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Your translation of the text on the door is completely off the mark. The meaning is "Love the people, defend the frontier." It's a slogan that abbreviates a complete sentence, similar to the ones you chant during campaigns (like "MEGA").
An interesting thing is that the houses of North Korea on the border is almost the best they can maintain now, if you go 1 km inside the border, you can see many houses in shocking disrepair.
Good video Jack and Sophia. It’s good seeing North Korea from the China side and seeing the farmers or whatever goes on there. Best to put our own minds to it
The 8 nos Chinese words at the gate meaning Love (patriot) citizens stand firm at border Strengthen us (our country) border defence Awesome and very interesting video. thank you to you guys
很明显你在胡扯，要么你不是中国人理解错了，要么你就是在故意误导。 It's quite obvious that you're talking nonsense. Either you're not Chinese and misunderstood, or you're deliberately misleading. The meaning is "Love the people, defend the frontier."
Amazing and interesting trip, but I think it's best not to ask too many details about the border gate, which is definitely not legal, but is also a way for locals to make money or a way for North Koreans to survive.
basically ，North Korea is the only nation which signed the military ally agreement with China in 1950s, this agreement says China will send military to North Korea if it was invaded by others.
@@lijackson-x6r So what are you trying to convey? China has not dispatched troops to be stationed in North Korea, nor has it deployed missiles on North Korean territory, and there have been no instances of military personnel raping female college students there- you know which country I'm referring to, don't you?
@@laohukang China had official military alliance agreement with North korea in 1950s. after Korean war, the agreement is still effective. ---- if North Korea is invaded by other nations, China is responsible to send troops to North korea to fight.
@@laohukang The military cooperation relationship between China and North Korea can be traced back to the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, when China sent volunteers to support North Korea, laying the foundation for military cooperation between the two countries. In 1961, China and North Korea formally signed the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, which does not stipulate an effective end date, but continues to this day through regular renewal. The Treaty guarantees that one contracting party will provide full military and other assistance to the other contracting party in the state of war.
@@latchdog North Korea opened up its tourism industry after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, tourism is also a source of foreign exchange income for North Korea.
@@latchdog Really? Information provided by travel agencies is more accurate and they receive the latest information. Maybe we have to wait a little longer. I just checked the news in China. Two major travel agencies catering to foreign tourists said they had received news from their North Korean partners that tours would be opened in December 2024. Koryo Tours said in a statement that the first place to be opened would be Samjiyon near the Chinese border, and it could be expanded to other areas later.
about the korean war, people dont get a lot of media exposures on so not a lot know what happened, but for us chinese, that was one of the most important events ever, and im counting 5000 years of history here...
Interesting video. One of my favourite couples in youtube. Sophia look so cute in chinese dress😍👌👌 Anyone know the name of the soundtrack played in the last part of the video??
It only costs 30 US dollars. You can sign up for a tour group in China to go to North Korea. can take photos. But you are not allowed to communicate with North Koreans.
Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 The video is really impressive, North Korea is really scary, poor people have to suffer challenges every day because of the regime, The human rights situation in North Korea is critical. The current regime systematically and on a large scale violates the fundamental rights of its citizens. Here are some key points: · Fundamental freedoms denied: There is no freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly or of association. The media is strictly controlled by the state and dissidence is harshly repressed. ·Concentration camps: Hundreds of Hundreds of thousands of people are held in prison camps, where they are subjected to forced labor, torture and ill-treatment. · Limited right to food: Malnutrition is widespread and food rations are often insufficient. ·Restricted freedom of movement: Leaving the country is extremely difficult and often punishable by detention. ·Cult of personality: The regime imposes a cult of personality around the Kim family, and criticism of the regime is considered a crime
Save your tears .Who knows maybe they are more fortunate and we are more miserable .People from other country also think people living in China are all miserable too ,no freedom .
It’s always worth remembering that the same media talking points (“Dictatorship”!) (“Totalitarian!”), which this channel pushes back against when it comes to China, are repeated verbatim regarding North Korea.
08:00 Thats true.There are some north korean workers in china. They cant live with or talk with us unless its for work. BTW there are some restaurants operated by north korea govement in China and Thailand. The waitresses are north korean
I would like to add that there are also travel agencies opened by North Koreans in China, and their employees are all students who graduated from North Korean tourism schools. These students usually learn Chinese or English, and after two years of internship in China, they will return to North Korea to work as tour guides. North Korean travel agencies in China mainly help Chinese people travel to North Korea. It is very cheap.
I went to this border several yrs ago, and when I looked towards the North Korea, I did nothing just looked, the patrolling soldiers from North Korea pointed their guns at me. very unfriendly!
I guess your confusion may come from this: Chinese has no tenses, so the store owner may mean that they (North Koreans) used to come here to buy things, but now because of the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea’s management has become stricter and North Koreans are prohibited from coming here to buy things.
17:13 Maybe 10 to 15 years ago, there was no border fence between China and North Korea. North Koreans could have come to China at that time. Your guide maybe used the past tense, but you misunderstood him that he is talking about the recent times.
you can enter North Korea via tour from Beijing. Some ten years ago, I went to dandong, i saw a lots of North Korean came to dandong for entertainment. Just come and go the same day.
It's just an amazing presentation!! Thanks for exploring the beautiful sites of North Korea from the China Korea border. 🎉best wishes from Sylhet Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Why they built a women's prison site at the border? Cause they need it, guess every bigger city will have it.... it's macabre that it's on a tour for tourisms... But I have to say that the guys - the two guides and the captain - are cool guys! They face it so often, I guess. And they say "wave to them", lol. They love it to have interactions with N.Koreans too. And we remember the guide who said "nooo, they don't come here to buy things" - he's smiling, shouting "HELLOOOO" on the boad! Cause he has a bit more free space to do such things.
19:00 no, it does not happen a lot, cause Chinese police catches them and send them back to N.Korea. Then they will be punished for trying to escape. The most defectors are from the Hamgyong province - at the the east cost site. There defectors have to escape through the mountains to avoid being discovered. So for the China shop (16:11), they go there and go back. That's it. They would be detect so fast for no chances. You can see it through the N.Korea kids who waved. It's normal for them to see foreigners. And I guess it's okay in this situation being i city at the border. Nothing will happen, but for the tourists it will have a effect: pity.
16:11 Oh sure, they will come to buy things. That's why there is a gate, a signal, a shop and stairs. Could imagine, that in the river there's a space where constructure was build, that the Yalu/Amnok river is not too deep to walk through. But China and DPR Korea are very close, so they have to tell media or in videos that it's not true. N.Korea government might see this video, lol.
The translation of this guy was correct. You can see it also with his hand-sign, he said "no, no" and to your question if they don't come "shi de" ("yes").
IT'S SO PITY TO SEE THEIR LIVES LIKE THAT BECAUSE THEIR LEADERS ARE SO DICTATORIAL... I HOPE THEY CAN FIND A LEADER LIKE OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES.. GODBLESS U ALL
I had been to this place and take the ferry in 2013. It has been more than 10years, nothing changed in North Korean 🇰🇵side at all 😂. I throw a bag of 11yuan Chinese cigarette to the fisherman and he behave overexcited.
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Your translation of the text on the door is completely off the mark. The meaning is "Love the people, defend the frontier." It's a slogan that abbreviates a complete sentence, similar to the ones you chant during campaigns (like "MEGA").
That's not a labor camp, that's a North Korean agricultural cooperative. The people working there are villagers. Please don't be overly biased.
Great content!! So happy you guys came across my algorithm!! Blessings
Great video guys. Its so wonderful watching ❤
Brillant video and I am so happy I found you guys! I would love to do the same trip.
lets go
An interesting thing is that the houses of North Korea on the border is almost the best they can maintain now, if you go 1 km inside the border, you can see many houses in shocking disrepair.
sure
There are no people living in the house
Impressive video
Super Cool video !!! Thank you so much, Jack and Sophia;
Good video Jack and Sophia. It’s good seeing North Korea from the China side and seeing the farmers or whatever goes on there. Best to put our own minds to it
Life under sanctions imposed by the West on DPRK.
"Keep It Real" Jack! 100%
It was a really interesting experience even watching
Imagine living your every day life and having people roll past watching you in amazement on boats.
Super cool video. Very interesting.
Big boss, Jack!
The 8 nos Chinese words at the gate meaning
Love (patriot) citizens stand firm at border
Strengthen us (our country) border defence
Awesome and very interesting video. thank you to you guys
很明显你在胡扯，要么你不是中国人理解错了，要么你就是在故意误导。
It's quite obvious that you're talking nonsense. Either you're not Chinese and misunderstood, or you're deliberately misleading.
The meaning is "Love the people, defend the frontier."
Amazing and interesting trip, but I think it's best not to ask too many details about the border gate, which is definitely not legal, but is also a way for locals to make money or a way for North Koreans to survive.
Very cool tour
Love from nepal god bless both of you ❤❤
Thanks!
No problem! Thank you!
Sophia is so right, we don't know if they are happy, they seems having simple lives, not very materialist.
I just watched the news, some of them run away to South Korean, but can't adapt the new society and competition, still live in pain
You are an idiot
Cool. Dandong, a place I have never thought about.🎉🎉
With ethnic Korean minorities and some North Korean traders living there.
Very nice. Thank you.
21:12 looks like the one of the kids waving had a mini telescope 😮
Guys, please go back to Nepal, we still need to see the Annapurna trekking circuit and a decent pani puni food tour ❤
Jack you have a killer smile😍😍😁
One of the best couple ❤
You two are too sweet to get caught up in anything so please be careful and stay smart. Loved this vid. Thank you.
Thank you! Will do!
Great good tour
At around 7:00 , that which you filmed is not a watch-tower, but is a water-tower.
basically ，North Korea is the only nation which signed the military ally agreement with China in 1950s, this agreement says China will send military to North Korea if it was invaded by others.
@@lijackson-x6r So what are you trying to convey? China has not dispatched troops to be stationed in North Korea, nor has it deployed missiles on North Korean territory, and there have been no instances of military personnel raping female college students there- you know which country I'm referring to, don't you?
@@laohukang China had official military alliance agreement with North korea in 1950s. after Korean war, the agreement is still effective. ---- if North Korea is invaded by other nations, China is responsible to send troops to North korea to fight.
@@laohukang The military cooperation relationship between China and North Korea can be traced back to the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, when China sent volunteers to support North Korea, laying the foundation for military cooperation between the two countries. In 1961, China and North Korea formally signed the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, which does not stipulate an effective end date, but continues to this day through regular renewal. The Treaty guarantees that one contracting party will provide full military and other assistance to the other contracting party in the state of war.
Jack and Sophia you always amaze me with fresh content and travel ideas. Another amazing video.
Hey guys! Curious where you got your translator from, the price of it and if it's fairly accurate? Love the videos and content
Google translate says at 15:34 love the people and strengthen the boarder
*China has tour groups going to North Korea. You can go and have a look.* 😁😁
Borders are back open for tourist??
@@latchdog North Korea opened up its tourism industry after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, tourism is also a source of foreign exchange income for North Korea.
@@蔡磊-q7q Okay cool, i did enquire about north korea tours this year in march and was told by a few companies the borders were still closed.
@@latchdog Really? Information provided by travel agencies is more accurate and they receive the latest information.
Maybe we have to wait a little longer.
I just checked the news in China. Two major travel agencies catering to foreign tourists said they had received news from their North Korean partners that tours would be opened in December 2024. Koryo Tours said in a statement that the first place to be opened would be Samjiyon near the Chinese border, and it could be expanded to other areas later.
@@latchdogit's open up, But not all of them...
I enjoy it watching your vlogs
Very interesting to see, the North Korea. Thanks!.❤❤🌻🌻
That was probably a secret way until your video
Wow nice.👌👌
I am from Hubei Province, China, thank you for taking the photo.
Thank you too!
about the korean war, people dont get a lot of media exposures on so not a lot know what happened, but for us chinese, that was one of the most important events ever, and im counting 5000 years of history here...
4:45 you are looking great with that Baseball hat. BTW and just in case, I am married for 33 years and love my wife like on the first day we met, so…
Interesting video.
One of my favourite couples in youtube.
Sophia look so cute in chinese dress😍👌👌
Anyone know the name of the soundtrack played in the last part of the video??
The Secret Spring / Helmut Schenker
@@鞏潇薇 Thanks alot🙏🙏🙏
Watching from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩❤❤
This sign on the gate. Google translate say, "Love the people, secure the border, strengthen our border defense".
A very special experience
Heaps interesting to see that bridge connecting the 2 counties!
Definitely!
How did you get the drone shot?
Your BEST video to date mate. Super interesting and a story very well told. Ps I agree... Don't sing Jack 😉
Glad you enjoyed it! Hahahaha no singing. Let’s see
It only costs 30 US dollars. You can sign up for a tour group in China to go to North Korea. can take photos. But you are not allowed to communicate with North Koreans.
If you travel Dandong to Baishan you will enjoy more
There was a Chinese movie that came out recently about North/South Korean War that I saw a short clip on TH-cam the other day
Lovely, makes me even as Chinese want to travel to Dandong, DPRK is just mystery even for Chinese nationals.
Intriguing video! Thanks for sharing your experience!
Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 The video is really impressive, North Korea is really scary, poor people have to suffer challenges every day because of the regime, The human rights situation in North Korea is critical. The current regime systematically and on a large scale violates the fundamental rights of its citizens. Here are some key points:
· Fundamental freedoms denied: There is no freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly or of association. The media is strictly controlled by the state and dissidence is harshly repressed. ·Concentration camps: Hundreds of Hundreds of thousands of people are held in prison camps, where they are subjected to forced labor, torture and ill-treatment.
· Limited right to food: Malnutrition is widespread and food rations are often insufficient.
·Restricted freedom of movement: Leaving the country is extremely difficult and often punishable by detention.
·Cult of personality: The regime imposes a cult of personality around the Kim family, and criticism of the regime is considered a crime
Tears came to me when I saw those Korean kids 😢 we are fortunate.
100% ❤️
Save your tears .Who knows maybe they are more fortunate and we are more miserable .People from other country also think people living in China are all miserable too ,no freedom .
@@kennyz6271 感觉中国不自由就赶紧润走，中国还真没有限制你出国或者移民到其他国家
@@pigpig6077 你似乎看不懂英文。我是说看到北韩的小朋友先别掉眼泪，北韩的小孩人家可能过得比我们好呢。就如很多其他国家的人认为我们中国人很可悲没自由一样。
@@kennyz6271 你可以经由墨西哥偷渡去你的天堂，然后撕掉护照。这样就能永远留下来了。相信我，三个月就能买大别墅！
I think Sophia is one of the least numbered Nepalese citizens visiting North Korea.
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Great trip guys. I did all that last year and yep, experience is an understatement for sure. Stay safe!
It's funny how y'all casually sat on the train and were just like "Okay let's cross over to North Korea now"
Dude, you have the thickest Aussie accent I have ever heard.
Fantastic to see you two Beautiful people again..Nth Korea is a good decent country, don't believw Western Media ever
It’s always worth remembering that the same media talking points (“Dictatorship”!) (“Totalitarian!”), which this channel pushes back against when it comes to China, are repeated verbatim regarding North Korea.
Hahaha. North Korea is an absolute shithole and the poor people are abused. Don't spread that bullsh*t here Kim Jong.
what you have payed wasnt that expensive tbh, iv heard local chinese are paying around 300-500 per person depends on activities
Good 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you! Cheers!
Super cute couple❤Lovely vlog❤
বাংলাদেশ ভ্রমণের জন্য স্বাগত জানাই। ❤❤
❤
Kim Ill Sung was the grandfather of Un, Kim Jung Ill was the father.
08:00 Thats true.There are some north korean workers in china. They cant live with or talk with us unless its for work. BTW there are some restaurants operated by north korea govement in China and Thailand. The waitresses are north korean
I would like to add that there are also travel agencies opened by North Koreans in China, and their employees are all students who graduated from North Korean tourism schools. These students usually learn Chinese or English, and after two years of internship in China, they will return to North Korea to work as tour guides. North Korean travel agencies in China mainly help Chinese people travel to North Korea. It is very cheap.
Northeastern China is also an ethically diverse place - Mongols, Manchus, Russians, Koreans and various Turkic and Tunguistic peoples living.
Be careful out there guys! Stay Safe Always!
I went to this border several yrs ago, and when I looked towards the North Korea, I did nothing just looked, the patrolling soldiers from North Korea pointed their guns at me. very unfriendly!
Thanks!
No problem! Thank you so much Keny!!
I guess your confusion may come from this: Chinese has no tenses, so the store owner may mean that they (North Koreans) used to come here to buy things, but now because of the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea’s management has become stricter and North Koreans are prohibited from coming here to buy things.
17:13 Maybe 10 to 15 years ago, there was no border fence between China and North Korea. North Koreans could have come to China at that time. Your guide maybe used the past tense, but you misunderstood him that he is talking about the recent times.
I think this could be exactly it!
Maya xa baini jwae lai❤
If you have the chance, come to South Korea and see North Korea through the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas.
you can enter North Korea via tour from Beijing. Some ten years ago, I went to dandong, i saw a lots of North Korean came to dandong for entertainment. Just come and go the same day.
It's just an amazing presentation!! Thanks for exploring the beautiful sites of North Korea from the China Korea border. 🎉best wishes from Sylhet Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Wow very nice country ❣️
我测，丹东什么时候成town了。。。
两个傻子
Why they built a women's prison site at the border? Cause they need it, guess every bigger city will have it.... it's macabre that it's on a tour for tourisms...
But I have to say that the guys - the two guides and the captain - are cool guys! They face it so often, I guess. And they say "wave to them", lol. They love it to have interactions with N.Koreans too. And we remember the guide who said "nooo, they don't come here to buy things" - he's smiling, shouting "HELLOOOO" on the boad! Cause he has a bit more free space to do such things.
If I am North Korea I can just swim there
19:00 no, it does not happen a lot, cause Chinese police catches them and send them back to N.Korea. Then they will be punished for trying to escape. The most defectors are from the Hamgyong province - at the the east cost site. There defectors have to escape through the mountains to avoid being discovered.
So for the China shop (16:11), they go there and go back. That's it. They would be detect so fast for no chances.
You can see it through the N.Korea kids who waved. It's normal for them to see foreigners. And I guess it's okay in this situation being i city at the border. Nothing will happen, but for the tourists it will have a effect: pity.
朝鲜和中国签订了引渡协议，所以中国必须按照协议行事，比如把脱北者遣送回朝鲜，但现在中国政府基层也对那些脱北者表示同情，抓捕工作大多都是消极进行
Ahhh okay. Thank you for this information! I'm glad that local police treats them different
chinese policemen are a bit reluctant to catch refugees since policemen know they will be punished by Nk
16:11 Oh sure, they will come to buy things. That's why there is a gate, a signal, a shop and stairs. Could imagine, that in the river there's a space where constructure was build, that the Yalu/Amnok river is not too deep to walk through. But China and DPR Korea are very close, so they have to tell media or in videos that it's not true. N.Korea government might see this video, lol.
The translation of this guy was correct. You can see it also with his hand-sign, he said "no, no" and to your question if they don't come "shi de" ("yes").
I think that iron gate is for North Korean offcials,not ordinary people,who need to smuggle some goods that cannot be bought in the country.
@大魔王2012 could be possible too. Officials have more power and I guess more money
It’s over dramatized and lives over there might not be what you are told
The tour companies in DanDing are aware of the misconception but play to it and profit from it
That’s why we said everything we say today may not be 100%
对任何人来说那都是一个神秘的地方。
22:58 I think he got angry when you asked that question 😂
我去过朝鲜，停留了大概一个月
IT'S SO PITY TO SEE THEIR LIVES LIKE THAT BECAUSE THEIR LEADERS ARE SO DICTATORIAL... I HOPE THEY CAN FIND A LEADER LIKE OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES.. GODBLESS U ALL
The way you speak and explain things you sound like Mark Wiens 🤭
Hahaha thank you!
Labor camps are actually quite sad and harsh
go taipei 。u gonna love it🎉
Many doors are open from china to north Korean and other such Countries.
The river you are touching belongs to both China and North Korea, and does not belong to North Korea alone.
North Koreans are normal people like us, no need to look at them like they are from Mars or from a Zoo
Wow ..
I had been to this place and take the ferry in 2013. It has been more than 10years, nothing changed in North Korean 🇰🇵side at all 😂. I throw a bag of 11yuan Chinese cigarette to the fisherman and he behave overexcited.
You should visit the capital of North Korea. It's one of the more modern city in the world. But don't take my word, look up videos of Pyongyang.
Sarcasm levels 999😂
Wow.. This 10 times better than the border in South Korea.. Great video..