The 3 North Koreas No One Talks About
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Everyone knows about North Korea, but why doesn't anyone talk about these 3 other "North Koreas" that exist today? Also, there's actually an original North Korea that the Kims took notes from.
This is my first video, so I'd love to hear any constructive feedback on how to improve. ^_^
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Lmao, I thought this was by some channel with like 200k subs or whatever, but nah bro's like "my first video"💀. Very well done!
😂That's such a nice thing to say, I'm happy you enjoyed!
Same! I had another game open, and when I heard "This is my first video" I was startled.
@@bofangchangThis video is really well made and I thought it was made by a channel that has over 100k subs. Very well done!
same i just heared "this is my first video" and i thought this was a big or decently sized channel
Still learned nothing lmao
My family’s friend who emigrated from Turkmenistan used to tell that the agents who eavesdrop on phone conversations would openly laugh if they hear a joke. Her colleague was fired from job because she didn’t enunciate the words of the anthem while singing - something you are required to do at the start of the working day. Also, when president Niyazov decided to promote healthy lifestyle by opening a running track around the capital, the populace was forced to walk on it, and police would not let people leave it unless bribed. Several elderly people died of heart attacks, dehydration and exhaustion at that opening.
Wow, thank you for sharing this.
Maybe in Brussels they are interested in implementing these policies.
"- hey mom how are you ?
>oh I'm doing well sweetie how are you?
-busy, but can't wait to visit you, I'll be bringing souvenirs but do you need anything essential?
>oh just come home safely honey, that's all I need, I'll be preparing your favorite dishes
-ohh you didn't have to mom we can eat homemade meal in our restaurant, if I were to be working on security things would be different though
>what do you mean?
-security personnel has to get by with military rations
>oh my those poor souls
Gee...I m from Eritrea and I have seen some crazy shit but this is definitely another level
Horrifying
At a birthday party for an engineer from Turkmenistan (in the UK for a training course). His UK boss asked him how the leader of his country (Turkmenbashi?) is getting younger. Every business there must have the official photo of the leader of Turkmenistan displayed in the office and they’d just had the latest one delivered.
The engineer was visibly shaken by such a critical comment about his country, despite being in a small provincial town in the UK he looked around him as if he was looking for spies who may report him before answering that he’d not noticed that about his leader. Thousands of miles away from his home country, yet he was terrified to even witness a criticism of his country’s leader.
Thank you for sharing this!
It's like the West and criticising Israel!
Uh oh...
Disappointing that Turkmenistan's "Walk of Health" wasn't mentioned when going over the bizarre things the country does. The president built a 22 mile long walkway that goes into the mountains and every year forces his ministers and other government officials to walk it start to finish while he rides in a helicopter observing them, and berates them for their slow pace at the finish. Easily my favorite part of that country.
They probably didn't know about it at the time.
Fun fact, Eritrea withdrew from World Cup 2026 qualifications because they legit afraid when the team will defect to other countries.
He’s right to be afraid of his team defecting.
Lol that happens every few years with Cuban baseball players in different international tournaments
Missed Belarus. Same “President” since fall of USSR. Lukashenko also killed his own people in a subway bombing around 2010. He routinely has political opponents arrested and/of exiled.
I recently learned about Belarus’ existence while playing a geography game. It’s insane that they’ve had the same leader for 39 years!!
@@chunkymonkey356 Please, go back to school and learn how to count. 39 years ago was 1984. Brezhnev just died the previous year and Andropov was in power. There was no Belarus back then, only Belaruska SSR.
China not becoming like North Korea is entirely due to luck. Mao's third son died very young, and his second son was mentally ill and widely considered unfit to rule. That left his eldest son, who died in the Korean War. Legends has it that he died because he was hungry one night and went out to make egg fried rice, only the fire/light alerted the UN forces to his presence, and he got bombed. This is widely circulated along the older generations of Chinese people who still remember Mao's rule, and occasionally joke about how "grateful they are to egg fried rice". As such, the phrase "egg fried rice" is banned on Chinese social media like WeChat. (Funnily enough, most of the younger people who accidentally talk about egg fried rice don't actually know about the incident due to heavy government censorship, but seeing their messages censored makes them curious, which is how they find out about the exact thing the government tries to cover up.)
Strange case of unintended consequences
I remember reading about this! Very much the Streisand effect lol.
Yeah. Even after Mao's death, there were contenders that would have kept China like NK. It's sad to see how overshadowed Deng Xiaoping is by Mao because that man is the best thing that happened to the PRC
theres also the fact that you cant control a billion people as easily
@@mootssss not easy but still being done
Cuba doesn't really have much in common with NK, functionally or in outcomes.
Not to mention that the Cuban people aren't culturally isolated. Other Latin Americans are quite similar, and of course being that West African slaves and Spanish colonists were crucial to the formation of the country, it has many cultural links with other parts of the world.
North Korea on the other hand is culturally quite isolated, with South Korea and China being the only two countries with any semblance of links
Early in highschool, I somehow stumbled upon an article about Saparmyrat Nyýazow and his the fairly new 12 million dollar gold covered statue of himself that rotates to face the sun. Everything about this man and his country left be bewildered, and astounded, and at the time I ended up going down a rabbit hole just learning about this crazy place. Thanks for mentioning Turkmenistan.
Thanks for sharing this and I'm happy you enjoyed :)
did you also know that the president reserved two lanes out of the busiest six lane road in the city, only legal for him to drive on it?
@@davutcharyyev9561 I'm not sure if I knew that back in the day, but it feels like new information now. I recently found out that the golden statue has been relocated and no longer turns to face the sun.
@@jonndaI think there was an issue with programming the controllers. If what my family friend says is true, the statue would randomly rotate during cloudy days.
@@bofangchangI met some guy in saudi from turkiministan
Not sure if he was from same country
The reason the other countries are largely unknown is that they don't have nuclear weapons.
You can apply this to almost every dictatorship in the 20th century. North Korea is unique because it turned its cult of personality into a religion - codified into the constitution and laws, as opposed it being just a dictatorial status quo until the leader is dead - while also remaining absolutely isolated, unlike Cuba, Eritrea and Turkmenistan, each of whom is member of at least one international organisation. Further, North Korea has managed to remain such under extreme pressure AND developed a nuclear arsenal, while having the 4th largest army in the world - from a population of merely 26 million
not to be rude but its the 21st century.
@@alex-vj2wm What do you mean by that exactly? That all of us should've become americans by now? I'm very glad to disappoint you. The 21st century is no different, also most of the current dictatorships were established prior to 2000.
Genuinely surprised to not see Belarus present
maybe Lukashenko is a dictator(the percent of people who voted for him at the elections lmao), but Belarus is nowhere close to North Korea(I've been there, I mean it has problems, but at least people have... rights? and... Internet? and other things that should be accessible for all people...)
I've been to Cuba 10+ years ago and it was very pleasant.
As a tourist, you're probably more protected and happy than any regular citizen will be...
If a local would approach tourists (most easily spotted by skin colour, clothing and then language in that order I suppose, and demeanour) then they would be stopped by police if they saw that.
A friend on the same trip with Colombian (iirc) heritage was stopped by police (with police dogs and submachine guns, mind you) and asked questions because they (the local police) thought he was Cuban and he was walking with us. There wasn't any aggression but it was very weird.
I do not know how things have changed the last 10 years. Cuba, when I was there, was kind of "reverse" bigots and they were bigoted towards their own people, in a way.
We were there for a bit over 2 weeks and lived with host families for about a week.
Everything was very communist, so being host for tourists provided extra income and made people rich, basically. It was probably not easy to get that permit legally domestically.
Breakfasts were 1 egg, good amounts of juice (makes sense) and dry bread with a couple of "cheese" slices that squeaks like plastic when you chew it. No butter iirc, but salt (and I can't remember if there was pepper).
At the hotels, it was quite a different world. And the best juice I've ever had in my entire life (still to this date).
They didn't have "western" soda (but they had a crap ton of different Pringles for some reason) but they had something called "TropiCola" which was actually very good.
All in all it was a very nice experience, though in retrospect I don't know what to think about their people (in regards to how their nation is run).
It's an extremely charming nation and sometimes it seemed like paradise (geographically), however it was quite obvious that - although surprisingly clean - people were generally very poor and not having a lot of choices for determining their own path or future (when I say "not having a lot" I mean basically 0)
"It was very communist" and becoming rich from a specific job don't really align
Biggest obstruction on living standards is definitely the various US embargoes that drastically limit imports and exports.
So most things that aren't produced in Cuba are going to be somewhat limited.
I'm looking to visit or even get citizenship someday but it'll take quite a while.
@@DonDadda45 Tourism industry is really profitable since living costs are really inexpensive.
Tourists usually are rather wealthy so you can easily get food for a month from a few tips on top of the regular wage.
@@ptrq3743 My point is that it's not communist, if this is possible.
@@DonDadda45 Gotcha.
I think the big difference between Turkmenistan, Eritrea and Cuba is that you can leave. In Eritrean you have the conscription factor but if most families that can leave while their sons are very young.
I think Cuba is unfairly on the list a little bit. It definitely has a dictatorship but it isn’t cut off the the world in terms of information. Also fun fact one of its biggest exports is its doctors.
There are thousands of Cubans in Venezuela providing valuable education, tourism training, and healthcare services.
honestly, im in cuba rn, take away the blockade and Cuba might flourish, as of now, Cuba is wrongly in this list
It is understandable to label a country a “North Korea” if that’s your frame of reference, but it’s better to look at a country’s origins and then its current form, instead of the other way around.
This is an 8 minute RUclips video realistically 1 hour isn't long enough to do that for one of these countries.
He says "China is the OG North Korea" which is absurd nonsense.
1st. The U.S.S.R. created and handpicked the leadership of NK + Armed them..etc.
2. NK had to ask permission from U.S.S.R./Stalin to start the Korean war NOT China.
3. Mao got everything from the Soviets from Ideology to leadership style to Weapons to Aid..etc
Basically the U.S.S.R. were the undisputed overwhelming top dog in Communism from South America - Africa to Europe - Asia.
China has Never been as powerful.
The fact that you describe Turkmenistan like you did, but still call Cuba the country most like North Korea is wild.
They both have one thing in common and that's that they both like the color red 😂
Truuue lol@@jghifiversveiws8729
Seriously. Americans have been indoctrinated well it seems, comparing Cuba to North Korea lmao
This entire video is nonsense.
"China is the OG North Korea" is a perfect example.
This guy acts as though history began in the 1950s.
+ He completely ignored the USSR.
Which was the "OG" for every Communist Country.
+ Mao from Revolution to basically his death got everything from Ideology,leadership style,Weapons,Aid..etc. from the Soviets up until the split after Stalin's death.
China = Unoriginal (Now/Then)
Best know country for Fakes and ripping off intellectual property = China.
+ The U.S.S.R. actually took part in creating North Korea after WW2.
+ U.S.S.R. also handpicked the NK leadership.
+ The North Koreans had to ask Permission from the U.S.S.R./Stalin to even start the Korean War.
I know this probably doesnt matter to most people but thank you so much for having captions. Its hard for me to process speech sometimes so its much easier to watch vidoes without botched auto generated captions. appreciate it ❤
I will put your comment up on his discord so he knows to keep doing it! ❤
Aw thanks so much for your comment! Yeah, I thought it was still worth spending the additional time for folks like yourself ❤ I'm currently working on my next video right now, can't wait to share it with you :)
damn yall are so polite 😭😭
Fun fact: In the movie "The Dictator", the main character General Aladeen is based on the dictators of Turkmenistan, while the country Wadiya is based on the country Eritrea
huh - i thought it was Libya
Iran is pretty much a North Korea tbh. Only difference is that our government couldn't figure out a way to hold Iranians captive in the country and that Kim graduated from high school whereas our president didn't.
Bro casyally dropped the hardest first video on this channel 🗣️🔊🔥
Misspelling lmoa
Who says he hasn't had experience on a different channel?
Visited Cuba back in 2017, genuinely enjoyed my time there and with many of the locals I’ve interacted with seemed to enjoy their lives. Everyone has a cell phone, many people there play video games, and own smart phones just like us. The country definitely has a long way to go but I wouldn’t put it in the same tier as Eritrea and North Korea.
We had 3G for the first time in 2017
The Cubans best and richest time was when the Mob/Batista ran it = Fact.
I think one additional key difference between Cuba and North Korea is that North Korea's (relative) self-isolation is self-imposed, while Cuba is isolated largely because of the trade embargo by the USA.
EDIT: added (relative) to self-isolation, because they aren't completely isolated from the outside world. North Korea has a bunch of diplomatic missions and embassies abroad and other countries have them in North Korea. Cuba has a ton more though, see below.
North Korea also has an embargo put on them though
@@ndsshotgunnose5028 true, but north korea's isolationism predates their embargo
@@ndsshotgunnose5028 Sure, but even then a lot of their self-isolation is self-imposed. North Korea has its embassies in 39 other countries and 22 other countries have embassies in North Korea.
Meanwhile Cuba has embassies in and from most countries in the world *including* the country that is embargo-ing them. They've actively connected with other countries diplomatically.
North Korea being under trade embargo from the USA is also much less impactful because it is *so* much further away from the USA (while Cuba is only 411 miles from Florida) *and* North Korea shares its longest border with its biggest supporter and protector: the People's Republic of China.
no, they politically isolated themselves from non communist countries
they still isolated themselves and closed contact with outside world. embargo doesn't affect inner policies and executions@@ndsshotgunnose5028
man really made a video with the quality of a 100k sub channel as his first video. You earned this like, my dude. Keep up the good work
Couldn't agree more. Thos really is the nicest vid thread I've seen for ages 😀
Haha thanks so much! I'm working on a video right now, can't wait to share it with you.
I guessed the first two, but I was thinking Belarus might have been the last one. Or Transnistria is we‘re stretching the definition of country.
I can see this channel being extremely successful over the next 3 or 4 decades
💀💀💀
more like the 3-4 next days@@bofangchang
I had a professor from Eritrea. The current regime officially gained independence & took power while he was at college here in the states. Years later, he went back to investigate & publicize some of the massacres that happened during the civil war & is barred from the country. He told some stories in lecture about what it was like living during the civil war under the repressive rebel government, it was really interesting to get a picture of what's normally obscured by those in power
Bro that is not how you use the & symbol
@@Devblivion ? it just means "and"
@@stevec.9037 it’s for proper names and titles “Barnes & Noble” etc
@Devblivion even if that's the case (which i found no reason to believe it's solely for that kind of thing), why should anyone care? I know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying, i don't have to send my finger on a 3-day journey across my keyboard & back every time i talk about more than one thing, & the only problem is literally one person who takes issue with the way i type
@@stevec.9037you smell like cheese
I am not a Tankie. But comparing Cuba to North korea is like comparing Guantanamo to Auschwitz. A little bit sensationalizing and flat. By the way 5:05 is a picture from an anarchist artist criticising capitalist media. Check the sources for your slideshowas a little bit, please.
Wow! Thanks for the info man
@@astonwrath6879 i used to buy t-shirts from this person as a teenage anarchist ^^
Narration: excellent!
Subject matter: intriguing.
Pacing and information density: relatable
Three out of three would recommend
Thanks for the kind comment. Did you subscribe? I know he is working on another vid so make sure you're kept in the loop 😉
Thank you so much! I'm currently working on my next video right now, can't wait to share it with you :)
Cuba's isolation is more to do with the US than anything else.
Top holiday destination for Canadians
If the US lifted the trade embargo, would Cuba's situation be this Dire?
yeah lol that was boutta be my comment, he was talking about Cuba as if it wasn't the US that made them end up like that in the first place
“If Cuba wasn’t cut off from the rest of the world, would their situation be any better?”
You all have porridge for brains
As someone from Turkmenistan, I felt very excited to hear what you had to say, and it just didn't seem like there was much information there. If you're going to do a video on 3 countries, I would like to actually know a little more about them, whether it's historical information, or what really makes them unique. You could mention our "door to hell" landmark, our Oil trade, something about our closed borders, economy, really anything your heart desires but I felt like Turkmenistan just got a shoutout and I was quite disappointed, because rarely do I get to see my country mentioned in a video
I'm from Nepal. We had a constitutional monarchy until the revolution in 2006. A lot of people regret overthrowing the king now because instead of one strong lion ruling the country, there are hundreds of wolves. The situation is messier than ever. Democracy only works for countries with educated citizens who know what they want and can see the strengths and weaknesses of political parties/candidates, not for an underdeveloped, undereducated country where parties win votes through nepotism and monetary compensation.
This is a view point I never really took into consideration before. Thanks for sharing
it's not one strong lion. the lion always has his consultants
Its still leader dependent, look at Botswana. Had a super uneducated population yet they became one of the richest in Africa extremely quick, all thanks to one amazing leader
Even western countries don't have educated citizens who can look past open lies, and we're suffering for it.
this video so terminally american that high-fructose corn syrup now flows from my headphones
People defending Cuba are silly. Cuba is a heavily sanctioned communist one party state (that's basically just a dictatorship) which is exactly what North Korea is. Just because Cuba has tourism and its citizens aren't in crippling poverty doesn't make it as different as people are arguing.
Lots of its citizens ARE in poverty
@@ZemanTheMightylots of people around the world are in poverty. Poverty isn’t just a communist thing. In fact it’s more of a capitalist thing more than anything.
I dont know who you are or where you came from, but you are busting onto the scene like the Koolaid man. Your video production quality and narration aptitude are top notch. Keep it up and very soon you wont need to shamelessly shill for likes to keep you from being homeless. Keep it up dude, you are on FIRE.
This is definitely some big youtuber’s experiment video where they restart from zero and disguise themselves so their fame doesn’t carry their new channel to show people that RUclips is skill and not luck. Like that one Ludwig video.
HAHA I'll take that as a very big compliment, because no I don't have another RUclips channel or anything. This is genuinely my first shot at making a vid 😂. With that said, I'm working on my second video right now, can't wait to share it with you :)
I'm my opinion Cuba ain't that bad and there is also much worse, like Belarus and Myanmar
Putting a place like Belarus doesn´t fit his agenda, putting a place like Cuba where you can freely go outside, tourism is very common and you can use the Internet and comparing it to place like Uzbekistan or fucking North Korea is wild.
@@saret4647yeah. In Cuba even tho it’s a police state, everyone gets a government appointed doctor to visit them twice a year and homeless get moved from the streets into some type of shelter
@@saret4647 I've been to Uzbekistan. It's fuckin nice lol, and shares a lot more similarities to Cuba. And they had some fun things to say about Turkmenistan, mainly "the president is insane and I miss my family from there".
@@gorkaaustin5306still a one party dictatorship isn’t exactly the best place to live in. If Cuba opened up to the idea of having it’s people think for themselves then it just maybe a better place.
Cuba is the only country on this list that I've been to, and definitely don't think it belongs. It is a dictatorship, sure. About half the world is. But it's not a particularly repressive one. The government does make real efforts to deliver on their communist ideals (far more than China or North Korea do), on top of being open to private business and trade.
One of my big measures of dictatorship-shittiness-level is leader portraits. Visit Syria? Every business has a portrait of Assad. (Egypt, too, when I was there, but they've had a revolution since, so maybe better?)
Visit Cuba? There's official propaganda on the streets, but nothing on private property. That means there's no thought police traveling around making sure everyone feigns loyalty to the regime.
Based of the thumbnail I thought you were gonna pick Venezuela over Cuba. I'd say Venezuela is far worse the Cuba right now, and if someone pointed a gun to my head and forced me to choose which one to live in I'd pick Cuba.
Fair. Part of that's because in many ways the current Venezuelan government is a client or even puppet of Cuba, with Cuban secret police and advisors operating above the law and helping to oversee regular resource shipments (especially oil) back to Cuba.
Venezuela's also going through a kind of accelerated collapse like what Cuba's economy and society went through in the 1960s (due to US Sanctions and being a pariah state whose government tried to end the world as we know it that was rapidly turning Cuban society inside out to try and concentrate power) and the 1990s (when the Soviet Union fell and Moscow love money dried up). Things will probably stabilize to a more livable but still oppressive and degraded society in Venezuela at some point, but that'll take a while.
Watch the news dude, the same thing is happening in Cuba with razes right now, we cant even boast about “safety” anymore
N Korea has one thing going for it that Turkmenistan does not. The leader's name is easier to pronounce.
😂😂😂
i know you're probably not german, but this video got copied from a german smaller creator called geohummel.
i am not kidding you, i am a native speaker and it got copied WORD FOR WORD.
same jokes same everything xD
EDIT: i mean "got copied" as in he copied it from you, i know your video is older
do you have the link i cant find it, im from germany as well
@@karalo7655 Looks like he privated the video already. I remember liking it once and now it shows 'private video' by YT
Entertaining video and great topic but I would have liked it to have more information about these countries. I think it was a bit brief and could have been better if it reached around 14 minutes instead so there would be time to talk more about each country. Im glad i came across this video and your channel, keep going and you will definitely become big!
I completely agree
Thank you so much! I'm currently working on my next video right now and it'll be around 3 times longer than this one haha, can't wait to share it with you :)
@@Tikolu The next one will be 3 times longer :))
0:30 - I can't believe countries would rig elections for one party! Any self respecting nation rigs elections for two parties!
Yeah, rigging it for a whole three parties is just too much to think about. Gotta keep it simple.
I read that at rings electrons and thought it was a weird chemistry joke!
Fun fact: Eritrea is one of only two countries in the _world_ where the govt applies citizenship based taxation.
The other one is a tad bigger and most people can spot it on a map, with a sliver of the world population believing it's even the only country of the world.
You are incorrect. There are other countries with citizenship based taxation, such as Hungary or Tajikistan
Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation
@@MrVsbiHungary's not exactly true, if you're in an EU country (the most common locations to immigrate to as a Hungarian) you don't pay taxes in Hungary
@@MrVsbi Wikipedia has lost a lot of credibility and is now mistrusted more than 'deez nuts' as a source.
Even if it's entirely true, it would be 5 instead of 2 countries out of 195, going from 1 to 2.5%.
I would advise you to use actual credible info on taxation (PwC and others) before implementing anything though.
You missed a great one to make a video on, Belarus, its the last dictatorship in Europe
I'd say not every dictatorship is like a North Korea. It's a spectrum, you could say any monarchy in existence is a less democratic than a parliament, then there's the US, with a two far-right party system, then dictatorships such as Russia and Belarus, than NK
What makes NK special is an ongoing massive cult of personality (which can exist in democracies), and total lack of democracy, and the intense isolation from the globe.
First video is insane to me!! The title is catchy with an intriguing concept that really pulls you in. The dialogue is on point and there is plenty of context when considering the sub 10min duration time! The only criticism I can give is that there were a few awkward moments in the pacing of the video, ( mostly just dead air ) but therein lies the artistry of video production. As someone who has done their fair share of video editing you got talent for sure. You really have earned a like, sub, and bell!!
Now, if you'll please excuse me, I have a new found obsession with dictator watches that requires immediate indulgence.
Wow thank you for such a thoughtful comment as well as your like and sub! Really appreciate your feedback on the video, I'll keep working on improving them. Dictator watches are indeed super cool :)
I wonder why this guy's three videos are suddenly getting recommended to so many people? Weird. The algorithm works in mysterious ways.
It's because his videos are great
Propaganda west
@@kugakun2316 Propaganda East. There. Balanced, as all things should be.
Belarus should’ve been in this video. Since 1994, Belarus has been ruled by Aleksandr Lukashenko, who is often referred to as “Europe’s last dictator.”
He holds elections every year; which are obviously rigged. If you run against him in an election, you’ll either end up in exile, prison, or killed. In 2021, Lukashenko forced a Ryan Air flight to land in Belarus so he could arrest a journalist who was harshly critical to him.
Another reason why Lukashenko is so infamous is because his regime has been backed by Vladimir Putin (the “president” of Russia). Both Lukashenko and Putin served the USSR, and they obviously miss the “good old days” of communism.
Citizens of Belarus are allowed to leave the country, but it’s incredibly hard to. Considering the fact that Belarus is a pro-Russian country.
Buddy please stfu you have no clue what you are talking about. The US and the UK is more communist with your 40% taxes (lmao).
There is still strong anti-Lukashenko and pro-democracy opposition even though he just jails or deports them.
Why didn't you bring up the US embargo on Cuba?
It's why cuba is more isolated compared to other countries.
The embargo isn't a blockade, Cuba can still trade and interact with other nations, even NATO or other American allies like Japan or Australia.
Came here to say this
@@jackson4672well... sorta... the embargo also means that if another country trades with Cuba, the US stops trade with them... it puts other countries in the awkward position of choosing trade with the largest economy in the world... or Cuba... i wonder which they choose.
Cuba! Are you effing joking!
Right? He says they are isolated, but literally only to Americans. People all over the world, including Canada, travel there for tourism.
@@differentfinsyou can go to cuba as an American
@@EFFamily Yes, Americans can now visit Cuba. it was legally allowed since 1999 with strict permits. By 2015 new travel regulations made it easier to visit. Closer to regular tourism.
Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge’s era was like if China under Mao was on steroids
I have a feeling you're gonna like my next video, can't wait to share it with you :)
3:53 I’m pretty sure he’s saying “they can do whatever they want when I’m dead, but not before then.”
Also known as my grandma's parenting philosophy
I'm no Cuba simp but rlly?
The reason why nobody talks about Turkmenistan and Eritrea but everyone knows about North Korea is quite simple: nuclear weapons. If any of these two countries had developed nuclear weapons, we would have been talking about them all the time, like North Korea. And everyone would have known about them.
Also geography. Turkmenistan is landlocked in Central Asia. North Korea has a coastline and is surrounded by wealthier countries.
@@dmman33I mean it does border Iran which is wealthier than it but other than that I don’t see a lot of potential in Turkmenistan to do what North Korea’s doing. Eritrea on the other hand…. Eritrea could be North Korea on drugs if it wanted to.
@@j-Gappy-hEritrea is nothing like North korea wth, are u a western media comsumer by any chance?
@@BBGL02 Are you a Western media consumer by any chance ☝️🤓
@@BBGL02 I’m saying if it *wanted to* (key word being wanted to) it could be North Korea on steroids considering it’s location
finally someone talking about cuba. cuba is limited internet access so its hard to get info
you can just go to Cuba you know
it's also not like North Korea
The Turkmenistan leader is literally just Aladeen😂
The first Turkmen leader must have had INSANE oral hygiene
venezuela also has a dictatorship
Venezuela's more like a typical dictatorship though. These countries are special North Korea-like dictatorships, which don't even pretend to be democratic (despite the name DPRK), don't even pretend to have free press, hereditary-ish rule, very isolated
though they're clearly heading that way, esp after last week's election
Cuba has no ban in trading others, it's USA restricting others to trade with Cuba. If some ship company deliver something to Cuba - it will be blacklisted by USA to work in the region so nobody does that. Cuba would be in another state if not for US bullying.
Turkmenistan is not same as NK, it's rich for natural gas. They have bus stops with air conditioning and overall fine condition of life. The dictator is crazy, much crazier than in NK, but people doesn't live in poverty
US bullying lol, after the pandemic magically cubans can import from the USA without restriction, who do you think was having the restriction all this time?
it's all our fault, the Cuban govt never did anything un-humanitarian or anything
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but there was a time during the Cold War where Albania, under the communist regime of Enver Hoxha, was isolated from the rest of the world similar to the other countries mentioned.
It’s kind of a long story, but communist Albania left the Warsaw Pact and sided with Maoist China after falling out with the Soviet Union before later falling out with China after Nixon and Mao revitalized diplomatic relations. After which, Albania entered a period of international isolation until Hoxha’s death in 1985.
During this period, Hoxha also developed quite an obsession with building bunkers.
Hey man cool video and everything but did you have to be so painfully wrong about Cuba?
God that was bad
"Ill be reading each and every comment..."
"3,763 Comments"
I'm not downplaying him, but damn he must be dedicated.
I'm still reading them, I just need a while to catch up 😭😭😭
@@bofangchang props to you man, keep it up!
I feel like the OG North Korea was the Soviet union under Stalin.
Bruuuh McCarthy did a bloody good job if you think Cuba is as undemocratic as North Korea
Please don't assume people don't know geography. Americans are not the only ones who watch YT.
This is catered to Americans
This American is well familiar with Eritrea, somewhat so with Turkmenistan (though Kyrgyzstan has had some interesting leadership too) and the Cuba section here sounds like it was written by Cuban American Republicans in Miami who insist that their grandparents treated their plantation workers well so there was no need for a revolution.
turkmenistan is so eerie. i went once and it was so weird. it felt like you really just were on a different planet. its so big but so isolated.
The red guards fighting each other is some hilarious OG leftist infighting
Mao couldn't do what the Kim's did because his would-be princeling son went with the Chinese expeditionary force to Korea during the Korean War...and got barbecued in a US Air Force napalm strike. Mao didn't have a definite heir after that.
I think Romania during Nicolae Ceaușescu's rule should have been mentioned,because he really appreciated the North Korean regime and wanted to do something like that in Romania too. Even tough it didn't end up being the European North Korea it still was a bad dictatorship inspired by the Kims
Whenever he would hold his hand up, no matter the protest, everyone would stop speaking in fear. That stuff was WORSE than nk
You can always identify the people who have either never traveled or never traveled outside a first world country... its the ones who reply with "add USA to the list" haha... as many faults as we have, nothing makes you appreciate what we do have in abundance, more than traveling to places in Africa, South America, or Asia
Even parts of the EU make the US feel like heaven
@@milesduggan Such as?
@@martinusv7433 LA
Bold of you to assume that turkey is still democratic
I am a turkey and I am democratic! Wait... Oh... You meant Turkey... That's good. I'm not a turkey anyway, I'm a rotisserie 🐔😊
Albania is apparently called: the North Korea of Europe.
It 100% has a lot less North Korea factors but it is for some reason
Probably because of it’s communist regime during the Cold War
Under Enver Hoxha (1944-1985) Albania was super isolated, at one point having no diplomatic ties with anyone but China. Hoxha notably built a ton of defensive bunkers to prevent invasion. Thats a pretty North Korea move. Now it isn't very North Korea but it was in the past.
It was, its not albanian people are finally free now
Great job on your first video. Here is some constructive criticism from a youtube addict. First your biases are clearly showing, if you aim for edutainment content try to be more impartial, unless you like manipulation but then expect to be called out. Second, do more reasearch I don't know anything else from eritrea other than it exists, you could've told me so much more. Third and this is probably the most personal advise, don't be afraid to be more ambitious, I can see from a mile away how cuba was the safe option, Venezuela was staring you in the face, you even highlitghed it on the thumbnail. But what about all the other interesting countries like this in Africa, like Equatorial Guinea or the RDC, or in the pacific like Myanmar or Butan. I'm going to give you a sub because you are in a good pace in hopes you heed my advice. Best of luck
biased videos are more interesting
@@akapacool depends if you want to be wow_mao or not
all creators are biased and none of them are good at hiding it so that first criticism sounds more like you taking offence rather than offering constructive criticism.
@@dominuslogik484 of course everyone is biased but educators should strive to inform more than to influence, at least the honest ones. The best ones can do that and be entertaining, Sam O'Nella is a great example, as hiperbole isn't missinforming if you are educated enough.
@@gLemonn Sam O'Nella has a pretty obvious bias too but he just covers it with humor since he doesn't want to become the target of public controversy. also I have never met an educator who didn't try to influence rather than inform even if they do so accidentally.
Bro did not just compare Cuba to North Korea
A German RUclipsr named Geohammel has stolen this video without crediting you Lmao
I checked it thinking it was just the same format but damn he copied the jokes and everything
@@Neio-14 Yeah it's a one to one translation
I know it's not "your ad" technically but it definitely made me laugh in the middle after saying "thanks" and youtube gave me 2 ads back to back lol
😭sorry lol!
I’m from eritrea, I’d rather piss through my ass than live there again.
Eritrea is not even a real country, just territory stolen from Ethiopia, to prevent it access to the sea.
@Arthur-cg4hp Its bad, I can tell you right now, its no more than 3 million people. Most people flee, schools are empty and the population is old.
Cuba is a North Korea with tourism. Imagine living like North Koreans but seeing tourists enjoy themselves and live in luxury.
I mean, putting Cuba in that list kind of feels like a stretch, comparing it to north corea
There's about a dozen countries that are (much) more oppressive than Cuba and (much) less oppressive than North Korea, Turkmenistan and Eritrea.
cuba is like one of the most oppressive in the world. or at least was, up until few years ago
Bro a Spanish youtuber named don canitro, im sure he stole your video idea and gave no credits, and i say im sure he stole your video because you posted this 9 months ago and he did 4 months ago
Vamo arriba el Bolso papá
@@cafecognitionis6412 XD si soy fan
HOW IS THIS YOUR FIRST VIDEO OF ALL THINGS!?!? Thats amazing bro.
First edit: Nice, I got likes on a comment.
Belarus is the closest to North Korea you can get in Europe, though Belarus certainly isn't as bad as the DPRK.
True!
The Potatao Dictatorship
I'd argue Albania was closer during the Hoxha Years and arguably something of a "North Korea before North Korea" since it was already a paranoid, racist, nationalist-communist totalitarian basket case even before North Korea really went downhill to the state we're all familiar with during the 1970s-90s.
Ironically in some ways I'd argue it was a relatively successful period for Albania, if only because what came before was so dysfunctional or screwed up. But still not a great place.
@@vandeheyeric I meant in the modern day but you're kinda right.
Zog I>Hoxha every day of the week.
@@Comicfield1 Largely agreed, though Zog was his own basket case and I'd argue struggled to modernize the country and especially do literacy (as well as fatally was dependent on outside powers like Italy and Yugoslavia), but he still managed to run a decently functional country. Arguably the first in Albanian history since the Ottoman conquest. He was almost certainly a better man morally than Hoxha, but I'm not sure if he was a better statesman. Sort of similar IMHO to the Tito / Aleksandar I divide.
You missed some funny facts about Turkmenistan, like their leader was kinda superstar: local TV showed him singing on stage during big celebrations, rapping with his grandson, building racing cars (and winning the race), writing books about medicine, agriculture and so on.
wasnt he also the dentist of the previous leader?
@@sammya5855 Maybe. Dentist, gynecologist, karate master... The only thing he wasn't is a porn actor. But you can never be sure.
Cuba is nowhere near the authoritarian reach North Korea has. Their government doesn't crack down as nearly on dissidents and allows for more flexibility within electoral politics - of course it has to be dictated within the party's ideology but this is not North Korea. I'd say Cuba is one of the least authoritarian governments amongst the authoritarian ones. It's still one party rule though but putting it equal to North Korea is just wrong.
I think they're like Vietnam, except unlike Vietnam, Trump and Biden still decided to blockade them instead of continuing what Obama did, which is allowing their diplomatic relationship open
wrong.the last protest lots of people got killed by the goverment ,, what are you talkin about?? and that was like 2 years ago .
tell me you are not latin and tell me you dont know spanish without telling me. cuba its way worse that vietnam ...what are you talking about@@SiPakRubah
@@rioluna6058 China then? Or worse than China?
Venezuela is worse in terms of economy, but most Latam is not in a good shape too, so
@@SiPakRubah Sanctions have held Cuba back that is true. I'm not a fan of the government since I don't like these types of governments but we can't deny their poverty stems largely from sanctions.
Cuba probably would have become democratic in the 90s like some of Eastern European and former Soviet regions if it had not been stuck so close to the US with the baggage from before Castro. backpacked around Cuba in mid 90s and at no point did i feel at risk of imprisonment or death, which literally happened to some poor American tourist in North Korea; and im sure its become more open over the last 20-30 years
Albania during Enver Hoxha -
The North Korea
Of Europe
these countries are substantially different from north korea i think, central asia & theocracies seems more like north korea so maybe turkmenistan is but these arent on the same level & many countries including ones in the west do an equal number of things similarly as cuba or eritrea seems to but i dont know in depth
i hate the fact that you class cuba as bad as north korea just coz its commie
Right? The Cuba section is very... under researched.
fr but at the same time it's not even communist it's socialist and idk what the difference is but there must be one
@@usergodknowswhat there is a massive difference socialism is where the means do production are controlled by the government but there are still wealthy people it’s just the gap between middle class and rich is much smaller
Where as communism everyone is completely equal
@@prince0panda914 ok thx for the info
Not commie lovers bro just not delusional. Saying cuba is on the same level as north korea is just stupid and blatantly incorrect.
fr
Up until 2011 most of the cars in Cuba were from the 50s due to isolation. There’s a reason stories of people fleeing on makeshift rafts to Florida is commonplace
Not on the same level but close to it. Cuba is an impoverished totalitarian state. That has completely regulated the economy and has hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing from it every year to go to the Us. North Korea is more militaristic but generally they are very close in authoritarian policies. Both their life quality are at the dump as well. And they are also both communists.
Singapore - a benevolent dictatorship. They have ultra strict laws. Limited freedom of choice, expression, assembly, association and the press.. The elections are structured to favor the ruling party and the country is a police state using the death penalty and canning.
just be a good person lol
@@MagmaVRlol Oh you mean by Singapore government standards which is: Don't criticise the government in any way, only praise the Singaporean government, never say anything negative about Singapore ever, support everything the Singaporean government does - without exception.
As an Iranian, that's child's play
@@Andrew-df1dr Just dont be an idiot and ur fine lol
@@MagmaVRlol As stated, an idiot by the Singaporean governments point of view and standards, is someone that disagrees with them.
Cuba has free and fair elections lmao
Lol you sure?
I always knew Turkmenistan as the country with the giant burning hole in the ground... And also the country with the dictator who is completely insane about the fact that his country has a giant burning hole in the ground.
I've been to Cuba. It's NOTHING like North Korea.
I didn't have any government minder watching my every move, and could go anywhere as I saw fit.
Thats because cuba dont need a goverment person watching you, every neighborhood has his own CRD, a CDR its a group of neighbors loyal to the party who act as vigilantes they know everything about all the neighbors and if anyone does something illegal they have the power to arrest them, so if you did something illegal like gifting a cuban some dollars you just send them to jail, you just dont know
None of these countries are like north korea… western people just go what their media tells them because its so wrong to compare anyone to north korea
Glad you did, its funny that some of the west go by what google tells them. none of these countries are like NK
"I've been to Cuba. It's NOTHING like North Korea."
Yes, it is. Start with the totalitarian vanguard party dictatorship and go down.
"I didn't have any government minder watching my every move, and could go anywhere as I saw fit."
Yeah, right. More likely, the regime's gotten good at decades of playing the KGB game of government minders for useful idiot tourists meaning a lot of the "average people" you met are actually DGI. In addition to the CDR helping to keep the actual people under tight control.
Like elphibelol5005 said, if you don't understand how the regime has embedded itself in public life and tyrannizes its people, you won't understand what you are seeing is a human zoo.
My barber is from Eritrea he escaped and came to Canada ..good dude
I'm a simple man, smaller RUclips creator explains he does not have an add but asks for a like, I like, and comment.
Jeez-- If you're going to talk about Mao, you might as well talk about Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Italy under Mussolini, Spain under Franko, Uganda under Amin, and Cambodia under Pol Pot. And that last one was probably the worst hell on earth of all of them: they tortured something like a quarter of their own population to death!
Bruh Cube is NOT the same level as the North Korea in the slightest
Haiti is definitely a north korea
Canada is on it's way to be on this list.
@@dalebaker9533 how?
How canida
probably because of tradaeu
@@WorldBoxman2tredaeu keeps on winning every election even though he isn’t popular
6:03 i cant get enough of this hilarious song
Honestly it's such a banger.
Saying "Cuba is finally opening up trade" w/out mentioning the US embargo on cuba is kinda crazy tbh. I think the US deserves at least a little credit for Cuba's isolationism. (Not to mention some of the worst things happening on Cuban soil are perpetuated by the US in Guantanamo Bay)
The whole video is uncritically regurgitated US propaganda. There is no research into the historical and political context of any of the countries.
@@merduferyou wouldn't know context if it bit you.
@@KamalasFakePolls Contexts never bite in my experience. I'm sorry to hear you've had a worse time with it.
love getting high asf and watching these typa videos tbh for a new chanel youre videos are cool asf
Been seeing this vid on my recommended for a few days but I'm also high af on Christmas rn and I just KNEW this was the moment to watch it. And it was, this is amazing lmao
when i get high at home i always watch these things and some national geographic animal shit too its really good