Schwagl0rd- Mcsexy 123 I don’t think you had to surrender your passport, that’s illegal. You’re probably not telling something or you’re lying to spread false propaganda. And you weren’t banned. It was a limitation as to the amount of people that can come into the country. Don’t lie and spread liberal propaganda
@@Me-vl6tp Well, I do believe him, because my sister looks like a mix of european and asian and she got denied to go to the US after they saw her face at the passport. Sooo, no, just another US "liberty" things
@@Me-vl6tp Btw, she is not from the middle east. She is asian so there shouldn't even be a ban at all. She literally just got denied to go after the company people saw her face.
yea I see that everything is grey and uses earth tone colors the landscape the buildings the signs all look like black and white UGLY ass city No farmlands all barren fields Besides N Korea is the same latitude as Alaska but Alaska is way more beautiful
That's pretty much exactly how it is! Only the privileged are allowed to live there (ie. Those who are absolutely loyal to the leadership, families of government workers/officials, military families, etc.)
Everyone is poor but I think the capital is mostly uninhabited. Not enough foot traffic. The pedestrians aren't nearly as numerous as a city with that many large buildings would have. Also, I've never seen anyone on balconies or through windows in those high rises. I think they're facade buildings. Props.
@@Mr_Dimento *No, when you enter the country you show them the passport and they keep it.* *You can't leave the country unless they decide to give it **back.No** other country does that.* *You can only leave IF and WHEN they want.* *That's how they control people, and of course their own people don't get passports so they can't leave at all.*
Its weird how North Korea and South Korea are sooo different. One is famous for its brutality, oppression and isolation {dont know if its true tho} while other is famous for their music industry, fashion, movies and food.
it's funny how 13 years ago when i first got into kpop, korea was known as suicide country but fast forward to now, people call korea famous for pop culture. it's very interesting to me.
@A YO i said south korea lol. There’s a difference. Its two different countries. And South korean dramas and movies are really really famous lol They win oscars and people in the west try making remakes if their films
@@QuietVibration Yeah, it's fascinating how just 30 years ago, the south korean people are severely malnourished and were scavenging for rat meat as means to survive but theyve grown so far now that their dark past of having no food and eating dog are slowly being forgotten .
Yea I would stare too if I saw a bunch of foreigners coming to this prison nation i call home... like people are trying to escape this hell and you got people coming in to visit LOL.
@@hodor9851 Yes you can or they'd have a whole ordeal about why you're taking other nations citizens without solid evidence of a crime. I'm just saying it's like you're going to visit a prison that's the size of a country where everyone is just trying to get out from.
I was born in Pyongyang 73 years ago, and sadly, have never been back since leaving as an 18 month old baby with my parents at the outbreak of the Korean War. I dream of going back, thanks for this video.
@@jessramirez5721 The idea of the Korean war, which we survived by the Grace of God, was to destroy and stop the spread of the Gospel of Christ. Pyongyang was once called the Jerusalem of the East, with Bible schools and seminaries. The South now is the most Christian country in Asia.
@@keli15yearsago6 just like back in Nazi Germany in the 1930's-40's, that "cloud" or "Fog" is actually the clouds of Ash from all the poor people that subhuman garbage Kim Jong-Un had burned, just like the Concentration Camps did back in Germany while Hitler was calling the shots. (I have absolutely no idea if that's true or not, but it seems well within the realm of reality/possibility of what Jong-Un wouldn't even hesitate to have done to those poor souls trapped there unfortunately)
@@harrysingh-tj5pu People dying of hunger, camps with workers, houses with broken roofs etc. There are many people who have fled North Korea and have told their stories, the stories are almost always terrible.
@@Jebu911 it also feels baren, I went to many big cities and all had cars and people. Alot of down town had buildings like if they had a story. Everything is cohesive and planed in NK, it almost looks too perfect.
What a great video. I listened to the whole thing without skipping any of it . Super well done and your narration kept me wanting more. Awesome job sir.
That's because it is. So many of those buildings are unused and are just there as a set so tourists don't see what it actually looks like. Rather than... Ya know... Actually letting people use the buildings...
Pratik Rao it not that they are complaining that they cant go, its just that it seems suspicous that a country that is known for imprisoning innocent and holding public executions take away the very thing that allows you to go back to your country, north korea dont HAVE to allow you to go home, they could just lock you up whilst you are silently tortured, something has to be done
@@mohammedyusufal-bakistani ...just as no one was asking you to reply to my statement. I will say it again: I will never visit a country where it is mandatory to hand over a passport.
Another thing you might've noticed is that the quality of the train tracks and the maximum speed immediately deteriorates when you cross the border into NK.
Honestly, it looks peacefull for me. Well considering west placed heavy sanctions on kore for like 70 years or so, no import no export, no visas, no trades, no opurtunity to grow, cripling economy beyond fixing... north korea looks damn good, they even have old ppl, surprising
The whole country is depressing. I mean when you walk around London it can seem depressing as it rains alot but the north korean architests and enginners can't even show their craft... every building is depressing, show some creativity! Build a giant cucumber/gerkin in the middle of everything! Nope, they'd be shot. I can't even begin to imagine the restrictions they have on art, comedy, music, freedoms of speech... I bet your family would be rounded up if you insulted the dictators there, which is a horrible situation to be in. Edit: All those huge paintings and stautes of the dictators too! How fragile their egos are. If anyone defamed them or mocked them imagine the consequences. Horrible.
@@graullas8981 That's a stupid comment. Plenty of people visit North Korea as tourists, yet leave the country to return home safely. If kidnapping was a common occurrence, we'd most definitely hear about it, but we don't, because it doesn't happen - at least not with Westerners.
i think it's just because tourists are only permitted to see certain things, not allowed to go 'wondering' hence why they need to stick with the tour guide.
@@mats7492 a POW is different then an innocent tourist... otto didnt deserve to die now the recent news in NK wants 2 million dollars for releasing otto... wtf is that... this is like one week ago news bro wtf....
Max S North Korea is a very unstable country, who knows what they would do if we were to assassinate Kim Jung Un. It’s also very possible that an even more corrupt leader could come into power.
@@user-sh1gc3jk7l Sorry Otto didn't follow the law. He should be extra careful if you are in north korea. He visited North Korea as a tourist and should just have abide the law and he didn't. And Jord is entitled to have his own opinion he isn't a country he is a person. I thought freedom was a core principle of USA so you should encourage him to give his opinion.
@@user-pg5re1cg7d otto was framed by NK the security camera proves nothing. I dont support this vlogger giving kim money...also very interesting he's a person not a country...
@@lumminefrog8070 okay i agree and changed it, imagine you were otto and imagine his family... we as society arnt entitled to have videos of NK , a encyclopedia page should be enough to know about this country, of course its this vloggers choice to give NK money but saddens me he didnt relate to otto who was a traveller just like him...
Im s korean and always wanted to visit n korea. It’s so strange, how close they are, yet so far and even calling each other enemies. I hope we can reunite peacefully ,and free all the n koreans who are in control of monster Kim.
You country have no state sovereignty, this is deadly point. North Korea will open one day, it's a tendency, it's not possible to lock forever, when its economics has been developed, it will open, and on that time, they not only have good economics, but also strong military science, this will be a key to negotiate with the South. We all like to see a independent Korea, not a controlled country by USA.
American Army in your country, and built military base in your motherland, when you country plan to make important decision, it must look the face of America, Japan already has no backbone, I hope you country can stick sometime, at least keep your gravity.
I spent two weeks in North Korea in 2012. Much looks the same, but I definitely notice changes in Pyongyang particularly with some new development, more cars, and some fashion changes. Very interesting to see what it looks like now!
yea and if somone logs in from south korea will jsut say they are logging in fromkorea, i wish it sied which one so if NK elite coems on can torment them.
@snow forest How is it heated?! NK has ppl starving….LITERALLY!! DYING from starvation! Plus ZERO health care and just burying the bodies on top of one another in the hospitals. There is NO food. Not even rice!! Yet stupid, selfish, asshole Kim Jung Un, eats to the point that he is morbidly OBESE!! North Korea is scared that they will Be swiped from this planet and my heart hurts SO bad for those incentive
I'm South Korean. South Korea is a divided country, so unfortunately, I cannot go to North Korea. So I was curious about North Korea, but this vlog helped me
@@user-uk2nx8bl7d Well, we do not when does unification will happen it could be tomorrow, next day, next month, this year or next year around. Stay hopeful dude! We will see it.
Are there no poor and mistreated people in your own country? I am in no way apologising for or defending North Korea, all I'm saying is that everywhere in the world there is a vast divide between the wealthy elite and the miserable poor. Take a look at the way aboriginals in Australia live in rural communities then start to feel sad for them when they are surrounded by abundant wealth they will never realise.
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The poor from capitalist countries can work under an owner, or start being a such one. North Korean poor are worse than slaves, because the rich themselves are slaves there, and even government officials have travel restrictions. And the tourists that go there, want it or not, are feeding the regime with powerful foreign money.
@ In the words of Nelson Mandela, "Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our time - times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in Science, Technology, Industry and Wealth accumulation - that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils."
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@@ozchoz In part truth, but, speaking of Mandela, under his mandate the crime rate in South Africa happened to be the highest recorded in the last 100 years.
That crazy. I'm watching a SOuth Korean drama about a girl falling in love with a north korean guy and he took all the microphone wires out the room. Shit scary. 😔
Feel so much for the North Korean people, they have so little but seem so nice despite their lives. I hope one day they have the same lives as their southern families. Its just so sad,
@glorihol6803 Lol exactly, it's barely any different to any other nearby country that's capitalist. Mongolia is very poor all over including in the capital for example.
It looks like traveling back in time in a time machine. Especially for those who lived in the USSR many years ago. Of course, everything is different, but something like that.
@@bldontmatter5319 well i could say same to you, all you know about korea is what your own government told you, and for sure they newer lie. Did you know that u.s. have all possible sanctions on kore? They tell you korean dictator not allowing koreans to leave the country, but here train to china and back going every day, even so collective west have sanctio to korea not giving visas and forbidding any job in west for them... Funny yeas? Why they have no cars and drive bicycles? Well maybe because sanctions on export and import? No cars going to be imported, no production going to be exported, it means no economic growth for several decades now... And you believe wen your own corporate media tells you kip jong u. Eats all their food... First try to find all sanctions the west has on north corea, then what those sanctions do and mean... And then look at their country and think...
@@SuperKREPSINIS Much like the DDR was. But don't let the hardcore NATO lovers hear you challenging Freedom And Democracy(TM) too much, or questioning why you're told to hate yourself for being white/blame whites for your problems, or else they'll prevent you from Spreading Misinformation and Oppressing Minorities by: - shutting down your bank accounts, - getting you fired from your job, - having you effectively unpersoned in society Aren't you glad you live The Free And Democratic West(TM)? Where you can't question anything and you're drowning in debt while your children are brainwashed and you're told how evil you are if you're white? Isn't The Free And Democratic West(TM) such a lovely place, so much better than those North Koreans!
I crossed China to Mongolia, they lift the train up and change the wheels. I got a bit tispy and stayed on board. Crazy experience being on a carriage hoisted into the air 😂
Definitely a time capsule since its still in the communist era. I can't diss North Korea as much though since the whole city is cleaner than a couple blocks of the la streets I'm near
milk steak the only reason why the city looks so clean is because that’s where the rich folk are. Pyongyang is where the president is, therefore, there must be a lot of rich politicians. Heck, the cities have restaurants and all these gigantic buildings. RESTAURANTS while people outside of Pyongyang city (which is a lot of the country) many normal citizens DIE from starvation. Restaurant? They can’t afford a restaurant when they can’t even afford a bowl of rice...
milk steak also, the poor streets of LA will look waaay better than outside of Pyongyang I’m sorry if this sounds mean, i just want to let you know how horrible the country really is. All of these building are just for show and it’s absolutely sad
Oh hell no. NEVER let anyone take your passport. I’d rather be kicked out than let someone take it. It is yours and only yours. You open yourself up to endless horrific possibilities especially in a country where you are not free to go on your own and there isn’t an embassy for your home there.
I took this tour about 4 years ago. I'm not defending, or am I discrediting North Korea. These videos you see are pretty accurate, and you can draw whatever conclusion you want. But I can tell you this. The people there are living like actual people. They're not enslaved to smartphone or spend their entire life on social media. I was allowed to go to a very rural area, of course, just where I was allowed to go. But you can see all the kids playing outside. The only worry they really have is getting in trouble by the government. But other than that, they are carefree. Not worried about the responsibilities we have to face, trying to earn money to make a living. The people there are given everything they need to survive. It sucks that they can't have the luxury we have. Ira pretty sad seeing the living conditions they are in. But it was wholesome to see them actually be people instead of robots behind a screen. They are not enslaved to the central banks or corporations. They live in a double-edged society. But I can't explain the whole experience in detail. It's too much to cover. I can say the only people who actually stress on a daily basis are the upper class. They're the ones that actually get watched and have to be perfect in order to stay in the position they were given. So I guess they live like we do. If we do nothing, we get everything taken away from us. Versus, the majority are just given what they need.
I understand the curiosity and desire to visit somewhere so unique and I feel it myself, but Yeonmi Park (a North Korean defector who now campaigns for human rights and educates people about North Korean life) has a video where she explains why people shouldn’t take these trips. Firstly, it’s bringing much-needed foreign money to the NK regime, precious little of which ever gets into the hands of those who need it. Instead, it’s used to develop bombs, maintain prison camps and manufacture more bullets to threaten and kill North Korean people. Secondly, it serves as a two-way propaganda exercise to the tourists and the NK people. Even if the tourists don’t fall for the scripted story shown by the tour guides, every time a Westerner performs a compulsory bow to the Kim statues, North Koreans are taught “Look, people come from all over the world to show their respect for our Great Leader!”. Every tourist is shown off as a pilgrim to the “great socialist utopia”. North Koreans are told that the rest of the world is awful, and that people visit their country because they admire and want to be more like NK. In this way, it helps keep the people controlled and abused. I’ve heard people say that they want to show NK people how friendly people from other countries are, and perhaps sow a seed of doubt about the propaganda they hear every day. But as Park points out, the only people that tourists are given any access to are the very people who are benefiting from the dictator’s regime - those of the privileged elite, from the tour guides to the “ordinary people” in the street. They know it’s in their best interests to keep the lies alive. She makes a very valid point. The way to help the North Korean people break free is to pressure and sanction China to stop bolstering the NK regime, as without the help of the CCP Kim would be very significantly weakened. Her videos are well worth a look. Again, I do understand the attraction of unusual trips like this one, and I find it fascinating too. But I just wanted to add a little food for thought. Best wishes.
China will never do that, as Yeonmi has said herself they ignore sanctions and send people back to NK. Also if tourists are already going it's already too late to change that.
I went 4 years ago. I'm not discrediting NK, but I can say they are keeping their society intact from enslavement to the central banks and corporate world control. You see all the war and violence on TV from all these proxy wars. I was part of it. I was deployed in Afghanistan for 6 years as a commissioned officer. We had no business being there. We need to leave other countries alone. Let them do whatever they want with their problems. That's why russia is engaging with Ukraines because we keep feeding the war machine. We make trillions off of war. Russia doesn't want to be controlled by the central banks. But they won't be left alone, and they will always be targeted as long as they keep resisting control. How is it we have problems with every country that doesn't have a central bank and the countries that have joined brics are starting to struggle financially. That's because our government punishes any country that doesn't get with the program. China is on the brink of just choking the USA. If they decide they don't want to do business, we will have another world war because people worldwide are going to suffer because we will no longer get the products we need every day.
Even as something "staged", it's obvious that things are not right. The entire atmosphere seems so uneasy. You can't cover up the bad gut feeling you get. I can't imagine how tense and isolating it must feel at times in person.
I remember the audio recordings that was set-up in every hotel room in Pyongyang. 😂 (If it's really true) I learned alot watching Crash Landing On You. 😂😂
Mate, I'd be very leery of handing over my passport to anyone! What absolute guarantee do you have of getting it back, apart from someone's word of mouth?
Han Renee Hmmmm, maybe sooooooo .... however, I would never put myself in such a position to begin with! I would not be able to trust anyone to whom I had handed over my passport, period!!,
You're so genuine and emphatic in your commentary:) I've watched many vlogs from NK and yours was truly captivating, it feels almost like being there. I look forward to further exploring your content. Keep up the good work👍
Specially if someone is an American, people from other nationality might get away, but the amount damage US has caused on NK that they are now the most hated country inside NK.
Tourist Guide: "This is the first time to come to North Korea for everyone?" Me: Yes! Probably the last one too. I bet the tourist guide is not surprised that tourist are always first timers.
Hi Pepe you must be a Filipino judging from the Dr. Jose Rizal picture you have and your name as well, I'm a Filipino too I'm wondering if are there any Filipinos who visited the North Korea too and I'm actually curious how much they spend on their trip which is I bet is really expensive because tourists has to go china first before entering North Korea
Dude, I have a question: Southern people can't go to the North, right? But how about if you immigrate to other country? Say if you immigrate and Australia and have a Australian Passport, can you then go to North Korea?
People in the comment section acting all dumb, like of cos if you haven’t been there, how would the rest of y’all know...😂🤦♂️🙏 thanks for letting the rest of us who are interested know, there are changes going on in there, it’s pleasant to know
I went to North Korea several years ago before the US ban. I'm American. It is one hell of a destination. Those people are starving and the look on their faces speaks of fear. They are so paranoid when you look at them or talk to them, well, except the kids. The kids are very approachable but you need to get permission from the guide to talk to them.
@@AJS86 The OP is talking about the rest of the world going on vacation to NK not the other way around so your question is irrelevant and doesn’t add anything. Also, I doubt that ‘they’ are missing anything. The media is full of fake news and national propaganda paid for by courtesy of agenda setters; with the whole world divided between left/right, black/white, feminist and LGBTQ and traditional and divided on religious grounds - all clashing. Let me know if you see any impartial reporting because I’d love to hear it.
This video was obv made in the winter. You'd see the same sight in kansas that time of year. Not saying they have a surplus or anything but you're missing some context.
If they inspect every photo you take (as I've seen done), how do you get to leave with video? Do they watch every minute you've filmed before you're allowed to leave with it?
they watch the video. if you say anything bad, i’m assuming they make you remove the video from your camera, im not sure if they arrest you. that’s why he used voice overs, so he could talk about his actual POV after he left NK.
They only let you see the capital, if you noticed when they first got there he said most of the ride to the capital looked barren. Meaning most of the country in barren and farm lands. They won’t even let you get outside of the train anywhere else but the capital city. And even in the capital, which is the most developed and wealthiest part of the country, you’ll notice that there’s not very many cars. And look how the people are dressed, all very plain.
North Korea is like the gulag archipelago, the "islands" are only going to be known to the ones that are destined to know it, the countryside shown in the video is as fake as the capital itself, the country is full of 21th century "gulags" where famine is a constant reality and "reeducation camps" put in practice the so called "collective guilt", which are a cute way of spelling holocaust.
@@biggibbs4678 well yeah but Pyongyang is so fake, the citizens can't even go in the nice buildings. The pictures are taken at an angle so you only see the colorful buildings but if you look closely you can see the decaying Soviet architecture.
just about every single north korean you will see on the tour will be an actor, in other words an individual forced to look happy and do things for the tourists
@@yellowjackets8395 No. If he thought the people around him were actors, he would have said it in his videos. It is pretty obvious from the videos that these are just people living their life. He is being shown the best parts of NK, that's for sure, but the people around him aren't actors. That makes no sense. This absolutely dumb idea comes from reports of fake ghost towns at the border facing south Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. Stupid western people, who show time and again that they can't think by themselves, now believe it's the case of all of North Korea, as if it was possible to hire actors for all of Pyongyang, so they conflate a situation at the border with the rest of the country. Talking about mass paranoia, that's exactly what it is: making up conspiracy theories about "actors" to justify prejudices against the NK country. I've noticed that these prejudices are fueled by downright US propaganda, like the reports about Kim Jung Un killing his uncle by feeding him to dogs or killing a dignitary using missiles. Both these reports have been proven to be forgeries, but now these lies are known in the general public as truths. This is the definition of propaganda.
My mom travelled to East Germany with her school in the 70s and she told me everything was grey, even the saussage....NK very much reminds me of that, except that people in East Germany did not starve and had everything they needed to life. Just no freedom to travel outside, or get any items from the West. But I have met quite a few people from tbe former East, who actually miss the old times....Sooo I guess it was NK light.
For those of you wondering what's behing the curtains in NK read below: You as an individual have almost no rights. You are not allowed to own a business, a house, or even a car. The state have everything and everyone is equal ( except the high ranking government or military personnel ). The income per family is really really small like 100$/month but there nothing you can do with money, just to buy North Korean groceries. There's nothing but NK products and very little variety. People are allowed to have TV's but the only chanells are the strictly NK propaganda and some cartoons ( the same ones over and over ) for children. On the Radio is again only NK propaganda and some NK music from time to time. The worst thing by far is the government who controls every person on the country with the old kgb methods. They have spies everywhere and they constantly arrest people for nothing just to spread fear into the population. If an individual try to escape the country , his family is detained , arrested or even executed. Most of the prisoners are sent to intense labor and are tortured to rat their relatives or close ones for working against the government.
its so crazy and inhumane how they torture their family if someone in that family commits a "crime". what a horrible law. my heart hurts for the North Koreans.
I don't know how to feel about this. Like sure it is very interesting for us to watch and even more of an experience to go there as a tourist. But it's like you said: One of the most surreal places to visit. But people live there. Have to live there probably, even if they don't want to. And I am not sure if it's good to support a country like this, to give it the video time. You clearly are not allowed to see anything that's not good, that they don't want you to see. Like is it ok to treat a country like that in a way you would visit other countries? Is it ok to make the leaders look human? The parallels to the divided Germany are very visible and the DDR government and what the states security service did to so many people is reviewed as big crimes today.
We’re thinking about coming to North Korea. We already went to visit the border from South Korea and it was so interesting. Thank you for sharing these videos. Safe travels! 😊
In my humble opinion, N. Korea deserves more tourists coming in to see the country as it is, as it was labeled 'most harmonious place' on earth; especially with the decades-old U.S. and Western sanctions which caused over a million N. Koreans deaths in starvation in the past. I like to see peace and prosperity that the country richly deserves. blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=785423
@@olefella7561 Speaking of a million innocent people died in starvation, remember the saying 'Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It'. Germany in pre-World War II era, was imposed upon with numerous and heavy war reparations, tariffs and sanctions by Western Colonial Powers for over a quarter century; eventually when that nation sank into mega depression, which made way for World War II, as Germany struck back. Similar scenario ran in Japan, when that nation too was bullied by maritime sanction; essentially blocking the whole island through naval blockage by Anglo empire naval ships for so long until Japan ran out of (imported) oil, and struck back at Pearl Harbor naval base that participated in year-long sanction. Like you said, people of North Korea has suffered long enough, a quarter century of sanctions by the West, resulting in the death of over a million innocent people due to starvation. It's all come down to the West's dependency on China & N. Korea''s Rare Earth Minerals. Fifteen years ago, it was Iraq, and Saddam, and WMD (weapon of mass destruction); and the real motive was - OIL.Today, it is N. Korea and Kim, and nuclear weapon; and the real motive is - RARE EARTH METALS. Just another Capitalist Imperialist trick. Same old, lame old.
@@olefella7561 Imagine if ingenious Native Americans had nuclear weapons, enough to defend themselves, what would they be like today? Mega genocide of indigenous native Americans, and their population in continents of America five hundred years ago was around 15 millions, while European population in Europe was around 20 millions. Today, Native population at 15 million, while European population ( in continents of America + Europe) at a staggering 'One Billion'. History is written by the victors. Like I said, imagine what would it be like today if Native Americans had possessed some sort of nuclear arsenals to defend themselves, and their beloved motherlands from invaders Colonizers? In my humble opinion, the indigenous Natives still would get to hold of the wealth of their bountiful lands intact, as well as their population grew to a good several hundred millions, comparable to that of European population today, no doubt about that. Do you know the fact that Indigenous Native Americans had built such great civilizations as Mayan, Inca and Aztec without outside help, and all from the scratch, and all on their own, since they had been cut off from the rest of the world for ten of thousand of years. In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners indigenous Native American people. Notorious Slavery as well as Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is this another notorious Colonization still lingering on?
@yy l Speaking of which, why did they the Anglo pirates loot New Zealand & Australia, a vast bountiful continent in Asia-Pacific region; why didn't they loot that beautiful fertile Iceland, just a short distant away from their jolly old England, with hardly any people there? Besides, they are exporting & selling all the resources (from that looted continent in Asia-Pacific) back to Asia-Pacific nations. China has made no secret that it will one day help liberate the continent in Asia-Pacific it sees as rightfully belonging to people of Asia-Pacific. Like I said, why is Australia, a vast resourceful continent in Asia-Pacific, only a couple hundred miles away from South-East Asia had no Asian-Pacific Islanders in that vast land originally, historically inhabiting when Anglo pirates, some 10,000 miles away England, sailed half the world away, and looted in late 18th century? This doesn't make sense, since Asian-Pacific Islanders originally and historically inhabiting and residing in Pacific such as Guam, Tonga, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji and Hawaii? Speaking of New Zealand, why did these same Anglo pirates, sailed half way around the world and looted in late 18th century? Why didn't they occupy beautiful fertile Iceland, right above them just a short distant away, with hardly any people there?
I was thinking at the beginning of the video that everything seemed relaxed and normal and then I remembered you weren't in North Korea yet. Even when in Pyongyang it doesn't look too bad though considering what country it's in. Pyongyang is considered the "nicer" and "wealthy" part of North Korea though.
you go to Google. and look for a tour operator that is allowed to arrange tours in NK. they will explain you what you can and can't do. as you must use a tour guide.
@@sirBrouwer @TheLifeOfJord, I'd like to read of your reply please, if only because you were the individual I was asking! Thank you very much, in advance.
Just got here after watching Crash Landing On You, and now I can say that the drama is really put on details on every scene in North Korea. They really made it near to "similar" with the real North Korea, even the train is similar! Unless for the fact that your train is going smoothly (fortunately!), rather than having a blackout in train for 10 hours (yea thats why it called drama😂).
@@user-sh1gc3jk7l at least hes getting footage of the country and who knows what the future holds change has to start somewhere it doesnt always have to be with weapons and war let North korean people see more foreigners at least its an improvement from years ago and btw ur tax money i can guarantee also funds an corrupt regime.
@@louismeyer9408 having the NK people see foreigners does absolutely nothing..... , why would you want to give them money is beyond me...def not voting trump after he said friends with kim ..
I notice at the 6 minute mark or so that the guy in the background is the same guide who took Otto Warmbier on his vacation to NK from which he never exactly returned. Did you have any chance to talk with that guy at all about that expierience?
I would be very uncomfortable in a country that requires you surrender your passport for your trip.
@@mcsexy123 orange man lmaoooo
Schwagl0rd- Mcsexy 123 only joking I’m being an idiot
Schwagl0rd- Mcsexy 123 I don’t think you had to surrender your passport, that’s illegal. You’re probably not telling something or you’re lying to spread false propaganda. And you weren’t banned. It was a limitation as to the amount of people that can come into the country. Don’t lie and spread liberal propaganda
@@Me-vl6tp Well, I do believe him, because my sister looks like a mix of european and asian and she got denied to go to the US after they saw her face at the passport. Sooo, no, just another US "liberty" things
@@Me-vl6tp Btw, she is not from the middle east. She is asian so there shouldn't even be a ban at all. She literally just got denied to go after the company people saw her face.
It's always so grey there. Never seems like the actual sunshine manages to get through.
yea I see that everything is grey and uses earth tone colors the landscape the buildings the signs all look like black and white UGLY ass city No farmlands all barren fields Besides N Korea is the same latitude as Alaska but Alaska is way more beautiful
You colour blind? Because the colours were coming through on my screen
@@tied2dye1 Umm, no? Pyongyang is almost at the same latitudinal mark as San Francisco.
Alot of negative energy, I expect no less of a country like North Korea.
But the equality there is unrivaled by the west.
Anyone else think North Korea is like the hunger games in the way that the capital is really rich and everywhere else is poor?
That's pretty much exactly how it is! Only the privileged are allowed to live there (ie. Those who are absolutely loyal to the leadership, families of government workers/officials, military families, etc.)
Everyone is poor but I think the capital is mostly uninhabited. Not enough foot traffic. The pedestrians aren't nearly as numerous as a city with that many large buildings would have. Also, I've never seen anyone on balconies or through windows in those high rises. I think they're facade buildings. Props.
@@fredharvey2720 that's creepy
@@fredharvey2720 I got that feeling, too. There was almost no one.
Stfu infidel
You don't need to whisper bro, the listening devices in your room can still pick up your voice.
Umm ikr idk but I watched it in a kdrama 😂😂
@@kook-hr4ps crash landing on you hehe
@@SMASHANDBURN-zo8pn ikr-😌
*Handing over your passport to the authorities ... what could possibly go wrong?*
*You become a prisoner, not a tourist.*
Yeah, that would be a deal breaker.
Bernie Sanders told me that North Korea is a huge socialist success.
Erm. They making sure you are who say you are?...
Just like normal passports at an air port?
@@Mr_Dimento *No, when you enter the country you show them the passport and they keep it.*
*You can't leave the country unless they decide to give it **back.No** other country does that.*
*You can only leave IF and WHEN they want.*
*That's how they control people, and of course their own people don't get passports so they can't leave at all.*
Yeah, you ask to keep my passport and either you or I aren’t coming out of this thing alive.
Its weird how North Korea and South Korea are sooo different. One is famous for its brutality, oppression and isolation {dont know if its true tho} while other is famous for their music industry, fashion, movies and food.
it's funny how 13 years ago when i first got into kpop, korea was known as suicide country but fast forward to now, people call korea famous for pop culture. it's very interesting to me.
@@akane8615 13 years had gone. They are PROGESSING. But unfortunately there are still many suicide cases. Sad.
@A YO i said south korea lol. There’s a difference. Its two different countries. And South korean dramas and movies are really really famous lol They win oscars and people in the west try making remakes if their films
@@akane8615 It is the fastest growing economy/country in the world, they are increasingly growing as people! very cool i think as well
@@QuietVibration Yeah, it's fascinating how just 30 years ago, the south korean people are severely malnourished and were scavenging for rat meat as means to survive but theyve grown so far now that their dark past of having no food and eating dog are slowly being forgotten .
Yea I would stare too if I saw a bunch of foreigners coming to this prison nation i call home... like people are trying to escape this hell and you got people coming in to visit LOL.
@@adityadwivedi5963 he hasn't responded NSA should check on him 😉
Once you're in, you can't come out even as a tourist?
@@hodor9851 Yes you can or they'd have a whole ordeal about why you're taking other nations citizens without solid evidence of a crime. I'm just saying it's like you're going to visit a prison that's the size of a country where everyone is just trying to get out from.
@@mastertochi101 ok
LMAOO RIGHT!!
I was born in Pyongyang 73 years ago, and sadly, have never been back since leaving as an 18 month old baby with my parents at the outbreak of the Korean War.
I dream of going back, thanks for this video.
The Pyongyang your family has come from is not the Pyongyang today.
@@jessramirez5721 The idea of the Korean war, which we survived by the Grace of God,
was to destroy and stop the spread of the Gospel of Christ.
Pyongyang was once called the Jerusalem of the East, with Bible schools and seminaries.
The South now is the most Christian country in Asia.
@@jessramirez5721 yeah the US bombed it until it became a pile of rubble during the war
I don't think there is anything good left.
thats your country,where you are born,and of course everyone love his county,
Is it just me or does North Korea look like it has its own cloud of depression and sadness over it. It’s so dark and never Bright
I find it beautiful
@@l.h4621 🧢🧢🧢
You can even see the negative energy
@@keli15yearsago6 just like back in Nazi Germany in the 1930's-40's, that "cloud" or "Fog" is actually the clouds of Ash from all the poor people that subhuman garbage Kim Jong-Un had burned, just like the Concentration Camps did back in Germany while Hitler was calling the shots. (I have absolutely no idea if that's true or not, but it seems well within the realm of reality/possibility of what Jong-Un wouldn't even hesitate to have done to those poor souls trapped there unfortunately)
@@deddjester4155 lol I thought you and L.H. Were the same person so I was so confused
I can’t believe you were able to film so easily.
He is in sections of the country designed to display nothing shocking etc. tourists are banned from the areas that would reveal the horrors.
@@RassionellMaddman what horrors are there to be found?
@@harrysingh-tj5pu People dying of hunger, camps with workers, houses with broken roofs etc. There are many people who have fled North Korea and have told their stories, the stories are almost always terrible.
Vladimir Lenin so you support North Korea?
@@hasanal-hussein7079 Just curious, if it's just propaganda, why can't you explore NK on your own? And why can't people leave freely? Just wondering.
North korea as they want you to see it
It’s the North Korea they wish it were.
They want people to think, "It's not as bad as I thought. Maybe socialism is good after all."
The architecture in the capital does look good.
@@Jebu911 it also feels baren, I went to many big cities and all had cars and people. Alot of down town had buildings like if they had a story.
Everything is cohesive and planed in NK, it almost looks too perfect.
yeah...because they're the masters of illusion lol get real.
3:55 that train just hit one of them speed boosts
This is how found footage horror movies start.
Lol
Reminds me of like Chernobyl Diaries or something.. sad but damn lmao
@@damethyst That was the movie I was thinking of lol
Especially at 5:53
@@damethyst i also felt Chernobyl in this video.
North Korea is like if depression was a country
I dont know why, but your profile picture is weirdly fitting.
😑😐 yup
Have you been there
Is he British?, I'm Mexican and I'm learning the British accent of English, thank you
😂😂😂😂
"North Korea is great, just follow their rules"
be sure not to touch any posters. Apparently they take them very seriously.
Moogi Beans bruh 😂
Oof.......
very sad what happened happened to Otto and his family. Rest in peace.
@@blusky3712 what happened? Who are they?
@@noscheisse2455 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier :(
What a great video. I listened to the whole thing without skipping any of it . Super well done and your narration kept me wanting more. Awesome job sir.
The city looks super formulated for some reason. It feels like it's a theatre.
Probably for party functionaries mostly. Looks like lots of props along the railway.
@@fredharvey2720 Everything we are able to get from North Korea are things that the government actually wants you to see.
I agree with you. The pedestrians look like a NPC. They walk as like being programmed.
That's because it is. So many of those buildings are unused and are just there as a set so tourists don't see what it actually looks like. Rather than... Ya know... Actually letting people use the buildings...
The capital is exclusively for higher up politicians so in a sense yeah
I'd never visit a country where it was mandatory to hand over your passport.
Or no embassy of your own nation, for that matter. Nobody can help them.
No one is asking you to go
Pratik Rao it not that they are complaining that they cant go, its just that it seems suspicous that a country that is known for imprisoning innocent and holding public executions take away the very thing that allows you to go back to your country, north korea dont HAVE to allow you to go home, they could just lock you up whilst you are silently tortured, something has to be done
@@mohammedyusufal-bakistani ...just as no one was asking you to reply to my statement. I will say it again: I will never visit a country where it is mandatory to hand over a passport.
@@lordmonty9421 well good for you. North Korea aren't desperate for your money nor are they missing out much by you not going.
Another thing you might've noticed is that the quality of the train tracks and the maximum speed immediately deteriorates when you cross the border into NK.
They entered from China which has some of the best rail in the world. The quality will decrease with most countries
sorta like crossing into America from Canada
absolutely fascinating, thanks so much for sharing. if possible, would like to visit one day
i can feel the tension through my screen and i’m not even physically there
If you dislike peaceful then i recommend you to go to, brazil or venuzuela or maybe indonesia or africans ? (etc) have a nice day.
@@hello-im how you felt after saying that 🐶👹
Yeah I feel that way even now it's like trembling and no sudden movements
LOL im sure you can 🤡
Honestly, it looks peacefull for me. Well considering west placed heavy sanctions on kore for like 70 years or so, no import no export, no visas, no trades, no opurtunity to grow, cripling economy beyond fixing... north korea looks damn good, they even have old ppl, surprising
I might be weird, but whenever i saw the sky at North Korea..it kinda makes me sad :/
Same happened to me. Its so grey looking like so sad. And watching the people looking at the train made me feel like i was doing something so wrong :(
Sofia Schaab Why is it grey?
@@bbolin5626 grey like ... Feeling grey like deppresing looking :( i couldn't explain myself correctly
It was literally cloudy and foggy.
The whole country is depressing. I mean when you walk around London it can seem depressing as it rains alot but the north korean architests and enginners can't even show their craft... every building is depressing, show some creativity! Build a giant cucumber/gerkin in the middle of everything! Nope, they'd be shot. I can't even begin to imagine the restrictions they have on art, comedy, music, freedoms of speech... I bet your family would be rounded up if you insulted the dictators there, which is a horrible situation to be in.
Edit: All those huge paintings and stautes of the dictators too! How fragile their egos are. If anyone defamed them or mocked them imagine the consequences. Horrible.
If I'm honest, if I was a tourist in "Korea", I would be one of the most paranoid people on the planet
@UC2X9dn2P22AXWzirkbtx8tw I'm talking about North Korea.
That's why I put in quotes because that's what people their refer it as
Don't go there then.
Well, every sane person would. Honestly, no sane person would visit north korea. Unless you want to be missing.
That is a completely normal and sane reaction
@@graullas8981 That's a stupid comment. Plenty of people visit North Korea as tourists, yet leave the country to return home safely. If kidnapping was a common occurrence, we'd most definitely hear about it, but we don't, because it doesn't happen - at least not with Westerners.
Very interesting. I appreciate your sharing this with us.
Tourist: The beer is bad
Kim: What did you say!
Tourist: No, No. It's very good.
It would probably go more like this
Tourist: Th-
Kim: kill him
@@ArkOnRUclips 😂
@@ArkOnRUclips Actually it's more of
Tourist: Th-
Kim: Send him to the prison camp.
if he was coughing he'd be killed slowly.
I’m not much of a drinker, but I’ll say is the best beer I ever experienced 🥴
Hold my Warmbier
We watch same things in all North Korean vlogs.
I still enjoy watching them though! :D
i think it's just because tourists are only permitted to see certain things, not allowed to go 'wondering' hence why they need to stick with the tour guide.
Out of respect for Otto Warmbrier stop giving NK positive attention....was a huge trump fan before this
@@user-sh1gc3jk7l stop posting that under EVERY Video! we get it..
@@mats7492 a POW is different then an innocent tourist... otto didnt deserve to die now the recent news in NK wants 2 million dollars for releasing otto... wtf is that... this is like one week ago news bro wtf....
North Koreans architects are appointed by minecraft..
Out of respect for Otto Warmbrier stop giving NK positive attention...
Max S North Korea is a very unstable country, who knows what they would do if we were to assassinate Kim Jung Un. It’s also very possible that an even more corrupt leader could come into power.
@@user-sh1gc3jk7l Sorry Otto didn't follow the law. He should be extra careful if you are in north korea. He visited North Korea as a tourist and should just have abide the law and he didn't. And Jord is entitled to have his own opinion he isn't a country he is a person. I thought freedom was a core principle of USA so you should encourage him to give his opinion.
@@user-pg5re1cg7d otto was framed by NK the security camera proves nothing. I dont support this vlogger giving kim money...also very interesting he's a person not a country...
@@lumminefrog8070 okay i agree and changed it, imagine you were otto and imagine his family... we as society arnt entitled to have videos of NK , a encyclopedia page should be enough to know about this country, of course its this vloggers choice to give NK money but saddens me he didnt relate to otto who was a traveller just like him...
The environment itself in North Korea already looks depressing
Im s korean and always wanted to visit n korea. It’s so strange, how close they are, yet so far and even calling each other enemies.
I hope we can reunite peacefully ,and free all the n koreans who are in control of monster Kim.
You country have no state sovereignty, this is deadly point.
North Korea will open one day, it's a tendency, it's not possible to lock forever, when its economics has been developed, it will open, and on that time, they not only have good economics, but also strong military science, this will be a key to negotiate with the South.
We all like to see a independent Korea, not a controlled country by USA.
American Army in your country, and built military base in your motherland, when you country plan to make important decision, it must look the face of America, Japan already has no backbone, I hope you country can stick sometime, at least keep your gravity.
@zhiheng Wei are you okay
@@rarecrom Reality is that if us army doesn't help south korea won't be alive
Your country itself is only a mistress of the U.S.
I spent two weeks in North Korea in 2012. Much looks the same, but I definitely notice changes in Pyongyang particularly with some new development, more cars, and some fashion changes. Very interesting to see what it looks like now!
Good to hear so already see my powerful leadership taking effect
Why would anyone want to go there in the first place
Bbbbbuuuutttt but but... they are all actors !!! /stupid youtube commenters
@@Kimjongun19841 left winger
The Second Reich so what
"Here they just call it "
That's actually very powerful
I know people on Canada from South Korea and they just say they’re Korean too. If you ask which one they say obviously south..
And South Korea is the best.
yea and if somone logs in from south korea will jsut say they are logging in fromkorea, i wish it sied which one so if NK elite coems on can torment them.
@snow forest How is it heated?! NK has ppl starving….LITERALLY!! DYING from starvation! Plus ZERO health care and just burying the bodies on top of one another in the hospitals. There is NO food. Not even rice!! Yet stupid, selfish, asshole Kim Jung Un, eats to the point that he is morbidly OBESE!! North Korea is scared that they will
Be swiped from this planet and my heart hurts SO bad for those incentive
@@Komerican10 did you even read his comment lmao
It never feels like the sun shines here.
Its always very grey.
I'm South Korean. South Korea is a divided country, so unfortunately, I cannot go to North Korea.
So I was curious about North Korea, but this vlog helped me
I wonder, what would happen if south koreans visit the north, are you allowed there, or are you gonna be abducted
You can probably go there once there is UNIFIED KOREA in the future. Who knows?
@@realcyrusjohn I hope it. Now I can only see them in history
@@user-uk2nx8bl7d Well, we do not when does unification will happen it could be tomorrow, next day, next month, this year or next year around. Stay hopeful dude! We will see it.
@@realcyrusjohn wow what a hopeful word it is Thanks
this video made me sad for those living there, especially in rural areas
Are there no poor and mistreated people in your own country? I am in no way apologising for or defending North Korea, all I'm saying is that everywhere in the world there is a vast divide between the wealthy elite and the miserable poor. Take a look at the way aboriginals in Australia live in rural communities then start to feel sad for them when they are surrounded by abundant wealth they will never realise.
The poor from capitalist countries can work under an owner, or start being a such one. North Korean poor are worse than slaves, because the rich themselves are slaves there, and even government officials have travel restrictions. And the tourists that go there, want it or not, are feeding the regime with powerful foreign money.
@ In the words of Nelson Mandela, "Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our time - times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in Science, Technology, Industry and Wealth accumulation - that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils."
@@ozchoz In part truth, but, speaking of Mandela, under his mandate the crime rate in South Africa happened to be the highest recorded in the last 100 years.
@@ozchoz isn't about being poor, is about being oppressed
If it’s anything like the Soviet Union....the walls of that hotel are probably made of micro-concrete (microphones and concrete)
I once heard you have to be very cautious with what you say inside your own room there
@@lucasbatista9369 That's some scary shit. I guess I'd just keep my mouth completely shut.
That crazy. I'm watching a SOuth Korean drama about a girl falling in love with a north korean guy and he took all the microphone wires out the room. Shit scary. 😔
Wintur윈터 crash landing on you 🥺🥺
@@wintur2856 whats the name of it?
Feel so much for the North Korean people, they have so little but seem so nice despite their lives. I hope one day they have the same lives as their southern families. Its just so sad,
you realize most of south korea is also poor, right? like, dirt poor?
@glorihol6803 Lol exactly, it's barely any different to any other nearby country that's capitalist. Mongolia is very poor all over including in the capital for example.
South korea is not an ideal life. Remember, their big city seoul is not a representation of the entire country.
When he said that he can’t be where those people were and never interact with them that hit me hard
Not on my bucket list of places to go.
Yeah don't go north. Go south it's great there
I just wanna go to see what it's like.
You wont get to see what its truly like you will only get to see the illusion of what north korea wants you to see
Yeah just thinking of going their feels creepy
Yeh me too ! Wont throw my fucking money to such a cruel country like this
I want logan paul to vlog here
yes
Oh my god I think it’s a dead person that tried to cross the border
Kingston shine ok let’s not talk about that we already moved on
title: *I GOT SHOT AT NORTH KOREA AND IM DEAD NOW*
🤣🤣🤣
It looks like traveling back in time in a time machine. Especially for those who lived in the USSR many years ago. Of course, everything is different, but something like that.
Looks quite nice amd peacefull actualy
@@SuperKREPSINISthat's it. Lap it up. Believe what you need to believe
@@bldontmatter5319 well i could say same to you, all you know about korea is what your own government told you, and for sure they newer lie.
Did you know that u.s. have all possible sanctions on kore? They tell you korean dictator not allowing koreans to leave the country, but here train to china and back going every day, even so collective west have sanctio to korea not giving visas and forbidding any job in west for them... Funny yeas? Why they have no cars and drive bicycles? Well maybe because sanctions on export and import? No cars going to be imported, no production going to be exported, it means no economic growth for several decades now... And you believe wen your own corporate media tells you kip jong u. Eats all their food... First try to find all sanctions the west has on north corea, then what those sanctions do and mean... And then look at their country and think...
@@SuperKREPSINIS Much like the DDR was.
But don't let the hardcore NATO lovers hear you challenging Freedom And Democracy(TM) too much, or questioning why you're told to hate yourself for being white/blame whites for your problems, or else they'll prevent you from Spreading Misinformation and Oppressing Minorities by:
- shutting down your bank accounts,
- getting you fired from your job,
- having you effectively unpersoned in society
Aren't you glad you live The Free And Democratic West(TM)? Where you can't question anything and you're drowning in debt while your children are brainwashed and you're told how evil you are if you're white? Isn't The Free And Democratic West(TM) such a lovely place, so much better than those North Koreans!
It's weird. As a European, I've never had to cross a hard border by train. I hope it stays that way!
Only tour groups do. Commercial trucks and government/diplomatic employees are allowed to drive across. Most of all people just fly.
It is not hard to do in Europe, just leave Schengen. I crossed a hard border a year ago (Poland-Ukraine)
I crossed China to Mongolia, they lift the train up and change the wheels.
I got a bit tispy and stayed on board.
Crazy experience being on a carriage hoisted into the air 😂
@@paoloalbertini8893 Oh look an Italian who originated from the middle east talking about borders lol
@Jelly Fingers Protect from what? And do you know who exactly native Europeans are?
looks like 1970's
boy yob2016 looks nice
they’re actually like that in many aspects. their music also sounds kind of old/vintage like
Definitely a time capsule since its still in the communist era.
I can't diss North Korea as much though since the whole city is cleaner than a couple blocks of the la streets I'm near
milk steak the only reason why the city looks so clean is because that’s where the rich folk are. Pyongyang is where the president is, therefore, there must be a lot of rich politicians. Heck, the cities have restaurants and all these gigantic buildings. RESTAURANTS while people outside of Pyongyang city (which is a lot of the country) many normal citizens DIE from starvation. Restaurant? They can’t afford a restaurant when they can’t even afford a bowl of rice...
milk steak also, the poor streets of LA will look waaay better than outside of Pyongyang
I’m sorry if this sounds mean, i just want to let you know how horrible the country really is.
All of these building are just for show and it’s absolutely sad
he had to hand over his passport HUH
Brï Forrest of course. :) NK is hell on earth.
Yes, of course. During your entire trip to North Korea, your guides keep your passport. (I don't really care because I still have my I.D. card on me.)
Out of respect for Otto Warmbrier stop giving NK positive attention...
Oh hell no. NEVER let anyone take your passport. I’d rather be kicked out than let someone take it. It is yours and only yours. You open yourself up to endless horrific possibilities especially in a country where you are not free to go on your own and there isn’t an embassy for your home there.
Do t need a counter revolutionary yankee to fuck up the success of Marxist leninist Juche vibe
I took this tour about 4 years ago. I'm not defending, or am I discrediting North Korea. These videos you see are pretty accurate, and you can draw whatever conclusion you want. But I can tell you this. The people there are living like actual people. They're not enslaved to smartphone or spend their entire life on social media. I was allowed to go to a very rural area, of course, just where I was allowed to go. But you can see all the kids playing outside. The only worry they really have is getting in trouble by the government. But other than that, they are carefree. Not worried about the responsibilities we have to face, trying to earn money to make a living. The people there are given everything they need to survive. It sucks that they can't have the luxury we have. Ira pretty sad seeing the living conditions they are in. But it was wholesome to see them actually be people instead of robots behind a screen. They are not enslaved to the central banks or corporations. They live in a double-edged society. But I can't explain the whole experience in detail. It's too much to cover. I can say the only people who actually stress on a daily basis are the upper class. They're the ones that actually get watched and have to be perfect in order to stay in the position they were given. So I guess they live like we do. If we do nothing, we get everything taken away from us. Versus, the majority are just given what they need.
I understand the curiosity and desire to visit somewhere so unique and I feel it myself, but Yeonmi Park (a North Korean defector who now campaigns for human rights and educates people about North Korean life) has a video where she explains why people shouldn’t take these trips.
Firstly, it’s bringing much-needed foreign money to the NK regime, precious little of which ever gets into the hands of those who need it. Instead, it’s used to develop bombs, maintain prison camps and manufacture more bullets to threaten and kill North Korean people.
Secondly, it serves as a two-way propaganda exercise to the tourists and the NK people. Even if the tourists don’t fall for the scripted story shown by the tour guides, every time a Westerner performs a compulsory bow to the Kim statues, North Koreans are taught “Look, people come from all over the world to show their respect for our Great Leader!”. Every tourist is shown off as a pilgrim to the “great socialist utopia”. North Koreans are told that the rest of the world is awful, and that people visit their country because they admire and want to be more like NK. In this way, it helps keep the people controlled and abused.
I’ve heard people say that they want to show NK people how friendly people from other countries are, and perhaps sow a seed of doubt about the propaganda they hear every day. But as Park points out, the only people that tourists are given any access to are the very people who are benefiting from the dictator’s regime - those of the privileged elite, from the tour guides to the “ordinary people” in the street. They know it’s in their best interests to keep the lies alive.
She makes a very valid point. The way to help the North Korean people break free is to pressure and sanction China to stop bolstering the NK regime, as without the help of the CCP Kim would be very significantly weakened. Her videos are well worth a look.
Again, I do understand the attraction of unusual trips like this one, and I find it fascinating too. But I just wanted to add a little food for thought. Best wishes.
China will never do that, as Yeonmi has said herself they ignore sanctions and send people back to NK. Also if tourists are already going it's already too late to change that.
I went 4 years ago. I'm not discrediting NK, but I can say they are keeping their society intact from enslavement to the central banks and corporate world control. You see all the war and violence on TV from all these proxy wars. I was part of it. I was deployed in Afghanistan for 6 years as a commissioned officer. We had no business being there. We need to leave other countries alone. Let them do whatever they want with their problems. That's why russia is engaging with Ukraines because we keep feeding the war machine. We make trillions off of war. Russia doesn't want to be controlled by the central banks. But they won't be left alone, and they will always be targeted as long as they keep resisting control. How is it we have problems with every country that doesn't have a central bank and the countries that have joined brics are starting to struggle financially. That's because our government punishes any country that doesn't get with the program. China is on the brink of just choking the USA. If they decide they don't want to do business, we will have another world war because people worldwide are going to suffer because we will no longer get the products we need every day.
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yeonmi park doesn’t have a SHREAD of credibility
She's a psy-op made to spread propaganda and fear. Its not doom amd gloom in NK
magine they check your phone's gallery, but you got there some Korean memes stored and it makes the guard laugh.
they have to check ur gallery and photos?
@@aly435 yes
@@aly435 also your browsing history
And then the guard gets insta-killed by the supreme leader
LOL! I have plenty of New York City’s pictures on my phone. If they check me, they will see lots of american stuff…
Even as something "staged", it's obvious that things are not right. The entire atmosphere seems so uneasy. You can't cover up the bad gut feeling you get. I can't imagine how tense and isolating it must feel at times in person.
Fact is north Korea is better than south Korea and the west who are supposed to be rich countries but still there are hundreds of millions of poor
the gut feeling" yall americans werid ash
Are you describing San Francisco or Pyongyang here?
@@Ikekyoucry what are you, some southern US hillbilly? "yall" you`re weird ash
prob cali.@@JRK2669
This was really cool thanks for sharing
Anyone here after watching "Crash Landing On You"?
me !
I remember the audio recordings that was set-up in every hotel room in Pyongyang. 😂 (If it's really true) I learned alot watching Crash Landing On You. 😂😂
Me!
Sean Edora me! 😂
Meee 😂😂😂
the sky and vibe in NK always makes me think of silent hill for some reason
6:47
Why does disneyland has a space mountain in Pyongyang ?
Did you see any posters of Dave Skylark?
Mate, I'd be very leery of handing over my passport to anyone! What absolute guarantee do you have of getting it back, apart from someone's word of mouth?
then you shall not visit North Korea. Or many other nations actually. Nor certain facilities within your own country.
rockattack when your words cannot be taken seriously, how would you expect to believe what someone else say... what my folks taught me growing up
@@rockattack I have traveled abroad and I have never had to surrender my passport, anywhere!
It's so they can easily detain you from leaving if need be. Scary
Han Renee Hmmmm, maybe sooooooo .... however, I would never put myself in such a position to begin with! I would not be able to trust anyone to whom I had handed over my passport, period!!,
You're so genuine and emphatic in your commentary:) I've watched many vlogs from NK and yours was truly captivating, it feels almost like being there. I look forward to further exploring your content. Keep up the good work👍
It's like going back in time to the 1940s
Yeah
The 1940’s is pretty damn good tbh, much simpler time with less consumerism and more family values
my man the 1940s are nothing like this unless you're talking about the world wars then yeah but after that its not that bad especially in the usa
@@wolfetteplays8894 nah nobody cares about that lame shit anymore plus WW2 would love to disagree with your simpler times comment you sound ridiculous
@@wolfetteplays8894 1940's is not great because ww2 the deadliest conflict of the human history.
Whatever you do, DONT pull any posters off of the walls.
Specially if someone is an American, people from other nationality might get away, but the amount damage US has caused on NK that they are now the most hated country inside NK.
Tourist Guide: "This is the first time to come to North Korea for everyone?"
Me: Yes! Probably the last one too.
I bet the tourist guide is not surprised that tourist are always first timers.
I bet they live better than most Americans, and you can't offer 2 trip.
Hi Pepe you must be a Filipino judging from the Dr. Jose Rizal picture you have and your name as well, I'm a Filipino too I'm wondering if are there any Filipinos who visited the North Korea too and I'm actually curious how much they spend on their trip which is I bet is really expensive because tourists has to go china first before entering North Korea
wassup rizal
thank you so much to share these. from southern korea
Dude, I have a question:
Southern people can't go to the North, right?
But how about if you immigrate to other country? Say if you immigrate and Australia and have a Australian Passport, can you then go to North Korea?
Southern can't go to north korea
Even though we immigrate to other country, getting visa can be easily denied or is really complicated
@@졔졔-m4d I see.. what a pity... I have been to both sides and I can't imagine how good it would be to let you guys go and experience there
imagine if you were born just few kilometers on the wrong side of the border, I wouldn't be rested being the neighbor of this country.
@@filipelimartins we are not neighbor, just brother.
Ive been there in 2017, and I have to say that Pyongyang has changed a lot in two years!
what's changed?
People in the comment section acting all dumb, like of cos if you haven’t been there, how would the rest of y’all know...😂🤦♂️🙏 thanks for letting the rest of us who are interested know, there are changes going on in there, it’s pleasant to know
Diura believe it or not, people are actually starting to have a decent life, maybe it was trumps influence 🤔
@@MJRUclipsrs How do you know people are starting to have a decent life?
@@MJRUclipsrs yeah sure , good luck with that XD
Its peaceful and clean (love it) .
I went to North Korea several years ago before the US ban. I'm American.
It is one hell of a destination. Those people are starving and the look on their faces speaks of fear. They are so paranoid when you look at them or talk to them, well, except the kids. The kids are very approachable but you need to get permission from the guide to talk to them.
Do they live in tents on Skid Row?
@@antimimoniakoshaha
atleast they have home not tent
'People are starving'
So like every California city then?
Thanks for making this series. It's probably the closest a lot of people will actually get to an NK vacation.
I don't think they can even view it can they?
in NK, quite a lot of foreign tourists get arrested for being spies. Even if you are innocent, you will confess.
@@AJS86who is they? I’m viewing it fine from my living room in London. UK.
@@Zizzy616 they is the people in North Korea. They can't even view RUclips
@@AJS86 The OP is talking about the rest of the world going on vacation to NK not the other way around so your question is irrelevant and doesn’t add anything. Also, I doubt that ‘they’ are missing anything. The media is full of fake news and national propaganda paid for by courtesy of agenda setters; with the whole world divided between left/right, black/white, feminist and LGBTQ and traditional and divided on religious grounds - all clashing. Let me know if you see any impartial reporting because I’d love to hear it.
Are there honestly any activities you can do in North Korea without being watched/fearing of being arrested....
Probably sleeping and going to the bathroom
@@ValentinDinca even that I feel like you might be watched doing that 🤔
I heard that the bodily function called, "breathing," is freely allowed in NK.
Yes, they are. You can with all intensity admire and prize the supreme leader
Good video, very insightful
Most depressing sight are those fields with no crop.
This video was obv made in the winter. You'd see the same sight in kansas that time of year. Not saying they have a surplus or anything but you're missing some context.
They are very careful about what they let you see on those tours.
I watch k-drama "Crash Landing On You" and make me curious with this country
Sameee
Me too
I have a feeling there’s a lot of it which is not true, like having high ranking officers driving Jaguars and Range Rovers, or the 729 license plate
I hope the real North Korea is just like of what it is on CLOY, seems a little better😓
If they inspect every photo you take (as I've seen done), how do you get to leave with video? Do they watch every minute you've filmed before you're allowed to leave with it?
if they found you sus then they will inspect.
they watch the video. if you say anything bad, i’m assuming they make you remove the video from your camera, im not sure if they arrest you. that’s why he used voice overs, so he could talk about his actual POV after he left NK.
North Korea looks more developed that I actually perceived it
Because they only let you see the developed parts of the country
They only let you see the capital, if you noticed when they first got there he said most of the ride to the capital looked barren. Meaning most of the country in barren and farm lands. They won’t even let you get outside of the train anywhere else but the capital city. And even in the capital, which is the most developed and wealthiest part of the country, you’ll notice that there’s not very many cars. And look how the people are dressed, all very plain.
North Korea is like the gulag archipelago, the "islands" are only going to be known to the ones that are destined to know it, the countryside shown in the video is as fake as the capital itself, the country is full of 21th century "gulags" where famine is a constant reality and "reeducation camps" put in practice the so called "collective guilt", which are a cute way of spelling holocaust.
most third world countries have a Capital that's relatively developed
@@biggibbs4678 well yeah but Pyongyang is so fake, the citizens can't even go in the nice buildings. The pictures are taken at an angle so you only see the colorful buildings but if you look closely you can see the decaying Soviet architecture.
"As a tourist" *7 minutes getting there, 2 minutes of random scenes and a then hotel room*
Well... won't be going there.
just about every single north korean you will see on the tour will be an actor, in other words an individual forced to look happy and do things for the tourists
This idea is very, very, very stupid. And those who think it as if it was reality are actually more brainwashed than north koreans.
So North Korea is basically a real life version of the Truman show
@@yellowjackets8395 No. If he thought the people around him were actors, he would have said it in his videos. It is pretty obvious from the videos that these are just people living their life. He is being shown the best parts of NK, that's for sure, but the people around him aren't actors. That makes no sense.
This absolutely dumb idea comes from reports of fake ghost towns at the border facing south Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. Stupid western people, who show time and again that they can't think by themselves, now believe it's the case of all of North Korea, as if it was possible to hire actors for all of Pyongyang, so they conflate a situation at the border with the rest of the country.
Talking about mass paranoia, that's exactly what it is: making up conspiracy theories about "actors" to justify prejudices against the NK country. I've noticed that these prejudices are fueled by downright US propaganda, like the reports about Kim Jung Un killing his uncle by feeding him to dogs or killing a dignitary using missiles. Both these reports have been proven to be forgeries, but now these lies are known in the general public as truths. This is the definition of propaganda.
Every singleXD I love conspirological comments about NK from westernes, they are extremely funny cause extremely stupid..
Yes, all those thousands of people are just actors. For you. Cause you're special.
it makes me so sad to think that we will never get to meet these people or interact with the people from places we can't visit :(
My mom travelled to East Germany with her school in the 70s and she told me everything was grey, even the saussage....NK very much reminds me of that, except that people in East Germany did not starve and had everything they needed to life. Just no freedom to travel outside, or get any items from the West. But I have met quite a few people from tbe former East, who actually miss the old times....Sooo I guess it was NK light.
For those of you wondering what's behing the curtains in NK read below:
You as an individual have almost no rights. You are not allowed to own a business, a house, or even a car. The state have everything and everyone is equal ( except the high ranking government or military personnel ). The income per family is really really small like 100$/month but there nothing you can do with money, just to buy North Korean groceries. There's nothing but NK products and very little variety. People are allowed to have TV's but the only chanells are the strictly NK propaganda and some cartoons ( the same ones over and over ) for children. On the Radio is again only NK propaganda and some NK music from time to time. The worst thing by far is the government who controls every person on the country with the old kgb methods. They have spies everywhere and they constantly arrest people for nothing just to spread fear into the population. If an individual try to escape the country , his family is detained , arrested or even executed. Most of the prisoners are sent to intense labor and are tortured to rat their relatives or close ones for working against the government.
Wow that is scary stuff 😳
This place is hell. No human should live in such isolation and control
its so crazy and inhumane how they torture their family if someone in that family commits a "crime". what a horrible law. my heart hurts for the North Koreans.
This way of life is Potentially coming to our shores if we're not careful
That is true.
I also pulled that info from the corner of my arse and it smelled true
I don't know how to feel about this. Like sure it is very interesting for us to watch and even more of an experience to go there as a tourist. But it's like you said: One of the most surreal places to visit. But people live there. Have to live there probably, even if they don't want to. And I am not sure if it's good to support a country like this, to give it the video time. You clearly are not allowed to see anything that's not good, that they don't want you to see.
Like is it ok to treat a country like that in a way you would visit other countries? Is it ok to make the leaders look human? The parallels to the divided Germany are very visible and the DDR government and what the states security service did to so many people is reviewed as big crimes today.
I don't think his $500 and video time will help them out that much. They already have loads of video time in the news.
Exactly!!!
They cannot leave even for honeymoon trip or to study abroad ? I am confused ...
@@goldensun3507 Nope, they have to have permission from the government to leave the country.
We’re thinking about coming to North Korea. We already went to visit the border from South Korea and it was so interesting. Thank you for sharing these videos.
Safe travels! 😊
Your travel vlogs are also pretty good.
In my humble opinion, N. Korea deserves more tourists coming in to see the country as it is, as it was labeled 'most harmonious place' on earth; especially with the decades-old U.S. and Western sanctions which caused over a million N. Koreans deaths in starvation in the past. I like to see peace and prosperity that the country richly deserves. blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=785423
@@olefella7561
Speaking of a million innocent people died in starvation, remember the saying 'Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It'. Germany in pre-World War II era, was imposed upon with numerous and heavy war reparations, tariffs and sanctions by Western Colonial Powers for over a quarter century; eventually when that nation sank into mega depression, which made way for World War II, as Germany struck back. Similar scenario ran in Japan, when that nation too was bullied by maritime sanction; essentially blocking the whole island through naval blockage by Anglo empire naval ships for so long until Japan ran out of (imported) oil, and struck back at Pearl Harbor naval base that participated in year-long sanction. Like you said, people of North Korea has suffered long enough, a quarter century of sanctions by the West, resulting in the death of over a million innocent people due to starvation. It's all come down to the West's dependency on China & N. Korea''s Rare Earth Minerals. Fifteen years ago, it was Iraq, and Saddam, and WMD (weapon of mass destruction); and the real motive was - OIL.Today, it is N. Korea and Kim, and nuclear weapon; and the real motive is - RARE EARTH METALS. Just another Capitalist Imperialist trick. Same old, lame old.
@@olefella7561
Imagine if ingenious Native Americans had nuclear weapons, enough to defend themselves, what would they be like today? Mega genocide of indigenous native Americans, and their population in continents of America five hundred years ago was around 15 millions, while European population in Europe was around 20 millions. Today, Native population at 15 million, while European population ( in continents of America + Europe) at a staggering 'One Billion'. History is written by the victors. Like I said, imagine what would it be like today if Native Americans had possessed some sort of nuclear arsenals to defend themselves, and their beloved motherlands from invaders Colonizers? In my humble opinion, the indigenous Natives still would get to hold of the wealth of their bountiful lands intact, as well as their population grew to a good several hundred millions, comparable to that of European population today, no doubt about that.
Do you know the fact that Indigenous Native Americans had built such great civilizations as Mayan, Inca and Aztec without outside help, and all from the scratch, and all on their own, since they had been cut off from the rest of the world for ten of thousand of years. In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners indigenous Native American people. Notorious Slavery as well as Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is this another notorious Colonization still lingering on?
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Speaking of which, why did they the Anglo pirates loot New Zealand & Australia, a vast bountiful continent in Asia-Pacific region; why didn't they loot that beautiful fertile Iceland, just a short distant away from their jolly old England, with hardly any people there? Besides, they are exporting & selling all the resources (from that looted continent in Asia-Pacific) back to Asia-Pacific nations. China has made no secret that it will one day help liberate the continent in Asia-Pacific it sees as rightfully belonging to people of Asia-Pacific.
Like I said, why is Australia, a vast resourceful continent in Asia-Pacific, only a couple hundred miles away from South-East Asia had no Asian-Pacific Islanders in that vast land originally, historically inhabiting when Anglo pirates, some 10,000 miles away England, sailed half the world away, and looted in late 18th century? This doesn't make sense, since Asian-Pacific Islanders originally and historically inhabiting and residing in Pacific such as Guam, Tonga, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji and Hawaii? Speaking of New Zealand, why did these same Anglo pirates, sailed half way around the world and looted in late 18th century? Why didn't they occupy beautiful fertile Iceland, right above them just a short distant away, with hardly any people there?
what happens if you lose your tourist card?
Superb video. I can't wait for the next episode.
I was thinking at the beginning of the video that everything seemed relaxed and normal and then I remembered you weren't in North Korea yet. Even when in Pyongyang it doesn't look too bad though considering what country it's in. Pyongyang is considered the "nicer" and "wealthy" part of North Korea though.
a fake propaganda video showing that north kore3a is good. north korea is way worse than you may think
America is slavery, shaping the children into corporate slaves.
How did you get set up on your tour?
Can you please walk us through the steps?
Thank you.
you go to Google. and look for a tour operator that is allowed to arrange tours in NK.
they will explain you what you can and can't do. as you must use a tour guide.
@@sirBrouwer @TheLifeOfJord, I'd like to read of your reply please, if only because you were the individual I was asking! Thank you very much, in advance.
Why yes, I fart Rainbows! Please don’t go
8:15 those cars are not owned by the people they are owned by state officials or party members
This is so scary. More than a horror
5:51 - I love that girl! I've seen her throughout this and your other videos on this trip, and she always has a great smile and attitude.
Just got here after watching Crash Landing On You, and now I can say that the drama is really put on details on every scene in North Korea. They really made it near to "similar" with the real North Korea, even the train is similar! Unless for the fact that your train is going smoothly (fortunately!), rather than having a blackout in train for 10 hours (yea thats why it called drama😂).
I'm here after watching the drama too 😁
Lol im watching it rn too! Thats why im here
Here after watching it too 😂
Before you spoke, did you check for bugging devices in North Koreas hotel. There are many.
Aren’t most of the sky scrapers empty inside?
Yep
@kloadit *Empty offices
Empty offices filled with weapons of mass destruction, chemical bombs, pictures of SATAN and skeletons of DEAD ANGELS!!!!
Like in Spain
Living life on the edge a little, Thanks for taking us along!A lot of people talk the talk, You are walking the walk.👍
Yeah isnt he so cool for giving money directly to an evil regime so he can have a new experience, such a cool guy!
@@user-sh1gc3jk7l at least hes getting footage of the country and who knows what the future holds change has to start somewhere it doesnt always have to be with weapons and war let North korean people see more foreigners at least its an improvement from years ago and btw ur tax money i can guarantee also funds an corrupt regime.
@@louismeyer9408 having the NK people see foreigners does absolutely nothing..... , why
would you want to give them money is beyond me...def not voting trump after he said friends with kim ..
Max S to start up their non existent tourist industry? to actually move toward peace and show people from outside can get along with people in NK?
@@louismeyer9408 the NK ppl arnt helped by an ignorant vlogger gawking at them...... they need freedom from kim jung un....
mind boggling that a place like this actually exists today
I really love that you approached the journey without prejudice. Absolutely fascinating exploration. Well done.
he literally started the video with a newsreel of NKean negativities...
@@williamseme1793 to show he wasn’t gonna go down that road.
@@denislyons It was unnecessary
He had to say nice things over there!
Please tell us what exactly you ate over there in North Korea.
I like to know the specifics.
Thank you, in advance.
Why yes, I fart Rainbows! Rice, bread, communism.
@@lumminefrog8070 I'd rather known from this fellow, please. But, thanks, anyway.
@@manofgod7622 Pffffft!
Youre nuts for going. Great video thanks for capturing this
One of his uncles was killed because he wasn’t clapping hard enough whenever Jim jung il walked out or his father. One of the two.
Why is there light outside at 19:01 hrs ?
Wow he is very confident talking in the hotel. Hope he knews about hidden mics on every room there
Amazing video. Thank you for filming this! :)
Keep in mind even from the small part the regime allows you to see sometimes looks scuffed and shit. Imagine the parts you dont get to see
9:10 did the phone behind you on the night stand work? I'm sure all the calls were 100% private if it did
I notice at the 6 minute mark or so that the guy in the background is the same guide who took Otto Warmbier on his vacation to NK from which he never exactly returned. Did you have any chance to talk with that guy at all about that expierience?
Are you sure?
@@papertoye ruclips.net/video/MmNHnT5boEM/видео.html check out 1:43 minute mark of this news report you can easily see that it is the same guy.
8:09 this building is making me anxious for some reason. also, north korea looks like the place i always see in my nightmares.
Nice documentary. Thank you for sharing.
5:36
Is that Otto Warmbier?