Why 200-ish Americans Live in North Korea
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More bricks please.
Give us bricks before the Dutch eat their Prime Minister again.
Brick video or I will send you to NK
Most are uploaded correctly. Not this one, though.
Cool conflict
This should be a name of cold war satire show
The chilly contention
The hot tension.
On whether this comment is correct.
@@mingpingxie3563 The Frosty Tension
Why can't I like this more than once?!!!?
Frigid friction or Gelid disagreement
The Dresnok brothers are not defectors. Their father was a defector and U.S. Army deserter. After defecting to North Korea, he married a Romanian woman (who may or may not have been kidnapped and forcibly taken to North Korea). The two Dresnok brothers were born and raised in North Korea, having never had the choice, or chance, to live anywhere else. If you hear them speak, they have very thick Korean accents when speaking English.
As a Viet Nam veteran I am saddened to see Americans living in North Korea. The United States must remain free or we will lose all our GOD GIVEN RIGHTS.
@@normanrappaport6683 Yeah but like 0.000001% of americans live in north korea. thats a good percentage.
@@normanrappaport6683 The people going to N.Korea doesn't make the US not free. No correlation.
That Romanian woman was Doina Bumbea. Rumor has it she was kidnapped in Japan by the regime and she bore him sons. Dresnok allegedly said his Romanian wife was "reluctant to talk about her past".
@@normanrappaport6683 how's that freedom working out for you
Those 2 men you showed in the photo aren't American defectors, they are the sons of American defectors. They were born and raised in North Korea, speak Korean as a first language, and have spent their entire lives there.
That awkward moment when you forget to switch accounts
...for the third time
...in a month
what did he do I'm assuming this is something about wendover productions
@@stateofmissouri5651 he uploaded the video to the wendover account xD deleted right away
@@leggo15 lol thats a serious bruh moment to HAi
Wait, this isn't Wendover Productions.
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@Andrei Nedelcu deleted because if it was privated it would still be accessable by the notifications
Never has been
@Andrei Nedelcu it was privated. I got to it via a notification and then couldn't watch it as it was made Private
No, but I got notified by Wendover.... again. :)
One American teacher's published memoir of teaching in North Korea is "Without U there is no Us." In one of the books events, the students knew a tiny bit about Harry Potter and wanted to know more so she got permission from the government to show one of the movies to her class but was shut down by the Christian school teachers and administration.
They were okay with North Korea but Harry Potter was out of bounds?
A child with glasses and a stick is clearly too much
And this is very telling
wait so the goverment allowed it but not the school?
@@Clone-up2ge Yes, the government was going to allow the Harry Potter movie, but because the teachers were freaking out about the movie, it deferred to the school. The government rep. didn't understand what the "witchcraft" fuss was about, just that it was important to keep the peace. So what did they have shown in its place? "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
The dresnok brothers were born there because their father went across the dmz when he was serving there. The brothers were born there so it's not like they had a choice.
Yup, those lucky bastards! Look at their beatiful unifroms! Just look at those uniforms!
Exactly. They were born to a defector who essentially surrendered his citizenship and their mothers were not Americans. They are citizens of the DPRK.
@@keldonmcfarland2969 Glory to them.
lmfao this video is so poorly "researched" he couldnt even get that right
The Dresnok brothers were born in North Korea, lived there for their entire lives & are fiercely loyal to the Kim dynasty. As far as I know, I don’t believe they even know the English language. Race & their father’s nationality mean nothing. They’re as North Korean as anyone else north of the DMZ.
Definitely know it was meant as a joke, but the Lebanese Christian population was not converted by force or by a tyrannical government. Many early Christians fled there and there were many more who converted early in the 1st-3rd centuries. To this day there is a strong Christian population in Lebanon and many more in diaspora. Many people assume that because we are Middle Eastern we must be Islamic, and this is not true. There are a great many religious minorities in the MENA region.
yup, until a certain group decided to remind the world why all their neighours throughout the ages found them the center of conflicts.
One of my teachers at church had a mission with his friend in China (I don't know exactly where, he didn't specify) but his friend was abducted by some North Koreans. They took him to learn more about the USA and other parts of the world, but he hasn't come back since. I think he has been gone for about 20 years now, and there is a chance he may never come back.
Is this the Mormon who spoke Korean and Mandarin? I think his parents will never see him again. What a literal living nightmare.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_David_Louis_Sneddon
Wow, great Video! Reminds me of a similar one that I just saw on Wendover Production!
They are both run by the same guy
Well, but this has better jokes and is concise 😂😂
@@darthghag Shh, you’re ruining the joke
This guys really can't tell a joke if its satire :facepalm
@@darthghag r/woooosh
everyone talking about wendover productions meanwhile i have no clue what that is
Same
It is his second channel that is slightly more serious and often has to do with airlines.
*Wendovers Production Upload has left the chat*
I STRONGLY DISAGREE! Being as famous as I am on RUclips, I know that it gets hard to read every comment I get. I try my best, but I am just so famous, that I can't do it much longer. Sorry, dear jon
@@AxxLAfriku stop botting
@@AxxLAfriku stop botting
@@AxxLAfriku stop bottimg
@@stearnsy4005 im da real deal
Oh good, this one isn't privated
Yet
I paid a guy to piss in my mouth.
It’s likely someone already mentioned this but early in this video, the island of Tsushima is highlighted as part of Korea. Tsushima (known as Demado in Korea) can be seen from Busan but is firmly Japanese. DokDo is another island and quite another story that would feature as an interesting HAI video. Consider it a request!
Dokdo island is korean and Japan are just in denial 😂
Dokdo is korean land
"Just look at those dimples"
*Has no dimples*
100th like!
Can you do "Why americans live in Flordia"
Better than commiefornia
@@xhafts lol imagine thinking california is communist
@@xhafts Corporate Captialist utopia is communist to you?
yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes.
@@KaiserMattTygore927 commiefornia is the most disappointing state in the Us it an embarrassing that holds 30 percent of the homeless in the us while having 10 percent of the us population due to dumb democratic politicians
Ahem* As a native Missourian who moved to Florida; Gorgeous beaches, fresh produce year round, always warm (sometimes too much so..) we don't have crazy forest fires because.. everglades. Expensive, yes. Crazy people, yes. But over all, Miami is the best of the large metropolitan cities in the country.
You made a false statement by saying Christians went to Lebanon unwelcomed when Lebanon's ancestors were among the first to become Christian as the birthplace of Christianity was right here on our doorsteps. It was mostly a Christian nation prior to the Arab and Islamic conquests.
That ticked me off.
Eh , both christians and Müslüms make god claims all day with zero evidence, , , , yawn
@@knyghtryder3599 nobody cares about the Stick up your behind
@@onamattapeeya the good news is , no religious claim is backed by any evidence 😔
We know which channel's email is the default on your PC now lmao
Why people go out of their way to avoid calling North Korea Communist? Seems kinda odd
Lots of commies don't want communist to be seen as bad/negative, for example, this channel.
4:36 - “what are you talking about there’s no war in Great North Korea”
Exactly
Wait, as a Lebanese, I’d like to know what you mean by that part of the video and specifically why you highlighted us?
Lmao Lebanon has had Christians long before Europeans thought of converting to Christianity.
4:04 "Land of the uncreative haircut" lol
Lebanese citizen here! We’ve been categorized into many categories, alas I must admit, this is the first time we’ve been put with the Aztecs in the same group! 😅
Lmao
I'm a Lebanese Christian. CRAZY, RIGHT?!??
I’m dyslexic and I read that as lesbian
@@ogprettyDEMOATNA technically you were there before Muslims!
@@zuz7459Everyone was there before the pedo temporal lobe epileptic
Everyone’s so busy talking about how this was uploaded to Wendover first that they completely glossed over that MAGNIFICENT BEARD at 3:44
LOL
LoL, I noticed it too! I always thought beards with no mustaches looked weird anyway, but this dude takes it to another level. It’s like his chin sneezed and this was the result (“ker-CHUCK!”).
I’m just here to make another hilarious comment about this video being posted on Wendover first.
Let's see if he posts Wendover Productions on Half as Interesting again
He did like 2 weeks ago
@@Ansome234 I know, I brought it up
RAWR FURRY
what?
The Dresnoks are not Americans. They were born in the DPRK to an American army solider who renounced his citizenship and their mother was a kidnapped bride from East Europe.
hey, you didn't get the little side joke on Lebanese right. Historically , early christians found refuge in the mountains of Lebanon to escape persecution .
So if you insinuate that christianity was forced on the Lebanese people by some tyrannical religious order ,then you don't have enough information on the subject and your joke is simply wrong.
Thank you, good information!
This is true, but they don't care. To people like those at HAI, Christianity among non-white groups must have been forced on them by European colonizers. It's sad that "informational" videos like this are more focused on sharing historical revisionism, false facts, and predetermined opinions than actual information on the subject at hand.
@@jonahstephens2904 most sensible people doesn't believe or even care what he says they are just here to see what's the topic about and this guy just put a shameless plug about christianity in a country that's founded by Christians. America was created by Christians and they had to fight with the natives to do it but hey anything goes for a newly found liberals to shit on christianity.
@@masochistboy653 I tought the 13 colonies were Protestans ?
And america wasnt created by people.
@@decagamin5901 Protestants ARE Christians. They still practice Christianity, just not Catholicism, which is where the term comes from.
“Gangnam Style Korea” i’m fucking done and it’s 7 am lamoooo thank you for this video
LMFAO 🤣
"But then again, you're probably not like me... you probably have a real job"
Bold of you assume
FeelsCoroneetMan
Sam, while North Korea is without a doubt an extremely authoritarian dictatorship, calling it "fascist" is just wrong and not helpful in any way. There are terrible things in this world that are not fascist, North Korea is one of those.
The state controls everything. That's fascism.
@@mrrogersrabbit No, that's not fascism. In fact, the word privatization was coined to describe a Nazi policy.
@@mrrogersrabbit nope, fascism still implies capitalism. It's capitalism but with the totalitarian government. For example the Nazis had various companies like faygo and Volkswagen. The government is still totalitarian in North Korea but communistic. No private property no private ownership of the means of production. So we can really call it a communist totalitarian government.
@@mrrogersrabbit no
That’s socialism
@@gogogadget1855 Volkswagen was initially owned by the Nazi government
Wow, can't imagine wanting to stay in North Korea. Those who do must be really hard-core.
Having a strong feeling that this uploading on wrong channel first is deliberate lol
I remember the days when Wendover was not forcibly trying to be funny and actually had his facts right.
Facts
yes, humor is a great touch... but overdoing it feels contrived and tiresome!
69th like :)
This is HAI though?
I was literally thinking this. So many lame/cringy jokes. What’s the point of this?
The jokes in these videos give me second-hand embarrassment for the creator.
Same
They arent bad lol yall are asking for a comedy video
cringey, almost can't bear to finish the vid
"They did a war and split the place into North Korea and Gangum-style Korea" -uploaded in 2020
@@AK-qs8tr Yeah, I enjoyed them personally too
The Dresnok brothers are not Americans, they where born in the DPRK and are as such North Koreans not Americans
As much as governments everywhere around the world enjoy banning various things, the rule of supply and demand always stands. Even the market of "going to NK as an American" has a couple hundred buyers.
This guy's a bit cringe I gotta say. Feels like I'm watching an embodiment of Reddit try to be funny. In addition to failing at humor he also fails to properly explain anything in-depth, like the motives of the few defectors not just being "Wonder what it's like", when it's a well documented thing. Overall the bad Reddit humor is the worst part though, and the advertising on such a short video is overbearing as well.
So much about this video is factually incorrect that the moment you decided to refer to yourself as an educator I felt a part of my soul leave my body and disappear into the void of endless disappointment.
Can we please just appreciate the fact that at 3:17 the bell (or whatever that is) sets in the exact moment when the lights go on in South- and North Korea
That’s Florida (Which is a State in the US)
That's Florida
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How much sarcasm do you want in this video?
Him: yes 🙌
3:34 did they predict Squid Game years ago?!
These jokes are getting less and less stale; i love this channel 😄
The writing is so good here. So good
Internet :- Exists
North Korea :- We don't do that here
South Korea :- Hold my Gangnam Style
Lol 😂😂😂
Lmao he uploaded it to the wrong channel again
0:20 The fact that North Dakota is a state is enough to justify it having two seats in the Senate.
Having an equal number of senators for each state was quite intentional. It wasn't some mathematical mistake or oversight by the founding fathers. You have one chamber of the legislature that is based on population (giving big states like California and Texas more influence), and one chamber where each state is represented equally. They serve as a check and balance on each other that way. Small states don't get totally steamrolled by larger states, but it also takes into account that land doesn't vote.
If the Senate was to be proportional to population, like the House of Representatives, then why even have a Senate? Why have a second chamber of the legislature if they are effectively the same? The point of having two houses of Congress is because they are different, they weigh different groups' interests differently, and they therefore serve as a check and balance on one another.
The Senate also flies in the face of the "One Person One Vote" principle by ensuring that those living in smaller states have disproportionately more representation than those living in large states, since the Senate is more powerful than the House. Since smaller states are generally more rural and conservative, this tips the whole of government away from the policies preferred by the majority of Americans. Supreme Court Justices are confirmed by the Senate, and the number of seats in the Senate also contribute to the Electoral College, which is flawed for much of the same reasons. All three branches of government are therefore biased towards the GOP, which has only won the popular vote once in eight elections and yet held the presidency for three terms and retains great influence over many operations of the government. This is not to say that the GOP is inherently bad, or that the inhabitants of smaller states don't deserve to be represented, but rather that a political system which consistently holds Minority Rights ABOVE Majority Rules rather than ALONGSIDE it is not a healthily-operating system. The Senate makes America less representative of Americans, not more.
@@michaelguan820 The whole idea of "one man, one vote" was never intended in the first place, either by the founders or by the constitutional amendments that the Supreme Court used to effectively create the "one man, one vote" rule.
The Senate is meant to be representative of Americans. It is meant to be representative of states as whole. The House if representative of Americans more broadly. The point was to have a balance of those two groups and their interests.
It helps to remember that the United States is a federal union of semi-autonomous states. The states aren't meant to be like provinces, where they are a direct subset of the greater nation that are split up for ease of governing.
That's why the constitution has numerous protections of the authority of each state. Aside from equal protection in the Senate - the one active clause of the constitution that cannot be amended - there is also the 10th amendment which limits federal power to only things that the constitution specifically grants it. There is the clause that says land cannot be taken from a state by the federal government without the state's consent. There is the fact that the federal government alone cannot amend the constitution, but can only do it with 3/4 of the states onboard.
The Senate didn't fail at uniformly representing Americans because it was never meant to.
@@MetalSandman999 Simply because some aspect of government was intended by the Founders doesn't mean that all principles of the nation's political system should be permanently upheld. I am very aware of the Founders' concern over "mobocracy". I also think that, to put it in the most generous terms possible, their views are not fully applicable to the modern world. The Constitution could only be drafted through compromises made not in consideration of political ideals but rather practical political considerations. This was necessary for the nation's founding but left buried tripmines throughout which would haunt America for centuries afterwards (i.e. the 3/5ths Compromise institutionalizing the scourge of slavery in the nation's founding). The immutable values of the Constitution are vital for the country, but the actual process of governance should be adjusted over time to reflect changes in the country's makeup and external environment. Thomas Jefferson himself wrote that the nation must update its political system over time and that precedents should be upheld to maintain stability and continuity, not simply because they were precedents. In most matters, the Constitution has accounted for this by allowing for aspects of it to be amended over time, but the fact that the number of seats for each state in the Senate is left unamendable is unfortunate, because it precludes the opportunity to adjust the system if fixes are needed for the smooth operation of governance.
I think that your argument that a bicameral legislature is a necessity in a union consisting of autonomous states rather than provinces was the best argument made. Certainly, a unicameral legislative body would likely not be tenable in a diverse nation like the US (though I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is impossible in an abstract sense). Nevertheless, the nature and degree of federalism shifts over time as well. The autonomy of states in relation to the federal government has been fluid over time and should not be taken as an absolute. With the pandemic, you can see some of the issues that arise from the elevation of states' rights which make interstate cooperation and policy consistency more difficult. Ultimately, it is the people who should decide the degree of autonomy states should have based on abstract political ideals, historical precedence, AND practical contemporary concerns, and currently the trend in many states is to reduce the autonomy of states if it allows for more effective public policy. Obviously you need not agree with this line of thinking, but it's a viewpoint that will continue to gather momentum, and the government should reflect the will of the people. Just a consideration.
Going back to your first comment, I also agree with the point that to have the two chambers of the legislature represent the people in different ways serves as an internal system of checks and balances...to a degree. In the abstract, this system would indeed promote compromise and cooperation, requiring consensus to accomplish tasks. Of course, in practice, partisanship tends to make building consensus extremely challenging. This is really a problem bigger than just the relationship between the House and Senate. The Constitution was drafted with compromise in mind, and compromise is mandatory for the US government to function (as it would be in most political systems). The issue comes from the fact that partisanship allows for individual politicians to not just survive but thrive engaging in political gridlock, at the cost of the collective good. The fact that the Senate represents a different subsection of Americans than the House exacerbates this gridlock.
In the end, the argument between state and federal power is one of those unsolvable political problems, given that the issue involves value judgements that cannot be resolved concretely. Although I do not agree with your perspective on political power and the best ways to structure government, I think you have made your arguments with persuasiveness and decency. In any case, I hope that our disagreements do not take away from the fact that both of us value the shared ideals and interests which made the country into what it is today.
@@michaelguan820 You are a scholar and a gentleman and definitely seem to know your stuff.
You'd be surprised how many people - especially on the internet - don't even understand the basics of how and why American government was set up...or maybe you wouldn't be surprised, since you've probably talked to your fair share of other people about this before and know exactly what I'm talking about, amiright? 😂
I do agree with a lot of what you say, at least broadly. I suppose that it largely does come down to the great, unsolvable political problem of federal vs. state power and where the proper balance lies. And that is certainly the kind of disagreement people like you and I can have without taking away from the fact that both of us value the shared ideals and interests which made the country into what it is today 👍
@@MetalSandman999 I'd like to thank you for the insight and decency you've shown. I did not expect to engage in a thoughtful debate about the US Senate, especially under a video about North Korea (lol). And I also appreciate the different viewpoint you have on the distribution of political power, since it allowed me to engage with my own perspective, finding and fixing weaknesses and refining my argument. People like you make the internet a better, brighter place👊
Spain was Christian before the Moors invaded, i believe they 'turned' Christian under a roman Emperor who chose to make its empire Christian. That's more of a story like greece and maybe jerusalem than like the colonial missionary/invading examples
so were the lebanese actually.
That Emperor was Constantine the great. :)
It is a trashy generic channel, don't worry.
Everyone’s talking about the fact that this video was on wendover first, but maybe you missed the fact that he called North Korea fascist? I like this channel but that makes me really question how much research he did here
Christians were native to Lebanon, sure some European Christians went there but Middle Eastern Christians were there already
Wait, isn't this the guy from Wendover? I swear I watched this video on Wendover...Maybe I'm just crazy...
Yea you must be crazy lol
Completely different guys lol
1:35
Actually the Americans and Soviets didn’t split it from fighting each other. They worked together to kick the Japanese out of Korea
Uh, no. After the second world war Japans influence over korea was over and they didn't have a functioning govenment, so communisnt forces governed the north, and the south was governed by the usa. (신탁통치)
Japans colonization of korea was from 1910 to 1945(일제강점기) and they didn't take a role in the Korean War.
@@yellow6170 That’s because it was also sometime close to the end of WWII when the Soviets and Americans joined forces to kick the Japanese out of Korea. They also governed each side for a reason. The Soviets started from the North southwards and the Americans started from the South northwards and both met at the 38th Parallel which is what led to the division. Korea was already divided before the Korean War began
@@CobaltLancer damn im korean and u actually know better than me, division happened right after the 2ww ended. Probably should have listened in history. 38th parallel btw not 48.
@@yellow6170 Whoops... I got 38th confused with 48th 😂 (Idk where I read 48th from lmao)
I fixed it
1:00 ah. My favroite flavor of American. Rocky road
HAI be cheating youtube's notification system xD
they aren't really allowed to leave
Who?
@@alexrazmislevich7265people who live in North Korea aren’t allowed to leave the country
Sam just needs to combine the two channels.
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I'm so glad I live in a capitalist country and not a sosialist country like North Korea :-)
This info is years out of date. PUST hasn't had American professors since the US sanctions in 2017.
0:42 Was such a bad joke that it made me laugh from joke badness
Give yourself some credit Sam, you run two channels and a podcast (Extremities is awesome btw) about random facts.
here’s a tip for not getting bored in Pyongyang...learn Korean. you can do more
The 200 Americans: “Day 23 in the chamber. They ain’t found me yet but when they do they gonna be surprised.”
nice, smooth how ya rolled into that pitch @ the end
Who else saw this posted on wendover before Sam realised his mistake? 😅
*_Ah yes, the Cool Conflict._*
Fun fact,i live in mississippi and north korea is just as big as my state. It's also crazy to know that most countries in the world are only as big as 1 of our states in the US and not even close to the biggest ones. Like the UK is only as big as oregon and north korea is like a mississippi as i previously stated,that's crazy! Lol. Aside from a very few obviously like canada,china,russia and india!
Combine WV and MD together and you have a little bit more than Spain
Amazing. Almost everything you just said is wrong.
This video is shameless propaganda. Very misinforming. The author clearly has a negative bias against the DPRK.
What’s wrong name 1 thing the title
@@alqk3415 yeah, like everyone should
@@alqk3415 Uhm I WONDER FUCKING WHY😂
Yeah, me too. Elaborate.
North Korea isn't fascist, I think it's called juche or something. Also do you mean Kim Il-sung not Kim Jong-il and the Dresnok brothers are there because of their father, not because of their choice
This was a waste of time. Literally no depth.
Quick fact check:
North Korea isn't fascist, but authoritarian. Fascism is a distinctly right-wing ideology whilst authoritarianism is a lot more versatile among the political spectrum. North Korea is a socially democratic plutocracy or in simpler terms, a state capitalist nation. Meaning they fall in the centre-left authoritarian space of the political spectrum. So not fascist. Nations like Brazil, Haiti, Russia and the Philippines can be considered fascist, though.
I see you read about Fascism from wikipedia.
It cannot be categorized in the right-left spectrum, but since peopke like it so much, It would be a center-left ideology too. You guys just cling to the "ultranationalist" thing, forgetting that the USSR, russia even to this day, oficially called WWII as The Great Patriotic War.
Not even it's anti-communism stance holds up, because the greatest rival to communism was... communism. As seen with Trotsky vs Stalin, USSR vs China, Khmer Rouhe vs Vietnam. So on and so forth.
The official name of the Berlin Wall was Anti-fascist Protection Rampart. Because the entire notion of Fascism being a right wing propaganda when Benito Mussolini, it's main ideologue, explicitly says it's left wing is because of communist propaganda.
And being Brazilian, I have to say that we are a republic in name only. We are actually an anarcho-narco-tyranny. Could be a medieval Feud even. Though I believe feudal lords did a far better job at actually protecting the peasants.
@@ThZuao No I read about fascism from the people who invented the ideology. It is very much a far-right ideology and if you ask facists both now and then, they won't dare say it's a leftwing ideology. Ultranationalism _is_ a factor within fascism, but it is not the sole factor within fascism. Not to mention, the USSR was not a single country but a collection of individual republics. How do I know that? Well it might have something to do with it meaning the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. They were united under a number of governments, but to say they were one singular nation is incorrect. Also, Russia today _is_ fascist. They are a far-right authoritarian nation with strong laws surrounding ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, women's rights, the protection of private industry and a strong reliance on traditionalist values.
Fascism is far-right authoritarianism. For communists, that's authoritarianism. It is a rightwing ideology and most scholars on this planet will tell you that it is.
Wikipedia is a website where commen verifiable knowledge is found. If you think that their run-down of the ideology is incorrect, despite it siting sources from people who quite evidentally know better than you, I am sorry to say that you're wrong. Facts don't care about your feelings.
The fact that we get free documentaries on RUclips by Half as Interesting is truly a gift. 👍
The Americans didn't invade or conquer South Korea.
North Korea invaded the South and the United Nations condemned the invasion ask asked UN countries to help South Korea.
Commonwealth countries and others offered help and the war ended in stalemate. South Korea was added by the United Nations .... not (just) America.
Shhhh, we got an agenda to push here comrade
The war has not ended. There is just a cease fire in effect. There was no winner, no loser, no peace treaty. They are technically still at war. This is why the North is so belligerent.
Using North Korean wifi: Chrome - "I'm in danger"
3:04 💀💀💀💀💀
2:33 "That's the face of a man who feels great about his life decisions" -- This is really unfair. You showed the son of a defector. He did not defect; he was simply born in North Korea and thus brainwashed by the state there. He even speaks English with an accent. I feel bad for him and his brother.
Their mother is Romanian and they are therefore not ethnically Korean at all. They even have a bit of an Eastern European look about them.
hey man ND be putting the grain out no cap
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She said, ‘Do you?’
I said, ‘Yes I do.’ I said, ‘We’ve got outlets in nearly every country of the world.’
She said, ‘Have you?’
I said, ‘Yes we have.’ I said, ‘We’ve got hospitals and hospices and homeless shelters,’ I said, ‘We do marriage work, we’ve got orphanages, we’ve got feeding programmes, educational programmes.’ I said, ‘We do all sorts of justice and reconciliation things’. I said, ‘Basically, we look after people from birth to death, and we deal in the area of behavioural alteration.’
She went, ‘Wow!’ And it was so loud, her ‘Wow!’, loads of people turned round and looked at us.
She said, ‘What’s it called?’
I said, ‘It’s called the church … have you not heard of it?’
Am I high or he didn't explain the third type of Americas living in Korea?
I love how the history he gives on the Korean war is so inaccurate like he's explained it so many times he just doesn't care anymore lmao
Watching this in America where I am jobless and can't even afford housing let alone a subscription to Nebula lol.
1:50
bruh >NK fascist
i'm thinking of unsub from hai and keep only wendover... this channel seriously lost in quality for the past year
I got a nebula ad in the middle of the sponsorship for nebula.
4:10 that's so informative thank you
Ironic. One giant advertisement.
1:48 for your next fixing mistakes video not a fascist state
Also I love you Sam have my babies
"Pyonyang University of Science & Technology sounds like the name of a money laundering company" That is literally the most normal name of a University, what were they supposed to call it?
Uh, why does the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology sound like "a front for money laundering"? That's a completely normal name for a university.
The transition to ad is so smooth
Why was this so politcal?
I would love for some of these college kids who think socialism is a good idea to spend a couple years there. Or in Venezuela.
First video I’ve watched on this channel I doubt it will be the last great content and a fresh way of putting it together
That's a really small number
Funny how any European/ American defecting to NK will automatically be made a grand marshal or whatever, even if they worked all their life prior as a florist.
Ofc Christians would be there as Christians are good people 👍 they are brave enough too unlike the majority of cowards in the world.
Hell yeah North Dakota mentioned. Best of the midwest
This channel gives less facts and more ads.... And the most awful jokes. Wendower productions is much better.
the 90s were the time of the infamous famine in North Korea known as the arduous march millions died