imagine trying to rob a random house that looks like a normal residential house and you end up getting shot 20 times by a north korean general vibing in the garden
Imagine living next to the North Korean embassy, coming home from work and finding a letter from your Amazon delivery driver saying "We left your package with your neighbour."
One of the local barbers put up pictures of North Korean haircuts to mock Kim Jong Un's policies. North Korea visited and formally complained about it, clearly their staff had seen it. They were kindly told to fuck off, this is a free country, it's not Eritrea. Or North Korea. lol
They tried to bully a local hairdresser as they were offering Kim Jong-Un haircuts for a laugh. Then realized they have absolutely zero powers in the UK.
@@ClassicBentobox Look on Google for: "London hairdresser 'targeted by North Korean embassy officials over Kim Jong-un discount' I'd post the link here, buy TH-cam just puts it in a spam folder now.
@@user-wi3yx3gy2o Nah man they're capitalist themselves just like present-day Russia. Corruption, and mass poverty to the extreme. Edit: Was I drunk when I wrote this, NK is communist officially, but just like USSR, or infact more is the corruption present there, plus NK has near no communist policies.
Driven past that house loads of times and I've always wondered why there was a North Korean flag outside. I liked to think that a North Korean family had made it out and settled down just outside Chiswick but this makes much more sense
I have been to that embassy coz my passport was about to expire and I can tell you it's one of the nicest streets in the entire city of Ulaanbaatar...tho calling it Beijing St is definitely unflattering to Beijing 😂😂😂
I delivered food to the Venezuelan embassy in Vienna once. It's literally just a single appartment in a residential building. They had a massive portrait of Simon Bolivar in the entry hall and were quite nice people actually, 10/10 best embassy ever.
Imagine selling a house in suburban london and some crazy koreans come marching down to the house holding a north korean flag and purchasing your property in *suburban* london😂😂😂
imagine being in suburban london and while you are in suburban london you decide to sell you suburban london house in suburban London and some crazy koreans come into suburban london and buy you suburban london house in suburban london and hang up the north Korean flag on your suburban London house in suburban london 😂😂😂
North Korea literally traffics people into other countries for extremely cheap/slave labour. Poland for example has tons of them, the embassy is literally just a cover to help them perform these sorts of illegal thing and even if the host county knows, the politicians directly benefit from it.
It's not just a security system they use, it's an AMERICAN security system...ironic. Fun fact about the Iranian embassy, they have the only mosque in the entire country. Built for the diplomats
Being a South Korean living in London, I searched both the North and South Korean embassies to make myself sure that when I ask the locals directions, they wouldn't point to the wrong one. I saw the North Korean embassy on Google street view and had a hard time since finding it since it just looked like another house on the block.
I wonder if the North Korean embassy ever tricks people into thinking they are the South Korean embassy just so they can capture people and ship them back to North Korea.
I WENT TO THE NORTH KOREAN EMBASSY IN LONDON (not inside lol, but still). This video inspired me to attempt to visit as many London embassies in one day as possible. After realising I couldn't do them all, I decided to do the furthest out ones so I could finish the rest off at a later date. MY HAND HAS BEEN INSIDE NORTH KOREA!!!
@Thanos Rat it’s land owned by the hosting country or nation , so the nk embassy is technically on land that was “given “ to them for the purpose of the embassy but the hosting country always has ownership and rights to the land which would trump any country saying it’s actually their land . Otherwise we’d all jus build as many embassy’s as possible to slowly steal land away
Any Embassy will help you. Oh how true, and they use that to their advantage. One time , when I was travelling through Aussie, I tried to visit my Canadian Embassy. Turned out it was a Aussie National holiday so Embassy was closed with a note on the gate to go to the INDIA embassy. Went there and cautiously asked about my concern. They happily assisted me and explained that all the commonwealth embassies took turns being open for Aussie holidays for all commonwealth citizens. I thought that was a great way to run diplomatic relations.
But they helped you because they were a commonwealth country that had a deal with other commonwealth embassies and you're a commonwealth citizen. So your first sentence is not true. I liked your story though, interesting! In some countries Norwegian and Swedish embassies cooperate like this, probably many countries do.
In Canberra, the British, Canadian, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea (former Australian territory) High Commissions are all next to each other on the road leading up the hill to Parliament House. Most of the other embassies are in the suburb of Yarralumla, on big blocks of land that make it look like, well, something between a college campus and a garden cemetery.
This video is the definition of ADHD, Great Britain is the best embassy in Tokyo but Japan and the UK are the same country, lets talk about North Korea, here is the US and India embassy in Ulaanbaatar!
@@moptopbaku6022 It's all very well criticising him he's just making content he enjoys and there's nothing wrong with that. He actually commits to a career and you're just saying whatever you like as if anyone is going to think you're making a valid point or something
@@mar07in If this is his career, he has a serious problem. Also, if you go public, don't be surprised when people critique your videos. This is a very poor video and his attempts at humour fall flat. Ergo, he is a knob.
IKR but that majority is actually interesting, and factual, so I don’t care. I mean the entirety of TH-cam, especially Brightside, has a majority of your video, not only unrelated to the title, but also complete nonsense which wastes your time. This video, although unrelated to the title, the majority of the video is actually full of facts I am interested to listen!
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High Commissions aren't "secondary" buildings. They're essentially the embassies for any commonwealth country. Which is why you don't find the Australian Embassy in a Commonwealth county, you'd find the Australian High Commission.
I know you sort of implied it in your last sentence, but I think it should be clarified that the 'high commission' identifier is only applied to the diplomatic missions of Commonwealth countries within other Commonwealth countries. So, for example, the Australian diplomatic missions in Washington D.C. and Beijing are still referred to as an 'embassies' because the United States and the People's Republic of China are not part of the Commonwealth.
Yepp And you also don't find Indian embassies in commonwealth countries - you find Indian High Commissions in London, Canberra, Islamabad or Wellington
"Statistically if you live in Washington D.C you don't know where Lesotho is on a map" I'm gonna be real that is the ONLY place in the US where that statement is probably wrong. That city bleeds politics, everyone knows a world map as thoroughly as a preacher knows a bible.
@@chriswall27 I find that weird... Despite not having open borders like Schengen and UK-Ireland, we here in South America can travel anywhere only showing your national ID card in the costumes. I expected there would be something like that in the EU between England and the Schengen countries.
@@sohopedeco I didn't set the rules but if you ask any person from UK they would think South Americans being able to travel between countries without a passport is weird, just different cultures I guess. So can you go all the way to USA without a passport and if not do you find that weird? I have read that back and it sounds like I am being sarcastic, I am not genuine question.
Actually, British food has really improved over the years. First time I was in the UK in 1991 I thought first that I was behind the Iron curtain. In 1996 it was a bit better and as the years flew by it got better and better. And after being in Yorkshire for a three weeks holiday in 2018 I was positively surprised by the British cousin. It has become really good, at least for me.
@@ichhabe330 why ? If your going to be uber critical then you should make sure you've dotted all the i"s and crossed the t"s ........ you havent done so ,use spellcheck something all you scandi" s need
My favourite Tokyo fact is you can literally fit the entire population of Canada in that one city and still have a few hundred thousand free spaces open.
@@Glory_to_Arstotzka its not crazy. Its an effective way to make sure that people have a place to hide in the case of war. Caring about your population is not crazy
3:34 the Marshall Islands were a colony of the US back in the day and their citizens have freedom of movement between america and their country. So I think an embassy might be justified.
😂 COLONY??? HAELLL NAH we were never a colony of America I’m Marshallese and you’re speaking false the Japanese came and conquered every islands in the pacific but really Germany was the first to discover our islands and nobody claimed it 😂
The embassy is there because we let the Americans test their nuclear warheads on our islands for an example Bikini atoll we let them used that and we gained our independence years ago
@@P3gasus6 You should fix the Wikipedia page for your country then. Though you may not have been a literal colony of the US. The Spanish explored and claimed your islands before 1600 and sold it to the Germans in 1885 (according to the wiki).
DC does an event every year (at least pre covid) where all the embassies have like..an open house on the same day and you can walk from embassy to embassy and they have little shows/activities/food and sometimes tours of the embassy. Recommend it if you ever get the opportunity!
I'm pretty sure the foreign relations students at the university I attended took part in that. They went to DC and toured the Polish and Chinese embassies among others (the Polish ambassador's staff even held a discussion with them on the future of world partnerships, which is pretty cool).
The embassy of Liechtenstein is usually just a little phone booth near the parking lot of the swiss embassy. Fun fact: If you put money in the slot it automatically disposes to your anonymous bank account.
I’m from the uk as well, those are rich people houses. That definitely is not a normal uk house, still not what you’d expect a countries embassy to look like though
David Alexander Opel - The UK may be America's best friend, but is America the UK's best friend?? Watch your back - at least as long as Biden is around.
@@viktorrobertson7707 - Biden has made it clear that as 'a proud Irishman' (his words) he feels it would be disloyal of him to view the UK as the closest ally of the US. His overt disrespect of the British PM - as well as siding against the UK on every issue (economic and political) - only emphasizes this position.
Here in NY there's a permanent mission of the DPRK near the UN but you can't tell from the outside that there's a DPRK mission inside. It's in an office condo in an isolated part of the building. Its neighbor is a bank and a Basque delegation
I live nearby the embassy and a barbers put up a poster saying something along the lines of “Bad hair day? Come inside” and had multiple pictures on it including one of Kim Jong-un and the diplomats from the NK embassy called the police asking the barber to take the poster down
The UK is culturally so different from Japan. The point made in the video is that they both have countries split in half next to them. Last time I checked Japan doesn't control North Korea and in that case Puerto Rico and Madagascar would be more similar to Japan than the UK lol
@@onebigsnowball Japan and britain are both islands, just offshore of their respective continent, they both were "on the side" of history, they got relevant relatively recently (in historical terms), they both had a empire, they both are America's closest ally (and also somewhat their bootlickers), and the list goes on.
I used to work at a Swiss bakery and we did events at the Swiss Embassy in DC and I had the neat experience of legally drinking on Swiss land and then driving home to then again be too young to drink.
@Klapaucius Fitzpatrick The police will arrest you as you leave the embassy, because they don't want to start a conflict with Switzerland. This time he kinda just got away with it
The Dr. Terminator Show I don’t think it will for long.. hey! Cheer up.. as long as Scotland stays, the flag will still look golden! Just.. less.. Irish
The US embassy in Iraq is the largest embassy in the world. Russia’s Embassy in Qatar, is in the most expensive artificial island (The Pearl). It a mansion with a private beach.
You have to check out the North Korean Embassy in Berlin. There was a period in time where I was completely obsessed with it. For legal reasons its also some kind of youth hostel that dates all the way back to east and west berlin. Crazy story and history please check it out!
I've been told most NK owned businesses around the world are money laundering fronts - it makes sense, cos they need foreign exchange and they can't really trade with anyone.
shyasaturtle as far as international relations I believe they use Bern, especially since it's on the border between the French and German parts of the country
i just remember driving past that north Korean embassy on the A406 wondering why someone's house had the north Korean flag. THIS, was something that kept ME up for like over a year and now i see this video lmao.
Here in the US, the Brits actually had one of their top architects come over in the 1920s and design the Ambassador's Residence. It's quite literally a large old-fashioned British mansion house tucked into the streets of Washington, DC. You've got to hand it to the Brits, they know how to both make an impression and construct excellent architecture.
Imagine there’s a house fire in the North Korean embassy. The street empties from their homes rushing to help their neighbour, and are met by a barricade, armed guard and diplomat at a podium insisting there never was a fire, and even if there was, it would be a North Korean fire for North Korean purposes. This is all touched off by the fire spreading next door and an elderly lady screaming for help from a second floor window being told to stop being xenophobic.
The Marshall Islands might be tiny on the world stage, but diplomatically, they're very closely linked to the US, probably more so than most countries.
Lol. I drove past that house twice a day for over three years when I worked in Chiswick. I remember the mock Tudor houses very well, as they stood out against the rest there. I had no idea back then what delights were to be found inside.
The British Embassy in Japan is very nice. During the 19th century, the British backed the winning side in the Japanese civil war and were awarded a wonderful site. The French backed the losing side and got a horrible site.
It's funny how similar the UK and Japan are. We both have weird humour compared to the rest of the world, both love seafood and tea, keep our monarchy, and have a historically on and off relationship with our mainland neighbours. Japan has some of the nicest trains on earth, and the fastest maglev speed records, but us Brits still hold the speed record for both steam and diesel trains.
@@AceAttorneyforever apparently us Brits have the nicest embassy in Tokyo cause of old friendships, it'd be nice to see more trade and cooperation tbh. The British carrier group recently did some training exercises at sea with the Americans and Japanese.
I think Canberra has some interesting embassies. Many of the embassies seem to have been designed after the traditional architecture of their respective governments, like the US, Chinese, and Thai embassies.
+ 1 for CBR love. I like the tin sheep for the NZ Embassy (or commission?). My claim to fame is dropping a glass in the Netherlands embassy when my sister won a competition and we got to visit.
The Israeli Embassy in London have had several unhappy meetings with the Secretary of Sate for the UK It's been over an ongoing issues Staff at the Israeli Embassy have been receiving letters address to The OCCUPIER
I can remember when I lived in England there was a mens barbers shop not far from the North Korean emabassy and the owner put up a sign saying " Having a bad hair day" with a picture of Kim jun-un and some people from the embassy came in and demanded that he take the sign down and if I remember correctly he told them to move along as it was his shop and he could put up what ever he wanted LOL
Imagine being north Korean and finally escaping to London after 9 months of miserable travelling only for the house you get put into by the government be right next to the NK embassy.
You’d be a lot more likely to end up in New Malden - an unremarkable SW London suburb home to the world’s highest density population of North Koreans outside of North Korea itself.
both. the UK would need to approve your extradition to the DPRK and that is unlikely, so it is likely you would end up being punished under UK law since they would not want to send you of their citizens to a work camp, that would be a huge PR disaster, but they also wouldn't want to encourage more people doing something like that so they would make an example.
Fun Fact: The North-Korean embassy in Germany actually has a hostel in it to generate money for its homecountry threw tourists wisiting Germany. Sadly it just got decided that they have to close there buisnes because of the international tradeteriffs concerning the country.
The Swiss Embassy in Berlin is right on Republic Square, between the Chancellor’s Office and one of the Parliament’s satellite offices. Can’t really get any more central than that.
Well, it was the embassy in east Germany. Today it obviously is the North Korean Embassy in Germany. But because of the history, the building is so big they rented parts of the building to a hostel and made money with it. But, because of the UN-sanctions which prohibit real estate busineness with NK, the hostel was closed this year.
When I lived in Ottawa, Canada near parliament. I used to fly my drone everyday above the many different embassies. They’re a little stricter now about that though...
Sweden was included as one of the four founding members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission and several Swedish military personnel served in Korea enforcing the Panmunjom armistice. So a Swedish embassy in North Korea is very logic.
The Swedish embassy in Pyongyang represent and protect USA also. When ex Korean Americans sneak in to North Korea and get picked up, Sweden get them of the hock and make sure they are sent home. The USA is very thankful of that I can tell you.
Probably bought the land because it was super cheap and a quality house. Then noticed there was a North Korean embassy next to them when they moved in. Probably looking above the fence and stalking
What did you say about my London embassy
Are you really the supreme leader of North Korea?
It’s perfect and the literal greatest thing ever (Other than you!!), our Supreme and wise leader!
@@HankScorpio64 a wooosh is approaching
Winnie? Is that you?
OMG Winnie the pooh im your greatest fan
imagine trying to rob a random house that looks like a normal residential house and you end up getting shot 20 times by a north korean general vibing in the garden
Playing basketball
No no. That not north Korean enough.
Real North Korean "justice" is sentencing your elderly uncle to death by Anti Aircraft gun.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I'm so dead.
@@user-fh9vh6hr7w seems like a cool way to go out ngl, would rather be blown to bits by an AA gun than succumb to cancer at 85 years old
Dads army or monty python level
Imagine kicking a ball into the garden of the NK embassy
You ain't getting that back lmao
*we
@@EdricoftheWeald actually you would , just send 5 big mac cheese as tribute to supreme leader
😂😂😂
Just jump the fence and jump back over really quickly 😂😂😂
Imagine living next to the North Korean embassy, coming home from work and finding a letter from your Amazon delivery driver saying "We left your package with your neighbour."
LMao. At the end of the day they're just people who can't wait to go home from work
Good ending: *it’s your other neighbour*
RIP 🤣
Imagine being a burglar who thinks they're just robbing a house but turns out you're starting an international conflict? xD
JamesistheThunder F
A man
My man would break in and the only thing that would be there to steal is photos of Kim Jong Un and a single grain of rice.
@@rileyrichardson8091 Don't forget about the basketball net out back. It would go for at least $20 on craigslist
@@archdukefranzferdinand567 yeah that’s not property of the North Korean government, that’s Dennis Rodman’s property.
Imagine your neighbour is the north korean emabassy
I hope it is less noisy than the Italian consulate I used to live above.
When I lived in Cuba, the North Korean embassy was one street corner away. Normal, helpful people. Even got to know the ambassador‘s son.
One of the local barbers put up pictures of North Korean haircuts to mock Kim Jong Un's policies. North Korea visited and formally complained about it, clearly their staff had seen it. They were kindly told to fuck off, this is a free country, it's not Eritrea. Or North Korea. lol
*Ambassador
@@ConnieIsMijnNaam hahahaha really?! I'm Italian and now I want to know😂😂
Imagine your mail accidentally getting delivered to the North Korean embassy next door and not being allowed to get it back
Imagine the North Korean embassy's mail accidentally getting delivered to you.
Now you have to die because you know too much.
Just Some Guy Without a Life tragic
Imagine asking the North Korean embassy which bin to put out this week.
@@RizzyWow you guys alternate bins? We just put both out every week.
Your new credit card, passport or driving license
They tried to bully a local hairdresser as they were offering Kim Jong-Un haircuts for a laugh. Then realized they have absolutely zero powers in the UK.
What DPRK bullying? Lol
Could you elaborate on what they did to bully the hairdressers? I believe you, but I’m interested in what they did.
Seriously I find you in the most random of places Larry XD I never would expect to find you on a North Korean vid
@@ClassicBentobox Look on Google for: "London hairdresser 'targeted by North Korean embassy officials over Kim Jong-un discount'
I'd post the link here, buy TH-cam just puts it in a spam folder now.
@@Larry
I know how that goes, same thing happens to me constantly. Thanks for the tip man
Imagine being a common burglar, just breaking into nice houses...
...And then they deport you to North Korea
gosh...now i know never to try there
Welp I’m dead
Your capitalist invasion has been foiled. You are our prisoner now.
@@user-wi3yx3gy2o Nah man they're capitalist themselves just like present-day Russia. Corruption, and mass poverty to the extreme.
Edit: Was I drunk when I wrote this, NK is communist officially, but just like USSR, or infact more is the corruption present there, plus NK has near no communist policies.
*extradite
Okay so the NK Embassy is about 10 mins drive from my house and I never knew! 😂😂😂
You’d best get driving then, it’s a calling for you
We now know where you live
@@westwest35 not really
@@andknuckles101 we have a idea of where they live
The ambassador from the DPRK to The UK defected a couple of years ago. He probably drove past your house many times
Why are north koreans so good at drawing straight lines?
Because they have a supreme ruler.
Where's my knife?
@@mcplumpkin6191 I have it, you can use it after me....
@@CarlHislop Aight... Wait, why do you have my knife?!
@@mcplumpkin6191 I'm just sharpening it for you 😉👍🏻 here, you can have it back now 😎
@@CarlHislop Thanks, dude.
Driven past that house loads of times and I've always wondered why there was a North Korean flag outside. I liked to think that a North Korean family had made it out and settled down just outside Chiswick but this makes much more sense
Every single north korean that's made it out of there 100% would NOT fly the colors
@@SATELLITEDOWN7735 yeah obviously but its a nice thought init
It's a bit more than just outside Chiswick.
@@AndrewLumsden the whole of England is just outside Scotland
it actually (somehow) makes even less sense
I like how London's Japanese embassy is just: *f o o d g o o d*
@Δημήτρης no
@Δημήτρης London is my country
@Δημήτρης due to the presence of consulates, lots of people will refer to an embassy by the city it's located in
@@volka2199 England is my city
he also said "uk is the best ally" so he has never been promised land that overlaps with every single fucking nation that they promised that land to.
"I'm good with geography"
Calls Vietnam Thailand
Good thing he spotted the problem only in flag recognition...
He never said that
&Knuckles101 yes he did
16:18 when he called Vietnam Thailand
The presenter is a complete tool.
@@moptopbaku6022 No, he's not, dude. He made one fucking mistake. It seems like a single-take video, so chill.
13:57 I love how the Indian embassy is on Beijing St.😂
Hm, don't give China any ideas.
Massive flex.
I have been to that embassy coz my passport was about to expire and I can tell you it's one of the nicest streets in the entire city of Ulaanbaatar...tho calling it Beijing St is definitely unflattering to Beijing 😂😂😂
Hinting to the future when India's generals sit on Beijing
I delivered food to the Venezuelan embassy in Vienna once. It's literally just a single appartment in a residential building. They had a massive portrait of Simon Bolivar in the entry hall and were quite nice people actually, 10/10 best embassy ever.
thats my kinda embassy
@@porkyminchasc1150 HAHAHAH🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
At least they have one and their system is not working right because of western sanctions and inflations..
Nice that You would recognize Simon Bolivar:D
How was the TIP?
Imagine selling a house in suburban london and some crazy koreans come marching down to the house holding a north korean flag and purchasing your property in *suburban* london😂😂😂
imagine being in suburban london and while you are in suburban london you decide to sell you suburban london house in suburban London and some crazy koreans come into suburban london and buy you suburban london house in suburban london and hang up the north Korean flag on your suburban London house in suburban london 😂😂😂
Joof Hinez IM A SUBURBAN DUDE
@@carrotbailey I AM FROM SUBURB LOOK AT ME
Imagine buying a house in suburban London only for the North Koreans to move in next door to you.
Suburban London
Why does north korea have an embassy when their people aren't even allowed to leave the country?
mcnuggets ferg because Star Trek exists
North Korea literally traffics people into other countries for extremely cheap/slave labour. Poland for example has tons of them, the embassy is literally just a cover to help them perform these sorts of illegal thing and even if the host county knows, the politicians directly benefit from it.
A base for their spies
Angel천사 queen omg stan loona
and why would England have one. Fuck North Korea
It's not just a security system they use, it's an AMERICAN security system...ironic. Fun fact about the Iranian embassy, they have the only mosque in the entire country. Built for the diplomats
Jwan Tahlo North Korea
Recruitment center
Dude why do you watch the same shit as me!
Your puppet has more subs than this lol
England doesn’t have mosques?
Being a South Korean living in London, I searched both the North and South Korean embassies to make myself sure that when I ask the locals directions, they wouldn't point to the wrong one. I saw the North Korean embassy on Google street view and had a hard time since finding it since it just looked like another house on the block.
Its sad that it's a legitimate concern due to that actually happening before, good vigilance on your part ig
I'd say most people know the difference between the two countries, but I think less would be able to point you towards the correct one
I wonder if the North Korean embassy ever tricks people into thinking they are the South Korean embassy just so they can capture people and ship them back to North Korea.
I’ve driven past it before because it’s near my house 💀 ur right it looks like an average home
I WENT TO THE NORTH KOREAN EMBASSY IN LONDON (not inside lol, but still). This video inspired me to attempt to visit as many London embassies in one day as possible. After realising I couldn't do them all, I decided to do the furthest out ones so I could finish the rest off at a later date. MY HAND HAS BEEN INSIDE NORTH KOREA!!!
Nocie
Chad
pog
the embassy land id not part of nk
@Thanos Rat it’s land owned by the hosting country or nation , so the nk embassy is technically on land that was “given “ to them for the purpose of the embassy but the hosting country always has ownership and rights to the land which would trump any country saying it’s actually their land . Otherwise we’d all jus build as many embassy’s as possible to slowly steal land away
8:51 that " garden" is actually a mini labour camp.
👁 👄 👁
Any Embassy will help you. Oh how true, and they use that to their advantage. One time , when I was travelling through Aussie, I tried to visit my Canadian Embassy. Turned out it was a Aussie National holiday so Embassy was closed with a note on the gate to go to the INDIA embassy. Went there and cautiously asked about my concern. They happily assisted me and explained that all the commonwealth embassies took turns being open for Aussie holidays for all commonwealth citizens. I thought that was a great way to run diplomatic relations.
But they helped you because they were a commonwealth country that had a deal with other commonwealth embassies and you're a commonwealth citizen. So your first sentence is not true.
I liked your story though, interesting! In some countries Norwegian and Swedish embassies cooperate like this, probably many countries do.
In Canberra, the British, Canadian, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea (former Australian territory) High Commissions are all next to each other on the road leading up the hill to Parliament House. Most of the other embassies are in the suburb of Yarralumla, on big blocks of land that make it look like, well, something between a college campus and a garden cemetery.
Fun fact, it’s become a strange tradition to leaflet the North Korean embassy during election time for all the local political parties in the area.
I saw on Twitter that someone in the Lib Dems had done it and I found it completely hilarious.
This video is the definition of ADHD, Great Britain is the best embassy in Tokyo but Japan and the UK are the same country, lets talk about North Korea, here is the US and India embassy in Ulaanbaatar!
The presenter is a total knob
@@moptopbaku6022 he's not it's the way he likes to talk so shut up
@@mar07in He’s still a knob.
@@moptopbaku6022 It's all very well criticising him he's just making content he enjoys and there's nothing wrong with that. He actually commits to a career and you're just saying whatever you like as if anyone is going to think you're making a valid point or something
@@mar07in If this is his career, he has a serious problem. Also, if you go public, don't be surprised when people critique your videos. This is a very poor video and his attempts at humour fall flat. Ergo, he is a knob.
"The North Korean Embassy In London Is Hilarious
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>majority of the video unrelated to the NK embassy
Its ya boi Chips Ahoy
It's to get past 10 minutes even though it's 17 minutes long like ? 😂
welcome to youtube??
Timestamp to where he talks about NK Embassy?
Thanks in advance
IKR but that majority is actually interesting, and factual, so I don’t care.
I mean the entirety of TH-cam, especially Brightside, has a majority of your video, not only unrelated to the title, but also complete nonsense which wastes your time.
This video, although unrelated to the title, the majority of the video is actually full of facts I am interested to listen!
I've been to an embassy in Ulaan Bataar. The Russian one to be exact. Needed a visa for the transiberian.
*Ulaan Bantaar xD
Farahen Den ula Brita
You correcting me or Toycat? Because despite how he pronounces it in the video, it's not Bantaar.
@@Jotari I'm (trying to) making fun of Toycat.
@@Frahamen It has multiple ways of how to be written
Edit: I missed the joke sorry
This dude has awesome energy levels!! Great to see a geography nerd out here doing videos on what he loved
9:38 "speaking of something insecure" I was 100% ready for a VPN sponsorship
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Or Dashlane, the password manager which also offers a VPN...
16:00 The North Korean Embassy in the UK uses ADT for security.
*American* District Telegraph, an American security company.
@M J The presidential car in North Kore is a Mercedez.
Oh is that what it stands for? They are a very popular security alarm company in the UK
@@-.2.. mercedes is german, that means its ok
also germany ( east ) created north korea subway trian
🥴
Man imagine being some random security system technician and having to install or do maintenance on the North Korean embassy lmao
High Commissions aren't "secondary" buildings. They're essentially the embassies for any commonwealth country. Which is why you don't find the Australian Embassy in a Commonwealth county, you'd find the Australian High Commission.
I know you sort of implied it in your last sentence, but I think it should be clarified that the 'high commission' identifier is only applied to the diplomatic missions of Commonwealth countries within other Commonwealth countries. So, for example, the Australian diplomatic missions in Washington D.C. and Beijing are still referred to as an 'embassies' because the United States and the People's Republic of China are not part of the Commonwealth.
Yepp
And you also don't find Indian embassies in commonwealth countries - you find Indian High Commissions in London, Canberra, Islamabad or Wellington
Also countries such as Taiwan without full recognition will have de-facto embassies but call them trade commissions.
High Commissions are arguably superior to Embassies. High Commissioners rank higher than Ambassadors in the Order of Precedence.
Makes sense since it would be incredibly silly for the King to appoint an ambassador to himself.
"Statistically if you live in Washington D.C you don't know where Lesotho is on a map"
I'm gonna be real that is the ONLY place in the US where that statement is probably wrong. That city bleeds politics, everyone knows a world map as thoroughly as a preacher knows a bible.
I had to go to the GREAT British Embassy in Paris when I was 10 because I lost my passport, I was excited, my parents were not :)
Missing passports are GREAT Britain
Couldn't you just return home with your ID?
@@sohopedeco No the only other country I am aware we Brits can travel to without a passport is Ireland I believe.
@@chriswall27 I find that weird... Despite not having open borders like Schengen and UK-Ireland, we here in South America can travel anywhere only showing your national ID card in the costumes.
I expected there would be something like that in the EU between England and the Schengen countries.
@@sohopedeco I didn't set the rules but if you ask any person from UK they would think South Americans being able to travel between countries without a passport is weird, just different cultures I guess.
So can you go all the way to USA without a passport and if not do you find that weird?
I have read that back and it sounds like I am being sarcastic, I am not genuine question.
“We all know what Country is fair to make fun of it’s North Korea”
5 Seconds later
Toycat died of nuclear explosion
And Germany.
Actually, British food has really improved over the years. First time I was in the UK in 1991 I thought first that I was behind the Iron curtain. In 1996 it was a bit better and as the years flew by it got better and better. And after being in Yorkshire for a three weeks holiday in 2018 I was positively surprised by the British cousin. It has become really good, at least for me.
Yes our food has improved but your English spelling has not !!
@@meichong8278 Neither has your courtesy.
@@ichhabe330 why ? If your going to be uber critical then you should make sure you've dotted all the i"s and crossed the t"s ........ you havent done so ,use spellcheck something all you scandi" s need
@@meichong8278 Dra meg baklengs inn i fuglekassa.
@@ichhabe330 oh ye ya fugase
next door neighbors accidently recieved the embassys mail and now bob has the codes to north koreas nuclear missiles
My favourite Tokyo fact is you can literally fit the entire population of Canada in that one city and still have a few hundred thousand free spaces open.
In Switzerland there are enough bunker to shelter whole population of Switzerland (7.3 million people) and have 1 milion spare spaces.
@@wojciechbieniek4029 Yeah, but how many of those are maintained and liveable?
@@Zamandu in the constitution of Switzerland stands that every swiss citizen has to have a place in a Bunker. Its crazy
The density is like hell. 🤢
@@Glory_to_Arstotzka its not crazy. Its an effective way to make sure that people have a place to hide in the case of war. Caring about your population is not crazy
"We like to think we're the closets ally of the U.S."
*Canada busts down the door*
American in 2020: Do we even deserve any allies 😢
It's not true America likes France more then Britain Britain has a closer bond with Norway
Canada is like the smaller, better behaved cousin to the US
@@djsherlock7093 that is very true
You mean *canada knocks on door gently* “sorry but...”
3:34 the Marshall Islands were a colony of the US back in the day and their citizens have freedom of movement between america and their country. So I think an embassy might be justified.
😂 COLONY??? HAELLL NAH we were never a colony of America I’m Marshallese and you’re speaking false the Japanese came and conquered every islands in the pacific but really Germany was the first to discover our islands and nobody claimed it 😂
The embassy is there because we let the Americans test their nuclear warheads on our islands for an example Bikini atoll we let them used that and we gained our independence years ago
@@P3gasus6 i dont think you "let them". I think they just did.
@@P3gasus6 You should fix the Wikipedia page for your country then. Though you may not have been a literal colony of the US. The Spanish explored and claimed your islands before 1600 and sold it to the Germans in 1885 (according to the wiki).
@@kingprone7846 Lol, yepp
You don't need to let the Americans do anything, they'll just do it, either way
DC does an event every year (at least pre covid) where all the embassies have like..an open house on the same day and you can walk from embassy to embassy and they have little shows/activities/food and sometimes tours of the embassy. Recommend it if you ever get the opportunity!
I'm pretty sure the foreign relations students at the university I attended took part in that. They went to DC and toured the Polish and Chinese embassies among others (the Polish ambassador's staff even held a discussion with them on the future of world partnerships, which is pretty cool).
The embassy of Liechtenstein, Andorra, or Luxembourg or even Monaco for that matter should be a tiny replica of the actual planned embassy
The embassy of Liechtenstein is usually just a little phone booth near the parking lot of the swiss embassy.
Fun fact: If you put money in the slot it automatically disposes to your anonymous bank account.
12:38 "Paraguy" that made me laugh and you got another like for your video toycat
"This is not beauiful residential"
Me, a Brazilian, looking at those BEAUTIFIL AND LARGE HOUSES: So I guess I'm poor.... huh.
Se eles acham isso feio iam ter um derrame cerebral quando vissem as casas e condomínios daqui kkkk
I’m from the uk as well, those are rich people houses.
That definitely is not a normal uk house,
still not what you’d expect a countries embassy to look like though
@@Aron-ru5zk It's the same here then. Embassies here look awesome as well.
I’m an American and that is a nice, and well sized house
If 250k houses are ugly imagine the pretty ones
UK: "We're America's best friend!"
Canada: "Hold my beer."
*maple syrup and vodka
David Alexander Opel - The UK may be America's best friend, but is America the UK's best friend?? Watch your back - at least as long as Biden is around.
@@racheleraanan5133 what?
@@viktorrobertson7707 - Biden has made it clear that as 'a proud Irishman' (his words) he feels it would be disloyal of him to view the UK as the closest ally of the US. His overt disrespect of the British PM - as well as siding against the UK on every issue (economic and political) - only emphasizes this position.
@@racheleraanan5133 As someone who lives in the US, I assure you, we care way more about Canada than some European country.
1:36 : "the US is the biggest country by a lot of metrics"... don't you mean "by a lot of imperials" ? 😜
takix2007 eyyyyyy
Lost Child Senro false
That’s a sick epic right there
yeah screw metric, feet and inches are the way forward with pounds and ounces a close second
@@Account-jn7xu patriotic, cant take criticism
I once passed the North Korean embassy in London and thought the flag outside was just someone doing it as a joke.
Here in NY there's a permanent mission of the DPRK near the UN but you can't tell from the outside that there's a DPRK mission inside. It's in an office condo in an isolated part of the building. Its neighbor is a bank and a Basque delegation
I’ve seen you comment on another video before...
@@battlebaron1405 nobody cares
I live nearby the embassy and a barbers put up a poster saying something along the lines of “Bad hair day? Come inside” and had multiple pictures on it including one of Kim Jong-un and the diplomats from the NK embassy called the police asking the barber to take the poster down
Nobody:
British Embassy: *FOOD IS GREAT*
HaVE sUm BeaNS fOr BreAkfAst.
Also...
>pulls out butterknife to butter toast
>goes to prison
You realize it's North Korean
Fuck you toad in the hole is amazing 😡
North Korea: Having Food is Great...
ShoppingTrolley TwinTurbo I want to try and visit all the embassy’s in north and South America
Japan: Who are you
The Uk: I am you but on the other side of the world
Japan: Makes delicious grilled unagi eel with a sweet soy sauce. UK: Jellied eels 🤪
@@bretlir Japanese don’t make a fry up like us though so it’s ok
... actually yes I agree with this statement a lot more than I think I should
The UK is culturally so different from Japan. The point made in the video is that they both have countries split in half next to them. Last time I checked Japan doesn't control North Korea and in that case Puerto Rico and Madagascar would be more similar to Japan than the UK lol
@@onebigsnowball Japan and britain are both islands, just offshore of their respective continent, they both were "on the side" of history, they got relevant relatively recently (in historical terms), they both had a empire, they both are America's closest ally (and also somewhat their bootlickers), and the list goes on.
Excuse me did I really just see a shop labeled “Twink Milk”???
Lol
Googling twink told me that it means a young gay man....making twink milk all the more hilarious🤣🤣
@@varma. bravo, you found out what twink is.
Twinkie is a sweet, the world doesn't revolve around internet lingo lol
@@BigMan-kp6ug twink isn't really just internet slang.
I used to work at a Swiss bakery and we did events at the Swiss Embassy in DC and I had the neat experience of legally drinking on Swiss land and then driving home to then again be too young to drink.
@Klapaucius Fitzpatrick The police will arrest you as you leave the embassy, because they don't want to start a conflict with Switzerland. This time he kinda just got away with it
Egypt has an eagle, Syria has stars, Iraq has writing.
Yemen has nothing 🇾🇪
IAM IRAQI 🇮🇶
And America wants oil...
All have black on them
America has mc donalds
The flag on the thumbnail though, I guess Northern Ireland doesn’t exist
The Dr. Terminator Show I don’t think it will for long.. hey! Cheer up.. as long as Scotland stays, the flag will still look golden! Just.. less.. Irish
it's the 2029 UK flag
ibx2cat holy shit you replied
@@ibx2cat you hope 🇬🇧
ibx2cat Nah, that’s the old British flag from before 1801.
The US embassy in Iraq is the largest embassy in the world.
Russia’s Embassy in Qatar, is in the most expensive artificial island (The Pearl). It a mansion with a private beach.
You have to check out the North Korean Embassy in Berlin. There was a period in time where I was completely obsessed with it. For legal reasons its also some kind of youth hostel that dates all the way back to east and west berlin. Crazy story and history please check it out!
"We're americas best ally"
*angry canadian noises*
It's true though
Chill... You’re our best overland ally and the UK’s our best overseas ally!
Nah Canadians would just apologize for not being good enough
U.S, Canada, and the U.K are like the 3 Musketeers
@@Utonian21 yea, but i always feel like where leaving out the poor Australians :/
Friend: How is your neighbor like?
The owner of the house next to the North Korean Embassy: Well...
imagine how the other person living in the north korean embassy feels. north korea wouldnt just have a basketball hoop in the back yard.
@@wabch The person living in the north korean embassy? It's an embassy, a workplace, not a home.
Sometimes I hear gunshots and screaming at night...
I would would like your comment but it’s at 69 likes, so sorry
Also nice
North Korea owns a whole Hostel in Berlin which they actually rent out to tourists. It’s right next to the embassy and it’s really weird.
Bonus income.
Gotta fund that nuclear programme somehow
Really? Do you know where its located exactly in Berlin?
Is it Hotel M68?
I've been told most NK owned businesses around the world are money laundering fronts - it makes sense, cos they need foreign exchange and they can't really trade with anyone.
Imagine living in the house next to the North Korean embassy. You should try to interview whoever lives there and ask them what it's like
Toycat: Every country has a capital.
Switzerland: Observe
shyasaturtle as far as international relations I believe they use Bern, especially since it's on the border between the French and German parts of the country
@@haeilsey yeah
What about South Africa who has 3 capital cities?
Toycat: Capitals have embassies.
The Netherlands: Observe
Meanwhile in Singapore, capital = country. I also like how in there, Switzerland's embassy is located along... *Swiss* Club Rd
The Supreme Leader wants to know your location
Avery the Cuban-American Hello again Avery!
He’s everywhere
Nyal Burns I suppose We’re everywhere too XD
You appear once again
I see you a lot! 👌
Toycat-2014 let's play Minecraft
Toycat-2019 The Gentle laborer will no longer suffer from the capitalist elite
i just remember driving past that north Korean embassy on the A406 wondering why someone's house had the north Korean flag. THIS, was something that kept ME up for like over a year and now i see this video lmao.
7:23 north korean embassy. Your welcome
My god thank you, this guy took forever to get to it.
@@watchman0062 yeah its all to get to the 10 minute mark by talking about a bunch of shitty countries tiny embassies
@@watchman0062 welcome to toycat
The Hero we Need
Bit all heroes wear capes
Fun fact : The Polish embassy in Paris is the "Monaco Pałace" a luxurious palace that France regret giving them
That's also quiet funny, just please don't give it them back :)
Trust me, as an American, we love the brits. They are one of our “Freedom Brothers”
Wait a minute
fish and chips
Don't make us colonise you.
@@RetractedandRedacted again
More like Freedom Parents. Always bringing out the photo album and talking about that time we threw a tea party.
Ngl you had me thinking the North Korean embassy would be a shack in the middle of no where
This is the right kind of sponsored video. There are no interruptions and it doesn't negatively impact viewing experience.
I love how he just casually zooms in to the UN headquarters like its nothing
As Japanese the UK embassy is the most beautiful and gorgeous one in Tokyo. The location, size, designs, everything are superb.
Why British and japanese both have crooked teeths
Here in the US, the Brits actually had one of their top architects come over in the 1920s and design the Ambassador's Residence. It's quite literally a large old-fashioned British mansion house tucked into the streets of Washington, DC. You've got to hand it to the Brits, they know how to both make an impression and construct excellent architecture.
Imagine there’s a house fire in the North Korean embassy.
The street empties from their homes rushing to help their neighbour, and are met by a barricade, armed guard and diplomat at a podium insisting there never was a fire, and even if there was, it would be a North Korean fire for North Korean purposes.
This is all touched off by the fire spreading next door and an elderly lady screaming for help from a second floor window being told to stop being xenophobic.
The Marshall Islands might be tiny on the world stage, but diplomatically, they're very closely linked to the US, probably more so than most countries.
Yep they have a free compact with the US. The US is obligated to defend them and they use the US dollar.
Haha... Even if they do with permit, Marshall Island is the most nuked country by U. S. This is a closely linked relationship for sure.
Japan is known as “The Britain of the East”
Only it has anime 😡
shamilmegabyte we got horrid Henry fam
Only with a successful car/electronic/motorbike industry along with a reliable railway system. Oh and the education system too. (I am British btw)
@@cambs0181 we used to have those things though
@ Age Case Documentaries- The Japanese looked at the Western world as a whole ( Not just the UK )and tried to replicate it .
Lol. I drove past that house twice a day for over three years when I worked in Chiswick. I remember the mock Tudor houses very well, as they stood out against the rest there. I had no idea back then what delights were to be found inside.
You can enter the North Korean Embassy any time you like, but you can never leave.
British embassy in japan with a banner saying “food is great”
Press x to doubt
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The British Embassy in Japan is very nice. During the 19th century, the British backed the winning side in the Japanese civil war and were awarded a wonderful site. The French backed the losing side and got a horrible site.
Obviously never had a sausage roll dipped in gravy garnished with baked beans....
x
only 2 other nations have more michelin stars than the british.
As someone from Northern Ireland I loved being referred to as the same as North Korea, very nice, much love
It's funny how similar the UK and Japan are.
We both have weird humour compared to the rest of the world, both love seafood and tea, keep our monarchy, and have a historically on and off relationship with our mainland neighbours.
Japan has some of the nicest trains on earth, and the fastest maglev speed records, but us Brits still hold the speed record for both steam and diesel trains.
Reunite the Anglo- Japanese imperial gang.
@@AceAttorneyforever apparently us Brits have the nicest embassy in Tokyo cause of old friendships, it'd be nice to see more trade and cooperation tbh.
The British carrier group recently did some training exercises at sea with the Americans and Japanese.
And both likes to colonize countries
and both committed horrific acts in colonialization
@@powerplayer75 it's called a little trolling
I actually find these smaller residential houses much prettier than those big unpersonal buildings
Imagine being the guy who lives next door to the North Korean Embassy.
Does the fence count as the DMZ?
@@imogapils no I expect that fence is quite militarized.
I think Canberra has some interesting embassies. Many of the embassies seem to have been designed after the traditional architecture of their respective governments, like the US, Chinese, and Thai embassies.
+ 1 for CBR love. I like the tin sheep for the NZ Embassy (or commission?). My claim to fame is dropping a glass in the Netherlands embassy when my sister won a competition and we got to visit.
Love how the british embasy has food is great on the front.
They aren’t lying
yeah, the thing about british food being bad is mainly an outdated stereotype nowadays
@@iowsiam492 OOO! It must be WACIST!
@@nicholasalexander4743 what?
@@nicholasalexander4743 are you alright mate?
The Israeli Embassy in London have had several unhappy meetings with the Secretary of Sate for the UK
It's been over an ongoing issues
Staff at the Israeli Embassy have been receiving letters address to
The OCCUPIER
7:22 Video starts here.
I love u
For the people who didn’t watch the whole thing, the rest of the video is still incredibly interesting.
Saves time. Thankyou!
The real MVP
Thank you!!! 😎
I can remember when I lived in England there was a mens barbers shop not far from the North Korean emabassy and the owner put up a sign saying " Having a bad hair day" with a picture of Kim jun-un and some people from the embassy came in and demanded that he take the sign down and if I remember correctly he told them to move along as it was his shop and he could put up what ever he wanted LOL
Imagine being north Korean and finally escaping to London after 9 months of miserable travelling only for the house you get put into by the government be right next to the NK embassy.
Hidden under their nose might not be a bad tactic
You’d be a lot more likely to end up in New Malden - an unremarkable SW London suburb home to the world’s highest density population of North Koreans outside of North Korea itself.
When you showed foreign embassies in Washington, D.C. via Google Maps, you could see the terrible state of America’s roads.
Question: If I were to transpass on the north korean "embassy" in London, would I be punished under UK or North Korean law?
both. the UK would need to approve your extradition to the DPRK and that is unlikely, so it is likely you would end up being punished under UK law since they would not want to send you of their citizens to a work camp, that would be a huge PR disaster, but they also wouldn't want to encourage more people doing something like that so they would make an example.
Angel천사 it’s you the Chinese-North Korean puppet
It's a fallacy that embassies are sovereign territory.
As a Brazillian, I am perplexed as to why we have an embassy in North Korea
Fun Fact: The North-Korean embassy in Germany actually has a hostel in it to generate money for its homecountry threw tourists wisiting Germany. Sadly it just got decided that they have to close there buisnes because of the international tradeteriffs concerning the country.
The Swiss Embassy in Berlin is right on Republic Square, between the Chancellor’s Office and one of the Parliament’s satellite offices. Can’t really get any more central than that.
15:40
"i think it's the east German embassy"
Lmao probably
Well, it was the embassy in east Germany. Today it obviously is the North Korean Embassy in Germany. But because of the history, the building is so big they rented parts of the building to a hostel and made money with it. But, because of the UN-sanctions which prohibit real estate busineness with NK, the hostel was closed this year.
In fact if you notice, beside Sweden and UK, all the other European countries that has an Embassy in North Korea, are all ex communist state
When I lived in Ottawa, Canada near parliament. I used to fly my drone everyday above the many different embassies. They’re a little stricter now about that though...
How to visit 50+ countries in one day, go into fifty different embassies.
For those who came here for the title solely
Here you go,
7:52
Noone:
Sweden: We should buy some real estate in North Korea before the prices go up...
Sweden was included as one of the four founding members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission and several Swedish military personnel served in Korea enforcing the Panmunjom armistice. So a Swedish embassy in North Korea is very logic.
The Swedish embassy in Pyongyang represent and protect USA also. When ex Korean Americans sneak in to North Korea and get picked up, Sweden get them of the hock and make sure they are sent home. The USA is very thankful of that I can tell you.
1:52 as an American, I typically think of great Britain and the us as very close allies, so yes I believe it does go both ways
Benjamin - Ask Joe Biden.
8:00 that's super weird. Imagine being the neighbor of this embassy.
Probably bought the land because it was super cheap and a quality house. Then noticed there was a North Korean embassy next to them when they moved in. Probably looking above the fence and stalking
Person: Who is your neighbor
Other Person: NORTH KOREA