Scarlett...all dictators seem even pleasant at first, till the population has been fooled...and after WWII nobody interfered in the business of other countries, lest they (any) should be slapped on the wrist! The so-called democrat dictators have free rein to do whatever it pleased them to do to their own people. Japan did the same to the Koreans as they did to the Chinese (Nanking).
Well, atleast Kim Il-Sung never had to see his son being lonely and sad.. But as we all know, the most dangerous one of all the Kims is still around.. Kim Kar-dashian
Oh yes, I had quite hard times being alone. Even my for our country above average number of wifes or the daily meetings with hundreds of young female soldiers admiring me made loneliness only a little more bearable. Why do bad things always happen to good people?
1:55 - Chapter 1 - Humble beginnings 5:20 - Chapter 2 - Jumping into the fray 7:50 - Chapter 3 - Homecoming 10:35 - Chapter 4 - Kim & the korean war 12:45 - Chapter 5 - After the ashes 16:40 - Chapter 6 - Later years in power
A friend of our family is a Sakhalin Korean who had some relatives in the North, and he actually went to visit them at some point in the 1970s. He said that being there felt like walking through the set of a Soviet movie... filmed in the 1930s.
Even from footage I've seen taken there in the last 5-10 years, North Korea looks like the late 70s apart from some computers, phones and a few other tech items. They're 40 years behind the major civilizations.
Not gonna lie, Kim Il Sung seemed like a chill person. Constantly smiling, walking around with his hands behind his back, pointing at things, and interacting with people.
Compared to South Korean dictator at the same time, Kim Il Sung was a Saint. During his rule the living standard in North Korea was far better than in the South.
@Malik Khaleel - I don’t know... that would be a pretty execrable choice to be forced to make. As much as I would dread dealing with either, I would opt for $cientology over the Kim regime solely based on the Kim regime's penchant for executions. $cientology is its own brand of evil, but at least they’re not feeding people to canines or privately shooting them.
@@sisterspooky The primary reason Hubbard developed the maritime aspect to Scientology is that when one is sailing outside of the territorial waters of all countries, you can do as you wish.
@@motro1301 North Korea was actually much wealthier than their Southern counterpart until the late 70s early 80s. North Korea was naturally the industrial center of the Korean Peninsula because of its proximity to China and plentiful natural resources like iron/gold/uranium(I think). The south was originally agriculturally centered with very little urban development when the war originally broke out. My dad said that when he was a child, South Korea had propaganda very similar to that of North Korea’s on the US. Looking back, he realizes that South Korea was using the same technique that North Korea does to keep their people ignorant and dedicated.
@@Flagg1991 yeah idk my comment was deleted but in general the gist was: we weren’t there and we weren’t the South Koreans starving and also living under a dictatorship labeled as a president lol
Monsters often create other monsters. In literature we like to use fictional monsters like vampires and zombies to underscore the nature of human evil itself. And how it wants to fester, bite, and spread.
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows the Canadian encyclopedia states they are technically still at war today. An armistice was signed but no peace treaty by international standards meaning they are still at war.
@@AshrakAhmed as Canadians we fought in the war on the South’s side. We were taught in school that technically if hostilities broke out again Canada could be dragged into it again as there was no peace treaty signed after Canada declared war.
Kim Il-Sung was perhaps the best out of the Kin Dynasty. He actually cared about uniting his nation and was willing to go to any measure to ensure it. But the problem is, he became too power hungry. Power is dangerous, it consumes people. But he used it better than his son and grandson.
@@nedifar-haunts-you No he wasn't. It seems you aren't very educated. Kim Il-Sung had a troubled childhood and he managed to build his way to the top unlike his son and grandson who had everything handed down to them. Kim Il-Sung just wanted to unite his country like it once was when Korea was the Korean Empire. He did take aggressive measures to make sure that his power was secure. But during that time, he wasn't as bad as his son and grandson.
I've deleted my previous comments because perhaps I've judged Kim Il Sung too hardly. I now feel like he and his son were better and made more sense than Kim Jung Un today. Kim Jung il didn't have everything down to his hands unlike Jung Un. He took power during a time where NK starved, and where their main economic partner disappeared (USSR). You're judging Jung il too hardly too in my opinion.
@@Amoore-vv9wxI don't say that Kim Jung il was "better", but he surely was far from being "useless". Kim Jung il was the one who stabilized the country after the Arduous March (famine). He was the one who gave the country nuclear weapons so NK can be taken seriously although it's multiples flaws. Kim Jung il worked with South Korea so korean families separated by the war and living in the South and the North can be reunited again ( it's not possible anymore because of Kim Jung Un by the way). Kim Jung il created economics aeras with the South so NK can earn money. One of those areas was closed by Kim Jung Un and nationalized by his regime with the South's permission. And Kim Jung Il was a interlocutor for the US and the South until Bush and the SK conservatives comes in power. There's a few facts who proves that Kim Jung Il wasn't "useless". Better than Il Sung, I wouldn't say. But he was important to NK. Deal with it. You know nothing about Jung Il. YOU are the one aimlessly blathering and babbling. Get your facts straight..
"He attended Whasung Military Academy but was quickly unimpressed by their methods, the last thing you expect from a 14 year old boy" Actually, if I had to quickly define all 14 year olds' attitudes towards most things, I'd go with UNIMPRESSED
I spent 3 straight years on the northern part of the ROK (Camp Greaves) as a much younger man, and I know a lot about the Korean War, the peninsula in general, the history of the “partnership” between the US and South Korea. I did not know a lot about this man though, and it is always great to learn something new here on your RUclips channel Mr. Simon!!
"If you wanted to create a totally isolated and hermetic society, northern Korea in the years after the 1953 'armistice' would have been the place to start... Pyongyang was an ashen moonscape. It was Year Zero. Kim Il Sung could create a laboratory, with controlled conditions, where he alone would be the engineer of the human soul." ~Christopher Hitchens, describing North Korea after the 1953 ceasefire
@Gage Acosta Too bad he didn't live to see the third Kim take power. Now they've got their Unholy Trinity. And I don't think he was dismissing it. I think he was just describing what was going on.
Simon, you've got to hold a record along the lines of "Most RUclips channels hosted by one person" by now. I feel like every time I watch one of your videos I find out about a new one!
*QUESTION* !!!!! Who else would love to see a Biographics video chronicling a typical week in Simon’s life? I seriously want to see how he bends time to be able to host that many channels!!
It's simple really the topics and scripts are written and chosen by a separate team. He's just a talking head. A charismatic one who is very good at his job but he's not the brains behind the channels he represents. He was hired as a freelance voice actor. All he has to do is read a script sent to him, film himself doing it and send that video back. It's remote work that is likely done out of his home with little equipment. Literally such a small part of a project like this. Consider the topic, research, writing, editing, it's a majority of the work. That is the reason he's able to host multiple channels. Entirely feasible for him to knock out 4 of those in an 8 hour work day. Versus the literal days of work the rest of the process requires just for one video.
I drive alot for work these videos are an amazingly helpful way to pass the time between stops. Love all your channels and your overall skill at narrating. Thank you for all the awesome content from South Carolina.
Now that we've covered Kim Il-Sung, I think it'd be nice to have Rhee Syngman's biography in the near future. Both Kim Il-Sung and Rhee Syngman led their part of Korea at around the same time
Were it not for Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, I would not have heard of Rhee. Despite the US’s involvement, the Korean War wasn’t a huge topic in history class.
Please do Alexander Lukashenko! I'd be happy to assist personally as I've written many essays on the Belarusian language and country and Lukashenko's relation to it.
People : Why north korean so cruel this day North Korean : Blame to Japan Japanese nowadays : owh..... Sorry, I don't remember anything hahahahaha.....
I've watched a good few of your videos now and I really like the amount of detail you put into researching even minor points or little phrases. Great work on everything you're doing.
One of the best channels on RUclips. Have spent hours and hours listening to these biographies.. great job Simon.. would love if you can do some more Asian leaders. - Fan from India.
78 cities were destroyed and 20% of the DPRK's population was killed in the war- after all this Kim Il-Sung and the WPK managed to achieve double digit growth and grew the country faster than the dictatorship in south korea. Not to mention the south at the time was literally committing genocides against leftists that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
I thank the biographics team and special thanks to Mr. Simon Whitsler for accepting my request. My grandfather did many wonderful deeds to Korea 🇰🇵❤️ Biographics 🇰🇵❤️Simon Whitsler
@@rft9776 Labour camps was a punishment for traitors and political disidents who collaborated with Japan, US and USSR. The three generations rule was modeled to keep the people loyal to the country.
@@kimjongun6746 is it true that North Korea is a giant laboratory for Psychiatry to experiment with social engineering for the masses? That could be implemented with other nations?
Its a literal feudal system. The country is ruled by Kim jung un with the support of about 100-150 families, all of whom were descended from the same 100-150 "guerrilla fighters" who were living with Kim Il Sung in exile in Russia during the Japanese occupation. No country in the world is run more like a feudal aristocracy.
@@Fray2221 While communism is controversial no true communist leader would hand power to family unless they are a full member of the politburo and a popular and senior official North Korea is ruined by a dynasty. Dynastys are against Communism. Communist overthrew dynastys like in Russia, Vietnam and Yugoslavia.
A caste system is what communism really is, REMEMBER SOME PIGS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. All socialism eventually turns into communism. Mainly when people don't have check and balances, Power corrupts Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.
I briefly taught at Yuwen Middle School in Jilin, China. There is a small compound within the school grounds for housing students from NK, complete with a statue of Kim Il-Sung which the students dutifully cry at and place flowers around daily. Taking a video of the proceedings is what caused my tenure there to be "brief." XD
silver sources reported that Kim Il Jong was alone in a room with his son disciplining him over the state of the North Korean economy when he had a heart attack. Kim Il Sung waited three hours before calling the doctors for his father
1- why is the sound so quiet on this video? It makes it hard to hear in a mildly noisy room. 2- I feel like you MAKE an hour of content for every hour of content I watch, which is great because I basically watch your videos in the background all day long, and at this rate maybe I won't run out?
Mr Whistler sir, I do appreciate your attempt at using sarcasm as pretensical humility pertaining to your plethora of channels. And I say this because I have had to hire several employees to keep up with watching all of the videos that are so prolifically created at such an astounding pace by a brilliant showman such as yourself.. Sir, you are an unchallenged prodigy and I am so glad to have discovered most of your 3,600 channels. I love most of them except, you know, number 2702. It doesn't quite do it for me but the remaining several thousand channels certainly do!
I will not stop asking. Please make more videos covering the people in the American Civil War, for example; Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall General William T. Sherman, who I really couldnt say anything about without someone getting pissed Confederate President Jefferson Davies Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first African-American Regiment in the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant, who needs no introduction Etc. I just wish there were more videos that tackled the people in the Civil War on your channel
After Vietnam was reunited after the Vietnam war ended, Kim believed that if North Vietnam can annex its southern neighbor, it too can annex South Korea He met Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, asking for military aid. It was rejected and china refused to aid in North Korea's attempt in annexing South Korea. and so, the plan never came to fruition
Partially because the South Koreans were MUCH tougher than the South Vietnamese, and the American-led coalition already knew the Korean terrain pretty well. It could have been a catastrophe for the Communists.
"troubled" 🤔... my first thought was that that assessment was a major understatement ... but then I figured the word "troubled" is being used in the same way that the British use "troubles" to mean strife / brutal conflict (The Troubles in Northern Ireland being the most obvious example I can think of rn).
It’s pretty funny, because in my history class, something the teacher would always repeat is: “If a country has the word ‘Democratic’ in its name, get ready to be super suspicious about it.”
It is democratic, Proletarian Democracy is what it is, as it votes and takes the word of the working class to make the decisions for what happens instead of 2 parties fighting over power
Thanks for being interested in our history. The current english wikipedia might provide some overview but due to the lack of korean wikipedians and being a rather topic of regional interest i feel its relatively undersourced thus being very hard for people to approach the topic. Korean wikipedia or namuwiki might be also a good source but its a lil biased. In terms of early korean history, samguk sagi is often cited. In terms of the goryeo period lot of documents remain along with some chinese and mongol sources. Joseondynasty officially made chronicles of kings called "veritable records of the joseon dynasty", which were pretty welll documented. And other modern history stuff you can find about it with relative ease since korea opened its gates with the western world since the late 19th century i believe. Its kinda worse for north korean articles tho because south koreans like me are not even allowed to even mention it safely due to the political situation facing the peninsula and its legally banned to talk about it in south korea besides north korean studies stuff. But its still good. Also it might be useful to look for some books written in standford university related with korean studies and might find that helpful.
@@SFVYachtClub lol not just that but yeah lot of wars for sure. Though i guess we kinda emphasize us being opressed or being hassled by a lot of wars cause nationalism i guess
In a night I had dream in my sleep that I am a citizen of North Korea, I was still a child there. Then when the day Kim Il-Sung died I am not attended his funeral, and my North Korean mother also in home. Maybe just my other family attend. I see my home street so empty and just a car passed by on the other road. Then I realized that as a child I also cried of the leader death. I cried in front of my blue North Korean styled house on empty tiny street. Bizzare dream tho.
@The Confederate Restoration Plan Thanks, I am happy someone read it. In my dream I am really sad that Kim Il-sung died. Maybe because I know Kim Jong-il will be bad leader compared to him.
The only dictator to have ever scored a perfect 18 in a round of golf. He could have done it in 16, but the persons responsible have been dealt with. Okay, so I didn't remember it correctly. It was Kim Jong-Il and he shot a 34.
@@alexstorr3357 I would yes but it took place at a military parade so I am unsure. Seems a weird place/time for something like that but who knows. Weirder things have happened.
My suggestions for next biographies: Sir Nicholas Winton Nicolas Flamel Akhenaten Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart Madame Voisin Cesare Borgia D B Cooper
Wow you actually talked about my grandpa. Impressive. Amazing how he rebuilt this country from the ashes of the war
Gee Mr. Kim. I hope you’re doing well of what he started.
Kim, Trump is watching you. Behave!!
amazing how your father screwed it up
Hello
@@mangonel IQ25>You
RUclips: How many accounts do you want?
Simon: Yes.
@victor bruun
It was a joke
@victor bruun What?
I'm sure helping with documentaries would be good for the guy if he found the right agent. He's a good presenter - a lot of people need those.
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I feel like every few videos there's another of his channels that I haven't heard about
Simon Whistler: The Man Who Never Sleeps.
Simon whistler the man who only has one leg! Bet ya didn't know that?
You do realise that Simon Whistler is not actually a real person don't you Psiball? He's just an updated replica of Max Headroom with better CGI.
@@trj1442 of course but with only one leg!
@@TheLoxxxton what would indicate that?
Of course not. Someone has to make sure Sam and Danny don't escape.
First ten minutes: Huh.... he doesn't seem all that bad.
Last 20 minutes: Theeeere it is....
I think you meant last 10 minutes.
@@frankseward7017 I don't know why, but I think you missed their joke...
Scarlett...all dictators seem even pleasant at first, till the population has been fooled...and after WWII nobody interfered in the business of other countries, lest they (any) should be slapped on the wrist! The so-called democrat dictators have free rein to do whatever it pleased them to do to their own people. Japan did the same to the Koreans as they did to the Chinese (Nanking).
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Womp womp womppppppp
Well, atleast Kim Il-Sung never had to see his son being lonely and sad..
But as we all know, the most dangerous one of all the Kims is still around.. Kim Kar-dashian
Poor, Kim Jung Il. So lonely and sadly alone
@@fallingpetunias9046 Sitting on his little throne.
Have you any idea how f*cking busy I am!?
He wasn't lonely
He was
Ronery
Oh yes, I had quite hard times being alone. Even my for our country above average number of wifes or the daily meetings with hundreds of young female soldiers admiring me made loneliness only a little more bearable.
Why do bad things always happen to good people?
1:55 - Chapter 1 - Humble beginnings
5:20 - Chapter 2 - Jumping into the fray
7:50 - Chapter 3 - Homecoming
10:35 - Chapter 4 - Kim & the korean war
12:45 - Chapter 5 - After the ashes
16:40 - Chapter 6 - Later years in power
Thanks bro
What for???
Kim Il-Sung was born on the same day the Titanic sank
*His first act was to sink the ship himself*
coincidence? I THINK NOOOT!!!!
@@doomi4055 Uh, Bernie...
oof
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@@pyromania1018 Don't "Bernie" ME!!!!
“Father of a troubled nation.” That’s literally the kindest possible way you could describe him.
We the best
He's not even a real communist but a cult leader who brainwashes the masses.
@@theawesomeman9821 I mean he criticize Marxist-Leninism for being too "European" for the Koreans...
I feel like he’s defending North Korea
True, that's why he was a Korean nationalist.
A friend of our family is a Sakhalin Korean who had some relatives in the North, and he actually went to visit them at some point in the 1970s. He said that being there felt like walking through the set of a Soviet movie... filmed in the 1930s.
Even from footage I've seen taken there in the last 5-10 years, North Korea looks like the late 70s apart from some computers, phones and a few other tech items. They're 40 years behind the major civilizations.
@@thunderbird1921 They do have phones, computer, and their own internet nowadays but of course, most of the citizens are living under severe poverty
@@thunderbird1921trtttrt RT Ft
@@thunderbird1921The rural areas of N .Korea are more like 200 years behind most of the rest of the world.
Not gonna lie, Kim Il Sung seemed like a chill person. Constantly smiling, walking around with his hands behind his back, pointing at things, and interacting with people.
Pol Pot had a lovely smile!!!
Is that a unplanned reference to Hitlers mannerisms?
Compared to South Korean dictator at the same time, Kim Il Sung was a Saint. During his rule the living standard in North Korea was far better than in the South.
@@filipe5226🙄
The devil has been said to be charming.
North Korea is kind of like what would happen if Scientology took control of a country.
I'd choose the Kims over Scientology
@paul crowley - _Killed?!??_ The idea of murder of a human being for believing in something you don’t seems acceptable to you? SMH
Wow...
@Malik Khaleel - I don’t know... that would be a pretty execrable choice to be forced to make.
As much as I would dread dealing with either, I would opt for $cientology over the Kim regime solely based on the Kim regime's penchant for executions. $cientology is its own brand of evil, but at least they’re not feeding people to canines or privately shooting them.
@@sisterspooky The primary reason Hubbard developed the maritime aspect to Scientology is that when one is sailing outside of the territorial waters of all countries, you can do as you wish.
What's so bad with science?
Kim Ill sung dies
North Korean citizens: are we free
NK: yes but actually no
Citizens: why?
NK: Another one
@victor bruun oh yes and trust me its quite good
Trump dies
Americans: are we free?
USA: yes but actually no
Citizens: why?
USA: another turd to front the imperialist capitalist regime
NK: And another one.
Nk: Kim Il Sung dies
Nk people: were free at last
Nk: congratulations you played yourself
Actually they had been fully brainwashed and praised Kim Il Sung like a god, so when he died, the whole country cried for real
Pyongyang built their metro before Seoul. And it’s honestly so beautiful. You can tell they were inspired by the Moscow Metro
@@angievlogs3407 Also seoul has the wifi and internet on the metro. They dont.
@@motro1301 North Korea was actually much wealthier than their Southern counterpart until the late 70s early 80s. North Korea was naturally the industrial center of the Korean Peninsula because of its proximity to China and plentiful natural resources like iron/gold/uranium(I think). The south was originally agriculturally centered with very little urban development when the war originally broke out. My dad said that when he was a child, South Korea had propaganda very similar to that of North Korea’s on the US. Looking back, he realizes that South Korea was using the same technique that North Korea does to keep their people ignorant and dedicated.
@@rp-wn5or It was still a brutal communist dictatorship where you had to worship statues of a fat guy or die.
I'd rather be poor.
@@Flagg1991 yeah idk my comment was deleted but in general the gist was: we weren’t there and we weren’t the South Koreans starving and also living under a dictatorship labeled as a president lol
That's actually because South Korea was highly unstable.
The abused often times become abusers themselves. Sad reality of life
The abused kick downwards
Monsters often create other monsters.
In literature we like to use fictional monsters like vampires and zombies to underscore the nature of human evil itself. And how it wants to fester, bite, and spread.
You either die a hero (whether young or old), or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Xi Jinping was the same
Poor austrian painter
The Korean War did not end, they are technically still at a state of war.
I said this in class to my professor in South Korea... He hated me and made sure to devalue my grade. Sorry about facts?
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows the Canadian encyclopedia states they are technically still at war today. An armistice was signed but no peace treaty by international standards meaning they are still at war.
Both side military decided to call it a day for now but the politicians never signed a agreement calling it quits I guess!
@@AshrakAhmed as Canadians we fought in the war on the South’s side. We were taught in school that technically if hostilities broke out again Canada could be dragged into it again as there was no peace treaty signed after Canada declared war.
Ashrak...the military has NOT called it a day. I spent 8 years near the DMZ. Definitely not user friendly.
When Kim Il-Sung got sick he became Kim ill-Sung.
Nice
uhhhhh
Badum-tish!
Bruh
Hit the lights when you leave
Kim Il-Sung was perhaps the best out of the Kin Dynasty. He actually cared about uniting his nation and was willing to go to any measure to ensure it. But the problem is, he became too power hungry. Power is dangerous, it consumes people. But he used it better than his son and grandson.
@@nedifar-haunts-you No he wasn't. It seems you aren't very educated. Kim Il-Sung had a troubled childhood and he managed to build his way to the top unlike his son and grandson who had everything handed down to them. Kim Il-Sung just wanted to unite his country like it once was when Korea was the Korean Empire. He did take aggressive measures to make sure that his power was secure. But during that time, he wasn't as bad as his son and grandson.
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I've deleted my previous comments because perhaps I've judged Kim Il Sung too hardly. I now feel like he and his son were better and made more sense than Kim Jung Un today. Kim Jung il didn't have everything down to his hands unlike Jung Un. He took power during a time where NK starved, and where their main economic partner disappeared (USSR). You're judging Jung il too hardly too in my opinion.
@@Amoore-vv9wxI don't say that Kim Jung il was "better", but he surely was far from being "useless". Kim Jung il was the one who stabilized the country after the Arduous March (famine). He was the one who gave the country nuclear weapons so NK can be taken seriously although it's multiples flaws. Kim Jung il worked with South Korea so korean families separated by the war and living in the South and the North can be reunited again ( it's not possible anymore because of Kim Jung Un by the way). Kim Jung il created economics aeras with the South so NK can earn money. One of those areas was closed by Kim Jung Un and nationalized by his regime with the South's permission. And Kim Jung Il was a interlocutor for the US and the South until Bush and the SK conservatives comes in power.
There's a few facts who proves that Kim Jung Il wasn't "useless". Better than Il Sung, I wouldn't say. But he was important to NK. Deal with it. You know nothing about Jung Il. YOU are the one aimlessly blathering and babbling. Get your facts straight..
He has such a warm jovial smile. He really looks like he’s having such a great time.
"He attended Whasung Military Academy but was quickly unimpressed by their methods, the last thing you expect from a 14 year old boy" Actually, if I had to quickly define all 14 year olds' attitudes towards most things, I'd go with UNIMPRESSED
I spent 3 straight years on the northern part of the ROK (Camp Greaves) as a much younger man, and I know a lot about the Korean War, the peninsula in general, the history of the “partnership” between the US and South Korea. I did not know a lot about this man though, and it is always great to learn something new here on your RUclips channel Mr. Simon!!
"If you wanted to create a totally isolated and hermetic society, northern Korea in the years after the 1953 'armistice' would have been the place to start... Pyongyang was an ashen moonscape. It was Year Zero. Kim Il Sung could create a laboratory, with controlled conditions, where he alone would be the engineer of the human soul."
~Christopher Hitchens, describing North Korea after the 1953 ceasefire
@Gage Acosta Too bad he didn't live to see the third Kim take power. Now they've got their Unholy Trinity.
And I don't think he was dismissing it. I think he was just describing what was going on.
@Gage Acosta lol. Wut. Where is he wrong?
@Gage Acosta conveniently forgetting the North fired the first shots lol
@Gage Acosta better than you justifying the Kims' insanity
Kinda like the usa does
At this point Simon is going to start invading other channels and consuming them for their power
I wouldn’t be surprised by that
The title is outrageous. What the hell. That's a evil dictator.
Simon, you've got to hold a record along the lines of "Most RUclips channels hosted by one person" by now. I feel like every time I watch one of your videos I find out about a new one!
I’ve learned more history from you than any history teacher. Thank you for keeping it interesting🙂
*QUESTION* !!!!!
Who else would love to see a Biographics video chronicling a typical week in Simon’s life? I seriously want to see how he bends time to be able to host that many channels!!
Lol a behind the scenes
It's simple really the topics and scripts are written and chosen by a separate team. He's just a talking head. A charismatic one who is very good at his job but he's not the brains behind the channels he represents. He was hired as a freelance voice actor. All he has to do is read a script sent to him, film himself doing it and send that video back. It's remote work that is likely done out of his home with little equipment. Literally such a small part of a project like this. Consider the topic, research, writing, editing, it's a majority of the work. That is the reason he's able to host multiple channels. Entirely feasible for him to knock out 4 of those in an 8 hour work day. Versus the literal days of work the rest of the process requires just for one video.
Love this man covering a million channels every day! I subscribe to most of them!
At this point, Simon's various channels make up about half of my watched RUclips videos. I am not complaining though, I love it.
me: “whoa simon has alot of channels.”
simon: *makes new channel
Seriously. This dude works like hell
@@TheKing60210 Soon 90% of all videos on youtube will contain Simon. I'm kind of OK with that.
So weird I found myself wishing hed do kim il sung....and what pops up on my screen...wow thanks biographics guy. You don't disappoint
A brief history of the Kim dynasty: Mystical Births, Purges, Famine, Rockets, Propaganda
last one and first one are the same
@@alexanderatticus647 I’m fairly sure that’s the point....
@@jameshays947 no its not he was refering to propaganda as a whole and the birth as seperate
Wait so Japan locked him up and the USA set him free, otherwise none of this would have happened, mind blown.
@@alexanderatticus647 r/woooosh
I drive alot for work these videos are an amazingly helpful way to pass the time between stops. Love all your channels and your overall skill at narrating. Thank you for all the awesome content from South Carolina.
Now that we've covered Kim Il-Sung, I think it'd be nice to have Rhee Syngman's biography in the near future. Both Kim Il-Sung and Rhee Syngman led their part of Korea at around the same time
Were it not for Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, I would not have heard of Rhee. Despite the US’s involvement, the Korean War wasn’t a huge topic in history class.
@Nelson Ricardo it's a pretty shameful chapter in US history seeing as that war killed a third of Korea. Not surprised its not in school
We don’t need to hear about the man who supported the massacre of his own people for political and monetary gain
Please do Alexander Lukashenko! I'd be happy to assist personally as I've written many essays on the Belarusian language and country and Lukashenko's relation to it.
Simon is the david attenborough of youtube video narration, prove me wrong.
Brilliant video as always, you guys inspired me to start my channel
Ah yes. Simon, the face and voice behind every single interesting youtube channel in existence
People : Why north korean so cruel this day
North Korean : Blame to Japan
Japanese nowadays : owh..... Sorry, I don't remember anything hahahahaha.....
Japan is basically deleting it's old tweets beforing applying for a job
The hardest working man in show business. Awesome stuff, love your work.
I've watched a good few of your videos now and I really like the amount of detail you put into researching even minor points or little phrases. Great work on everything you're doing.
One of the best channels on RUclips. Have spent hours and hours listening to these biographies.. great job Simon.. would love if you can do some more Asian leaders.
- Fan from India.
Next up: Mein Kampf as an autobiography.
Simon: So some of you know I have another channel
Everyone: Trying to narrow down which of his 12 channels hes plugging
"Troubled Nation" is surely a nice way to call a nation that is a prison.
Simon Whistler's winner of understatement of the year.
78 cities were destroyed and 20% of the DPRK's population was killed in the war- after all this Kim Il-Sung and the WPK managed to achieve double digit growth and grew the country faster than the dictatorship in south korea. Not to mention the south at the time was literally committing genocides against leftists that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
@@batzorigvaanchig6358 source please
I thank the biographics team and special thanks to Mr. Simon Whitsler for accepting my request. My grandfather did many wonderful deeds to Korea 🇰🇵❤️ Biographics 🇰🇵❤️Simon Whitsler
@@rft9776 Labour camps was a punishment for traitors and political disidents who collaborated with Japan, US and USSR. The three generations rule was modeled to keep the people loyal to the country.
Absolute Utopia 😔✊
@@kimjongun6746 is it true that North Korea is a giant laboratory for Psychiatry to experiment with social engineering for the masses? That could be implemented with other nations?
Do you want some Swiss cheese?
Feed yo ppl pls
Business Blaze is the best channel!
Can't put out new episodes of that fast enough!
You should definitely do a warographics about the Vietnam and Korean wars, alot of people don't know alot about those wars these days.
About Time Simon u did a video on Kim Il Sung
No one can ever accuse you of "not enough content"
Songbun caste system: a caste system that ironically is what communism is supposed to be against.
That make North Korea not communist at all. Its a monarchy
Its a literal feudal system. The country is ruled by Kim jung un with the support of about 100-150 families, all of whom were descended from the same 100-150 "guerrilla fighters" who were living with Kim Il Sung in exile in Russia during the Japanese occupation.
No country in the world is run more like a feudal aristocracy.
@@Fray2221 While communism is controversial no true communist leader would hand power to family unless they are a full member of the politburo and a popular and senior official North Korea is ruined by a dynasty. Dynastys are against Communism. Communist overthrew dynastys like in Russia, Vietnam and Yugoslavia.
@@ajph5088 In its present form, it is more like a very, very large cult, complete with "pleasure squads" and Kim Jong Un as its head,
A caste system is what communism really is,
REMEMBER SOME PIGS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
All socialism eventually turns into communism.
Mainly when people don't have check and balances,
Power corrupts Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.
This is incredibly impressive. The FFP would love tom support or Sponsor this channel in any way we can as we grow our business.
Wow I love the 4 sets of double midroll ads in your videos, and adblocker
I briefly taught at Yuwen Middle School in Jilin, China. There is a small compound within the school grounds for housing students from NK, complete with a statue of Kim Il-Sung which the students dutifully cry at and place flowers around daily.
Taking a video of the proceedings is what caused my tenure there to be "brief." XD
I've been waiting for this one.
silver sources reported that Kim Il Jong was alone in a room with his son disciplining him over the state of the North Korean economy when he had a heart attack. Kim Il Sung waited three hours before calling the doctors for his father
1- why is the sound so quiet on this video? It makes it hard to hear in a mildly noisy room.
2- I feel like you MAKE an hour of content for every hour of content I watch, which is great because I basically watch your videos in the background all day long, and at this rate maybe I won't run out?
Next episode of megaprojects: Simon's recording and editing schedule
Mr Whistler sir, I do appreciate your attempt at using sarcasm as pretensical humility pertaining to your plethora of channels. And I say this because I have had to hire several employees to keep up with watching all of the videos that are so prolifically created at such an astounding pace by a brilliant showman such as yourself.. Sir, you are an unchallenged prodigy and I am so glad to have discovered most of your 3,600 channels. I love most of them except, you know, number 2702. It doesn't quite do it for me but the remaining several thousand channels certainly do!
Great video!!! could you do a Michael Collins one 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Damn dude, your pfp is one old Meme
I will not stop asking. Please make more videos covering the people in the American Civil War, for example;
Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall
General William T. Sherman, who I really couldnt say anything about without someone getting pissed
Confederate President Jefferson Davies
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first African-American Regiment in the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant, who needs no introduction
Etc.
I just wish there were more videos that tackled the people in the Civil War on your channel
Finally a biography of this so-called grand ruler thank you Simon
When you open any video on RUclips it's 50/50 whether Simon is the host or not.
Since you've covered Jimi Hendrix, you should cover Janis Joplin as well. So many died at 27, could be interesting.
Amy Winehouse and others.
@@frogpalpeeper4249 Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain
Finally something that will become popular!
@@mangonel Exactly XD
The entire title is an understatement and I shouldn’t have to explain why
After Vietnam was reunited after the Vietnam war ended, Kim believed that if North Vietnam can annex its southern neighbor, it too can annex South Korea
He met Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, asking for military aid. It was rejected and china refused to aid in North Korea's attempt in annexing South Korea. and so, the plan never came to fruition
Partially because the South Koreans were MUCH tougher than the South Vietnamese, and the American-led coalition already knew the Korean terrain pretty well. It could have been a catastrophe for the Communists.
@@thunderbird1921 *Good*
US would never allow south to fall to Communism
Kim Il-Sung's "juche" reminds me of the current Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's "aatmanirbhar bharat" policy (it means "Self-reliant India")
self reliant actually translates to: YOU AND YOU WHOLE VILLAGE IS ABOUT TO STARVE BUT WE SELF RELIANT AND STRONG.
Me: Last person was too uninteresting. Would Simon ever do interesting people
Simon:Here you go
The beard really is to be feared now. Simon you are a master
"troubled" 🤔... my first thought was that that assessment was a major understatement ... but then I figured the word "troubled" is being used in the same way that the British use "troubles" to mean strife / brutal conflict (The Troubles in Northern Ireland being the most obvious example I can think of rn).
Could you do Ben Gurion? Or Theodore Herzl? Both could be considered fathers of a nation too
Nice use of “Dance of the Knights” for the war section 👌
This was the most polite representation of Kim Il-Sung I've ever seen.
I would waste no time being polite and call Kim Il-Sun a narcissistic psychopath who should've died screaming
Simon, do we need to have an intervention? You seem to have a problem with creating RUclips channels
I’ve always wondered what that circular light thing is. Behind Simon.
A ufo
Lamp. Or UFO.
The Derpfestor theme in the background was pretty spot on.
I’m surprised there isn’t a documentary on Kim il sung. There’s a million documentaries on North Korea but not on him
Very excited! This is a bio I've been waiting for
Can you do a bio on Simon Whistler?😉
How have you never done a video on Alexander Hamilton? We want you to rap "My Shot' in the middle instead of an ad read.
Always funny how countries with the word "Democratic" in their names are never democratic.
It’s pretty funny, because in my history class, something the teacher would always repeat is: “If a country has the word ‘Democratic’ in its name, get ready to be super suspicious about it.”
It also makes them smile.
It is democratic, Proletarian Democracy is what it is, as it votes and takes the word of the working class to make the decisions for what happens instead of 2 parties fighting over power
@@dankjust0601 not very democratic when you can only vote for one party
@@connorh2215 technically it is. Not a good one, but technically yes. So was the USSR
another great vid by biographics
I'd like to know more about both Korea's history.
Thanks for being interested in our history. The current english wikipedia might provide some overview but due to the lack of korean wikipedians and being a rather topic of regional interest i feel its relatively undersourced thus being very hard for people to approach the topic. Korean wikipedia or namuwiki might be also a good source but its a lil biased. In terms of early korean history, samguk sagi is often cited. In terms of the goryeo period lot of documents remain along with some chinese and mongol sources. Joseondynasty officially made chronicles of kings called "veritable records of the joseon dynasty",
which were pretty welll documented. And other modern history stuff you can find about it with relative ease since korea opened its gates with the western world since the late 19th century i believe. Its kinda worse for north korean articles tho because south koreans like me are not even allowed to even mention it safely due to the political situation facing the peninsula and its legally banned to talk about it in south korea besides north korean studies stuff. But its still good. Also it might be useful to look for some books written in standford university related with korean studies and might find that helpful.
It's just a thousand years of simmering resentment and pain with a few moments of light here and there.
@@SFVYachtClub lol not just that but yeah lot of wars for sure. Though i guess we kinda emphasize us being opressed or being hassled by a lot of wars cause nationalism i guess
Kim Il Sung is definitely my favorite of the three Kims (although that doesn’t mean I condone everything that he did). The other two are just... 😫
Some time one man can reshape a nation in his own image that is never good in the end
Next video
Simon Whistler: A RUclipsr named Simon Whistler
Nicolae Ceausescu: The "Good" Communist. That would be an awesome episode. Alternatively it could be Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu: The Dictator Couple.
He already did a video about them and the building of their palace in Romania
I like the way you try your best to balance your posts
In a night I had dream in my sleep that I am a citizen of North Korea, I was still a child there. Then when the day Kim Il-Sung died I am not attended his funeral, and my North Korean mother also in home. Maybe just my other family attend. I see my home street so empty and just a car passed by on the other road. Then I realized that as a child I also cried of the leader death. I cried in front of my blue North Korean styled house on empty tiny street. Bizzare dream tho.
@The Confederate Restoration Plan Thanks, I am happy someone read it.
In my dream I am really sad that Kim Il-sung died. Maybe because I know Kim Jong-il will be bad leader compared to him.
Great channel! How about one on Sapamurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan? 'Eccentric' to say the least..
The only dictator to have ever scored a perfect 18 in a round of golf. He could have done it in 16, but the persons responsible have been dealt with. Okay, so I didn't remember it correctly. It was Kim Jong-Il and he shot a 34.
Love this channel!
Can you do a bio on John A. McDonald. 1st prime minister of Canada
By God another one Simon? Jolly good! We appreciate you mate
“Troubled”? That’s the biggest understatement in the entire universe
Quality channel ... and this guy is 5 stars.
Very enjoyable channel. Thank you 👍🏻
After watching this videos, I listened to the "Song of General Kim Il-Sung"
Always interesting and informative with the engaging Mr W and the team 👍
Who's here after seeing Young Kim cry during his weird military parade?
I read about it. Fascinating. I wonder if there's even a shred of sincerity?
@@alexstorr3357 I would yes but it took place at a military parade so I am unsure. Seems a weird place/time for something like that but who knows. Weirder things have happened.
Didn't he say that he has failed his country
@@kyleshiflet9952 yes, which is unprecedented.
It is not wierd
The title of the video is the understatement of the century.
My suggestions for next biographies:
Sir Nicholas Winton
Nicolas Flamel
Akhenaten
Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart
Madame Voisin
Cesare Borgia
D B Cooper
I know none of those individuals.
The buzzfeed unsolved video of D.B cooper is legendary, ryan and shane are the GOATs 🐐
Rest In Peace to those that passed away.