You guys are aware that only the privileged (families of government officials mostly) are allowed to live in Pyongyang. The rest of the country lives in poverty. Thousands flee every year.
Devin Walleck - Ummm you do realise there are thousands of people in the west living in poverty or struggling with debt etc. Trust me, Id rather be poor with no debt than be living in a nice house but with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
Wait, that home belongs to those who are more well-off North Korea. That tiny apartment would not be seen as much in the United States. Based on that, I don't even want to imagine the living spaces of regular north koreans. EDIT: Jesus, when did this comment get so big? I wrote this dumb thing about 3 years ago and realize that what I said is not entirely accurate + could be possible misinformation. I have edited it as to not spread false pretenses.
Supreme King Right, becuase there was definitely NO social hierarchy in the USSR. Obviously there were people more well off than others. Do you think friends of the government would live in the same conditions as rural farmers etc.?
Ry Ry YT North Korea was way wealthier than the South in the 60s-80s because of support from the Soviet Union. Now due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and a famine in the 90s, it went back into the 70s. Now go outside of Pyongyang and there are poor villages where it looks like China in the 1950s and Russia in the 1930s.
samuel redin basically it is. Everything taped is staged . Because Kim wants to show how ‘great ‘ of a country nk is. Why would Kim actually want someone to see what an actual house looks like.
You can see that they have issue with the water supply from the big pots that they have in the kitchen. As for the fact that there is no electricity, think about the fact that students have to study and learn in the evening at some kind of lamp or candle. I know this type of living, communist style. Greetings from Romania.
North Korea is Juche, not communist. Besides countries like the USSR and East Germany had higher living standards than most of the world except for a few western countries beneficiaries of the Marshall Plan.
Lol, This is incredible. So we are supposed to believe Hd tv and electricity and phones are the norms in North Korea, There is this thing called absolute fact. People are starving and neglected and dying in north Korea. Those people were hand picked from the wealthiest there to represent their country on CNN. I mean, I assume everyone already knows this. Don't know why I posted this come to think of it.
Did you even see what they said at the beginning? That these were people who have a high class of living compared to other north koreans. So you think the government of NK was going to let a western journalist film the bad sides to NK. OF COURSE NOT
Yes, you 'know' this, those who are brainwashed by the western propaganda, eating straight up anything it like the sheep you are and then you accuse the DPRK of propaganda. NO ONE is starving and dying in the DPRK, economic problems created after the dissolution of the Soviet Union were effectively solved by the dear leaders. The prison camps where prisoners are massively purged is also propaganda spread by the west(officials 'killed' by the west and the US-controlled South Korea 'miraculously' reappear alongside Kim in State parades and rallies). And yes, CNN specifically hand picked from the poorest to represent the DPRK, it's another biased western propaganda machine.
Starving, neglected, and dying? Seriously? This isn't the 90s anymore, and you also conveniently left out US sanctions that contribute to the people suffering, because you are a fool and brainwashed western idiot who believes every US lie about NK. Hey, let's talk about slavery in America! Oh, you say that was in 19th century? Oh but wait, isn't there private prisons in America where prisoners work for 10 cents an hour for large corporations? Isn't that modern day slavery?
Great job providing arguments for your non-existent western lies, the DPRK is no paradise, but it's a peaceful country where happy and loving people live and it's very far from what your western masters taught you.
And they have a intriguing delicacy called "human flesh". The name itself is appalling, but apparently it's common food for those outside Pyongyang. I heard they are serving "Will Ripley's Testicles" as a rare dish next.
The N.K. cannibalism claims were due to escaped defectors and refugees making these charges as early as 2003 to the extent of my knowledge. "Blood Libel" is ridiculous BS, while these charges actually have some legitimacy because of these testimonies with ties to the famine. It would be similar if members of the Jewish faith defected and alerted Christians what was happening during the middle ages. But it was just a bunch of made up junk that was later repudiated by the Catholic Church, denied by Jewish communities and other secular authorities. Sadly it was still perpetuated. So in short, I disagree with your logic, until I am shown and/or find information that can adequately prove to me otherwise and I'm procrastinating my work.
@@_GrandZeno I know kim jong un is forcing u to write this propoganda as you have acsess to the internet as a citizen and if u start spreading the truth u will be killer i pray that u can escape on day or north korea changes for the better
Soso Jones Propaganda. Others photos and videos reveal most North Koreans live in huts in the rural areas. These are places the NK government has denied access to foreigners.
Goddess Race, why do you have to be such a racist? Assuming they live in "huts" because what, they are primitive people? Go to the countryside yourself and see the farming villages. They are not "huts", but actual real solid structures. All provided free by the state. Nobody is homeless, and all the construction is done by the Army. Now, instead of calling this "propaganda", why don't you take your western privileged white ass and call all the Kim Kardashian and celebrity coverage in the west as propaganda while there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of homeless people. Now, THAT's propaganda, and YOU are the truly brainwashed one.
G.S. Kim Look at how everyone in eastern Europe used to live 40 years ago... You would get a nice apartment if you were a member of the party, but if you worked in one of the many neighborhoods built for factory workers, you'd get only a couple of hours of hot water and electricity to watch either propaganda or a football match. Rations were barely enough and anything else outside of the normal ration you had was hard to get. In the countryside, people used to live in actual houses, but they were not allowed to build new ones, so they were stuck with 1950s houses in poor condition. On top of that add the concentration camps and corruption and this sounds EXACTLY like living in North Korea. Comparing that kind of life to worshiping the Kardashians is idiotic. Nobody is forced to worship a celebrity, and if you think homelessness is not a problem in NK, look up "kkotchebi" (homeless children) and their entire caste system and compare it to western "propaganda"
Exactly what I was thinking. Being a journalist in North Korea has gotta be one of the most precarious things you could do. At any moment they could slap a false charge of spying on you and haul you off for years of hard labour. Couldn’t pay me enough to risk that.
I've watched videos of N. korean defectors and they said only the most privileged people can live in the capital. They did not permit younto film outside of pyongyang bec that is where you'll see poverty etc..
@@Cornelis56 the mere fact that they are consider defectors already says its wrong. if i want to live a country i must defect? no right to leave the country freely means they are prisoners and thata wrong regardless of the wealth
Very sad to think that North Korea calls this a high standard of living. I can't even begin to image what living condition the other 99% of lower standards of North Korean's are living in. My heart breaks for the innocent North Koreans that have no choice but to live in such bad conditions and with an evil ruler in control of every aspect of their lives.
Seriously! This is like the really, really famously poor part of Mississippi and Louisiana down near the delta, and yet it's literally the best their country offers! Basically if you turned a Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town in to a big city without increasing the standard of living, this is what it would look like.
These comments prove that westerners somehow know exactly what it's like to live in North Korea despite the fact that it's one place in the world they are pretty much guaranteed to never actually see.
Many of us are not westerns, we come from ex communist countries (Bulgaria for example) and we know perfectly how communist propaganda works. And how people starve to death in communist regimes
I've met A FEW people who have been to North Korea. They have a very particular ideological slant though, basically the hellish poor-people hating version of New York Times Liberalism that has become the mainstream of the Democrat Party in the last 20 years, basically Moderate Democrats on Meth, which probably is why the government let them in.
@@TitaniumSlayerNinjaCopper You can apply for a tourist visa, although I think NK hasn't given tourist visa's to US citizens since the Otto Warmbier case. Also, NK has closed their borders since covid, and it doesn't look like they'll be opening soon.
G.S. Kim You sense fool, the only reason they aren't farmers or in labor camps is because the are either a high ranking military family or collaborators of the Kim regime. Let me ask you what do you think their job is, What does the rest of NK look like, and why are there only three cars passing on the road, and why the hell CNN would be allowed to show any of this
I used to take the stairs up to the 6th floor (2nd highesy level) to my dorm. I was broke and the cheapest dormrooms available were old and rundown with no elevators and stripped down hallways and were located on top floors.
More like the shittiest ghettos in USA. And keep in mind this is the richest possible neighbourhood they could find in the capital! There things like modern good apartments or houses simply don’t exist. Except for the few bigger communist leaders
Does anyone else think it's a bit iffy that they weren't allowed to see homes outside the capital? They don't want anyone seeing the poverty ordinary people live in. No, that would probably be disrespectful to the leader, wouldn't it?
They have surprise inspections with strict penalties if the portraits are not prominently displayed, dusted, and in good condition. Damage from accident is no excuse.
Their houses are free, their college is free, their medical care is free, they have the right to guaranteed employment, they don't have to pay any taxes(since the state gets it's revenue from owning the state owned industries), and they get 14kg of free food every month. That seems pretty free to me. You should focus on the freedom in your own country, considering that no other country in the world has that much freedom for the working class person.
What do you mean "their economic growth". They have averaged NEGATIVE GROWTH over the last ten years. The data for 2020 was NEGATIVE FOUR percent growth. This is your idea of "awesome"? There are exactly ten countries that are worse than North Korea in terms of economic growth. But you are right if you are comparing North Korea to Venezuela, which has an average of MINUS TEN PERCENT growth annually over ten years. Are you from Venezuela?
I lived in the People’s Republic of China for many years and that apartment would be considered below average by China standards by North Korean standards probably very high
It looks like a typical home we can find at a (post)communist state. My granny still lives in an apartment like this in Hungary. Also the wallpaper and the floor is pretty similar.
🙄 seems legit. Journalism is against the law in North Korea, journalists are not allowed into the country, even just if there a tourist. Still banned. The only tourism north Korea gets is forced to be in a group. They see the same things. For an example things like monuments. They physically can't see inside a home. I gtg now but I will respond if you reply asking anything
Before either side of start lambasting at each other. The regime is right on eliminating homelessness. However, the difference is mainly the quality of home. The quality of home vary from crumbling buildings to homes that are similar to US. Apartment buildings also are crumbling with leaks , no water and other. It is very similar to Cuba which has also claimed to eliminate homelessness but all the buildings are like decades old with no water running and are crumbling.
No I don't think that's really true. This is clearly a real residence filled with real people. What is true, however, is that this family was obviously chosen by the North Korean government because they are photogenic in a down-to-earth "Waltons" sort of way, in fact you could cast pretty much this entire family in a North Korean remake of "the Waltons" or "Little House on the Prairie", making this video useful for eliciting sympathy.
Houses across north korea mostly look the same, what differs is what items people have, you'll only find flat screen TVs in Pyongyang, outside of Pyongyang you'll find CRTs and poor people will only have monochrome CRTs from the 1960s or just radio. Pyongyang will have newer furniture, outside of Pyongyang you'll find older furniture, etc. Water, gas, electric supply is usually the same, in Pyongyang and big cities it's supplied by the goverment, in the country side people make gas from human/animal waste, get water from the well, etc.
You are right, thats why the goal for north korean government is 50.000 houses for the people outside Pyongyan until 2025. But yeah, outside the capital they are really poor..... like any country in south america. Or propabily in your city;
@@Cornelis56 Uhm.. no? Please shut up. Nobody would ever leave they're county or country just for a story and a small amount of money. They would typically do so when living conditions are bad. When thousands of defectors keep talking about the living conditions while all of them stay accurate with each other even though they go to different news sources. That's when you know you have done something wrong! Why don't you actually believe the victims which have given accurate stories instead of believing in this disgusting system.?
Obviously CNN is more concerned with being allowed back than they are about honest journalism here. No mention of why the kitchen appeared to be unused? Every pot, every container... brand new. Brand new TV.. not on? Modern appliances and such in a 13 story walk up? Really?
You guys are aware that only the privileged (families of government officials mostly) are allowed to live in Pyongyang. The rest of the country lives in poverty. Thousands flee every year.
Most of the country lives in prison camps starving and wishing for death !
Devin Walleck - Ummm you do realise there are thousands of people in the west living in poverty or struggling with debt etc. Trust me, Id rather be poor with no debt than be living in a nice house but with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
The Tree Keeper shut the fuck up.
@@amayakat4994 He's right, which hurts huh?
@Matt and how would you know? I don't believe you have been to North Korea.
Wait, that home belongs to those who are more well-off North Korea. That tiny apartment would not be seen as much in the United States. Based on that, I don't even want to imagine the living spaces of regular north koreans.
EDIT: Jesus, when did this comment get so big? I wrote this dumb thing about 3 years ago and realize that what I said is not entirely accurate + could be possible misinformation. I have edited it as to not spread false pretenses.
If these apartments are "high living standards," I can only imagine what the "low living standards" are like.
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Supreme King Do you really believe that?...
Supreme King Right, becuase there was definitely NO social hierarchy in the USSR.
Obviously there were people more well off than others. Do you think friends of the government would live in the same conditions as rural farmers etc.?
Supreme King, what about North Korea's Elite Class?
That is NOT a typical North Korean neighborhood
Julia J It is! Stop belivieing the imperialist lies the media says about DPRK.
They said that in the video. This was the home of a wealthy family.. lmao
Amber Chrones yeah, becuz in North Korea, Pyongyang wasn’t wealthy, or anywhere.
samuel redin it’s a wealthy neighbour hood. Do you know nk defectors exist?
Ry Ry YT North Korea was way wealthier than the South in the 60s-80s because of support from the Soviet Union. Now due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and a famine in the 90s, it went back into the 70s. Now go outside of Pyongyang and there are poor villages where it looks like China in the 1950s and Russia in the 1930s.
In my opinion this looks staged
John Adams Your opinion is wrong! Everything that is good in North Korea is not always staged! People need to stop saying that.
yeah. thank god someone said it. this is totally staged lol. especially the way he ended it. "this is the building that we were just inside of".
i agree. everyone looks so normal like nothings wrong but you can tell something is off
samuel redin basically it is. Everything taped is staged . Because Kim wants to show how ‘great ‘ of a country nk is. Why would Kim actually want someone to see what an actual house looks like.
@@TasmanianSa but it is
You can see that they have issue with the water supply from the big pots that they have in the kitchen. As for the fact that there is no electricity, think about the fact that students have to study and learn in the evening at some kind of lamp or candle. I know this type of living, communist style. Greetings from Romania.
North Korea is Juche, not communist. Besides countries like the USSR and East Germany had higher living standards than most of the world except for a few western countries beneficiaries of the Marshall Plan.
hes talking about communist romania jack...
@@ObVoid I lived and worked in Romania for a year and wealthy is not the word I'd use to describe it.
da,inca sunt asa blocuri in romania din pacate...in loc sa le renoveze le tin asa cum sunt..ce guvern mai avem si noi
fiance is here in america for 6mo from Romania I hope to go with him one day
Lol, This is incredible. So we are supposed to believe Hd tv and electricity and phones are the norms in North Korea, There is this thing called absolute fact. People are starving and neglected and dying in north Korea. Those people were hand picked from the wealthiest there to represent their country on CNN. I mean, I assume everyone already knows this. Don't know why I posted this come to think of it.
Did you even see what they said at the beginning? That these were people who have a high class of living compared to other north koreans. So you think the government of NK was going to let a western journalist film the bad sides to NK. OF COURSE NOT
Yes, you 'know' this, those who are brainwashed by the western propaganda, eating straight up anything it like the sheep you are and then you accuse the DPRK of propaganda. NO ONE is starving and dying in the DPRK, economic problems created after the dissolution of the Soviet Union were effectively solved by the dear leaders. The prison camps where prisoners are massively purged is also propaganda spread by the west(officials 'killed' by the west and the US-controlled South Korea 'miraculously' reappear alongside Kim in State parades and rallies). And yes, CNN specifically hand picked from the poorest to represent the DPRK, it's another biased western propaganda machine.
You have got to be kidding me. With the way the world works, I have no Idea if you are legitimate.. You know what. Pass.. Totally.. pass.
Starving, neglected, and dying? Seriously? This isn't the 90s anymore, and you also conveniently left out US sanctions that contribute to the people suffering, because you are a fool and brainwashed western idiot who believes every US lie about NK.
Hey, let's talk about slavery in America! Oh, you say that was in 19th century? Oh but wait, isn't there private prisons in America where prisoners work for 10 cents an hour for large corporations? Isn't that modern day slavery?
Great job providing arguments for your non-existent western lies, the DPRK is no paradise, but it's a peaceful country where happy and loving people live and it's very far from what your western masters taught you.
Are the North Korean watching tv on South Korean Samsung and Tv displays?
NO..China
I don't think so
Good question
No. They use North Korean brands from Chinese technology.
This guy has the biggest fucking balls to be in North Korea right now. Better leave soon before they get removed. RIP.
I thought that also, for a brief moment. It's nicer than mine but I think I'd have a hard time finding a weed connection.
And they have a intriguing delicacy called "human flesh". The name itself is appalling, but apparently it's common food for those outside Pyongyang. I heard they are serving "Will Ripley's Testicles" as a rare dish next.
The N.K. cannibalism claims were due to escaped defectors and refugees making these charges as early as 2003 to the extent of my knowledge. "Blood Libel" is ridiculous BS, while these charges actually have some legitimacy because of these testimonies with ties to the famine.
It would be similar if members of the Jewish faith defected and alerted Christians what was happening during the middle ages. But it was just a bunch of made up junk that was later repudiated by the Catholic Church, denied by Jewish communities and other secular authorities. Sadly it was still perpetuated.
So in short, I disagree with your logic, until I am shown and/or find information that can adequately prove to me otherwise and I'm procrastinating my work.
+Asher Raza lol. What's stopping you then? I agree, you should move to North Korea. They'll let you in. Please go.
+Nóñbre Apeyeedo lol. Please go. I offer to set up a go fund me account to fund your travel to North Korea.
CNN, it’s been 2 years yet captions are “on the way”. Great work.
5 years and still on the way.
6 years, still on the way.
7 years, still on the way.
7 years, still on the way.
My heart goes out to all the North Korean citizens. 🥺🧡🧡
Mine too
This is the best you can get, remember, most live in rural areas eating rats, I'm not making this up
@@rentisme you are making this up.
@@_GrandZeno you have a North Korean flag as a profile picture expecting us to take you seriously
@@_GrandZeno I know kim jong un is forcing u to write this propoganda as you have acsess to the internet as a citizen and if u start spreading the truth u will be killer i pray that u can escape on day or north korea changes for the better
The kitchen looks like that of an Italian country house from the 1950s
I've honestly never lived in an apartment that nice and I'm from New York
Soso Jones
Propaganda. Others photos and videos reveal most North Koreans live in huts in the rural areas. These are places the NK government has denied access to foreigners.
Don't let the homeless in the USA watch this video, they will try to go to north korea
Goddess Race, why do you have to be such a racist? Assuming they live in "huts" because what, they are primitive people? Go to the countryside yourself and see the farming villages. They are not "huts", but actual real solid structures. All provided free by the state. Nobody is homeless, and all the construction is done by the Army.
Now, instead of calling this "propaganda", why don't you take your western privileged white ass and call all the Kim Kardashian and celebrity coverage in the west as propaganda while there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of homeless people. Now, THAT's propaganda, and YOU are the truly brainwashed one.
G.S. Kim Look at how everyone in eastern Europe used to live 40 years ago...
You would get a nice apartment if you were a member of the party, but if you worked in one of the many neighborhoods built for factory workers, you'd get only a couple of hours of hot water and electricity to watch either propaganda or a football match. Rations were barely enough and anything else outside of the normal ration you had was hard to get.
In the countryside, people used to live in actual houses, but they were not allowed to build new ones, so they were stuck with 1950s houses in poor condition.
On top of that add the concentration camps and corruption and this sounds EXACTLY like living in North Korea.
Comparing that kind of life to worshiping the Kardashians is idiotic. Nobody is forced to worship a celebrity, and if you think homelessness is not a problem in NK, look up "kkotchebi" (homeless children) and their entire caste system and compare it to western "propaganda"
G.S. Kim Yeah you're right North Korea actually is a pretty nice place to live at. The government provides free wifi for everyone...
This is true journalism. This country could easily revoke his freedom for saying the wrong thing on camera. Excellent work.
I hope that you're being sarcastic.
Exactly what I was thinking. Being a journalist in North Korea has gotta be one of the most precarious things you could do. At any moment they could slap a false charge of spying on you and haul you off for years of hard labour. Couldn’t pay me enough to risk that.
I've watched videos of N. korean defectors and they said only the most privileged people can live in the capital. They did not permit younto film outside of pyongyang bec that is where you'll see poverty etc..
Yeah
Defectors are not trustworthy. They are pressed to invent stories, in exchange for which they are very well paid.
@@Cornelis56 the mere fact that they are consider defectors already says its wrong. if i want to live a country i must defect? no right to leave the country freely means they are prisoners and thata wrong regardless of the wealth
what about Samjiyon?
Yeah because they're paid by the west lol
The family photos looked like they were taken the day before oh my
Very sad to think that North Korea calls this a high standard of living. I can't even begin to image what living condition the other 99% of lower standards of North Korean's are living in. My heart breaks for the innocent North Koreans that have no choice but to live in such bad conditions and with an evil ruler in control of every aspect of their lives.
there are apartments in new york that look like fucking hotel rooms and ur complaining about an apartment that is a decent size
Seriously! This is like the really, really famously poor part of Mississippi and Louisiana down near the delta, and yet it's literally the best their country offers! Basically if you turned a Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town in to a big city without increasing the standard of living, this is what it would look like.
These comments prove that westerners somehow know exactly what it's like to live in North Korea despite the fact that it's one place in the world they are pretty much guaranteed to never actually see.
What
Many of us are not westerns, we come from ex communist countries (Bulgaria for example) and we know perfectly how communist propaganda works. And how people starve to death in communist regimes
I've met A FEW people who have been to North Korea. They have a very particular ideological slant though, basically the hellish poor-people hating version of New York Times Liberalism that has become the mainstream of the Democrat Party in the last 20 years, basically Moderate Democrats on Meth, which probably is why the government let them in.
Published on April 28 , 1957
I was in NK last month. Pyongyang is a very clean city! I really wondered how those apartment buildings looked like from the inside...
How did you get access there?
@@TitaniumSlayerNinjaCopper buy a plane ticket and go there
@@TitaniumSlayerNinjaCopper You can apply for a tourist visa, although I think NK hasn't given tourist visa's to US citizens since the Otto Warmbier case. Also, NK has closed their borders since covid, and it doesn't look like they'll be opening soon.
@@RossMoore777 Wrong, it's the US government who doesn't let their citizens travel to north Korea
And... out of the sudden, since this family has shown their faces, they do not exist anymore and never did :( RIP
How the fuck could you possibly know that?
That place is like Vegas for most of them. Having that is above average
It feels curated but honestly I hope north koreans get to live normal lives.
This is only the rich people I think who live in pyongyang
@@niconicoyazawa5182 Then nearly all North Koreans are rich because these houses you will find the most
Their lives are FAR from normal
@@niconicoyazawa5182 what about Samjiyon?
yet, this is like a luxury apartment there. they even had a fridge, thats not common AT ALL in north korea
That's COMMON in Pyongyang tho
Wow! Looks better than my apartment in Ottawa!
Fuck war we want peace ✌🏾
North Korea wants peace, but U.S. refuses to have direct talks.
kadar adam peace is boring and less profits..the elites won't let that happen..
Why would we talk to a people whose leaders we cannot trust. Kim is a mass murderer of his own people and that is NOT propaganda!
Bill Grandone well then I guess we better not have leaders of any country because there isn't a politician in the world that is not a damn liar
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Look how careful they were with the camera movements.
Why would they be very careful?.
In India we had those type of fridges in the early 1980’s. Wow North Koreans really love antiques.
Here in the ''west', we live in under bridges and in favelas....beautiful home, beautiful people.
Yusuf Al Haddad you realize these are wealthy elites living in Pyongyang, literally enslaving the North Korean masses outside of Pyongyang
G.S. Kim You sense fool, the only reason they aren't farmers or in labor camps is because the are either a high ranking military family or collaborators of the Kim regime. Let me ask you what do you think their job is, What does the rest of NK look like, and why are there only three cars passing on the road, and why the hell CNN would be allowed to show any of this
Go and live there then.
"wealthy elite" lmao
I don't live under a bridge or a favela.
This is the most luxurious they are able to live and still it looks like you go back at least 50 years back in time. 😢
Misleading..
They are wealthy north koreans, People actually do not enjoy high standard of living, these are just exceptions..
Literally two cars driving on the street
Cars are uncommon in north korea
Fridge in the living room?
Uhm that's not a detail to focus on
That's not a big issue actually... You will find fridge in living rooms in most middle class Indian families...
Looks comfy af
Imagine how much they wanted to leave
Did you feel safe while there? It looks pretty nice but I'm just wondering if it was safe where you were?
Lol that's why it was so short....crimes against the dear leader is a capital punishment
That was it? wow, it really is rare then. I can't imagine living so suppressed and controlled.
It's sad
I used to take the stairs up to the 6th floor (2nd highesy level) to my dorm. I was broke and the cheapest dormrooms available were old and rundown with no elevators and stripped down hallways and were located on top floors.
Are they require by law to put portraits of leaders on their walls?
yes otherwise they'd be severely punished
People have got death sentences for letting those photos collect dust
@@cloudii8976 source?
Oh yeaaaaaaaah! In fact if there is a fire, they must save the portraits before anything else even family.
Cool place
Btw, no homeless in NK, as opposed to the US.
I want to see more!!
Color brings joy he knows exactly what he’s doing but there really isn’t no joy
won't be criticized in NYC, such building style,
That neighborhood actually looks kind of nice. Not very nice like Beverly Hills but nice like a normal middle-class neighborhood in the United States.
More like the shittiest ghettos in USA. And keep in mind this is the richest possible neighbourhood they could find in the capital! There things like modern good apartments or houses simply don’t exist. Except for the few bigger communist leaders
Why does their tv remote has a lot of buttons?
Does anyone else think it's a bit iffy that they weren't allowed to see homes outside the capital? They don't want anyone seeing the poverty ordinary people live in. No, that would probably be disrespectful to the leader, wouldn't it?
Did you hear the north koreans say that?
They even have tv....i might have to move there.....those residents did not look like they were starving....everything is fine there
Remove those leaders' portraits and the room will be much much better
They have surprise inspections with strict penalties if the portraits are not prominently displayed, dusted, and in good condition. Damage from accident is no excuse.
I’m sure there are inspections by officials. And I’m sure there is strict punishment if the pictures are removed.
those portraits are probably cameras
Thanks for the footage...if this doesn't make u grateful...
I remember when cnn was a news channel.
It mostly reports fake news.
Now we know why the 13th floor is unlucky. There are North Koreans living on the 13th floor.
I feel bad for them.... I wish they could have more freedom there
Their houses are free, their college is free, their medical care is free, they have the right to guaranteed employment, they don't have to pay any taxes(since the state gets it's revenue from owning the state owned industries), and they get 14kg of free food every month. That seems pretty free to me. You should focus on the freedom in your own country, considering that no other country in the world has that much freedom for the working class person.
I mean its still better than some of the Detroit shadows...
Typical North Korean neighbourhood? You mean typical Pyongyang neighbourhood?
Why the scary music?
well its just suspenseful music but yeah
Because it's American propaganda
lol jajajajaja ....
Those people are the most luckiest.
All of the sanctions by the USA their economic growth is awesome these people are fighters and survivors much respect
What do you mean "their economic growth". They have averaged NEGATIVE GROWTH over the last ten years. The data for 2020 was NEGATIVE FOUR percent growth. This is your idea of "awesome"? There are exactly ten countries that are worse than North Korea in terms of economic growth. But you are right if you are comparing North Korea to Venezuela, which has an average of MINUS TEN PERCENT growth annually over ten years. Are you from Venezuela?
That house looks so sad
wait...THEY HAVE 13TH FLOOR!?
So what?
its funny how all the videos I see from tourists & groups aloud inside NK all keep showing the same flat, it's almost like it was set up for them...
That's so weird
@@niconicoyazawa5182 And untrue.
Every reason two countries do not need war = People.
Wondering why there are so little views...uploaded today
Bernie says this ain't so bad. I'll have a picture of myself in every home.
looks a lot better than homes in hati
The tv wasn't even plugged in!!!
They would only let you inside a model home with actors.
I lived in the People’s Republic of China for many years and that apartment would be considered below average by China standards
by North Korean standards probably very high
Hey those are my grandparents!
I think that is the place where only wealthy people lives
It looks like a typical home we can find at a (post)communist state. My granny still lives in an apartment like this in Hungary. Also the wallpaper and the floor is pretty similar.
People should know that flats are free for the people.
Any government out there gives houses for free?
Wow. Everywhere I’ve seen of DRNK seems so clean and neat.
Well if that's a wealthy neighborhood, I don't wanna see the rural communities. Oh right, we are not allowed to see them because they are atrocious.
What was point of that beckground music?
Literally Venezuela
Why does the description say this is a typical NK home? A home in the capital is not typical. Just what is CNN?
Looks way better than my apartment in the UK
That is lowclass in south korea..
That is not bad living conditions.....north korea is not nearly as bad as what it is portrayed
🙄 seems legit. Journalism is against the law in North Korea, journalists are not allowed into the country, even just if there a tourist. Still banned. The only tourism north Korea gets is forced to be in a group. They see the same things. For an example things like monuments. They physically can't see inside a home. I gtg now but I will respond if you reply asking anything
Before either side of start lambasting at each other.
The regime is right on eliminating homelessness. However, the difference is mainly the quality of home. The quality of home vary from crumbling buildings to homes that are similar to US.
Apartment buildings also are crumbling with leaks , no water and other.
It is very similar to Cuba which has also claimed to eliminate homelessness but all the buildings are like decades old with no water running and are crumbling.
Very interesting video Clip.
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Lol. I love his comment "this is a typical North Korean neighborhood"
I think it is probably a typical Pyongyang neighborhood but I doubt most parts of North Korea look like that.
Geez who would want to live there.
That fridge is used for escape pod when nuclear blast happens
The start on the stairs REALLY reminded me of the dystopian fiction 1984.
That's a showroom, not a typical home. Does CNN display the IKEA catalogue to showcase typical swedish homes, as well?
No I don't think that's really true. This is clearly a real residence filled with real people. What is true, however, is that this family was obviously chosen by the North Korean government because they are photogenic in a down-to-earth "Waltons" sort of way, in fact you could cast pretty much this entire family in a North Korean remake of "the Waltons" or "Little House on the Prairie", making this video useful for eliciting sympathy.
it's gonna suck when the military has to clear every floor of the building.
Damn. Even North Koreans have nicer tv's than me.
That was a nice filming studio. But please show us a real appartment
THE 13TH FLOOR
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Houses across north korea mostly look the same, what differs is what items people have, you'll only find flat screen TVs in Pyongyang, outside of Pyongyang you'll find CRTs and poor people will only have monochrome CRTs from the 1960s or just radio. Pyongyang will have newer furniture, outside of Pyongyang you'll find older furniture, etc. Water, gas, electric supply is usually the same, in Pyongyang and big cities it's supplied by the goverment, in the country side people make gas from human/animal waste, get water from the well, etc.
You are right, thats why the goal for north korean government is 50.000 houses for the people outside Pyongyan until 2025. But yeah, outside the capital they are really poor..... like any country in south america. Or propabily in your city;
It's amazing. The way CNN usually talks about the North Koreans, I would xpect to see them all living in grass huts, and picking rice all day.
Most of them do
Well definitely some do according to North Korean defectors..it’s just that the media isn’t allowed to say that.
@@arminsshell3140 Defectors are pressed and paid well to invent stories. It’s their way to do business.
@@Cornelis56 yeah, you have a point.
@@Cornelis56 Uhm.. no? Please shut up. Nobody would ever leave they're county or country just for a story and a small amount of money. They would typically do so when living conditions are bad. When thousands of defectors keep talking about the living conditions while all of them stay accurate with each other even though they go to different news sources. That's when you know you have done something wrong! Why don't you actually believe the victims which have given accurate stories instead of believing in this disgusting system.?
In many old Soviet apartment blocks in former Soviet countries they don't have elevators either.
Obviously CNN is more concerned with being allowed back than they are about honest journalism here.
No mention of why the kitchen appeared to be unused? Every pot, every container... brand new. Brand new TV.. not on? Modern appliances and such in a 13 story walk up? Really?
Throw those pictures off the balcony
Captions are on the way
It’s December 2019 this video was uploaded in April 2017
That is considered luxurious in North Korea, but in Other parts of the world ( Europe and America for example ) its considered low class.
I would like to see the unedited video, no the CNN version!!