This Is What It's Like Inside North Korea's Luxury Ski Resort | Short Film Showcase
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- Get a glimpse of what life is like in North Korea, a country rarely seen by foreigners. Britain's fastest snowboarder Jamie Barrow is our guide around the DPRK’s capital city Pyongyang before he heads up to the slopes of Masikryong. Follow filmmaker Jackson Kingsley on Twitter at @cinematicamedia.
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Britain's fastest snowboarder Jamie Barrow is our guide around the DPRK’s capital city Pyongyang before he heads up to the slopes of Masikryong.
Follow filmmaker Jackson Kingsley on Twitter.
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This Is What It's Like Inside North Korea's Luxury Ski Resort | Short Film Showcase
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They invited you so you could ski on their slopes and they took pictures of you going down so they can photoshop Kim Jong Un on your head so everyone in North Korea would know he's the best at snowboarding.
Michael Nilson laughing out loud 😁
itscold lmaoo
Lol good Idea
oMG
LOL.. Their propaganda department should definitely hire you!
"Always someone helping you"... No, there is always someone WATCHING you!
Very true. But then it’s the same everywhere.
Have realized how many cc cameras were following every step you take once you land in Heathrow?
Sadly, America isn't far behind in that respect. Just wait until this engineered domestic terrorist problem gets worse and the NSA and DHS start saying they need to monitor the population tighter to protect the nation from all and any internal threats.
@@angelus_solus yep, gonna be happining in UK to i think.... Its all planned tho. Stages they must reach before they initiate the next one.
We are always being watched too if you have social media.
@@angelus_solus "engineered domestic terrorist problem". Right, because we all know there are no such thing as "crazy" people, it's all made up, just a government created "medical problem" that only exists in definition, not reality.
And what are you talking about NSA and DHS? YOU people happily allow yourselves be monitored by everyone, with your location based apps - car locators, four square, what you buy, what you eat, where you're hanging out, with who, ect.
If they want to know about you, they just go to the internet and find out everything they need...
I thought he was gonna get sentenced to 10 years hard labor when he went over that fence into the glades.
He'll be officially charged later.
SAME i was like “you do NOT do that in north korea”
LOL me too
As if you have an actual clue
Yeah, I feel like there was at least one sniper team watching them the entire time too
"It's so great, the slopes are empty"
Thats because everyone else in the country is busy starving to death.
They ate their skis
Due to American sanctions
Billy sanctions are imposed on luxury goods to target Kim’s excessive expenses, not basic food, medicine and water. Shut up.
@@slc679 the imperialist dogmatic degenerate decadent west have no right to distinguish between luxury goods and the North Korean people’s necessities.
Don’t u see?
Those luxury goods for Kim dynasty’s sole purpose is to keep the great leaders moral up while he ALONE combats western imperialism, with the backing of all true Koreans and anti imperialists.
The South Koreans are just waiting for the north to liberate them from decadent western imperialism so they can return to a simpler lifestyle filled with quiet meditation on juche ideology
Imperialist dog
@@billy6044 Are you being satirical or am I actually speaking to a lunatic?
This is like someone coming to America and the tour guide only showing you Disney World 😂
A Disney World without any real tourists
Henry siau faxxxxxxxx
Exactly
Can you imagine walking through a Disney park and being the only person there who isn’t an employee? All the churros and Dole Whip is just for you, and those characters just following you around like, “Hey. This is normal. Smile and say you love it. We will include it in our promotional videos.”
Exactly!
3:48 Is this a Samsung air conditioner in fucking North Korea?
Thomas Vielhuber wtf
lol i saw that dude XD
Samsung is a Korean company
bill clinton those are the North Koreans the South Koreans have different uniforms and wear a circular hat lol
Thomas Vielhuber dafuq
I try to remain open minded but the fact not a SINGLE person was capable to go down the steeper slopes tells me this resort is probably closed year round unless travelers come to visit. You’d think at least one North Korean could go down the more difficult slopes. Also, not a single person in the pools/hot tub or the lounge/bar. Seems a bit suspicious🤔
Agreed. It's all highly regulated and really sad.
A bit suspicious? It’s communism.
@@mikemcnamara4326 lol, no... in communism you got at least a few rights, this here is straight dictatorship.
Kim's resort
@@danielwolf6477 Eh most communist parties turn to dictatorships pretty quickly
"What color is the firetruck?"
Rest of World: "Red."
North Korea: "Thanks to the love and generosity of our Marshall Kim Jong-un, we are allowed to look at the firetruck."
ARE YOU A MORON?!
@@sundayspring252 He's hilarious and honestly pretty accurate
@@sundayspring252 Are you an official from North Korea?
we are all headed for north korea. enjoy the laughs now. while u can.
@@sonquatsch8585 BS.
Disclaimer: Nat Geo has to portray this as they did otherwise they'd be denied access for further tours/showings. They are just as aware as we are that this is not really what it looks like.
Abe Reagan Well while that might be true even though Im unsure if parts of the team were aware, just the fact that they portray the country in such a positive light is shameful and for a well respected media source to not properly represent the horrifying side of this dictatorship just to be able to film in the country again doesn’t justify it.
@@badjoke6738 No, they aren't justified, however it is imperative that you understand how difficult of a situation Jackson and his team were in. They were surrounded by specifically trained and chosen guides that watched their every move, and even when they didn't have a guide, I can assure you they were being monitored in some way, and were never truly alone. If they chose to deviate from their predetermined path and decided to record or do anything the North Koreans didn't like, there would have been very serious repercussions. Everywhere they went, and most of everything they did was already planned and prepared before they even got there. It wasn't so much as a vacation as much as a guided tour. While I do value truth above all else, I also understand that some people are simply unwilling to quite literally put their lives on the line and try to get footage and coverage on something that is already common knowledge and being investigated by far more resourceful and dedicated people than a simple snowboarder/amateur film maker.
@@badjoke6738 It's not that they were unaware of the massive wreck North Korea is, they simply weren't legally allowed to, or had absolutely no power to, and in order to protect themselves they didn't show it.
Abe Reagan Hey yankee boi, how is your Stasi corona lockdown coming along? I thought your country was a free country.
Parker Drennan Photograph a US military research facility in the Catskills region of NY state then talk about limited freedoms. You will be sent straight to Guantanamo Bay.
You didn't get a glimpse of a secretive country- you were shown what the government wanted you to see.
Obviously, they state that multiple times in the video...
vinoto yes, but to end on the note of "wow, it's so nice that there's no one on the slope!" and "my opinion has changed for the better" does not really show that they really took to heart the bad parts they were *not* being shown.
not disagreeing at all, but I also bet every single piece of footage and audio was checked and double-checked before they could leave the country. Part of me hopes they know what a horrible place it is and this is the only dialogue they could get away with to produce this video. just my speculation though
Which is a glimpse of the country lol. The government is made up of real people. Even if that's what they show you, the mere fact is: that is what is real for the people in that part of North Korea.
North Korea is the best Korea, long live the DPRK!
"I have a completely different view of this country."
Yes, the one they wanted you to have.
Next week: sky diving with The Taliban
Lol exactly...maybe he can go back to the late 30s and play a round of golf with the German SS
If skydiving is a terrifying thought for you, not much is wrong doing it with the Taliban :)
@@robotic2000k Quite right! How about water skiing with Idi Amin?
@@robotic2000k whoosh
@@editor4958 I understand
you know all those guys are terrified to say anything bad while they’re there.
WE ARE HAPPY THAT IN USA, GERMANY, BRITAIN, JAPAN and in ALL CAPITALIST COUNTIES guys, like YOU are NOT terrified to say anything bad? SAY IT!
@@sundayspring252 N. Korean bot much?
@@sundayspring252 I don't like the us electoral college, boom, there it is
Well in the USA if you mention communism or socialism you will get attacked so, not much different !!!
They don't wanna get Otto'd!
It's nice to see all the government officials and actors having a good time!
They are not actors
@@ethanlk2001 ofcourse north korea has actors especially when tourists and journalists meets these ”families” but i highly doubt northkorea’s regime would hire hundreds or thousands of actors just to fool a dozen tourists.
@@jejh600 people in Pyongyang don't just show up to act on this one day- it's like a second full time job. And they aren't acting for a dozen tourists either. The act is to prove their faithfulness to the regime, give an idealized for Koreans outside of Pyongyang to aspire to, and to convince parts of the international community that NK isn't so bad.
J EJH you don’t have to hire anyone in a dictatorship
@@jejh600 they are/aren't actors, think of it as you, 8yrs old and yo mom has company over, either you behave, or get your *ss whooped, after the guests leave. That's what its like for them, except they get extreme amounts of punishment, probably just leading to their execution. You have to remember they live in a fantasy nothing they learn is true
11:00-11:50 The empty slope reserved just for you, the foreign athlete and attendant film crew, with no local peasants in your way, or even in sight, speaks volumes.
U realize that it isn't "reserved"for them right? Its just literally no one is there. 1. The average North Korean is way too poor to ever visit a resort, most of them cant even afford to eat.
2. The average north Korean isn't allowed in to places like a resort. They are seen as peasants. Resorts, restaurants, most shopping centers are for the elite. Everyone that u see at the resort are hired by the government, hence why there are not many of them
So true. And most north koreans will be ostracized if not sent to jail for that one little quirky thing you've got in your ears, bro.
@@rachelfoust2566 and how does that disprove what he said?
Well, the fact that most north korean cant even afford to go there simply means that there isnt enough experience for them to be able to use the "expert slope"
In the gov defense, it is not reserved. Everyone is allowed to be there, no one is discriminated we are all equal. They just can't afford to be there
Thanks to the love of the Marshall Kim Jung-Un, people waste half of their speaking time to that phrase.
I mean not saying that risks being turned into a political prisoner aka straight to the gulags and being worked to death without so much as being allowed to hunt rats for sustenance
Yeh that’s pretty crazy, if you don’t give credit to the leader you have a chance of getting imprisonment. “Thanks to the love of the Marshall Kim Jung-Un, I’m doing 5 years in prison “ lol
I came looking in the comments section to find this exact comment... XD
@National Geographic what is the music at the end of the video? its beautiful
stimmt, dich gibt es auch noch
It’s adorable that the first guy in the beginning thought he would “get to know the people and the culture” as a Western tourist in N. Korea. If he got out alive, he got to see some people forced to put on an act around tightly controlled sights just for people like him.
His closing narration makes it clear he knew he was only getting a tiny, sanitised view of the country...
The picture of 'North Korean haircuts' isn't just a suggestion. Those are the ONLY haircuts you can legally get.
I just watched a video of a lady escaped North Korea to South Korea for her own individualism and expression (it was mostly about having makeup, since makeup is banned from North Korea) and she said the ladies can only have 11-12 hairstyles, and not allowed to grow their hair out. It's very sad.
@@gzq84n big mad huh?
@@gzq84n you're really mad today aren't you
Not true.
@@Crankhy ...? Explain how it isn't?
This video reminded me of the rich who were parting in Berlin in 1944. Parties, food, laughter. While not too far away millions were starved like cattle, then killed and thrown away.
Maple Syrup Stacker no
what's up Adolf?
Fat Bogan well NASDAQ gain 0.10% up today
Yes so true
Maple Syrup Stacker = brainwashed sheep
I’m surprised he didn’t get arrested when he went over that fence
It's interesting and beautiful to see the humanity shining through. Not the things staged by the government, but when Jamie Barrow teaches the guides to snowboard. It's a geniune human interaction on both sides and I don't think you ever see something like this when it comes to North Korea. In a way it reminded me that they are human; that North Korea is more than Kim and missiles
Bro you do realize what you see in this video is absolutely nothing what it really is right? Yes we are human. But they don’t treat there people like that. This was only happening because there was cameras on them.
@@ethanlk2001 Oh yeah! you're absolutely right! I'm aware of that, I'm not ignoring it, I just wanted to point out something that simply surprised me a bit I guess :)
@@ethanlk2001 Hear hear.
so true.
This is my first time seeing a ski resort with so few people.😂😂😂
There are a lot of people at ski resorts in South Korea and they are all wealthy. But North Koreans are subject to government surveillance and sanctions even when they go to every where other than ski resorts…😢God bless them!🙏🏻
Hmmm, every single person interviewed thanked their leader for the ski resort. That's some hella scary screwed up, propaganda.
That's probably two parts "propoganda," and one part "they know what will happen if they say anything that goes off script".
but it's also pretty true what they're saying. i'm sure they like the job they have because they know how much worse it can be...
Ashley Halland you do need to realize they were people watching them while they were doing the interview. Did you see that one guy's face? He was totally faking it lol
If I were them, I'd be pretty damn thankfully as well. It sure as shit beats a concentration camp,
Not ony that, but they were forced to pay respects
*I was wondering hiw this guys vlog look so epic, and then I realized I was watching National Geographic.*
Cassandra Bankson I didn’t realize it till you said that 😂
tried to find out the cost for lift ticket; however, a full ski outfit with gear costs several months worth of wages for even the most affluent local customer..so lift tickets are pricey..
Wondering? I thought the logo and publisher’s name by the video was obvious...hmm
Cassandra Bankson HA
Cassandra Bankson yeah, they’re awesome, right?
9:58 I can’t be the only person that just saw some guy lagging irl😂
I was about to say that jajajaj
oh my goodness!! how funny lookin. i think he's actually walking down the "magic carpet" (the moving floor lift they take up the hill)
Looks like the devs are gonna have to "patch" that npc glitch...
@@frandominguezscott5707 What letter do Hispanics use for the English sound of J?
The crazy thing is, these are some real life ncp's. So I wonder what, if anything, was going through his mind as he walk down the lift. He's probably just trying to stay relevant and not get delete like some off script program on Tron. Looks like you should have been their to bump him in a different direction.
Are we just going to ignore all the TED talks of defectors crying saying "we ate bark, grass, and bugs to survive"
@Xarped In Order to Live - Yeonmi Park
Yes we are because they all lied and exaggerated. The main one was the biggest liar.
u clearly know nothing about north korea. everything u see in this video are the things the coverment wants you to see. they all have to act like that or they and their families could get killed. that’s the reality of the country
Yes, if you ACTUALLY Believe National Geographic who took a curated tour to a place where no North Korean can go and was was accompanied by handlers the entire time. I’ll believe the real people crawling across the boarder full of worms in their gut rather than this pretty boy surfer dude. Nat Geo, an esteemed and venerable institution, has lost its way.
@@davidmurphy291 well it's an orchestrated tour or nothing when it comes to North Korea you sadistic fk
There’s something really strange about a large crowd of people being forced to dance in unison
adrianne roddy key word here is *forced*
@adrianne roddy big brain?? A marching band isnt force, flag corps isnt forced.. cheerleaders arent forced.. U stupid?
These people do it to SURVIVE. thats the difference, they dont EAT FOOD if they dont cooperate
adrianne roddy You really gotta be stupid to think that people will understand you ‘sarcasm’ on the internet
@@Nine7Media Pledging allegiance in school is our equivalent among other things. All dogmatism is uncivilized and irrational, it destroys the individuals that make up the collective and in doing so, the collective is destroyed. Deification of the 'idea' (whatever it may be) is stupid, no matter where it comes from. All it does is prevent us from reaching a truly civilized society.
@adrianne roddy No force involved with those things. Your reply is a non-reply.
It sounds like the north koreans you interviewed are being held at gunpoint
they kind of are tbh
@@alienbaby2358 Yes its all thanks to our great marshal kim jon un
Like the guy who laughs, puts his head down, then begins to thank his Marshall. He knows what he has to say or else
Basically, yes. If not, are they free to leave?
@@JRLOC No, they are not free to leave. That's why people who do manage to leave are called defectors, not emigrants. There's no such thing as emigrating from North Korea. You have to escape and find asylum in another country, and it's a long and treacherous journey.
He was rly risking it all going under that rope, under the gondola 😂
*gets shown the fake sets by the government tour guides*
“My view of this country has changed completely”
Fake sets? How do you "fake" a fully functional ski resort, subway, hotel, etc?
The snowboarding is nice and all but nothing brings me more joy than to see the tour guides and attendants cracking genuine smiles in all these mini docs.
Muffinmanerino Ealgerino damn that escalated quickly 😂😂😂
Muffinmanerino Ealgerino lmao
Muffinmanerino Ealgerino Well that what's happening now a days in liberal infested American colleges, not literally but intellectually.
love when people throw around the word liberal like it's an insult! I blame Trump for teaching his sheeple a new word lol.
Liberals are people who are infected with the deadly disease of liberalism. That's why the word has a negative connotation
if he talks smack about north korea, national geographic won't be allowed to film in nk anymore.
... No kidding?
the modfather a lot of people seem to not know this if you look in the comments
the north korean authorities review all footage before you leave. it would have just been confiscated
@@tbomber the raw footage but he can still talk smack in the dub which was probably recorded outside of NK.
yeah this never would have been released without approval of how "surprisingly" wonderful the country is and how western media has skewed the views. Barf.
The city is like when you build a mansion in Minecraft but you can’t figure out what to put in all the rooms.
Watch at 5:49. The two tour guides were listening to him while checking in. He says, "I'm smiling a lot more now. A few days in the city..." they both quickly look at him with very scolding face. Interesting.
Goes to North Korea Ski Resort saying "I'm looking forward to just seeing first hand what the country is really about". LOL WTF!
I love how they forget to mention the people that are starving and dying in the countryside and labor camps.
Sure they could start talking about that on camera in North Korea. But the footage and maybe even yourself might not make it out to share. So he's keeping it narrowly focused and non-political to even get there at all.
So right..WTF! Did they really think they would see the true underbelly that is NK? NK showed them exactly what NK wanted them to see. NK is very good at pulling the wool over your eyes when you visit NK.
I didn't even know what they wanted us to see. It's still freaking weird.
Simon de Vegt a
That resort is empty. It was apparently made just to impress the rest of the world.
Marco Venustus they trained actors to snow board so it doesn't look so empty XD
That is very sad
Yeah cause they did
Everyone in the background was Secret police watching those depraved foreigners.
@Navame Zaiani It's a ski resort, with snow covering the mountains. That doesn't look like the off season.
It is a brilliant idea to go snowboarding to North Korea if you want to get to know the people and culture. You leave me speechless...
Snowboarding in North Korea's only ski resort which is afforded by none other than the big guy himself and some of his minions... Its eerie
I bet he had a tightly controlled script to follow too.
My heart goes out to these people, to be under someone's boot all your life and lied to is a horrible thing.
Welcome to Every government, everywhere 🤣
@@dune4433 Does EVERY government starve its people DAILY and limit their access to media? Key word being EVERY. Yeah, didn't think so.
Build back better we'll be here in no time.
Every north korea videos i've seen, the places are weirdly .... empty
especially this video... a bluebird sunny day with fresh powder and literally nobody on the mountain riding? It seems like more smoke & mirrors, rather than an actual resort.
J W that is the actual resort but the reason there’s nobody there is because barely anyone in nk can actually afford to go.
Because they are all museums
@@Jem_Apple Thanks to our Marshal Kim lol
The reason is the most densely populated parts of the country are labour camps. Like 50 people in a 15 m2 cell or so. But strangely enough they won't allow media there 🙄
I loved watching him teach the guides how to snowboard. The most authentic part of this video.
“The Truman Show” in real life. Everything is fake and everyone playing their part. Pretty sad
No real surprises, everything else just felt staged. Only thing I found genuine was the girl getting lessons. Looked like she had a blast and was taken outside her normal routine.
The movie was fantastic
You right, truman show is the best way to explain this.
It's obvious the guy was controlled of what he was saying and probably held back on anything and everything negative he may have noticed. And he stated they also checked what he filmed, so its not like he couldve kept any negative recordings of anything.
that being said, it was cute when one of the guides was enjoying learning to snowboard.
As no one ever visits.................
When he jumped that fence i thought he was going to get shot
Henry M they won't shoot at him. They just hope he'll hit one of the millions of un detonated land mines or booby traps scattered everywhere around NK.
good video i love you come to visit me in russia we have a cold th-cam.com/video/l_gZ7cuCiqc/w-d-xo.html
I was shocked, lol. NK is the last place to break rules.
Henry M How is he going to get shot when there are no Americans there?
onesong2001 took me a second. LOL
someone once compared north korea and pyeonyang to the country from the hunger games and the capital and i don't think they're wrong tbh
Panem today, Panem tomorrow, Panem forever.
Exactly the comparison my mind was making as I watched this!
And theres nothing we Can do without causing massive risk of nuclear war if Kim actually has missiles as he says
Dammit, I wanna rewatch the series..
You are just showing that you see the world through a TV show.
Loved this, thank you for your video. That was awesome that you got the whole mountain to yourself!
I also liked the ending of what you and your friend said.
I love how he is open and positive showing the country
I would hazard a guess at the reason nobody was on the upper steeper slopes. Is it because very few North Koreans can afford to spend enough time at the resort to get proficient enough on a snowboard to try the higher levels. This entire video was so surreal - almost like a post-apocalyptic atmosphere where a skeleton crew of workers are merely present to keep appearances of normality...when in fact nothing is normal at all. It's like a Star Trek episode where aliens have studied Earth and tried to emulate it...but things just weren't quite right.
Accurately put!
Seems like it.
That's scary ...because North Korea could be the aliens suicide bomb
True
SilentKnight43 what episode is that?
This video is produced by National Geographic, thanks to our Marshall Kim Jong-un
right? as if it weren't so obvious
It's obvious they are brainwashed to use the word "love" starting at 8:25. So sad... 😕
my fav comment
Best comment, by far!
*Great Supreme Leader u uncultured swine
It's such a beautiful place on earth...and yes it might be different from what we commonly know and understand..but yet mesmerizing.
The fact that all the people who were interviewed said “thanks to the love of our Marshal Kim Jung-Un “ is chilling , those people deserve a better life they’re being controlled!
I think what many commentors have missed is that NG produced a film about North Korea, showing the inside of North Korea, and very subtly was able to put on a display of the control over the people of North Korea without ever saying.
By not being overtly hostile to North Korea, NG will be able to continue to enter and film in North Korea. At the same time, the construction, comments, and clips of this documentary very clearly paint a picture that this resort was only for select people and not "the people" and a western audience (or anyone not in NK) could clearly see it.
I get you, but it’s nice to joke around. ;)
childofnewlight exactly
It looks like a tourist video
I feel like this isn't painting the right picture, or not a very "clear" one at that.
It's what I expected but even more so. Not a soul staying at the hotel, eating in the restaurant, or skiing the slopes. I would have expected maybe a few high ranking party members but no, no one. And yes, I agree NG did a pretty masterful job. They probably shot a hundred hours of video but what they chose to include told the story very clearly. "Our Marshall, Kim Jong Un built this for all the people to enjoy. "
“That looks more comfortable than my bed in the hotel” booooiiii you’re lucky no one heard you or chose to ignore that!!
These people have rocks instead of brains
Scott Spear unfortunately they were raised in propaganda and learnt to share certain values that are the only ones shown to them. They have brains. They are just trapped there in a false reality provided by the great “leaders”. That again is what communism leads to. Quite sad
@@iorangehd4299 To be clear I'm talking about the people filming who don't understand the problem in North Korea. Not the common folk of North Korea.
Scott Spear oh I’m sorry then I interpreted that as if you were speaking for the people that live in North Korea. You’re absolutely right these guys are brainless. If anyone wants a good idea of what goes on there I strongly recommend watching the Vice documentary that was filmed there. It’s as informative and factually correct as it can get.
@@iorangehd4299 No problem I could have been more careful with my words from the beginning. I appreciate the opportunity to clarify.
"We can only show to you what was shown to us."
And that sums up the North Korean visiting experience.
I am SSSOOOOOOO JEALOUS of the snow boarding part! It’s like having your own private ski resort! Oh wait..... 🤣 it IS supposed to be a private ski resort.
When you killed all the NPC's except for the vendors.
Chemicalpneumonia kek'd
/dance
Chemicalpneumonia YES, so much yes
lol gotcha
That’s exactly what I did on Fallout 4 and this comment was funny af.
I get the uncanny feeling that everyone at that resort was staged to give the impression of normalcy. It all just felt so.... off.
You are right! A woman appearing in group dancing also shows up in the resort, dressing in the same coat!
And the way every single person prefaces what they say with some kind of embellished compliment about how great Kim Jong Un is... chilling
dude at 9:58 shows this
You can see how many guards are standing in the back when he’s teaching them how to board too which is very strange too see
That's also why everyone was on the beginner slopes
It looks like the 50s never ended for the citizens
You can check out any time, but you can never leave.
It's the Hotel California?
"Now you can hear the laughter of people ringing in the mountains" - yeah, she wasn't required to say that or anything.
Every time someone spoke, thanks to our Marshall king Jun un.
True. Reminds me of Fox News Opinion shows and Marshall King Trump.
@@marxdesign You obviously haven't watched the news lately.
Every station including Fox hates Trump.
CNN and ABC though... give them a story on Obama and you would think Obama was king of the entire planet.
Strictly Apple And you sound like a North Korean speaking in public. That was My point.
spydergs07 Fox opinion shows still worship Trump. Only a few times when Trump was totally off the rails did one or two hosts kind of questioned his actions.
@Strictly Apple Most educated people lean left but ok
This gives me the same feelings I would expect to get if I were watching Saw or Hostel with ridiculously happy music playing.
Look at the faces of the crowds, the lack of cars in the streets, and the small abnormalities. Casino that “isn’t” open, hotel on an island, 0 smiles when not under the camera. They know this is one of the few things the outside world will see, it’s why it was timed with the celebration. It’s crazy this stuff still happens to this day.
People treat North Korea like its a joke, and not like a prison camp of innocents.
so sad nat geo is part of that propaganda they love over there and these people think its cool smh
@@docexotic You're a moron. They were being watched every second, risk of being permanently banned from entering is always present and people's lives are at stake. Nat geo did what they had to not because they wanted to but because they needed to. They aren't youtubers, its a professional organisation and even youtubers are restricted. And they hint at the madness that goes on there with the last line as well.
@@fiftyfive1s410 They shouldn't have went in the first place is what I'm saying. Its just spreading propaganda for them. But I'm a "moron" for thinking that visiting one of the most disgusting and unsafe places in the world is a dumb idea. Ur a smart one in real life i bet
@@docexotic why shouldn’t they go in? We want to see. If you are not interested then watch something else mxm
@@fuilik1 they aren't going to see what goes on there for real, all they will see is rehearsed to make it look like North Korea isn't that bad.
In the end they are still human beings, just ones that have to put on an act for the camera. They're like actors that die if they don't do their job right.
@Sidemen AFTV Clips & More And the civilians outside of Pyongyang have it even worse..
@Rad!. So true. The Democrat Party is in full attack mode against freedom, legitimate elections, the American Constitution and Bill of Rights of limited government powers, Rule of Law, the American middle class, and borders diluting American Citizenship and American Sovereignty.
@Rad!. just the fact that you are able to say that proves that you are wrong on that.
@@samualcrocket1405 You're totally bonkers.
@@TheGrumbliestPuppy be curious, not judgemental. Do some research, there are some really smart people outside mainstream media, who may just open your 👀
Looks like when Ba Sing Se was in the control of the Dai Li
Their tour guides getting a lesson made me happy to see. They seemed very glad
"All animals are equal... some are just more equal than others".....
And if you dont believe it horse will kick you in the head like he did the stableboy
I literally just read that book
Animal farm 😂
Four legs good, two legs bad
Orwell was an anarcho socialist
Empty museums, empty hotel. Yeah, that's really how they live I'm sure.
if you speak Spanish or are willing to watch some videos with English subtitles you should watch Alex Tienda´s channel, he made like an 8 episode series that show in more detail everything and its a pretty good series, he shows like all the rules that the tourists have and a bunch of interesting stuff
Hmmm. 🤔
😊 It's corona.
They keep their distance.
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@@rodrigomeneses8656 thks
@@perjand Three years ago?? 😜 Hmmm 🤔
In all fairness... I went to Sofia (Bulgaria) once and the museums over there were completely deserted as well. The only museum I ever saw (just a few) other visitors was the National Military Museum. So it doesn't surprise me to see empty museums in a country like North Korea. The thing that does shock me though, are the empty streets you see.
Can we just stop and appreciate the person getting a workout on the transport band at 09:58 :D
7:16 wow thats a nice espresso machine, looks like a fast shot from the 1/8 of a second glimpse of it.
"Oh I completely see it differently!"
Buddy Kim-Jon-Un doesn't want you to see the bad. These are the rich and fortunate. Ask anyone who lives there. Their people are starving and you only saw 1% of it all. The best part
Yup
Walrus_War_King 16 true, but this is still 1% more than we saw before.
You've asked them if they are starving or have you saw it in the fuckin' TV?
HAHAHAHAHAHA Have seen the executions? Why didn't you take them a picture?
Why is not anyone concern about China? Or Russia? Deaths of jurnalists, persecution of gays, taking organs from political prisoners while still alive.
"We got to see how they lived."
No, you didn't. Every tour is scripted right down to who you meet.
Find video of a "tour" from a decade ago, and you'll see the exact same thing.
Joshua Jones yeah, I was going to comment that I saw a vlog of someone visiting north korea a few years back and the tour was exactly the same down to the subway station.
Joshua Jones with the same people too and they're the same age somehow
Juche keeps them forever young!
Joshua Jones yes and they acknowledged that in the video
You completly missed the point here. That's not because the tour is scripted that every Korean that took part in it is a lifeless entity. He is true when he says that they got to see how some of them live.
Working on the tour is part of their job, their job is part of their life, so they saw a part of their lives. What we saw in the video is the lives of some north Koreans. We surely did not see what it is like to be a farmer, labourer in the country, or a prisonner and we know there is more to it. Still how the country portrays itself, all the propaganda, all the worshiping has a historical dimension that is overwhelming
The ski resort actually did look good. A blue sky and a nicely prepared piste. Just out of idle curiosity has anyone any idea of the average yearly snowfall? I should imagine with the influence of the nearby eastern Pacific but with some winds from fairly nearby Siberia and north eastern China that the snowfall would be, at the very least, reasonably high.
Then again, who there could afford the resort? Is it really there for the benefit of party members, or are they planning on trying to genuinely tempt tourists so that they can boost their economy?
Excellent documentary! I really appreciated the host & how they didn’t try to wedge in any presumptions or politics. North Korean people deserve access to the global economy regardless of what their leadership does. Further dividing us will only create further problems.
6:50 Even in North Korea these machines are rigged.
lol right lol
And have Japanese toys in them it seems.
kaelmato lol the country is rigged lol
kaelmato I won 3 times in a row. One of those times I got 2 at once 😋. I've got skillz lol
I thought that because of communism there were not rigged but I was fooled :(
Why the hell do you think those slopes were sooooooooooooooooooooo empty ????? For fuck sakes of course they aren't going to show the real life of the people . Everything these guys experienced was staged from the moment they landed to the moment they left. Every damn second.
ikr! it's all propaganda but NG is buying it... sadly, this is not the first time :/
theldun1 exactly lol the melodramatic music and all the smiles are sickening. "Most secretive country in the world" uhhhh yea because they starve, brainwash and murder their own people
I love how the only reason you think that's true is because that's what you were told to think by media :)
To be honest, I've seen dozens of NK documentaries, but this is the first one where I saw that Pyongyang looks very much like a normal metropoly, and not like a slum-filled city. It's not a warzone, as portrayed in countless documentaries, but a city.
What they've shown in this vid does not, in any way, negate what is happening in the rest of NK. Not at all. But it broadened the picture of this country for me, which made North Koreans lives that much more relatable.
you know, yall are starting to sound like the brainwashed people. Maybe life in korea isn't always a war zone
bro that skiing resort is way nicer than a lot of resorts I have been to in North America. Imagine having that whole mountain to yourself.
When he hopped the fence at the mountain I nearly had a heart attack
looks like an ad for north korea
It basicaly is
I think they were trying to show what they do when people from different country’s visit
It pretty much is as legally no one who is a foreigner can talk bad about North Korea and if you did chances are you will be killed or heavily punished
@@cannedjd3289 You mean negative?
North Korea’s demand of absolute control over the image it projects to the outside world, and that image’s sharp contrast from North Korea’s known reality, is the entire _point_ of this short documentary: the narrator states early on that until that point they’ve been closely monitored for their whole visit, and minutes later someone on camera notes how different this experience is from North Koreans’s norm! That the controlled experience is a surreal departure from reality is the documentary’s central thesis!
What you saw is real. The people were real and they did what they always do. The reason it looks so nice is that only the priviliged are allowed to live in the capital. So it looks like a rich environment because it is actually one, only the elite lives there. Since you never really leave the capital region you never see the poverty and distress the people are in
Yup. And in spite of its size, the capitol is but a fraction of the rest of the prison, err I meant country.
and how is that different than America's cities where rich people all live in same areas?
Alan K It's different because in America public school is free and available to everyone. Most anyone who wants to, can strive to be better and have more. There is opportunity all around us. People in America who are stuck in poverty are either mentally stuck or a victim of their own choices. People in North Korea who are stuck in poverty have no choice. In America we are free to fail and free to succeed.
*north america. there are people in south america who are hardly any better off than this
Daytons Sniper Rifle - you're absolutely right. The elites love it and they express it, but again if people want the other side of the story you actually have to meet up with locals in the poverty area of n.korea
9:59 person in the background is walking in place perfectly like a glitch in the matrix.
I like the guitar rendition of "Are we living like in those days" at the very beginning. Its a very good touch for a documentary over the Hermit Kingdom.
Just think just a few miles away from them was people dying of starvation
Umm, no. How many people are dying in the US from starvation? You see a lot of pics of grown men weighing 80 lbs because they can't get a bite to eat? Lots of people eating bark and grass these days as the winter sets in in the US?
Henry Herz I promise you no one is starving in the United States as a result of the government
Henry Herz starving in the U.S. is wanting a steak but you had chicken
@Ben G ... A certain fiery worm i might add!
Shame they don’t do better for them selves
09:58 Guy in the background looks like an NPC stuck on the fence.
Wtf xD.
u win
You win the comment section
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Thanks to the love of Balto, which is my Huskys name btw. I can enjoy my Snowboarding here in Switzerland Verbier!
Ski resort looks very neat and clean without all these ads panels we see everywhere else.
9:57 are we not gonna talk about that guy walking but not moving
Marco R North Korea’s exercise equipments are far more powerful then ours
*The Matrix wants to know your location*
It's a belt style lift like an escalator.
Lagged irl
He's just walking down the automatic escalator, his AI crashed
It was really cute seeing him teach his guides. I hope they're doing well.
Korea really is beautiful, I just hope one day things can actually continue to where they wanted to be originally and not where they ended up.
Though we don't know much about North Korea and the things that happen over there the country itself looks beautiful, the mountians and even the city whether its fake or real it still looks amazing. I hope and pray one day North Korea will be a place everyone can visit and for those who live there to say they love their country.
When nearly everyone they talk to starts of there sentence like: "Thanks to the love of our Marshall Kim Jong Un" I cringe a little inside
Have you heard Pence talking about Trump lately? I swore there's a giant worm inside of that guy as well...and it's not really a worm (if you know what I mean).
Just like sinclaire anchors.
Just like here in Russia several decades ago.
Believe me, they are all brainwashed constantly and know little about outside world except what the Kim has fed them in.
They would praise him always cause they know nothing their own political system and have no education.
DBarationX don't talk to a Christian haha they say similar stuff it's annoying
Roger Balcer And everyone was truly happy. Great point!
The "tours" in North Korea are so tightly choreographed they could win a Tony.
This comment is brought to you by the love of our marshall Kim Jong Un. lol
@@SwainixFPV 😂😂😂
100%
This is like a dream. You got to own the whole place and ski freely.
I'm halfway through the video and I had to watch through 6 commercials already. Why is this NatGeo video filled with so many youtube ads? I'll forget what I was watching by the time the 13-minute video is over.
Yeah. That was painful to watch
This really makes you appreciate the right of free speech, and general freedom to express yourself. there is a reason why it all looks so empty. I lived in South Korea for 6 months, and its insane how completely opposite those two halves are. I don't blame the people in North Korea, they just dont have the access to knowledge, and constantly bombarded with propaganda in how the world is. One day it will eventually end. every dictatorial regime ends eventually. just a matter of time, before something sets it all in motion.
It cannot come soon enough.
sounds like the good old America over here as well, with all those social media and the surveillance system to manipulate us
@@jackli1662 If you think things are authoritarian in America now, just wait till Kamala Harris gets into the Oval Office.
Contumacious tbh at this point I would take anyone who’s better at trump, I meant there’s no a third choice unfortunately
The People of North Korea love their Leader we in the west find this hard to understand get over it .In Belarus the same who gives the west the right to stink in other countries all the time ??
He’s Lucky when he went off slope he didn’t hit a land mine from someone trying to escape
Carson Barrett right, or get arrested for going of the allowed path!!
From someone trying to escape?
Do The escapees place landmines
I would love to go snowboarding there. Beautiful scenery and friendly people
Welcome mister Kim Dzong Ul to youtube!
I wonder how long it took North Korea to go through this much footage before they left the country.
*Guide.exe whispers to you:* "Say something nice or we're all dead."
That place is so empty is had a creepy feel to it.
Probably planned just for the tourist visit - can’t let them mingle
Creepy Fresh Powder Slopes!
Yes Very Creepy Reminds me of a Twilight Zone movie in a way
that is because very few north koreans can afford to go there. The ones that can go are the Pyongyang elites high up in the government.
Everyone else is either in internment camps or busy suffering from starvation...
5:44 see how the moment he mentioned ‘few days in the city’ she immediately turned around
But why? I don’t see any problem with what he said
The architecture is pretty amazing there