We Tried Sneaking Journalists Into North Korea

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  • Sneaking into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VICE has ever dealt with. In North Korea, if you get caught being a journalist when you're supposed to be a tourist, you go to jail, or worse. Our rare footage is some of the craziest ever captured, providing an honest look inside the hermit nation.
    00:00 Intro
    03:00 One of the most dangerous places in the world
    06:15 Bribing the Chinese consulate
    09:14 The first sight of Pyongyang
    Hosted by Shane Smith | Originally released in 2008 at vice.com
    Continue where this left off here: bit.ly/HLpgn2
    Part 2: • North Korea's Lavish S...
    Part 3: • Singing Karaoke in Nor...
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  • @VICE
    @VICE  12 ปีที่แล้ว +3343

    Watch more of VICE on North Korea: th-cam.com/play/PLDbSvEZka6GGOrQuonllt75KmhyfZcRjj.html

    • @jxshy7258
      @jxshy7258 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      You might wanna go to the doctor cause u got some massive balls

    • @marileed8504
      @marileed8504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Huh seven years ago pinned. Only 7 likes

    • @archungus
      @archungus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Rip

    • @seanlim7940
      @seanlim7940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      th-cam.com/video/inebLA3HqPo/w-d-xo.html
      this is a more up to date, and deeper dive into North Korea, it has 2 parts

    • @ssssSTopmotion
      @ssssSTopmotion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You madlad

  • @jackwhite4905
    @jackwhite4905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8542

    “We had nothing to lose”
    ....... yeah besides your lives

    • @vixx-kun7686
      @vixx-kun7686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      That'a what I exactly thought!

    • @clearshade3560
      @clearshade3560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Jackcraft5 that’d torture them for information before killing them, maybe labour camps

    • @samuelthornton9179
      @samuelthornton9179 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @Jeffrey Scott the fuck is that comment, democrats kinda like democracy.

    • @kroneyt1493
      @kroneyt1493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was thinking their money, but yeah I guess that too.

    • @fatnoot5428
      @fatnoot5428 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jeffrey Scott Democratic socialism is different from socialist Democrats lmao

  • @MinusTwoPoints
    @MinusTwoPoints 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15136

    alternative title: "We tried to kill our staff"

    • @shottyhottie
      @shottyhottie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      The journalist in this video did this by his own will, the cameraman is just doing his/her job

    • @spicybro
      @spicybro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      vice back then was just a small group of journalists

    • @shottyhottie
      @shottyhottie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@spicybro if you consider 50 a small group then by all means

    • @rigmaroul
      @rigmaroul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      @@shottyhottie pretty small tbh

    • @annita286
      @annita286 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      this is the owner of vice, he didnt force someone else to do it

  • @dartanian7853
    @dartanian7853 ปีที่แล้ว +3914

    Respect to everyone who did this, especially the cameraman, or woman, who risked their actual lives filming this for our sake, so we can get informed on what happens in that place

    • @stuffthataguydoes
      @stuffthataguydoes ปีที่แล้ว +10

      that is barely even putting a fingerprint on the surface

    • @jj-fk9ez
      @jj-fk9ez ปีที่แล้ว +17

      so cringe "or woman"

    • @thewoodcutter1731
      @thewoodcutter1731 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@jj-fk9ez why?

    • @Browniev2
      @Browniev2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@jj-fk9ez my brother in christ you have tiktok music taste

    • @hyperman8690
      @hyperman8690 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jj-fk9ez oh look a psycho worshipper

  • @ldee5478
    @ldee5478 ปีที่แล้ว +1605

    It's crazy how far our camera technology has came in such a short amount of time.

    • @JinnaiT
      @JinnaiT ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Yeah you could totally fit an "advanced camera" in the case of a really junky camera from 20 years ago and sneak it in

    • @garbagelifeoftheboringwife
      @garbagelifeoftheboringwife ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@JinnaiT and they would never know

    • @koiyujo1543
      @koiyujo1543 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@garbagelifeoftheboringwife exactly because they don't know Bs because their blocked from the world

    • @SexRealist301
      @SexRealist301 ปีที่แล้ว

      And you can guarantee that the twats at the top of the NK hierarchy still think 80's tech is the very height of sophistication.

    • @brianpinion5844
      @brianpinion5844 ปีที่แล้ว

      which brings me to reverse Enginering but I wont twist your mind with that rite now ! lol , just wish Bigfoot hunters would stop using the old Disposable cameras !!!!!!! I really did LOL on that one !

  • @kingdavis890
    @kingdavis890 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21562

    “Don’t point, don’t take pictures”
    *takes video of himself pointing*

    • @henryhildebrand4236
      @henryhildebrand4236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      lmao

    • @ayushthada9544
      @ayushthada9544 4 ปีที่แล้ว +339

      Teacher: For your project survey you can go anywhere.
      Girls: Let's go to the nearest market.
      Boys: Sneaking into North Korea.

    • @peaaanuts6970
      @peaaanuts6970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      thug life hahahaha

    • @claire_dabear
      @claire_dabear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@kerronthedon9306
      Teacher: go to timeout 😂

    • @walterzamalis4846
      @walterzamalis4846 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Technically, they said pictures, not videos, so he’s clean

  • @d4nny8
    @d4nny8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12554

    2012 Vice : "We Tried Sneaking Journalists Into North Korea"
    2020 Vice : "I Make Dildos For a Living"

    • @Morziq
      @Morziq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      looool

    • @EllipsisTriangletrap
      @EllipsisTriangletrap 4 ปีที่แล้ว +308

      Every radical source of information gets infiltrated and internally compromised. This is common procedure for intelligence agencies dealing with troublesome groups, especially groups of uncensored, raw journalists. They can't stand info coming to light that doesn't fit in with their made up story.

    • @helicocktor
      @helicocktor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      They switched the serious stuff to Vice News. The main Vice channel is hipster stuff, bur Vice News still has some interesting journalism. The stuff with Isobel Yeung is amazing.

    • @jameswashburn1104
      @jameswashburn1104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      lol

    • @x2camaro
      @x2camaro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lmfao

  • @007lisle
    @007lisle ปีที่แล้ว +258

    Crazy how 10 years after... this documentary is still interesting.

    • @daksh5363
      @daksh5363 หลายเดือนก่อน

      because its the only one? 😂

  • @nunyabiznez6381
    @nunyabiznez6381 ปีที่แล้ว +757

    I'm acquainted with a gentleman who escaped N Korea about 15 years ago and as crazy as you found N Korea, he found the U.S. even more so. He made his way to china and then from China through a few more countries before he made it to a U.S. consulate and told them he was from N Korea and wanted to defect. Seems he had a lot of knowledge about the military having once served in the N Korean army as an officer so they let him come to the US. He had spent so much time hiding and stealing food that he never actually saw the inside of a grocery store until he got to the U.S. The moment he stepped inside he dropped to his knees and burst into tears. He said there was more food in that grocery store that day than he had seen in his 52 years living in N Korea. He said that he thought there was probably enough food in that grocery store to feed the whole population back home. He could not believe how much food there was and all the other comforts either. He was shocked at all the things we throw away. Next he visited a Walmart then a shopping mall and he couldn't deal with it emotionally so he had to go back to his little cottage where he was staying. He couldn't believe that he was allowed to unplug the TV. In N Korea TV's and radios are on 24/7. You can't turn them off. If you get caught not watching the propaganda programming you can be sent to the concentration camps up north. And when you are sent there they send you and your children and their children and your siblings and their spouses and their children and all your aunts and uncles and first cousins. They all go to the concentration camp with you and there you are worked to death or starved to death and if any of the women happen to get pregnant and the guards never find out resulting in the baby being born in the camp they grow up in the camp and live out their lives in the camp. Your whole family is socially quarantined forever which tends not to be very long because it seems the average life expectancy in one of those camps is around five years. He says you don't ask about the Park family who suddenly disappeared last night from their 20 sq meter apartment. If someone you know all of a sudden isn't there any more you don't ask. People who ask questions also disappear. As for the food, it is very scarce. He informs me that it is not an exaggeration to say they eat grass. They eat grass, flowers when they can find them, leaves, tree bark, insects, worms and anything else. A fish or bird is a rare treat. The government tells you that you should be grateful for the bounty they pretend to give you and you pretend to be grateful for it.

    • @genesmolko8113
      @genesmolko8113 ปีที่แล้ว

      What an evil government, I can't believe it just doesn't collapse under it's own putrid weight.

    • @specialstone9153
      @specialstone9153 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yup, rationing was goin on years ago! Uncalled for, sinister and involves control.

    • @MGBlast669
      @MGBlast669 ปีที่แล้ว

      So what if we just "level" that place out?..... You know all it takes is 1 MK-10 Warhead and then N. Korea is no longer a threat or even a place that exists anymore! Easy peasy lemon squeezey problem solved... I would imagine if the "devil" exists; he resides in North Korea and or Afghanistan 😂😂😂 garbage countries

    • @elkay6263
      @elkay6263 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      this is crazy, makes you so grateful to be born on a better side of the world. thank you for sharing this story bc i for one will definitely reflect on this and be much more grateful that our tiny first world problems are problems that people in north korea would do anything to have instead

    • @abayomi.
      @abayomi. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      absolutely true story.

  • @stuff3977
    @stuff3977 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15619

    I thought you were supposed to sneak out of North Korea not sneak in

    • @urealftp9123
      @urealftp9123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      St uff oh yeah yeah

    • @Magicman2h
      @Magicman2h 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Oh yeah yeah

    • @Darkfreed0m
      @Darkfreed0m 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      what a shame

    • @shagabear2077
      @shagabear2077 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I see you so many times

    • @jaehyunz_bread6414
      @jaehyunz_bread6414 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      St uff legit I just said that and EXACTLY

  • @puh4532
    @puh4532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3347

    "Don't point". Immediately starts pointing after arriving at the DMZ

    • @Jsa460
      @Jsa460 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I was thinking exactly that!

    • @north6502
      @north6502 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Don’t worry he kept an open hand so he wasn’t pointing

    • @akmazaary9197
      @akmazaary9197 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      many time to be exact🤣 he really want to be shot at

    • @Gabe3N
      @Gabe3N 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *no finger point*

    • @KandiKlover
      @KandiKlover 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@akmazaary9197 I don’t think so. Cuz on the northern side while touring dprk he was allowed to point all he wanted,

  • @Sheng01427
    @Sheng01427 2 ปีที่แล้ว +416

    The division happened many years ago so the generations who remember strolling freely around the entire Korean empire without boarders are already old by now, or were mostly kids during those days. I can't imagine how it must have felt like for those who used to live in the now other side of the boarder, worse, having your parents, siblings, relatives, childhood friends, teachers, etc. on the other side of the DMZ. It's really sad when you think about it.

    • @bbvollmer
      @bbvollmer ปีที่แล้ว +6

      technically no.. before the war Korea had been under Japanese occupation since 1905, so for the North this is all they are used to

  • @wethr
    @wethr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    Crazy to think this is ten years old and almost nothing there has changed.

  • @salt251
    @salt251 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20802

    The North Korean officers have so many medals that you could defeat them with a magnet

    • @turbosoggy5412
      @turbosoggy5412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +460

      The demise of North Korea:
      Socks.

    • @mariC061
      @mariC061 4 ปีที่แล้ว +596

      All those medals only from torturing and killing their own people 🤣

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      WrestleMari yeah

    • @virajmalhotra4950
      @virajmalhotra4950 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      This deserves more likes.

    • @vap3669
      @vap3669 4 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      they are the equivalent of mods on any discord server

  • @youngpaperstacker3753
    @youngpaperstacker3753 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11888

    Basically everything he did would have got him killed.

    • @TraciPeteyforlife
      @TraciPeteyforlife 4 ปีที่แล้ว +367

      Yes, pretty much. They are very down on any kind of bad press.

    • @hacked2813
      @hacked2813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +468

      this is nothing dude , he fucking went to libaria where there are a lot of cannibals

    • @wearehoomans2288
      @wearehoomans2288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yep

    • @nicholas8428
      @nicholas8428 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      EXACTLY!!!! 😵💀

    • @traditionalfascists3303
      @traditionalfascists3303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      SupraX good

  • @EquinoxElite
    @EquinoxElite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +316

    Actually, you can take your cell phone into North Korea now, and actually, at 2 hotels, tourists can pay (large amounts of money) to access outside international (yet very slow) internet. and can even bring a computer. On;y thing is that sometimes they will want to check the pictures you took on your phone to make sure its not something that is a negative appearance of the country. Edit: didnt realise this was from 10 years ago

    • @Aj-mz8on
      @Aj-mz8on ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hey, where would i find footage/people that have done this?

    • @EquinoxElite
      @EquinoxElite ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Aj-mz8on I think Koryo Tours has some information on this. Idk if they have videos or not. But my trip there back in 2018 I was able to take my phone and take pics. Again, this was like 11 years ago that this viideo is from, Way different rules now. Cellphones were not mini camera's back then.

    • @tobiasdonbosco2691
      @tobiasdonbosco2691 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      so this footage is safe?

  • @lopezjid3813
    @lopezjid3813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4350

    That one kid in school who fools around but still gets good grades

  • @platinipirate710
    @platinipirate710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76368

    Respect to the cameraman who took the real risk and got no credit

    • @t1ara_tw1g
      @t1ara_tw1g 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3938

      Unfortunately, they never get credit.

    • @t1ara_tw1g
      @t1ara_tw1g 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1396

      @ValePC I think that it’s possible to ask if you can bring a camera. Either that or it was smuggled and their tour guide told them to take sanctioned pictures.

    • @capvlogger9283
      @capvlogger9283 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Ccrt

    • @yishi.4466
      @yishi.4466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1487

      @@t1ara_tw1g I think it's better they got no credit for safety... but they are out of the country but still...

    • @bobbyhernandez9756
      @bobbyhernandez9756 3 ปีที่แล้ว +549

      @@yishi.4466 you mean so they wouldn't be identified, and possibly killed.

  • @jadenavery5158
    @jadenavery5158 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    9 years later and this video still gives me chills

  • @christopherw.reactionvideo859
    @christopherw.reactionvideo859 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    that shot of the banquet area on that camera in north korea and him being alone and tables everywhere but no one expected just feels so weird, chilling, liminal, beautifully poetic and sad at the same time

  • @joy397
    @joy397 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3965

    Holy crap, the hotel is bugged so the guy goes around the room laughing and saying 'hello' over and over???? I mean, that's hardcore as fuck, I would've just sat in the corner and not talked

    • @AmRFuKYaH
      @AmRFuKYaH 8 ปีที่แล้ว +397

      Dude said "come in Tokyo" haha.

    • @ImpalaRaptor
      @ImpalaRaptor 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Time for tin foil hats

    • @Treddian
      @Treddian 8 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      +DO NOT WANT They're in a nation where every single visitor has a personal minder. I don't think it's too paranoid to assume that there are bugs.

    • @UFCPVP
      @UFCPVP 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He means, bugged like a microphone so they can hear him in the video dumbo

    • @Treddian
      @Treddian 8 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      DeathBan I assume that's directed at me? I know what "bugged" means. A bug is what you find in a bugged room.

  • @ferdousabedin4595
    @ferdousabedin4595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13999

    Cameraman had invisibility potions

    • @burnt968
      @burnt968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +270

      But what about the swirls that float off of your character?

    • @gabandreialcantara4649
      @gabandreialcantara4649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +372

      @@burnt968 the developers added a feature so that if you sneak it goes away

    • @burnt968
      @burnt968 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@gabandreialcantara4649 Oh, I didn't know that.

    • @iwilleatyourentirefamily9694
      @iwilleatyourentirefamily9694 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      and they're just seeing a floating camera

    • @sgtghost141
      @sgtghost141 3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      no no , he was in spec mode .

  • @dylboy2010
    @dylboy2010 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Proof the camera man never dies

  • @bagel1162
    @bagel1162 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    This was terrifying, and I wasn't even there.

  • @aricw8651
    @aricw8651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4766

    "Oops, sorry Shane, the lens cap was on this whole time. Wanna go back?"

  • @callmeJAF
    @callmeJAF 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2404

    The "demilitarised" zone filled with military troops, mines and missiles.

    • @lilblondeboy4142
      @lilblondeboy4142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

    • @user-nj7rw5my9h
      @user-nj7rw5my9h 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Well, technically there is 4km width of no man's land but is sandwiched by hundreds and thousands of battalions on either side.

    • @jamiengo2343
      @jamiengo2343 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@user-nj7rw5my9h hundreds and thousands of battalions? That’s a lot of men lol

    • @commandercody206
      @commandercody206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jamiengo2343 I’d say a few thousand platoons at most

    • @peacel861
      @peacel861 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      it took me like 10 minutes to understand☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

  • @fluffyunicorn57
    @fluffyunicorn57 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Now I understand how accurate the VICE paradies are.

  • @allen.9
    @allen.9 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    i've seen this video like a hundred times and it's still so amazing and well produced. i really wish that vice still made videos this way: reporting about a very serious topic, but making it in a way that is super fun and enjoyable to watch.

  • @alexdennery3375
    @alexdennery3375 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4411

    Surprised he's even able to walk with those giant balls he's carrying

    • @heinrichmirgrautsvordir6613
      @heinrichmirgrautsvordir6613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Ahh, his tiny brain makes up for that

    • @beluwuga2229
      @beluwuga2229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Diego Rivera he’s insane insane

    • @zangard
      @zangard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@CeoOfYeet84 you do know that shane smith is one of the founders/owners of vice right?

    • @squidkidjennykidkage7767
      @squidkidjennykidkage7767 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CeoOfYeet84 you can't even spell, my guy..

    • @AcidOnTheStreet
      @AcidOnTheStreet 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@squidkidjennykidkage7767 Don't disrespect batman!

  • @angelathomas6773
    @angelathomas6773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2941

    "We had nothing to lose"
    Are you guys feeling ok???

    • @51beak39
      @51beak39 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      😂

    • @Bruh-cj7yw
      @Bruh-cj7yw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      North > South

    • @zoinkslol7128
      @zoinkslol7128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      @@Bruh-cj7yw 😕

    • @oom_0923
      @oom_0923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Ануаp A ok edgelord

    • @wellthen4128
      @wellthen4128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Depression got them
      **Suicide by North Korea**

  • @twigblack22
    @twigblack22 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    i've rewatched vice's north korea documentaries a few times. they are so good

  • @xenfilexplores4040
    @xenfilexplores4040 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    How to escape hermits
    - Become Solider
    - Become Stationed at the DMZ
    - Run across the side
    - Attempt to get the south to let you into South Korea
    - They take you to South Korea
    - South korean citizen
    - Get South Korean Passport
    - Now you can attempt to become a citizen in a lot of places :)

    • @weeeeee831
      @weeeeee831 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Thank you! I will use this advice and try.
      will update

    • @daylight_310
      @daylight_310 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@weeeeee831 lol

    • @sawmill035
      @sawmill035 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Forgot a step
      -Dont care about any of your relatives, because they will be executed or put in political prisoner camps

    • @xenfilexplores4040
      @xenfilexplores4040 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sawmill035 Yes! This too! Or grow a hatred for them because they raised you in that place without attempting escape with ignorance, get them executed, get stationed, then follow the steps

    • @angrypotato-kw7fn
      @angrypotato-kw7fn ปีที่แล้ว

      Then know that the rest of your relatives got executed

  • @C0NZcs
    @C0NZcs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6187

    I feel like more than half those buildings in North Korea have absolutely no reason for being there other than visual appeal to outsiders.

    • @Cattus_Maximus
      @Cattus_Maximus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +426

      yep, they look way too dead to be inhabited.

    • @Erik_The_Viking
      @Erik_The_Viking 4 ปีที่แล้ว +463

      Yes - I worked with a colleague who was stationed in the DMZ during his Army days. He hated every damn minute of it. Every building was a facade, and a competition was on. They build a structure in the north, they build a bugger structure in the south, etc. He was go glad to get out of there and he said don't bother visiting it - as he called it "the most depressing place on earth".

    • @Jay-nj1oz
      @Jay-nj1oz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      They are all fake.

    • @Felix-dx2qw
      @Felix-dx2qw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      They are actually just giant hollow cardboard structures

    • @TheHappypippy
      @TheHappypippy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Only thing is they're not visually appealing in any way

  • @AmateurHour_
    @AmateurHour_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6778

    "We thought why not, we have nothing to lose" except quite literally everything 🤣

    • @voidcastfam
      @voidcastfam 2 ปีที่แล้ว +166

      Their lives but whatever.

    • @slevinchannel7589
      @slevinchannel7589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@voidcastfam This Channel is like a more reporter/news-channel-like
      version of 'Hbomberguy'!
      Hurray!
      Seriously: If you like this channel and
      its way of gathering Truth's,
      then check out 'Hbomberguy' and 'Genetically Modified Sceptic'.

    • @ThaMuffinMan2047
      @ThaMuffinMan2047 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Spoken like a suicidal man with no family or friends. But then again, we know that's not fucking true. So in other words, these guys got the Darwin Award of the Century.

    • @paunitka7
      @paunitka7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I was looking for that comment. 🤣

    • @elionio4694
      @elionio4694 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      im your 200th like

  • @boahneelassmal
    @boahneelassmal ปีที่แล้ว +3

    the dining hall part literally feels like the dining hall scene in Grand Budapest Hotel...

  • @scotdotwtf
    @scotdotwtf หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    this is one of my favorite vice "documentaries", hallarious.

  • @Sonnyy21
    @Sonnyy21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3834

    *next episode from Vice*
    Sneaking in to Area 51

    • @NubianGirl7
      @NubianGirl7 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sp1c3 lol 😂

    • @hoodiewoody9802
      @hoodiewoody9802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      One does not simply *Sneak In* to Area 51 . . . But a planned attack with hundreds of thousands might be able to *rush*

    • @crushingasmr3790
      @crushingasmr3790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Next episode from Vice maybe taking LSD and sneaking into North Korea.

    • @ahhhhhhhh4753
      @ahhhhhhhh4753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's already snuck into Area 51 as a country where everybody is a mind-washed alien

    • @williamhughjoneswill5981
      @williamhughjoneswill5981 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'll pay

  • @codabuxakthar9679
    @codabuxakthar9679 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5655

    Does airline companies charge him extra bagage fee for those balls he carries around?

    • @bautistadelariestra
      @bautistadelariestra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      nice one

    • @veillettephil5344
      @veillettephil5344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Lmaooo

    • @alfredo12345neo
      @alfredo12345neo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Actually I was surprised when he had a flight to Lyberia and the airplane didn't fall down because of the heavy metal ball he carries.

    • @alfredo12345neo
      @alfredo12345neo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Qasim Rabbani Or Uranus!

    • @hdadam203
      @hdadam203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      North Korea cut his balls off before he flies back out 😂

  • @OutdoorsWithPaige
    @OutdoorsWithPaige ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wish Vice was still like this. Great video by the way, very interesting as I am learning this in school.

  • @mirage3473
    @mirage3473 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The banquet experience felt like the back rooms💀

  • @ok-ts4bt
    @ok-ts4bt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19102

    The whole bugged thing in the hotel room is so creepy to me. My uncle used to tell the story of when he was younger he and his college friends somehow ended up in Russia (having just stopped being the USSR), where they were sure the hotel room was bugged. He said that they would stay super quiet, start murmuring gibberish to make the listeners suspicious, then randomly all start screaming right next to the bug. Probably super dangerous but it all gave them a good laugh.

    • @remi6913
      @remi6913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1389

      my civics teacher played on the USA lacrosse team and when she was in Russia w her team they met these guys that they snuck back into the hotel cause technically there not allowed to be in there and the dudes showed them where all the bugs and stuff were. it sounded crazy

    • @katherinetutschek4757
      @katherinetutschek4757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1290

      Yeah I read a news article once by a linguist who went to Russia. He was fluent in a very rare African dialect and just to test to see if there were bugs, started talking nonsense to himself in this dialect in his hotel room. He got taken to guards who grilled him asking what he was saying....

    • @LucaPizzoplus
      @LucaPizzoplus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +307

      @@katherinetutschek4757 A similar thing happened to my uncle in China not too long ago, when he went there for some business deals (a bit less than 20 years ago)

    • @katherinetutschek4757
      @katherinetutschek4757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      @@LucaPizzoplus yikes - which city? I visit China occasionally.

    • @LucaPizzoplus
      @LucaPizzoplus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      @@katherinetutschek4757 I don't remember, he told me about this years ago. Maybe Shenzhen? The name sounded like that but I don't really know

  • @legiterally2902
    @legiterally2902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7400

    “We got drunk doing karaoke with some generals”
    That is probably the best sentence you could ever hear, especially when telling your kids

    • @xm258
      @xm258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Time stamp ?

    • @johnomacian5586
      @johnomacian5586 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@xm258 it’s like 15 seconds in

    • @xm258
      @xm258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Ethan S I just fast forwarded it And missed-

    • @italiansoutherner
      @italiansoutherner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's irresponsible is what it is. No one should be "proud" of getting drunk.

    • @xm258
      @xm258 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@italiansoutherner I would be proud of getting drunk with a fucking high ranking North korean General

  • @oikstooru
    @oikstooru ปีที่แล้ว +13

    its funny because my grandmother was from north korea and she resides in a small village next to the north korea-china bridge. the number of north koreans in that village is actually a lot, they speak korean and they also have korean food and stuff. my mother has visited our relatives in north korea once when she visited the country and she has told me that they are living more miserably than any of my family members in china, but they are still scraping by. the funny part is that my maternal side is the one from n.k, but my paternal side is from shenyang LOL, both mentioned in this video

  • @JehadiHellTransportAgency
    @JehadiHellTransportAgency ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was vice at it best 😭😭😭 man miss this guy a lot

  • @yume.mp4
    @yume.mp4 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6188

    "No pointing please you could start a war"
    literally points everywhere atleast 10 times throughout this whole video.

    • @daspyxer3247
      @daspyxer3247 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      kawaii-pinkdoll right

    • @tommyjenga5976
      @tommyjenga5976 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      kawaii-pinkdoll 420th like

    • @Maya-nr4qx
      @Maya-nr4qx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ARMYYY!

    • @nickf3511
      @nickf3511 6 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Holypapihoseok No pointing please could start a war
      Flies in to fucking North Korea xd

    • @whyareyouevenreadingmyname950
      @whyareyouevenreadingmyname950 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Same thing happened to a sgt who was tasked in the DMZ
      Keeps telling the tourists to not point out but he himself was pointing.

  • @ars5134
    @ars5134 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2542

    How to escape North Korea (if you're from there)
    -Be good at football
    -Go on international duty
    -run away

    • @skr4207
      @skr4207 8 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      +AS Industries Nobody who is from North Korea is gonna see this, as they have thier own network, which nobody else can access and they are forbidden to acces the global network as we know it.

    • @ars5134
      @ars5134 8 ปีที่แล้ว +226

      +Kaspars Matusevics did I say they could? It was a joke

    • @skr4207
      @skr4207 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      AS Industries I did know it was a joke, but still felt like saying what i said.

    • @weelio3539
      @weelio3539 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sport equipment is limited in North Korea lol

    • @ArchlordZer0
      @ArchlordZer0 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +EmeraldCityFM Somebody born in a North Korean prison managed to escape. Look up "escape from camp 14."

  • @CommanderNoob
    @CommanderNoob ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Credit to the Camera Man. The Camera Man is immune to the Thanos snap, the vacuum of space, the pull of a black hole, the disruption of particles, and every other possible way of death in the Universe, yet he chose to endure more than a minute in the hell hole that is *THE* North Korea.

  • @darkslatesky
    @darkslatesky ปีที่แล้ว

    Always respect Vice reporting news no other main stream news outlets dare to report

  • @fannynoriega8772
    @fannynoriega8772 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3001

    LMAO the “two north koreans from the embassy” when there is no embassy in the US had me weak.

    • @CherieDeDieu
      @CherieDeDieu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      He has clearly also laughed at that and said there is no North Korean embassy in America.

    • @k.g.b.1150
      @k.g.b.1150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      "When there is no embassy in the US"
      Or is there?
      *Vsauce music starts playing*

    • @extrm161
      @extrm161 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ,My experience here th-cam.com/video/4G6e4TaJxkI/w-d-xo.html

    • @f.wallace8969
      @f.wallace8969 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Probably should have called the feds there...

    • @yoursleepparalysisdemon8752
      @yoursleepparalysisdemon8752 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      The fact that they were almost certainly there to make him disappear is what scares me

  • @mikecynic5167
    @mikecynic5167 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25916

    Getting drunk with North Korean generals is the single most badass thing I've heard in all of my life.

    • @milkyway208O
      @milkyway208O 2 ปีที่แล้ว +737

      In a karaoke..

    • @italiansoutherner
      @italiansoutherner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +225

      It's irresponsible is what it is. No one should be "proud" of getting drunk.

    • @obamama3121
      @obamama3121 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1240

      @@italiansoutherner cope seethe

    • @PrivateBryan
      @PrivateBryan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1324

      @@italiansoutherner yeah but getting drunk with north korean generals

    • @cpsavage2005
      @cpsavage2005 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Badass or naive.

  • @mikeking1948
    @mikeking1948 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I still go back to Shane's docs and the Frontline doc on North Korea often. Fascinating

  • @platinumpineapple9943
    @platinumpineapple9943 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Guide “dont point”
    very next scene, so if you look over there where im pointing you”ll see north korea

  • @bob-oi9hz
    @bob-oi9hz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2301

    im coyote peterson and im going to attempt to cross the dmz *gets shot*
    cameraman: did that hurt?

    • @videoking1832
      @videoking1832 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      bob45734053 "are you ok"

    • @marcomartinez856
      @marcomartinez856 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Why tf would Coyote do that?😂😂

    • @genericusername4206
      @genericusername4206 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@marcomartinez856 r/woooosh

    • @constantterror1515
      @constantterror1515 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Coyote: -This is so much worse than a bulletant sting!!!

    • @craigcampbell4062
      @craigcampbell4062 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Marco Martinez he’s want to observe the wildlife there

  • @INSANEagario
    @INSANEagario 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8998

    imagine what happened to the poor guys working at the airport control who were responsible for searching for cameras after this video came out

  • @natas74d7
    @natas74d7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I feel so bad for the people there, brainwashed but Hardworking. They deserve so much better :(

    • @TheOnSec
      @TheOnSec ปีที่แล้ว

      No

    • @natas74d7
      @natas74d7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheOnSec tf u mean no

    • @TheOnSec
      @TheOnSec ปีที่แล้ว

      @@natas74d7 they don't

    • @natas74d7
      @natas74d7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheOnSec they do. What makes them not deserve better?

    • @TheOnSec
      @TheOnSec ปีที่แล้ว

      @@natas74d7 because if it was not for western people and their corruption they would not of known of them. north korean would not know of different life and assume their living is normal and none would escape because they would not know there be different and better country to live in. You get what am saying?

  • @kailokusudai5085
    @kailokusudai5085 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are the funniest maddest lads I've ever seen + the camera man is the GOAT for doing this.

  • @venomkiler1
    @venomkiler1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +778

    my top priority would be sneaking out of north korea

    • @kim-jongun2037
      @kim-jongun2037 9 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      venomkiler YOU WILL NO SNEAK OUT!!!!!!

    • @venomkiler1
      @venomkiler1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Kim-jong un
      i already did huehuehue

    • @JosephMadder
      @JosephMadder 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ***** fuckin got em

    • @landscape85
      @landscape85 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** what the fuck?

    • @shazeebmw
      @shazeebmw 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      venomkiler it would be almost impossible to leave North Korea because china or another nation would shoot at you
      because they don't want "WAR"

  • @Red-Magic
    @Red-Magic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1726

    **gets told room is bugged**
    **speaks to base of a bedside lamp**

    • @Fabio-Galante
      @Fabio-Galante 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Probably watched Sopranos too much

    • @matteo_syd7271
      @matteo_syd7271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And says the word Tokyo

    • @mt4lennox138
      @mt4lennox138 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your your 1k like

  • @vatsala6199
    @vatsala6199 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    THIS VIDEO IS FROM 2012?????? OMG...Can't believe how they got in and came back safely with so much footage and knowledge...

    • @pjwiththecannon
      @pjwiththecannon 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Right! been so fascinated with this place lately. I want to see more of Shane and his team somewhere in new vice doing stuff like this. New vice sucks now 😢

  • @ericgol7
    @ericgol7 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It's so sad to see how good Vice was back in the day and then compare it to what it is now

  • @20ozdasanibottledwater65
    @20ozdasanibottledwater65 7 ปีที่แล้ว +757

    Sneaking into North Korea is the new extreme sport

    • @wabisabi6374
      @wabisabi6374 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tf lmao👀👌

    • @dw9524
      @dw9524 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would watch that on TV tbf. It could be like that reality show "hunted"

    • @rick379
      @rick379 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      that would be dope as fuck like a tv show

    • @Oyogitsune
      @Oyogitsune 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      tHIS NEEDS MORE LIKES

    • @rainbowhyena1354
      @rainbowhyena1354 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The winner get lead medal

  • @3sand7s55
    @3sand7s55 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1371

    He was playing with fire when he was poking around the hotel room

    • @arijeanz
      @arijeanz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      through i was sweating the whole time and i WASNT EVEN THERE

    • @Pjackson19
      @Pjackson19 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ari Wenger why was he playing with fire?

    • @blaaake6010
      @blaaake6010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Pjackson19 I dont get it either

    • @2spooky4me63
      @2spooky4me63 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Pjackson he said he heard the rooms are bugged. he went out of his way to look for it and talk to it, instead of being quiet or anything.

    • @TheRealGr33nGuy
      @TheRealGr33nGuy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pjackson It means that he’s messing with stuff he knows is dangerous.

  • @davidbrines2748
    @davidbrines2748 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love you guys so much, honestly the only news I believe.... Guys do a awesome job showing both sides and letting you decide.... Love it!

  • @samwansamwer5807
    @samwansamwer5807 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it is uploaded 2012, but it feels like it was shot 20 years ago. specially for the footage on china. oh my.

  • @temeweckis
    @temeweckis 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3271

    Sneaking into North Korea PRANK 2012 (In The Hood) (Gone Wrong) (Gone Sexual) (Almost Arrested) (Nearly Died)

  • @fakkajohan
    @fakkajohan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1121

    "the demilitarized zone is the most militarized area in the world" something doens't add up here...

    • @FREEDMFTR
      @FREEDMFTR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I too was like, "WTF he ju-seh?"

    • @zechs5079
      @zechs5079 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      They are at war, technically, there is merely a ceasefire that has lasted for years. It is a demilitarized zone at a time of war.

    • @silvercloud1641
      @silvercloud1641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      "You can't fight in here! This is the war room!" - Dr. Strangelove

    • @ShawnTufford
      @ShawnTufford 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@zechs5079 it's called a "safe" spot from the toy guns

  • @killawhale112ORC
    @killawhale112ORC 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Vice journalism when it was journalism

  • @solarflare6300
    @solarflare6300 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    10:00 I love the fact that he’s giggling like a little kid

  • @PAPIPHOENIX
    @PAPIPHOENIX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24238

    vice in 2012: Sneaking Journalists into north korea and legitimately risking their lives
    vice now: Ive eaten only mac and cheese for the last 17 years

    • @Cigaro_
      @Cigaro_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +399

      Is literally what I was about to see after this video

    • @jmadmaxx7295
      @jmadmaxx7295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +855

      They still do documentaries like this... also, sometimes you just wanna watch a dude eat Mac and cheese for more than a decade

    • @haraldhimmel5687
      @haraldhimmel5687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      *taking the official propaganda tour for journalists.

    • @jmadmaxx7295
      @jmadmaxx7295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Florian Rabe *and pointing out how much this tour is propaganda, and breaking rules and going off the path multiple times but whatever*

    • @haraldhimmel5687
      @haraldhimmel5687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@jmadmaxx7295 Breaking news. Their cheesy propaganda tour is propaganda. He still pretended to have "sneaken in" in some kind of undercover way, which is misleading on his part. And chances are he was briefed with what he could get away with and with what not. I wonder how many people there got in trouble because he filmed them for the lulz when he wasn't supposed to.

  • @Jacob-ce7nh
    @Jacob-ce7nh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2262

    Vice then: we risked our lives visiting the DPRK
    Vice now: how to smoke dogfood

    • @FantacistI
      @FantacistI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL yes

    • @RadTradX
      @RadTradX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I prefer intravenous dog food

    • @parimabartender
      @parimabartender 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I shoot my dog food too

    • @ppjskh
      @ppjskh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMAOOOO

    • @snoopy3266
      @snoopy3266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      LOL you just triggered some people

  • @jeybeElSueco
    @jeybeElSueco ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What happened to these kind of videos Vice? I really miss the old vice and the insane video quality.

  • @MrSoles
    @MrSoles หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And this is why Vice is Vice. Thank you for the entertainment.

  • @unloosedhades
    @unloosedhades 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1772

    North Koreans: Tries to sneak out
    This guy: It’s Opposite Day

  • @fazyt1508
    @fazyt1508 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2443

    2010-15 vice: getting chased by liberians and koreans and shooting heroin into our eyelids with teens in the slums of africa
    2015-20 vice: can dogs smoke weed?

    • @estrelladelmar6466
      @estrelladelmar6466 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Meow

    • @slimluka2947
      @slimluka2947 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      if it wasint for Shane Smith vice would've been nothing i loved his orginal documentaries like in Africa Liberia and this one sad to see what it has become

    • @imperator692
      @imperator692 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They went back to North Korea just two months ago

    • @GUINAEntertainment
      @GUINAEntertainment 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Uncle Snoop can

    • @sophiemayjane
      @sophiemayjane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Liam Fahey so accurate bring back old vice

  • @festyguy7405
    @festyguy7405 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for doing this!

  • @zet0korp
    @zet0korp ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I m really wondering what individuality must feel like out there, if there s still any. How anxiety inducing it must be to just dare to think things that spoken out loud would get you killed/disappeared

  • @cptemilie
    @cptemilie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9179

    My dad was stationed in South Korea when he was an army ranger. The north and south took turns cleaning the room on the border that both countries met in. My dad was on the cleaning crew. When they entered, they had to form a human chain with their arms to reach the North Korean door and lock it, because they were known for grabbing South Korean/American soldiers

    • @xEriklink
      @xEriklink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +278

      Are you sure it was with their arms?

    • @malikes4591
      @malikes4591 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2419

      Omg that’s so scary, imagine going to lock the door and someone drags u across the border and boom, ur under their rule and like ur life is ruined.

    • @busterMcShamus
      @busterMcShamus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +319

      Why was a ranger on cleaning duty!?!?

    • @cptemilie
      @cptemilie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +364

      Devin K who knows, it was in the 80’s

    • @911axe
      @911axe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      Its gonna be 2 scrawny north Korean arms reaching out to grab you. Think I'd take my chances. I would be pulling the guy onto my side if they attempted something like that.

  • @Xehemoth
    @Xehemoth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9210

    When a North Korean soldier runs across the DMZ to the enemy side, its the North Koreans that start shooting at their own soldiers trying to escape and the South tries to assist any way they can and provide emergency treatment. Think about that. What a strange dynamic that is.

    • @Tanknuggets217
      @Tanknuggets217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +348

      Crazy honestly

    • @judewhittaker1200
      @judewhittaker1200 2 ปีที่แล้ว +710

      Reminds me of the berlin wall, people trying to escape the communist side

    • @zdvxr
      @zdvxr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      @@judewhittaker1200 similar reasons why both walls exist

    • @darinsmith762
      @darinsmith762 2 ปีที่แล้ว +148

      I think a lot of Americans would do that to each other in that situation. Shouting “Traitor!” Soldiers gonna soldier

    • @okaytyler2774
      @okaytyler2774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +388

      I remember seeing that video of the dude trying to escape North Korea, being shot at, finally getting over to the south and them dragging him over to a medical center. Heartwarming and heartbreaking all at the same time.

  • @djcwittz3012
    @djcwittz3012 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Was wondering why Vice seemed unusually based, then I checked when this was uploaded

  • @jennam8401
    @jennam8401 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I literally can't believe that 10 years later than this video was posted - people are still living this way in North Korea 😮

  • @carmengravolini899
    @carmengravolini899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4166

    "be careful not to point" Americans literally seconds later : **Points***

    • @happyhour4670
      @happyhour4670 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Hell yeah brother

    • @thecoolestdaniel4554
      @thecoolestdaniel4554 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Rules are made to be broken

    • @lucasharvey8990
      @lucasharvey8990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      God gave us the pointer finger for one reason and by God am I gonna use it.

    • @brentdrift
      @brentdrift 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Turns out Shane is Canadian...

    • @typicalmountainbiker
      @typicalmountainbiker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Shane is Canadian you numbnut

  • @tacticlerose9853
    @tacticlerose9853 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3870

    8 years later, shows up in recommend. TH-cam knows I'm bored. Who's watching on quarantine?

  • @Mo_loves_aisha-6yoBTW
    @Mo_loves_aisha-6yoBTW 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cameraman never dies

  • @gustv1334
    @gustv1334 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    There is a great doc about a South-Korean woman named Lim Su-kyung, that as a teen traveled to North Korea with no permission to assist the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students and returned by crossing the border on foot, then arrested and considered the "flower of reunification" by some, and a traitor by others. It's called "La chica del sur" by José Luis García

  • @Berengier817
    @Berengier817 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    My friends husband who was in the army has been to North korea, he refuses to talk about it. All he will say is that he went in, he repaired something, then he left.
    He does something in the communications industry now so she thinks that he went in to repair some spy monitoring equipment given that he was an army Air ranger.
    He will not say anything else about his experience there or how he got in or anything. Just simply nine words in three sentences.
    We went in, we repaired something, then we left

  • @smackpopcrackysmak8337
    @smackpopcrackysmak8337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3158

    American people: sneak into North Korea
    North Koreans who want to escape: am I a joke to you?

    • @mabansagkennethr.870
      @mabansagkennethr.870 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      This is fcking depressing

    • @deadeyes2803
      @deadeyes2803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      unfunny unoriginal comment

    • @VictoriaPatricia
      @VictoriaPatricia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@deadeyes2803 could say the same to you.

    • @melonheaded
      @melonheaded 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      the journalist is a canadian...

    • @iniquity7
      @iniquity7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You: Makes same joke heard 1 trillion times in comment section
      actual smart funny joke: am I joke to you?

  • @charlesdrusillakeenan1121
    @charlesdrusillakeenan1121 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3843

    Hey bro..remember that time we snuck into North Korea lol

    • @ryanleecain
      @ryanleecain 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      That's a story you can one-up anyone with. North Korea border jumping is for the boys.

    • @goobloob2196
      @goobloob2196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Remeber vice actually posted good content

    • @callumowens7266
      @callumowens7266 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yafh

    • @TheZakanater
      @TheZakanater 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Zepefu lmao i laughed

    • @pinkclouds5192
      @pinkclouds5192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No you did not

  • @hstewar
    @hstewar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I miss this VICE. I used to watch it all the time. Can’t even take them seriously anymore.

  • @craigforrest6548
    @craigforrest6548 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This kids, is how Shane and Vice became legendary.

  • @therustler30
    @therustler30 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3871

    I swear this Vice reporter is the coolest guy ever.

    • @NageekNoohac
      @NageekNoohac 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Watch David Choe's stuff man

    • @TheRealAlas
      @TheRealAlas 7 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      Has to be! He's founder and CEO of Vice.

    • @TheMusicGuard
      @TheMusicGuard 7 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      CEO of Vice, multi-millionaire and coolest guy on the planet.

    • @T1C4
      @T1C4 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I only hate 6 or 12 minutes docu's--vice please change that

    • @jobellemacaraeg
      @jobellemacaraeg 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      James W. Roe

  • @caramello7460
    @caramello7460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3176

    It’s so sad that so many of those tour guides and security for the tour are probably in prison camps or executed for tiny mistakes

    • @js2275
      @js2275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      if they make a mistake they will be so self traumatized that will be life long punishment lol.

    • @marcomartins3563
      @marcomartins3563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I don't think it's that bad lol

    • @marcomartins3563
      @marcomartins3563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @Ethan S 99.9% is propaganda

    • @fynnuser
      @fynnuser 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@marcomartins3563 it is

    • @brbr6882
      @brbr6882 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Puertoito he's marco

  • @rileyxxxx
    @rileyxxxx ปีที่แล้ว

    probably still the best video about NK compared to other youtubers vloggers pov documentaries.

  • @Asian_Kid
    @Asian_Kid ปีที่แล้ว +1

    *They should make a part 2.*

  • @yoshimitsu9923
    @yoshimitsu9923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2426

    2012 Vice: Sneaking into North Korea
    2019 Vice: WhAtS tHe MeAnInG oF tHiS mEmE

    • @JohnDoe-kd5hq
      @JohnDoe-kd5hq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I mish when vice was actually news not this libtard bullshit

    • @smoshbooz
      @smoshbooz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @Scott Kasaboski hell yeah brother I'm tough too wanna show eachother our guns and bang?

    • @skizama
      @skizama 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yoshimitsu hi i played you in Tekken 6

    • @yoshimitsu9923
      @yoshimitsu9923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      meloncholykid • Hahaha best character in any tekken ever

    • @mbalfour
      @mbalfour 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@smoshbooz you dont sound big

  • @SDoGG420
    @SDoGG420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2438

    This dude is very lucky not getting arrested in N. Korea. He should be counting his blessings. Video tapes the country while getting drunk, whoo boi you lucky...

    • @bocah_abad21
      @bocah_abad21 5 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      SDoGG420 maybe you should see his 'trip' in Liberia. That's real blessing

    • @putinsgaytwin4272
      @putinsgaytwin4272 5 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      Yeah this guy is unbelievable, he befriended someone who killed 20,000 people and was called general butt naked

    • @rockstarr_rambo
      @rockstarr_rambo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@putinsgaytwin4272 bin laden **

    • @user-bn1go7tu6c
      @user-bn1go7tu6c 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ToC ShamarYT-_ No he also made friends with General Butt Naked

    • @kimbaldun
      @kimbaldun 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      and he has balls the size of the whole country

  • @Luigix99x
    @Luigix99x ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn. What a throwback. Nothing brings nostalgia back more than hearing George Dubya say Weapons of Mass Destruction.

  • @christianburgos5956
    @christianburgos5956 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I miss this Vice 😢

  • @d4n273
    @d4n273 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4177

    I feel bad for people who live in North Korea, it seems like such a dull place where each and every one of your steps is controlled. It's sad.

    • @doublestufforeo3282
      @doublestufforeo3282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +391

      People who have never knew freedom will not crave it

    • @doppled
      @doppled 3 ปีที่แล้ว +218

      @@tulayamalavenapi4028 well yeah, if you grow up in oppression and heavy censorship, you'll think that north korea is a safe haven

    • @VinylUnboxings
      @VinylUnboxings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@doublestufforeo3282 Did someone manage to sleep through Psych in 9th grade? Autonomy is one of the most innate human desires

    • @leyren2606
      @leyren2606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@VinylUnboxings Yes, but what you call autonomy is only what we make up of it, due to our surroundings and experiences. A newborn has no sense of autonomy. And all that is normal for us is completely unthinkable for many NK citizens. Simply put, with your entire life being censored and controlled, you don't necessarily get the idea that anything is wrong, since that is just the way it is.

    • @leyren2606
      @leyren2606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@tulayamalavenapi4028 Why do you have to bring religion into something completely unrelated to it?

  • @laniie6278
    @laniie6278 4 ปีที่แล้ว +601

    This man legit just finessed the whole regime and filmed in North Korea. They were so damn mad when they found this video 😅

    • @yungkim5834
      @yungkim5834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@paige4443 yes

    • @yungkim5834
      @yungkim5834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@paige4443 hahaha vice had big balls

    • @gruselhaus
      @gruselhaus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      They haven't found the video yet because they still have no internet hahaha

    • @FuZe.
      @FuZe. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@gruselhaus The government only has it in NK.

  • @cesaredwuardsperezrobles5458
    @cesaredwuardsperezrobles5458 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn makes me think my city ain't that bat