mongolia or Thailand, and let them go South Korea from Mongolia or Thailand not China. In addition, South Korea does not care about North Koreans at all, voice is big and action is small, only accepting 100 North Koreans per half year, if they really want, China can send 1,000 North Koreans to South Korea per year, especially in winter.
If that person's is a police officer, he won't let you delete the video because the video will be evidence. The reason he made you delete the video must be to protect other people.
@@sitdowndogbreath not likely drug, china sees drug smuggling as bad as murder, 1.8 oz cocaine = death punishment. Doing robbery is better risk/return ratio tbh
I went into North Korea on a budget tour from Dandong in 2018. Dandong didn't seem as sketchy then as Drew makes it out to be in the video, with the exception that as a foreigner I got a lot more stares from locals than any other place in China. Just another Chinese city that happens to border with North Korea. I enjoyed my time there. A lot of the attractions are in walking distance. When you look at North Korea from the broken bridge the idea of going inside is super exciting but when you actually take the train over to Sinŭiju the reality isn't quite as thrilling as expectations. Never left the train in Sinŭiju. All of the immigration is done on the train as the immigration officer comes on board. Not much to see of Sinŭiju outside the train window. Just a clean train platform with Some North Korean guards having a laugh among themselves. from there to Pyongyang it's just alot of brown farmland and locals on bikes. When you reach Pyongyang, that's when it gets more interesting.
@@Youkai_graphics I've seen a few videos of youtubers hyping up Dandong. I guess the imagination runs wild when something fascinating is so close yet seemingly unreachable.
This video is a bit too dramatic, we just came back from Dandong and it is just a nice little tourist city with surreal views over the North Korea. We even had a wave to each other with the Korean guys on the other side of the border ✌️
North KKKOREA is the little puppet of China. With China help,the criminal dictator of N.KKKOREA is keeping his 26 million victims in his own concentration camp in place. So China is the biggest player between life and death or starvation in the lives of 26 million people….followed by Russia.
There is (was?) a boat tour just north of city center where you can charter a small speed boat and go cruise into North Korea. Back in 2015 I took this boat and went into the housing compounds and saw their daily life within 20yards. A military officer with a gun even shyly waved at our boat as we cruised by. We also encountered a North Korean vendor who rowed his boat beside ours to sell items from North Korea. Now I think about it, maybe a bit risky (if the boat sank we would be walking onto North Korean land) but when you’re young and curious there wasn’t much hesitation to hop on that tour boat.
I just recently watched The Little Chinese Everywhere channel content about China North Korea border , but her take on it is very calm without prejudice 😊 she doesn’t make a big deal out of it and she is very thorough and speaks very well. It is very interesting these borders .
Hey this is better than not going to DKRP man or better than going depending on how bad it gets. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share your experiences Drew. I just came back from the Philippines and I loved it!
Dandong is just a border tourist city, a beautiful and clean small city, without any special features! Cameras can be found in any city, but Dandong is a border city with slightly more cameras, which is normal!
The so-called "North Koreans" you thought you were talking to at that street restaurant were actually Chinese citizens of Korean ethnicity. You can't just assume Korean-looking people you meet in China are North Koreans. Most likely, they aren't.
Well, you could assume that in a border town. Maybe not in the rest of China, but you can make the assumption at a border town. I wonder if the Korean Chinese still speak Korean anf if so, how different does it sound compared to NK and SK. To be honest, it is hard to keep track of different ethnic groups in China, since there are so many groups and languages and different points in history. Much like Chinese communities in the West, some people are descendants of very early Chinese railroad workers from the 1800's and others came along during the 20th century and even now.
This entire video was just a ignorant white boy acting orientalist and racist. So disrespectful to the people he’s exploiting for views. Glad I haven’t watched any of his other videos.
Good point!! The guy is just being dramatic trying to get more views..... Tons of Korean descendants have been living in that region for generations.... got nothing to do with North Korea!!! They are simply the Korean minority group with Chinese nationality!!
at around 10:00 minutes, there is no way you convinced a security official that you are not a spy. like someone else had mentioned, this is overly dramatic.
Bro, there are 56 ethnic groups in China, and the Korean ethnic group is one of them. I have a very good friend who is Korean ethnic, but he is Chinese.
@@Ben-.- This is normal. Han culture has a profound influence on neighboring countries, such as South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, etc., not to mention other ethnic groups in China. We do not reject the customs of other ethnic groups. In fact, if you look at the ancient buildings of ethnic minorities in Yunnan, they are also in Han style.The Tibetans in Sichuan and Yunnan have also been assimilated into the Han culture, which is not a problem; they still retain their own ethnic customs and habits.Muslims do not celebrate the Han Chinese New Year, they celebrate their own festivals.
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The border between China and North Korea is the longest border in North Korea, measuring 1,352 kilometers (or 840 miles) by distance, it follows the rivers of Amnok/Yalu and Tumen rivers.
The bridge on which we see trucks from/to the DPRK also has railway tracks. I took a train from Pyongyang to Beijing a few years ago (but I’m not from the USA).
wow, the place of the next video is my hometown, what I want you know is that chongqing is so cool, not only the spicy food, but also the moutain and terrain, welcome to chongqing!!!
One thing that would be interesting, but really difficult to do would be hearing from the truck drivers crossing over the river or the train operators. That would be fascinating.
@@drewbinsky you are a clown. Do you not understand why they don't want you filming them? And then you act like a victim. You have no respect for these people.
It’s a very good comment that your guide makes about the animals don’t have borders, but humans do. Actually we have a Dutch song which lyrics translates: ‘the birds fly from east to West Berlin. They are not called back, they are not shot down. Over the wall, over the iron curtain. Because sometimes they want to be in the west, and sometimes in the east. Because there’s bread in the west, and sometimes there’s is bread in the east’ Her comment reminded me of this song (Over de muur - Klein Orkest).
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Dandong city have 2.4 millions population, ethnic Han is 1.53 millions, ethnic Manchu is 816 K, ethnic Mongol is 30 K, ethnic Hui muslim is 17 K, ethnic Korean is only 16 K.
that's a pretty safe and touristic area. there are thousands of tourists there and in other China/NK border cities, mostly south koreans that also visit Baekdusan, a sacred mountain for them that is in Chinese territory.
drew you should visit overseas territories like christmas island and niue even though they arent big tourist places they have wonderful sites the prices might be deadly
For westerners, nothing is more scary than a Chinese security guard grandpa that doesn't even have a taser to defend himself. Lmao. It's like they trying to give that grandpa some aura with scary zooms and music. Lol.
@@gothicgolem2947 all the stuff your media told you? damn. how scary. I wonder if Chinese police come with lights and sirens surrounding you with ARs point at you.
Wowa... that was certainly a stressful moment there sitting at the table. Thankfully they didn't find the camera and delete all of your footage. Dandong is such a fascinating border town!
I went to DanDong about 20 years ago, while visiting China. I lived in Taiwan and speak pretty good Chinese, but it was my first trip to the mainland. My overriding memory was how the Chinese side was bustling, especially at night, with bright lights, music, restaurants and families out walking along the promenade. Meanwhile, just across the river, it was deserted. A city, but no lights, no people other than occasional guards. They even had a ferrris wheel though it never moved in the couple of days I was there. Occasionally I would see lights at night, but it was only ever trucks or trains going back or forth. I had previously been to the NK border with South Korea, and that was a very different feeling, as the NK side was trying to put on a show to make things look better, although their "propaganda" village was half-built, stalled thorugh lack of resources and also deserted.
I have seen many North Koreans and Burmese trying to cross over the fence between their countries and China just for survival and basic security. God bless them 😢
@@NoComment-hh3rnthey don’t cross over in dandong, if you go up north a little there’s zero guard on the Chinese side, very easy to cross. I say this because my hometown is near there and everybody in the village has seen North Koreans crossing illegally, it’s no big deal, majority of them are not political refugees just people trying to get a better life. Sad thing is lots of the women get human trafficked once they crossed the border by their smugglers.
They would be risking themselves for sure crossing that border illegally. Since Kim Jong Um came into power in 2011 I read that land mines were planted all along the border on the N. Korean side to take out those who attempt to flee to China.
Thanks for illuminating this part of the planet for us, Drew. So interesting. In Tangier, Morocco I experienced similar treatment, being totally ignored and never waited on in a restaurant filled with men.
It's so hilariously funny, old Drew kidd, you blurred your (North) Korean Chinese guide's face that you claimed to protect her, but you are fully aware that there are CCTV cameras everywhere!! So???
@@DDDrumpf wdym "so?" CCTV footage stays in China, for Chinese government officials only. RUclips footage can be seen by anyone. It's always best to make the amount of eyes as small as possible.
Thanks for the memories... I visited Dandong 10 years ago, sharing your obsession. Great Wall looks fantastic here; I missed that one. A perfect excuse to go back!
The sign saying "For the hapiness of you *and your family* please be careful not to cross the fence." Gave me shivers. The fact that your family is affected by crossing a fence is such a profound thought to me...
The US military on General MacArthur's command bombed parts of Dandong. This was when the Chinese volunteer army moved in. The amazing thing about the Korean war was that the Americans had complete control of the air space because the Chinese didn't have planes at the time! The US also had the support of many allies providing both military and aid support. One would think that the US would have won this battle but it was pushed all the way back to the 28th parallel border, and that concluded the Korean war. Also, the bit when the the South Korean said that parts of Dandong was wierd and a little scary, parts of Seoul and the rest of south Korea looks like that as well lol
yeah! it was a bit weird because i've seen many videos from some areas in Seoul that look very messy, slumlike, way worse than that alley they were walking on while saying that, haha!
Drew Waltzes his way in and tries to film and talk to North Koreans on the chi/nkor border than gets suprised when he gets approached by officials….drew is very ignorant
Question- how are the North Korean people in Dandong? Why are so many there? Are they all there by escaping or are some aloud to go for work etc, thx❤ another epic video drew ❤🎉
@@Reneekincaid He didn’t mention that there are millions of ethnic Koreans living in China for hundreds of years. He didn’t differentiate in this video the real North Koreans with ethnic Koreans who are Chinese citizens. Most of the Koreans that you saw in this video are actually ethnic Korean who are Chinese citizens.
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When people say North Korea is the 1980s China, they mean economically and politically. China has politically reformed and is obviously an economic giant today.
@@Squared_Table They are more capitalist these days, for sure, but to say there is no communism in China at all is ridiculous lol. Their president is literally a member of the Communist Party of China. China is an authoritarian dictatorship. I have many friends who have left China to come to America(legally), as well as an aunt who left China and came here, eventually meeting and marrying my uncle... None of them have nice things to say about China's government and how they treat the people.
I am a Chinese. I find that many people mistake China's system for North Korea. In fact, it is very different. Before 1978, the systems in China and North Korea were almost identical. Later, China began its reform and opening-up policy, which was fully implemented in 1982. Since then, China has been accepting new ideologies until today.,
@@biden320 Hello robot, you need a program that can think for itself. Because of you, I believe there will always be a market for Western propaganda to demonize China.
Why you chose to lie to the audience? You and I both know that The guy asked you to delete the footage was a local Korean Chinese, NOT a North Korean. Why you said he was a North Korean.
8:59 - Drew, I suggest you learn some basic Mandarin before you accuse that lady of being "cold"... she simply said "I do not understand"...... why didn't you get your local lady guide to speak to the waitress??? Don't be so dramatic please........................
The border footage with the people walking in circles is so chilling. I just looked up the amusement park and it looks to be completely abandoned and run down. Where they were walking looks like some type of pool or swimming area. And what is crazier, is there is a "Customs" government office right outside the park. The satellite view looks straight out of a horror movie.
Regarding your comment about the cameras, my assumption is that they are divided into different security sectors. It is likely that some individuals monitor one specific area while others monitor a different area.
@@drewbinsky Why? The United States has used its economic and military hegemony to impose comprehensive sanctions and trade embargoes on North Korea for decades, making North Korea a closed country. Now an American is looking at and photographing this poor country from a God's perspective. Is this showing off his achievements?
Its the fact we can't travel to North Korea is what makes it so interesting and bizarre. Cause the government will most likely k**l you in north Korea. Use your Brain
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If you ever got the chance, would you visit North Korea? I'm curious to hear what you have to say!
fuck no
Yes 100%. I am planning in the next 5 years to go to NK. 100% Drew..
@@trewlawson5687 Go for it man...
@drewbinsky Unseen China is up on the border with NK and Russia. You guys did a great job together. More of that good stuff!
@@City_Tours_Jonathan nice!
hey drew! i've been following you for a few years now, just wanted to share that i'm actually from dandong! (although i've been living overseas for about 18 years now). that weird looking circular orange building you see from across the river actually belonged to my great-grandparents before the start of the korean war. they used to do business in north korea, and that building was a hotel-restaurant. however since the start of the war, the building has been vacated and bought over by the north korean government!
please help me bump this comment so drew will see it someday!!
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That’s so wild !!! Thank you so much for sharing 😊!!
Be careful Drew
Bro really that’s so cool thank for sharing 🙂🙂😉☺️
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The reason you are being asked to delete these footage is to protect North Koreans in China, but also for your own safety. Some North Koreans will do whatever it takes to protect their identities because they have nothing to lose. And there must have been some foreign spies in Dandong, especially at a time when the situation on the Korean Peninsula was very tense.
@@evdealerkennylin6561 The motherland needs protecting the womb at all costs
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There is a US military base in Pyeongtaek, This Amerikan worked in Pyeongtaek for 2 years. Something feels strange, doesn't it?
Exactly. It’s just frustrating that westerners are just so paranoid of being “watched”. Like dude, you’re nobody, no one cares about you unless you break the law.
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She said she don’t understand. It is not mean she doesn’t want to talk
She said "he cannot understand Korean".
Yeah, she said "they cannot understand" and "they are chinese"
2:08 to be sitting beside someone who both of your grand fathers were enemies is crazy can you imagine how this world has changed . Now I bet you they crossed paths when they were alive if not you guys wouldn’t have crossed paths in your life
Grand fathers were not enemies..The dictators brainwashed them to go to war.. Non of them wanted to kill
That’s makes zero logical sense
She bout to get revenge for grand pappy 😂
The world isn’t a conspiracy theory 💀
17:21 “It so boring bc you don’t have WiFi” …that had me rolling
He kept saying he come to see north Korean, taste north Korea food, north Korea culture in the video, all he actually experienced is just Chinese ethnic minority Korean people. They have been living here for generations and centuries. They're locals. He apparently trying to make it more appealing to western viewers.
Agree. One more thing to add is that there are also other ethnic minorities in Dandong, including Manchu, Xibe, Mongolian, and Hui. These four along with the Korean-Chinese are the major ethnic minorities in this city. The population of Korean-Chinese in the city is about 20,000, which is not a big number.
If you want to experience N. Korea, Dandong is closest you can get since the actual N. Korea is closed to westerners.
Minus the skies being so grey the country itself is so beautiful. It’s sad on how the ruling class decides who we speak to. Government destroys humanity because we the people allow it to happen. It is not the individual person the average person that is mean it is the government that trains the minds of people starting from a child.
So here in America you are slowly and methodically trained to hate other countries so when they open the borders to other countries we are trained to hate fight each other. So in the end is to divide & conquer the people. In the Bible it says my people know who they are because of lack of knowledge. I’m not a Bible scholar I do not memorize scripture but one thing I do know is having faith in whom who created the earth.
Once again I love watching & learning different cultures the people you meet are such beautiful people. I would to be able to see another country.
@@larissatom6910 FYI Changbai County and Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture are also places where you can get a glimpse (or probably a better view) of North Korea.
To be honest, there are not so many Korean Chinese people living in Dandong, they account for less than 1% of Dandong's population. Most Korean Chinese live in Yanbian and Changbai, close to the northeastern border of North Korea. There you can feel the real Korean Chinese culture.
The Korean signs you can see in Dandong are basically written for real North Koreans, who had close personnel and economic exchanges with Dandong before Covid, since it is North Korea's largest gateway to the outside world.
Filming North Koreans in Dandong is actually crazy. it's somewhat a life/death problem if your film exposed the identity of the North Korean and he might get caught and sent back to North Korea.
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He’s making money, why does he care?
@@FloraNovax3ya agreed
China will not catch North Koreans who are law-abiding and don't want run to South Korea, for the ones want run to South Korea, China will try to drive them to Mongolia or Thailand, and let them go South Korea from Mongolia or Thailand not China. In addition, South Korea does not care about North Koreans at all, voice is big and action is small, only accepting 100 North Koreans per half year, if they really want, China can send 1,000 North Koreans to South Korea per year, especially in winter.
if he gets coaght.he really will cry like a baby..you can hear him talking he was scared like a puppy..
Glad you had a great time, glad you didn't delete your videos.
Love the content drew, keep up the great work and may God bless you ❤
If that person's is a police officer, he won't let you delete the video because the video will be evidence. The reason he made you delete the video must be to protect other people.
Maybe is drug-related
right, I was thinking a smuggler considering the guy said he arrived yesterday..but that's unlikely too since he wouldn't be in the open like that
@@sitdowndogbreath not likely drug, china sees drug smuggling as bad as murder, 1.8 oz cocaine = death punishment. Doing robbery is better risk/return ratio tbh
I went into North Korea on a budget tour from Dandong in 2018. Dandong didn't seem as sketchy then as Drew makes it out to be in the video, with the exception that as a foreigner I got a lot more stares from locals than any other place in China. Just another Chinese city that happens to border with North Korea. I enjoyed my time there. A lot of the attractions are in walking distance. When you look at North Korea from the broken bridge the idea of going inside is super exciting but when you actually take the train over to Sinŭiju the reality isn't quite as thrilling as expectations. Never left the train in Sinŭiju. All of the immigration is done on the train as the immigration officer comes on board. Not much to see of Sinŭiju outside the train window. Just a clean train platform with Some North Korean guards having a laugh among themselves. from there to Pyongyang it's just alot of brown farmland and locals on bikes. When you reach Pyongyang, that's when it gets more interesting.
of course, but as you know, youtuber need some clicks, so making it seems sketchy is the way to get clicks.
@@Youkai_graphics I've seen a few videos of youtubers hyping up Dandong. I guess the imagination runs wild when something fascinating is so close yet seemingly unreachable.
North Koreans on bikes seems to be a common theme here x)
Experiences differ you know. China and North-Korea are sketchy to begin with in comparison to what we are used to XD
@@-_YouMayFind_- Sketchy?? Well, have you even ever been visiting both countries, old kidd?? Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions!!
This video is a bit too dramatic, we just came back from Dandong and it is just a nice little tourist city with surreal views over the North Korea. We even had a wave to each other with the Korean guys on the other side of the border ✌️
Depends your perceptive. He is filming the video from a place wanting refuge and once United to a very seperated and deadly situation
If you want a good video on this, watch Little Chinese Everywhere’s video “Where China meets North Korea”. Not sensationalised at all
Super dramatic, dude acts like he discovered something new, but you can find hundreds of videos on RUclips about this city.
If you are not dramatic in RUclips, no one will want to see your videos.
North KKKOREA is the little puppet of China.
With China help,the criminal dictator of N.KKKOREA is keeping his 26 million victims in his own concentration camp in place.
So China is the biggest player between life and death or starvation in the lives of 26 million people….followed by Russia.
"the china flag with the communist symbol on it" bro that is the flag of the USSR
might as well call it "the communism flag". China has kinda taken the mantle of the communist project anyway
it’s the flag of the Chinese communist party
no it's not. It's the CCP flag. Similar to the USSR flag but without the star above the hammer and sickle
The ussr symbol is in the middle lil bro
That was definetly the USSR Flag, it had the Hammer and the Sickle.
There is (was?) a boat tour just north of city center where you can charter a small speed boat and go cruise into North Korea. Back in 2015 I took this boat and went into the housing compounds and saw their daily life within 20yards. A military officer with a gun even shyly waved at our boat as we cruised by. We also encountered a North Korean vendor who rowed his boat beside ours to sell items from North Korea. Now I think about it, maybe a bit risky (if the boat sank we would be walking onto North Korean land) but when you’re young and curious there wasn’t much hesitation to hop on that tour boat.
I just recently watched The Little Chinese Everywhere channel content about China North Korea border , but her take on it is very calm without prejudice 😊 she doesn’t make a big deal out of it and she is very thorough and speaks very well. It is very interesting these borders .
Fair enough mate
Fair enough mate
You know american youtuber always make some surprise
@@84jordie the guy has been to North Korea , he was calmer there than he is now in Dandong
Yes! But that's the problem with Western media, either (i) doing propaganda, or (ii) sensationism for clicks? 🤦♀🤦♀😜😜
The lady said "They can't understand because they're Chinese"
The reason why windows should be closed during takeoff is that Dandong Airport is also a military airport.
It happens in most airports in china cuz even the airspace is military controllled no civilians can operate their private plane like a cessna
Fair enough mate
Fair enough mate
Fair enough mate
Fair enough mate
Hey this is better than not going to DKRP man or better than going depending on how bad it gets. Thanks for taking the time and effort to share your experiences Drew. I just came back from the Philippines and I loved it!
You should use a solid colour block if you want to hide people, often times a blur can be reverse engineered to show a clear image again.
Dandong is just a border tourist city, a beautiful and clean small city, without any special features!
Cameras can be found in any city, but Dandong is a border city with slightly more cameras, which is normal!
lol
A "tourist city" but "without any special features". The feature is NK. It is interesting that you can get NK souvenirs there.
@@mejsjalvhe means that there's nothing special to the city itself and its just like any other small Chinese city
If it has more cameras thats not normal tho
@@gothicgolem2947丹东可是间谍之城😂
The so-called "North Koreans" you thought you were talking to at that street restaurant were actually Chinese citizens of Korean ethnicity. You can't just assume Korean-looking people you meet in China are North Koreans. Most likely, they aren't.
Well, you could assume that in a border town. Maybe not in the rest of China, but you can make the assumption at a border town. I wonder if the Korean Chinese still speak Korean anf if so, how different does it sound compared to NK and SK. To be honest, it is hard to keep track of different ethnic groups in China, since there are so many groups and languages and different points in history. Much like Chinese communities in the West, some people are descendants of very early Chinese railroad workers from the 1800's and others came along during the 20th century and even now.
@@mejsjalv Most Korean Chinese still speak Korean, their vocabulary is slightly different because they got more loan words from Chinese.
This entire video was just a ignorant white boy acting orientalist and racist. So disrespectful to the people he’s exploiting for views. Glad I haven’t watched any of his other videos.
im suspecting they're NK spies/police/military
Good point!! The guy is just being dramatic trying to get more views..... Tons of Korean descendants have been living in that region for generations.... got nothing to do with North Korea!!! They are simply the Korean minority group with Chinese nationality!!
at around 10:00 minutes, there is no way you convinced a security official that you are not a spy. like someone else had mentioned, this is overly dramatic.
True, he probably wasn’t an official… if he was, this guy would probably be detained
thank you for an interesting report
As a Chinese the woman said they don’t understand their Chinese
Bro, there are 56 ethnic groups in China, and the Korean ethnic group is one of them. I have a very good friend who is Korean ethnic, but he is Chinese.
Yes
56 ethnic groups but China is very homogenous in general because over 90% of the population is ethnic Chinese (Han).
@@Ben-.- This is normal. Han culture has a profound influence on neighboring countries, such as South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, etc., not to mention other ethnic groups in China. We do not reject the customs of other ethnic groups. In fact, if you look at the ancient buildings of ethnic minorities in Yunnan, they are also in Han style.The Tibetans in Sichuan and Yunnan have also been assimilated into the Han culture, which is not a problem; they still retain their own ethnic customs and habits.Muslims do not celebrate the Han Chinese New Year, they celebrate their own festivals.
@@Ben-.-你没有考虑到人口总数，14亿的百分之十也有1亿多人了
PORT OF DANDONG
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the most iconic Chinese TV ad... long-timers will appreciate this one from back when we watched CCTV9
“There are so many CCTVs right here😲"
Blah what you thinking??? This is a border line man
true bruh also some of them just road and speedin cams
This ignorant guy is really as if first time travelling to foreign land. Has no common sense
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Theres cctv all over the US nothing out of the ordinary
Very interesting. Thank you very much for this video :)
Good job man risking ❤
The border between China and North Korea is the longest border in North Korea, measuring 1,352 kilometers (or 840 miles) by distance, it follows the rivers of Amnok/Yalu and Tumen rivers.
Indeed
Hats off to the ppl who watched a 21 min video in 2 mins
lol
Hold Ya FARD 🤯
The bridge on which we see trucks from/to the DPRK also has railway tracks. I took a train from Pyongyang to Beijing a few years ago (but I’m not from the USA).
I found this to be so interesting. Thank you
wow, the place of the next video is my hometown, what I want you know is that chongqing is so cool, not only the spicy food, but also the moutain and terrain, welcome to chongqing!!!
One thing that would be interesting, but really difficult to do would be hearing from the truck drivers crossing over the river or the train operators. That would be fascinating.
This video is 21 minutes long.... 2mins published and already hundreds of comments saying "nice video"
gotta get them paid comments in
bots maybe?
@@nickgibb4687 Those are bots. Creators can't do nothing about it. It's a big issue at the moment.
ok
@@drewbinskyit could be bots or people just have notifications on
I can't imagine being one of the last Americans to visit North Korea.
so wild right?
@@drewbinskyyeah wild for sure!
Beaucoup de préjugés anti nord coréens
Not really. But there is some tension because of the recent spying from a couple of North Americans.
@@drewbinsky you are a clown. Do you not understand why they don't want you filming them? And then you act like a victim. You have no respect for these people.
It’s a very good comment that your guide makes about the animals don’t have borders, but humans do.
Actually we have a Dutch song which lyrics translates: ‘the birds fly from east to West Berlin. They are not called back, they are not shot down.
Over the wall, over the iron curtain. Because sometimes they want to be in the west, and sometimes in the east.
Because there’s bread in the west, and sometimes there’s is bread in the east’
Her comment reminded me of this song (Over de muur - Klein Orkest).
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this is really neat to watch that you got to do this thank you for doing this and recording them and uploading them
?? are you kidding me lol
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But then, what do you do? How do you come about that in that period?
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Really good video. Didn't plan on watching whole thing but it went by so fast!👍👌
Your videos really help me escape the world for 20 minutes and I appreciate all the work you put into them. Thanks!
Glad you like them!
Escape the world? LMFAO! Into a scummmmyyyy ass parasite on the internet? That's a sad life mate
Beautiful video drew.
Thanks for sharing!
See you next week 😊
Dandong city have 2.4 millions population, ethnic Han is 1.53 millions, ethnic Manchu is 816 K, ethnic Mongol is 30 K, ethnic Hui muslim is 17 K, ethnic Korean is only 16 K.
😂 they probably spit in your cold noodles
Do you think they do that with Norwegians too?
really interesting to see!! putting this on my travel bucketlist... thanks for sharing drew!
You have a pair man for just being in that area. Thanks for the footage...very interesting.
that's a pretty safe and touristic area. there are thousands of tourists there and in other China/NK border cities, mostly south koreans that also visit Baekdusan, a sacred mountain for them that is in Chinese territory.
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drew you should visit overseas territories like christmas island and niue even though they arent big tourist places they have wonderful sites the prices might be deadly
probably wallis and futuna too
Some countries would consider Niue to be separate from New Zealand so I second this
@@Solo-vh9fm oh yeah thats true niue is self governing
For westerners, nothing is more scary than a Chinese security guard grandpa that doesn't even have a taser to defend himself. Lmao. It's like they trying to give that grandpa some aura with scary zooms and music. Lol.
I mean given how close to North Korea he is and the actions and lesdership of China its a valid concern and he threatened to call the police
@@gothicgolem2947 all the stuff your media told you? damn. how scary. I wonder if Chinese police come with lights and sirens surrounding you with ARs point at you.
Wowa... that was certainly a stressful moment there sitting at the table. Thankfully they didn't find the camera and delete all of your footage. Dandong is such a fascinating border town!
Good morning Drew, I Love watching ur Videos. Ingat Palage❤
I went to DanDong about 20 years ago, while visiting China. I lived in Taiwan and speak pretty good Chinese, but it was my first trip to the mainland. My overriding memory was how the Chinese side was bustling, especially at night, with bright lights, music, restaurants and families out walking along the promenade. Meanwhile, just across the river, it was deserted. A city, but no lights, no people other than occasional guards. They even had a ferrris wheel though it never moved in the couple of days I was there.
Occasionally I would see lights at night, but it was only ever trucks or trains going back or forth.
I had previously been to the NK border with South Korea, and that was a very different feeling, as the NK side was trying to put on a show to make things look better, although their "propaganda" village was half-built, stalled thorugh lack of resources and also deserted.
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO!!
Nice video.
i always love your videos. keep this up
VERY cool video. I love how fascinated you are by it all.
That was a really interesting video! Thank you for showing us this city!
I have seen many North Koreans and Burmese trying to cross over the fence between their countries and China just for survival and basic security. God bless them 😢
😂😂😂😂 another propaganda good job man
@@samorayee420 Believe it or not China is a better place to live than Myanmar under a civil war and freaking North Korea.
@@samorayee420 I’m telling you the truth. What’s wrong with you and your brain?
@@NoComment-hh3rnthey don’t cross over in dandong, if you go up north a little there’s zero guard on the Chinese side, very easy to cross. I say this because my hometown is near there and everybody in the village has seen North Koreans crossing illegally, it’s no big deal, majority of them are not political refugees just people trying to get a better life. Sad thing is lots of the women get human trafficked once they crossed the border by their smugglers.
They would be risking themselves for sure crossing that border illegally. Since Kim Jong Um came into power in 2011 I read that land mines were planted all along the border on the N. Korean side to take out those who attempt to flee to China.
Thanks for illuminating this part of the planet for us, Drew. So interesting. In Tangier, Morocco I experienced similar treatment, being totally ignored and never waited on in a restaurant filled with men.
Nobody ignored him, they told him they don’t speak English so can’t have a conversation, you learn Chinese nobody is ignoring you
I like how the one chick keeps it real, North Korea is really boring.
Wow! That's crazy n horrific experience..Good you were able to get out!😳👍
This kind of video fascinates me. I considered this as one of my windows to the world, always curious and in awe all the time.
Just came back from Dandong couple weeks ago 😁 made a dope video too
nice vid btw i just subbed
Let me try watching your video cu this one ain't it 😂😂
@@chimwemwemoyo9374 you’re very welcome to 😁
It's so hilariously funny, old Drew kidd, you blurred your (North) Korean Chinese guide's face that you claimed to protect her, but you are fully aware that there are CCTV cameras everywhere!! So???
Well, one big difference is that the CCTV footage isn't going up on RUclips, while a RUclipsr's footage does...
@@ReyOfLightsad that you had to explain that to him 😂
@@ReyOfLight So??? He is trying to protect this lady from whom exactly???
@@itsyaboybillnye7136 sad that you can't think more critically, old kidd!!
@@DDDrumpf wdym "so?" CCTV footage stays in China, for Chinese government officials only. RUclips footage can be seen by anyone. It's always best to make the amount of eyes as small as possible.
Are you going to meet Bald in Chongqing? 😅 I just saw his last video and that would be an awesome crossover episode haha
at least bald has done research on history...
I like that English boomer he is a pro pretending to be a noob
You made me laugh 😃 when you were crawling through the BUSHES LOL 😆
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Love you Drew thanks for your content
Thanks for the memories... I visited Dandong 10 years ago, sharing your obsession. Great Wall looks fantastic here; I missed that one. A perfect excuse to go back!
bro you acted like a real spy
The sign saying "For the hapiness of you *and your family* please be careful not to cross the fence." Gave me shivers. The fact that your family is affected by crossing a fence is such a profound thought to me...
So epic! Thanks for making this video
The US military on General MacArthur's command bombed parts of Dandong. This was when the Chinese volunteer army moved in. The amazing thing about the Korean war was that the Americans had complete control of the air space because the Chinese didn't have planes at the time! The US also had the support of many allies providing both military and aid support. One would think that the US would have won this battle but it was pushed all the way back to the 28th parallel border, and that concluded the Korean war.
Also, the bit when the the South Korean said that parts of Dandong was wierd and a little scary, parts of Seoul and the rest of south Korea looks like that as well lol
yeah! it was a bit weird because i've seen many videos from some areas in Seoul that look very messy, slumlike, way worse than that alley they were walking on while saying that, haha!
4:08 That's the flag of the USSR.
Yes, it looks like it, but that is the first flag that the People's Republic of China used during its revolution in the 1950s.
You make everything so big and nervous which is not the real situation
Merci pour votre vidéo de reportage il est vraiment super
WOW thank you for this video
Drew Waltzes his way in and tries to film and talk to North Koreans on the chi/nkor border than gets suprised when he gets approached by officials….drew is very ignorant
Question- how are the North Korean people in Dandong? Why are so many there? Are they all there by escaping or are some aloud to go for work etc, thx❤ another epic video drew ❤🎉
Some are allowed to work in seafood business but need to go home to N. Korea.
@@Reneekincaid He didn’t mention that there are millions of ethnic Koreans living in China for hundreds of years. He didn’t differentiate in this video the real North Koreans with ethnic Koreans who are Chinese citizens. Most of the Koreans that you saw in this video are actually ethnic Korean who are Chinese citizens.
he misinformed you and you believed
@@eminiola7131 not that I believed it I just didn't have anything else to go off of that's why I asked a question to begin with.
There are 55 minorities and Han in China, bro. Like Welsh, Albannaich in UK.
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Cold noodles looks good thanks for sharing. I’m super curious and this was interesting.
When people say North Korea is the 1980s China, they mean economically and politically. China has politically reformed and is obviously an economic giant today.
Politically reformed? In what sense?
@@68Bocahere’s a hint. No communism is practiced in China
@@Squared_Table They are more capitalist these days, for sure, but to say there is no communism in China at all is ridiculous lol. Their president is literally a member of the Communist Party of China. China is an authoritarian dictatorship. I have many friends who have left China to come to America(legally), as well as an aunt who left China and came here, eventually meeting and marrying my uncle... None of them have nice things to say about China's government and how they treat the people.
China nowdays is more like large version of singapore. They do not give f to ideologiea
@@68Boca China has mastered capitalism, they’re so good at it the Americans have to sanction China because the Americans cannot compete
I am a Chinese. I find that many people mistake China's system for North Korea. In fact, it is very different. Before 1978, the systems in China and North Korea were almost identical. Later, China began its reform and opening-up policy, which was fully implemented in 1982. Since then, China has been accepting new ideologies until today.,
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Why you chose to lie to the audience? You and I both know that The guy asked you to delete the footage was a local Korean Chinese, NOT a North Korean. Why you said he was a North Korean.
…. says a North Korean spy 🥸😂
@1:59 Same! Great video bro.
Loved it Drew!
BTW, this is not Chinese flags, it is Soviet union flags 😂
It’s the CCP Flag. Soviet flag has a star on top of hammer and sickle
8:59 - Drew, I suggest you learn some basic Mandarin before you accuse that lady of being "cold"... she simply said "I do not understand"...... why didn't you get your local lady guide to speak to the waitress??? Don't be so dramatic please........................
"I'm obsessed with north korea". "Get some help"
Me too
The border footage with the people walking in circles is so chilling. I just looked up the amusement park and it looks to be completely abandoned and run down. Where they were walking looks like some type of pool or swimming area. And what is crazier, is there is a "Customs" government office right outside the park. The satellite view looks straight out of a horror movie.
Regarding your comment about the cameras, my assumption is that they are divided into different security sectors. It is likely that some individuals monitor one specific area while others monitor a different area.
Just as stupid as Otto Warmbier, who thought he gave a shit about North Korean laws.
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Why obsessed with north korea
Going there is like stepping into a completely different world, frozen in time with layers of mystery that few outsiders ever get to experience
@drewbinsky that's right it's scary but it is adventurous too
@@drewbinsky Why? The United States has used its economic and military hegemony to impose comprehensive sanctions and trade embargoes on North Korea for decades, making North Korea a closed country. Now an American is looking at and photographing this poor country from a God's perspective. Is this showing off his achievements?
@tiaoyi-bx5yi You are right
Because people love mysterious place.
6:42 What's so bizarre huh? USA-Mexico border not bizarre? When thousand of illegal immigrant crossing the border.
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Lol do you know North Korea is shut off from thebworld and Mexico isn't?
Mexico isn’t a restricted communist state
Its the fact we can't travel to North Korea is what makes it so interesting and bizarre. Cause the government will most likely k**l you in north Korea. Use your Brain
Bullshit turn off fox news 🐑
WOW awesome video :)
Thanx for bringing us along señor!!