North Korea's Tiny, Terrible Airline
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Music by Epidemic Sound
My airline is amazing, we have Antonovs and it’s the origin of the hamburger
Kim Jong-un I knew you’ll be here, supreme leader
My airline, Air Porkyo, is better and we invented bacon.
My airline air hatekim flies Mia pynyonyang we invented Havana oh naa naa
I see u everytime on Swiss001 videos
I know your airline is the best
You missed a golden opportunity to say "U.S.S.Aren't"!
(1:36)
Ahh for fucks sake I was gonna comment this
Ah shit! Lmfao
I dont get it...
@@harsiddakbedi8999 Before 1991: U.S.S.R
After 1991: U.S.S.Aren't
When Soviet Russia broke up.
C. H. YYNOT
On a positive note, if you are an aviation enthusiast, this is one of the only airlines still operating with Soviet planes.
If the sanctions keep up, you will probably be able to go back to flying Tu-134s on Aeroflot.
I'm an aviation enthusiast however flying on an aircraft flown by low-time, under-fed, under-trained pilots in a country with no safety culture is a buzz I can live without.
Aeroflot with their Sukhois: Hold my beer-
@@kayradayana174 More like Aeroflot with their cannibalised Airbus and Boeings. I wouldn’t be taking a flight in Russia anytime soon. There’s only so many parts you can strip before it becomes a game of Russian roulette.
@@kayradayana174those are not Soviet. You can find Soviet planes in major airports, though. Ones that I know are the Kostroma Air Enterprise that flies the An-26-100 to Saint-Petersburg, and the Vologda Air Enterprise that flies the Yak-40 to Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
Person: *gives flight 1 star*
North Korea: 50 year sentence
WaYZfnm more like life in had labor or death.
One of the stupid reasons to be arrested
He gave it one star to symbolize juche! Self dependence!
seems generous 😄
The one star represents the flag of the glorious DPRK so maybe not
I asked my friend from North Korea what life was like there
He said he couldn’t complain.
Sub to me if you’re not gay
Lol
ha I see what you did there
Heh
Under such sanctions for life there is no country who can survive easily. And I sure your friend understands what is going on. UN a criminal organization it has never defend the weakest only enforces its rules against the weak in favor of the strongest.
*Wendover doesn’t make a plane related video
HAI: It’s showtime
The admin's excellent in roleplaying and tune the video's tone. Admit it. [of no relation to the gag but]
Technically there was a plane part in his epidemic video
Real life lore: am i a joke to you
The are the same person who control each Chanel I think
Why does everyone hate him for doing aviation videos. Planes are awesome and Sam can choose whichever subject he wants and if he likes planes, let him be
I love how it's set to _one way flight_ at 5:20
Also "Adults (12+)"
Skeke Lol I'm 14, now i can say I'm legally an adult in korea.
o n e w a y
Why waste money on a round trip when you're just going to end up in a prison ca- I mean, offered a life of luxury as a token of good will to attract other wealth elite international tourists?
For some reason I thought it was the plane
I flew from Beijing to Pyongyang in 2008, it was probably the scariest flight I've ever been on, the plane was clearly underpowered, it was like flying in the 1960s, glad I was returning to Beijing by train.
May i ask why/how you went there?
@@supersoober Why not ? Curiosity and to travel back to 1956, there are specialist tour companies that will organise trips to the country for you.
@@colinvespa4709 i was just curious since getting there is hard but thanks for replying :)
@@colinvespa4709 Wellllllll im also very intrigued by it it really is a fascinating country but every cent spent goes directly into one mans pocket and i dont wanna support that…but i also wanna go😂
@@colinvespa4709 people shouldn’t go to North Korea even just for a holiday because it funds their regime, n we all know what that’s about
"..the USSR was North Korea's sugar daddy"
...its so bad but it's so true oh my god
I was looking for this comment lol
Grace and America was South Korea’s sugar daddy
Wats a sugar daddy?
@@funcuberdeadchannel5426 you kinda dont wanna know...
@@nolongerusing7430 oh okey
wait what?! I read in North Korean Aviation Weekly that it received the world number 1 rank 35 years in a row.... i'm so confused
@Antimatter mapping and the American Civil War
@Antimatter mapping and the Russian Revolution
Congrats on beating Thanos!
Antimatter mapping how are these replies related to the comment. im just really confused
@@kablamo9409 Because in North Korea, they teach that they are the best, have won every war possible and everyone else can go suck it.
1:30 "Then the USSR became the USS Not"
you missed a golden opportunity to call them the USS(a)R(en't)
You are a legend
1:00 “The USSR was North Korea’s sugar daddy” lmaooo
You mean 0:56?
"Made possible by my declining audience retention statistics"
Quality Content :D
I totally missed it where is that
@@mohssenkassir431
0:51
Woke 100%
I screamed
I got so distracted by this that I had to restart the video after 5 mins of watching (read: staring) at it. 😂
*It won't be terrible*
_if no one is there to review it_
*yeah... Its big brain time*
Yeah but I hear that Air Koryo sells the best burgers this side of the Berlin Wall.
Is Air Koryo really 1 Star Worst Airline? czcams.com/video/9461RASt2Zg/video.html
that! is a fairly debatable albeit appealing thought
700th like
United Nations: North Korea you’re grounded for a week.
North Korea: *misbehaves more*
United Nations: Two weeks
North Korea: *Misbehaves even more*
United Nations: Three Weeks
LOL
@@wigglebot2368 hi bot
@@craniumtea5137 oh hi bot
@AcehIndie Photo oh hi bot
@iHateYou3001 - Brawl Stars oh hi bot
“Their planes are getting old, and only getting older, that’s how time works” I dunno why that made me laugh so much.
Plane video, must have been sponseed by Wendover
Raid shadow legend
He is wendover
Didn't know u watched this guy
Whats wendover?
It was but they gave wendover a disguise.
Their slogen should me "Fly to North Korea and you will never leave again"
"The best airline for all your one way trips!"
King YTP No because that would be false advertisement which is illegal. People do return after flying North Korea, unless they die or get sent to prison due to a convicted crime under the Law of the DPRK. So no, their slogan should not be of what you have recommended
King YTP stop north Korea is not that bad snd you go Bsck home overrescting idiot fuck
A trip that will last a lifetime
@@dancoghlan8729 Lol
And we wonder why Kim is acting like little angry little boy with his rockets... You took him his toy planes!
Something else that’s interesting about Air Goryeo is that it’s named about the historical kingdom that united the entire Korean Peninsula, not specific to North Korea. This is something North Korea does a lot to assert itself as the true Korea with historical ties. North Korea calls itself 북조선 (but South Korea doesn’t). In Japanese and Chinese, it’s 朝鮮 (Joseon). This isn’t a translation of DPRK or North Korea, it’s the old name of Korea. So basically the old Korean and new Korea. Making Air Goryeo, literally Old Korean Airlines, fitting considering their fleet.
The whole "what are trains good for" segment in the opening sounds like my dad (an avid aviation fan) and myself (an avid railfan) in a casual conversation. ;P
I'm an aviation fan in the sense of it being awesome and sometimes the best option, but rail travel can and should be used in place of many domestic flights in the US
Rail is simply the best mode of transportation.
The,"What are trains good for" sounds like my cousin.
Yes, what have trains ever done for us?
Im a rail-fan and aviation fan so yeah
4:01 So, Best Korea is sanctioning Himself? And apparently, Antarctica can freely trade with Best Korea.
Well I for one didn't know Adélie penguins were communist sympathizers. Then again, it does make sense, with the Emperors always stealing the spotlight.
well nk is part of the un, and un sanctions call for all un members to not sell them planes....so basically, yes
Antarctica is not a country
Does "Best Korea" refers to North Korea?
@@chepa1767 Yes it does
I flew in and out of Pyongyang a couple of years ago... a truly bizarre experience. Brand new modern airport with literally just a handful of people there. The planes though...wow...how lucky I was(n't) to experience both the Tupolev and the Antonov. Actually, to be fair... they are memories I won't ever forget!
0:42
Trains should try some Red Bull.
Cus Red Bull GIVES YOU WI-
im gonna stop you right there.
*Nice*
LOL XD SO TRUE
Air Koryo is better than Ryanair. Last major accident was in 1983
Rehan Zainul Abdeen Ryanair never had an accident so....
TIAviation Actually they had a bird strike that resulted in a overrun and the loss of a airframe in Rome back in 2010 or 2011
@@abandonedchannel281 2008, no one died so I don't think it's anything to be freaking out about.
Well ryanair dosent crash (well.....kinda)
martin camilleri just rough landings
I just realised how strange the music choice is.
Lmao what the hell am I listening to
1:37 I'm slightly disappointed in HAI for not making the terrible word play of "then the USSR became the USSRn't"
Me: “mom can we get a 757?”
Mom: “we have 757 at home”
757 at home: 2:27
But thats an airbus
diana camacho huh?
Its a tupolev
*no its an airbus 747*
Ah yes, mother, could i get a $200 Million aircraft?
4:01 And that's when the Vatican started supplying NK with aircraft.
From the wording, it seems like it'd have to be someone who isn't a national of a UN nation, and they can't go through Italy
I like how he also accidentally highlights North Korea itself, which means it can't buy planes from.... itself.
@@RohanGuptarg North Korea is a member of the UN and I think that is what the map was listing?
@@sundhaug92 so the Pope could so it. as king of Vatican city he is also citizen of Vatican. he could wrap a airplane in a diplomatic pouch and just claim that he is just transporting a entire church in one go.
(i do wonder what kind of airplain the vatican could build?
@@sirBrouwer In theory, he's also an argentine national, so would be covered by the ban. Also, the EU ban includes airspace, so they flying it through Italian airspace would be a violation (not to mentiont he pilots etc)
"the USSR became the USS Not", more like the USS Aren't
missed chance
Way to steal a comment
what about the USAren't? because they are a federation of states in a country that has no name
@@silveriorebelo8495 no u killed the joke
The uss returing soon
I visited North Korea in August 2010, and I flew to Shenyang to Pyongyang on a Tupolev-154. The flight was filled with North Korean students/residents from Osaka, Japan. Interesting experience.
was it funny? i heard that NK is fun Korea
North Korea accidentally launched a ballistic missile at japan barely missing it
The music: 😁🥰🤩😍😜🤪😇🤑🥳
Not gonna lie, as a plane geek I’d still like to one day travel on this airline just to experience the Il-62s.
Classic Ilyushins? They have my vote.
Make sure it's the last one on your list, you might not be able to complete it if it is not.
A lot of avgeeks quite like air Koryo for that reason, from what I've seen they're probably one of the most avgeek-friendly airlines out there, they literally have no problem with you walking around the planes for photos before/after landing
Afaik there are special aviation tours in North Korea with flights with different planes and a look on all
True. But sadly they retired most of their aircraft. Today they are only flying 2 An-148 and 2 Tu-204. The Tupolews are from the 90s and the Antonows from 2013 and 2015. So their current active Fleet is quit the opposite of what you would think after seeing the video.
i love how the bass drops right as you mention "North Korea launched a ballistic missile" 3:09
A few years ago as part of an extended tour I flew domestically from Pyongyang to Orang Airport (near the north-eastern city of Chongjin) aboard Air Koryo, and I swear to God there was an actual escape rope. Great soda though 🤠
4:02 can’t even buy an aircraft from themselves
The guy there who can get it for them off the black market charges too much lol
Incase you were wondering you guys are invited to my island on February 31st 2020
you absolute madlad
Were you Epstein?
March 2
16 days left
Coordinates i'll cum
Still somehow better than Spirit Airlines.
Or Ryanair
Because the air koryo doesn't always crash on landing
No spirit is better they got newer planes
airplanefan 987 Tis a joke, good sir.
@@busfan9874 if you crash the older once you always need a new one.
I keep watching this every time I see it in recommended. Something addicting about it.
I have the same with the video about colors
"North Korea's Tiny, Terrible Airline"
*Boom, roasted.*
This is a perfect video from you, Air Koryo is quite well known among airline enthusiasts and is often seen more as a living museum, as it's the only way to fly several old Soviet planes, and they make sure to have plenty of photo opportunities.
"They flew exclusively Soviet planes which sometimes didn't crash"
HAI is back with its top notch sense of humour
Jetlite yeah, a bad humour. So HA wants to said that American planes never crashes?!
The TU 54 has a good safery record
@@lel2015 many Russian planes do. They get a bad rap
@@comradetingy5928 The Ukrainian AN-148 isn't a bad bit of kit either
The USSR had great technology so idk what he’s on about 🙄
North Korea: Farts
United Nations: There's a sanction for that too!
"but what is it interesting for?"
Wendover: "nothing! Because it doesn't have wings!"
One of the reasons why trains aren't popular in the US, just like the metric system is not
@@pulkitmohta8964 The metric system doesn't have wings? Damn, my life has been a lie.
Also, that's the first time in months the reply button actually worked. 0.o
@@UnDeaDCyBorg of course!😁😂 Otherwise one would have seen the metric system being used in the US
Great video as always. Another idea for Wendover Productions, i don't know if you have in your list: what if a non Air Kyoro aircraft has an emergency and the only possible airport it can reach is in North Korea? I don't know if it's possible (maybe in a flight from Japan to Russia?), but at least i'd love to know what would happen in theory.
I mean there is seoul which is close
I dont think they ever go over NK airspace and the nearest airport would then be Seoul probably... I think they most likely 'ignore' it as if the airport didnt exist.
A similar issue happened with a Norwegian flight over Iran (I think they'd lost an engine and had to land). Even worse was that it happened during the relatively recent and long US government shutdown, so getting an exemption from the sanctions in order to pay for repair there was even harder
Flight from South Korea to Russia regularly fly around the NK's no-flight zone, right alongside the shore. The only problem is, most of North Korea is just forest, which is not very easy to land on. Might as well land on the sea.
The area where only a DPRK civilian airport could be reached (instead of reaching a civilian airport in China, South Korea, or Russia) is pretty small. Most of the civilian airports in the DPRK are in the northeast, which is fairly close to Vladivostok. (Yanbian, PRC is also quite close.) And if you're more than 50-70 miles from Pyongyang (the only international airport in the DPRK, and the only one not in the northeast portion of the country), you can either land at Dandong, PRC, Seoul, ROK, or Yanbian, PRC.
Using your theoretical example (Japan to Russia), the geodesic route between Narita (Tokyo) and Sheremetyevo (Moscow) goes to the east of the DPRK, so you'd land in Russia. If we go from further south in Japan (let's say Nagasaki), the geodesic route goes west of the country. So, if you can't land at Seoul or China (due to the emergency), you're not going to be able to reach the DPRK, either.
Going from Seoul to SVO does go over the DPRK (and pretty close to Pyongyang), that window is still pretty tiny. The Boeing 767 is only going to be closest to Pyongyang for, at most, 15 minutes of its flight. And with its given glide ratio (20:1), it's going to be able to make a safe landing outside the DPRK if it's above 30k feet when the emergency occurs, and the emergency is not a catastrophic loss of structural integrity (i.e. your plane is still in one piece).
What if the North Korean airline owns giant birds which are used to fly across the country, and simply use the airplanes as cover up
those are the storks that fly in the kim dynasty's babies from mt paektu
@@xXxSkyViperxXx Just check the logo!
I watch these videos when I’m having a really bad day. They help me destress and calm down. Thank you for them!
"Just forget I ever mentioned Kosovo"
ROTFL I hit the like button at that xD
4:06 _Taiwan has entered the chat?_
4:01 so NK can't buy planes from their own country like how does that work
They are a UN Member. So yes, the government couldn't buy a plane from itself.
Are there private companies in North Korea, though?
@@KimbaCookie nope
Hey the TU-154 is no joke a plane with a surprising safety record given its Soviet pedigree. Well surprising to the West
It has better safety record then the 727-western equivalent. Il 62 has a better safety record then both it's American equivalent the dc9 and 707
@@liquid74 yes it does
@@mikeoxsmal8022 Also bare in mind that they predominantly operated in far worse conditions that typical western aircraft. Tu154 and Il62 are slandered unfairly far too often.
@@Behemoth29 Everything russia related is always slandered. Westerners like to praise them for vodka and prostitution only.
his voice sounds so much deeper here. feels weird
HAI: Barely any economic activity with the country
Me: There’s economic activity in North Korea?
China
hvhh vvggg and illegal stuff, but China
3:49 - North Korea can't even import prams or wheelchairs. 🤦 Great job Kims; keep up the great work. 👍🙄
(Can they import skateboards, ice-skates, or Heelys? Those are as much "transport" as a wheelchair or baby-buggy. 🤔)
No. These are classified under HS Code 95: www.foreign-trade.com/reference/hscode.htm?code=95, toys and sporting equipment.
Sanctions dont seem to be working... plenty of imported buggies, skies and wheelchairs etc...according to other recent DPRK videos uploaded.
Can they import toy trains?
@@nicopavvi8494 DPRK can import everything via China
@@Steveinthailand thank you
I've actually flown on this airline before, they play propaganda videos on little flip down screens during the flight.
Why were you flying Air Koryo?
@@LandofBobiness Went to the DPRK last September on a tour
@@LandofBobiness Presumably to get to or from North Korea. For being a very niche tourist destination it's fairly popular, not to mention all of the diplomats and support staff for the 24 foreign embassies there that also needs to get to and from their mission.
@@thor-axetheimpaler989 Dang, litt. How was the tour?
@@LandofBobiness He died.
4:23 But look how happy the plane is tho :3
5:33 wow hit me with that SEAMLESS TRANSITION, legit high five for that one man gat dam
You're speaking more naturally and less cadenced / modulated, and I like it.
It's a good thing that Sam got to make at least one plane-related topic this week.
Many of their planes are old and only getting older. That’s how time works. 😂😂😂😂
Excellent video!!!!
Damn.... I love that background music
I'm still trying to figure out what they're called
Imagine actually not throwing a passenger out of the plane intentionally
This comment is brought to you buy the United airlines gang
@GreenTeaKitKat is this implying that the Polish's national airlines is bad but United Airlines is worse?
Tbh if North Korea produced a reality tv show called "Keeping Up with the Kims" I would be parked in front of my tv to watch it every single tuesday evening
UN: we need North Korea to change and make peace with us.
Also UN: make them suffer
2:02 Errors on this map: European Turkey, Kaliningrad, and the Faroe Islands are shown as part of the EU (when they aren't).
Also southern Cyprus should be added
Mistjor doesn’t matter because
1- its still not a part of eu
2- no part of cyprus was shown in eu here
What Are You Talking About? Air Koryo has zero incident rate and zero delays and you feel like you are flying in the 1980's My father and me took effort to make and improve this airline
You're right dear leader Air koryo is the best!!!!!!!!!!!
Now can you free me
Or at least feed me
*North Korea has direct flights to New York with a chance of mushroom at the destination*
That's a cool way of saying a one-way trip.
Loved the video! I also enjoyed how your sarcasm is borderline cheeky in this presentation ;)
I flew Air Koryo in 2014 from Beijing to Pyongyang and quite enjoyed it. Especially the inflight entertainment, which consisted of an endless propaganda video of a military nurses orchestra concert playing on the overhead screens and piped into the bathroom speakers. A sandwich and soft drink were provided. All in all, it was a much more comfortable experience than flying domestic in the USA...
At least Wendover's plane videos aren't dull and _plain_
*wheeze*
Did you post this on the wrong channel?
And you also spelt Macau wrong
Sub to me if you’re not gay
There are different spellings of "Macao"
Still loving your videos! Thanks as always!
Air Koryo uses Tu-134! These things can only be found in museums these days.
3:09 weird music choice to use while talking about rockets being flown out of North Korea...but ok...
Dude, your writing keeps getting better and better. It's awesome. You're awesome, Sam!
Me: Mom can we get an airline?
Mom: We have an airline at home.
Airline at home:
I loooove how he roasted Kosovo! You just got a new subscriber.
_With this technology, we will make America... BOW DOWN TO ITS KNEES!!!_
*~ Kim Jung Un 2019*
2:03 Slight mistake! Croatia extends more southern all the way to Dubrovnik. Great video, love from Croatia!
Ah, yes, flying *GULAG*
Hey HAI, there's a mistake on your highlighting of the UN resolution 2397. Although the resolution did state that it will ban the DPRK of all transportation vehicle imports, the part you highlighted at 3:28 was about the banning of crude oils imports. The part about transportations comes later at point 7 of the resolution.
@4:01 Taiwan is not a member of the UN. Though they passed their own legislation to ban trade with North Korea. On the other hand, many countries only follow the UN sanctions on paper, but still continue to trade with and supply to North Korea, such as their neighbors China and Russia.
also according to your Map North Koreas Trade with itself is sanctioned...
Edit: fixed missing "Map"
I've been on this airline before, it's honestly not that bad. Spirit Airlines is way worse than Air Koryo.
Legend has it that Air Koryo uses dangerous planes to prevent people from entering North Korea
How are they dangerous???
This just in: The SADR and Somaliland are creating a joint aircraft company to sell to the DPRK
They Have First Class
Just Ride an ICBM
North korea’s Concorde.
now now, don't criticize soviet planes, Boeing planes are also sometimes not crashing.
you mean the ones getting fixed by top engineers right now
@@hawkproductions7674 no, i mean the ones designed by top engineers.
You have, after a half (as interesting) year, earned my subscription
What is the background music on 2:58
I wouldn’t describe North Korea as a dictator’s Disneyland. That title goes to Turkmenistan. Just look at their capital Ashgabat
Actually Singapore has been called "Disneyland with the Death Penalty"by William Gibson.
I've flown on Air Koryo on an IL-62 and thought it was fine.
Glad to see Wendover shares my love of trains despite all his plane videos
Never thought about the fact that they don't have an airforce really then
"Made possible by my declining audience retention statistics"
0_o really?
Could you make a follow up where you discussed what the expirience of flying with this ariline would look like?
0:35 WhaT DiD U JuSt sAY?!
The writing was some of your best yet. Bravo
The prestigious "Airlines banned in the EU" list. 🤣🤣🤣
HAI: we're the airplane's front of korea! what have the trains ever done for us?
tries to insult trains but fails
He wasn’t trying to insult trains
@@hogndog2339 he wanted to but listed all their good things
I think it's a joke about how Wendover is obsessed with planes.
jdsonical He’s being sarcastic
@@hogndog2339 it's just a Monty Python reference bruh
I love your videos here and Wendover! I find them incredibly interesting. A good idea for a video may be for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), if there's enough info about it. Keep up the good work!
I loved your "...and aircraft" bit where you highlight the entire section.