The US Soldier Who Defected to North Korea | Hasanabi Reacts to Biographics
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2023
- Hasan reacts to the story of James Dresnok, the American army man who fled the country and tried to become a North Korean citizen!
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Hasan Piker is Political Commentator turned Twitch Streamer (#13) known for his Turkish heritage and leftist takes, often speaking on topics like Socialism, Communism, Capitalism, and Marxism (and occasionally 9/11). He loves reacting to political news, and occasionally goes on IRL adventures with his friends. He likes to react to popular media content with his audience as well, such as Jubilee, JCS (Jim Can't Swim), Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, True Crime, trending Twitter posts or TikToks, and other creative videos. 
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I liked how the Soviets checked their white privilege.
ya, like they were like hey dudes u are white too right so lets leave these undesirables behind. And the soviet snapped back at them what do you mean american pig.
Also the comment from Simon (the guy in the vid) that this was racist instaed of natural suspicion from soviet on potential american spies is quite telling
If kim jon Un doesn't let me pilot the Pink MiG-15 I'm not defecting to North Korea (>.
Based and reasonable demands
@@HasanReactionsfanTwoStop talking
@@Mumbumbotumbobagumbomamajojo No U
Reminder that the definition of concentration camp is _a place where large numbers of people are detained or confined under armed guard_ which is literally what is done on the southern border
Sure thats the technical definition, but for like 99% of ppl they hear "concentration camp" and think "aushwitz". The actual definition matters little.
@@Ryukuro That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Wouldn't that be the same definition for any prison?
I mean it has this definition from searching it:
"a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe 1933-45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz."
so it's maybe about inadequate facilities, and lack of space too (which is, I think?, still what's happening at the Southern border, but then extra context to differentiate from prisons).
@@Ryukurothat's a death camp
Not gonna lie I can see myself defecting if I got caught in the wild marijuana fields
I haven’t gotten to the wild marijuana fields part in the vid.
¡¿Kim made weed legal?!
@@alexdasliebe5391wild doesn't mean legal
Fr
We have wild marijuana in America. You cant legally cultivate or harvest it, but also you wouldnt want to. It takes a large amount of ditchweed(as it is commonly called) to get effects. Youre more likely to get high off the oxygen deprivation of trying to do it all. I think is decent hemp material though, maybe, idk much bout that. Im a consumer, not a producer. 😅
100% correct,@@AurmazlZudeh ✌🏼🤣👍🏼
This really shows how important parents are to a child. Man had a shitty childhood man wasnt escaping the Us. Man was just trying to find something
Braindead take
He literally was escaping the us though? He got disillusioned in the American dream and decided to dip
You think he still likes the US?
I grew up in very toxic family I understand how lost you feel not having family member who support you. You feel empty inside. Not everyone wants the same thing. We have to respect people choices. It’s their life to what they want.
@@Precipiceofwind yeah but wasn't it just a case of elites and poors there too, only this time he happened to be in the former group instead of the latter, meaning he really didn't care if the system was shitty to ppl, as long as he wasn't one of those ppl?
Bc the video talks about the horrific famine NK went through and how James and the other Americans didn't have to ever give up their rations like the lower class ppl and they basically had everything handed to them and didn't really have to work it seems, while lower class ppl worked hard and still starved.
So it wasn't so much the US and our shitty capitalist system he was trying to escape, just his specific shitty lot in it. If NK had treated him like any other lower class citizen (bc by all metrics he should have been if he hadn't come over as a defecting US soldier), I have a feeling he wouldn't have been any happier there than he was here and would have been singing a different tune about his decision to defect.
He talked like he had no regrets about defecting bc he could never have sent his kids to college in the US as if he could do it in NK bc it was such a land of opportunity even though he had to be aware of how awful many NK ppl were living, and how he only wasn't one of them bc the government held him in high regard for the propaganda his defection was good for.
Don't get me wrong, I feel terrible for what he went through as a kid here in the US, but it clearly didn't make him care about other poor ppl and fighting systems that cause that kind of poverty so others don't go through what he went through. His regard for NK was purely selfish.
not chat ignoring state kidnapping and jumping at the age gap 💀💀💀
being an actor, finally having a family and living a carefree life must have been great for Dresnok after all he went through.
My grandpa was at the DMZ as a soldier and he was scared of gunshots since everyone he knew and him only got blanks for their ammo lmfao
Hasan is disrespecting your grandpa but okay
@@samuelrespess7572disrespecting US soldiers is good
@@samuelrespess7572US soldiers should be disrespected. They’re part of a worldwide terror organization that regularly ruins nations in service of imperial objectives.
@@samuelrespess7572USA soldiers deserve no respect
Hopefully he had a better developer than sledgehammer
Dam bro North Korea actually gives you a girlfriend I need to go there
State sanctioned commie mommies
How romantic, a girl all for yourself. Nothing screams marriage material like “against her will”
Any stupid failure can look like a king there. Every uneducated right wing burden should go. Especially those that are too stupid to understand what evidence means
@@WhereisMelania it's a joke..
Incel 🫵
The restaurant poppin out wives was hilarious as fuck but so grim
There’s a really good doc called “Crossing the Line”--he was rough, his childhood was a nightmare of American poverty … the shots of Him walking through Pyongyang were amazing though and what made me decide to travel to North Korea.
Have you been there or are you planning to go?
I went, would recommend. Koryo tours has been arranging travel there since the 90s and handled everything for the BBC crew when they did the documentary on the defectors.
Citizenship will make a difference though. To my knowledge there are still travel restrictions on U.S. passports from the Trump administration (because of Otto Warmbier's death).
@@2eachaccordingyou're not really considering moving to north Korea right?
@@otmanh No. That is not something I am considering🙃 (I would go back again though)
Hasan and Simon in one video is just top tier content
Top 3 arcs
It's the most glorious pairing I have ever seen. Too much of the GOAT's in one video!
I’ve drifted more to Simon’s channels where he comments on the script, so having some commentary over the more dryly delivered stuff is great 😂
Marijuana is not legal in the DPRK. Hemp is cultivated and widely used for industrial and medicinal purposes, and ground hemp (not the kind that gets you high) is sometimes sold as poor mans tobacco. Possession and transportation of psychoactive marijuana is still illegal. This info comes from tour companies that work with the DPRK for… tours of the DPRK. Interestingly, alcohol is hardly regulated at all. There’s no legal age requirement, it’s just extremely culturally frowned upon for students to partake, even in university.
I'm so glad Hasan is watching Simon Whistler's videos, I've always thought they would be perfect for his streams
Simon's not the guy who produces these videos. He appears in like a dozen channels as the host. I think ppl just hire him to host.
@@Ryukuro He was hired for one channel called visualpolitik that I think doesn't exist now. Every other channel you see him in are all his channels. He does have like a dozen writers that research and write the episodes for him though
@@kemist578 Well it's his full time job so yea he probably spends a good 5 hours a day doing that and then some time working with his writers and editors on video ideas. Also I think he has around 14 channels, although 2 or 3 of them are defunct. I think he just records them by himself and then his editors and writers work remotely
@@Ryukurolol no that happened like once. He owns about 12 RUclips channels himself. He just hires writers and editors. He’s the producer lol
God damn! The Simon Whistler arc is on
I’ve been watching Simon Whistler for years on a few of his many channels and in just one video from Hasan now I can’t stop seeing him as “the British V-Sauce”. So funny!
Hemp for manufacturing/consumer good is legal but marijuana for recreational consumption is in fact illegal in North Korea.
It’s so wild because I’ve just discovered all of Simon’s channels in the past month and have been on a binge of all his content. Seeing Hasan start doing reacts to these is was like a simulation moment.
I love all of Simon's channels as well, and there's so much content I binge rather often. Casual Criminalist is prolly my favorite then Decoding the Unknown but gotta love the OGBB! 😊😊😊
@@jessicak2811 oh yeah I absolutely love the longer form ones where he reads the script for the first time and has more banter and tangents! I’d love Hasan to see him have one of his “What the FUCK are you DOING Police!?!?” rant moments 😂
@@zacretzer that WOULD be hilarious to see!! I hope he covers one of those soon, I've seen some of the ones where Hasan reacts to JCS true crime or whatever. Fact boi (Simon's other nickname) will give Hasan ALL KINDS of material! The Hasan/Simon Arc is just beginning and I am here for allllllll of it! 😁😁😁
As a side note: I do wonder if Hasan knows Simon has like 15 channels?!?!
Ok but you have to start Brain Blaze back when it was Business Blaze or you won’t get the true *experience* 😂
@@Unfortunately_Mickey oooh looks like I need to dive into the *deep lore*
I was thinking damn how is this guy related to Cenk Ugyur then you went on the zoomer rant haha
was waiting for the binging with babish likeness xD
I wonder if Hasan knows that Simon has like 15 channels?!?! This could just be the beginning of the Hasan/Fact Boi (Simon) story arc and I'm here for all of it!!
Simon has like 7 different channels other than biographics and they are all AWESOME. lol
OMG HASAN AND SIMON IN ONE VIDEO? Yessssssss!~
Man seeing hasan watch simons conrltents awesome.
Hed love his new stuff.
We should all drink every time he says "u know what I mean", that could be fun...u know what I mean?
I heard from like a lady named Miss Park that they don't have boats to fish in so they have to use bloated dead bodies
I’m very happy Hasan is watching Simon’s work. He really brings a wonderful energy to incredible history, tactics, stories and technology that others just don’t hit the same. I love his Dark Docs, Dark Seas, Dark 5 and Dark Skies channels, all very well written and produced. Very approachable and educational. Bravo.
According to Charles Robert Jenkins, another American defector (who co-starred in the Unsung Heroes movie with James Dresnok) Doina Bumbea and other foreign women were kidnapped for a "spouse-sourcing" program for American defectors in North Korea…
I’m actually super disappointed the video didn’t mention she wasn’t the only one and said that it was “not clear” if she had been kidnapped or not. And Hasan’s comment being like “hey it was the ‘70s basically every marriage was like that” like minimizing a kidnapping and forced marriage like wtf???
Like I’m not saying we should believe Yeonmi Park or anything but I’m super frustrated with Hasan’s knee-jerk response always being “guys NK isn’t that bad!”
Sigh.
It really isn't that bad. Especially compared to the South.
@@Maverick.D. are you seriously saying the people of South Korea are in a worse situation than the people of North Korea
@@StrangelJean Yes; especially mentally/morally.
@@Maverick.D.What madman brainwashed you?
Yeah, that was brushed over... the kidnapping of the women was all kinds of weird awful f-up. Hitomi Soga was kidnapped when she was 19 with her mother who (once she was separated from her) she never saw again and was never able to say goodbye to.
We can acknowledge people can say anything about North Korea (and that Yeonmi Park is disingenuous) and still acknowledge known truths like... state sponsored human trafficking.
Hasan found the only way I'll watch a video with simon whistler in it, touché
i think he just liked it there cause he was allowed to be a higher status person, and get comforts and stuff for free. it doesn't matter to him how the rest of north koreans are treated as long as he gets his tendies and a nice house to live in.
That's how it is in the USA, lack of compassion, the system is working and good when you're life is great, and it's failing when your life is bad.
People like this only think about their own personal comfort and experience.
Same thing for literally every other defector.
The north had a higher standard of living than the south at that time the south was worse to its citizens
Exactly. I actually just made a whole comment like this further up in this thread as a comment to someone saying something about him running from the US bc it's so awful when in actuality NK was also the land of elites and poors and there he just fell on the other side of the line than he did in the US and that's all that mattered to him. As long as he didn't have to give up his rations during the terrible famine like the lower class ppl or work hard and still starve, he saw no issue with the system. 🙄
Whyis the bald British man trying to sell me on the idea of defecting to NK? Cuz it's kinda working lmao. Accommodation, education, luxury, and isolation? Literally just things I already want rn. The only downside would be the potential lack of internet access for things like Genshin... and Grindr.
I mean.... his Romanian wife was abducted by the NK so maybe they'll do the same for you. Yay human trafficking
The guy really does look like Vsauce😭
Last time I went into subway i ordered a sweet onion chicken teriyaki. They charged me $22 and punched me in the balls, i did not recieve a sandwich. To be fair thats a pretty good deal, i pay my dom twice that for the same service
😂😂😂
Nice
When I started writing this comment it was in regards to a Northern Lion clip video of him complaining about subway but the auto play started this video before I was finished. So whatever I'm going to leave it here.
btw dprk citizens have access to the internet similar to china with state sponsored cooking apps and such
18:45 Pretty sure that channel is Phuong
Is this conicidental that this comes out as another defection occurs?
Simon my fav OG RUclipsr
Eyyyy! Fact boy!!
Hasan Piker turning into a North Korean apologist is insaneeee.
I can't say for sure but it seems he likes countries that are communist no matter how they are like.
@@stevesteiner6844 it's literal insanity
I don’t think he’s a North Korea apologist
@@nadinesereda-sass3300 He 100% is. He said on his stream recently that he prefers South Korea over North Korea.
Your brain on socialism: You end up idolizing North Korea..
man lived a thousand lives and then was only 20 wtf hahaha
People know tolerance is a thing right? If you're not used to smoking pineapple express every day even wild Korean weed will get you blazed, also you can always smoke more if it's literally growing everywhere
hell yea, love DPRK - one of my favorite countries
(top spot is still antarctica tho, #1 place in world)
habibi Hassam look at the case of Ulrich Larssen and his infiltration of North Korea its wild
Dude saw this video and decided to do the same lmao
Would you rather live off of food stamps in America or become a celebrity in North Korea?
If they were born in North Korea to the same social class as they were in the U.S., they would've already starved to death. They became celebrities for propaganda purposes.
Oh no $200 a month for food just because you filed a peice of paper oh whoa is me.😢
Not to mention defecting is an automatic 5 years and if you give Intel it can be 20 years.
You won't go to prison if you've successfully defected.
@@coryyoung7544 🤡
Food stamps please.
Right be like: They got no tech there...
Also Right: They're Alies of China.
I mean, Pick One bro, You can't have both.😂
That North Korean Za 😮💨😮💨😮💨
Yeah, no wonder.
I wish dude would just take a lunch break or something. It makes me cringe so hard hearing him try to talk with his mouth full or stop mid thought to take a bite.
Thought Has was in a paper hospital gown. 😳
richmonds virginia ...wuhhh lmao
“I stan Kim L Sung”
What is it a souvenir.
British Babish is fun!
im pretty sure this guy is argentinian not brit
I'm sorry exactly what opportunity can you have in the US that Canada doesn't have? Being President?
28:50 BASED. LEBANON 🤝 JUCHE represent!
I’m writing this before I watch it but if I remember correctly from when I originally watched this he basically didn’t have and prospects in America and just went for it and was rewarded as basically the kings court American like a jester basically
Same thing for North Korean defectors in the United States. They literally gave cash prizes and used government resources to give them whatever they wanted.
not too different from North Korean defectors tbf
The video: 'Even James Dresnok (the fanatic NK supporter) admitted they cut off the tattoos'.
Hasan, immediately after: 'This is the grift, it's all fibbs and lies'.
*immediately after that which you left out* "Presnok said that they volunteered to have their tattoos removed"
@dannya1854 Yup, they volunteered to have bits of skin cut off without anesthetic. Seems legit. Dresknok also said the women volunteered to go to NK lol.
@@pawanyr360 you dont know many rednecks do you? cause Ive seen them use belt sanders to remove tattoos
@@dannya1854Jenkins and his wife have been vocal about their disdain for North Korea, why in the world do you think Jenkins would voluntarily have his skin cut off without anaesthetic for a country he dislikes.
I like to think that when he shot into the air the soldiers screamed like little girls and panicked
Simon Whistler is the hardest working man on RUclips, Babish and Vsauce may have more views and subs, but he’s got so many channels and cranks out so many videos that you have to respect the hustle.
hasan watching brain blaze in his free time?
I'd love to see Hasan watch BB!! He'd love the tangents that fact boi goes on I bet!!
Another soldier ran off to the DPRK today. Has hasan talked about it yet?
did he run off or was he arrested?
@@randomnameseventythree2255he ran through the DMZ then was arrested by NK troops. I don't think they've really given the reason for him running though...
@@jessicak2811 I went looking and found the story
apparently he was going to jail and got away from the MPs escorting him so he did run to them and it wasnt just "he accidently crossed the border somewhere"
I ❤ Simon!!!
Who are you?
You are woman?
I just bought my ticket, I'm defecting
It's not what you guys think, I already have a girlfriend and she is coming too. I'm going for the free food and the acting job.
The take on "ALL US soldiers bad" is old af
Love ❤
North Korea 🇰🇵 gets ragged on too much, beautiful country imo
😂 When's the last time you were there?
Looked like a ghost town from what I could see across the water. The smell at least near there is kinda atrocious too, unforgetable. The land as far as the eye could see from the Peace Train was the closest I ever saw to the vast wastelandish plains of the midwest. I think I saw some hills and forest somewhere near the border crossing. Documentaries paint a gloomy sight, well thats kinda the peninsula in general a good part of the year, despite artistic liberties.
Their population takes up so little space due to their slender profile, and it allows a lovely view of the countryside, and the roots they eat!
bruh what part of north korea did you go to lmao
@@MEDPR0Syeah it kinda became a wasteland after a certain western superpower bombed the shit out of them until there were “no targets left” - basically bombing them back into the pre-modern era - and then imposed a harsh embargo for decades. kinda tricky for a nation to flourish under those conditions D:
Yeah so awful to be stared at and mistreated like in North Korea having a home and food why couldn't they be in America where they could be heroes stared at while they're on the Street homeless and starving to death and possibly murdered for fun for being homeless and a veteran
Best Korea
that's west korea.
Oooooo 🇮🇪 morning folks
So Hasan likes North Korea?
Hasan is overreaching with his "knowledge" about how South Korea was like. With two grandparents defecting from North Korea and the other two as South Koreans - descrbing SK the way he did is unfair, especially at that era. Just trying to overstep his knowledge base, although his takes are generally valid
Farming doesn't automatically make a country awful, take Costa Rica for example, and although it wasn't great, it's not how he describes it.
My dude in the 60s you had south koreans running to go to north korea.
@@pnduarte4696 lmao that was a small number, and more of the South Koreans today are proportionately "North Korean" "my dude" than the other way around. Hasan is just reaching here. They were both awful, but most people knew NK and the Soviet Union weren't the best bet
@@rbae small number...
@@rbae proof you don't know crap. South korea was before the 80s more poor than north korea and was killing i mass people in the 60s thats way they were running. Idiot forgets south korea dictatorship was horse than north korea.
@@pnduarte4696 yes, do you know why there are so many South Koreans who have grandparents or great grandparents who fled before, during, after the Civil War? It's bc people were rational and thought that a future under the Kims would be devastating.
Yeah, this ain't it
🤓
hasan try not to support oppressive dictatorship challenge
u got any historical context at all bro? oh i forget high school teaches 2 paragraphs about the korean war.
@@ethanpeters3047 Both are trash, so what?
North Korea? They've made advancements given what conditions there under
China? China is goated great country because the party actually builds stuff with the money they bully from billionaires
Cuba? Okay I do actually agree here that there pretty good given how fucked they are by American blockades(the young people there actually liking the situation and the older generations being unsatisfied is kinda crazy)
Like under no other dictatorship or even democracy will you see that
Ironic coming from you
North Korea sounds like a left-wing heaven! Probably the best country in the world. /r
Our man living the dream surrounded by all of those asian hotties
What's with this apparently grown adult and saying "literally" like a 13 year old girl? Is it just to gain rapport with his overwhelmingly infant audience?
Why do fans always talk down on themselves. Your not immature for liking Hasan man it's ok
@@gsoma4022 you're*
it's a sentence enhancer. get over yourself, ya old fart
Stay mad. He is more successful than you will ever be lol
@@ahall9839 it's actually Your they changed it last month