I've seen a recent video from a NK defector named Park Yeon Mi and apparently some defectors who live in Korea and China are tricked and trafficked back to NK. She has a YT channel but I forgot the name. Is it "In search of freedom?"
@@andreahl3494 her channel is called “voice of North Korea” and her book is called “in order to live” I recently read the book for a an analysis for class and I loved it!
@Miyamoto Mimosa you can hear it from one of the younger defectors on another video on this channel! I’m sorry as I don’t remember which one. I’ve been binge watching all of them haha
I was just stating that she has the Moon shaped Face Considered beautiful in North Korea. In South Korea, I already know about the "V" shaped face Popularity. One small Peninsula, Same Ethnic Group, yet different Butchering of Faces...... As a Foreigner, I think All Faces of Koreans needs no Butchering, . KOREANS both North and South are Beautiful to us. Especially before double eyelid Surgery. Natural.
Hitler was just as evil, but Nazi Germany was very different than modern North Korea. Also we have a lot of these same requirements in the western world for Play Boy bunnies, Pagent Queens, and Celebrities. We just don't kill you in the West for not conforming
you mean the Austrian painter that was very popular with his people? Usually often seen greeting everyday children and mothers. This man at least expressed a concern to feed his people, he is a complete opposite of these vile marxist dictators.
After dealing we such much traumatic experi3nces your brain literally clicks and do something that avoida younto suffer anymore, that is becoming numb, is like depersonalization but less extreme
I love how Kim has such high standards for the people that he surrounds himself with yet he himself is...... edit: from the replies I understand that heavier men are considered attractive due to the fact that it distinguishes higher social class, but then y do the women/'pleasure squad' have to be skinny? Isn't heavy weight suppose to be attractive? I'm just trying to highlight the fact that he's a hypocrite.
Ikr. But diff beauty standards in different countries. Men like him are preferred in N.korean bc it means he has wealth since N.k is a poverish country many people starve.
It is intentional because it is demonstration of different status. As in "look, I am different from you, normal humans". It creates different impression in country where even eating normally is a challenge.
1st Beauty is in the eye of the beholder .... 2nd there are no living gods.. how do I know.What are the word God to me means immortal and all knowing also gods don’t bleed.. 3rd everyone over there wants to complain about how he’s such a terrible person and such just like his father but yet you get a mad Americans because we told you the solution if they all would’ve revolted American I believe would’ve stepped in to help we don’t like him either we don’t want him
@@alexbambamextra It's still a huge risk to talk about it. People are being ratted out and sent back to NK sometimes and everyone that you''ve known could become endangered who's still there. She's extremely brave not only far attempting (and luckily succeeding) to flee that hell but also to spread the stories
@@ninoslanguagejourney6002 thought the same. Aren't family and relatives who still lived in NK would be punished for what she said? Like she's brave, but what about others.
@@you_already_have_it I think she left her father to die. Because mom and sister left with her. But they couldn't tell dad. Because nobody wants to help a dude escape. But three girls. .....
I'm still trying to draw the connection to her saying she worked as a "police officer", then saying she was a musician that's why she was chosen to be part of the pleasure squad.
Here in the US many law enforcement agencies have bands. They are not a requirement, but more of a social thing. My brother-in-law is a police officer, and his department's drum and bagpipe band came marching and playing to the wedding reception (kind of funny seeing as his family nor our family are Irish or Scotch), and my uncle's fire department's drum and bagpipe band marched in his funeral procession. Our Armed Forces all have bands.
Also I'm only half way through but she's talking about how they have a bad reputation because it's said the dude slept with all the girls, but she never mentioned if it was true and I am confused now
@@emilymulcahy it was true. I recommend Yeonmi Park (Korean defector) YT channel. She gives a lot of details about NK life and she made several videos about Pleasure Squad. Since Dimple Channel is Korean and still a little conservative, I can tell she was using euphemisms by the way she speaks. But YeonMi Park lives in the States for years now and she explains things plainly without hidden words.
so bizarre how she can brush it off with a smile, like she was talking about the weather last week... just shows how systematic the oppression was, and how kindness and dignity must have been a foreign concept.
I noticed that whenever she began to talk about something traumatic (such as witnessing executions) she stopped smiling but then gradually over the course of the story, she would begin to smile again. She could be doing this as a coping mechanisn (once she becomes aware that she is feeling distressed she tries to cover up her troubled feelings with a smile) but I also wonder if this is a learned behaviour from her time living under the regime. After all, given how much you have to put on a brave face & upbeat persona in the face of great hardships in that country, it is understandable she could be like this; not only were many young women her trope expected to remain cheerful despite being subjected to serious sexual harassment and rape by officials, but remember that the person who screamed at the execution was also scolded by people in the crowd for displaying distress over watching a traitor die. This is not dissimilar to how things became over time in Stalins Russia; if you didn't display the right emotions at the right time (such as being upset when a traitor was executed, or not displaying sadness when a party officials death was announced), you could be accused of not being patriotic to the cause. So people learned to smile even when they were in the greatest pain (and cry when they felt nothing) for fear of risking getting accused of being a traitor.
@@user-mb3dx5fl9f well apparently there’s 3 main types. A sexual one, one that does massages and one that does musical stuff. Obviously there may be some cross over but I assume that mainly they’ll do their own set jobs, otherwise they wouldn’t have categories
How traumatizing it was for the people of North Korea to witness a public execution. Imagine a 5 year old kid watch someone die in front of them. They weren't given enough human needs and rights, Fear is the only thing they have. You are one brave woman. Thank you for sharing your story!
Indeed. I saw an interview with a guy who escaped one of the camps and now lives in S. Korea. I think he was born in the camp. The suffering he witnessed and endured was terrible, I reckon he’ll never fully recover from the trauma. There seems to be no end to the inventiveness of torture from the psychopaths working in these places. There are similar stories of the camps in their large neighbor to the north. It’s hell on earth.
Props to this woman for being confident in telling about her real life experiences back in North Korea. It's not that easy to 'spill the beans' if it's concerning the NK supreme leaders' malicious antics and schemes.
I went immediately to her channel to support her! I’m so sad that none of her videos include English subtitles. I’m even more sad that I don’t speak Korean!! I found your storytelling extremely interesting and informative. I wish I could hear all your content!! I’m going to subscribe anyway and I wish her channel lots of blessings and success. 🌈💖🦄🤟🏽🌸☀️
The fact she is still so bright and shining eventhough she went through all the horror..defector are truly inspirational.. I hope one day NK will be free from the dictatorship nightmare
I found it amazing when she says she never admired Kim Jong Il. I've seen a few North Koreans Defectors and most ran from the hunger and not for their politics. They believed that the leader was good until they set feet on another land and were teached about the lies. I think that the fact that the brainwash didn't work on her makes her very wise and intelligent. Congrats to this brave woman!
"What does the 'Pleasure Squad' do for Kim?" Reminds me of when Forrest Gump's drill instructor asked him, "What is your sole purpose in this Army!" And Gump replied, "To do whatever you tell me."
Thanks for sharing your story.. I can't imagine being in your shoes, I'm glad you could survive that and be brave enough to tell the story.. Stay healthy and safe.
I had to watch this twice because I couldn’t stop staring at her face, she is beautiful, and has some of the best skin I’ve ever seen, her beauty had me mesmerized.
You're one of the most inspiring women I've listened to. You are able to come out of all of that and be able to calmly and openly share it with others so that they may better understand you and your country...I am happy to have been enlightened. 😊
I noticed that whenever she began to talk about something traumatic (such as witnessing executions) she stopped smiling but then gradually over the course of the story, she would begin to smile again. She could be doing this as a coping mechanisn (once she becomes aware that she is feeling distressed she tries to cover up her troubled feelings with a smile) but I also wonder if this is a learned behaviour from her time living under the regime. After all, given how much you have to put on a brave face & upbeat persona in the face of great hardships in that country, it is understandable she could be like this; not only were many young women her trope expected to remain cheerful despite being subjected to serious sexual harassment and rape by officials, but remember that the person who screamed at the execution was also scolded by people in the crowd for displaying distress over watching a traitor die. This is not dissimilar to how things became over time in Stalins Russia; if you didn't display the right emotions at the right time (such as being upset when a traitor was executed, or not displaying sadness when a party officials death was announced), you could be accused of not being patriotic to the cause. So people learned to smile even when they were in the greatest pain (and cry when they felt nothing) for fear of risking getting accused of being a traitor.
If i was a CIA director & i have an ideology enemy, i would hire few womans from their state to perform as their leader PLEASURE SQUAD members. That will 100% work to shit his reputation.
Oh that is so scary, even as American when comes to women I don't care where man comes from you treat them with respect. I am so glad this woman is so brave to share this.
@@Water-ro8kp Well obviously you don't what on earth women and children go through in another country so don't tell me women along with children are treated fairly. Because that big lie right there.
@@silentstarz16 I don't speak korean neither, but as a fellow asian, i recognize an obvious assertion at the end of each word or sentence that is quite common in many asian language with strict culture, somehow the vietnamese, tamil and malay (especially indonesian) language also possess such assertion.
This is a complete madness I can’t even begin to imagine what you must go through but I’m grateful and blessed to heard your story my your days be blessed and happy
Thank you so much for sharing. I was station in South Korea and fell in love with the country and people. I hope and pray that soon North Korean people will be free and with South Korean enjoy a happy life, free from pain and fear, Bill Davis Florida USA
Wow. She is so beautiful. Her face is perfect and you know she didn't get plastic surgery because she grew up in North Korea. She is probably the prettiest North Korean woman I have ever seen.
She has though. She's had eyelid surgery, at the very least (you can clearly see she has eye folds rather then monolids). Obviously that didn't happen in NK, but she lives in SK now, where minor plastic surgery is pretty common.
The Korean government's so lucky: even the rebels are rather polite and non-terroristic/non-shamanist. What did they do to them to make them so attractive, employable, trustable, etc?
She's filtering and editing. We all know what the main purpose of the PS is. She's not telling the brutal truth of what those teen and 20s yr old girls for forced to do. Watch Yeonmi Park to get the real story.
How terrifying to have to watch the execution of another child (or anyone really) when you are a child. I cannot imagine that world that North Koreans are constantly subjected to you. On a lighter note, I enjoyed listening to your language; it's rather hypnotic.
okay so beautiful ppl are picked to work in 5gwa, and buried in a special place when they die, and family wont get to see them. let me get this straight, i would think that people grow old, they will become "less beautiful" to the leader's eyes. how do they keep working? or do they not? if they dont, why arent they sent back to their family? how are they living after they get old? and especially that you cant contact your family after youre in 5gwa....how do anyone know that youre still alive after youre done being beautiful to them? are they killed once theyre not up to standards, and buried in the secret place?
Did you see or hear other women in the 1 or of any of the 3 different pleasure squads talk about being sexually abused or having a baby from an encounter and having the pregnancy terminated???
Yes, I found that a bit confusing as well. From what I understood, they weren't the music&dance entertainers of the Pleasure Squad, but rather the good looking (large) team of people that were serving and working in close proximity to Kims, for their everyday needs. I think they also served as "the face" of the regime, when catering to foreign guests. As hotel staff and so on. 🤔
@D Dichev Well, their scopes are broader than that of a flight attendant. But yes, they basically work in the service industry. And they have to learn those skills pretty fast and well, since they have to do an impeccable job. So they become qualified in the process... Someone in the comments with a Korean username, said at one point: _The word ‘gwa’ in korean means “departament” in english. So, 5gwa can be translated to “5th departament” in english. The 5th department of the administrative affairs in North Korean Labor Party is known for recruiting (more like military draft in wartimes) special members and training them to attend on their leader in “many ways” in close distance. The group of the people for that work who were drafted by this “department” is called “the selectees of 5th department”. Those are whom she is talking about._ And I think it sounds pretty legit. 🤷♀️
The word ‘gwa’ in korean means “departament” in english. So, 5gwa can be translated to “the 5th departament”. The 5th department of the administrative affairs in North Korean Labor Party (the ONLY party that has all of the legislative, administrative, and judicial power of the country) is known for recruiting (more like military draft in wartimes) special members and training them to attend on their leader in “many ways” in close proximity. The group of the people for that work who were drafted by this “department” is called “the selectees of 5th department (5gwa)”.
So this to me, just seems like a lowkey dark desire for the supreme leaders to have their own personal kpop girl groups.
The Kims were acting like the king's of Josoen dynasty who had harems of concubines
And then they say that kpop groups in sokor are being treated as slaves
What hypocrisy
@@mangacollector2718 Yeah I agree, it is such an outdated
view... so gross
@@r_a_y_ the issues of K-pop groups in sokor is different,stop minimizing those issues by comparing to North Koreans
It’s mostly for propaganda purposes.
I can’t even imagine. You’re so brave, thank you for sharing your story.
Lmao
@@coner6312 what are u laughing at? Lol
Lmao
Brave?
I don't think she is in North Korea making her video.
@@Crashed131963 it takes immense amount of courage to escape that shithole
Seems like she is careful with her words and tried to avoid mentioning some things or the video editor cut much of the content to avoid flag
She’s broadcasted to Pyongyang via a news network they mentioned in another video. The only outside network available anywhere in North Korea
I've seen a recent video from a NK defector named Park Yeon Mi and apparently some defectors who live in Korea and China are tricked and trafficked back to NK. She has a YT channel but I forgot the name. Is it "In search of freedom?"
@@andreahl3494 its yeon mi park in order to live
@@andreahl3494 omg..wtf..
@@andreahl3494 her channel is called “voice of North Korea” and her book is called “in order to live” I recently read the book for a an analysis for class and I loved it!
She has the beautiful "Moon" shaped face which is considered Beauty standard in the North, like Ri Sol-Ju, the wife of Kim Jong Un.
Slowly, even NK is shifting to the slimmer V shaped face popular in SK. Tastes take a lot longer to change in NK, for obvious reasons.
@Miyamoto Mimosa you can hear it from one of the younger defectors on another video on this channel! I’m sorry as I don’t remember which one. I’ve been binge watching all of them haha
I was just stating that she has the Moon shaped Face Considered beautiful in North Korea. In South Korea, I already know about the "V" shaped face Popularity. One small Peninsula, Same Ethnic Group, yet different Butchering of Faces......
As a Foreigner, I think All Faces of Koreans needs no Butchering, . KOREANS both North and South are Beautiful to us. Especially before double eyelid Surgery. Natural.
@@halicarnassus834 I’m really not trying to fight or start anything, I’m just letting you know the truth from different angles
@@the_rachel_sam touche
Wow, that’s insane. When she started talking about the requirements of the people around him, all I could think was how much that sounded like Hitler.
Hitler was just as evil, but Nazi Germany was very different than modern North Korea. Also we have a lot of these same requirements in the western world for Play Boy bunnies, Pagent Queens, and Celebrities. We just don't kill you in the West for not conforming
your own perception of the "hitler concept"*
@@jessicacole8404 yeah...I know they’re very different lol
@@MS-pe2vt what?
you mean the Austrian painter that was very popular with his people? Usually often seen greeting everyday children and mothers. This man at least expressed a concern to feed his people, he is a complete opposite of these vile marxist dictators.
She has a soft voice, it's nice to listen to, even though what she talks about is neither nice nor soft
Imagine having all the young and the most beautiful people of an entire country as your personal slaves. That's some super dark powerful shit.
If I was her, I would be crying while answering these questions. How traumatizing.
Yes. But i think she needed to learn how to not show her feelings in the aweful past
shes probably numb without knowing
It been few years for her so it not her first time telling it so she became numb
she's not a weakling
After dealing we such much traumatic experi3nces your brain literally clicks and do something that avoida younto suffer anymore, that is becoming numb, is like depersonalization but less extreme
In short, the dprk supreme leader wanted to create his own idol group
Uh, if they fail to be a perfect slave the "idol" group would be one member short
@@shadowlands8490 Kim's fanclub?
And yet he opposes south korea kpop 🙊
I love how Kim has such high standards for the people that he surrounds himself with yet he himself is......
edit: from the replies I understand that heavier men are considered attractive due to the fact that it distinguishes higher social class, but then y do the women/'pleasure squad' have to be skinny? Isn't heavy weight suppose to be attractive? I'm just trying to highlight the fact that he's a hypocrite.
Ikr. But diff beauty standards in different countries. Men like him are preferred in N.korean bc it means he has wealth since N.k is a poverish country many people starve.
It is intentional because it is demonstration of different status. As in "look, I am different from you, normal humans". It creates different impression in country where even eating normally is a challenge.
An absolute stud, ikr!
I mean he is the literal dictator of the country lol looks don't mean shit
1st Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ....
2nd there are no living gods.. how do I know.What are the word God to me means immortal and all knowing also gods don’t bleed..
3rd everyone over there wants to complain about how he’s such a terrible person and such just like his father but yet you get a mad Americans because we told you the solution if they all would’ve revolted American I believe would’ve stepped in to help we don’t like him either we don’t want him
Brave she can talk about it. Most members were bribed never to discuss it.
She left North Korea, that is why
Bribed? Mostly threatened to be killed maybe
@@alexbambamextra It's still a huge risk to talk about it. People are being ratted out and sent back to NK sometimes and everyone that you''ve known could become endangered who's still there. She's extremely brave not only far attempting (and luckily succeeding) to flee that hell but also to spread the stories
@@ninoslanguagejourney6002 thought the same. Aren't family and relatives who still lived in NK would be punished for what she said? Like she's brave, but what about others.
@@you_already_have_it I think she left her father to die. Because mom and sister left with her. But they couldn't tell dad. Because nobody wants to help a dude escape. But three girls. .....
I'm still trying to draw the connection to her saying she worked as a "police officer", then saying she was a musician that's why she was chosen to be part of the pleasure squad.
Here in the US many law enforcement agencies have bands. They are not a requirement, but more of a social thing. My brother-in-law is a police officer, and his department's drum and bagpipe band came marching and playing to the wedding reception (kind of funny seeing as his family nor our family are Irish or Scotch), and my uncle's fire department's drum and bagpipe band marched in his funeral procession. Our Armed Forces all have bands.
Police force bands, just like in the military. In NK, police force is a part of the armed forces.
🤔
Also I'm only half way through but she's talking about how they have a bad reputation because it's said the dude slept with all the girls, but she never mentioned if it was true and I am confused now
@@emilymulcahy it was true. I recommend Yeonmi Park (Korean defector) YT channel. She gives a lot of details about NK life and she made several videos about Pleasure Squad. Since Dimple Channel is Korean and still a little conservative, I can tell she was using euphemisms by the way she speaks. But YeonMi Park lives in the States for years now and she explains things plainly without hidden words.
She is so brave to share these facts. It must be difficult to be free while your friends and loved ones are still suffering this tyranny 🥺
so bizarre how she can brush it off with a smile, like she was talking about the weather last week... just shows how systematic the oppression was, and how kindness and dignity must have been a foreign concept.
A lot of people smile and laugh when talking about their trauma, it's a common response/coping mechanism
I noticed that whenever she began to talk about something traumatic (such as witnessing executions) she stopped smiling but then gradually over the course of the story, she would begin to smile again. She could be doing this as a coping mechanisn (once she becomes aware that she is feeling distressed she tries to cover up her troubled feelings with a smile) but I also wonder if this is a learned behaviour from her time living under the regime.
After all, given how much you have to put on a brave face & upbeat persona in the face of great hardships in that country, it is understandable she could be like this; not only were many young women her trope expected to remain cheerful despite being subjected to serious sexual harassment and rape by officials, but remember that the person who screamed at the execution was also scolded by people in the crowd for displaying distress over watching a traitor die.
This is not dissimilar to how things became over time in Stalins Russia; if you didn't display the right emotions at the right time (such as being upset when a traitor was executed, or not displaying sadness when a party officials death was announced), you could be accused of not being patriotic to the cause. So people learned to smile even when they were in the greatest pain (and cry when they felt nothing) for fear of risking getting accused of being a traitor.
This is how most trauma victims cope. Not weird. Study trauma response
you should do more research about their culture, instead of just criticizing
The more pain you endured, the more numb you become.
Very brave woman she is 🙏💖✌️🇳🇿🇰🇷
Yoda ?
So basically he'd put on a show but in reality NO one else could do what his "pleasure squad" did. 🙄
I mean we all know what dictators' pleasure squads do. Even if she doesn't say that openly, I guess everyone understands.
@@user-mb3dx5fl9f p
Basically nK is still in the early Dark ages . The days of barbarianism
@@user-mb3dx5fl9f well apparently there’s 3 main types. A sexual one, one that does massages and one that does musical stuff. Obviously there may be some cross over but I assume that mainly they’ll do their own set jobs, otherwise they wouldn’t have categories
@@georgelewis3665 Actually that's a good point, a smart point, and a pretty important info. Thank you, pal.
How traumatizing it was for the people of North Korea to witness a public execution. Imagine a 5 year old kid watch someone die in front of them. They weren't given enough human needs and rights, Fear is the only thing they have.
You are one brave woman. Thank you for sharing your story!
Indeed. I saw an interview with a guy who escaped one of the camps and now lives in S. Korea. I think he was born in the camp. The suffering he witnessed and endured was terrible, I reckon he’ll never fully recover from the trauma. There seems to be no end to the inventiveness of torture from the psychopaths working in these places. There are similar stories of the camps in their large neighbor to the north. It’s hell on earth.
Children actually adjust to death pretty quickly.
Props to this woman for being confident in telling about her real life experiences back in North Korea. It's not that easy to 'spill the beans' if it's concerning the NK supreme leaders' malicious antics and schemes.
The way she speaks is so pleasant that if there were no subtitles I'd think she's talking about something beautiful n romantic
I went immediately to her channel to support her! I’m so sad that none of her videos include English subtitles. I’m even more sad that I don’t speak Korean!! I found your storytelling extremely interesting and informative. I wish I could hear all your content!! I’m going to subscribe anyway and I wish her channel lots of blessings and success. 🌈💖🦄🤟🏽🌸☀️
This was with english subtitles
@@jayantkumarbasu5378 she means on the woman's channel- not this one.
You should learn Korean
@@Ms.FortuneTeller much easier said than done
@@sstormed Not easy, but worth it
wait so the scene from the movie 'Interview' where Kim-jong un got women for him and one of the main characters to enjoy was actually true?!
Surprised?
What title of the movie?
WHAT? 😲 You have no idea about real world.😅
Which is why it was ao creepy when kim jong un liked Irene from red velvet so much
@@anniesmith6165 shit, protect irene at any cost. 😿💗
Imagine how depressed his wife is when she see his man keeping hundreds of lovers as a pleasure squad infront of her😕
May be not that kind of depression but fear and revulsion :(
@@ferares1 what can she do may be she could also has been living a slavery life who knows🙁
@@joelinej1744 really sad :(
Depressed? I'm sure she's relieved that time is being spent with them than her
@@xandykkaudy8252 🤣🤣🤣 yeah may be
The fact she is still so bright and shining eventhough she went through all the horror..defector are truly inspirational.. I hope one day NK will be free from the dictatorship nightmare
This woman has a warm smile.
Heart breaking that he treats his people so cruel. I hope you will all be free one day.
They will
I found it amazing when she says she never admired Kim Jong Il. I've seen a few North Koreans Defectors and most ran from the hunger and not for their politics. They believed that the leader was good until they set feet on another land and were teached about the lies.
I think that the fact that the brainwash didn't work on her makes her very wise and intelligent. Congrats to this brave woman!
yea he isn’t following Scientific communism very good at all , Korean peope are not stupid
"What does the 'Pleasure Squad' do for Kim?" Reminds me of when Forrest Gump's drill instructor asked him, "What is your sole purpose in this Army!" And Gump replied, "To do whatever you tell me."
it takes a strong person to deal with things like this-bless you young person
Thanks for sharing your story.. I can't imagine being in your shoes, I'm glad you could survive that and be brave enough to tell the story.. Stay healthy and safe.
You are a brave person and we wish you safely for years to come.
North Korea I pity for their people
I pity everyone there, its painful to see. Shes a brave survivor, bless her.
How did she escape North Korea? Bravo to surviving the ordeal!! You are so brave
I suppose if everyone explained how they escaped, it would be harder for others to do the same. Although I am interested as well.
It should not be mentioned or North Korean higher authority will learns about it and make it harder for others to escape
Thanks to you and your channel and brave people who tell their stories - the news is out! Little Fat Man can't keep it hidden any more.
She has such a beautiful voice! I was interested in checking out her channel, but it looks like there aren't any english subtitles 😔
Very beautiful young lady. She is so brave to share her story. Thank God she is safe and pray for her family
I'm so happy you're alive and you're here telling one of I know to be many stories. Best health and happiness for the future!
could you guys please do a video with her on beauty standards in north korea for men and women
u are so sexy :)
@@TheAcidheat creepy
Beauty standards? They can barely afford to eat there & you think they have beauty products!?
I had to watch this twice because I couldn’t stop staring at her face, she is beautiful, and has some of the best skin I’ve ever seen, her beauty had me mesmerized.
Yeonmi Park is another woman that escaped from NK. She has a YT chanel and she brought me to this topic.
So a whole country is working just for entertaining one person
I can't believe how unbelievably brave this woman for telling her story
You're one of the most inspiring women I've listened to. You are able to come out of all of that and be able to calmly and openly share it with others so that they may better understand you and your country...I am happy to have been enlightened. 😊
I noticed that whenever she began to talk about something traumatic (such as witnessing executions) she stopped smiling but then gradually over the course of the story, she would begin to smile again. She could be doing this as a coping mechanisn (once she becomes aware that she is feeling distressed she tries to cover up her troubled feelings with a smile) but I also wonder if this is a learned behaviour from her time living under the regime.
After all, given how much you have to put on a brave face & upbeat persona in the face of great hardships in that country, it is understandable she could be like this; not only were many young women her trope expected to remain cheerful despite being subjected to serious sexual harassment and rape by officials, but remember that the person who screamed at the execution was also scolded by people in the crowd for displaying distress over watching a traitor die.
This is not dissimilar to how things became over time in Stalins Russia; if you didn't display the right emotions at the right time (such as being upset when a traitor was executed, or not displaying sadness when a party officials death was announced), you could be accused of not being patriotic to the cause. So people learned to smile even when they were in the greatest pain (and cry when they felt nothing) for fear of risking getting accused of being a traitor.
If i was a CIA director & i have an ideology enemy, i would hire few womans from their state to perform as their leader PLEASURE SQUAD members. That will 100% work to shit his reputation.
What a perfect moment to get a KFC ad.
*"I DONT CARE, I LOVE IT"*
Are you not afraid letting your self exposed and revealing all this where millions of people watch.. your a brave lady. ❤
Pretty interesting. ...please turn down the music, it was hard to concentrate on what she was saying...
Oh that is so scary, even as American when comes to women I don't care where man comes from you treat them with respect. I am so glad this woman is so brave to share this.
oh plz you treat both genders with respect stop trying to act like women have everything hard and tough. That’s not fully true
@water men playing the victim again even when they’re far more privileged. weak 🤪
@@Water-ro8kp Well obviously you don't what on earth women and children go through in another country so don't tell me women along with children are treated fairly. Because that big lie right there.
So Kim Jong Un has a harem
Were you born Yesterday sweet Winter Child????? I mean that with Love
Same as the king of Brunei
same as most world leaders, in some countries is more hidden than others.
@@berry95137 bullshit. Where is the proof?
@@pencinta1329 u from Brunei? 😂
Thank you for this rare insight! Non sensational but explaining things with direct simplicity!👍🙏
I was actually curious about the topic recently. 🙂
like you new look, keep it up. Thank you for your bravery in escaping N. Korea.
Sorry for your negative experiences... Seems like it was really tough. Im glad your happy and safe now
i noticed north koreans have a distinct accent, it's more noticeable in women tho.
What's the difference, in your opinion? As a non-korean speaker, I can't tell, unfortunately.
@@silentstarz16 I don't speak korean neither, but as a fellow asian, i recognize an obvious assertion at the end of each word or sentence that is quite common in many asian language with strict culture, somehow the vietnamese, tamil and malay (especially indonesian) language also possess such assertion.
This is a complete madness I can’t even begin to imagine what you must go through but I’m grateful and blessed to heard your story my your days be blessed and happy
This channel is so important ❤️
Indeed. 👍 Fascinating, non embelished insight.
Brave for showing her face. Hope she still safe..
Thank you so much for sharing. I was station in South Korea and fell in love with the country and people. I hope and pray that soon North Korean people will be free and with South Korean enjoy a happy life, free from pain and fear, Bill Davis Florida USA
I will keep watching your channel. You were and are quite brave. May God bless you.❤
Wow. She is so beautiful. Her face is perfect and you know she didn't get plastic surgery because she grew up in North Korea. She is probably the prettiest North Korean woman I have ever seen.
She has though. She's had eyelid surgery, at the very least (you can clearly see she has eye folds rather then monolids). Obviously that didn't happen in NK, but she lives in SK now, where minor plastic surgery is pretty common.
She did it in SK. Lol
@@Erizedd how can u regocnize when the double lid isn’t natural?
@@Erizedd Wait,did you think all mongoloids have monolids?
She had surgery, the fillers are obvious. If you've been around SK they have similar looking faces.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It sounds so difficult. I'm glad you left and have a new life now. I wish you all the best. ❤
I think... I’m paying attention to her jacket equally as much as what she’s saying. Crazy.
Love that jacket. It’s really cool.
She's so pretty I love how she speaks
Such a mediaeval culture still.
She's pretty btw.
Exactly. To be selected as a 5gwa member, you have to pass the virginity test.
The Korean government's so lucky: even the rebels are rather polite and non-terroristic/non-shamanist. What did they do to them to make them so attractive, employable, trustable, etc?
Bro I can't 🤣 The name is "THE
PLEASURE SQUAD" lollll
And people still be saying "north korea is not bad as you think it is"
She's filtering and editing. We all know what the main purpose of the PS is. She's not telling the brutal truth of what those teen and 20s yr old girls for forced to do. Watch Yeonmi Park to get the real story.
Anyone else feeling like she's saying way more things that appears on the subtitles?
nah it's just the sentence structure in korean, there're a lot of stuff there so it feels like they're saying more
3:52 I think she is saying Kim jung Il, but the subtitles say Un...Just thought that it might be misleading..
Considering the time she stablishes, you're probably right.
She said Kim Jung-il.
You are so beautiful! Thank God you are safe! Thank you for sharing!
😊🤗🤗
Very brave to share these details.. hope you are safe always.
She is so pretty...her skin is glowing
Fun fact almost every North korean deflector (not all of them, but most of them) making youtube channel👍
that is just too many. some NK channels are outright lies.
Her jacket is stylish as hell.
She’s so strong
I don't speak or understand Korean, but I am going to go follow her channel and watch her videos just to support her.
lmaooo
What's 5gwa? There's no specific search results for it in google.
She's so sweet, glad she's having a good life
OMG you are too cute. Such a cute smile and beautiful. 😍😍😍
I had no idea Korean was such a lovely language.
“So they even checked the sweat on my hands..”
That’s not creepy at all..ugh..:/
She's not clickbait looking for likes, so it's good that she's very level headed about her data.
How do people deal with the emotional scars from their work? Just get past it the best you can?
Thank you for this video !
How terrifying to have to watch the execution of another child (or anyone really) when you are a child. I cannot imagine that world that North Koreans are constantly subjected to you. On a lighter note, I enjoyed listening to your language; it's rather hypnotic.
She served her country well.
Kudos to her for getting out, takes courage and even now they could come after to her
What a surreal place. Dystopian.
okay so beautiful ppl are picked to work in 5gwa, and buried in a special place when they die, and family wont get to see them.
let me get this straight, i would think that people grow old, they will become "less beautiful" to the leader's eyes.
how do they keep working? or do they not?
if they dont, why arent they sent back to their family? how are they living after they get old?
and especially that you cant contact your family after youre in 5gwa....how do anyone know that youre still alive after youre done being beautiful to them?
are they killed once theyre not up to standards, and buried in the secret place?
I'm shocked family members can't pay respects to their son's or daughter's grave because they are buried in an unknown special place
God bless her this Brave lady....
Did you see or hear other women in the 1 or of any of the 3 different pleasure squads talk about being sexually abused or having a baby from an encounter and having the pregnancy terminated???
There’s apparently three types of pleasure squad, a sexual one , a massage one and a singing one. I assume those were in the sexual one
She is like I want to speak about it more openly but unfortunately I cant I hope you guys understand.
What is 5gwa? Give a definition, no one has heard of it before outside of North Korea.
Yes, I found that a bit confusing as well. From what I understood, they weren't the music&dance entertainers of the Pleasure Squad, but rather the good looking (large) team of people that were serving and working in close proximity to Kims, for their everyday needs.
I think they also served as "the face" of the regime, when catering to foreign guests. As hotel staff and so on. 🤔
@D Dichev Well, their scopes are broader than that of a flight attendant. But yes, they basically work in the service industry. And they have to learn those skills pretty fast and well, since they have to do an impeccable job. So they become qualified in the process...
Someone in the comments with a Korean username, said at one point:
_The word ‘gwa’ in korean means “departament” in english. So, 5gwa can be translated to “5th departament” in english. The 5th department of the administrative affairs in North Korean Labor Party is known for recruiting (more like military draft in wartimes) special members and training them to attend on their leader in “many ways” in close distance. The group of the people for that work who were drafted by this “department” is called “the selectees of 5th department”. Those are whom she is talking about._
And I think it sounds pretty legit. 🤷♀️
@Ray Ward - check out the quote in my comment above. ☝️
her north korean mannerisms are so built into her with her head movements and like always moving her hands.
I feel bad for the people who have to serve Kim Jong Un food, they have a difficult job with how much he eats...
ha! gotteem
the dislike on this video is from kim jong un and his generals
Her cheerful demeanor and the things she's saying don't go together at all. It's a little disturbing
Madam You are Brave and Bold. Forget your's Past and think about your's Future.
Is 5GWA an abbreviation or a translation/transliteration for the name of this group
I think a transliteration most likely. Cause it makes no phonetical sense in the Roman alphabet.
The word ‘gwa’ in korean means “departament” in english. So, 5gwa can be translated to “the 5th departament”. The 5th department of the administrative affairs in North Korean Labor Party (the ONLY party that has all of the legislative, administrative, and judicial power of the country) is known for recruiting (more like military draft in wartimes) special members and training them to attend on their leader in “many ways” in close proximity. The group of the people for that work who were drafted by this “department” is called “the selectees of 5th department (5gwa)”.
@@0523franz Wow, thanks for clarifying!! 🙏👍
@@0523franzWait, 5TH?! THE 5TH FLOOR FROM PYONGYANG'S HOTEL! Do you think there might be a relation between those things?
@@eduardot.h.monreal1621 No. It is different.
Why didn’t I see here when I was there 4 years ago??