North Korea’s dictators - The power of the Kim dynasty | DW Documentary
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- North Korea. Geographically small, it nonetheless looms large in the geopolitical consciousness. The country is isolated, its population desperately poor. The Kim dynasty has ruled for three generations. How does this ruling family manage to make its power felt around the world?
The nuclear program is central to North Korea's strategy. For decades, the regime devoted increasingly large amounts of its resources to acquiring the bomb. Then, in 2006, North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb for the first time. It was a signal to the world: North Korea was a force to be reckoned with.
The Kim dynasty has also acquired strong partners. China regards the country as a military buffer zone and keeps it heavily dependent on its economy. With China in its corner, North Korea is not intimidated by the United States. Now, North Korea is also allying with Russia and supporting it in the war against Ukraine.
Propaganda, intimidation and surveillance form the pillars of North Korean society. The state’s top-secret structures are largely opaque because the country has been hermetically sealed off from the outside world. The Kim dynasty began with regime founder Kim Il-sung, who was in power from 1948 to 1994. Creating a unique cult of personality, he built a regime according to his own ideas. After his death, his son Kim Jong-Il was in charge until his death 2011. Then, Kim Jong-Il’s son, Kim Jong-un, took over the leadership position. Should Kim Jong-un die, his sister or daughter are considered his likeliest successors.
The North Korean government exercises total control over the country and its population. With the help of a comprehensive surveillance system, the state engages in extreme repression, using everything from intimidation to prison camps and death sentences to keep its people in check.
With the help of leading experts, including former officials of the Pyongyang regime, the film analyzes the strategies deployed by the North Korean government.
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A documentary on the 'Cult of the british royal family' is needed.. should be intreasting.
Same thing I was thinking.
They are boring and it's just the press that's so mad.
Since QE2 died, they are fading out.
A cult? That's a bit much.
That's totally different thing.
That's a lame cult lol
That’s crazy how the whole country looks maul nourished while his daughter looks MORE than well fed , just sad
That is an asian tradition. Men with big bellies were considered "hot", because they were rich and could eat more than average.
@@experience5988 that's irrelevant. Read the comment again. They said the whole country looks malnourished and then mentioned his daughter. Nothing to do with Asian men traditions
@@experience5988 Oh, puleez. That's not an Asian tradition. Being overweight hasn't been a desirable trait since the Renaissance
The son was easily 50-70 lbs overweight until he came down with COVID in 2022 and lost 4.5 stone
@@B_Bodziak Overweight is one thing, obese is another. Not even in Renaissance it was accepted as "normal". The USA is the first OBESE CULTURE in the world.
The funny part is Kim carefully looks around if someone isn’t clapping
In north korea they have such a divine devotion to their supreme leader..
If you didn't clap, your children or your spouse Are most likely to be the one to tell on you
Not really funny given that not clapping is punishable by death
@@suesspot5930 I wouldn't say it's a divine devotion. It's out of fear.
Korea belonging to all korea not Soviet or west they stop it
They making States like Vietnam war were they get divided to half under Soviet and west. Soviet should rules all korea even trumps know it should belonging to Soviet. American should stop it they are not white people or African also they hate African just stop divided that countries let kim jong on rules all korea
I have to say the sister is way more scary, she looks completely cold blooded
She does. The brother looks laid- back.
Yeah, she looks positively demented. I’d be more worried if she were in charge.
She already plotting on killing the kid
😂😂😂😂 I think Joe Biden is deadly then them 😂
That's an assumption
People cry for him , while he sat there with the face of a bulldog, wondering what he will have for a dessert .
😂
They cry because they were concerned for the man they love🤷♂️
😂😂
@@patrickmunneke8348 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@BMW7series251 Well if you lived in a society with a living god who is sort of like a spiritual father and everything great in your life you received from him, Your house, your job position, your status in society and considering all these people are high ranking government officials with relatively great lives, It must hit different hearing he was with a deadly disease.
Soviet Union: KGB has wiretapped everything
East Germany: Stasi recruits someone from every workplace as an informant
North Korea: Everyone is required by law to be an informant
north korea got it right
@@thembastoep733 Why are you on a western owned media site consuming western media, propaganda & interacting with westerners? I'm going to report you! Doesn't feel great does it?
Yes, let us further extoll the virtues of Kim, the paramount leader.
Let it be known that Dear Kim born atop a sacred mountain saw a new star created and winter turn to spring on that most auspicious and glorious day.
Let it be proclaimed that all world leaders celebrate the resplendent birthday of the divine Kim.
Let it be heard and known to the world the heavenly achievements of the masterful Kim who learned to drive at the age of three and is also a musical composer and artist celebrated around the world.
Let all the world bow and pay heed to the most generous and beneficent Kim who invented the internet and the silicon chip and with masterful grace and incredible foresight freely gave these splendiferous gifts to all nations of the world.
Let us acknowledge and appreciate the magnificent glory that nature has endowed in our all merciful and long living Dear Leader Kim !
Let us bask in his imperial splendor, pay heed, know, and never forget that our majestic Kim never needed a commode because his body is so well calibrated he doesn't urinate or defecate, this, we proclaim, is known and revered by all leaders and peoples of the world !
@@jaydouglas5847 Your moral objection or redicule won't change much, North clearly the most regime change proof country that exists on the Planet, there is no country that can probably doing better, the conditions around and within are just right for the Kim regime, probably the issue of succession may be the only thing that might distabilize it. Objectively speaking the Kim's have achieved this no matter how brutal the regime is, you can't take away that fact, whether you like it or not!!!
@@jaydouglas5847 Shame you got so emotional, im sorry if it hurt your feelings
So will Kim’s daughter have to eliminate his sister for power one day 😂😂😂😂
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Doubt she would kill her Mother.. just a guess... 🙄😏
@@michaelfritts6249 I said Kim her brothers daughter.His sister has no children
@@Dawg13237 I'm guessing his daughter is likely his sister's daughter as well..
@@Kim_YoJong 😂
I hope within my lifetime I will get to see the country become a democracy where the people will decide the future of the country.
The U.S. is a democracy but do you truly believe that the people decide the future of the country? You see where the country is heading and I’m absolutely sure that’s not what the people want.
@@Faceless166yes we do . We have the option to. If we chose not to be involved and vote in those who do as we deem fit doesn’t mean the freedom is not still available we just didn’t use it ,
America has its problems but that’s not one of them
@@Faceless166 US is way better, you get his point...
Daca a r fugi toti din țara ar ramine familia lui Chim j. Toti ar fugi unde vad cu achi sa scape de dictator.
well if the people will it it will happen, the present kim is an improvement atleast as long as there are no wars and people are not dying of hunger, regimes don't really matter if there is progress look at singapore
The penalty for not clapping must be steep af
While YT is deleting comments critical to the documentary
And when you see Kim Jong-un, you must fake crying. If you don’t fake crying, then Kim Jong-un will make you cry for real.😂
I was waiting for this video for long.
😂😂😂 Eish
"What? You're not in the mood to clap?"
When my daughter was that age I’d say something like ‘shall we go and get a happy meal?’ Bit different to ‘shall we go and look at some missiles?’
Got to admit the 9 year old me would rather go look at missiles
The people in the audience were crying coz they had lost a golden chance to get rid of Kim....
If u don’t cry u will be imprisoned
But his sister is next in line so they’d still be stuck
😂
I am Iranian and we have also suffered a brutal despotic regime. Therefore, I am thankful for such deep and reliable journalism that DW does, thanks.
it's just United States imperialism
@@jsanf44373tankie
I miss reliable journalism about wefandKlausorganisation members,
would have been interesting 🤔
Except don't forget that they powerful Lobbyist's are media owners as well.
So it's never going to happen, but the west have some really powerful oligarch.
No questions about this..
I think you are still suffering. Much worse, you have gone way back in time.
@@paragjain8181 thanks to the United States
Videos like this make me enjoy every second of my life, no matter how bad I think it gets.
Whenever I feel sorry for myself (for dumb reasons always) I watch these documentaries about NK. It puts everything into perspective.
its european propaganda, all because they cant profit from North korea.
😅
You might want to avoid thinking about your own future then if you live in a western country... they have the WPK, you'll have the WEF and WHO soon.
Plus you'll own nothing and be happy.
@The-Heart-Will-Testify if NK had oil reserves or considered a gold backed currency, America and UK (banks, shell, bp, blackrock etc) would be there with some of that good old fashioned western freedom lol
That sister is fucking terrifying.
Like a background Bond villain.
DW's other documentary about her is worth watching. She is really evil.
I think she's hot 😅
to whom are you referring to? What Bond villains were 'background' to you?
do you think she might saw this comment and giggle? lol
and she's believed to be a meth addict--imagine, a meth-addicted all-powerful leader with nuclear weapons.
this documentary should make almost every person in almost every other country appreciate their freedoms
The sad thing is allot of people don’t they hate everything that’s not traditional they hate gay people transgender disabled people and they see North Korea as the perfect place and defend a dictatorship because they hate groups of people who are not the same as them
I think I'll show it to my young teenagers. I'd like them to have a fundamental understanding of how good they have it.
They won't appreciate anything, young Western people are being told by university professors and the media that communism is great.
Oh really? Try to talk against the most powerful in your country. And then watch what will happen to you.
@@procc. honesty, nothing. People say all sorts of things continuously about Biden and Trump, and they're free to do it, which is a wonderful thing.
As always an amazing documentary by DW ❤. Cant wait for part 2.
DW, please make another documentary on central asias North Korea, named Turkmenistan. This is exactly what’s happening in Turkmenistan. Please check the videos on Turkmenistan.
Is that the country with white marble buildings nobody can enter and 10+ lane roads no one can use?
And with an airport that cost billions that no one can fly to and much more . You are right
The origin of all those countries that end in 'stan' would be interesting
@@infinidominion if so I would like to see a origin of all these countries that have “United” in them especially the USA
@jamjamlove3634 you better find a documentary on the u.S quickly because our government is erasing our history more each day as it was mainly built on slavery And genocide.
28 days later vibe for North Korea the editor is savage 😂
This documentary made a factual error-the building in front of Kim Il Sung Square is the Grand People’s Study House. The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun is the Kim family mausoleum just outside the center of the city.
The internet provides
It is interesting, thank you for sharing DW
It’s like learning about those remote tribes that haven’t had outside contact in centuries…. It’s crazy to believe this stuff still exists in 2024
Agree! It's so fascinating but in a morbid way :')
Kim Yo Jong looks so terrifying. There is something in Her face. She looks like a stone cold killer.
She could be a perfect villian actress in a horror movie.
It is scary if yo jong became the ruler because she will be a lot sinister than jong un. I think the guy is more laid back and just acting tough to maintain power. His sister, I think, enjoys the power that she have.
Yet most genocide are funded by America.
@@baikushex0et682?
She is the pure evil once @@RideOnTimePH
madam nhu...
The sister is beautiful. She looks like she'll treat you well and won't hesitate to feed you to her spiders if you cross her
He is happily eating himself to death, with simultaneously starving his own population forcing them to eat grass and lichen. Power corrupts; absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
I was waiting for this video for long. A great quality video from DW. Keep up the great work. Cheers.
To make it concrete, cult ritual is not the key problem. The key problem such as starvation, slaughter, surveillance shapes a cult-like impression.
it is what Israel is doing in Gaza
@@arnolwaller464 they dont see that as wrong but want us to believe that north koreans are evil when i have never heard of them going to other continents and supporting genocide
Everyone looks terrified. Not a single person has a smile. It amazes me, how despots like Kim can still exist.
Amazing documentary by DW.
Kudos to the team.
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
14:31
I imagine close to 99% of North Koreans are miserable. You would think some how it’d be possible for them to stage a coup somehow
They hold on to that idea and that’s how their managing not to lose their sanity
They probably dnt know what one is
Most are scattered throughout the country in small villages that can’t communicate with each other or travel between said villages. People in the villages are malnourished and just trying to survive. Kind of hard to plan a rebellion under these conditions
Korean Che Guevara needed....
There and Russia
0:47 I'm having flashbacks of 28 weeks later.
lol yeah
It was a remix that fits the North Korean zombie. 🤣
Because of the music
Lol was thinking that
Came here to post this haha 😂
DW is such a great channel
Awesome job! I love all your videos!❤
Excellent documentary. I can hardly wait for part 2.
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
@DWDocumentary you guys do excellent content, thank you
What? There will be a part two for this documentary? When will it be released?
@@DWDocumentarymake a documentary on that guy from Germany with funny moustache
DW Always delivering the highest quality documentaries on CZcams
Yea other ones on Kim seem like they hate them this the Best one I seen by far just a good Ol Documentary.
Yes, and it is from outside the U.S. It is always important to see what people from other countries are saying.
Great content DW - also, interesting choice to use a variation of the 28 Weeks Later theme for the opening 😄
I was thinking it sounded like that music ha ha
How can you liberate slaves who don't know they are slaves.
they know
i swear this documentary is released every month but who cares
we gon watch👏👏
😂
@catalinstef6322North Korea puts people in slave labor camps for speech, your comment is invalid
@catalinstef6322 get back on your meds
@catalinstef6322Simmer down, Kim Yo Mama.
😂😂😂I love this comment way too much. ( but I haven’t seen it before )
Place where Orwell's 1984 became reality.
Every dictatorship is an Orwellian nightmare.
The west is worse...everybody's movements, communication, spending and friend networks are traced, tracked and recorded in real time via our smartphones...through the latest A.I which can predict our future movements before we can ourselves.
can you imagine the day North Korea will be free from this dictatorship, what a day that'd be
That's the Kim Dynasty's biggest fear! The people, especially the military, standing up to them and removing them from power! Finally saying "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!" The Kim's fear that the most!
I hope I live to see it although I doubt I will
@designerdiva87 Is very possible that it will happen. A dynasty can only run so long before the strain of its oppression paralyzed that country!😊
It will be the day after the Chinese people get rid of their dictatorship.
It won't. People are used to obey and to do what they are told in that region of the world.
Amazing documentary 👏
Good video.
Great information
Good vedio from DW documentary
Fantastic documentary, thanks! :)
Thanks for watching!
Great, thank you very much. Спасибо.
As a father of a little girl and a history teacher, what bothers me the most is the millions of young girls and women who have been sexually assaulted by those in local and national power. How many North Korean women are taken advantage of by the police, and in their time in the military, by senior officers because they cannot complain or refuse? I can only imagine the numbers are staggering and we will never know because they are not documented.
Almost every women are exposed to sexual assault and men are barely punished. This is known from the defectors.
What about your country ain't it thesame?
Dude who cares
You should ask of this in your own country first
@@stevenbaksh5545You should focus more on your education and less on asking people on youtube to subscribe.
Great content!
DW always the best in the documentaries..
Ilov yo DW am always searching for documentary histories made Only..
This is the opening song to 28 days later. One of my favorite movies
Awesome document from DW
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
Great documentary!
I’m a simple man, I watch that DW uploads something new and I sit down and watch!
The funky splitscreen CG when the interviewees sit down is really irritating
What an amazing life you behold if things like this irritate you
Additionally, if the citizens try to leave the country to live elsewhere, which is illegal, they are punished like said above and their families are punished and deprived of opportunities for up to three generations.
You're quoting Yeonmi Park. She's a fraud: already well documented on youtube and by North Korean experts and South Korean Intelligence. Do a Google search.
@@Steveinthailand Hey, I'm not quoting that person. I'm currently reading Becoming Kim Jong Un by Jung H. Pak and The Great Successor by Anna Fifield. I'm still learning about it but it seems like a scary place. Do you have any recommended readings or sources?
@patrickwwallace89 Hi. I'm not apologising for The North but as a retired journalist, I do see a lot of hypocrisy in its coverage of North Korea in Western media .To see the other side of the coin: I'd recommended the award-winning South Korean made documentary: "My Brothers & Sisters in the North, and "Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul" which documents the plight of North Korean defectors who wish to return home. (Steve@Vietnam)
@@Steveinthailandthank you for replying. I will search for those and watch them!
@@patrickwwallace89 Nice one Patrick, enjoy 😉 (Stephen@Vietnam)
excellent documentary thanks
I approve this documentary. ❤ - Chairman Kim
may God give you health and strength to work
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😭😙😭😙🙏🙏🙏
@@RoboGrumplook who decided to show up
Everyone loves rocket man 🚀🥰
Been looking for a new north Korea doc
Thanks for this
Please recommend some 😭
Look up North Korean organized crime. It’s thier primary source of income. Selling weapons, cyber crime and implementing mind control technology and microwave weapons.
“North Korea / The Lies and Truth of Kim Jong Un / How People Live (2019)”
It be great to see a documentary like this on Cuba! Honestly as a Cuban in the diaspora it is hard to find good sources on what is going on in Cuba.
Neat use of the theme song from 28 Days Later.
Kim Jong Un addressing the plight of their economy to his people: "Like this suit? It's new!"
Babe, DW just dropped another nice one.😊
Brilliant documentary
I love the twist on the theme from '28 Days Later', a movie about the apocalypse, that opened this documentary. 😆
Terrifying and sad those poor people
Bro first of all relax. Second, I'm pretty sure you'd pick LA over NK if you were forced to pick one.
@catalinstef6322 just go Chinese bot I rather live homeless on skid-row then living in North Korea because even if I live on the streets of skid-row in LA I still get food stamps
Yay finally a new documentary!!!
Anti-North Korean vids are just click-bait: Regurgitating the same old anti-NK propaganda, without having a look in your own mirror first.
@@Steveinthailand so North Korea is not as bad as they are telling us and people live in freedom and harmony
excellent film from DW documentary
Thanks for watching!
Another good documentary thanks DW!
Thank you for watching and taking The time to comment!
Kim Jong il looks like 2 kids under a trench coat
Holy Crap, that's funny. Thanks, I shot tea out of my nose reading that. Freaking hilarious 😂
LMFAOOO
two fat kids
😂😂😂😂
The funny part is Kim IL Sung was born in Soviet Russia, so was Kim Jung Il
Kim is just an adult version of Eric Cartman saying "Respect my authoratahhh!"
DW had some cool tracks
I can't believe it is happening right now in our modern history.
Why did so ething change in North Korea?
It looks like the citizens were told to walk in front of the camera so that there are people in the shot.
In the house, in a heartbeat was a perfect song to use while showing North Korea. Captures that vibe perfectly. 1:00
DW, kindly include English subtitles.
Their fighter jets and submarines looks old like they are from the 50's or something
They've no nuclear, it's all a lie
Why is the intro music the theme from 28 Days Later lol
"If you don't cry, something will happen to your family"
Or it could be that something has already happened to their families ...
Just saying I love your documentaries. This regime is surprising and it's fine one time to do a documentary but I'd rather see documentaries of things that shares love than always same dictatorial countries.
Dear DW Team, why are many of your videos (including this) blocked in Austria?
Because it is a waste of your time. Thank me later.
It could be because they've sold the broadcast rights to a local TV channel or streamer
@@blackhibiscus1876😂😂😂😂
North Korea is a real-world Oceania from Orwell's 1984. The entire country is the definition of Orwellian.
Very terrifyingly true. One of my biggest fears.
Thats what you've been taught.
@@dangin8811 Please, do enlighten me of what I have been taught wrongly
@@Jeff1999100 North korea is a state that is maintaining its sovereignty at all costs. It is full of patriotic people who want before anything else to preserve the dignity and independence of their people against their enemies who want to destroy them, mainly the US, which is the global empire. Because of this it is slandered in order for people to support regime change and invasion in the country.
When’s part two coming out?
That intro song is a banger
This country is beyond salvation.
No societal structure is unbreakable or eternal.
The natural principles endure
now you see one
The soundtrack in the beginning gave me the 28 Days Later vibes.
5:36 does anyone know which documentary this clip is from?? I recognize the voice from the VICE documentary in 2012, they used clips of the same documentary. Thanks
Human bots. Can you imagine trying to unpack the popluation and the realityt of the world around them. Mind boggling
Lock her up. This lady is dangerous
Death Note ost playing at start, already loved the documentary
It would be interesting to hear from anyone who went to school in Switzerland with him what he was like back then
All of them prisoners in their on country, 😢 they look sad, there is not joy in their faces … not even the great leader 😮
@@tebelshaw9486uh no
Kim Jong Yun cries about his late father but never about the torture and death of innocent citizens
The 28 Days later music remix is hilarious😅
The most surprisining at 19:48 was that South Koreans from a human rights agency expecting anything similar to exist in North Korea...
Oh here we go, the North Korean and Chinese troll departments are on duty again, look at these comments. Trying to somehow excuse their miserable regimes.
All over them r dictatorships
I think Germany knows North Korea much better than South Korea😂 As a South Korean this documentary was helpful to understand North Korea.
Haha.
Well what was East Germany yes, its basically the same thing just they brought down the Berlin wall though.
😂
You mean East Germany or the European Eastern Block.
Because Germany after ww2 was also divided by 2 countries: “communist” and “western”, that's why they have good understanding of situation
I love how emotional and dramatic the guy sounds at 5 mins 😂
Whats the name of this background music, its so beautifull 22:00
It's very ironic that such an extremist Communist country should have such an old style absolute monarchy and in absolute power. If they wanted that they should have instituted the old Korean Empire of the early 20th century, but even that system was more fair than what they have over there now .