Four Successful North Korean Megaprojects
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- Discover North Korea's surprising megaprojects! From space programs to ICBMs, nuclear weapons to ballistic missile submarines, delve into the astonishing achievements of this unexpected contender. Watch now!
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Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “if at first you don’t succeed,try and try again and again and again etc,etc”
That's pretty much the history of space travel worldwide.
You can learn from your mistakes in order to succeed
Persuasation is key !
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Space program
5:55 - Chapter 2 - ICBMS
9:10 - Chapter 3 - Nuclear weapons
14:25 - Chapter 4 - Ballistic missile submarines
Why doesn't it surprise me that all the successful megas were military oriented?
Right?
We've got rockets for space, rockets for the land, rockets with bombs and sea rockets.
Meanwhile, The US was aiming for Mars 😆 That's how advance the Americans are.
bro maxxed out all points on rockets
👋
How did you write down all these timelines?
The irony of "Four Successful North Korean Megaprojects" being the title of a Sideprojects video is fuking hilarious.
I said the same! Tossing some shade toward Kim.
"Side Projects" refers to the many projects of Simon. Sheesh!
They may be Megaprojects, buuttt... it IS still North Korea. Hahaha
I didn't realize that was the case until you pointed it out! 🤣All of them together didn't amount to a single Megaproject!? 🤣
Brainwashed by Western regime propaganda 🤭🤭
Considering that the country was completely destroyed in the 50s and has been blocked and embargoed for its entire existence, just make this achievements more impressive.
The North Korean economy did quite well during the Cold War for a simple reason - blackmail. After the Sino/Soviet split, North Korea refused to take a side, which prompted both countries to pour in aid to try and court them. (A bit like a bratty kid playing his divorced parents off against one another.) When the Soviet Union fell, North Korea's economy was toast
Yeah, people don't realise that North Korea had a much better economy than the south until the early 80s@@laurencewinch-furness9450
Hi kim! 🤓
@@laurencewinch-furness9450NK: please send subsidies
Post Soviet Russia: belt tightening necessary
NK: please send belts
Nah, they should have way more.
You have millions of people who's lives you dictate under your control, and you can't do more?
They still had the Soviet Union looking out for them economically, and then direct trade with China.
Now they have access information to the internet, and all that free knowledge.
If I was a dictator? I think I could do more.
Yet I guess it isn't easy staying a dictator. Gotta keep the people stupid and poor. Not even using somewhat modern agriculture to feed the populace alone is just... Stupid.
Missed opportunity to talk about North Korea's hackers. North Korea is a small, poor country and yet they are believed to have some of the best state sponsored cybersecurity specialists on the planet. This is with a populace that by and large does not have access to computers. It'd be like if Michael Phelps was Nepalese.
All of the ones mentioned here are just a part of nuclear weapons development. The difference between spacecraft and ICBM is where it lands.
People like to make jokes, but it's easy for them to forget that they are still the same people as South Koreans, just under a very different and oppressive political regime. The people are just as willful, resourceful, smart, and hardworking. For this reason, if the North Korean government problem were to be resolved in whatever way it might in the future, foreign investment into the country would probably be massive.
@@saulghim2661 Not to be rude, but that is incredibly naive. North Korea becoming the recipient of global recognition and investment is about as likely as Papua New Guinea becoming a superpower. They made a few rockets, that's it. That is literally it. In every other sector, the North Koreans are decades behind.
@@Big_Caesar1 They are decades behind because of crushing sanctions that are financially choking the country, and limits their access to any technology and materials. This isn't due to a lack of capability. As I already mentioned before, if the NK regime problem were to be solved by internal collapse, invasion, or whatever else, you'd see that the country (unified immediately or not) would flourish very quickly, after a generation or two. A tiny country of 25 million people doing what they've done under the constraints they've been subject to is indeed a testament to that fact.
@@saulghim2661 If their government "crisis" was solved it would not be North Korea any longer. South Korea still wants reunification, the only factor preventing that is the Juche government in charge in North Korea, if that falls, then efforts will be underway to incorporate the territory into South Korea, finally forming one Korea. In that scenario, of course Korea would receive investment, South Korea is already profoundly successful. There is no path for the current NK regime to achieve any sort of international recognition or investment. Military technology is where the North spends all of its money, its really not impressive when you are starving your populace and stagnating in every single other area like Science, Engineering, Human development, just so you can posture to much more successful countries with rockets and nuclear weapons. North Korea is a pariah state, and they survive on international aid (even the USA has bailed out North Korea many times with food aid, financial aid despite these "crushing sanctions")
@@Big_Caesar1 yeah but that’s why people would expand into it. It’s one of the only places capitalism isn’t allowed left. Like what new markets are there even. Everywhere else has already established in market. This would be the only new market we are going to get for a while
A project worth mentioning is the Nampo Dam. It's an impressive feat of engineering and shows what they can do when they don't spend everything on the military.
North Korea always has ironically been a fascinating country in terms of achievements wether it be space programs military programs or just how it hasn’t collapsed yet with their politics
There are few as tenacious and they have proven the ability to endure pretty much anything. Special place for sure.
Yeah, that famine was insane.
@@memofromessexthe famine never ended
@@memofromessex - The US threatened to sanction any country that sent aid to NK.
It's proof that Warhammer 40k could be real life
"Russia flat out refused to sell North Korea a SCUD." Even Russia thought they were nutty.. That says a lot!
Actually the SU and Russians have always been cautious. Even when selling their allies weapons, they were severely downgraded export versions which were a good decade or two behind their own latest. This is unlike the US, which would sell its allies near latest (obviously not THE latest) tech, especially to Britain and Israel. So calling out the SU or Russia as some mad country just proliferating weapons tech is just plain wrong. That title would actually go to a country like China (sold nuclear weapons designs and materials and parts to Pakistan) and Pakistan (which sold rocket tech they got from China to NK).
*Soviets .
Well that and east Asia likes to steal plans after promising to pay licensing
@@seansteel3326 id like to buy 3, who do i contact? /s
Our perception of North korea is left over from the Korean war unfortunately we pecieve north korea via the lense of Korean war properganda
I like these more unusual topics, well done Simon.
I like the point of view, wish more journalists would have this. Neutral, objective, that kind of stuff.
It is reasonably impressive. The USA had German scientists and engineers to drive success in NASA via operation paperclip post WW2. What we see from NASA today, if we remove SpaceX from that consideration, is pretty average at best in terms of launches and crazy wasteful in terms of budget. Contrast this with what other nations such as India are achieving and it becomes more stark for NASA's achievement in recent decades.
Thank you for bring this tough information to those of us who do not see comparable news stories in the major press releases. Not pleasant to learn but necessary to stay somewhat informed about is going on in the big world that most of us never see.
I didn't know why you described NK as having "struggled" in its space program. Do you know how many rockets NASA and the JPL blew up?
Thank you for citing the sources in this video. Some of these websites have some absolutely fascinating stuff to read. 😁
without international trade, NO country can feed even half its people, agriculture require alot of resources and fertile land.
I love you content. Incredible how diverse it is. Do you operate a team or do you run your content yourself?
Please do not use AI images.
Why?
They are really terrible
@@ryanchappell1745they’re unoriginal and suck. Fuckin’ computers, too. They be takin’ errbody’s jobs! Also, back in my day, people used computers for different things. I remember I was on the set of A Night at the Opera, and they had a team of a dozen very burly gentlemen bring in something they called a computer machine. Harpo remarked that these machines were going to end up being a failure. Later, many years on, Gummo pointed this out and laughed at Harpo’s expense because the computer machine ended up becoming more and more influential in our daily lives.
Welcome to 2024, man up and carry on
Please don't comment on videos 😂
I am definitely not and AI bot.
But for real, chill.
If north and south korea ever would reunite it would be a powerhouse
Now if only they could feed their people?? Definitely a mega project worth taking on
"literally the stuff of night bears" gotta love the auto captions!
Note that it potentially doesn't matter that the missile submarine sucks and can't hide forever. They can still survive a first strike simply by operating near North Korean shores where they can be protected by North Korean land based and surface assets, or hide near Russian/Chinese waters where those countries wouldn't be particularly enthusiastic about a huge SK/US led ASW effort.
I kept hearing the name of their ICBM as "croissant" and refuse to change that
‼️ Million subs!!! Congratulations! ‼️
TBF, a submarine with diesel-electric engine can be even stealthier than a nuclear one for a simple reason: you can turn off the engine and just stand still completely silent. I'm not saying that the NK sub would be quieter, it would not, but the stealthier subs on the planet are NOT the nuclear one, but the type 212.
I find it hard to believe that picture of Kim Il-Jung on the Moon is AI generated, it looks soooo realistic 🤣🤣🤣
But seriously their rockets look pretty darned cool
"North Koreas non existing economy" speaks volumes about the ignorance toward this country, North Korea does in fact have a substantial heavy industry for a country of its size
That's about it, though.
In my humble opinion, a heavy industry alone isn't a whole economy if the state itself is the only real customer. That just means it's an industrialized regime. When all you do is for the government and its goals, that's not a full grown economy but I do agree, NK is seriously underestimated on the world stage in its capabilities
@@YeeSoest I moved to Bulgaria 15 years ago. I was genuinely shocked to find out that literally everything I thought I knew about communism was 1) wrong 2) propaganda and 3 worst of all LAZY propaganda, that really annoyed me.
cos its not just that it was better than we were told [it was] its that the stuff the people actually disliked we never got told about. And the stuff we did get tols about was mostly entirely made up.
@@piccalillipit9211 i have extensive family ties to the former DDR or East Germany and I had more than one ultra leftist teacher for most of my teenage years so I know communism wasn't what most of us westerners were told and people inside of it had an entirely different experience. That doesn't change the fact that most people - even today where societal changes fuel their confidence in it further - would not choose to go back to a plan economy etc and there's good reasons for that. Not the reasons they told us in school but still.
I'm just so jealous to not have experienced the direct comparison between the "have it all" west and the "all we need" east and honestly I couldn't tell you where I'd end up...
To be clear: If the West was at its core true to and honest about its ideals, goals and values? Easy. Since most of it is not...
@@YeeSoest - Well the big thing we didn't get taught in the wes t was how varied it was. Here in Bulgaria, they seem to have had a very good time, most people miss it and would like to go back [yes i know nostalgia will play a part]. Next door in Romania it was horrible. My friend there - her treat at Christmas was a pigs ear to chew on...!!!
As I say the bit that annoys me the most is how lazy the propaganda was.
@@piccalillipit9211 true, our parents heard about the pig ears and said "that's what we're telling our kid's"
Wasn't even a lie but was used like one!
Things are never black and white or red and blue for that matter
Surprisingyly successful megaprojects... in sideprojects. Brutal.
Hey NK, maybe consider doing some Megaprojects that don't involve a nuclear apocalypse?
At 14:53
"....Yugo class...."
I didn't know Serbia made submarines!! Seriously, a submarine with that name....I I just don't think I could step into it!! I would be afraid to have the same reputation as the car....
What is really scary is that photo of a little nuclear reactor facility. It looks so ramshackle, yet that’s all it takes.
FYI, the orbits for the space program is about right. The average LEO sat can do 16 orbits a day and the sat was up for ~130 days. that is around the number of orbits reported
I'm thinking a video on the things discovered separately the most times would be interesting. Like rocket engines and jet engines. How many separate times in history have wheels been 'invented' or beer or sails.
0:08 Meanwhile / The USA still uses 8" floppy Discs to launch it's Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles!!! :(
Imagine the security needed for these weapons.
Now imagine your tech is so old that no one has the tech any more to interface with it.
You now have secure hardware.
Additionally, this was purpose built hardware when these were new in the 70s, they do the job and do it well. We have no reason to change a functional, well understood system just because it's old. Need drives obsolescence, not age. It doesn't need to do any more then make sure object A intersects object B.
I believe the US started switching to solid state some years back. At least I do recall some press around that, no idea what happened from there but I guess details of modern, current solutions aren't really supposed to be public knowledge so not knowing would be the norm.
So you want nuclear missiles to be connected to internet??TO launch them from Android APP? OR maybe from Smart TV..yes that would be modern
@@dzonikg I belive the point here is, despite romaticized nostalgia, really old rarely actually mean "reliable and effective". Especially when it comes to utility tools, means and tech. 8" floppies weren't even particularly reliable back when they were our primary data storage. They were never made for long term storage (neither physically or in terms of data integrity), and even the freshest ones out there are knocking on 30 years old at least.
@@pr0xZen Some things were more reliable some not.I used 8 inch floppies on my first computer Commodore 64.
But some things now are just more complicated then they need to be.Like i still use Office 2013 or many older programs instead off new versions
I got an ad for JB weld before a NK mega projects video and couldn't help but laugh
Shouldn't this be on the Megaprojects projects channel?
Still just Sideprojects for the rest of the world
Should be a shit heap channel
@@topogigio7031 lmao nailed it. But it does kinda make you think about the situation, toddler with a toolbox and told to get after it, and a small block on the engine stand......meh we kinda just have to wait and see if she'll crank and start and not just blow up!
These is a Communist propaganda channel.
The graph at 7:44 states the distance from LA to DC is 1.5k km. Am I just interpreting this wrong, or are they woefully inaccurate on that one, as it's over double that distance 🤔
this is really horrible if you think about how their population is starving and freezing
Maybe you lift sanctions from North Korea then?
Shut up
Over 4000km high? But 900 km in distance? Doesn’t sound right.
I don’t know much about how missles/rockets work, but could it be that it’s easier to launch it high (without aiming at anything really) but much harder to launch it at an actual target, even if it is closer at “only” 900 km
Because of gravity and aerodynamics it's harder to fire 'up' than 'out', so tests are completed vertically which once the math is done give the expected range, payload and speed etc. Really interesting subject tbh :)
It's for testing. Fine tuning comes after proff of concept like rhe half kiloton nuke they made.
Frankly I’m surprised authoritarian regimes don’t successfully pull off mega-projects more often given their ability to dictate the allocation of funds and labor however they choose.
Oh no! Simon and the Sideprojects team must have downed their own weight in Kool-Aid!
A lot of the NK Juche philosophy really appeals to me. Its a very can do, sweat of our brow outlook, Its a hard philosophy for hard people, and I think it has much to do with the success in projects like these; and although I like to live by the principles of self reliance and strength having to live under it as law would be frightening.
Same here
Thank you for being honest that your AI images are AI. I personally dont mind you using them as long as you are transparent about it.
That AI pic of Kim on the Moon was quite funny I can't lie.
At least they are not bombing kids
So true. And the only reason they prioritize their military is to keep the Western empire at bay after they massacred millions of their people.
This reminds me of an anecdote that a sergeant in the GDR army told me in the 1980s. At the time, the NVA was considered one of the best armies in the Warsaw Pact.
"My captain said that one of the tankers must have a broken valve. I went there with a heavy hammer and found a broken valve. We were then able to refuel our vehicles with the leaking fuel."
How many tanks and troop carriers has North Korea decommissioned for a single submarine?
How many youtube channels does this guy have?
FINALLY Simon gets to do a North Korean video that won't get him on a list.
No stairs for Fact Boi this time!😅
what a surprise, every thing on the list has to do with rockets...
On a clear day, with the wind at their backs, they can usually hit the ocean.
"sir, 'Nasa' is already taken!"
"Then we shall call it... Nata!"
T is one better than S
In 2009, North Korea announced more ambitious future space projects, including its own crewed space flights and the development of a partially reusable crewed shuttle launch vehicle mockup, which was displayed at Mangyongdae Children's Palace.
Video leads off with North Korea's space program, and the same day the video is released, their spy satellite blows up mid-launch 😂
Computer chips are more important.
They are obsessed with over grown firecrackers. They are good at it.
koreans are extraordinary people. north korea is a perfect example.
Does the floppy disc have number munchers and Oregon trail disguised as a total control computer virus?
So what happened to the ‘unsuccessful’ teams. Take your time.
Neat.
Credit where credit is due. I like it.
Impressive.
The dreaded floppy disc, what's funny is that maybe it could
"Side Projects" refers to the many projects of Simon. Sheesh!
Minus the new satellite rocket they fired off last night. A very expensive firework 🎆🎇🎆🎇
Simon is like Alton Brown's younger brother...😅
Which is a complement.
I have no love for North Korea, but keep the videos about them coming! It's like watching mini dystopian horror films.
Not even close
@@redpipola in your opinion.
I will say i enjoy the AI images atleast when they are clearly labeled and you can see its almost artistic in nature
Aye aye...
man stop making me root for the underdog here
How is it surprising that when a country dedicate the entirety of their budget to the military they could achieve these things. What would be _surprising_ is if we hear someone from rural North Korea telling us what great developments happened in their area that they’re now prosperous and well-fed. I would be waiting for that over stupid useless missiles anytime.
I’ve got spuUurs that jingle jangle jingle
I'm noticing a trend with their megaprojects
Guy in Australia built a cruise missile for pennies on the defense budget dollar and shot it over Perth just to prove the government was wasting tax dollars
Man... that whole place is nutty AF. Also didnt they just have one of their subs sink for like... no reason at all?😂
Lol James Martin is my hotel name.
I thought nuclear powered subs were really noisy underwater, with those steam turbines?
noisier than a diesel electric when the diesel electric is running on electric only. But the nukes are *much* quieter than the diesel electric when they have the diesels running which they have to do every few days even if sitting still.
They have great sound insulation. If you watch WW2 submarine movies, they have to freeze and not make any sound.
Nowdays scream if you want too nobody gonna hear you
last time I was this early, Korea was a country
So when is the sequel done by boots on the ground research from Liam coming?
More successful than UK Trident launches. LOL
It is a bit weird that a country as small as north korea did a manhattan projected. like is 2024 north korea equivalent in absolute productivity to 1944 usa? probably not so it's strange
How many channels do you have?
Submarine Diesel Engines can be super stealthy, didn't the Finish or was it Norway remain undetected with theirs under a US ship during an exercise?
I know pizza and burger is from north korea I think golf too most things actually come from there
Free health care
What do you know that made you do the video 3 weeks ago?😂
The achievements in order: Rockets, Rockets, Nuclear Rockets, Submarine.
Submarines that launch nuclear rockets.
Well when you're building because your life depends on the outcome is bound to be good.
Im no longer sure what success means.
Well. The reason they have good quality due to stable population that continues to decrease and less cities. I would say the Capital mostly
How do they get the money for this?
How many people know that before the Korean War, what is now North Korea was wealthier than what is now South Korea?
Time for Liam to go on a trip 🙃
I feel like I'm watching a special Olympics award ceremony 😂
8:03 👍
Wow, North Korea ain’t so bad after all 🇰🇵 🥳
Mega projects on yhe side projects channel... Shade at North Korea?
How is Korea paying for all of this?
The food aid we provided helped them do this.
Thank you Supreme Leader, Friendly Father of Best Korea.
Kim Jong-Un is a tyrant
Oh no! North Korea has captured Fact Boi, taken him to The Basement, and is forcing him to make North Korean propaganda! 🤣
Simon, please, I love your content and your channels, but the AI images are JARRINGLY bad. I have to agree with the others voicing this here. You can do better
Agreed. 👍
😅
He could do better, by using more. 2 isn't enough when I know most ai programs pump out at least dozen to choose from.
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Guys made so much copyrighted material, i really dont think he gives a shit what yall think 😂
Never underestimate the KOREAN people. North or south, they are ALL
KOREANS. I am a proud korean.
Those altitude numbers, you sure you're not adding a zero? 🤔
Common Kim W. :P
When was the former Great Britain had anything close to a Megaropject?