Riddle time! What's the implicit problem? "Everything's expensive if you don't have money" "...work for the government, so they have a special card" "Can a lot of ppl afford stuff from department store? mostly no"
This is literally why American men look for wives outside of America, because most of those women are so mentally tough and don’t mind doing womanly house duties like cleaning, raising the children being loving, kind and obedient, whereas you talk to American women and all they want to do is argue back talk challenge you most of them don’t even act feminine anymore they think it’s somehow a negative thing for them to fit into their womanly roles, and they all want to basically be men now Which is why men don’t want anything to do with him. They want to go and find women like this beautiful North Korean woman.
I can't forget about that horrible story of a woman, who got sent to labor camp because she chose to save her child out of a burning house over the pictures of the leaders.
even worse are the hundreds who escaped through the wrong border to china and got sent back, and the ones who almost manage to escape but are tortured, regretting their escape for life.
She seems like the sweetest most innocent girl. And it’s devastating to know that millions like her are suffering under the whims of a psychopathic ruler.
A few years ago, I spent several months reading as many autobiographies of North Korean defectors as I could get my hands on. Being able to see, even just through a video, the things that I read about feels so surreal. It never stops feeling terrible - not just the poverty of the country, but the intense governmental control over their lives. Imagine being afraid to have a USB in your possession, afraid to watch certain movies, afraid to say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, afraid of a picture being crooked on the wall. I can't imagine it, and I'm so grateful that I can't. I wish that no one had to understand that kind of fear.
I, too, became very interested in NK about 7 years ago & have read countless books, especially those written by defectors. Each account has taken me down a path of shock and horror & I've recoiled from the imagery of this kind of torturous living, which is completely devoid of the smallest amount of joy. In reading, I've shed many tears, often having to reread those harrowing experiences to fully understand the level of horror they contain. It confounds me how the Kim Dynasty still continues, with the starvation of its people who are turning to cannibalism just to survive but I can totally see that the sheer poverty & weariness they suffer aids the totalitarian control. People are kept deliberately worn down by the act of staying alive, wearied by the horror of life while the very philosophy of communism creates the self-same corruption & hypocrisy it protests it abhors. I saw yesterday that Kim Jong-un has sentenced his gardener to 10 years in a hard labour camp for failing to get the Jongilia flowers to bloom in time for their yearly celebration of "thanks" for the Kim family!! The reason, of course, had nothing to do with the gardener & his lack of care (his assistant got a lesser sentence) but was due solely to the lack of good nourishing soil, water & plant food... And while this poor country suffers from the total devastation of its land & people Kim Jong-un imports brandies & cheeses as well as many more delicacies he favours. The monthly bill for this alone would feed his whole nation for a year but instead, those who give of themselves are tortured & punished for trumped-up charges... The plight of NK & its people really has awakened me to a whole new level of suffering that I struggle to accept during a time where so much luxury is the standard for most of us. I thought (at my old age) I'd seen pretty much everything & that in being an avid reader I'd heard of much, much more but NK is a whole level of hardship all on its own...!! How thankful I am that I was fortunate enough to have been born to live a free life, which although has its own challenges does not present me with the constant threat of torture & imprisonment for something so innocuous as owning a USB stick. As you say, I can't imagine the constant fear of living with the darkness, depravity & deprivation of the Hermit Kingdom. I live in the hope of seeing NK returned to its people one day but the Kims have an iron grip on their free ride to being worshipped as deities. 😖
Communism is basically a white lie told to make sure modern slavery keep existing. That's my opinion. I'm from Iran and I find similarities with their country, it's not that strict about photos in houses but what we say to whom can get us executed in name of religion by people who claim to be holly. People die everyday and government hold ceremonies that cost a lot instead of feeding and taking care of people. I think communism changes the fact "land belongs to people" to "everything and everybody belongs to this ideology" and often people miss that point.
Gives me the same vibes as the world in 1984, the coldness, the starkness, the never knowing who to trust, the hardship and just the pure need to survive. You would even be fearful of looking over your shoulder as that might be seen as untrusting of the government, which could land you in jail.
@@alexisw6613 it used to be somewhat possible for even the poorest to escape up until around 2020. Since then NK has massively increased their precautions to prevent people from escaping and the number of defectors has increased immensely :(
@@TheAvprobeauty Why do we need to tip toe around other cultures? She was straightforward and reacted to things she found strange. Is there anything wrong with that? I don't think so. I wager you only think like this beacus she is a white American.
Funfact, the subway waggons we see in the clip was built in the 50s and 60s for Berlin. They were sold in the 90s and allegedly some of them, even when repainted, still have the skretchings from back then on the windows
That department store scene was straight up 1970's fashions right down to the girl in the sailor suit. The water bucket thing was and wasn't crazy to me. On one hand, I know that a lot of areas have water issues and limited water distribution. One the other hand, this is in their capital. Literally the major city and people have to use a pulley system like in an old well to get water to their apartments. The lack of internal plumbing is mind-blowing taking into account that this is a rich area in North Korea.
Because of this and due to frequent electricity outage (thus no elevator usage - yes, they are there, but frequently not used due to danger of getting stuck), no high ranking officials will live in one of those apartments.
this just makes me sad, north korean people seem to have rich culture and values, but their government holds them back in every way possible. i hope when im old north korea is a different more moderate country. i dont care about them westernising or allying with america over china, i just care about the quality of life of innocent citizens and their children, they deserve better. my great uncle served in the korean war, i adore him!
Apparently it’s similar to South Korean “traditional” food, but much more bland. It’s purportedly not particularly good. They don’t use much seasoning. They do have a lot of ferments though, which add flavor.
in the inner rings of north korea its nice olden food from china or south korea but the people on the lower status rings have to eat rats and leafs and stuff. Yonmi park explains this really well because shes a lower class escapee!
This is in Pyongyang. The only people allowed to live in the capital are high-up, wealthy members of the party. People in the country do not have access to phones, high end food, night clubs, subways, etc.
Yes, North Koreans are facing difficult living conditions, partly due to international sanctions. But North Korea's population is approximately 26 million, with about 3 million in Pyongyang. If your claim is true that 12% of the entire country's population are high-up, wealthy members of the party, despite North Korea's conditions, then that would be great and admirable.
@@concertmaster There are a large portion of serving staff and soldiers who work in Pyongyang but do not live there. The population counts are entirely skewed as they include these masses of what are essentially slaves. These people aren't allowed in these clubs, stores, or etc.
@@knightartorias1825 thank you for your reply. do you have a credible source where I can read more about that, like how they aren't allowed in the Pyongyang clubs, stores, etc.? many people in the west are "brainwashed" about the DPRK because they're "our enemy" and they make things up to support the idea that the people of North Korea are just slaves and not even normal humans like you and me, which is disturbing and wrong, I want to be careful not to blindly believe everything so I'm not a slave to western imperialism.
@@concertmaster Yeah, look up any person who has escaped North Korea. There are plenty of escapee soldiers and civilians who talk about Pyongyang. Watch the videos of escapees getting shot at when they try to leave. What creditable source do you have for their population numbers? If you want to believe a totalitarian regime that shoots at its own citizens crossing the DMZ more than the folks getting shot at, then you're a fool. These are survivors you're discrediting- not "Western imperialism". Calling the population of slaves slaves is not "disturbing and wrong". Enslaving people is disturbing and wrong.
These look like Potemkin shops. Its sole purpose is to improve the area’s image to outsiders. The bucket for water transport may be due to electricity shortage, as you need to power the pumps to get water into the houses.
Most NK will tell you that even lucky villages only get two hours a day of electricity so there is no point in refrigerators and little purpose to water pumps.
The way she describes the cell phones there, is exactly what inmates have as tablets in current day prison USA. One thing i noticed, the metro. Very soviet. I.E. they were grand, works of art. Even the crappy stations in Moscow are decked out with art of some kind. Something weird the Soviets did, and I think N. Korea took full inspiration with their metro from the Russia if i'm not mistaken.
The Soviets' logic behind this was that the metro was something that the masses used on their daily ride to work, so it should be spacious and magnificent, "cathedrals of the working class"
Here in Uruguay those flip phones are called kosher phones and are mainly used by jews. Their customs don't allow them to use smartphones because of all the information one consumes from the internet and they said it's to keep them focused on real life. which is not that crazy to think about.
i know a chinese pastor who has being going into north korea and helping poor people there for decades. (one time he built a bathhouse at a village where nobody had money and couldnt shower + he also taught them about christ)
The Shim Sang-jo incident was a massive purge in North Korea from 1997 to 2000. From 1996 to 1997, a large number of people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were starved to death due to the great famine called the March of Suffering. Kim Jong-il, then the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, was having a hard time dealing with a senior official who served during the Kim Il-sung era, his father. Kim Jong-il established a secret police organization called "Shim Hwa-jo" within the Ministry of Social Security (now the People's Security). Shim Hwa-jo meant to deepen the investigation of residents' careers and thoughts, especially taking advantage of the growing public's dissatisfaction due to the economic crisis and the famine. Kim Jong-il appointed Jang Sung-taek, then the first vice-president of the organization leadership of the Chosonno-dong party, to the group and immediately carried out a grand purge that victimized senior executives, aides and their relatives. Seo Kwan-hee, who was secretary of agriculture at the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, was publicly shot in downtown Pyongyang for responsibility for causing the famine. It is also said that Moon Seong-sul, who was also Jang Song-taek's political opponent, died while being bullied by Jang Song-taek. Shim Hwa-jo's bases reached hundreds of locations across the country and about 8,000 employees were in charge of the investigation. Finally, the number of people purged was about 25,000. Of these, 10,000 were killed and 15,000 were held in camps. Because the role of Shim Hwa-jo is similar to that of the Red Guards who were active during China's Cultural Revolution, the Shim Hwa-jo incident is sometimes called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea version of the Cultural Revolution along with the Red Flag Movement.
It is funny to see those old subways and them joking about the color, bc I have immediate flashbacks seeing them. They are originally from Berlin, I guess 80s models. :)
Anyone who's been oppressed has a right to forget about their oppressor and I daresay it would be a sign of healing that their life is no longer defined by that person through fear
that's only because she's in a closer rim. Yonmi park is a north korean escapee and shared her story from a lower status and it was horrifying. i thought she was just really traumatized but her stories are so consistant it shook me to my core, other escapee's spoke out with similar experiances it makes yor mourn for their people. Yonmi had to eat rats as nutrition and other stuff i cant even comprehend
The thought of having random people you don’t know go through your books pillowcases and blankets is just insane to me no privacy at all I’d be mad all the time I hate when people touch my stuff let alone an unfamiliar face go into my room I’d try to fight them
If you've watched "crash landing on you" they said they got ideas for the places from interviewing north korean refugees. Only the very rich elite people can go to Pyongyang
There was a subversive item in the restaurant! Fortune cookies were invented by Japanese-American Restauranteurs, in San Francisco. When Japanese were entered during 2nd World War, Chinese Restaurants adopted the tradition, which eventually made it back to China.
@@Aloysius_OHare Yes, maybe you didn't understand my sarcasm. Thanks for the explanation that no one asked you for. Only a fucking egomaniacal people would name themselves after the continent they live on... and thousands of other peoples.
LOL yes, I'm so sure you thought "Hondurans," even though the vast majority of the world refers to someone from the US as "Americans" (and have done so for ages) Then again, you're probably being sarcastic, so I hope I'm just overlooking it
Im kinda annoyed the subtitles arent exactly what they say- there's a big difference for example between 'sometimes' and 'often' and it's rude to not translate accurately
@@Hugh.G.Rectionx Ah yes, a "but kids in Africa starve" kind of argument uh? Except here it still falls flat, because not being able to afford a house is not really some mild inconvenience.
@@Koka2609 Oh man you'd have felt right at home in 1939 Germany with that mentality. Sometimes laws suck and are unfair, that's why people have this thing called morality. Ever heard of it?
I've seen a TH-camr who went to NK and recorded it in secret, and when tried to buy some of that stuff... They said no. Not for sale😂 But it's in a store smh. Which told me it's only for show!
The American woman couldn't say a single word without using her hands to convey the message lol, the Korean female had her hands in her lap nearly the entire time.
The same person was talking about eating grass and dying of hunger. Here she is talking about buying cosmetics. She should fix the story or have "THEY" fix the story for her. And then I think, what are they lying to us and serving to us "THEY"?
We Americans know we are privileged, our ancestors made a lot of sacrifices and smart choices that impacted the future. We just don't go around everyday saying we know it to others .... So pointless
I wouldn’t say our ancestors if you know what I mean not all Americans have the same ancestors regarding the disgusting history the US has against minorities.
Ok.. tbh from the talks of the woman who escaped North Korea that I listened to on the internet made me think North Korea was extremely poor, like village and not much transportation and all. She said they eat rats and all. But this seems not exactly like that. Lol.
Its so terrible seeing these people tiptoeing around the harsh truth. Sounds funny hearing her saying "He´s like our God", isn´t it? He´ll punish your whole family in case your house burns down and his pictures won´t be the first items you´re rescuing.
Can there be a video of you guys reviewing North Korean children performances videos? I’ve seen some where there was kindergarteners performing very accurately! Such as playing hard instruments that takes years to learn,them singing so well, or acting very disciplined. How do they do so well?
Because they have to do it! They´ll get raised like this .Seeing how this country is "working" it has a lot to do with fear and even the smallest ones can feel that and they -of course- adopt to the behaviour of their parents etc.Discipline is quite common in asian countrys
I don’t like the way the western girl laughing at lots of things shown in this video. I mean the way she laughs at North Korean food comparing it to Chinese food is offensive. She has American accent, and if she was an American, we all know what American food is like, so I wouldn’t laugh at their food. And you’re right, we’re spoilt in a sense that North Koreans may not know but calling Americans “privileged” is a bit stretched knowing they’ve got so many problems such as gun, drugs and medical system.
There are also many places in the U.S. where people don’t have running water. …it is not only in North Corea. We are all not privileged in the U.S. either.
This American literally knows nothing about Nord Korea, people there are dying from starvation, hunting rats, don’t have electricity. The NK girl had to be in the wealthiest class to even think about paprika or phone.
I'm waiting to see the reacts to the real American city with so many homeless people. old train and station where many people got killed. racist rants. thugs everywhere. violent on flights for seat and kicking people off the planes. druggies people turn into zombies on streets. etc etc.
This reminds me of the Communist era in Czechoslovakia back in the 50s-80s. There were some pockets of freedom and different degrees of control, but many of the things described here were true in my country as well
I like N.Korea. All my firends know this. In fact, it might like North Korea more than South. Because of Hypocrisy. I wish I'd go there to marry a pretty girl XD
Maybe someday N. Korea will have a dictator that is less Caligula and more Augustus. Such a sandbox is a dream for any would-be benevolent dictator. But, if we can't have sane, maybe we can have sexy? Kim Yo-jong could Cersei Lannister the place up (starting with wildfire'ing that giant hotel).
After reading Yeonmi Park's autobiography and hearing her speak, I was shocked at the deprivation the vast majority of North Koreans suffer. The mental imprisonment of not being allowed to learn so many things or think so many things or even know that so much exists, to be forced to believe so many lies (on pain of imprisonment or death, up to 3 generations may suffer for one person's transgression), to have a completely false understanding of the world, history, geography, biology... To be so hungry that you will eat insects or poisonous vegetation, to be so undernourished from infancy that you are on average 4-6 inches shorter than your South Korean relatives, to be willing to suffer sexual trafficking just to get out... We in the West have no idea what it is like to live even a day the way they do. It is terribly sad. The Kim's are not just wrong or bad. They are evil.
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"Everything's expensive if you don't have money"
Evelyn is over spitting facts!
Riddle time! What's the implicit problem?
"Everything's expensive if you don't have money"
"...work for the government, so they have a special card"
"Can a lot of ppl afford stuff from department store? mostly no"
This is literally why American men look for wives outside of America, because most of those women are so mentally tough and don’t mind doing womanly house duties like cleaning, raising the children being loving, kind and obedient, whereas you talk to American women and all they want to do is argue back talk challenge you most of them don’t even act feminine anymore they think it’s somehow a negative thing for them to fit into their womanly roles, and they all want to basically be men now Which is why men don’t want anything to do with him. They want to go and find women like this beautiful North Korean woman.
I can't forget about that horrible story of a woman, who got sent to labor camp because she chose to save her child out of a burning house over the pictures of the leaders.
even worse are the hundreds who escaped through the wrong border to china and got sent back, and the ones who almost manage to escape but are tortured, regretting their escape for life.
She seems like the sweetest most innocent girl. And it’s devastating to know that millions like her are suffering under the whims of a psychopathic ruler.
that's something a pig capitalist will say when they try to overturn a legitimate democratic republic by the people and for the people! U sus bro!
Coming soon to a Democrat Party run America.
Yeah all we have is a geriatric dementia ridden leader
@lifesbutastumble best answer :D :D :D
A few years ago, I spent several months reading as many autobiographies of North Korean defectors as I could get my hands on. Being able to see, even just through a video, the things that I read about feels so surreal. It never stops feeling terrible - not just the poverty of the country, but the intense governmental control over their lives. Imagine being afraid to have a USB in your possession, afraid to watch certain movies, afraid to say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, afraid of a picture being crooked on the wall. I can't imagine it, and I'm so grateful that I can't. I wish that no one had to understand that kind of fear.
I, too, became very interested in NK about 7 years ago & have read countless books, especially those written by defectors. Each account has taken me down a path of shock and horror & I've recoiled from the imagery of this kind of torturous living, which is completely devoid of the smallest amount of joy. In reading, I've shed many tears, often having to reread those harrowing experiences to fully understand the level of horror they contain. It confounds me how the Kim Dynasty still continues, with the starvation of its people who are turning to cannibalism just to survive but I can totally see that the sheer poverty & weariness they suffer aids the totalitarian control. People are kept deliberately worn down by the act of staying alive, wearied by the horror of life while the very philosophy of communism creates the self-same corruption & hypocrisy it protests it abhors. I saw yesterday that Kim Jong-un has sentenced his gardener to 10 years in a hard labour camp for failing to get the Jongilia flowers to bloom in time for their yearly celebration of "thanks" for the Kim family!! The reason, of course, had nothing to do with the gardener & his lack of care (his assistant got a lesser sentence) but was due solely to the lack of good nourishing soil, water & plant food... And while this poor country suffers from the total devastation of its land & people Kim Jong-un imports brandies & cheeses as well as many more delicacies he favours. The monthly bill for this alone would feed his whole nation for a year but instead, those who give of themselves are tortured & punished for trumped-up charges... The plight of NK & its people really has awakened me to a whole new level of suffering that I struggle to accept during a time where so much luxury is the standard for most of us. I thought (at my old age) I'd seen pretty much everything & that in being an avid reader I'd heard of much, much more but NK is a whole level of hardship all on its own...!! How thankful I am that I was fortunate enough to have been born to live a free life, which although has its own challenges does not present me with the constant threat of torture & imprisonment for something so innocuous as owning a USB stick. As you say, I can't imagine the constant fear of living with the darkness, depravity & deprivation of the Hermit Kingdom. I live in the hope of seeing NK returned to its people one day but the Kims have an iron grip on their free ride to being worshipped as deities. 😖
Communism is basically a white lie told to make sure modern slavery keep existing. That's my opinion.
I'm from Iran and I find similarities with their country, it's not that strict about photos in houses but what we say to whom can get us executed in name of religion by people who claim to be holly.
People die everyday and government hold ceremonies that cost a lot instead of feeding and taking care of people.
I think communism changes the fact "land belongs to people" to "everything and everybody belongs to this ideology" and often people miss that point.
Yeonmi says our liberals are taking us down the same path.
Gives me the same vibes as the world in 1984, the coldness, the starkness, the never knowing who to trust, the hardship and just the pure need to survive. You would even be fearful of looking over your shoulder as that might be seen as untrusting of the government, which could land you in jail.
@@danielreed5199 as America is getting under modern liberalism.
2:05 if her house looked similar to this and she even had a phone she'd definitely be among the top 5% wealthiest citizens in the country
Meh
Well it would be a lot harder to escape when poor enough that eating is difficult
@@alexisw6613 it used to be somewhat possible for even the poorest to escape up until around 2020. Since then NK has massively increased their precautions to prevent people from escaping and the number of defectors has increased immensely :(
Also the cost is significantly higher now then it used to be. usually 3x-4x to escape now then it was 5-10 years ago.
Yes she definitely is. I remember what that high school girl says.
"Everything is expensive, if you dont have money" ... I totally agree
Really like how helpful and inquisitive, yet respectful Megan was. She asked the right questions and left the focus with Evelyn. Super sweet!
she doesn't come across as respectful to me
@@lenaramoon4617same. she doesnt maybe mean to be but she is very ignorant.
@@TheAvprobeauty Why do we need to tip toe around other cultures? She was straightforward and reacted to things she found strange. Is there anything wrong with that? I don't think so. I wager you only think like this beacus she is a white American.
She could’ve held herself and not laughed at the dishes shown. She was like mocking the culture.
She was extremely disrespectful
Funfact, the subway waggons we see in the clip was built in the 50s and 60s for Berlin. They were sold in the 90s and allegedly some of them, even when repainted, still have the skretchings from back then on the windows
That department store scene was straight up 1970's fashions right down to the girl in the sailor suit. The water bucket thing was and wasn't crazy to me. On one hand, I know that a lot of areas have water issues and limited water distribution. One the other hand, this is in their capital. Literally the major city and people have to use a pulley system like in an old well to get water to their apartments. The lack of internal plumbing is mind-blowing taking into account that this is a rich area in North Korea.
Because of this and due to frequent electricity outage (thus no elevator usage - yes, they are there, but frequently not used due to danger of getting stuck), no high ranking officials will live in one of those apartments.
Lol! She tore Gucchi a new one! RIP
this just makes me sad, north korean people seem to have rich culture and values, but their government holds them back in every way possible. i hope when im old north korea is a different more moderate country. i dont care about them westernising or allying with america over china, i just care about the quality of life of innocent citizens and their children, they deserve better. my great uncle served in the korean war, i adore him!
The quality of life of people from NK is due to sanctions.
yes theres a plethora of negatives I could comment about, but the way she perked up about the food has me wondering what kind of food they have there
Apparently it’s similar to South Korean “traditional” food, but much more bland. It’s purportedly not particularly good. They don’t use much seasoning. They do have a lot of ferments though, which add flavor.
when food is scarce, the only traditional food you have tends to be nostalgic once you get out of there
in the inner rings of north korea its nice olden food from china or south korea but the people on the lower status rings have to eat rats and leafs and stuff. Yonmi park explains this really well because shes a lower class escapee!
This is in Pyongyang. The only people allowed to live in the capital are high-up, wealthy members of the party. People in the country do not have access to phones, high end food, night clubs, subways, etc.
Yes, North Koreans are facing difficult living conditions, partly due to international sanctions. But North Korea's population is approximately 26 million, with about 3 million in Pyongyang. If your claim is true that 12% of the entire country's population are high-up, wealthy members of the party, despite North Korea's conditions, then that would be great and admirable.
@@concertmaster There are a large portion of serving staff and soldiers who work in Pyongyang but do not live there. The population counts are entirely skewed as they include these masses of what are essentially slaves. These people aren't allowed in these clubs, stores, or etc.
@@knightartorias1825 thank you for your reply. do you have a credible source where I can read more about that, like how they aren't allowed in the Pyongyang clubs, stores, etc.? many people in the west are "brainwashed" about the DPRK because they're "our enemy" and they make things up to support the idea that the people of North Korea are just slaves and not even normal humans like you and me, which is disturbing and wrong, I want to be careful not to blindly believe everything so I'm not a slave to western imperialism.
@@concertmaster Yeah, look up any person who has escaped North Korea. There are plenty of escapee soldiers and civilians who talk about Pyongyang. Watch the videos of escapees getting shot at when they try to leave. What creditable source do you have for their population numbers? If you want to believe a totalitarian regime that shoots at its own citizens crossing the DMZ more than the folks getting shot at, then you're a fool.
These are survivors you're discrediting- not "Western imperialism". Calling the population of slaves slaves is not "disturbing and wrong". Enslaving people is disturbing and wrong.
@@knightartorias1825 like Yeonmi Park?
It was very informative I’ve heard people talk about North Korea but never really seen any thing.
These look like Potemkin shops. Its sole purpose is to improve the area’s image to outsiders. The bucket for water transport may be due to electricity shortage, as you need to power the pumps to get water into the houses.
Most NK will tell you that even lucky villages only get two hours a day of electricity so there is no point in refrigerators and little purpose to water pumps.
I haven't heard the name potemkin in a long time. Good job to your education.
I think Evelyn came from a rich family in NK since she could have a phone
She did
When she said "i dont wanna go back" i feel that..
The way she describes the cell phones there, is exactly what inmates have as tablets in current day prison USA.
One thing i noticed, the metro. Very soviet. I.E. they were grand, works of art. Even the crappy stations in Moscow are decked out with art of some kind. Something weird the Soviets did, and I think N. Korea took full inspiration with their metro from the Russia if i'm not mistaken.
The Soviets' logic behind this was that the metro was something that the masses used on their daily ride to work, so it should be spacious and magnificent, "cathedrals of the working class"
I believe the trains are from the Soviet Union. So its not surprising.
@@joshr8666nope. From eastern bloc Berlin Germany but close as that was under Soviet control until 1989
It’s because of the history.
The odds of finding videos outside of the "display" cities like Pyongyang are slim.
Here in Uruguay those flip phones are called kosher phones and are mainly used by jews. Their customs don't allow them to use smartphones because of all the information one consumes from the internet and they said it's to keep them focused on real life. which is not that crazy to think about.
0:19 Really, DON'T. You're better off without that cancerous app
i know a chinese pastor who has being going into north korea and helping poor people there for decades. (one time he built a bathhouse at a village where nobody had money and couldnt shower + he also taught them about christ)
The Shim Sang-jo incident was a massive purge in North Korea from 1997 to 2000.
From 1996 to 1997, a large number of people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were starved to death due to the great famine called the March of Suffering. Kim Jong-il, then the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, was having a hard time dealing with a senior official who served during the Kim Il-sung era, his father.
Kim Jong-il established a secret police organization called "Shim Hwa-jo" within the Ministry of Social Security (now the People's Security). Shim Hwa-jo meant to deepen the investigation of residents' careers and thoughts, especially taking advantage of the growing public's dissatisfaction due to the economic crisis and the famine. Kim Jong-il appointed Jang Sung-taek, then the first vice-president of the organization leadership of the Chosonno-dong party, to the group and immediately carried out a grand purge that victimized senior executives, aides and their relatives.
Seo Kwan-hee, who was secretary of agriculture at the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, was publicly shot in downtown Pyongyang for responsibility for causing the famine. It is also said that Moon Seong-sul, who was also Jang Song-taek's political opponent, died while being bullied by Jang Song-taek. Shim Hwa-jo's bases reached hundreds of locations across the country and about 8,000 employees were in charge of the investigation. Finally, the number of people purged was about 25,000. Of these, 10,000 were killed and 15,000 were held in camps.
Because the role of Shim Hwa-jo is similar to that of the Red Guards who were active during China's Cultural Revolution, the Shim Hwa-jo incident is sometimes called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea version of the Cultural Revolution along with
the Red Flag Movement.
Park Chung Hee k!lled thousands of people.
What about the ornate train / subway station though!? Those pillars and arches are something else!
It is funny to see those old subways and them joking about the color, bc I have immediate flashbacks seeing them. They are originally from Berlin, I guess 80s models. :)
Damn It's look bootcamp all over again. Inspection
NK propaganda division has a branch specifically for posting pro-NK material on TikTok.
I honestly love the old outfits, I think every country should have a resurgence in old traditional wear.
it comes in circles. Often by one extreme trend reverse to the other way. So it's possible it will come back in some form.
By the time humans settled down, they did wear some kind of clothes
This would sound better if it wasn't under a video of North Korea
Everything I've seen in pictures & videos of NK does look like 70-80s kickbacks.
This is very interesting, you two did a good job on this video.
Clean the portrait, and take care not to blemish it. This way, you never forget the face of your oppressor, nor who your struggle is against.
Anyone who's been oppressed has a right to forget about their oppressor and I daresay it would be a sign of healing that their life is no longer defined by that person through fear
@@vacafuega Ask the French Jews how well that worked out for them in the 40's.
This is very interesting. Was she a more affluent North Korean? Because she lived in Pyongyang and all and she seemed to have decent money.
Very informative, ladies. It's really trippy that photo has to be up in every home. It's some what 😐funny. It's 😟really weird. It's very ☹ sad.
They're both such lovely ladies!
That phone looks like a smartphone I was going to buy a some years ago and it was made in Japan. The last time I saw one it cost $325 at Wal*Mart.
Just hearing her happily explain N Korea, it really sounds like a type of a prison mixed with awesome culture. Really just makes me sad a bit.
that's only because she's in a closer rim. Yonmi park is a north korean escapee and shared her story from a lower status and it was horrifying. i thought she was just really traumatized but her stories are so consistant it shook me to my core, other escapee's spoke out with similar experiances it makes yor mourn for their people. Yonmi had to eat rats as nutrition and other stuff i cant even comprehend
Evelyn is awesome.
That's why I don't like Gucci
Demanding you write down how you did get on the internet or whatever so that they can go plug those "holes".
The thought of having random people you don’t know go through your books pillowcases and blankets is just insane to me no privacy at all I’d be mad all the time I hate when people touch my stuff let alone an unfamiliar face go into my room I’d try to fight them
No crooked
I wanna know what Evelyn thinks about Yeonmi park North Korean activist
If I lived there, I'd put the USB inside the food to be safe.
It's so sad they went to jail just for watching a movie. 🙄
A Teen denounced by his own mother has been executed For watching Some Kdramas Prohibited
The subway is the old S-Bahn of Berlin, similar colored.
If you've watched "crash landing on you" they said they got ideas for the places from interviewing north korean refugees. Only the very rich elite people can go to Pyongyang
And they still had to portray it in a semi-positive light because South Koreans still hope for a reunion.
Imagine living in a country that feels like 300 years ago… I’ll go crazy
bro ur not thinking of the pretty women
“Kim’s Generation” would be a great name for a boy band
I love Evelyn. NOPE. I don't want to go back.... ya think? lol
The people in the grocery check out was all a show. Notice the woman scanning the product has no effeciency of movement or system? Theatre.
Anybody else notice the BGM from Atelier Rorona?
Here in France, we say that the weaker a state is, the more it will break into your home.
There was a subversive item in the restaurant! Fortune cookies were invented by Japanese-American Restauranteurs, in San Francisco. When Japanese were entered during 2nd World War, Chinese Restaurants adopted the tradition, which eventually made it back to China.
i think those are some recorded videos and uploaded once they out of the country...
Saw Megan and I clicked instantly 😁
I’ve heard recently there are North Korean influences promoting north korea
when I read American I thought they meant Hondurans... but no, it refers to someone from the US
Hondurans are not American 😂. American is North American. We are the only nation that calls ourselves American. 😅
@@Aloysius_OHare Yes, maybe you didn't understand my sarcasm. Thanks for the explanation that no one asked you for. Only a fucking egomaniacal people would name themselves after the continent they live on... and thousands of other peoples.
This is satire?
@@dexterwestin3747 of course
LOL yes, I'm so sure you thought "Hondurans," even though the vast majority of the world refers to someone from the US as "Americans" (and have done so for ages)
Then again, you're probably being sarcastic, so I hope I'm just overlooking it
Wow, that is sad how they have to live!!
how did she scaped from north korea?
Im kinda annoyed the subtitles arent exactly what they say- there's a big difference for example between 'sometimes' and 'often' and it's rude to not translate accurately
You undercook fish? Believe it or not, jail. You overcook chicken, also jail. Undercook, overcook.
Great video Megan and Evelyn.
And you’re showing the best part of N. Korea. 90% of the country and its citizens don’t even have access to this kind of stuff.
Fun fact of the day:
The rotating tables were invented in Japan. So were fortune cookies.
i like their smart phone. Flip phones are better than the 'normal' type.
Wow even strict with water usage. The USB owned by a friend really got me. The guy went to jail.
He should come himself lucky if he's was not sent in a camp or killed
and then theres entitled gen z westerners who cry because they cant afford a house
Well, he went to jail 'cos he had something (considered illegal in that country) on it
@@Hugh.G.Rectionx Ah yes, a "but kids in Africa starve" kind of argument uh? Except here it still falls flat, because not being able to afford a house is not really some mild inconvenience.
@@Koka2609 Oh man you'd have felt right at home in 1939 Germany with that mentality. Sometimes laws suck and are unfair, that's why people have this thing called morality. Ever heard of it?
North Koreans subway looks like Viennas oldest tramway 😂
Water buckets??? What the hell ....
I've seen a TH-camr who went to NK and recorded it in secret, and when tried to buy some of that stuff... They said no. Not for sale😂 But it's in a store smh. Which told me it's only for show!
I didn't see any street or homeless people.Did they clean it up like Los Angeles like the Americans did before the visit of China
There's Gucci in the DPRK...? Where did she learn her English from, without an accent?
The American woman couldn't say a single word without using her hands to convey the message lol, the Korean female had her hands in her lap nearly the entire time.
very sad how there is a whole population not allowed on the internet crazy
They seem like some cool , chill people
The same person was talking about eating grass and dying of hunger. Here she is talking about buying cosmetics. She should fix the story or have "THEY" fix the story for her.
And then I think, what are they lying to us and serving to us "THEY"?
3:23 You guys come for this thunbnail....
We Americans know we are privileged, our ancestors made a lot of sacrifices and smart choices that impacted the future. We just don't go around everyday saying we know it to others .... So pointless
I wouldn’t say our ancestors if you know what I mean not all Americans have the same ancestors regarding the disgusting history the US has against minorities.
Ok.. tbh from the talks of the woman who escaped North Korea that I listened to on the internet made me think North Korea was extremely poor, like village and not much transportation and all. She said they eat rats and all. But this seems not exactly like that. Lol.
Thats like the rest of N.K. Pyongyang is where it looks a bit better and it's meant to be like that. The rest of N.K is where it all happens so
This video is staged she is puttong words into her mouth .... Wth ...
Kim Jong Un Crush lol
Why North Korean fashion look like from the 70s? It’s pretty tho
Its so terrible seeing these people tiptoeing around the harsh truth. Sounds funny hearing her saying "He´s like our God", isn´t it? He´ll punish your whole family in case your house burns down and his pictures won´t be the first items you´re rescuing.
Can there be a video of you guys reviewing North Korean children performances videos? I’ve seen some where there was kindergarteners performing very accurately! Such as playing hard instruments that takes years to learn,them singing so well, or acting very disciplined. How do they do so well?
Because they have to do it! They´ll get raised like this .Seeing how this country is "working" it has a lot to do with fear and even the smallest ones can feel that and they -of course- adopt to the behaviour of their parents etc.Discipline is quite common in asian countrys
Megan is awesome lol
I don’t like the way the western girl laughing at lots of things shown in this video. I mean the way she laughs at North Korean food comparing it to Chinese food is offensive. She has American accent, and if she was an American, we all know what American food is like, so I wouldn’t laugh at their food. And you’re right, we’re spoilt in a sense that North Koreans may not know but calling Americans “privileged” is a bit stretched knowing they’ve got so many problems such as gun, drugs and medical system.
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There are also many places in the U.S. where people don’t have running water. …it is not only in North Corea. We are all not privileged in the U.S. either.
It would be very few places, literal squats, as it's illegal for a residential building to not have running water in the US.
Some live in Democrat states
@@mutavhello6654 it not illegal to be too ashamed to tell people you don't have running water power and not everone lives in a city
@@mutavhello6654 Flint Michigan hasn't had clean water since 2014... it's not just squatters my guy...
@@legorockstar2000 like I said, very few places. It's not common.
This American literally knows nothing about Nord Korea, people there are dying from starvation, hunting rats, don’t have electricity. The NK girl had to be in the wealthiest class to even think about paprika or phone.
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Dadario without makeup.....
The American woman laughs too much.
I'm waiting to see the reacts to the real American city with so many homeless people. old train and station where many people got killed. racist rants. thugs everywhere. violent on flights for seat and kicking people off the planes. druggies people turn into zombies on streets. etc etc.
She obviouly coming from a more privilege family of north korean
This reminds me of the Communist era in Czechoslovakia back in the 50s-80s. There were some pockets of freedom and different degrees of control, but many of the things described here were true in my country as well
I like N.Korea. All my firends know this. In fact, it might like North Korea more than South. Because of Hypocrisy. I wish I'd go there to marry a pretty girl XD
She’s so cute.. I love me some Korean women
Sooooo…..a league of legends team is out of the question?
Russia in 5 years
Да да да, давай заливай...
Bashing North Koreans for dressing modestly, something you seem to be unable to - lol
Maybe someday N. Korea will have a dictator that is less Caligula and more Augustus. Such a sandbox is a dream for any would-be benevolent dictator. But, if we can't have sane, maybe we can have sexy? Kim Yo-jong could Cersei Lannister the place up (starting with wildfire'ing that giant hotel).
After reading Yeonmi Park's autobiography and hearing her speak, I was shocked at the deprivation the vast majority of North Koreans suffer. The mental imprisonment of not being allowed to learn so many things or think so many things or even know that so much exists, to be forced to believe so many lies (on pain of imprisonment or death, up to 3 generations may suffer for one person's transgression), to have a completely false understanding of the world, history, geography, biology... To be so hungry that you will eat insects or poisonous vegetation, to be so undernourished from infancy that you are on average 4-6 inches shorter than your South Korean relatives, to be willing to suffer sexual trafficking just to get out... We in the West have no idea what it is like to live even a day the way they do. It is terribly sad. The Kim's are not just wrong or bad. They are evil.