Walking the Streets of Pyongyang

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  • Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
  • During our visit to North Korea, we were almost never allowed to walk outside. We would ride a shuttle from destination to destination.
    However, one day, after we had built up enough trust with our minders, we were allowed a rare opportunity to actually walk along the streets of Pyongyang for a few minutes. Here's a video of that moment. The freedom felt amazing!

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  • @xpto41
    @xpto41 7 лет назад +2253

    the majority of the people living in Pyongyang are from wealthy families so its normal to see them with a good presentation, going to school, driving cars etc the city is also super cleaned because is the capital. If you go to another cities or countryside that´s really disturbing

    • @bigpardner
      @bigpardner 7 лет назад +62

      Do you have any videos of your trip we could see?

    • @zeromailss
      @zeromailss 7 лет назад +115

      xpto41 I thought as much but how anyone could go and film in the NK country side!? that seems to be riskier than smuggling drug

    • @chriszeng3061
      @chriszeng3061 7 лет назад +6

      xpto41 like beijing ,China

    • @h-bomb1019
      @h-bomb1019 4 года назад +61

      @@bing4126 are you stupid the whole country is a wreck. It's not just him saying that, everyone knows that.
      .

    • @onlyzah5803
      @onlyzah5803 3 года назад +4

      @@bigpardner do research

  • @BBAERSTANCE1
    @BBAERSTANCE1 8 лет назад +2613

    Looks like they are trapped in the 70s

    • @powerplayer75
      @powerplayer75 8 лет назад +151

      Technologically yes

    • @Mazotheman
      @Mazotheman 8 лет назад +77

      I think most of the buildings are (or atleas look like they are) from that era but they have modern cars, computers, smartphones, tv's etc etc...

    • @cuntpunch9519
      @cuntpunch9519 7 лет назад +101

      Brian Baer Looks like they're trapped in hell

    • @MrCrockaG
      @MrCrockaG 7 лет назад +77

      Free Man..you do realize that Pyongyang is literally the all of the most wealthy and privileged of North Korea. Move outside of the city and there is much more poverty than any place in America.

    • @rudyceron3420
      @rudyceron3420 7 лет назад +8

      MrCrockaG you're wrong, the richest cities and regular and small cities n towns have both a wealthy and poverty side with killings suicides and malnutrition from not enough government spending funds to create jobs in and around those areas and low funds for proper food benefits promised by the u.s. government. where I was born n lived most my life, a reservation in South Dakota called the Pine Ridge Reservation is 3x times under the poverty line of America, it is considered a third world country inside America, even with treaties made in the U.S. Constitution to provide schooling homes jobs n food for stealing most land for America. the treaties are broken and he funds are getting lower n lower and government made alcohol is distributed into our illegal alcohol reservation from white towns next to our bordering counties. they are slowly killing us off and taking more land illegally and for money, especially the president right now continuing his wasicu tradition for the government.
      wasicu a Lakota word in my language made for the symbol of the u.s. government, it means takes the fat, it was said to either be a greedy person, usually wasicu was preferred to the whiteman. I hope one day to to take my grandmother n our family out of the reservation and to a better place

  • @mardmard
    @mardmard 3 года назад +1076

    "The adults don't wave back, but the kids sometimes do". Looks like a pretty normal society to me!

    • @canadiansmarties
      @canadiansmarties 3 года назад +39

      I feel this may have more to do with them thinking unkindly of the western visitors and less so to do with them being "oppressed"
      Wouldn't you think if it was so dangerous to wave/communicate with foreigners then they would teach their kids that they are risking their lives by doing so. If I was a kid in a country where you could be punished by the government for waving at someone I sure as shit wouldn't do it on camera 🤷‍♂️

    • @dauletshynybaev
      @dauletshynybaev 3 года назад +55

      No one would wave you back in any country, everyone would think that you are crazy 😂

    • @mardmard
      @mardmard 3 года назад +6

      @@dauletshynybaev I don’t think kids have the same concept of considering something “crazy” as adults.

    • @dauletshynybaev
      @dauletshynybaev 3 года назад +1

      @@mardmard

    • @dauletshynybaev
      @dauletshynybaev 3 года назад +7

      @@mardmard I wrote a long comment but it got deleted idk why. Basically I said that in my country it would be crazy to wave to unknown person

  • @skywarp9219
    @skywarp9219 8 лет назад +1587

    Everything looks so innocent. Almost too innocent.

    • @GoldenTV3
      @GoldenTV3 8 лет назад +151

      Yeh just wait til you see their "fun camps"

    • @zeromailss
      @zeromailss 7 лет назад +36

      Mr.Sinister yeah, that's what you would looks like when you are brainwashed for your entire life
      also since it is the capital the people must have been strictly chosen

    • @AlyphRat
      @AlyphRat 6 лет назад +21

      Also, everything seems too clean, too nice...

    • @TheMelopeus
      @TheMelopeus 6 лет назад +20

      What the actual fuck do you expect from people? It's a normal day, probably in the afternoon, everybody chilling. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT?

    • @Leijona321
      @Leijona321 6 лет назад +43

      Of course it looks innocent. It's north koreas wealthiest city that isnt available to most north koreans. It's a privilige to live in there. its being taken care of because its also the only city that they show to tourists and outside world

  • @TopandTang
    @TopandTang 8 лет назад +669

    I'm actually surprised to see more traffic and some new cars.

    • @uh3592
      @uh3592 7 лет назад +43

      Arch Stanton are you kidding me? The western media tells mostly false truths on this matter.

    • @alexanderstiefelmann5982
      @alexanderstiefelmann5982 7 лет назад +23

      Actually they did. But the funny thing is - the reforms are "hidden" from the NK population itself. In the sense that the official propaganda does not call them reforms, it pretends everything just goes as usual. But yes, since Kim Jong Un assumed power they got reforms similar to China in 1970s. But only economically. Politically, in China there was some (albeit minimal) liberalization. There is no such one in NK - in fact, everything indicates KJU's regime being more oppressive than his father's.

    • @madman2u
      @madman2u 7 лет назад +78

      They're in the capital, during the national day and foreigners were allowed to roam with less strict supervision. Of course there will be cars, but most of the population cannot afford such luxuries. They either walk or use bikes.

    • @TopandTang
      @TopandTang 7 лет назад +3

      That explains it then...thanks.

    • @MultiCrawler1
      @MultiCrawler1 7 лет назад +29

      i feel like what we're seeing is a stunt for those tourist to see

  • @wingus79
    @wingus79 8 лет назад +1879

    looks like a nice place... except for the dictator thing

    • @ifirekirby7498
      @ifirekirby7498 7 лет назад +199

      michael That's because most of the time you can only see Pyongyang. The countryside and other cities are fucked up

    • @wazup3333
      @wazup3333 7 лет назад +11

      can you prove it?

    • @wazup3333
      @wazup3333 7 лет назад +4

      link me

    • @capncrunch4864
      @capncrunch4864 7 лет назад +4

      i Firekirby I would also like a link

    • @gm9729
      @gm9729 7 лет назад +6

      It looks really bare to me.

  • @svgstarlight
    @svgstarlight 5 лет назад +634

    North Korea looks like an unfinished game - it’s so unsettling to look at. It seems like every day is the exact same. I have never seen a photo of North Korea at night time. It’s like eternal day time with same old clear blue sky everyday. This is so disturbing.

    • @ducstatiba2
      @ducstatiba2 3 года назад +25

      You are telling me that cyberpunk was inspired by North Korea, they were right about the most immersing open world

    • @bro6046
      @bro6046 3 года назад +8

      @@ducstatiba2
      No its like a pre version of real life

    • @kanyesmemeemporium836
      @kanyesmemeemporium836 3 года назад +18

      It’s like the Truman Show

    • @vola7342
      @vola7342 3 года назад +1

      @@ducstatiba2 every time I watch these vids I think of cyberpunk too

    • @Rafael-pi4md
      @Rafael-pi4md 3 года назад +4

      There are some videos that shows the city at night, what I noticed is that it seems the sky is always clean, no clouds

  • @vkskfk77
    @vkskfk77 8 лет назад +1161

    Pyeongyang is a city where the top 1% live with privilege

    • @joejoematic8206
      @joejoematic8206 5 лет назад +16

      10%

    • @handsomejustin
      @handsomejustin 5 лет назад +34

      You meant the USA?

    • @televikkuntdaowuxing
      @televikkuntdaowuxing 4 года назад +55

      Not defending NK, it's still a horrible place, but the 10%... as opposed to the US 1%, and shrinking every year. The US is not better in any way, whatever propaganda likes to tell you. Corporations are part of the government and they tax our hard work constantly.

    • @chrissi5040
      @chrissi5040 4 года назад +10

      @República de España But dont forget that even in Pyeongyang there are also a lot of slums. You can see this slums even on google maps.

    • @oops.4970
      @oops.4970 4 года назад +77

      @@televikkuntdaowuxing are you dillusional? Too even compare USA to NK is hilarious. Our slums atleast have freedom and the ability to become something more.

  • @marklim6303
    @marklim6303 8 лет назад +404

    I actually feel sad for the traffic lady :(

    • @dqniel_
      @dqniel_ 3 года назад +70

      It’s considered a very high honor actually. She probably feels good about being able to have that occupation

    • @mannaporanna2678
      @mannaporanna2678 3 года назад +43

      The same traffic men are in China. Despite having traffic lights, you stilk have this pointless job. It's because they have to provide work places for ppl, no metter how useless they would be (work places not ppl :P)

    • @Tailstraw_xD
      @Tailstraw_xD 3 года назад +9

      You can see her counting on her fingers before she moves. She's dancing on time because her life and livelihood are the same thing.

    • @hazgebu
      @hazgebu 3 года назад +15

      Her neck must be hurting from all that rapid movement when she goes home.

    • @rowanmelton7643
      @rowanmelton7643 3 года назад +11

      Shes one of the lucky ones. You have babies born in concentration camps out there. Their entire existence being a prison within a prison. Being beaten, tortured, starved and worked to the brink of death

  • @juliangeorge2026
    @juliangeorge2026 8 лет назад +562

    why are there so many north korea lovers in this comment section?

    • @Tackelot
      @Tackelot 8 лет назад +172

      +Julian George Mostly teens on the "THE FREE MARKET AND CORPORATIONS ARE FASCISTS MAN". They will grow out of it, probably.

    • @salag13
      @salag13 8 лет назад +15

      +Neal McBeal, the Navy Seal And just teens who are trolls.

    • @bargainsouq6581
      @bargainsouq6581 8 лет назад +12

      +Julian George Because North Korea is GREAT

    • @Judicial78
      @Judicial78 8 лет назад +53

      +Julian George If they love it so much they should fucking move there. Put their money where their mouth is.

    • @salag13
      @salag13 8 лет назад +22

      +Judicial78 One does not simply move to North Korea.

  • @sullysteve3149
    @sullysteve3149 4 года назад +304

    It's the real life hunger games. Capital is a different world to the rural areas.

    • @Faydecoolemeid
      @Faydecoolemeid 3 года назад

      Ikr!!!!

    • @e.d.r1546
      @e.d.r1546 3 года назад +9

      "Big cities are different to rural areas" ok so you mean just like every country...

    • @katsuminara4036
      @katsuminara4036 3 года назад +7

      The US is close to the Hunger Games right now with the current administration

    • @Slapfan4life
      @Slapfan4life 3 года назад +6

      @@katsuminara4036 you must not be from america. its okay. we forgive you

    • @rowanmelton7643
      @rowanmelton7643 3 года назад +1

      That's just communism for you. The most evil ideology man has ever created

  • @ChristianJiang
    @ChristianJiang 8 лет назад +995

    It's SO CLEAN THERE!!!

    • @alexajkesavaraj9032
      @alexajkesavaraj9032 8 лет назад +160

      +Christian Jiang Magnificient! No freedom of the press but even clean public streets. Wow!

    • @GSKim-pv5ey
      @GSKim-pv5ey 8 лет назад +95

      +Alexaj Kesavaraj There is no freedom of the press in the west, either. Unless of course you consider the ability of wealthy corporations to control the media while the voices of the downtrodden are ignored as... "freedom of the press".
      Not only is DPRK clean, you don't have mass shootings everyday, you don't have police officers gunning people down, you can see children playing on the street even late at night and walking around, there is virtually NO advertising, leaving the city clear of marketing messages trying to make people feel worse by telling them they're inadequate and need to buy some skin care product or some hair styling product or some fancy car, etc.
      Within the next 10 years, the true glory of the DPRK will be seen that even all the North Korea haters will have to finally admit they were wrong and manipulated once again, just like they were manipulated about France, Syria, Libya, Iraq, etc. etc. etc.

    • @GSKim-pv5ey
      @GSKim-pv5ey 8 лет назад +28

      Jaret Wood Usually when people display the same kind of anger that you do about the DPRK it's because of cognitive dissonance. You're in anger stage now. lol
      But may I ask, did you also believe in WMD in Iraq? Did you also believe the story about babies being taken out of incubators in Iraq prior to Desert Storm? Did you also believe the stories about Gaddafi before 2011 invasion? Did you also believe the stories of Assad using chemical weapons in 2013?
      Please try not to get killed by American police officers for running away. Please try not to get body slammed and have your head cracked in by a baton because you looked at a police officer the wrong way. Please try not to go crazy as the rich continue to get richer and your country continues to wage more wars all at your expense. Yes, because "muh Freedumb"

    • @jaretmane
      @jaretmane 8 лет назад +128

      LMFAO at you trying to compare American cops to the North Korean remige. Guess what? If i were to protest, they may club me on the head, sure. Meanwhile, you don't display youre Kim Jon Craps on youre wall straight, and youre whole family is condemned to prison camps.
      I don't expect you to go against the regime, that would put you, youre family, any children, etc, in a labour camp, and i'm glad you've found a job, even as a paid North Shithole bot
      Must be terrible to be a sheep worshipping grown men like gods and having no freedom, whatsoever
      PS, You get paid in cabbage?

    • @GSKim-pv5ey
      @GSKim-pv5ey 8 лет назад +15

      Jaret Wood LOL, so you admit you may get clubbed in the head by American police? LOL, how sad and pathetic that you accept that kind of oppressive police state.
      Seems like Americans aren't so fond of the "freedom" they like to forcefully install all over the world (while also taking natural resources and setting up a puppet gov't, of course).
      Dude, wake up. America is a shit hole. It doesn't exactly have the greatest track record. Lol

  • @DaeguDave1
    @DaeguDave1 8 лет назад +166

    By the way, they don't say "annyong haseo" in North Korea, they say "Annyonghasimnikga" which is the more formal way of saying hello.

    • @TzeentchLord412
      @TzeentchLord412 11 месяцев назад

      I do not speak Korean. But I hear what I think is "hasimnikga" often when I hear others speaking Korean. Is that a Korean word?

    • @crystaluwu1012
      @crystaluwu1012 7 месяцев назад

      North Korean dialect is more formal then Seoul and Busan, makes sense since N Korea is more conservative and stern.

  • @MikkelMadsen
    @MikkelMadsen 8 лет назад +42

    Thanks for taking the time to record and upload this.
    For those of us, who don't get the chance to go there, it is definately interesting to watch.
    The looks of the streets in very much how I imagine China could have looked some decades ago; fewer cars and way fewer commercials than now.

    • @bobthedj6992
      @bobthedj6992 8 лет назад +1

      Used to like there (China), it was BUSY not with cars and trucks but lots of people and it was not clean. Great place to live though.

  • @MadTwatter
    @MadTwatter 8 лет назад +540

    The irony is that in the US, you'd be arrested for trailing school kids, recording them.

    • @domesticV1190XxOo
      @domesticV1190XxOo 8 лет назад +41

      yea cuz ya know pedophiles and whatnot.

    • @MadTwatter
      @MadTwatter 8 лет назад +5

      I don't know what you're talking about. This avatar is from the movie _The Godfather Part 3_.

    • @MadTwatter
      @MadTwatter 8 лет назад +5

      No he played Vito Corleone in the Godfather Part III

    • @PerkinsRooster
      @PerkinsRooster 8 лет назад +1

      Ya whatever.

    • @hamsack981
      @hamsack981 8 лет назад

      is your profile pic Dolph Lundgren?!

  • @Notyourdaddy83
    @Notyourdaddy83 8 лет назад +133

    That first lady at the beginning of the video (she run later), she looks like this one from auto dealership video, in black dress talking on phone :)

    • @TheQrzysiek
      @TheQrzysiek 6 лет назад +26

      Vlad Fishermann I think that she’s some kind of a spy tbh

    • @MaxHohenstaufen
      @MaxHohenstaufen 6 лет назад +17

      Nah, they just all look alike and dress the same. They even have standard mandatory haircuts.

  • @zoubeirfaouzi149
    @zoubeirfaouzi149 3 года назад +159

    It feels like I'm watching the Truman show. As if everybody is there just for the tourists. 😂

  • @satyakimukherjee3498
    @satyakimukherjee3498 7 лет назад +532

    Poor kids....they don't even know about the internet

    • @Sukz0r
      @Sukz0r 6 лет назад +85

      No internet = More productive. Perfect imo.

    • @Haasherbajwa77
      @Haasherbajwa77 6 лет назад +30

      bigpardner worse, no memes

    • @Orlandoprivatetransportation
      @Orlandoprivatetransportation 6 лет назад +5

      I believe they do they just can't use it

    • @cyntax2338
      @cyntax2338 5 лет назад +32

      At least they don't have to face the cancerous side of the internet

    • @gtamyths96
      @gtamyths96 4 года назад +8

      Fuck the internet

  • @Judicial78
    @Judicial78 8 лет назад +323

    Its like the Truman show, every person has a scripted path to take and that is why they are rushing you, so you keep pace.

    • @jordanlukach
      @jordanlukach 8 лет назад +14

      +Judicial78 Looks like a standard city mate. You can make that argument for every society.

    • @Judicial78
      @Judicial78 8 лет назад +16

      jordan lukach No no no no no.

    • @philsteakerson1797
      @philsteakerson1797 8 лет назад +13

      +Judicial78 The events they are rushing you are pre pepared and scripted to an extent. A rare opportunity to walk around the city is not scripted, nor are any of the travels from place A to B. The people living and walking around the area the tourists are allowed to, are the the top 1% wealthiest of N-Koreans, which is why they even let them walk around this much.
      Not every person you see on your N-Korea trip are actors and scripted to a minute schedule idiot

    • @axelfoley1406
      @axelfoley1406 6 лет назад +2

      I'd rather go to Fiji

    • @iamunamed5800
      @iamunamed5800 6 лет назад +5

      Wow. You're as brainwashed as they are.

  • @DannyWilliamH
    @DannyWilliamH 8 лет назад +349

    "The adults don't wave back but the kids sometimes do..."
    They haven't been fully brainwashed or meant to fear for their lives yet. In NK you go from an innocent child of zero consequence to a fully damnable adult around 12/13yrs old. By then they feel you know what you're doing and saying and can be punished no different than an adult (your family also held accountable for their behavior so also open to be punished for anything a teenager says/does). It's crazy but NK is crazy.

    • @fredrikmelin1490
      @fredrikmelin1490 8 лет назад +27

      +DannyWilliamH or just the fact that its weird to wave at strangers? i wouldnt wave back to some weirdo going around filming everything

    • @DannyWilliamH
      @DannyWilliamH 8 лет назад +31

      +Fredrik Melin Yeah.....because waving is a thing that is *only* done by people that know each other. Nobody has ever met due to an until wave - totally awesome true fact. I just looked this stuff up.
      DID YOU KNOW: Humans aren't meant to know anyone they don't already know!
      BONUS FUN FACT: Humans are only meant to be kind towards people they already know, unlike the elephant which will share it's peanuts with both giraffes and mountain goats!
      "SHUCKS, WHY NOT" FACT: The human "wave" was invented in 1988 by Arnold Yates, a Chicago businessman. Yates, 42, was driving to the grocery store when he had noticed his wife blowing another man in the parking lot. As they met eyes it was soon obvious that any vocal pleasantries couldn't be exchanged (due to her mouth being full of cock) and so he shook his hand back and forth in her general direction. This "wave" would soon catch on but only between people that already knew each other because it is, in fact, ILLEGAL in every country to shake your hand kindly toward a stranger!
      By golly, I guess it is weird to wave at a stranger! The more you know.....

    • @fredrikmelin1490
      @fredrikmelin1490 8 лет назад +14

      DannyWilliamH youre putting a lot of effort into your youtube comments

    • @DannyWilliamH
      @DannyWilliamH 8 лет назад +17

      +Fredrik Melin I'd rather have a lot of effort/substance than try to be a snarky RUclips douche-bot.
      Not saying you are (!) but the internet is full of useless dipshits with literally nothing to say but quick, snarky, empty bullshit as if they're in a "who's more clever" contest. Also, it's a fucking comments section, not twitter.
      In your case it's nothing too offensive/lame but it's as empty of a comment as any I've read. "I think waving is weird" would have been better than a veiled attempt at being clever. Because....ya know.....liek....whatever.

    • @fredrikmelin1490
      @fredrikmelin1490 8 лет назад +2

      DannyWilliamH ok

  • @pajodato5339
    @pajodato5339 7 лет назад +117

    More clean than NY for sure.

    • @shuumo453
      @shuumo453 6 лет назад +5

      Dumbass

    • @sunitapandey7846
      @sunitapandey7846 3 года назад +56

      He’s just implying it’s cleaner then nyc. He’s not saying he loves North Korea or has a grudge against America.

    • @1ztype343
      @1ztype343 3 года назад +22

      Mad new Yorkers lmao

    • @T-Rex-nm1se
      @T-Rex-nm1se 3 года назад +18

      @@sunitapandey7846 i guess if you litter you get executed. That's why it's so clean.

    • @eyeofthetiger7
      @eyeofthetiger7 3 года назад +4

      If people in North Korea littered they would probably be severely punished or killed. If the US did that there would would probably be clean streets there too.

  • @wparo
    @wparo 3 года назад +61

    4:49 I hope she is okay

  • @ewandougie
    @ewandougie 8 лет назад +241

    I feel awful for the kids, like they get their childhood basically robbed from them to make the state look good.

    • @ifirekirby7498
      @ifirekirby7498 7 лет назад +44

      SkyeGurl Not just their childhood, their lives.

    • @kimjungun9444
      @kimjungun9444 7 лет назад +15

      like how? because they don't do vines and youtube and act like assholes?

    • @psilopsychic
      @psilopsychic 3 года назад +47

      @@kimjungun9444 no, more along the lines of they’re forced into unfair labour work until they die, they have to obey everything their dear dictator said or they’ll be put to death, they live a depressing life and if they kill themselves, their family get punished for it

    • @isd4154
      @isd4154 3 года назад +7

      @@kimjungun9444 labor

    • @raphaelventura2997
      @raphaelventura2997 3 года назад +10

      @@kimjungun9444 name checks out

  • @IllusionXVI
    @IllusionXVI 7 лет назад +455

    This is so scary, it's like these people have no personality. Everyone is a like a scripted video game character.

    • @Oxcilic
      @Oxcilic 7 лет назад +26

      Blow it out your ass, idiot.

    • @Mrmudbone_gaming
      @Mrmudbone_gaming 6 лет назад +31

      I know right. no facial expressions, no personalities, no say, its so scary.

    • @eduardkaiser48
      @eduardkaiser48 6 лет назад +26

      Ir you really think this way, I'm even more impressed by the western propaganda.

    • @Sukz0r
      @Sukz0r 6 лет назад +21

      Then you should see the people of Stockholm, complete zombies.
      Stop being brainwashed, jesus. The western lie about everything you have heard about North Korea, get your own look on things.

    • @Gabriel-mf7wh
      @Gabriel-mf7wh 6 лет назад +27

      I see normal people. You were so brainwashed to hate North Korea that you believe in such conspiracy theories like that. How would they have a functioning economy if everybody were actors trying to make tourists think it's real? Do you really believe they built things just to impress tourists? Wtf, tourism only brings them little money, it doesn't make any sense that they would do such a thing (which is also impossible btw)

  • @sparkplug1018
    @sparkplug1018 3 года назад +173

    One thing ill give them credit for, I really like the idea of the crosswalk under the street. That's a really good idea.

    • @MichaelWite19
      @MichaelWite19 3 года назад +35

      Have them in many countries like Ukraine too

    • @FernandoMartinez-nc6kg
      @FernandoMartinez-nc6kg 3 года назад +11

      All the country is prepared in case of war they can use it as a shelter

    • @sparkplug1018
      @sparkplug1018 3 года назад +12

      @@FernandoMartinez-nc6kg If only they knew how useless that would be right?

    • @SerendipityRoad
      @SerendipityRoad 3 года назад +15

      Difficult to impossible for wheel chairs, strollers, toddlers, old people, people with walking difficulties, with bikes... The people in the cars should have it difficult, not the people not in cars. Even with a lift, it's not a good a idea. Lifts break down regularly, lines form in front of them etc..

    • @rowanmelton7643
      @rowanmelton7643 3 года назад +11

      We have them in England. It's called an underpass.

  • @random_stuff507
    @random_stuff507 3 года назад +10

    However tough life seems we're still super privileged to be born in a free nation.

  • @alw1915
    @alw1915 3 года назад +44

    its like time stood still there. Everything looks so outdated.

  • @pankfull12
    @pankfull12 7 лет назад +83

    Looks nice because that's what they let you see.

    • @pankfull12
      @pankfull12 7 лет назад +2

      Freedom with a handler????

  • @joemcdevitt2124
    @joemcdevitt2124 7 лет назад +65

    Having those below-ground street crossings is a pretty ingenious city-planning feature. I kind of wish they were more common in some of the bigger cities here in the USA.

    • @hevi2866
      @hevi2866 8 месяцев назад +1

      Leave the surface of the Earth to the people, as it always been. If you want to drive freely, you go underground.

    • @NewBuildmini
      @NewBuildmini 8 месяцев назад +1

      We have a lot of them here in Russia. Urbanist activists oppose them because they're inconvenient for pedestrians. Older pedestrians often jaywalk.

  • @tayfuntuna
    @tayfuntuna 2 года назад +10

    I like how all the youtubers visit there at the time of "celebrations". It's more like a "let's present our country to the fullest" period where the foreigners are accepted.

  • @TheMrdesertman24
    @TheMrdesertman24 8 лет назад +72

    Does anyone know what nationality Erick is? The guy who filmed this? Just curious because he sounds like he's from Canada or the US

    • @visiglow
      @visiglow  8 лет назад +63

      +GodXela - The Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, Hi, I'm from the US

    • @cosmic4701
      @cosmic4701 8 лет назад +2

      +Erick Tseng You're a politician?

    • @visiglow
      @visiglow  8 лет назад +25

      +Cosmic_Infidel Nope, just an everyday person from the US

    • @TheMrdesertman24
      @TheMrdesertman24 8 лет назад +3

      +Erick Tseng so how did you go about and get permission to go?

    • @visiglow
      @visiglow  8 лет назад +25

      +GodXela - The Mayor of Columbus, Ohio I traveled there through a non-profit called The Choson Exchange. Check them out. I'd highly recommend them!

  •  3 года назад +20

    The streets on this video look so much like my country did in the 2000's

  • @seancb1990
    @seancb1990 8 лет назад +168

    What camera is that? So clear and nice

    • @visiglow
      @visiglow  8 лет назад +52

      +seancb1990 I filmed this with a Sony RX100 Mark II camera

    • @seancb1990
      @seancb1990 8 лет назад +7

      +Erick Tseng thank you eric! Do u recommend that camera if i were to buy it? Or another one

    • @visiglow
      @visiglow  8 лет назад +19

      +seancb1990 It's a great camera. I'd highly recommend it!

    • @anshikashukla7395
      @anshikashukla7395 6 лет назад +2

      Hey Sony is made in south Korea how are you allowed to use them in north Korea

    • @cyntax2338
      @cyntax2338 5 лет назад +4

      @@anshikashukla7395 Technically its japan bro

  • @aini.another
    @aini.another 3 года назад +34

    "The adults dont wave back"
    Even if you're in my country, no one is going to wave back at you except kids. Duhh they maybe smile but wave?

    • @tangobravo5752
      @tangobravo5752 3 года назад +11

      Southern United States people will wave!

    • @aini.another
      @aini.another 3 года назад +1

      @@tangobravo5752 good for them 👍🏻

    • @hallucinatedovens8414
      @hallucinatedovens8414 3 года назад +1

      @@tangobravo5752 Canada too

    • @vkishan2089
      @vkishan2089 3 года назад +1

      We will wave. If you're nice we may give you our country.

  • @n4musica
    @n4musica 5 лет назад +45

    “The adults don’t wave back”
    Uhhhh yeah cuz you’re some strange man waving at them! 😂

  • @fongxiong1929
    @fongxiong1929 8 лет назад +42

    Wow, not even a single trash on the streets.

  • @crazyGodLikE
    @crazyGodLikE 7 лет назад +42

    0:25 ISN'T THAT THE SAME WOMAN FROM THE CAR DEALERSHIP? LOL

    • @wik1613
      @wik1613 7 лет назад +6

      yash kapur everyone's an actor

    • @jejh600
      @jejh600 3 года назад +1

      @@wik1613 Ofcourse you can’t pass the same person twice how stupid!

    • @floo1465
      @floo1465 3 года назад +1

      @@jejh600 that’d be pretty fucking unlikely in a city of almost 3 million though

    • @jejh600
      @jejh600 3 года назад

      @@floo1465 Unlikley yes but not impossible

    • @Jazzmaster1992
      @Jazzmaster1992 3 года назад

      I had the same thought honestly

  • @NovaDoll
    @NovaDoll 7 лет назад +67

    Seeing the children makes me cry. I wish they could all be free!

    • @arminius6506
      @arminius6506 3 года назад +14

      So, what do you think they were????
      They seem pretty happy as compared to US kids who are indoctrinated by all sort of propoganda. Few weeks ago some kids in UK freaked out because the teacher pronounced the name of country Niger.

    • @hairystyles9794
      @hairystyles9794 3 года назад +7

      @@arminius6506 yeah, you're right. North Korea is known to be a basically propaganda free zone.

  • @ChrisCanary
    @ChrisCanary 2 года назад +5

    The trees all have a white paint ring around the base.
    The kid with the roller blades... very Western. Must be something new.
    The apartment buildings under 9 floors have no elevators.
    Stairs everywhere, no ramps, no handicapped access....no handicapped people.
    I love the unique sound of the trolley poles arcing on the loose wires. You hear that sound in Seattle and San Francisco too, with their trolley buses.
    Everyone walks walks walks, burn off calories and restrict you by time to travel any distance.

  • @usnoxdotcom
    @usnoxdotcom 8 лет назад +83

    So in North Korea you cross the under street in intersections? If so that's kind of cool.

    • @noahqiu8016
      @noahqiu8016 8 лет назад +20

      it's like that in China too

    • @usnoxdotcom
      @usnoxdotcom 8 лет назад +2

      Noah Qiu So its common?

    • @noahqiu8016
      @noahqiu8016 8 лет назад +25

      +Crash X yes, it is quite common in busy cities

    • @usnoxdotcom
      @usnoxdotcom 8 лет назад

      +Noah Qiu Thanks,

    • @JCChainz
      @JCChainz 8 лет назад +5

      Mexico City has some of them too and bridges over intersections

  • @wald582
    @wald582 8 лет назад +43

    How much did the toured trip cost?

  • @perfectchaos0078
    @perfectchaos0078 7 лет назад +11

    I'm glad you guys toured and documented north korea so I don't have to. The lack of basic freedoms there like being unable to leave the hotel at night would drive me insane

  • @CarstenBauer
    @CarstenBauer 8 лет назад +10

    Reminds me of the Truman Show... everything is a show for the westerners..

  • @10thletter40
    @10thletter40 3 года назад +12

    It is so sad the commentors not realizing the capitol is just a show.

    • @natenate4980
      @natenate4980 3 года назад

      The capital is north korea at its best

  • @rezamotori5709
    @rezamotori5709 2 года назад +5

    Looks so much better in summer than it does in winter!........far more people in the streets!

  • @uh3592
    @uh3592 7 лет назад +16

    Hey Eric, after watching all these videos. I can't help but wonder, how have you been allowed to walk around? To the best of my knowledge I thought you were on a strict guided trip with two North Korean officials? Very interesting place, whilst I accept the many flaws it has, it certainly intrigues me. But yes if you could explain how you are able to walk so freely that would be great.

  • @jmk0822
    @jmk0822 7 лет назад +53

    80% of the people were probably actors

  • @TREXdudi
    @TREXdudi 8 лет назад +32

    Who on a right state of mind actually going to visit these kinda of countries ?

    • @m.w.6526
      @m.w.6526 7 лет назад +10

      I have, and do not regret it one bit. Laos, Vietnam and N. Korea are my favorite of visited countries.

    • @hoanglamvo3518
      @hoanglamvo3518 6 лет назад +1

      Vietnam is not purely a Communist country any more=)), it's like China nowadays. They are both red-capitalist countries which are ruled by a single party- Communist party but economically, somewhat the same as capitalists countries

    • @michaelsmith5769
      @michaelsmith5769 2 года назад

      It's the curiosity factor. I'd visit NK for the same reason.

    • @pablosanchez6558
      @pablosanchez6558 2 года назад

      Rite of passage

  • @GrexFilms
    @GrexFilms 3 года назад +7

    beautiful! thanks for sharing!

  • @tolbs2002
    @tolbs2002 6 лет назад +13

    It looks soo clean there

    • @randomspartanhoe4501
      @randomspartanhoe4501 3 года назад

      Wayyyyyyyyyy more clean than Ho Chi Minh city, this is weird

    • @ScriptedLinks
      @ScriptedLinks 3 года назад +2

      @@randomspartanhoe4501 The 1% all live in Pyongyang unlike in Saigon where there's the general population.

  • @connormacleod7010
    @connormacleod7010 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for sharing your Experience when your on Pyongyang North Korea

  • @lopezjr9952
    @lopezjr9952 6 лет назад +2

    Those three kids were freaking out

  • @S0RGEx
    @S0RGEx 3 года назад +34

    Man... I feel bad for those kids, knowing what their future likely holds for them. They seem just like normal children, but they live in a society like North Korea.

  • @asteroidalassassin6949
    @asteroidalassassin6949 3 года назад +18

    Why does this place give me an odd sense of nostalgia?

    • @thefunniesies
      @thefunniesies 3 года назад +5

      Cuz they're stuck in the 70-80's

  • @connormacleod7010
    @connormacleod7010 3 года назад +2

    Hello To Everyone From Scotland

  • @justinjiang
    @justinjiang 8 лет назад +3

    the lady in the beginning running in front of the camera was the actor in the car show room

    • @MultiSciGeek
      @MultiSciGeek 8 лет назад

      +Htet Pye seriously? That's one of the people who came on the tour with them

    • @bigsky1970
      @bigsky1970 6 лет назад

      She's a minder.

  • @kalantor100
    @kalantor100 8 лет назад +6

    actually I´d love to visit this county. Nowadays all cities look the same. You have starbucks in Sao Paulo and malls in Istanbul look exactly like the ones in Los Angeles and I´m sure very soon there will be McDonalds in Havanna.

    • @lyricalmike7162
      @lyricalmike7162 3 года назад

      As a Cuban, you’re stupid if you think that.

  • @R3Cat
    @R3Cat 8 лет назад +5

    LOOK AT THESE FUCKING STREETS EVEN NORTH KOREA LOOKS BETTER THAN THE STREETS IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE WHAT THE FUCK LONDON

  • @tabrisangel19
    @tabrisangel19 8 лет назад +1

    Rodong Sinmun is the newspaper of the Worker's Party of Korea. Newspaper building.

  • @reptilrrudy2389
    @reptilrrudy2389 2 месяца назад

    The trees that are commonly found in Pyongyang are coniferous trees, pines, and ginkgo

  • @ThisGuy_JJ
    @ThisGuy_JJ 3 года назад +5

    Dang they actually have cars other than bootleg copies at 5:07 they show a grey 2004 Toyota Corolla and at 3:53 they show a black 2004 Volvo XC90. They are dated cars but I could be wrong because they could be copies.

    • @anrw886
      @anrw886 3 года назад

      Most of their cars are Chinese, so either rebranded or reverse engineered cars of the main companies such as Toyota. Though i have also seen a lot of legitimate asian car brands too

  • @groupsounds4896
    @groupsounds4896 8 лет назад +7

    i just wana say i think its real great that you can cross the street without waiting for traffic by going underground in dprk

  • @krnpowr
    @krnpowr 8 лет назад +7

    It's amazing. After 70 years of separation, the infrastructure i.e. builidings, sidewalks, bridges etc. of North and South Korea still look very similar. Albeit in South Korea, things are just more developed and glitzy.

    • @dodoboodrough6044
      @dodoboodrough6044 8 лет назад +2

      +krnpowr That's because they do not have the ability to change their buildings. They don't have the modern infrastructure to develop modern building.If you have even watched one of their videos when they are building something it's usually thick concrete and very little metal used. Very reminiscent of old Soviet building during the cold war.

    • @krnpowr
      @krnpowr 8 лет назад +2

      Bryan Rodgers I'm cognizant of that, and that's not what I'm marveling about. I was marveling at the similarities of the two countries despite the long separation, the difference in economies and technologies, and the lack of foreign influence in North Korea.

    • @dodoboodrough6044
      @dodoboodrough6044 8 лет назад

      ;)

    • @dodoboodrough6044
      @dodoboodrough6044 8 лет назад

      Triple negative! Who am them? Who am you? Kim Jong Un he don't want you!

    • @dodoboodrough6044
      @dodoboodrough6044 8 лет назад

      Чварков Ђорђе
      REALLY? Please show us some statistics on how many NK's who defect go back to NK? I would really like to see that. Or are you just another NK want to be moron trolling this comment? I think your just a troll, and a second rate one at that.

  • @itsjermy
    @itsjermy 2 года назад +1

    0:46
    “And he won’t let us out of his sight”
    *im gonna do what’s called a **_pro-gamer move_*

  • @dwightcorbett8889
    @dwightcorbett8889 4 года назад +9

    The adults are probably too scared to wave back.

  • @radredg7656
    @radredg7656 7 лет назад +6

    0:35 GOTTA GO FAST

  • @talkaboutwacky
    @talkaboutwacky 11 месяцев назад +1

    I’ve noticed in a lot of tourist videos to Pyongyang the “handlers” being visibly annoyed with their “tour groups” . They’re clearly used to people being subservient and obeying their every command and it ticks them off when people don’t

  • @thefunniesies
    @thefunniesies 3 года назад +1

    North Korea feels like walking around a city map in Gmod alone.

  • @farhadinho9
    @farhadinho9 3 года назад +2

    I've never seen such clean streets.

    • @EuanWhitehead
      @EuanWhitehead 9 месяцев назад

      In Pyongyang definitely, I can imagine when you go to the countryside it would be doused in poverty.

  • @rocketman8476
    @rocketman8476 7 лет назад +11

    This is the closest I would dare to get.

  • @wilddog3820
    @wilddog3820 7 лет назад +2

    Well done - really interesting
    Am looking forward to watching more of your stuff

  • @robertsilva8097
    @robertsilva8097 3 года назад +1

    Were you able to take Any pictures with your cell phone

  • @exeterra4825
    @exeterra4825 7 лет назад +4

    I gotta say its a very beautiful city. Shame that there is little to no freedom for people tho...

  • @menzosoft2
    @menzosoft2 3 года назад +9

    in fact it is pretty creepy to walk with camera behind some kids and talking in foreign language, they were so cool about it xD

    • @pakistaniboi342
      @pakistaniboi342 3 года назад

      They probably don't know what a camera is

    • @menzosoft2
      @menzosoft2 3 года назад +1

      @@pakistaniboi342 bullshit, stop making them idiots.

    • @pakistaniboi342
      @pakistaniboi342 3 года назад

      @@menzosoft2 how am I making them idiots?

  • @robertsilva8097
    @robertsilva8097 3 года назад +1

    Your videos are so beautiful keep up the great work

  • @aardvarkmindshank
    @aardvarkmindshank 3 года назад

    Thanks for that recording of the wind.

  • @Anonym-kd5wf
    @Anonym-kd5wf 3 года назад +4

    Man it must suck to live there..

  • @Princess_Angela4496
    @Princess_Angela4496 8 лет назад +7

    3:52 Volvo XC90, wth?

  • @northkoreakp834
    @northkoreakp834 8 лет назад +1

    thank you for your video, very nive to see that you are happy with your walk in town

    • @oakword3150
      @oakword3150 6 лет назад

      U’re Mom he knows it but he still has to act like he dont .... you know am saying ? P.S. DPRK its not communist , it never was , it tries to be socialist but in reality its just feudalistic and extremely racist lol

  • @AbdullahBasit24
    @AbdullahBasit24 3 года назад +1

    4:56
    Is that a 2004 Camry behind the lady?

  • @matts5478
    @matts5478 5 лет назад +11

    I got a new idea for the Modern Marvels TV show: the world's largest prison.

  • @xChimkin
    @xChimkin 4 года назад +6

    i hope i can one day catch a flight from canada to north korea and walk around without a "guide"

  • @dt-gp2vg
    @dt-gp2vg 2 года назад +1

    it's like the whole city looks like actors. i like this movie.

  • @altairnx4308
    @altairnx4308 3 года назад +1

    "The Kids are Friendly"

  • @lastmfstanding
    @lastmfstanding 7 лет назад +7

    I bet I would feel way more safer walking those streets than here in rio de janeiro.

  • @serbetli100
    @serbetli100 8 лет назад +55

    It looks like Moscow.

    • @MultiSciGeek
      @MultiSciGeek 8 лет назад

      +serbetli100 really?

    • @Zen-rw2fz
      @Zen-rw2fz 7 лет назад +9

      serbetli100 while soviet russia was still around

    • @simobekkali4455
      @simobekkali4455 7 лет назад +1

      serbetli100 No way HAHA

    • @thisismycoolnickname
      @thisismycoolnickname 7 лет назад +12

      It looks like Moscow of the 1970's xD

    • @ewax8205
      @ewax8205 6 лет назад +4

      It looks like some places in Poland too

  • @Ziotic
    @Ziotic 2 года назад +1

    bruh that lady looks like the exact same lady from the car dealership.....

  • @complexnumber1514
    @complexnumber1514 3 года назад +2

    0:56 dude would you do a vlog or such of your escape from labor camp

    • @floo1465
      @floo1465 3 года назад

      what? he hasn’t been put in a labor camp lol

  • @raulconty7229
    @raulconty7229 3 года назад +9

    I feel bad for those kids 😔

  • @andrewl2787
    @andrewl2787 3 года назад +3

    Notice how you don’t see a single fat person.

  • @AverageAlien
    @AverageAlien 6 лет назад +1

    vlogging in North Korea sounds smart.

  • @kittara8
    @kittara8 2 года назад

    "We are enjoying our minutes of freedom" bruh I would be so scared to say that out loud

  • @datasilouk1995
    @datasilouk1995 8 лет назад +7

    3:30 was that two woman holding hands? I thought that was banned.

    • @MilasRealWorld
      @MilasRealWorld 8 лет назад +25

      I think it was a mother and her daughter

  • @GyacoYu
    @GyacoYu 7 лет назад +7

    Wtf, Uncle Stranger is following us!
    Wtf, Uncle Stranger is still following us!
    What does he want?!

  • @Wanttoknowabout
    @Wanttoknowabout 8 лет назад +1

    Random question: Do they have public restrooms? What did you do if you had to go to the bathroom on a trip?

  • @robertsilva8097
    @robertsilva8097 3 года назад +1

    I took my North Korean girlfriend 2 Korean town in Los Angeles some of them what being very mean to a North Korean girlfriend she explained to me why when we got back home when I took to Target for the first time she was shocked in a good way I just told her this is your first time in Target I told her let's take our time look around I had to call my sister because after we did our shopping we had two cars full of stuff that you bought at Target we buy stuff for her family so when she does if and when she's able to see her family again we have gifts for them I told her someday she'll be able to reunite with her family I told her we'll just figure out a way in a good way I just hope and pray she's able to see them one day

  • @shiftymike9100
    @shiftymike9100 8 лет назад +24

    Look it's Kim Jong Un at 5:13

    • @tescovaluemilk2921
      @tescovaluemilk2921 8 лет назад +2

      XD

    • @kevray
      @kevray 6 лет назад +4

      HOLY SHIT!! I THINK THATS THE ONLY FAT NORTH KOREAN WE HAVE SEEN OTHER THAN KIM JONG HIMSELF

    • @onlyzah5803
      @onlyzah5803 3 года назад

      Not even fat

  • @s0nnyburnett
    @s0nnyburnett 8 лет назад +16

    Clean streets, something no city in North America has yet to accomplish.
    Nice day for a walk.

    • @user-uf3wc7hy4l
      @user-uf3wc7hy4l 8 лет назад

      That's what Im thinking. Everyone seems to be on the same page.

    • @Toiletbabe
      @Toiletbabe 8 лет назад +12

      i'm amazed at how stupid you guys can be

    • @hwang_nam-gi
      @hwang_nam-gi 7 лет назад

      Well.... that's Capitalist America for you.

    • @Turk_2023
      @Turk_2023 7 лет назад +10

      That`s because the people who live there can not afford to buy anything that will eventually be trash...No candy bars, etc...No money

    • @prim16
      @prim16 6 лет назад +1

      The poorest city in North America is a nicer place to live than the richest city of North Korea.

  • @Zei33
    @Zei33 3 года назад

    That’s probably the first time those kids have heard a foreign language spoken.

  • @Ana-wm1pe
    @Ana-wm1pe 8 лет назад +1

    Wow people walk with the same pace