Air Koryo EXPLAINED | North Korea's State Airline
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2024
- Air Koryo is perhaps simultaneously very well-known and very misunderstood in the western world. However, the airline has a surprising history which stretches beyond the regular flights to and from Beijing, even reaching as far as Europe's iron curtain!
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Correction: Bulgaria was never an SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic), rather an independent country in the USSR's sphere of influence. Not sure why I decided during my voice-over that it was all part of the Soviet Union but... there ya go. Apologies to any Bulgarians!
The distinction was rather blurry considering the USSR kept troops in the country for most of the cold war.
Sometimes i say turkish ssr, (no offense turkish people)
@@marinettedupain-cheng9930 Offense, offense is everywhere...
@@ColonelChekhovskiy im sorry
It was a 'socialist republic' anyway and under the Warsaw Treaty, its armed forces were subordinated to a Deputy Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union, so that shows how 'sovereign' Bulgaria was in those days.
I thought that I saw a Air Koryo aircraft flying into Heathrow when I was driving round the M25 on a hot day last summer. It turned out to be an optical Ilyushin.
Best comment.
Good one
Haha real funny
I think Korean Air would go from London to Pyongyang
@@emiliobello2538 It's a funny joke that substitutes "optical Ilyushin" for "optical illusion".
Nothing beats Beijing ATC having fun and having Air Koryo and Korean Air planes taxi next to each other and parking next to each other
It is interesting to see both Korean Airs in the same picture
Tu-204 parked,taxiing near a 777
HA ! HA !! HA !!!
@@marinettedupain-cheng9930 True though
This is 100%. They park each other directly next to each other.. great photo op!
I was in Beijing in 1978 and saw the North Korean IL-18 there parked at the terminal. It was the only aircraft in sight. Beijing Capitol was a very small and quiet airport in those days. Its extraordinary to think that the aircraft I saw is undoubtedly the one still in service today.
Every time I'm there (usually on international transfer) it's still quiet, but absolutely huge. There's almost always very few people in the cavernous terminal. Very surreal.
caoutsk?
Especially impressed by how you used the north korean translation for cities instead of the south korean one. Really proper research.
Well, I’m learning the northern dialect of Korean rather than the southern dialect which makes it a tad easier 😁
@@DPRKExplained why are you learning the northern accent instead of southern one? Just curious :)
@@ghassenlahmar8044 That's where I work more often
@@DPRKExplained This needs more explanation lol.
@@DPRKExplained i am very intruiged! What kind of work could that be, if you dont mind sharing more details/info? What sources do you use to learn the north korean dialect? I have been very interested in the language difference between the north and south that has been developing for decades now, but it would be hard to learn the northern dialect for a random westerner like me :D
Finially, an accurate, non click bait, non buzzword filled research video on Air Koryo and DPRK
Honestly, that stuff annoyed me so much it's what inspired me to start this
@@DPRKExplained I love how most people who slander DPRK youtube are young peoples that watch top 10 video and propaganda documentary and are experts, yet never research economics, Juche, Marxism, etc. Libertarian, conservative, and centrist think tanks produce what they know will make them money, which means truth, facts, actual evidence for crazy claims or theories is never provided. Lots of cognitive dissonance i see today..
@@Serge_82 Because they rely on their media corporations to think for them.
@@Serge_82 Here are the Top 10 very obvious lies about North Korea that only 12 year olds believe!
(Nr. 5 will shock you)
This deserves more views, you worked super hard for this.
Haha, cheers - feel free to share it around, but making it's been a nice enough lockdown hobby
@@DPRKExplained Also, just a suggestion, maybe you can talk about the Korean People's Air Force [KPAF] (North Korea's Air Force)
He literally calls Il-62 "modern" in 1980's when in fact it was heavily outdated by civilised standarts by 1970.... I wouldn't call it well reaserched.
Air Koryo: we don´t give a damm about your requests
Ryanair: that´s my boy!
I flew the Beijing to Pyongyang route. It was a very rocky take off with those rusty old Soviet engines… strange clanking noises and some heavy rocking back and forth. I looked around in panic but the workers party member next to me was just chilling with his newspaper and the air stewardess was laughing… so I relaxed. The rest of the journey was pretty smooth. I do not recommend the hamburger though!
Love that you added North Korean music in the background. Fitting and it’s not some default music. Well done!
My grandfather flew in 1974 from Copenhagen to Moscow on Aeroflot il-62 then he had a stopover in Moscow before flying on Aeroflot il-18 to Pyongyang via Omsk and Irkutsk. Then when he was in Pyongyang doing business the next flight from Pyongyang left two weeks later so he had to take a 24 h train ride from Pyongyang to Beijing.
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@@excoliosis3267 why do you think I would have made that up? You can’t just say that someone is lying just because you don’t have some cool story to tell your self.
@@edwinytnagone5342 no because it was my grandfather not yours
@@excoliosis3267 talk about calling out liars. Even claiming somebody’s grandpops
As a native Korean, your pronunciations of the Korean words were spot on! Amazing video!
감사합니다. 남조선/한국에서 배우기 시작했는데 요즘엔 조선말 튜터가 있습니다
@@DPRKExplained 남조선 momento kek
@@DPRKExplained 남조선? Have you lived in the North?
@@canadianaviator bro tbh even 재일교포 and some other 해외교포 call it 남조선
not just north koreans
exactly what makes me think this is Korean made lol
Went on Air Koryo from Beijing to Pyongyang in 2018. I don't know the aircraft type but seemed in good condition for an old aircraft. I did avoid their famous "hamburger" meals, but others said they were OK. I don't think they deserve the bad reputation. Trains were good as well -- not that I remember that much since I spent the journey in the restaurant car drinking NK beer with a British fellow from Rothschilds !! Many roads are dual carriageway but a bumpy ride for long journeys so trains or air travel would be preferable. The DPRK is a most fascinating place, unlike anywhere else I've seen.
My older brother did that years ago, he said something similar (minus the Rothschild)
Good Airline.
There is only so much you can do to alleviate things like material fatigue, especially since most if not all types they are using ar no longer in production so the new spare parts are unlikely to be available long term.
Immediately subscribed. Very, very good stuff.
Thanks!
I admire those well aged planes are so clean and mint in their condition for this modern day and age
Socialist mechanics are the best in the world.
Saw one Air Koryo plane when I had a very long stopover in Beijing. It was quite interesting to see a plane from North Korea which I haven't seen before.
Spectacular work Benjamin. I am impessed by your high quality production and your clear voiceover. As an aviation channel, it is great seeing more smaller channels continue to make aviation content. Having this amount of quality makes it more fantastic. Liked!
Criminally underappreciated channel. Happy you popped up on my recommended.
Nice seeing somebody actually citing their sources. Thumbs up for that mate 👍🏻
The Macau route in 2019 has never really been put into action, but yeah there were talks about it
Sincerely, a Travel agency close to DPRK embassy
"travel agency close to DPRK embassy"...that's a real point of pride!
Well done. An excellent and most informative presentation, and so easy to follow. Very much appreciated. Thank you.
Great graphics. Really enhanced the information presented.
Air Koryo used to fly to Nagoya, Japan in the 80s and early 90s. You seemed to have missed it.
Ah yes, true, although sometimes those flights were operated by different airlines and I couldn't find concrete numbers regarding the actual Koryo flights to Narita
@@DPRKExplained actually air Koryo didnt fly into Narita, but they did fly into Nagoya, which is about 450km west of Tokyo. A TH-camr named Nao Nakagawa has posted many of his old plane spotting videos from Nagoya airport from the 80s and 90s and some of his footage actually has footage of air Koryo ilyushin jets landing and taking off from Nagoya!!
Cool!
For Anyone don't know
Choson Minhang Actually means Korean Civil Airservice
The North Korean Version Of CAAC
Reminds me of Zhongguo Minghang. CAAC Airlines
Your videos are so aesthetically pleasing!
Enjoyable, informative video. I did once see a North Korean Il62M on the apron at Tirana/Rinas airport in Albania back in the mid 80s.
Thanks for watching, if you have anything you want me to make a video on let me know. If you enjoyed the video, hit like and subscribe - it really helps the channel, and means I can keep working on new projects. Thank you!
What about a video about LACSA? The Costa Rica airline.
Why don't you make a video on Korean Armed Forces
Another excellent and informative video. Great work!
This is just underrated. Lets get you to 1k asap.
Great video. Would love to see more like this. 👍
Very interesting. Well done. Thanks. 👍🏼
Air Koryo used to fly to lots of places but now only Beijing, Macao, Shenyang, Vladivostok and a few other places
They'll be adding Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle shortly :D lol!!
@@bd5av8r1 I don't think that would be possible.
Also, during it´s operation, Air Koryo hasn´t lost a single aircraft to an accident.
They did in Africa, but I think it was for a fair or for political reasons
@@ILoveQazaqstan source???
1983
@@dihydrogenmonoxide9210 yes
You mean if they told us. Shhhhh...
Very informative! ❤️
Very interesting thanks for the vid.
The video production is very high quality, the audio, editing etc. are all tip top and reminds me of The People's Channel when Anton visited North Korea.
Seeing old planes in such good condition is almost nostalgic. Thank you for direct, accurate information on this. So much information regarding the DPRK is so obnoxiously editorialized while lacking in any attempt at real accuracy. Fantastic video!
The dust spots on this footage is something special lol
They actually have quite a *Niche Market* once the current CVD thing is over.
I'd love to take some Retro-USSR flights as a "Life Experience" hoping around Asia...
Are you American? If so, the US state department will not allow you to travel to North Korea currently. They’ll revoke your passport if you do go.
@@appleintosh Not quite: in January 2010, North Korea lifted the restrictions on American citizens who are now free to visit at any time of the year. If you are a U.S. passport holder, be aware you must have special validation for travel to North Korea from the Department of State. A specialist North Korean travel agency can help you sort out the complex and ever-changing regulations. You can go ... if you dare.
This level of production and 2000 subs?! No way
Thank you!
Incredible production quality! Keep it up man! What videos do you have in mind for making in the future?
Right now, no idea. Keen to keep it uncontroversial and try to focus on the nichè stuff. Any suggestions are welcome
@@DPRKExplained I have a few suggestions:
- agricultural system
- healthcare system
- educational system
In each of these, I think it would be interesting to know how privatized vs nationalized each institutional system is. Does North Korea have charter schools/private schools in addition to public schools? Does North Korea have for-profit hospitals or for-profit farms?
@@zanegbradley Generally speaking, no. There are no for-profit elements in the educational and healthcare system, and in the agricultural system most food goes directly into the public distribution system except any surplus.
thank you for your video
Great stuff. Subscribed.
When Air Koryo still makes more flights than outbound Australia flights since March 2020
You earned a sub from me buddy, this is an amazing video!
that Illushyn looks so elegant 😍
Cool video, would love to know more
Fascinating.
I subscribe to your channel thanks to this video!
Thank you! Finally a fair channel about Korea!
This is surprisingly fact based and unbiased
One of my best flying experience were the flights with Air Koryo. Really well maintained and clean aircrafts, pilots are really professional, service on board was comparable to Lufthansa or KLM and at last but not least beautiful flight attendants dressed in stylish uniform. So from that time I don't believe Skytrax at all
Do they still have regular service to Shenyang? That's how I left. Air Koryo to Shenyang with connecting service on China Southern to Beijing. I wanted to take the train back but Americans weren't allowed to do that for some reason.
They definitely put their pride of fleet on the Beijing route. The flight to Shenyang was on an old plane that shaked and rattled upon landing. And we got the infamous burger as a meal on that flight.
I believe they do still operate out of Shenyang - and yes, they operate the newest Tu-204s on the PY-BJ route
Underated
Air Koryo is very cool
Nice =)
Is it right to prevent a country such as North Korea replacing its old airliners? Old airliners tend to be less safe and have higher emissions. Many other products and services can be embargoed without endangering people's lives and polluting the skies.
Personally, I agree with you, many of the harsher sanctions are hitting people on a personal level which is wrong on a more moralistic level. The airliners, I'm less concerned about, simply because of the money that's being invested in maintaining the fleet, although certainly modern airliners have more redundancy for safety, which would be objectively better
Airliners can be easily repurposed as military transports, AWACS, and even be modified into missile and torpedoes platforms, as evidenced by the P-8 Poseidon and Hawker-Siddley Nimrod. It wouldn't be surprising if a country as militant and paranoid as the DPRK would do just that.
@@edricklawrenceong7776 Repurposing civil airliners for military roles is a highly complex subject. It is really only possible to discuss the repurposing of a specific airliner type for a specific role, in a specific context. The context is the hazards, risks, and environment in which the aircraft will be expected to perform, the standards the aircraft must meet, and the money available to undertake the necessary modifications. If, for example, one examines the use of a civil airliner to transport soldiers, then one needs to consider the length and nature of runways the aircraft must use, the steepness of take-off and approach and manoeuvres to avoid SAMs, the need for antimissile measures such as flares and jamming, the extremes of temperature, dust, sand, mud, ice, and snow, and the maintenance requirements. How many maintenance hours are required per flying hour, where can maintenance be done, and what tools and spare parts are needed? The aircraft may also be required to meet unusual specs, such as having backward-facing, impact-cushioning seats with military-style seatbelts, and to use a fuel that has better evaporation and viscosity characteristics versus temperature and pressure, than Jet-A. The backward-facing seats, for example, affect the floor structure. Big problems are introduced when you want to modify a civil airliner for parachuting, to carry missiles, torpedoes, bombs and the like. You need to consider the performance and durability of the aircraft at the requisite altitude and airspeed to perform that job, (flight loads imposed during nap-of-the-earth flying differ greatly from those at high altitude), defensive fire, and the aerodynamic and structural loads imposed on the airframe by stores. Aero-elasticity and flutter can be a problem when an aircraft must carry stores for which it has not been designed, and indeed the aircraft's pitching, yawing, and rolling moments versus angular displacement can change greatly. Conversion of a civil airliner for a military role may seem to be an easy and cheap off-the-shelf solution, but isn't! It is almost always better, quicker, and cheaper to design and build a bespoke aircraft for a specific military role, than to battle for years, in vain, to convert a civil aircraft into the right aircraft, and end up with an aircraft that the military air crews do not like and which does not meet the original requirements. Anyone who has studied the Nimrod MRA4 and related Nimrod programmes will know how unbelievably expensive and delayed these projects were, largely due to the difficulty of fitting the required antennae, power sources, electronics, computing power, defensive measures etc. into the airframe. What is more, the Nimrod had an appalling liability: a fuel pipe ran very close to the jet ducts of the inboard engines, and this is believed to have caused the destruction of two such aircraft, with the loss of all aboard. For obvious reasons it is usually much easier to convert a military aircraft for civil uses. In short, I would not be concerned about supplying North Korea with a few good and efficient civil airliners. Apart from anything else, North Korea would then require spare complex and expensive spare parts to keep these aircraft in the air, which is a good thing!
@Thisis invenice It is not how old an aircraft is, but how well maintained it has been.
It’s USA that controls the world and just like with NK the same thing goes for Iran, they need to get new airplanes to! USA decided that NK and Iran is bad but Saudi Arabian is good 🤯. I rest my case! When China gets their new planes flying both Iran and NK will be able to upgrade and Boeing and Airbus loses two possible customers for nothing.
thats a dream fleet for us avgeeks.
Would love to fly on those aircraft, but not necessarily in North Korea, China nor Russia..
I think at one time, they even had services to Kuala Lumpur! But it got discontinued.
What aircraft are most commonly used, I would imagine even though they have 10+ airworthy aircraft, only 2-3 are used in their day to day operations, the TU-204s?
lol I live in Kuwait, and never knew that Air Koryo had flights to here..
Shame to not see them in Europe anymore, who knows maybe someday again, cool video
Hey would someone be able to tell me what music was used in this video? I really really liked it
How many of these aircraft are still in production? Are new and spare parts readily available?
May I have a link to the BGM pleasse?
The fact he learned how to pronounce the words properly just for a video is Fantastic!
The background song is really nice!!...anybody knows the name of it?
Amazing....u got a sub. what the beautiful background music is called?
Not sure specifically. I've taken it from the Korean Central TV Testcard which plays a wide range of music so, there's no way to be sure unless anyone can identify a distinct tune
@@DPRKExplained yeah I found the test card. Still not sure what its called though.Thanks and keep making these videos.
@@samuelrodrigues8561 Cheers!
Whats the music at 1.33 called?
Although now there are no flights to anywhere I think
whats the name of the background music?
Say what you want about north korea but for aviation enthusiasts this Must be the most exciting fleet in the world
What's the music you used
Not only does Beijing ATC can put Air Koryo and Korean Air next to each other, they can also put Air China and Taiwan’s China Airlines next to each other!
Always amuses me the way China claims that Taiwan is part of China, yet flights from Taiwan are processed through the *international* airport, and Taiwanese people need a visa to get through *immigration* ;)
Not bad. Good Airline..
Many Greetings from Poland.
We come soon to Pjongjang when will be possible to coming.
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Is the music on this video from an album of elevator music or is it from something in North Korea?
It's from the testcard on Korean Central TV. They play instrumental music for half an hour before programming starts each day
What is the background music?
As questions:
1. the video graphics colour the entire Korean peninsula as one. Does that reflect a stance regarding the legitimacy of the ROK ?
2 the video describes Air Koryo international flights. Is information available regarding intra DPRK flights ?
3. the uniforms and livery for air cabin employees of many airlines are noteworthy. Is information available about the fashion of Air Koryo cabin crew members ?
Hi.
1. No. Both Koreas do not recognise eachother, claiming ownership of the whole peninsula, and so in videos where the division is not the topic under discussion, I tend to use the peninsula as a whole. In this video specifically, Air Koryo, being the flag carrier of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, would design it's maps this way, and so I've followed suit.
2. Intra-Korean flights vary with very few actually scheduled but with many more routes running. Could be a future topic?
3. Potentially? Although only anecdotal information.
@@DPRKExplained Thank you.
i saw one of them in Pakistan's Islamabad Airport in 2017
Please make more videos 🙂 we need to shed a nyanced view on North Korea which also means to shed light on the positive sides og the country.
I recognize your voice from somewhere
Do you know when the last Pyongyang-Bangkok or Bangkok-Pyongyang flight was?
I wish I could visit the dprk
Aviation and politics! Wow I subbed!
Please talk about the man yeong bong 92 aka the 0 star cruise
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tarom was flying bucarest to bangkok with l 62
Нифига себе, были прямые рейсы из Хабаровска в КНДР! Давно это было, до пандемии можно было только из Владивостока лететь на ТУ-204
Не рекомендую эту модель, мой дядя работал на этом самолете стюардом, и во время снижения у самолета отказали шасси😬
Is there another domestic airport aside from Pyongyang? You may have mentioned it in the video but I missed it.
When I flew from Pyongyang I was allowed to walk around on the tarmac and take pictures of the planes parked. The flight to Beijing was like any other flight in any other plan, the quality rating for this airline is pure political, I would rather go with them before I fly Ryanair , the only problem was the form they ask you to fill out, the space for your name is about 7 mm long and not really made for names spelled out with western alphabets. 😂
I would agree about the rating for this airline. This airline gets rated badly because it is the airline of North Korea NOT because it is a bad airline.
Even more interesting about the AN-2, there’s a possibility it’s still in limited production in China
How these old planes can be kept going would be a story in itself,surely parts are getting scarce....
from my local regional airport, i can fly to NYC and Atlanta.....in the center of Europe!
The translation is wrong from what I have looked up with certain parts of the video but I know there is a difference with certain translation between north and south so could be that lol love videos like this though
Very possibly! Although it may be a dialectual difference, yes - when there's a difference, I always default to the northern dialect/spelling/terminology
I wonder what Air Koryo is going to do long term surely it will need to replace its aircraft eventually
The best aircraft maintenance in the world!
Air koryo flight to Kuala Lumpur
Crowd 1011 has so much dust on his lens
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i am from kuwait, i don't remember seeing air koryo in KWI...it would be great to see them again...