Korean People's Army Guards who Escaped North Korea

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  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  Год назад +266

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    • @ARandomTexan
      @ARandomTexan Год назад +3

      Nk

    • @joshuajohnson5317
      @joshuajohnson5317 Год назад +2

      Great video

    • @redpipola
      @redpipola Год назад +1

      @@joshuajohnson5317 the video just regurgitates everything the west has told about North Korea without giving any new insights or perspectives.

    • @valyshknee4203
      @valyshknee4203 Год назад +3

      Cant believe you're not giving us the right info here on their elections, Their elections were never about getting a new leader in power, Its about voting which applicant will become a party member for the DPRK, Only 1 is chosen every few years to enter the party by votes, And they're entirely chosen by the people which is why they still have "democratic" in their name,
      This way it does not change the country ideologically, But by the way it acts on things, These party members can influence the party of the DPRK to focus on other things, Essentially making it democratic as the people do have a choice and the capability to change things in their country by voting,
      Cant believe i just gave a better awnser than you simple history.

    • @redpipola
      @redpipola Год назад +2

      @@valyshknee4203 exactly

  • @UNITEDNATIONSAREAWESOME
    @UNITEDNATIONSAREAWESOME Год назад +1906

    The whole country is literally a Maximum security prison for innocent people

  • @imathreat209
    @imathreat209 Год назад +2851

    1. Don't go there at all

    • @sgtroach1510
      @sgtroach1510 Год назад +434

      1.don’t be born there

    • @salad3481
      @salad3481 Год назад +216

      1. Don’t in army join there

    • @aliakber775
      @aliakber775 Год назад +179

      1.don't transfer to North Korea

    • @jonnycollison
      @jonnycollison Год назад +166

      1. Don't

    • @luisemoralesfalcon4716
      @luisemoralesfalcon4716 Год назад +1

      Yeah, the regime tends to kidnap people from the surrounding nations and take them to NK.

  • @chad_b
    @chad_b Год назад +1896

    It's so sad how so many people in the world are stuck in terrible situations

    • @alexw8758
      @alexw8758 Год назад +57

      And outrageous that there are so many people willing to exploit others when they are most vulnerable.

    • @s0nnyburnett
      @s0nnyburnett Год назад +1

      communism is the worst the ideology of the past century.

    • @alistairvan4059
      @alistairvan4059 Год назад +13

      Its an unfair world, the problem is that, not everyone agrees with everything.

    • @Bananappleboy
      @Bananappleboy Год назад +22

      @@alistairvan4059
      You forgot some people in the west joke about it and excuse it with "dArK hUmOr"
      It sounds less like coping and more like making fun of their injury and siding with their enemy. Why?
      Okay no need to cause an argument about politics. I'm just pointing that out.

    • @StoredInTheBalls
      @StoredInTheBalls Год назад +13

      As an American I can tell you it really sucks to live under a government that hates me

  • @IGotBoergs
    @IGotBoergs Год назад +699

    The South Korean man that girl met is a straight angel, no matter how horrible our governments get there will always be good people who try to help even if it puts themselves in danger.

    • @bootybreakeronlyformen
      @bootybreakeronlyformen Год назад +40

      Bro crossed a swamp for her.
      Straight Chad Behavior

    • @PROVOCATEURSK
      @PROVOCATEURSK Год назад +5

      Angels are evil, have you even read the book?

    • @bootybreakeronlyformen
      @bootybreakeronlyformen Год назад +1

      @esrever gnireenigne OK, now I'm mixed on this.

    • @alexandra9944
      @alexandra9944 Год назад +10

      /@esrever gnireenigne How do you know? Is there an interview?

    • @rickyray2794
      @rickyray2794 Год назад +22

      @@esrevergnireenigne6534 cite your sources. "cuz i heard" isn't valid.

  • @hmk5123
    @hmk5123 Год назад +873

    I met Park in 2014. Despite all her hardship, she had a fiery spirit to tell everything and help others in a similar position. Until she even reached S. Korea, she didn't even know what human rights were.

    • @Susukie
      @Susukie Год назад +7

      Proof?

    • @lostpockets2227
      @lostpockets2227 Год назад +44

      @@Susukie what will that change

    • @charlies8282
      @charlies8282 Год назад

      @@Susukie you need proof that North Korea doesn’t have human rights?

    • @Susukie
      @Susukie Год назад +5

      @@charlies8282 proof that he met her..

    • @daviddavidson2357
      @daviddavidson2357 Год назад +7

      And I'm the pope of Rome!

  • @MrLolx2u
    @MrLolx2u Год назад +279

    You missed one more method. "Dashing across the JSA (Joint Security Area)".
    In November 2017, a North Korean soldier stole a vehicle and drove towards the JSA. As he entered the N.Korean compound, he got chased by the guards there. He panicked, crashed the vehicle into a ditch and then ran for it across the Southern sector. However the guards caught up to him and even opened fire on him where he suffered a shot. He did manage to cross to the Southern side but was injured and was unconscious behind a bush and it took about 4-5hrs before some South Korean soldiers crawled towards him, dragged him to the medical facility and got him back to shape.
    He's now a South Korean political refugee.

    • @lukevalsek5020
      @lukevalsek5020 Год назад +21

      Yea I doubt South Korea would give him back

    • @yty1941
      @yty1941 Год назад +18

      I think he got five shots before taking cover on the South Korean side

    • @Newdivide
      @Newdivide Год назад +7

      Sources say he was also the son of a general

    • @Theydas
      @Theydas Год назад +1

      His whole generation of family, causans, u clea etc. We're executed for it.

    • @lawkey14
      @lawkey14 Год назад +16

      He is not a political refugee, but a citizen. All North Korean defectors are considered as South Korean citizens in here, so they will receive full citizenship immediately after entering the country.

  • @bendrenth441
    @bendrenth441 Год назад +540

    You've really gotta respect the bravery and determination of these people.

    • @s0nnyburnett
      @s0nnyburnett Год назад +17

      Well when you have nothing to lose the choice becomes simpler.

    • @juhannusruusu
      @juhannusruusu Год назад +5

      desperation bro.

    • @PROVOCATEURSK
      @PROVOCATEURSK Год назад +1

      @@s0nnyburnett Christians have only to gain yet they avoid heaven like a plague.

    • @chris9242
      @chris9242 Год назад +2

      Nothing more terrifying than a man with nothing to lose

    • @TheGamingMotionTGM
      @TheGamingMotionTGM Год назад +2

      I think for the DMZ part we're missing one more. The very recent one where a north korean guard escapes by car, got shot by his comrades although he survived later on, and was found to be containing parasites that weren't supposed to be in a human body.

  • @scottkendrix6231
    @scottkendrix6231 Год назад +228

    Those who choose to risk their lives to defect from North Korea are absolutely brave people. Those who risk their lives to help the defectors are the absolute definition of heroes. Gotta have the utmost respect for all of them.

  • @mattc9598
    @mattc9598 Год назад +433

    The final story, Yeonmi Park, she has a book out called "In order to live"
    one thing missed in your video though. "Park and her mother went first, with her father soon to follow" - Park and her mother were tricked by their smugglers, who led them to a cabin on the Chinese side of the border to rape them. Park's mother was able to convince them to spare her daughter due to her being so weak (she weighed about 60-80 pounds if I recall correctly due to malnourishment)

    • @cicero_21
      @cicero_21 Год назад +41

      And what people and simple History forget to state is Yeonmi Park actually runs a fairly successful RUclips channel.

    • @SimonAshworthWood
      @SimonAshworthWood Год назад +1

      Yeonmi Park has been proven to be a fraud. (See the videos below for evidence.)
      The US govt has waged a propaganda campaign against North Korea for many decades. Most of what you believe (e.g. the claims in this video) about North Korea is baseless slander from the US govt put into US-aligned media, social media & educational institutions.
      ruclips.net/video/pJCY7dS7StU/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/BkUMZS-ZegM/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/-md6CQHx2-E/видео.html

    • @kellychuang8373
      @kellychuang8373 Год назад

      @@cicero_21 Oh yeah that's another fact too.

  • @victorvonsteuben1728
    @victorvonsteuben1728 Год назад +386

    That south korean tourist really went above and beyond to save his fellow Korean.

  • @TheColosiss
    @TheColosiss Год назад +293

    The South Korean tourist man is a *HERO*
    I implore you Simple History. Please annotate his name for us so he may be remembered...

    • @C.A._Old
      @C.A._Old Год назад +2

      Yeah... Damn... History Moment's.

    • @icecoldgazpacho
      @icecoldgazpacho Год назад +34

      If they’re performing high profile assassinations in international airports, what do you think they could do to a civilian? There’s probably a reason he has not been named, though I appreciate what you are saying.

    • @redkraken6516
      @redkraken6516 Год назад +9

      @@icecoldgazpacho sometimes you just forget how scary and far reaching N. Koreas goverment can be...

    • @icecoldgazpacho
      @icecoldgazpacho Год назад +3

      @@redkraken6516 tell me about it, hey!
      I’m hopeful, that as they seem to be spoiling his Daughter - maybe things will improve. _In 20 years._

    • @Harley-D-Mcdonald
      @Harley-D-Mcdonald Год назад +4

      Is that you PRK? You tricky little fellas.

  • @diligentone-six2688
    @diligentone-six2688 Год назад +234

    There was an incident back in the mid 80s where a Soviet Defector crossed the DMZ into the South causing a firefight between US and South Korean forces vs the North Koreans.
    The US-ROK forces won the battle with one injured and one KIA.
    The North Koreans lost several personnel while those who remained Executed because somebody crossed the DMZ.

    • @doctordogelordtmg9637
      @doctordogelordtmg9637 Год назад +13

      Absolutely idiotic usually the losing army goes home with a scolding and that's it because they are a unit and they are important for the army to be strong but they just executed these men friendly firing themselves to prove a point

    • @diligentone-six2688
      @diligentone-six2688 Год назад

      @@doctordogelordtmg9637 don't interrupt your enemies while they're making mistakes.
      Let them shoot their own. It saves the South Koreans the grief of dealing with Communists.

    • @EnigmaEnginseer
      @EnigmaEnginseer Год назад +1

      @@doctordogelordtmg9637 That’s North Korea for you. A circus run by mad men

    • @yty1941
      @yty1941 Год назад +2

      @@doctordogelordtmg9637 to be fair 1 third of North Koreans are soldiers so they really got enough to spare (execute)...

    • @viruscure4677
      @viruscure4677 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@doctordogelordtmg9637sounds like pretty basic Russian practices....

  • @Supercell_Clasher_
    @Supercell_Clasher_ Год назад +143

    There was a DPRK air force soldier who was escaped by mig-19 plane in 1983. His name is Lee woong pyung. Sadly, he died in 2002 at the age of 47.

    • @archersterling4732
      @archersterling4732 Год назад +12

      His Sir name was. Mee Wong Way. I met him a few years after he defected. His older brother Wie Yoo Goo was executed

    • @princessmarlena1359
      @princessmarlena1359 Год назад

      I remember hearing about him.

    • @GokantheHusky
      @GokantheHusky Год назад +3

      Yeah if I remember he landed the plane and tore up a picture of the leader that was put in all planes. He was given around $100K for the plane.

  • @lucianoosorio5942
    @lucianoosorio5942 Год назад +228

    MacArthur: Nuke em!
    Truman: No!
    MacArthur: NUKE EM!
    Truman: NO!
    MacArthur: AH COME ON!
    Truman: You’re fired!

  • @scorpio9681
    @scorpio9681 Год назад +398

    You need stealth 100 for this mission.

    • @JessiContingenC
      @JessiContingenC Год назад +4

      Lol

    • @istolejahresshipandilldoit3499
      @istolejahresshipandilldoit3499 Год назад +25

      Funny but sad at the same time

    • @Susukie
      @Susukie Год назад +1

      If you get caught just rush until you reach a different country or die lmao

    • @randied603
      @randied603 Год назад +1

      not 100
      You meant 100000000

    • @SimplyDuker
      @SimplyDuker Год назад +5

      And it's not the "stealth is optional" kind of scenario. In this case, stealth is a MUST.

  • @ryanxxarroc
    @ryanxxarroc Год назад +94

    Trust me Mrs. Park's story is 200x darker than what was said here. They kinda glossed over a bit but still kind of got the point across

    • @SimonAshworthWood
      @SimonAshworthWood Год назад +1

      Yeonmi Park’s claims are exactly that: a story, not the truth. The videos I include below prove that she’s a liar and a fraud.
      The US govt has waged a propaganda campaign against North Korea for many decades. Most of what you believe (e.g. the claims in this video) about North Korea is baseless slander from the US govt put into US-aligned media, social media & educational institutions.
      ruclips.net/video/pJCY7dS7StU/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/BkUMZS-ZegM/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/-md6CQHx2-E/видео.html

    • @imgvillasrc1608
      @imgvillasrc1608 Год назад +4

      Understandable, no yt history channel would want to be demonitized even if it is the norm.

    • @komi-sanmustbeprotected5665
      @komi-sanmustbeprotected5665 11 месяцев назад +2

      There's some things best left for people to look into themselves, that story would definitely get the video age restricted or even taken down

  • @Ichengo42
    @Ichengo42 Год назад +56

    Park was actually the first North Korean defector I heard about, from there I've been looking into this and it's just really tragic to see how above and beyond this dictatorship will go to keep itself standing tall at the cost of the enjoyment of it's civilians.

  • @NP3GA
    @NP3GA Год назад +67

    Rest in peace to those that weren't able to make it 🙏

    • @Susukie
      @Susukie Год назад

      Rip candice

    • @TheLakabanzaichrg
      @TheLakabanzaichrg Год назад

      .Rip Sug Mha

    • @Gothic7876
      @Gothic7876 Год назад +3

      They died Free.

    • @brennanleadbetter9708
      @brennanleadbetter9708 Год назад +3

      At least they are free from the suffering they endured.

    • @PROVOCATEURSK
      @PROVOCATEURSK Год назад +1

      You can´t rest after you die. Either you don´t exist anymore or you are awake 24/7 for billions of years.

  • @jamesgeorge960
    @jamesgeorge960 Год назад +151

    my great uncle was in the Korean War he died in 1952. He was awarded the Medal of Honor

    • @mattowens3451
      @mattowens3451 Год назад +12

      Could you share his name? Would love to research and remember this hero

    • @brycemorrill1078
      @brycemorrill1078 Год назад +31

      @@mattowens3451 guessing by his last name and year, it was Charles George, he saved two men by jumping on a grenade and at the same time kept himself quiet as to not give their position away

    • @cadler5885
      @cadler5885 Год назад +3

      Notify me

    • @Mauzzewulf
      @Mauzzewulf Год назад +7

      Your great uncle sounds like a hero to me

    • @roebucksummers8614
      @roebucksummers8614 Год назад +5

      Charles George. God bless his soul.

  • @tranvietphu1298
    @tranvietphu1298 Год назад +19

    9:55 As a Vietnamese, streets don't look like that normally (besides districts made for foreign tourists)

  • @gregoryaparker
    @gregoryaparker Год назад +28

    In 2016 I took a 13 day trip to Seoul which included a tour of the DMZ and a talk with a female defector. She had paid over $10,000 to reach South Korea knowing that her family would not be able to follow. It was disheartening to hear her story but I couldn't do anything about it. It's just sad that these disctators hold people prisoner just to keep themselves in power.

    • @ntfoperative9432
      @ntfoperative9432 Год назад

      The only reason we haven't put a stop to it is China. If China just wasn't an Ally of North Korea, we could end things real quick

  • @HashknightGaming
    @HashknightGaming Год назад +13

    It hurts so much to know other humans are currently suffering and I am completely powerless to help them.

  • @judesagad4161
    @judesagad4161 Год назад +124

    There is this North Korean military guard Oh Chong-Song in late 2017 he escaped to South Korea by driving directly to DMZ and everything was caught in CCTV. He was chased by his military and crash his car to the peace village / joint security area (the Center of the DMZ) and made a run for it while north guards shoot him in the back he successfully made it to South Korea DMZ side he hid in the leaves U.S and South korean military found him and transported him via U.S helicopter to the hospital in Seoul for gunshot wounds. While North violated the Korean 1953 UN armistice agreement peace by shooting their guns over the border landing in the southern buildings and one of the guards cross the border demarcation line chasing the defector.

    • @Irish381
      @Irish381 Год назад +15

      When the hospital examined him for injuries they found that he had hook worms in his liver and bowels! This opportunistic infection was practically eradicated in the 1970s. he was very fortunate to have survived the shooting .

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 Год назад +9

      I remember him! There were also a couple of articles about the South Korean surgeon who saved his life. This doctor (I forget his name now, but he was apparently one of the best in the whole country) was talking about how stunned he was by the amount of parasites in the poor young man's digestive system. Apparently, he added that the contents of his stomach appeared to be raw corn IIRC that was served in a gruel. The South Korean medical team was SHOCKED that this unsanitary, poor food is what North Korea was apparently serving to their soldiers (who you would think would get some of the country's better stuff, for logical defense reasons). Many folks online including South Koreans were openingly (and grimly) wondering just what the common people are eating. I don't know if I'd like to find out.

    • @imgvillasrc1608
      @imgvillasrc1608 Год назад +4

      @@thunderbird1921 I imagine that this is the reason why North Korea's population is barely growing. The common folk are eating whatever is grown then distributed by the government, be it safe for consuming or not.

    • @brennanleadbetter9708
      @brennanleadbetter9708 Год назад +2

      I think I’ve seen that video

    • @robertfoster2992
      @robertfoster2992 Год назад +4

      @@Irish381 like 60 percent of his body was parasites

  • @angelosusa4258
    @angelosusa4258 Год назад +6

    Praying for those still stuck there. All those who escape and who help those escape are heroes

  • @blackjack90631
    @blackjack90631 Год назад +39

    The story about the woman getting arrested at the border and having to escape through Cambodia is amazing.

  • @mslim8412
    @mslim8412 Год назад +16

    One of my step-dad's profs in college was a North Korean man. One of his favorite profs, and he still talks about him.

  • @MGBandit75
    @MGBandit75 Год назад +6

    Nice to hear so many kind hearted people that help the defectors.

  • @kobet7341
    @kobet7341 Год назад +132

    Can we just appreciate how much simply histories animation has improved over time

  • @schlirf
    @schlirf Год назад +20

    Served on the German Grenz for several years in the early Eighties, the East Germans and Czechs were just as inventive.

  • @macmedic892
    @macmedic892 Год назад +41

    Title: Best ways to escape North Korea
    Title Card: Deadly escapes from North Korea
    These two are NOT the same!

    • @DarkDragonSlayer
      @DarkDragonSlayer Год назад

      How OCD are you with the title and thumbnail? Lol

    • @rismarck
      @rismarck Год назад +1

      Lmao they got sloppy with tittles and thumbnails lately

  • @therealking6202
    @therealking6202 Год назад +30

    I wonder if the narrator lives his life in that voice. Does he order at a restaurant like that? "What's the special of the dayyyy? Well that's unfortunate, because no matter what...I was going to go with the steaaakkkk."

    • @chriskane1
      @chriskane1 Год назад +8

      I like to order my drinks in that voice. 😉

  • @randomdude7095
    @randomdude7095 Год назад +16

    11:10 😢 makes you think how fortunate are some people in some countries. And the thing sometimes we take for granted.

  • @Housesider
    @Housesider Год назад +40

    The Simple History mascot is hilarious, his lines are gold in every episode he appears in.

  • @___alessandro.337
    @___alessandro.337 Год назад +69

    FREEDOM is a universal right and one that should never be violated *LONG LIVE SOUTH KOREA* 🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷

    • @markolysynchuk5264
      @markolysynchuk5264 Год назад +9

      Good thing there's South Korea

    • @thatoneperson134
      @thatoneperson134 Год назад +5

      For our glorious leader kim jong uwu

    • @josephsuh525
      @josephsuh525 Год назад +6

      No it shouldn't be called South or North Korea, for it needs to be reunited. LONG LIVE KOREA AS WHOLE!

    • @daephuge8345
      @daephuge8345 Год назад

      @@josephsuh525 In fact, half of the South Koreans do not want reunification

  • @LichsuhoathinhDrabattle
    @LichsuhoathinhDrabattle Год назад +2

    Amazing video, the quality of the animation only gets better everytime! 💗🤞✨

  • @achourfreepalestine
    @achourfreepalestine Год назад +6

    The thumbnail
    Crazy
    The video
    Deadly

  • @deleted_215
    @deleted_215 Год назад +30

    How to make a disaster in 60 seconds or less: Give the USSR control over a country

    • @TankMasterGo
      @TankMasterGo Год назад +5

      Step 1: win WW2
      Step 2: ur enemy has been defeated, occupy some parts of the country
      Step 3: give ur friend ( USSR ) some land to occupy
      Step 4: *regrets*

  • @UndyingZombie
    @UndyingZombie Год назад +12

    When I was a kid and still living in Japan. I made friends with a kid who came from North Korea. His family managed to escape and they had decided to live in Japan.. I did not have the nicest of lives either as both of us already had scars. ( His on his back, legs, and one on his face. I had scars on my tongue, back, and stomach. We where both 7 years old when I met him. ) I had issues making friends due to my family's associations.. But he is one of my childhood friends I really wished I kept in contact with but it got really hard to when I moved to the USA.. I really do wonder if he is still around. Hope he is.
    For more info on a few things.. I have not seen him since 1994, the year I moved to the USA. I was 9. He still had both of his parents but his father got hurt while they where escaping, I know that all of them had got hurt before that but I was never told the details and I never wanted them to feel uncomfortable.. So I did not push things.. Though it was oddly fun to talk about the scars we had.. One of the few people I was open with about them at least till I met a psychologist in the USA that I finally felt comfortable enough with talking about that stuff..

  • @historyfunnfacts9204
    @historyfunnfacts9204 Год назад

    this quality is amazing

  • @randomperson3935
    @randomperson3935 Год назад +3

    I love how the most replayed is the one where you skip the sponsor or ad entirely.

  • @Mach5Johnny
    @Mach5Johnny Год назад +24

    Tim Pool had Yeonmi Park as a guest on the IRL Podcast and Jesus Christ her story is insane

  • @afrikasmith1049
    @afrikasmith1049 Год назад +5

    Guard: Halt! Who goes there?
    Runaway: Hello. Just trying to leave North Korea.
    Guard: Cool. Can I join?

  • @prakashghumaliya2002
    @prakashghumaliya2002 Год назад

    Thank you for video sir

  • @MrGray-dx8sw
    @MrGray-dx8sw Год назад +11

    People of the free world doesn't realize how good we have it being free. Our freedom is on the verge of being taken from us everyday be humble.

    • @langbo9999
      @langbo9999 Год назад

      And the woke the joke poeple are an enemy to the free world so never listen to woke trash 🚮

    • @pricelessppp
      @pricelessppp Год назад

      People on the left side love these places. Hence bernies love for cuba.

    • @PROVOCATEURSK
      @PROVOCATEURSK Год назад +1

      Free? You can´t stop paying taxes, you can´t travel wherever you want.

  • @luisemoralesfalcon4716
    @luisemoralesfalcon4716 Год назад +38

    Well, seeing as you can end there by being kidnapped by NK agents even when you aren't on NK this is important

  • @ThrottleUp488
    @ThrottleUp488 Год назад +1

    great video

  • @Doughy-boys
    @Doughy-boys Год назад

    Keep up the content
    Love ya bruk

  • @Dipp182
    @Dipp182 Год назад +20

    You should do one on Colombians detained by the Narcs in the Jungles about mid 90s to mid 2000s.
    My grandparents were held as hostages for 6 months and let go with a large bride of food.

  • @JoshRead
    @JoshRead Год назад +15

    And I thought sneaking out the house as hard

  • @camerongrant9356
    @camerongrant9356 Год назад +2

    This is the best simple history narrator!!!!! I can’t even listen to the other ones lol

  • @viruscure4677
    @viruscure4677 9 месяцев назад

    Such amazing stories seriously....

  • @theconqueringram5295
    @theconqueringram5295 Год назад +45

    I love how this informative video about a serious subject has a whimsical thumbnail. That said, North Korea is so fascinating and I love studying the tales of North Korean defectors. I have a ton of respect for these people and the people who helped them on their journeys.

    • @PROVOCATEURSK
      @PROVOCATEURSK Год назад +1

      They could chose to shoot commies but they didn´t, tells a lot about them.

  • @zenbmonk1016
    @zenbmonk1016 Год назад +4

    Never been on my list of visited destination s in the future. But, I always look forward to a peaceful outcome on the peninsula. Both of my friends from Seoul who I had E-Mail contact with have passed away.

  • @tommytoon_stories
    @tommytoon_stories Год назад

    I love this channel, I never knew the full story of Korea and how the whole split happened

  • @adambernechea8122
    @adambernechea8122 Год назад

    EPIC VIDEO

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Год назад +5

    US and USSR in 1945: How about we split Korea temporarily?
    77 years later....

  • @starorcarina8525
    @starorcarina8525 Год назад +6

    Fun fact
    The Speakers in South Korea sometimes blast BTS and other K-pop music to North Korea

  • @Dobalobadob
    @Dobalobadob Год назад +5

    I’m pretty sure some guy drove up to the DMZ wall, crashed into the wall, climbed over the wall with like, 10 bullet holes in him, and sprinted to South Korea. Absolute Gigachad.

  • @ivanmatz5812
    @ivanmatz5812 Год назад +23

    Quite inspiring hearing about normal, everyday hard-working people who had everything to lose and nothing to gain, yet chose to risk a lot and help someone they hadnt even ever seen before, couldnt speak in the same language to.; to avoid certain death. (Such as that tour guide)

  • @atomsk01
    @atomsk01 Год назад +4

    I think Yeomi Park was on Joe Rogan a few months back. Incredible story!
    Incredible work again, guys!

    • @alphana7055
      @alphana7055 Год назад

      She is literally used to make fun of south korea for making a complete 180 and constantly changes her story, lmao.

  • @silentwolf6555
    @silentwolf6555 Год назад +58

    I’d rather live in the hottest desserts of the Sahara or the freezing wild lands of Siberia than live in North Korea

    • @luisemoralesfalcon4716
      @luisemoralesfalcon4716 Год назад +5

      Siberia is still inside Russia but, they are focused on something in the East right now so you want to make sure that the area of Siberia is good for you and as for the Sahara well, aren't There some traveling bands of merry people besides the peaceful ones?

    • @silentwolf6555
      @silentwolf6555 Год назад +18

      @@luisemoralesfalcon4716my point being, they’re hard to live in, but a lot better than what people live in North Korea.

    • @luisemoralesfalcon4716
      @luisemoralesfalcon4716 Год назад +1

      @@silentwolf6555 now that is true.

    • @paul123ggggggggg
      @paul123ggggggggg Год назад

      unreal the replies to your simple remark and the level of detail one went through to over analysis a metaphorical comparison.

    • @nedifar-haunts-you
      @nedifar-haunts-you Год назад

      Lol

  • @Joshsclarinetmusic
    @Joshsclarinetmusic Год назад +1

    this is just what i was looking for thanks!

  • @jaha777jaha6
    @jaha777jaha6 Год назад +1

    Ppl just don't know how blessed they are sometimes 🙏

  • @dansmachine9360
    @dansmachine9360 Год назад +12

    The kind of people who appreciate freedom more than any other on earth

  • @backstories933
    @backstories933 Год назад +4

    3:11 You Can see flower thrower by Banksy

  • @user-db5fh6ov1o
    @user-db5fh6ov1o Год назад +1

    Thank you for introducing Korean history. I have seen you for a long time. Thank you again.

  • @dvulpis29
    @dvulpis29 Год назад +4

    “BuT tHaT wAsNt ReAL cOmMuNiSm!”

  • @The7Reaper
    @The7Reaper Год назад +10

    These people have my utmost respect, knowing that if they're caught in their attempts means almost certain death takes courage.

  • @Jack.Krauser.re4
    @Jack.Krauser.re4 Год назад +5

    Hi simple history, i do love your vids. However for future reference please remember that Military Police in Korean is 헌병, which should be farely simple to add.
    Anyways keep up the great work!

  • @unexpectedgouf5225
    @unexpectedgouf5225 Год назад +7

    How to escape North Korea.
    1. Have a Stealth/Dodge build.

  • @ayhc562
    @ayhc562 Год назад +7

    glad there are people willing to help them

  • @haugs1718
    @haugs1718 Год назад +5

    It's inhumane the way every other country treats those poor people.

    • @markolysynchuk5264
      @markolysynchuk5264 Год назад

      All the other countries (Laos, China, Vietnam) are communist. Russia is just nuts, the only way out-South Korea

  • @eldridgedavis
    @eldridgedavis Год назад +1

    Terrible circumstances. I'm glad some are able to make it out..

  • @genege6301
    @genege6301 Год назад +4

    I like the fact it's stated none of the stories can be confirmed

  • @TankEngine75
    @TankEngine75 Год назад +8

    You forget the most craziest defection story ever and it happened in my country (Malaysia)
    Basically a few years back there was Mun Chol-myong, a North Korean businessman living in Kuala Lumpur, he faced charges related to money laundering and violating United Nations sanctions by supplying prohibited items to North Korea via Malaysia and Singapore, He (Mun Chol-myong) requested Malaysia for him to get extradited to the USA, Malaysia then listened to his request and extradited him to the USA, North Korea was obviously pissed off at this and last year, North Korea severed all ties with Malaysia, before this, Malaysia had ties with both the North and the South but now they only have ties with the South

  • @TUDGAF
    @TUDGAF Год назад +5

    Off-topic slightly but, remember the two American Journalists arrested by N Korea? Initially I thought their visit and crossing of the border as bravery. After discovering that their actions caused the hiding spots and safe houses hosted by missionaries near the border got busted by the Chinese police, well, their actions became straight idiocy

  • @Anonymous-jo2no
    @Anonymous-jo2no Год назад +3

    There are also those travelling by boat from the east coast attempting to reach South Korea but accidentally ended up in Hokkaido I heard... later the authorities sent them to Japan. Sadly the Sea of Japan is unforgiving apparently.

  • @ArandomPerson7996
    @ArandomPerson7996 Год назад +5

    Its very sad this kind of country exists.

  • @randomname4879
    @randomname4879 Год назад +1

    I like how Kim Jon I’ll is in the background holding food

  • @owenjones9659
    @owenjones9659 Год назад

    3:12 nice jean Michael basquiat piece

  • @rileykruse2307
    @rileykruse2307 Год назад +5

    Pro advice, the farther from Rocket Man, then better

  • @herbivorethecarnivore8447
    @herbivorethecarnivore8447 Год назад +5

    The comments section of Simple History videos is such a bizarre place

  • @ChongiFishing
    @ChongiFishing Год назад +4

    Can you do an episode on the 40-minute Korean war in 1984?

  • @Playerdude15346
    @Playerdude15346 Год назад

    Is it just me or do I love the narrator in these videos

  • @bren9275
    @bren9275 Год назад +4

    Finaly a new video about North korea!

    • @Ftalmeida73
      @Ftalmeida73 Год назад +2

      It's a good video. However, referring to South Korea under Ree Syngman as democratic (0:57) is quite a stretch. ROK became effectively a democracy under Kim Young-sam.

  • @billlee4273
    @billlee4273 Год назад +11

    As a former army combat vet I’d reenlist if it meant invading and putting a end to north koreas government actions

    • @SimonAshworthWood
      @SimonAshworthWood Год назад +1

      You are brainwashed by rich people’s media propaganda.
      The US govt has waged a propaganda campaign against North Korea for many decades. Most of what you believe (e.g. the claims in this video) about North Korea is baseless slander from the US govt put into US-aligned media, social media & educational institutions.
      ruclips.net/video/pJCY7dS7StU/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/BkUMZS-ZegM/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/-md6CQHx2-E/видео.html

    • @markolysynchuk5264
      @markolysynchuk5264 Год назад

      @@SimonAshworthWood you mean north korea is the richest, the greatest, the happiest place on Earth which north korean propaganda says it is, right?

    • @SteenSpinal4LIFE
      @SteenSpinal4LIFE 10 месяцев назад

      If only people like you knew the real story of North Korea vs the world.

  • @navillahnavillah
    @navillahnavillah Год назад

    The little soldier made the sponsors worth to watch

  • @Hyeon_Gyu_Yang
    @Hyeon_Gyu_Yang Год назад +2

    As The Korean, Thank you made for Korean History Videos :D
    한국인으로서, 한국 역사 영상들을 만들어 주셔서 감사드립니다 :D

  • @destic7767
    @destic7767 Год назад +7

    How to escape North Korea? 🇰🇵💨🏃‍♂️
    1. Step - Make sure your father and mother didn't made you there.
    *THE END*

  • @timecrashv5wu709
    @timecrashv5wu709 Год назад +4

    Simple History fans when Difficult Future shows up
    🤯

  • @jefferydavis4090
    @jefferydavis4090 3 месяца назад

    So sad that anyone has to go through that just for freedom. God Bless them

  • @juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370

    7:03: what a lucky madlad. Despite of the mines, the snipers, the machineguns or his own colleagues, he survived all that!

  • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
    @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Год назад +4

    Ferb I think I know what we're gonna do today

  • @Challengeyourwhy
    @Challengeyourwhy Год назад +5

    You need max lvl of stealth for this.

    • @RonJeremy514
      @RonJeremy514 Год назад +2

      And master the secret art of the Hangul Thu'um.

    • @TankMasterGo
      @TankMasterGo Год назад +2

      U cant restart "DMZ" level

    • @Challengeyourwhy
      @Challengeyourwhy Год назад +1

      @@TankMasterGo well... start a new game or jist uninstal it.

  • @Jarod-vg9wq
    @Jarod-vg9wq Год назад

    Do a video about flash drive smuggled into the country.

  • @flazzorb
    @flazzorb Год назад +1

    0:38 the image is a misnomer, before the korean war the division was very literally a straight line at the 38th parallel.

  • @jasoncreamer5747
    @jasoncreamer5747 Год назад +11

    It is unbelievable that a government like North Korea still exists today. What can be done to help them? Maybe giving them free internet with star link could cause some changes.

    • @TheKitMurkit
      @TheKitMurkit Год назад +5

      Internet? Funny. Even omitting the inability of those people to own anything, the information alone doesn't change people's minds. There are many regimes, and they still function despite the access to information.

    • @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378
      @jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 Год назад

      @@TheKitMurkit unless those loyalist who has access with it

  • @agpaok0704
    @agpaok0704 Год назад +13

    I think south korea can beat north korea in few days, in this era. North korea still has the same equipment since civil war, they have no chance. I am pretty sure, north korean soldiers and generals will side with south at the first opprtunity. Only issue I can think is China, and maybe this is the reason north korea still exists.

    • @chri8686
      @chri8686 Год назад

      Yes, but i don't think China will like that... i am scared those communist pigs will help them out

    • @paul123ggggggggg
      @paul123ggggggggg Год назад

      yep, north korea simply exist to create a barrier with western values.

    • @botelladeaguamediollena4885
      @botelladeaguamediollena4885 Год назад

      NK got nukes so that aint happening any time soon

    • @agpaok0704
      @agpaok0704 Год назад

      @@botelladeaguamediollena4885 nukes not gonna help. In so small range they won't do any difference.

    • @boillingraviolli2258
      @boillingraviolli2258 Год назад +2

      I'm pretty sure North Korea's large Nuclear arsenal that's capable of wiping out all life on the Korean peninsula is a bigger issue.

  • @jesusbeliever9876
    @jesusbeliever9876 Год назад +2

    Praying for all of them