"We're going to do this fun thing where we try to build the entire earth in minecraft. I think it'll be a neat community project that could last years." Later: "We have to topple the North Korean government in order to complete this project."
I can just imagine one of NK's top ranking officials browsing TH-cam and stumbling on one of Pippen's BTE videos, then frantically making a phone call a few minutes later, "Great Leader, we've uh, got a situation. No they're not making The Interview 2. It's much worse."
I mean, no one can blame you for not being able to accurately recreate a 1:1 scale of one of the current worst countries on the planet; especially if it's because there simply are not enough images to highlight the multiple humanitarian crises currently happening.
@@ThobiasTutorialslol whats worse than being banned from leaving the country, being detained for the littlest things like not worshipping a fat man who threatens you and your entire extended family with execution via anti air gun at every turn
Yeah! Screw all this "Pics or it didn't happen"-bs, if you really want to build North Korea in Minecraft, you will build North Korea in Minecraft. And include the glorious leader inventing the Hamburger and then flying a unicorn to heaven, if you are good at it.
@@ryanislowiq that might be true for the russians whose nukes are old and haven't been tested, but north korea has had confirmed nuclear bomb tests within the last few years.
@@cageybee7221 NK may have enough to do some damage, but Kim legit did a little "fake cry" in a speech because the population refuses to _reproduce_ in such a terrible country. I have high doubts about their military prowess.
if you observe the satellite images, you can see in most cities in North Korea, the amount of slums that are present, just behind buildings blocking any tourists from seeing them... Such a sad reality, I hope some day North Koreans get to live in better conditions.
@@NatCo-Supremacist idk where did you got that, I am not from the US but you probably can leave as long as you haven't done any ilegal thing, (and have the proper documentation of course) if you look at Korea it's pretty much impossible to leave, or do anything that goes against their government, not saying the US is a "free" country but comparing it to Korea is kinda weird
I’m in Taiwan on vacation atm. Even though things are fairly “westernised” here, I’ve noticed Google Maps is still pretty inaccurate at times (which makes navigating the many small narrow alleyways quite challenging).
In most countries, you actually have to install their local maps app. The reason being of course to prevent any hostile government to launch mass scale attack on Taiwan.
idk man I'm Taiwanese and always used google maps to navigate around even on mountains and it has never failed me so far. much of the navigation issues in city is just roads being literally on top or right next to each other + the tall buildings surrounding it reducing satellite coverage so the tracking gets pretty bad but if you have a somewhat decent understanding of map reading you would know when its happening and just keep going as normal.
@@popeyboy5108 I was shocked to discover there are people online who believe north Korea is genuinely a happy country to live in, saying that "Imperialist propaganda is just trying to make it look like a cartoon villain". All this information People have access to that North Koreans can't even imaging having, and they still think North Korea is a nice country. I hate Brainwashing.
3:45 he didn't steal the poster, they only had footage that someone (it was a small blur you couldn't make much of anything out) tore it down, he was basically tortured into confessing to it, kind of in poor taste to claim he did it when he was more than likely completely innocent and then murdered for it
If it's wrong to say he stole the poster than it's also wrong to say he was murdered. We don't know if he actually stole the poster. I think the most likely explanation is that someone from his group, probably him, did actually take it down. We do know however that at least some of what he confessed too was bullshit, whether he made this up under duress or was reading a script is also unknown. That being said there is no evidence he was deliberately harmed in any way and in fact the evidence demonstrates he received much better medical care than could be expected by the majority of North Koreans. Whether he needed that treatment due to food poisoning, unsanitary conditions, or some sort of ill treatment that didn't involve physical injury will likely never be known.
@@sango_wango851 The main reason why someone would confess to things they didn't do *is* torture, and I'm not inclined to give NK the benefit of the doubt. Even without official torture, forced incarceration for years with almost no evidence is going to result in torturous treatment unless you have an exceptionally ethical prison system, which I'm not going to assume is true for NK when the USA (which, for all its deep and horrific flaws is certainly much better than NK) straight-up allows private companies to enslave its prisoners.
Idea: let 2b2t players build North Korea, either they somehow do it 1:1 or make it a wasteland, and since there is no way of knowing how it really looks like, it won't matter
What if instead we send the 2b2t players to North Korea. I'm not sure if they will win or not, but it be entertaining to watch them try to take over the server.
This nation-sized prison honestly scares me the more I think about it. Also... *9:25* *9:45* Grand reveal: _North Korea is run by GRIAN!_ None of the buildings' backs are finished, and instead of building them the government doesn't allow people to photograph them.
More than likely, these high end buildings only look good from the outside and are likely bad and empty on the inside... The so called largest building in Pyongyang is built with just the frame in mind and nothing else. Nobody lives in it, nobody works in it (except the construction workers who are building up the interior slowly, and most of all, it's dark inside. Completely dark and dull. But who knows, maybe that's changed in the 5 years since we got any real update from the building... or maybe not.
that actually happens to american skyscrapers, The interior isint bad its normal but just hard to find companies with the money to have a bigshot downtown office and compete with other neighboring office complexes, although the american skyscrapers are more aesthethically pleasing in the 3 big styles we built them in (gothiC/artdeco, modernist, postmodernist
@@circleinforthecube5170to be fair, it's pretty easy for a rentor to set up a new floor with whatever layout they want on demand, that's not what's happening in NK though.
from what i've heard some floors of the hotel are completed enough to host tourists. there are videos on youtube of people slipping their tour guides and going to the unfinished floors.
The Ryugyong Hotel has now recently been rigged up with LED lights to form propaganda displays. It was Egypt's Orascom who arranged and implemented that, Orascom also being responsible for part of the North Korean mobile phone network.
imagine if 200 years later someone plays the earth 1:1 map to look at how the world was before, goes to Nort korea and only see a large empty green area and think "wow, there´s empty, so I think no one interesting thing was here before, probably was not important"
thats why Pippen needs to include a museum of facts, or history. It would be cool just in general, but it would also document WHY specific places weren't created.
tl,dr you made a error, please correct. DW is not north korean it's german, and the state has absolutepy 0 say in what they broadcast. They just fund it. 4:40 what are you talking aout? DW is a GERMAN public broadcast service. The german public broadcast services are news companies wich agree to refuse from any other funding through for example advertisement (for the most part) and in turn get funded through german tax payers money. This was designed by the USA and UK after ww2 to prpvide the german public with a domestoc, impartial news coverage and has since then achived a position pf hogh regards and trust among the german public. They are so impartial that german public broadcasting news providers have even uncoverd scandals and cases of corruption within german parties and the goverment. In fact they, more often then not, critticise the very goverment of germany which provides there fumding, simply becouse they know there is nothing the german goverment can do against it.
Hey, would like to voice a correction here: DW is separate from the rest as it is directly funded and owned by the government. All the other public broadcasts are funded by the people directly with a monthly fee called the „Rundfunkbeitrag“ which makes it financially independent of the government. They are truly independent unlike DW who reports to the government. DW does have a relatively good track-record with accuracy but are by definition less trustworthy than the rest.
You could compare North Korea and South Korea as the slight extremes of their economic ideologies. North Korea is a totalitarian regime, hell-bent on secrecy and total control of its populace while attempting to mask itself under smoke and mirrors. South Korea is a corrupt democracy, holding only a twisted mirror of themselves while their populace suffers from the majority of monopolies active in the state. (Did you know that nearly every South Korean president has been arrested after their presidency) I mean, in the end, South Korea may be considered a better place than North Korea to live in due to it having opportunity, they are just an interesting economic experiment.
South Korea is considered westernized yet it doesn't even have freedom of the press by the standards the UN sets for journalistic freedom. In fact last I checked the only Asian country with freedom of the press by UN standards is Japan.
there was a time when the south was even poorer and more authoritarian than the north, this was during the cold war, before south korea received large amounts of support from america and back when north korea received large amounts of support from the eastern bloc. this changed in the 1980s when the soviets began pulling back from the world and the americans began ramping up their support of the south when their people toppled their military dictator and it became a democratic country that was far less controversial to fund. as north korea became poorer they became more extreme and totalitarian, while south korea got wealthier from american support and democratized.
@@cageybee7221 Of course I know that history. And that is also important to point out: both South Vietnam and South Korea started out as dictatorships.
Actually, building North Korea may not be too hard when it comes to rural landscaping. There are plenty videos of video views of rides on the Korean Railway throughout the country showing close ups of buildings you wouldn't be able to see with satellite view. And, since North Korea is a communist nation, many buildings across the country are copy paste and are almost identical, so once you see one close up of a certain building, you can keep creating that building in areas you recognize it from satellite view in places with 0 on the ground coverage
@@borealis_3882 they're copy paste throughout a small community, and this mostly only happens with newer, recently built suburban neighborhoods. We're talking copy paste throughout the entire country with North Korea. The Soviet Union even made a movie based on this fact, it's called "The Irony of Fate", you should give it a watch
I say you just black-out (cover in black concrete blocks) any counties that have done this. And allow people to build temporary personal builds in the sky on top of it (e.g: +15y levels). These could then be moved down if the map data is ever released. That way the culture can remain whilst explicitly saying we do not tolerate or condone the leader's behaviour.
The last sentence just confuses me, we aren’t suggesting we support or condone anything the leader of a country does by acknowledging their culture… what a weird thing to say
@@doncomputer5931 "So, there's this blocky illusionary world in this thing called a "computer", right? Don't worry, I'll explain what a computer is too -" - Words spoken a day before the North Korean government is overthrown
@@internetlurker1850 and then they will be like "Yes, I will risk my life in a revolution so some guy can pretend to build my house in a pretend world."
I can help you, although there is a language barrier, there is a 10 episode documentury of a Lithuanian entering North Korea (some footage was in China before North Korea)
Funny you made the skidrow comment on Washington D.C. - Having been to D.C. myself more than a few times and living not far away, I can safely say the homeless population are ever-present from the moment you step out of the train or arrive in D.C. There are bad neighborhoods you don't want to go to either, literally just a few streets away. I walked the streets at night which you would think the capitol would feel safe to walk at night, but you take just one turn into a street and it turns real bad real quick, especially homeless with tents sleeping everywhere on the sidewalks. There are some real worn down areas that could certainly use improvement. The roads are in worse shape than my hometown roads in some areas! This is the CAPITOL! Granted there is far more DC has to offer than NK obviously.
Washington D.C. does actually have a serious gang problem if you go to the wrong places. Some of it looks like a slightly nicer version of Compton, but it's not an area tourists would ever see or go to.
It honestly sucks to be one of those North Koreans having to live a life where you have no rights and you’re basically living in a prison not a country
@@kerkonig5102no everyone knows, it’s just some people can LISTEN, Some news station can be funded by North Korea, yes even DW German Public broadcasting
bruh... at 10:36 you can literally see the boat has a turret on it... what is it... they scared of the tourists so they have a weapon on board to execute them? xd
That's the USS Pueblo. She was a spy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 and is now used as a propaganda museum. Fun fact about the USS Pueblo is that she's still an active US Navy ship and has never been formally decommissioned. In London we have HMS Belfast.
0:16 honestly, i've heard so much miss information about my country that i stopped believing what the media says cuz i'd be a hypocrite accepting what the medi says about other countries but not my own
No no no no no. The reason South Korea has not allowed google maps is because it does not need to. We have our own online map system that actually works with the advanced public transport system and it's tied to our bigges search engine(Naver) so it is even more convinient. If you search for, say, a restraunt in SK on a google maps, 9 times out of 10 it doesn't even show the correct open and closing times. However, all that information and more(the operating hours, how to get to that location from where you are at, etc.) There is no need to provide to google and/or pay them to accurately record map data and all the other stuff, because what we have is already very well established.
our problems are solved faster if we solve worse problem first then we have more people on the same level as we so more people working on the same problem also many of our problems come from the problems of other countries@@Prororo
I just had the realization that the republic of east gorteau, which is supposed to be a parody of the DPRK in hunter x hunter is a way better place to live in than the actual real life north korea how is that possible 😭😭
USA is a superpower but are they liberating North Korea or any other nations? No. They have only caused insecurity and trauma in the places that they have “liberated”
For anyone wondering, North Korea does not allow Google maps because it is a concern to their national security; the same reason why the USA does not allow Google maps to display military secrets. If North Korea were to allow this, they worry that their neighbours (South Korea) who are very strongly backed and trained by the USA will be able to easily invade them using the data from these maps. This is not far fetched considering that the USA are very much afraid of North Korea and its crazy rocket man dictator. Similarly, if China were to allow the same, because they back North Korea (and are pretty much the only reason why North Korea still exists currently) then if North Korea's crazy little rocket man did something then they would also be dragged into war with the West. China prefer to take a more neutral stance currently so they don't piss other countries off, that is until you double cross them, hence why when Russia went and did something China specifically asked them not to do because China wanted to build a train route or something they lost favour with China, and is also why China have not come out swinging with Russia in this war with Ukraine, but is also why the West hasn't exactly come out swinging against Russia (because nobody wants a war with China). If these things happened, and war with China happened, China also worry that Google maps could be used to gather data that would be paramount to an invasion or war with the West. Another reason why both of these countries don't allow this is due to the censorship that both dictatorships employ. Their whole dictatorship's existence solely relies on this censorship system, telling the citizens there is nothing happening while many bad things happen in the background. If they did not apply this censorship they would be exposed to the world and also to their country which would be detrimental to the existence of the country. China relies mostly on exports, if their censorship went away and all of their misdeeds came to light, no country would buy from them and their economy would collapse within weeks. North Korea relies on its relationship with China and Russia, but also relies on its nuclear capability which they often use as a scare tactic against countries like the USA who fold and send medical or food aid to them. If North Korea's censorship went away, these nuclear targets could be destroyed, and combined with China's economical collapse and Russia's ongoing war they would have nothing left to deter an invasion. This is also why people that attempt to circumvent the censorship are considered enemies of the state.
If you purchase Microsoft Flight Simulator you can fly into North Korea and it surprisingly has all the terrain loaded! You can build the buildings and landscape
i wouldn't feel bad for kim jong un or any of the other high ranked officials that don't do anything to help the poor innocent civilians that are suffering in the country
@@NatCo-Supremacistlook buddy I know you’re trying to be fair to the DPRK but they objectively are suffering. The DPRK is one of the poorest countries in the world with the harshest, most genocidal sanctions put on them. North Koreans are suffering most definitely. Now thats most likely due to poor economic conditions and not the exaggerated stories put forth by North Korean defectors.
Also, it strategically makes so much sense to make your maps as confusing to enemies as possible. Our country will release our military plans to public record. How have US wars been going again?
This doesn't seem like too big a deal. By the time we finish everything we have good data for it will probs be enough time for private Satellite tech to advance enough or for the authoritarian regimes to collapse and for the poorest countries to industrialize.
This is complete misinformation. Minecraft has added mud bricks, so you can absolutely and accurately recreate north korean living standards. Hope this helps 👍
Its disgusting how ignorant many people are, believing that North Koreans aren't suffering and starving and that it is just propaganda. Absolutely disgusting.
Yeah that's how I feel! Like imagine going to the comments with the audacity to say that defectors are just whining and lying about how bad things are for attention. First of all. North Korean government is actively trying to push that narrative. So whose side are you on. Second. Even if it was an "exxageration" that does not excuse that we KNOW there are people SUFFERING, that should NOT be. Their struggles are still valid. Third. There is so much being hidden from the world. And for what. They have so much to hide clearly. It needs to come out. I'm so annoyed at these comments. A show of ignorance and callousness in my eyes
Why not make a big sign dissing kim jong un in that part of the map. Then say the only way to change it is to build the real thing. Maybe his ego will actually cause him to do it.
When you think about it, if North Korea or other countries don't authorize Minecraft Builders to make their country, they'll be fully empty, which would show that the countries are extremely poor and don't have a single house.
Building North Korea in Minecraft takes so many blocks that it would be impossible to create an exact replica of it in Minecraft even if Kim Jong Un decided to let people build North Korea. Kim Jong Un, please let people build your favorite country in Minecraft because they will never finish building it.
Yknow it’d be an interesting series if you did a series on building the most totalitarian states. Maybe up next could be Eritrea, Nicaragua, and Turkmenistan.
Fun Fact: the Zoo in North Korea keeps multiple Breeds of Dogs🙃 And what I was wondering about before looking it up: yes, they actually exchange Animals with other Zoos or at least did so in the Past. No Clue how up to Date the Information was
skid row is practically right next to the white house, you ever seen videos from downtown washington DC? the police sirens in the presidential speeches outdoors
the reason why there aren't any pictures of the back of that grand people's study house might probably be that they just pulled a grian move and didn't finish the back
You said sometimes it will show it is supported and funded by North Korea, but the screenshot you showed said it was a German Public Broadcast service. How is German anything to do with North Korea? I feel like that needs to be explained.
Tldr, He made an error. There is zero dokumentation about north korea from north korea. Simple as that. For some reason youtube adds disclaimers on any and all videos made by the german public broadcast services. Those are a bunch of german news companies(?) who get funded by the german state, and as exchange don't advertise and provide there news for no cost/very little cost (mostly, some exceptions to advertisement and subscriptions/cost apply). The german state has no say in what they broadcast/publicise and more often then not these very broadcast services have uncovered corruption and scandals with german polititians/the german goverment. It was designed after ww2 by the UK and the USA following a simmilar system as the BBC at the time (iirc). For obviouse reasons thats why it was dsigned to be impartial and disconnected from politics/political partys. Basicly whenever you see the german public broadvsst disclaimer you can be a bit more trusting of the informations presented. (still always use multiple sources and compare them. You know, standard media competence(?)). He just saw the "public broadcasting service" amd went apeshit crazy on "oh no its goverment narative it must be the koreans shaping there narative" amd didn't see that thats not what the youtube disclaimer is about.
By the Way: you can actually use the App Radio Garden to listen to a North Korean Radio Station. At least it was possible a few Years ago. Quite interesting to listen to Radio Stations from other Countries. That Way I also found out that for some Reason at least one South African Radio Station plays german Advertisements. Not only in the Language but literally for a Shop inside a german City
Plot twist: the most famous building in North Korea was built by grian which is why there's no photos of the back (there's no back)
thats right
Yup 100%
Lol amazing crossover
Itjusttakestoolongandnoonelooksatthebackanywayrightguys
@@yalieyal4362 you know that big long key in your keyboard? yea thats called a space. You should use it cus it makes reading easier.
"We're going to do this fun thing where we try to build the entire earth in minecraft. I think it'll be a neat community project that could last years."
Later:
"We have to topple the North Korean government in order to complete this project."
38 likes and no reply; wow I must be lucky.
Well, that's not wrong. We DO have to topple it.
142 likes and 5 to 0 ratio'd replies you must be very unlucky@@youtubeguy8796
Nah we are just going to not include north Korea... And then we shall mirror that IRL...
plus China, ig?
Half way through I forgot this was a Minecraft video 💀
thats way too true
Fr I forgot too
me too
Same
I love playing teardown
I can just imagine one of NK's top ranking officials browsing TH-cam and stumbling on one of Pippen's BTE videos, then frantically making a phone call a few minutes later, "Great Leader, we've uh, got a situation. No they're not making The Interview 2. It's much worse."
"We've messed with the minecraft builders, now they've leaked everything we've done!"
@@Hellscaped me: *busts down door with a 12 gauge* (in scarecrow voice) HELLO COMMIES TODAY WE'RE GONNA PLAY A GAME
@@micahh9351why not in a joker voice?
@@ultimatecultchaos cause scarecrow scarier
@@micahh9351 k
I mean, no one can blame you for not being able to accurately recreate a 1:1 scale of one of the current worst countries on the planet; especially if it's because there simply are not enough images to highlight the multiple humanitarian crises currently happening.
China is on the board of Human Rights Organization of the United Nations, how on God's green Earth did that manage happen?
@@Dolcosy thats a semicolon.
The DPRK is far from the worst country in the world
@@ThobiasTutorialsWhat is?
@@ThobiasTutorialslol whats worse than being banned from leaving the country, being detained for the littlest things like not worshipping a fat man who threatens you and your entire extended family with execution via anti air gun at every turn
Next up: "So we snuck into North Korea to record it and build it in Minecraft"
"We Started a Revolution in North Korea so that we could rebuild it in Minecraft."
That will be His last video
Best if we bring tiny hidden cameras and attach them to our clothes.
We built a microscopic drone and flew it into north korea
Yeah! Screw all this "Pics or it didn't happen"-bs, if you really want to build North Korea in Minecraft, you will build North Korea in Minecraft. And include the glorious leader inventing the Hamburger and then flying a unicorn to heaven, if you are good at it.
At first I thought it's because they were trying to stop you from building it, after watching I've discovered it's impossible
Interesting fact: Volvo once received an order of ~1000 cars to North Korea.
North Korea has yet to pay off the 234 million euros bill
Whoever's in charge of bill collecting probably (rightfully) just doesn't want to bother with North Korea
"hey thanks for the cars, now good luck making us pay you we have nuclear weapons and the 4th largest army on earth..."
@@cageybee7221I dont think any of the weapons work anymore…
@@ryanislowiq that might be true for the russians whose nukes are old and haven't been tested, but north korea has had confirmed nuclear bomb tests within the last few years.
@@cageybee7221 NK may have enough to do some damage, but Kim legit did a little "fake cry" in a speech because the population refuses to _reproduce_ in such a terrible country. I have high doubts about their military prowess.
if you observe the satellite images, you can see in most cities in North Korea, the amount of slums that are present, just behind buildings blocking any tourists from seeing them... Such a sad reality, I hope some day North Koreans get to live in better conditions.
@@NatCo-Supremacist they are though, check some statistics, they've got muuuuch better conditions
They should at least copy the streets and make improvised houses through those images, instead of giving up north korea
@@NatCo-Supremacist, claiming an apple to be an orange would be more accurate than the nonsense you just spouted.
@@NatCo-Supremacist maybe its bad in some places, but at least you are allowed to leave the country
@@NatCo-Supremacist idk where did you got that, I am not from the US but you probably can leave as long as you haven't done any ilegal thing, (and have the proper documentation of course)
if you look at Korea it's pretty much impossible to leave, or do anything that goes against their government, not saying the US is a "free" country but comparing it to Korea is kinda weird
So sad how Pippen wont ever see the day light again
R.I.P. Pippen we will look for your remains in the tiny part of North Korea we can visit but will work tirelessly to honor you🙏
@@Vanilla_Smoke_YT best comment
@@Vanilla_Smoke_YTwait what happened
@@LightStorm. not happened yet. is going to... 😞
You're implying that basement dweller ever did see the sunlight before?
I’m in Taiwan on vacation atm. Even though things are fairly “westernised” here, I’ve noticed Google Maps is still pretty inaccurate at times (which makes navigating the many small narrow alleyways quite challenging).
In most countries, you actually have to install their local maps app. The reason being of course to prevent any hostile government to launch mass scale attack on Taiwan.
That's just how it is.
@@faizyusuf2470I’m Taiwanese and Google Map have been serving me well, I know of no such local map app, at least not one that’s popular.
idk man I'm Taiwanese and always used google maps to navigate around even on mountains and it has never failed me so far. much of the navigation issues in city is just roads being literally on top or right next to each other + the tall buildings surrounding it reducing satellite coverage so the tracking gets pretty bad but if you have a somewhat decent understanding of map reading you would know when its happening and just keep going as normal.
Taiwan has issues with China, so theirs makes sense, kinda like South Korea.
You are really doing good for the planet! You are a historian and bringing attention to those suffering.
As if nobody already knew?
@@popeyboy5108 I was shocked to discover there are people online who believe north Korea is genuinely a happy country to live in, saying that "Imperialist propaganda is just trying to make it look like a cartoon villain". All this information People have access to that North Koreans can't even imaging having, and they still think North Korea is a nice country. I hate Brainwashing.
@@doncomputer5931kid , you're literally dehumanising North Koreans.
@@popeyboy5108I knew but not in this amount of detail. I'd say anyone who hasn't done research as this man clearly has wouldn't know either.
lmao it's just a stupid minecraft video and the message is "north korea bad" it's literally not helping a single soul
3:45 he didn't steal the poster, they only had footage that someone (it was a small blur you couldn't make much of anything out) tore it down, he was basically tortured into confessing to it, kind of in poor taste to claim he did it when he was more than likely completely innocent and then murdered for it
If it's wrong to say he stole the poster than it's also wrong to say he was murdered.
We don't know if he actually stole the poster. I think the most likely explanation is that someone from his group, probably him, did actually take it down. We do know however that at least some of what he confessed too was bullshit, whether he made this up under duress or was reading a script is also unknown. That being said there is no evidence he was deliberately harmed in any way and in fact the evidence demonstrates he received much better medical care than could be expected by the majority of North Koreans. Whether he needed that treatment due to food poisoning, unsanitary conditions, or some sort of ill treatment that didn't involve physical injury will likely never be known.
@@sango_wango851 a defector that was involved in the situation has a theory that Otto was poisoned by the north koreans
@@sango_wango851 The main reason why someone would confess to things they didn't do *is* torture, and I'm not inclined to give NK the benefit of the doubt. Even without official torture, forced incarceration for years with almost no evidence is going to result in torturous treatment unless you have an exceptionally ethical prison system, which I'm not going to assume is true for NK when the USA (which, for all its deep and horrific flaws is certainly much better than NK) straight-up allows private companies to enslave its prisoners.
@@sango_wango851 This is some wild propaganda
@@sango_wango851 mate if you're let out in a fuckin' vegetative, effectively brain-dead state and die two days later, you were not treated well
"no one's allowed to see the back of the building"
Griancore lmao
next video: We attempted to start a revolution in North Korea to build it in minecraft
The REAL people’s revolution
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Not so fun fact Otto didn’t steal that photo he was framed… there are photos of him at a New Year’s party at the same time the poster was “stolen”
Oh boy, this OTTO be good!
@@SeeYouInHellDadbro 💀
Otta was a CIA agent.
If Thats True My God..
That’s not fun
Idea: let 2b2t players build North Korea, either they somehow do it 1:1 or make it a wasteland, and since there is no way of knowing how it really looks like, it won't matter
@gameslikes0grolls then like 2 weeks to 2 years later it gets obliterated and turns into a blown up cobblestone mess
What if instead we send the 2b2t players to North Korea. I'm not sure if they will win or not, but it be entertaining to watch them try to take over the server.
@@lunaticbz3594 they will bookban the leader
What if we and the 2bt2t players and 4chan users?
This nation-sized prison honestly scares me the more I think about it.
Also... *9:25* *9:45* Grand reveal: _North Korea is run by GRIAN!_ None of the buildings' backs are finished, and instead of building them the government doesn't allow people to photograph them.
More than likely, these high end buildings only look good from the outside and are likely bad and empty on the inside...
The so called largest building in Pyongyang is built with just the frame in mind and nothing else. Nobody lives in it, nobody works in it (except the construction workers who are building up the interior slowly, and most of all, it's dark inside. Completely dark and dull.
But who knows, maybe that's changed in the 5 years since we got any real update from the building... or maybe not.
that actually happens to american skyscrapers, The interior isint bad its normal but just hard to find companies with the money to have a bigshot downtown office and compete with other neighboring office complexes, although the american skyscrapers are more aesthethically pleasing in the 3 big styles we built them in (gothiC/artdeco, modernist, postmodernist
@@circleinforthecube5170to be fair, it's pretty easy for a rentor to set up a new floor with whatever layout they want on demand, that's not what's happening in NK though.
from what i've heard some floors of the hotel are completed enough to host tourists. there are videos on youtube of people slipping their tour guides and going to the unfinished floors.
The Ryugyong Hotel has now recently been rigged up with LED lights to form propaganda displays. It was Egypt's Orascom who arranged and implemented that, Orascom also being responsible for part of the North Korean mobile phone network.
source?
imagine if 200 years later someone plays the earth 1:1 map to look at how the world was before, goes to Nort korea and only see a large empty green area and think "wow, there´s empty, so I think no one interesting thing was here before, probably was not important"
thats why Pippen needs to include a museum of facts, or history. It would be cool just in general, but it would also document WHY specific places weren't created.
I don’t think Minecraft is going to become the primary source for historical geopolitical data…
shhhhh, a man can dream. a man can dream.@@cockadoodledoowhoareyou2616
@cockadoodledoowhoareyou2616 world of War craft was used as an actual study on diseases, so anything is possible.
@@ForgedinPrintGenuinely? I would love to see the study if you have a link or something, that's pretty funny
And here I forgot that you were talking about building the north korea in a 1:1 scale in Minecraft, thats how good the video is
if you want to build china you can use baidu maps, i think its far more accurate than google, but idk about the streetview
Hes been told that for years
I think the problem is less the ability to and more that china is willing to take action against him if he did do it.
@@MudakTheMultiplierdefinitely the Chinese communist party and the people's liberation army are worried about this
Oh my god, what a stupid thing
@@SulistaComunista Yup, they're worried about accurate maps, and what he's building fully constitutes being an accurate map.
@@MudakTheMultiplier no i genuinely don’t think they will do anything
I didnt expect this to be almost a documentary on the north korea situation geez
10:36
WHY IS THERE A HEAVY MACHINE GUN…oh, wait, yeah, North Korea…but why show it to the tourists!
That would be USS Pueblo, a US surveillance boat that North Korea captured. They left it how they found it as a war trophy.
Because it's a heavy machine gun and those are cool to look at.
lots of countries have old warships turned into museum ships for tourists like this, plenty have way bigger guns still on them too
tl,dr you made a error, please correct. DW is not north korean it's german, and the state has absolutepy 0 say in what they broadcast. They just fund it.
4:40 what are you talking aout? DW is a GERMAN public broadcast service. The german public broadcast services are news companies wich agree to refuse from any other funding through for example advertisement (for the most part) and in turn get funded through german tax payers money.
This was designed by the USA and UK after ww2 to prpvide the german public with a domestoc, impartial news coverage and has since then achived a position pf hogh regards and trust among the german public.
They are so impartial that german public broadcasting news providers have even uncoverd scandals and cases of corruption within german parties and the goverment. In fact they, more often then not, critticise the very goverment of germany which provides there fumding, simply becouse they know there is nothing the german goverment can do against it.
THANK YOU
Hey, would like to voice a correction here: DW is separate from the rest as it is directly funded and owned by the government. All the other public broadcasts are funded by the people directly with a monthly fee called the „Rundfunkbeitrag“ which makes it financially independent of the government. They are truly independent unlike DW who reports to the government.
DW does have a relatively good track-record with accuracy but are by definition less trustworthy than the rest.
You could compare North Korea and South Korea as the slight extremes of their economic ideologies.
North Korea is a totalitarian regime, hell-bent on secrecy and total control of its populace while attempting to mask itself under smoke and mirrors.
South Korea is a corrupt democracy, holding only a twisted mirror of themselves while their populace suffers from the majority of monopolies active in the state. (Did you know that nearly every South Korean president has been arrested after their presidency)
I mean, in the end, South Korea may be considered a better place than North Korea to live in due to it having opportunity, they are just an interesting economic experiment.
South Korea is considered westernized yet it doesn't even have freedom of the press by the standards the UN sets for journalistic freedom. In fact last I checked the only Asian country with freedom of the press by UN standards is Japan.
In North Korea the government kills you, in South Korea you kill yourself.
Also both have horrendous working hours.
there was a time when the south was even poorer and more authoritarian than the north, this was during the cold war, before south korea received large amounts of support from america and back when north korea received large amounts of support from the eastern bloc. this changed in the 1980s when the soviets began pulling back from the world and the americans began ramping up their support of the south when their people toppled their military dictator and it became a democratic country that was far less controversial to fund. as north korea became poorer they became more extreme and totalitarian, while south korea got wealthier from american support and democratized.
@@cageybee7221 Of course I know that history. And that is also important to point out: both South Vietnam and South Korea started out as dictatorships.
9:33 Proof that the camera man never dies
Actually, building North Korea may not be too hard when it comes to rural landscaping. There are plenty videos of video views of rides on the Korean Railway throughout the country showing close ups of buildings you wouldn't be able to see with satellite view. And, since North Korea is a communist nation, many buildings across the country are copy paste and are almost identical, so once you see one close up of a certain building, you can keep creating that building in areas you recognize it from satellite view in places with 0 on the ground coverage
"since north korea is a communist nation, many buildings are copy paste"
US suburbia:
@@borealis_3882 they're copy paste throughout a small community, and this mostly only happens with newer, recently built suburban neighborhoods. We're talking copy paste throughout the entire country with North Korea. The Soviet Union even made a movie based on this fact, it's called "The Irony of Fate", you should give it a watch
i love your hair :),
seriously though, this situation is bad, and you did a good job of explaining it, while still staying close to minecraft.
I say you just black-out (cover in black concrete blocks) any counties that have done this. And allow people to build temporary personal builds in the sky on top of it (e.g: +15y levels). These could then be moved down if the map data is ever released. That way the culture can remain whilst explicitly saying we do not tolerate or condone the leader's behaviour.
good idea!
Or you could record the atrocities they commit. Using books and actual murals of the horrors.
@@ankhmortus1470 oooo that even better!
The last sentence just confuses me, we aren’t suggesting we support or condone anything the leader of a country does by acknowledging their culture… what a weird thing to say
10:00
Grian must be responsible for building that place
That's why they don't allow you to take pictures of the back
„Funded by the Northkorean government“ what it actually said: „German publicly funded Media“ xD
in 10 years we'll wake up to the news of north korea's government being overthrown by people wanting to build it in minecraft
We just need to explain to people in north korea what Minecraft is, since most of them are not allowed to know what the Internet is.
Hopefully
@@doncomputer5931 "So, there's this blocky illusionary world in this thing called a "computer", right? Don't worry, I'll explain what a computer is too -"
- Words spoken a day before the North Korean government is overthrown
@@internetlurker1850 and then they will be like "Yes, I will risk my life in a revolution so some guy can pretend to build my house in a pretend world."
Thank you for using your platform for sharing this. It's not an easy subject to bring up but an important one we should not ignore none the less.
If you look up Jaka Parker, he worked for the embassy there and was legally allowed to film. You can watch those videos to get a better picture.
1:49 This is the most realest "What" I completely agree with.... WHAT?!?!
Everything new I learn about North Korea strikes horror into my core. I mean that genuinely. And this is just a minecraft video.
this video went from i want to build north korea in minecraft to the atrocities that are going on in north korea that are preventing us from doing it.
I can help you, although there is a language barrier, there is a 10 episode documentury of a Lithuanian entering North Korea (some footage was in China before North Korea)
It only shows parts of North Korea, but it's interesting
Lol Otto Wambler. Cmon bro. That big of story? It’s Warmbier. Like warm-beer.
Funny you made the skidrow comment on Washington D.C. - Having been to D.C. myself more than a few times and living not far away, I can safely say the homeless population are ever-present from the moment you step out of the train or arrive in D.C. There are bad neighborhoods you don't want to go to either, literally just a few streets away. I walked the streets at night which you would think the capitol would feel safe to walk at night, but you take just one turn into a street and it turns real bad real quick, especially homeless with tents sleeping everywhere on the sidewalks. There are some real worn down areas that could certainly use improvement. The roads are in worse shape than my hometown roads in some areas! This is the CAPITOL! Granted there is far more DC has to offer than NK obviously.
ever country on earth has slums, the thing that makes north korea's so bad is that they are where the majority of people live.
Washington D.C. does actually have a serious gang problem if you go to the wrong places. Some of it looks like a slightly nicer version of Compton, but it's not an area tourists would ever see or go to.
@@halfbakedproductions7887 every city on earth has a bad area.
@@cageybee7221 Some areas are just bigger then others 💀
Yeah, I'm not denying NK and China are hellscapes but this dude is way to unaware of where he lives lmao
It honestly sucks to be one of those North Koreans having to live a life where you have no rights and you’re basically living in a prison not a country
It'd be funny to just send balloons to photograph China's road data
4:45 is this supposed to be a joke?
I am afraied he is dead seriouse.And barely anyone is pointing it out...
@@kerkonig5102no everyone knows, it’s just some people can LISTEN, Some news station can be funded by North Korea, yes even DW German Public broadcasting
bruh this is sucha well made video- halfway through i forgot this was suppose to be a minecraft video
bruh... at 10:36 you can literally see the boat has a turret on it...
what is it... they scared of the tourists so they have a weapon on board to execute them? xd
That's the USS Pueblo. She was a spy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 and is now used as a propaganda museum. Fun fact about the USS Pueblo is that she's still an active US Navy ship and has never been formally decommissioned.
In London we have HMS Belfast.
I believe that was an American spyship they captured in the past.
This is a captured US navy boat, this is a museum piece
Correction: Allegedly stole a poster of the wall. Just because North Korea said he did it doesn’t mean he did.
Are we just gonna IGNORE THE FACT that at 3:45 he said OTTO WAMBLER!?
0:16 honestly, i've heard so much miss information about my country that i stopped believing what the media says cuz i'd be a hypocrite accepting what the medi says about other countries but not my own
What country?
@@alienmorality SA
No no no no no. The reason South Korea has not allowed google maps is because it does not need to. We have our own online map system that actually works with the advanced public transport system and it's tied to our bigges search engine(Naver) so it is even more convinient. If you search for, say, a restraunt in SK on a google maps, 9 times out of 10 it doesn't even show the correct open and closing times. However, all that information and more(the operating hours, how to get to that location from where you are at, etc.) There is no need to provide to google and/or pay them to accurately record map data and all the other stuff, because what we have is already very well established.
So then why can't it be shared with a man creating a map on a game ?
@@Watson_1776 ... it can be ?
4:43 you could at least have searched for a north korean/chinese or russian one. No you take a german broadcasting service nice work!
Didn't know that my country was north korea the whole time
make the areas you couldn’t map out a desolate nuclear wasteland; which is probably whats gonna happen anyways
if only we can be completely anonymous and omnipotent to record the tyrany of these countries, i sure do wish to strive for that cause
First, we should strive to solve our own problems instead of partaking in warmongering and meddling in foreign nations
@@Prororo If one chooses to let people suffer, they are no better than those who cause it.
@@Prororo china is literally threatening our country
reveal their crimes
our problems are solved faster if we solve worse problem first then we have more people on the same level as we so more people working on the same problem
also many of our problems come from the problems of other countries@@Prororo
I just had the realization that the republic of east gorteau, which is supposed to be a parody of the DPRK in hunter x hunter is a way better place to live in than the actual real life north korea how is that possible 😭😭
Well then, we have space for slander then. Just make the North Korean area an absolute hellscape, there wouldn't be much of a difference anyways 😅
Give Kim statues the Kardashian ass since we got no evidence otherwise.
I actually kind of like that idea.
I know this and everyone knows this. If superpowers did exist. N. Korea would be the first place to be liberated.
USA is a superpower but are they liberating North Korea or any other nations? No. They have only caused insecurity and trauma in the places that they have “liberated”
unless kim gets the superpwowers some how
@@kittensliketoplaysomehow*
@@MethOverdose2001 don't worry he'll be too heavy to even fly
For anyone wondering, North Korea does not allow Google maps because it is a concern to their national security; the same reason why the USA does not allow Google maps to display military secrets.
If North Korea were to allow this, they worry that their neighbours (South Korea) who are very strongly backed and trained by the USA will be able to easily invade them using the data from these maps. This is not far fetched considering that the USA are very much afraid of North Korea and its crazy rocket man dictator.
Similarly, if China were to allow the same, because they back North Korea (and are pretty much the only reason why North Korea still exists currently) then if North Korea's crazy little rocket man did something then they would also be dragged into war with the West. China prefer to take a more neutral stance currently so they don't piss other countries off, that is until you double cross them, hence why when Russia went and did something China specifically asked them not to do because China wanted to build a train route or something they lost favour with China, and is also why China have not come out swinging with Russia in this war with Ukraine, but is also why the West hasn't exactly come out swinging against Russia (because nobody wants a war with China).
If these things happened, and war with China happened, China also worry that Google maps could be used to gather data that would be paramount to an invasion or war with the West.
Another reason why both of these countries don't allow this is due to the censorship that both dictatorships employ. Their whole dictatorship's existence solely relies on this censorship system, telling the citizens there is nothing happening while many bad things happen in the background. If they did not apply this censorship they would be exposed to the world and also to their country which would be detrimental to the existence of the country. China relies mostly on exports, if their censorship went away and all of their misdeeds came to light, no country would buy from them and their economy would collapse within weeks. North Korea relies on its relationship with China and Russia, but also relies on its nuclear capability which they often use as a scare tactic against countries like the USA who fold and send medical or food aid to them. If North Korea's censorship went away, these nuclear targets could be destroyed, and combined with China's economical collapse and Russia's ongoing war they would have nothing left to deter an invasion.
This is also why people that attempt to circumvent the censorship are considered enemies of the state.
Saying that NK would have nothing to deter an invasion is wild. This shit would be like ukraine for russia ^3, you aint going trough without nukes.
If you purchase Microsoft Flight Simulator you can fly into North Korea and it surprisingly has all the terrain loaded! You can build the buildings and landscape
That one truck was from the 40s they’re still using trucks from the 40s
Kim Jong un should tour pipens minecraft builds.I think he would be convinced.
its a joke@@NatCo-Supremacist
Feel bad for anyone living in North Korea
i wouldn't feel bad for kim jong un or any of the other high ranked officials that don't do anything to help the poor innocent civilians that are suffering in the country
@@NatCo-Supremacist Where is your source that they aren't?
@@NatCo-Supremacistlook buddy I know you’re trying to be fair to the DPRK but they objectively are suffering. The DPRK is one of the poorest countries in the world with the harshest, most genocidal sanctions put on them. North Koreans are suffering most definitely. Now thats most likely due to poor economic conditions and not the exaggerated stories put forth by North Korean defectors.
I feel worst for anyone living in Palestine
@@deretti347same its horrifying
0:26 shows the leader, flag and then map of South Korea for no reason
Also, it strategically makes so much sense to make your maps as confusing to enemies as possible. Our country will release our military plans to public record. How have US wars been going again?
This doesn't seem like too big a deal. By the time we finish everything we have good data for it will probs be enough time for private Satellite tech to advance enough or for the authoritarian regimes to collapse and for the poorest countries to industrialize.
I don’t think the USA will collapse soon
Of course this is not a big deal, this is only a stupid Minecraft project, the real deal is koreans having a revolution
Other militaries DEFINITELY have high resolution satellite maps of the entire earth already. They're just not accessible to the public
This is my moment of recommending the show "Crush Landing on You"
Ooo I forgot I was going to watch it, thanks for the reminder!
Noooo pippen you used Yeonmi Park footage
South Korea: Naver Map app is a thing; also in-car GPS in Korea also has 3D mapping. Google isn't the only map tech out there.
"DW is a German public broadcast service" Deutsche Welle is not north korean fundet XXXXXDDDDDD
It’s crazy that all of those buildings in North Korea, are probably 80% empty.
Americans: North Korea is an open air prison!
Also Americans: Gaza is nothing like a open air prison!
Imagine defending terrorists
People can leave Gaza. North Koreans cannot leave
@@oz_jonesyeah, damn jews
@@RealWorldGamesthat's incredibly American thing to say lmao
@@leonardo9259 but it's not Wrong
Let’s be honest. Building north Korea in Minecraft would be an act of kindness for them
I don't want to be the Google employee that has to go in North Korea.
*bro risking his life for this*
This is complete misinformation. Minecraft has added mud bricks, so you can absolutely and accurately recreate north korean living standards. Hope this helps 👍
Props to you for calling out other creators for embracing North Korea's propaganda! I was going MAD after one of those videos 😂
Its disgusting how ignorant many people are, believing that North Koreans aren't suffering and starving and that it is just propaganda. Absolutely disgusting.
see these comments lol
@@smeggiamagarwine ik
Yeah that's how I feel! Like imagine going to the comments with the audacity to say that defectors are just whining and lying about how bad things are for attention.
First of all. North Korean government is actively trying to push that narrative. So whose side are you on.
Second. Even if it was an "exxageration" that does not excuse that we KNOW there are people SUFFERING, that should NOT be. Their struggles are still valid.
Third. There is so much being hidden from the world. And for what. They have so much to hide clearly. It needs to come out.
I'm so annoyed at these comments. A show of ignorance and callousness in my eyes
Google said "nah" to South Korea, " give me all dem secrets."
4:31 bro realy got pepole killed here
Why not make a big sign dissing kim jong un in that part of the map. Then say the only way to change it is to build the real thing. Maybe his ego will actually cause him to do it.
*normal rural house*
Omg why is the world so harsh, anyway why don't we spend more money on rebuilding things in Minecraft
(6:32 and 15 seconds after)
10:30 my cellless Brain laughed when he Said kid from Ohio, 😔
When you think about it, if North Korea or other countries don't authorize Minecraft Builders to make their country, they'll be fully empty, which would show that the countries are extremely poor and don't have a single house.
Aside from Minecraft villagers, but those probably have it better than most North Koreans anyway.
i almost forgot i was watching a minecraft video for a few minutes
as long as you dont go to north korea you its fine to build north korea
People could visit or get teams from south korea at least, also some pictures of the country north korea have been taken from the borders of china
Also there is plenty of footage inside on NK from trains and planes, apparently you can film the outside view in them.
Building North Korea in Minecraft takes so many blocks that it would be impossible to create an exact replica of it in Minecraft even if Kim Jong Un decided to let people build North Korea. Kim Jong Un, please let people build your favorite country in Minecraft because they will never finish building it.
Yeah how are we gonna build, all those slums
@@ThatGuyRNA just use dirt
4:43 "youtube shows that its funded by the north korean government (shows german government)"
lol
> Detain man
> return him in a vegetative state
> refuse to elaborate
> leave
Average totalitarian w 😎
@@Prororo#justcommiethings
@@oz_jones North Korea ain’t communist though
@@oz_jonesnorth korea is capitalist, They sell counterfeit money and weed
Yknow it’d be an interesting series if you did a series on building the most totalitarian states. Maybe up next could be Eritrea, Nicaragua, and Turkmenistan.
I wonder when Minecraft Earth will be finished
Gonna take sum time
Fun Fact: the Zoo in North Korea keeps multiple Breeds of Dogs🙃
And what I was wondering about before looking it up: yes, they actually exchange Animals with other Zoos or at least did so in the Past. No Clue how up to Date the Information was
Why even try? Just buikd something else in the meantime
Might aswell just generate the nether in that area, it's not yhat different
I think that would be great. Just have the capital buildings be in this hellish lava waste. Maybe build a slum behind it too.
The nether is way more livable than North Korea.
@@Cretaceous158 true tbh
skid row is practically right next to the white house, you ever seen videos from downtown washington DC? the police sirens in the presidential speeches outdoors
I love national sociali- WAIT NO I MEAN COMMUNISM I NEVER SAID NATIONAL SOCIALISM.
the reason why there aren't any pictures of the back of that grand people's study house might probably be that they just pulled a grian move and didn't finish the back
You said sometimes it will show it is supported and funded by North Korea, but the screenshot you showed said it was a German Public Broadcast service. How is German anything to do with North Korea? I feel like that needs to be explained.
Tldr, He made an error. There is zero dokumentation about north korea from north korea. Simple as that.
For some reason youtube adds disclaimers on any and all videos made by the german public broadcast services. Those are a bunch of german news companies(?) who get funded by the german state, and as exchange don't advertise and provide there news for no cost/very little cost (mostly, some exceptions to advertisement and subscriptions/cost apply).
The german state has no say in what they broadcast/publicise and more often then not these very broadcast services have uncovered corruption and scandals with german polititians/the german goverment.
It was designed after ww2 by the UK and the USA following a simmilar system as the BBC at the time (iirc).
For obviouse reasons thats why it was dsigned to be impartial and disconnected from politics/political partys.
Basicly whenever you see the german public broadvsst disclaimer you can be a bit more trusting of the informations presented. (still always use multiple sources and compare them. You know, standard media competence(?)). He just saw the "public broadcasting service" amd went apeshit crazy on "oh no its goverment narative it must be the koreans shaping there narative" amd didn't see that thats not what the youtube disclaimer is about.
DW is owned by the Bundesrepublik Deutschland not by North Korea
yea that line confused me so much... it literally says "German"
Dieser Kommentarbereich ist Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
@@Freedomsquadforever Eigentum von BTE Germany
It was a joke
Actually, by now Germany is not very far from North Korea when it comes to censorship and authoritarian tendencies
Someone should go there on a trip and take a tour while wearing glasses that have a camera 😂 but if you get caught don’t say I told you to do it
They're not blurred
It's the real top down view
By the Way: you can actually use the App Radio Garden to listen to a North Korean Radio Station. At least it was possible a few Years ago.
Quite interesting to listen to Radio Stations from other Countries. That Way I also found out that for some Reason at least one South African Radio Station plays german Advertisements. Not only in the Language but literally for a Shop inside a german City
Just build a big wall around where North Korea should be with "FREEDOM" in the wall.