The "cleanliness" of the streets contribute to the eeriness. It's not just clean, it's absolutely empty. Desolate. Barren. Roads in our heads are always immediately accompanied by cars or other vehicles, so it not having any in broad daylight even with people in them just feels so.. liminal.
The name of the music is "Where Are You, Dear General?". It's from a famous opera in North Korea about an army nurse who travels at night across the country to deliver intelligence to Kim Il Sung and also fulfill her life-long dream of meeting him but is killed by American soldiers before she can reach him. Why it's being played across loudspeakers every morning is beyond me though. Alarm clock maybe?
They’re not as brainwashed as you might think. For many years now, information about the outside world has been getting smuggled into the country via CD roms and nowadays via USB sticks. Most of it comes from South Korea and China but even countries such as Canada have been smuggling in information. Recent defectors have stated that most of the younger generation have seen these smuggled videos many times and know what’s up to an extent. They’re just terrified to speak out for fear of getting sent to labor camps or being executed. There have been encouraging signs though that Kim might be giving up the whole deity act. He recently gave a speech to the people where he cried and said he failed the people which would have been unthinkable 5 or 10 years ago. Information can be powerful but we will see. If the entire population knows that you’re full of shit, it can be harder and harder to control them.
And to imagine they know nothing about the outside world, this is what live is to them, the fact they will never know the beauty of life is absolutely saddening.
Why isn’t there some game where you’re the only person in a huge city, and you have to unravel what happened to the people and why it’s so desolate and empty
Bejli Çaushaj ... wait. Video games (depending on what kinds you play, of course) stimulate the brain the same way puzzles do! But yeah you shouldn’t play video games for like the majority of the day. Lol
Feeling bad for that traffic lady officer ..she has literally nothing to do and yet can't do anything about it. boredom and isolation is a mental torture
I think this when I watch Ukraine war videos. I could be a Russian Mobik sitting in a cold ditch waiting to get drone striked right now but luckily I was born in the West.
The worst part is, this is what they grew up with, what they know. They have no contact to the outside world. This is what the world is to them. They know nothing else
nukeman1303 most of them know that there is more, even as secluded as north korea is, Getting is out is tricky and dangerous and if you succeed your family are tortured and killed
xXlegit_ opsXx I am currently reading it in my literature class. Very creepy and it does remind me of North Korea’s situation. It’s very unsettling when you see how similar North Korean mindset is to the mindset in 1984.
When you hear the original song, it feels euphoric,melancholic, and nostalgic. But you listen to it on that morning speaker, it feels like your in the end of the movie seeing the villain had won.
@@XGamer-no1nk so you want the internet like north Korea? Where you doesn't allowed to make a joke and Doesn't let you tell Yourself? or you want TH-cam like South Korea where you free to express your self and make ton of joke that make Comment section full of color as long as it doesn't break the law
The music is disturbing, the streets are literally empty, everyone looks depressed, barely any of the buildings have colour, they are probably told to not leave or they will get shot, watch Nas Daily's North Korea video, he says something along the lines of "its poor, and depressing, the streets are empty, they check every page in books you have carried, they even check all your photos in your phone after you cross the boarder! That's 1 minute, see you tomorrow!"
"some of the flims are allow to shoot in NK but they must show the good side of the country" imagine thinking THIS is the good side of ANY country. I can only imagine how bad it really is. we have an idea but I wonder what else happens that we don't know about...
MsDudette21 the worst is their gulags , state prison system, with somewhere around a million people imprisoned there.. reports from escapees and defectors are of hunger, torture, sexual violence, nd death on effectively a daily basis.. just 1 step above the nazi death camps ..
MsDudette21 for most of the rest of the people in the country its work on collective farms, which almost is slave labor , and hunger .. heck they get imported food and economic aid from different countries which is basically the difference between famine, and not .. and you live knowing one wrong move, like criticizing the govt and or the ' dear leader ' can land you in the gulag ..
This is considered the “good” life in North Korea. The traffic lady is considered well off because she has a job. Imagine the rural parts of the country
Hannah Sykes you stupid as fuck man it’s not gonna be a world war stupid ass😂😂 it’s gonna be a little war nothing major stop believing everything social media says moron
Chicago tornado siren just sounds like a tornado siren that smoked weed. Thinking of it that way is even funnier. But this shit sounds like it was designed to turn humans into emotionless terminators.
Thankfully I live int the part where Chicago doesn't get tornadoes often but a few of my family members do live where tornadoes happen and that shit sounds kinda scary ngl
birds exist in cities because of the food we drop, making it easy to find it. The very fact there are no birds in North Korea goes without saying about the lack of life outside.
The music isn't added to the video. It really plays in that city every morning. Imagine waking up to this, every morning, for your entire life. Edit: Correction, it doesn't play in sundays
Exactly. These poor people are simply existing, not living autonomous lives. I can't imagine the amount of inner stress and anxiety living with no freedoms, constantly monitored knowing the slightest transgression can lead to your "disappearance". NK does not permit the rest of the world to see what it is really like there. Authorities only allow tourism in groups organised by North Korean officials or by approved travel agencies. An official guide must always accompany travellers.
The song in the beginning perfectly resembles the country. It’s eery, majestic, depressing, and dreary. This whole video is life to them from the moment they’re born till the bite the dust. All the young ones in the video don’t deserve those lives but it’s what they have to deal with and they aren’t complaining because it’s all they know and will forever know. No one can leave and no one knows about the outside world. The dictator is basically their god and each and every single one is brainwashed into submission and conformity. It’s a real world example of the matrix or the book “1984” but it feels as real as them. All the old buildings and the empty streets feels like the whole city is in another dimension. The officer guiding the empty street even though there are no vehicles resemble how robotic and non-human the people are. The people lost their individuality, their humanity. The world is drab and grey. This is the world for them forever, day after day and there is no escape. Obey or die. The rest of the world doesn’t exist for them. Their family, jobs, home, belongings and dictator is all they know. So if your think that your life suck or you think that you have it bad, just think about this extremely dictatorship oriented country. Your country may have some problems but it’s never like North Korea.
Imagine 30 million people know nothing about the world, they are not stupid or different but they raised like that they can’t imagine another leader they can’t imagine the freedom.
Aditi . Com Yeah they can’t use any other nations internet. They literally have their own computers, software, hardware, their own internet browsers with limited content (limited meaning you can probably watch/read stuff about their leader, that’s it.) there is no google and TH-cam over there, nor windows. It’s all specifically made for North Korea only.
Do you even think Nuclear war is even a threat to their average citizen? No wonder they risk their lives hopping their borders to SK while getting shot at by their own army
Bruh how. Are we not seeing the same things because it looks like a normal city to me. Where are the torture devices and horror? What. Are. You. Talking about.
Elmas RobotAlien A city with a curfew and starving people looks like an alternate dimension designed for human suffering? Aka hell? The city isn’t that bad, you’re just making a whole chicken out of a feather. Way too blown out of proportion. For what you’re describing these people should be getting tortured on the street and dead bodies should be piling up from all the starved people. Don’t see that happening.
@@apina9731 there's a lot of traffic directors where i'm from but do they act like robots? do they still manage traffic in the middle of a goddamn empty street?
@PavPete, I thought about that, it’s just nature and very poor villages. Many people are starving tho and it’s probably the only place on Earth that is basically stuck in the 1300s...
@PavPete, Sorry I meant “Many people were starving” And minus the public transportation it’s basically 1300s. Just buses driving through 1300s south Asian villages. Especially the villages very far away from the capital is what I meant as well. And people are probably not starving 24/7 but they still go hungry from time to time. Much in contrast to their overweight dictator.
@PavPete You clearly don't know what's it in there like... When you go for visit they only show you good side but i saw videos from spy and there are even 8year olds kids that are eating trash to survive, north korea is terrible
@@johnmckenya828 Communism isn't horrible, if done right. There never was a truly communistic country. Communism isn't perfect, but with some laws taken from democracy it could be perfect.
I don't know why they don't just put a traffic light if having a still human is suspicious. And given the fact there's no traffic to control, I can only imagine the woman is being punished or some shit.
My father told me that when communists were ruling in Czechoslovakia the cities were also grey, with no colour. Everyone was in fear. And now I see some 'muricans on the internet whine how they have it hard and hyping up socialists. It's making me disgusted honestly.
@@chickenoodle2602 That's what he already said. Do you often feel the need to correct people when what they said was already clear to begin with? Seriously, that was completely unnecessary.
DrummerJacob : they weren’t trying to correct people :/ they were just trying to clarify how things are. like an exaggeration or dramatization, don’t be hateful and rude...
the people in the streets you see in this video are the lucky "wealthier" ones. The majority live out in the middle of nowhere, or on farms, nearly starving to death.
@@hamschh You have to be of a certain social standing and have official permission before you can live in Pyongyang. North Korea has more or less zero social mobility and a mere peasant from the countryside will never be able to live it up in the capital.
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What makes it so scary is the unknown, the fact we know little to nothing about what’s actually happening in North Korea. We only know the people are struggling.
@@suntzu6468 What are we talking here? Make them insane and absolutely lose their mind? Put them on the edge of starvation every week? Make it impossible to sleep? Lock them in an empty dark room for weeks?
North Korea is terrifying. The fact that this is the "good" part of NK is depressing, I can't imagine what living there would be like. This country is a prison, the people who live there probably don't even know how other countries look like. I really hope that all of this will end soon.
@@bellegosdin7313 fr,if we mess with nk either china or russia will step in or both because we don't really hold that great of a bond so if they do its game over
In communism "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us," they said in the Soviet Union. As a 'worker' of the Venezuelan public sector I can say that it's accurate, being aware that there is no such dystopian situation here, still plus than a third of the population has internet, although once it was more than 60%, it is getting worse.
In Belarus you see babushkas employed to pick up litter. Thing is, in Minsk, there isn't any, so it's a bit odd when you see them picking up what is, in effect, dust.
Imagine if reincarnation does really exist, and u have to be born there, knowing nothing at all about the truth of the outside world, and believing all the lies that the government tells u about how great & magnificent north korea is.
If reincarnation exists, I would kill myself until I'm born into a rich family, than create a Switzerland Bank Account and steal all of the money, and keep screwing with life so much that I pretty much become a myth in the future
The song is called "Where are you dear general" and it is played every morning in Pyongyang. But in this Video I think he overlayed it to make the video sound more eerie
it’s not that bad. my uncle and his family visited in 2011, very nice and friendly people! the N. Koreans have actually pretty good lives in some areas
Well, the people of North Korea are good and nice, because they're just normal people, just like you and me. The only difference is the way they have to live, which isn't good.
@@juggstar5613 Nobody said anything about the people there being rude or anything ... They are telling facts, there is hell incarnate in a country ... And people who live well, well, must be close to the fat North Korean ...
@@juggstar5613 Oooo. That's nice. I've heard that it's very strict and that you have limited places to take pictures. But I never really heard about the environment
It kind of gives the vibe that someone left a robot experiment running way too long and never came back for it is still going
In English pls
@@Aoredon I'll summarize: A person ran a robot experiment and never came back, representing North Korea's eeriness
They get sun over there? I thought Kim would’ve taken that away too.
Don't worry, kin jong dome is going to be implemented in 5 years
joão vitor silva kin jong dome lmao
Or the British.
his giant fat ass would get in the way of it being seen
Then they would all die from lack of sun....they would have nothing to dictate
To be honest, this is the most depressing country i’ve ever seen, it looks like a Great Depression
It looks like the world's largest communist prison
@@whoaccountisdisanyway2985 Cause it is
Great Depression cranked up to 11
rBullitt like literally
Worse than the great depression
THIS LOOKS LIKE THAT WEIRD FEVER DREAM
doslovno :/
😳
😐 oh sh*t
Dreams about zombies
OH FUCK IT REALLY DOES
Imagine waking up with that depressing Sound.
Some people unfortunately cannot imagine it,cause they have to live it.
give it a slap
Oh really
I would super glue both of my pillows and keep them glued forever.
Imagine having to wake up to that every day for your whole life.
All this talk of "creepy music" and horror movie like setting, but no one is talking about how clean those streets are.
The "cleanliness" of the streets contribute to the eeriness. It's not just clean, it's absolutely empty. Desolate. Barren. Roads in our heads are always immediately accompanied by cars or other vehicles, so it not having any in broad daylight even with people in them just feels so.. liminal.
Easy to have a clean street when nobody uses it.
The name of the music is "Where Are You, Dear General?". It's from a famous opera in North Korea about an army nurse who travels at night across the country to deliver intelligence to Kim Il Sung and also fulfill her life-long dream of meeting him but is killed by American soldiers before she can reach him. Why it's being played across loudspeakers every morning is beyond me though. Alarm clock maybe?
Oh
It's played every morning and every night to drain humanity out of people. Make them empty drones, ants that serve the man God.
I didn’t realize that was actually being played over the city... how disturbing.
They’re not as brainwashed as you might think. For many years now, information about the outside world has been getting smuggled into the country via CD roms and nowadays via USB sticks. Most of it comes from South Korea and China but even countries such as Canada have been smuggling in information.
Recent defectors have stated that most of the younger generation have seen these smuggled videos many times and know what’s up to an extent. They’re just terrified to speak out for fear of getting sent to labor camps or being executed.
There have been encouraging signs though that Kim might be giving up the whole deity act. He recently gave a speech to the people where he cried and said he failed the people which would have been unthinkable 5 or 10 years ago.
Information can be powerful but we will see. If the entire population knows that you’re full of shit, it can be harder and harder to control them.
@PavPete I'd rather that they learn the truth and do something about it to save themselves, as long as there's a better way of life it should be taken
I’d be the one mf stuck at a red light
And to imagine they know nothing about the outside world, this is what live is to them, the fact they will never know the beauty of life is absolutely saddening.
Why isn’t there some game where you’re the only person in a huge city, and you have to unravel what happened to the people and why it’s so desolate and empty
Death Stranding maybe?
@@leglessrestsyndrome229 ehhh no
The closest thing to that idea is The Last of Us.
The Replication but eerier and weird shit just happens, like lights would turn on or off or the vibe of this video. Everything is just super weird
@@thereplication2567 just launch Minecraft with the lost cities mod. Its perfect for such a thing. You can even make the entire map a city
That lady controlling an empty traffic always gives me goosebumps
She should have ticketed the person with the hand cart for speeding. Would relieve the monotony.
And I'm certain she feels lucky to have that job.
Nice umbrella, though!
It reminds me of the Truman Show
@@sslaytorThere ain’t no ticket. Only a prison camp
This is literally like one of them weird nightmares you get where you’re in the weirdest place and you can’t get out
This is facts like ur terrified as hell but then u wake up its the best moment
If i get a dream like this where i have a whole city with a eerie atmosphere all to myself, i would never wana wake up
I've actually had nightmares I was in North Korea and even in a dream it felt restrictive not being able to speak my mind
@@slvyc I would desperately want to wake up
@@DavidNikkiZane Why? Are you scared?
The traffic lady directing nothing is so unsettling to me for some reason. Especially how robotically she does it it’s so unnatural and pointless
Me: *your comment*
Also me later: *playing video games for hours which will have no effect on my life*
Bejli Çaushaj ... wait. Video games (depending on what kinds you play, of course) stimulate the brain the same way puzzles do! But yeah you shouldn’t play video games for like the majority of the day. Lol
Ya. Up she’s kinda hot
Bejli Çaushaj video games improve cognition, reflexes, and expands your memory and muscle memory. You’ll def notice once your in your 20s man
SwifTBuddY just stop
Feeling bad for that traffic lady officer ..she has literally nothing to do and yet can't do anything about it.
boredom and isolation is a mental torture
The way she moves and turns around so robotic like... it’s creepy
@@magicalgirl4 probably it's compulsion. She's forced of course.
Ikr. But then again, she is part of the police. Therefore, she must have a better life than most people in North Korea.
Wouldn't be worrying about boredom in North Korea
@@thelegend6951 scientifically boredom is the lower form of disgust.
When life gets hard, I remember to thank God for not having been born in North Korea.
Me too
I think this when I watch Ukraine war videos. I could be a Russian Mobik sitting in a cold ditch waiting to get drone striked right now but luckily I was born in the West.
@@bendavies1701 When I watch both Ukraine war videos and what's happening in the west, I'm happy I was born in east Europe.
@@igors1234
East Europe is significantly worse to live in then Western Europe
Where were you born?
I feel like this place is an unfinished, forgotten, abandoned, simulator.
Abandoned, forgotten...
In Vorkuta we are all brothers.
PS: I'm not sorry, I had to do it
@@pablojn4826 Step One!
Secure the Keys!
@@pablojn4826 Step Two!
@@blckkSnOw Ascend from darkness!
The worst part is, this is what they grew up with, what they know. They have no contact to the outside world. This is what the world is to them. They know nothing else
nukeman1303 most of them know that there is more, even as secluded as north korea is, Getting is out is tricky and dangerous and if you succeed your family are tortured and killed
xXlegit_ opsXx I am currently reading it in my literature class. Very creepy and it does remind me of North Korea’s situation. It’s very unsettling when you see how similar North Korean mindset is to the mindset in 1984.
They dont even know 3 million people saw this
Literally a dystopia
That's kind of false. Things are smuggled in all the time. Movies, makeup, books, etc.
The lady directing nonexistent traffic is one of the most hellish things I have ever seen.
She’s a relative of the little fat man, so nepotism is a standard practice to employee relatives.
What’s weird is that’s meant to be one of the most prestigious jobs in North Korea
@@didsthecat1503 Because it's the least labor intensive job.
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EXACTLY what this made me think of. Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman, rise and shine.
If i was there i would pick up a palette and float outta there.
PS; can you stack barrels at the border?
Hmm I don't get it
Damn, he hasn’t posted in seven years... hope he’s well
They got him
Ho-Chi-Sock lmao rough 🗿
Ho-Chi-Sock damn...
@@alexandru5741 Source?
Probably forgot a password lol
The only dirty things in the street are only dust. No trash, just dust.
Not even cars
It's like people were dissolved into ash/dist and everyone are cleaning it up.
Yeah, having streets with no trash sounds pretty great if you ask me
@@apache785 Sounds pretty great until you realize the rest of the conditions.
Because there is no trash to be thrown
When you hear the original song, it feels euphoric,melancholic, and nostalgic. But you listen to it on that morning speaker, it feels like your in the end of the movie seeing the villain had won.
Thats a great description of north korea
Hopelessness and resignation
It reminds me of the final scene of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”
Do you know the name of the original song by any chance?
@@seanruben2000its called Where are you Dear General?
My minecraft world with all the villagers that i haven't visited in years:
Lol😂😂😂😂
💀
Dude this is real life not minecraft stop posting stupid shit on the internet
ImoZGamer triggered
@@XGamer-no1nk so you want the internet like north Korea?
Where you doesn't allowed to make a joke and Doesn't let you tell Yourself?
or
you want TH-cam like South Korea where you free to express your self and make ton of joke that make Comment section full of color as long as it doesn't break the law
Looks like the city after Thanos snaped his fingers.
@country baller He is too lucky I guess.
Isn’t there a rumor or something that he died from corona?
@@kanatosakamaki8456 maybe I don't know.
@@kanatosakamaki8456 Kim Jong Un already died 20 times this year 🤣
Shhhhh 🤫🤫
remember, this is where the RICHEST people in north korea live
Fuc...
actually, there is only one rich man... kim
well damn bitch
The people that live here are considered “worthy” or “loyal” by the government which is why it’s so empty
@@content3065 lmao
No matter how much of North Korea I see or hear about it is still unimaginable to believe a place like that exists in the modern age.
keep imagine dog.
@@Mista1Take and constantly be depressed?
No, thanks...
All leftists in the world should be sent there forever.
@@Mista1Takehe’s a cat you idiot
All thanks to socialism
The music is disturbing, the streets are literally empty, everyone looks depressed, barely any of the buildings have colour, they are probably told to not leave or they will get shot, watch Nas Daily's North Korea video, he says something along the lines of "its poor, and depressing, the streets are empty, they check every page in books you have carried, they even check all your photos in your phone after you cross the boarder! That's 1 minute, see you tomorrow!"
When I mentioned "they check" that's when I'm talking about while they are on the train, the soldiers check all that shii its DEPRESSING!!!!!
wtf that's horrifying
That is terrifying
Border *
I have 12k photos and 1k videos in my phone. It must be a long time check for me 😪
Remember, you are lucky.
To not have been born in depressing places
@@Contagious93812 Where are you?
Remember, u do not live my life to tell me am i lucky or not.
S B. Are you free? You’re definitely edgy, i know that much.
S B. You’re posting a comment using the Internet. You are more lucky than they are
nothing says "good morning" better than an eerie siren song that sounds like it's being played by Satan himself
😂
They’re literally sweeping dirt off of a road that has no traffic
At least the roads are clean
It's 6am, the traffic is on the way soon
Davy Ker There is no traffic. You think people own cars? Only the government officials do.
That could be dust too lol 0_o
@@connormeng9773 2:34
That music sounds like it was specifically designed to break a person's spirit.
I like it
That's because it is.
Probably
Well it certainly isn't "keep on rockin' in the free world"
@@bigboineptune9567 it's not, it meant to remind them to work hard and remember the work of their leaders
The new 1984 trailer looks good.
Bro the western adaptation set in Britain will come out soon, i am so looking forward to that
Omg you just reminded me of that book, and now that you mention it. It really does look a lot like 1984 would look like
cod cold war
SpongeyMind What?
Oh hi beebo, didn't expect to see you here
"some of the flims are allow to shoot in NK but they must show the good side of the country" imagine thinking THIS is the good side of ANY country. I can only imagine how bad it really is. we have an idea but I wonder what else happens that we don't know about...
MsDudette21 the worst is their gulags , state prison system, with somewhere around a million people imprisoned there.. reports from escapees and defectors are of hunger, torture, sexual violence, nd death on effectively a daily basis.. just 1 step above the nazi death camps ..
MsDudette21 for most of the rest of the people in the country its work on collective farms, which almost is slave labor , and hunger .. heck they get imported food and economic aid from different countries which is basically the difference between famine, and not .. and you live knowing one wrong move, like criticizing the govt and or the ' dear leader ' can land you in the gulag ..
@@mikeneufield5499 except even gulags were better than north Korean prisons
Riccardo Boi I doubt prisoners there would notice a subjective difference like that, if there is any ..
quete inrpot There’s lots more that goes down in North Korean prisons, not just cuts. I’d say they are the worst prison camps to ever exist
This is considered the “good” life in North Korea. The traffic lady is considered well off because she has a job. Imagine the rural parts of the country
Stormboxer and traffic women are suppsedly dream women for men. They are hand picked by govt officials for the job.
Why what happens in the rural areas ?
Ivan Hinchliffe they have nothing people and kids literally die of cold and hunger
Ivan Hinchliffe kinda sucks because North Korea is mostly rocky so not as much farmable land compared to the south
Stormboxer Only the Kims and Military elites are allowed to have vehicles so yeah that lady must be bored af.
This feels almost like an end of the world scenario...
Or like the calm before the storm type thing........
cheesecakesss well hopefully world war three doesn’t happen soon bc that’s what it’s looking like from a political standpoint as of right now
Hannah Sykes you stupid as fuck man it’s not gonna be a world war stupid ass😂😂 it’s gonna be a little war nothing major stop believing everything social media says moron
Jesus Suarez you could’ve gotten your point across without cussing? Loser lmao
Bang yeDAMN no thanks loser 😁
This is essentially your giant Minecraft city before villagers were added.
Yes
so true
How dare you add such a controversial comment. Take my like.
Oof that hit me hard it was a depressing time. No life
Also before they had a smarter AI.
This looks like it’s from a dystopian film
It is possible that the West will soon look like this too!!!
More like George Orwell's novel "1984"
That’s because it is a dystopian country.
North Korea basically IS a dystopia
Kim Jong-Un
Philadelphia does not look like this you imbecile. If anything San Francisco does
“War is peace”
“Freedom is slavery”
“Ignorance is strength”
"Diversity is our strength!"
"Objectivity is racist!"
"Perception is reality!"
JULIA!!!!!!!!
Bigger brother
It’s like the soul of the city was taken away, leaving behind a husk of itself.
That women turning around all day everyday for cars that will probably never come...
You mean...
The "Seoul" of the city?
Charon true
There never was a soul
@@noisycricket.10yearsand29 There was, before the dictatorship, before... *the Empire...*
What's scarier:
-Chicago tornado siren
-North Korea morning music
North Korea morning music to me the Chicago tornado siren sounds pretty cool
Chicago tornado siren just sounds like a tornado siren that smoked weed. Thinking of it that way is even funnier. But this shit sounds like it was designed to turn humans into emotionless terminators.
@Collin Champagne yes search it
Jurre veldhuijsen definitely the North Korean Music
Thankfully I live int the part where Chicago doesn't get tornadoes often but a few of my family members do live where tornadoes happen and that shit sounds kinda scary ngl
I was reading 1984, and this is how I imagined the music that the tele-screens constantly played was like.
literally 1984
@@sn4ketooth220 true
Dinasty Kim is the Big Brother
or fahrenheit 451
@@hdajq892ey71984's forgotten brother. Probably because it's much easier to write "literally 1984" than it is to write "literally farenheit 451"
The whole city is gray,like everything is dead humans, birds, trees literally everything...
birds exist in cities because of the food we drop, making it easy to find it. The very fact there are no birds in North Korea goes without saying about the lack of life outside.
No pets at all either of course ):
Literally the brightest thing is a roof of that one building
Captain Obvious a small little detail in North Korea yet sooooo depressing for the unfortunate souls in North Korea... *WOW* 😑
You should see the zoos there, depressing. Someone needs to save the animals 😞
I can see why a traffic guard is needed, the streets are very busy
Follower Of Duck
If there were, then she’ll be busy
@@Super165i sarcasm
Suga Things
Figures he was being sarcastic
@@sugathings104 R/Wwooooooosh
@@Super165i r/ woooooosh
The music isn't added to the video. It really plays in that city every morning.
Imagine waking up to this, every morning, for your entire life.
Edit: Correction, it doesn't play in sundays
if you somehow reach your 100th year, you’ve heard the song for 36 thousand times.
Oh god I would lose my mind
anyone else think its strange this country exists? some real dystopian shit that isnt ending soon. it must be so hopeless to live there
Exactly. These poor people are simply existing, not living autonomous lives. I can't imagine the amount of inner stress and anxiety living with no freedoms, constantly monitored knowing the slightest transgression can lead to your "disappearance". NK does not permit the rest of the world to see what it is really like there. Authorities only allow tourism in groups organised by North Korean officials or by approved travel agencies. An official guide must always accompany travellers.
I live in the UK and I feel way more hopeless
It only exists because China need some space between them and South Korea
Its like everyones an npc but with no main character.
Kim is the main character
god this is sad
it's nice to see youtube is still as fond of racism as ever
Gta 6 Pyongyang
İf god can know and do everything then why kim still lives
I could never be that woman constantly turning around and around “directing traffic” crazy
That was her assigned roll from birth. If she doesn't do that she'll be imprisoned or killed.
I think she stepped away of her area and a couple of days after this got sentenced to patrol her jail cell every 10 minutes
lmao like what traffic i dont see a single car
@@cemetarybug There was, didn't you see that guy with a car(t) pass by? Obviously there is traffic.
@@Simqer lmao 😂
The song in the beginning perfectly resembles the country. It’s eery, majestic, depressing, and dreary. This whole video is life to them from the moment they’re born till the bite the dust. All the young ones in the video don’t deserve those lives but it’s what they have to deal with and they aren’t complaining because it’s all they know and will forever know. No one can leave and no one knows about the outside world. The dictator is basically their god and each and every single one is brainwashed into submission and conformity. It’s a real world example of the matrix or the book “1984” but it feels as real as them. All the old buildings and the empty streets feels like the whole city is in another dimension. The officer guiding the empty street even though there are no vehicles resemble how robotic and non-human the people are. The people lost their individuality, their humanity. The world is drab and grey. This is the world for them forever, day after day and there is no escape. Obey or die. The rest of the world doesn’t exist for them. Their family, jobs, home, belongings and dictator is all they know. So if your think that your life suck or you think that you have it bad, just think about this extremely dictatorship oriented country.
Your country may have some problems but it’s never like North Korea.
True
Reading this comment with the song playing was a great match
Crazy that this country borders it's high developed brother. If not China and USSR, North Korea wouldn't exist
@yolonolo2736 Learn to spell mf
Life good hear, our dear leader bless him we are blessed for living here, Americans evil
Imagine 30 million people know nothing about the world, they are not stupid or different but they raised like that they can’t imagine another leader they can’t imagine the freedom.
When they value their leader more than freedom..
I’m pretty sure they do know about America and there’s still a lot of stuff that gets smuggled in like music and movies .
I've heard they aren't allowed access to the internet. They really are suffering.
30... MILLION?? THAT'S 1/10TH OF THE POPULATION OF U.S.! DAMN
Aditi . Com Yeah they can’t use any other nations internet. They literally have their own computers, software, hardware, their own internet browsers with limited content (limited meaning you can probably watch/read stuff about their leader, that’s it.) there is no google and TH-cam over there, nor windows. It’s all specifically made for North Korea only.
“50,000 people used to live in this city . Now , its a ghost town” -
Modern Warfare reference.
@noj Lim-Buh that seems to be the population of the godamn country!
Lmao I heard NK has more populous than Australia
That's my favorite call of Duty game 😂
@@dispirited_official All Ghilled Up is my fav mission
Kim-jong un must be frustrated, because he hasn't been able to stop birds from chirping.
You just made me laugh :))
this line is from a chapter called the last lesson
Is this a coincidence
Birds are just a creation of the government, yo. Used to monitor our moves. They don’t exist in the actual wild, yo.
@@palpalrai9970 Eh, it is?
Just do what we did a few decades and douse our crops with toxins to kill off bugs and as a result making the birds die. Read up on the silent summer.
Worlds largest prison.
That would be the US
How@@RationalToilets12
@@RationalToilets12 you are a pig
@@RationalToilets12why’s that? What are they like there?
@@julievanderleestliving in the usa is great compared to most countries
The scariest part of this is that they think this is all completely normal.
They have an extremely limited knowledge about the outside world.
and no religion 😞 😭
no one I think that’s the least of their worries but honestly they deserve to believe in something right
Just like Americans....
Jaraka stewart wdym ?
No they don't, people aren't stupid
Ah yes the perfect way to start the morning; the sound of pure hopelessnes and existential despair
You sound like junko enoshima from danganronpa lmao
Riddhi Vaze how
I could not live a single day there with out feeling like I am in a
Depression film specially with the music
Bruh I already have it 😂😌
@@mohawk4759 wdym how? If you know her character very well, then I'm pretty sure you'll get what i mean duh
Riddhi Vaze just because they said despair?
The whole country is like one of those depressing malls that are going out of business.
lmao best comment i've read on youtube
That is the legit best way to describe this video haha
Its horror music
Perfect description
King Crab No like gamestop going out of business
the woman directing non existent traffic has to be the most dystopian thing i think ive ever seen
This the type of shit I hear as I’m being dragged to hell
TM Kai North Korea is hell
@@SOBEKCrocodileGod The entire Arabian peninsula is "hell", North Korea is purgatory.
@@Suite_annamite no it was you the one hell.. just like shameless ppl badmouthing other countries while your countries no different😒
That happens often?
Le Huy-Anh North Korea is a shithole, dude.
This city looks like the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse
Well, technically it is, their economy isn’t going very well..
It is in North Korea
Alexander Patton Yeah we know
Well it is no ones is allowed to leave or basically do anything with intrnet
Thank you Jon Ahegao
This doesn't look like a apocalypse this looks darker and more sinister. Extremely depressing
just replying so you can see the likes you have
@@sambettney3995 Jesus's didn't know I had so many likes thanks for replying n pointing that out!
@@sambettney3995 Good man
Yeah the word for that even worse thing is a dystopia.
Do you even think Nuclear war is even a threat to their average citizen? No wonder they risk their lives hopping their borders to SK while getting shot at by their own army
"Wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes."
INSERTION POINT
North Korea is literally the Combine Empire in real life 💀
If this seems bad enough, remember that this is the “shining capital” of the country.
The villages are probably better places to live in
@@balikati more freedom
@GenericGamer no.227 become a monk and obtain your energy through deep hammmmmmmmmmmmmmmms
@@ayhamshaheed7740 you can get killed if you own a bible
Klaus crap you’re right. I’d forgotten about that. Ignore my original comment then.
This looks like an alternate dimension designed for human suffering and fear
Elmas RobotAlien it is
... and that’s what it is.
Bruh how. Are we not seeing the same things because it looks like a normal city to me. Where are the torture devices and horror? What. Are. You. Talking about.
@@davidmuniz1479 nigga i know damn well you didn't just call a city with a curfew and a starving population a "normal city". What country ypu from?
Elmas RobotAlien A city with a curfew and starving people looks like an alternate dimension designed for human suffering? Aka hell? The city isn’t that bad, you’re just making a whole chicken out of a feather. Way too blown out of proportion. For what you’re describing these people should be getting tortured on the street and dead bodies should be piling up from all the starved people. Don’t see that happening.
when you find out the music isn’t edited in:
..
Josh Ral no you dip shit 🤣
Josh Ral they play that to wake ppl up I think 👁💧👄💧👁
This bg would suit attack on titan for some reason
Josh Ral yes really, they have creepy music playing 24/7. The leader himself told me
@@bob8819 ok bob
This sounds like music you’d hear before a Depeche Mode concert.
I can see why a traffic guard is needed with the onslaught of early morning traffic.
LMAO!
Rush hour
I wonder how much her knees hurt from standing for so long
When there are visitors in the country they will always have fake workers around to entertain and put on a show for the foreigner
I thought the music was added in post, but apparently they actually play it? What the heck.
Ye they play it everyday apart from sundays
really?
@@abhishekequinox haan bhai
.Congress India me yehi karna chahti thi magar fail ho gayee
Bhakt ho bhai?
@@abhishekequinox Secular ho kya behen?
the traffic lady literally moves like an npc that's how sad and inhumane this is
Yes I agree 😥
Actually if she makes one wrong move she could get in trouble.....
At least she gets an umbrella for when it rains
@@apina9731 Traffic directors who stand at their post and direct imaginary traffic like a robot?
@@apina9731 there's a lot of traffic directors where i'm from but do they act like robots? do they still manage traffic in the middle of a goddamn empty street?
Even the mentally strongest person would become depressed if they had to wake up to that music every single day
This is the kind of dystopian hell we’re shown in stories.
On some rapunzel type beat
Its horror music
that’s OUR propaganda
@@KRLAs
It sounds scary and creepy the people look depressed of this type of music it can make anyone mad to do a suicide
Its horror music
@@MM-br3gt Big Brother is watching you
The most terrifying part is that police lady, who knows what she does is pointless but has to keep on doing it. They are always watching.
That's so nice.
yeah, if you stay still for even a bit its suspicious to them. poor souls
The police ladies are only doing there job, Imagine what the government will do to them if they dont do their jobs.
Ikr 😂😂😂😂
Whos watching?
And they paint the roofs so they look good on Google Maps.
I think they didnt know what google maps is!
@@happyalltheday2275 Their leader does.
im going to north korea for laughing-
i mean *hell :)
thatz a new level of dissociation.
Damn
And this is from Pyongyang. Don’t even wanna know what it’s like outside the “capital”.
It's probably like about 1350. And I don't mean ten to two in the afternoon.
@PavPete, I thought about that, it’s just nature and very poor villages. Many people are starving tho and it’s probably the only place on Earth that is basically stuck in the 1300s...
@PavPete, Sorry I meant “Many people were starving” And minus the public transportation it’s basically 1300s. Just buses driving through 1300s south Asian villages. Especially the villages very far away from the capital is what I meant as well. And people are probably not starving 24/7 but they still go hungry from time to time. Much in contrast to their overweight dictator.
@PavPete It's not bad as people make it out to be. They just need to leave the country alone.
@PavPete You clearly don't know what's it in there like... When you go for visit they only show you good side but i saw videos from spy and there are even 8year olds kids that are eating trash to survive, north korea is terrible
The music is not added. They actually play that every morning.Very creepy.
Sometimes at midnight
'1984' has become a reality in DPRK
Duar meme
They play it every morning and midnight except for sundays
Yes, Bibble is on fire. Stolen
It's sad to realize that some people grew old in this nation
"old"
It is but it probably doesn't bother them as much as this is all they ever knew. Still sad tho. Communism is horrible.
@@johnmckenya828 Communism isn't horrible, if done right. There never was a truly communistic country. Communism isn't perfect, but with some laws taken from democracy it could be perfect.
@@Mr_Trump tHaT wAsNt rEaL cOmMuNiSm!!! Shut up.
@Nils Teegen the same goes for almost all of its other variations.
Orwellian nightmare..
That's awesome
The robotic movements of the traffic officer just feel so Orwellian.
The crossing guard directing no cars was troubling.
if she doesn’t she probably will be sent to jail same with the people sweeping up dust
It's all in her head
It’s because standing still for too long is considered suspicious
I don't know why they don't just put a traffic light if having a still human is suspicious. And given the fact there's no traffic to control, I can only imagine the woman is being punished or some shit.
She's practicing
There doesn’t even look like there’s color in the city. It just looks grey and... dead.
Ikr
Said the detroit citizen
Raphael Vasconcellos shit detroit isnt as bad as this
My father told me that when communists were ruling in Czechoslovakia the cities were also grey, with no colour. Everyone was in fear.
And now I see some 'muricans on the internet whine how they have it hard and hyping up socialists. It's making me disgusted honestly.
@@JustAChinesePleb your father is just dumb and uniformed. America doesn't even have public health lol rampant genocide of black people
Keep in mind, this is "the good part" of the country.
Not just the good part, this is THE best part, in the US the comparison would be LA or NYC
@@chickenoodle2602 That's what he already said. Do you often feel the need to correct people when what they said was already clear to begin with? Seriously, that was completely unnecessary.
DrummerJacob lol
DrummerJacob lmaoooo too funny
DrummerJacob : they weren’t trying to correct people :/ they were just trying to clarify how things are. like an exaggeration or dramatization, don’t be hateful and rude...
This video really makes me appreciate that I wasn’t born there.
We are luckier than we THINK
There are plenty of huge "cities" in China that are complete ghost towns. Pyonyang has people.
Infinite me too :(
DoctorChained whats china got to do with anything. This is abt NK
@Ezio Auditore I think I responded to the wrong comment. I'm no fool, I'm a very stable genius.
I bet even rats gather every morning to motivate themselves saying: "Keep looking, guys. There's gotta be some food somewhere".
the people in the streets you see in this video are the lucky "wealthier" ones. The majority live out in the middle of nowhere, or on farms, nearly starving to death.
@@hamschh You have to be of a certain social standing and have official permission before you can live in Pyongyang. North Korea has more or less zero social mobility and a mere peasant from the countryside will never be able to live it up in the capital.
The People ARE the food...
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literally the first thing i thought of
Doctor breen again?
There’s more life in fallout’s world than this country
They were crushed by Road Rolla Da
Agree
True
It’s sad how true that is.
@@hermitapurpurr9178 JoJo reference is that?
What makes it so scary is the unknown, the fact we know little to nothing about what’s actually happening in North Korea. We only know the people are struggling.
It is very sad. I hope in my life I see the end of this regime.
Only the people who are going through it will ever know the full extent of the cruelty.
Δ Round up the communist party of North Korea and torture them till they are in their 90’s and die from old age.
@@suntzu6468 What are we talking here? Make them insane and absolutely lose their mind? Put them on the edge of starvation every week? Make it impossible to sleep? Lock them in an empty dark room for weeks?
You're right. Absolutely right.
North Korea is terrifying. The fact that this is the "good" part of NK is depressing, I can't imagine what living there would be like. This country is a prison, the people who live there probably don't even know how other countries look like. I really hope that all of this will end soon.
x Sakuralein and to livd in the capitol, you need special clearance from the govt to be deemed trustworthy and other things
It won't end because nobody gives a fuck
川尻浩作 people do give af. they just cant say or do anything unless they want to die
@@bellegosdin7313 fr,if we mess with nk either china or russia will step in or both because we don't really hold that great of a bond so if they do its game over
OXIN I doubt Russia will step in but China definitely will
Meanwhile in the other side of Korea:
*loud KPop noises*
Lmfao
💀
😂😂😂
I CAN IMAGINE THAT L,FAOOA
LMFAOOO
North Korea, the only place in the world where nobody exists
Haha that's cute. Look up abandoned cities in China.
What about Syria?
@@addictedtoRSi know about those, creepy. Not sure what i meant in this comment i posted. maybe i was trying to be edgy or something 🤷
When you logged in to your childhood online game.
Adriansyah Firdaus 😂😂😂😂 like ourworld
Tron evolution
When the servers are dead
webkinz 😔
Ouch, this hit home
Legend has it she's still to this day waiting for traffic to start showing up.
Bruh the bgm made it look like it's a pre zombie apocalypse scene and now all of a sudden zombie groups will come 😂😂
Traffic lady: sees no cars
Leaf mowers:
Traffic lady: *STOP*
She looks like an android tbh
adriana radolic she fucking creepy
adriana radolic exactly what I thought so eerie
The worst is that she is considered there a person with a good life cuz she has an job
Not funny. Be quiet.
It was so creepy to see a traffic lady guiding no cars. It’s like seeing a cleaner pick up none existing litter
Noir right
In communism "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us," they said in the Soviet Union. As a 'worker' of the Venezuelan public sector I can say that it's accurate, being aware that there is no such dystopian situation here, still plus than a third of the population has internet, although once it was more than 60%, it is getting worse.
Gabriel Flaubert at least in Soviet Union uh Russia you can leave whenever you want I think...
@@PrincessTwilightdash ?
In Belarus you see babushkas employed to pick up litter. Thing is, in Minsk, there isn't any, so it's a bit odd when you see them picking up what is, in effect, dust.
And that’s the rich side of town
LEO2001 u understand what he was trynna say right
@@karou6969 Still not the rich side, maybe a wealthy side of the city.
KappaKappaKappaKappa most people live in the country side (bad farm lands)
Are the streets empty because of covid 19. I need to do some more research
@@shaunmorris8176 this vid was posted 8 years ago...the pandemic didn't happen at that time.
I find the music very tranquil and relaxing. 💁🏻♂️
The only traffic was old mate pushing his wheelbarrow
Ossie buahahaha lmao 😂
Ye mate
Careful with that wheel brooooo!!!! Ahh shittt
LMAO
Old mates got work to do, come rail, hail or authoritarian dictatorship, works gotta be done
Imagine if reincarnation does really exist, and u have to be born there, knowing nothing at all about the truth of the outside world, and believing all the lies that the government tells u about how great & magnificent north korea is.
That's would be pretty bad, now I'm grateful I'm able to write this comment, grateful for living in a good country.
@@albergc me too
If reincarnation exists, I would kill myself until I'm born into a rich family, than create a Switzerland Bank Account and steal all of the money, and keep screwing with life so much that I pretty much become a myth in the future
I hope only the worst karmas get to reincarnate in that hell
it doesnt
The song is called "Where are you dear general" and it is played every morning in Pyongyang.
But in this Video I think he overlayed it to make the video sound more eerie
no it was playing in the town
@@Mark_Lou Then what about the cuts?
Hoi4 fanboy it’s footage taken during a English journalists visit to North Korea. The song was recorded during his morning in Pyongyang.
I was wondering about soundtrack too
No, it's not overlayed. ALL video of morning Pyongyang with this music played from different channels always have the same manners.
this reminds me of half-life 2. Damn.
These poor people think this is normal as well, reminds me how lucky I am to even write this comment
it’s not that bad. my uncle and his family visited in 2011, very nice and friendly people! the N. Koreans have actually pretty good lives in some areas
Well, the people of North Korea are good and nice, because they're just normal people, just like you and me. The only difference is the way they have to live, which isn't good.
@@juggstar5613 Nobody said anything about the people there being rude or anything ... They are telling facts, there is hell incarnate in a country ...
And people who live well, well, must be close to the fat North Korean ...
@@juggstar5613 Did you have freedom to do the things you wanted?
@@juggstar5613 Oooo. That's nice. I've heard that it's very strict and that you have limited places to take pictures. But I never really heard about the environment
Shits like an episode of Black Mirror.
Creepier in my opinion
Jack fax😂
lmao-
Worse
It’s worse than anything Black Mirror can make. Because this is all too real.