North Korea Trip (2011) ~ Less Legal Videos+Photos & Commentary!
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- This is 20 min. a compilation of my trip to North-Korea (2011). It features unique footage of many things we saw and I make comments on most of the scenes.
If you've got any questions or remarks, feel free to drop them down here!
===Update 06-04-2012===
Finally fixed the subtitles!
===Update 24-04-2012===
Over 30,000 views! While making this movie I aimed for some 1,000 views!
Thank you all for watching!
You know you're down the rabbit hole when bowling is the sport of the upper crust.
bagelboi66 no rabbits in those holes. They wouldve been eaten.
I feel a tremendous sense of compassion for the citizens of North korea. It's horrible they are living in such a state just because they have an egomaniacal lunatic for a leader.
You should visit some poor african countrys okay they can buy Coca cola there and yell in the most countrys" our President is fuck as hell" but the pictures the same
africa isn't as bad.. thats just what history classes teaches
6 minutes in and Im thoroughly enjoying this, thanks for putting it together, a really good piece of social documentary, again, thanks
+thepoultrypeople
Thanks, hope you enjoyed the rest as well.
Fascinating and much more informative than the usual news documentaries on North Korea. You get a really close-up perspective of the country and regime. Thanks for the video KoRadar!
Thanks for your comment Nicholas. Tried my best to show what a trip to this country would look like. Glad you enjoyed it!
+Nicholas Boyd try go look at mexico, what capitalistic hell hole that is, communism is supreme to capitalism
This is one of the best North Korean Documentary..
Tried to give a neutral look at how a trip to NK would look like, instead of the many vids here that overemphasize the 'eeriness'. Glad you liked it!
KoRadar I love you description... awesome! Its rare to find a pure honest observations on this types of videos... I gives 10 points to this edition (Y) my congrats... OH I almost forgot, the colors captured by you camera are amazing.
Thanks Alex, for watching and for your nice comment. Merry christmas.
Thanks for telling us and sharing photos and videos from your trip to North Korea mate! It was very interesting to watch :)
This is great! There are many vids with footage but you're commentary is really great as it explains what I'm seeing :) thank you very much!
15:18 I remember reading that the officers usually overlook black market activity in Pyongyang, and possibly elsewhere in the country, because the government stores simply can't provide for all. And the officers probably also get a cut for themselves, and sometimes Western products too.
great job documenting this eerie, freaky country.
Thanks
are they checking the contents of your camera and phone before leaving?
Nice video!! Thanks for making this live documentary... it gives me the real pics on the DPRK outside Pyongyang area.. greetings from Malaysia!
This is very cool to watch. I am a hobby filmer myself and I think a lot of my videos are .. well, they miss "the spice". A permanent commentary is really helping in adding to the audio-visual impressions. Thanks for the insight and for the inspiration for my next video :)
Love your observation that, "The life has been sucked out of the country right now."
Great video dude, thanks for taking the time (and risk!) to capture it and upload. I am planning a trip myself this year, so this has really opened my eyes so certain things. Thanks again.
Sure thing, glad you enjoyed it! Hope you can make it there! Amazing experience!
Wow KoRadar. What an excellent short documentary of your trip. I really liked it. I'll be checking for more of your videos. Enjoy your travels :)
I have seen all the professional DPRK vids, but I enjoyed this VERY much as well.
I appreciate your effort... thank you :)
I hope to some day visit too. It looks like all tourists usually stay at the same hotels. I guess it's no shocker that there aren't many hotels to choose from there. One of the most corrupt and evil places on earth. So bad I want to see it for myself.
Calling a place "one of the most corrupt and evil places on earth" when you've never been there sounds like serious brainwashing to me.
I'm not saying everything is hunky dory in NK, but I find it ironic that people in the US and Europe don't realise that their countries are just as subject to state propaganda as a place like NK, if not more. A weak country like NK has far less money to spend on propaganda than the US.
Honestly, I think a lot of North Koreans are less brainwashed nowadays than many Western citizens. I say this because I can compare with the USSR, where my family is from.
Americans thought that the Soviet people were totally brainwashed and knew nothing about the world around them, and yet they kept repeating that mantra over and over again until it seemed like an irrefutable fact. And yet I know many Russians born and raised in the USSR who read Hemingway, Dickens and knew more about world literature, film, and even American economics than most Europeans (albeit up to a certain time period). If you tried to disagree with a Western citizen that the USSR was not full of brainwashed zealots, they would brand you stupid, crazy, or a commie.
Today you could hear a story on the news or on some website which would say something like "Half of North Korea dead" or "Kim Jong Un orders execution of primary schoolers" and I bet people wouldn't even bat an eyelid. Nobody questions news about North Korea, no matter how fake it could be.
Peoples' perception of this country is just as ridiculous as they think the country is.
By the 1980s most young people in the USSR already had a good understanding of their regime and the outside world. I wouldn't be surprised if modern North Koreans have underground sources of information about it too, and understand much more than we give them credit for. Honestly, looking at these videos, I see healthy, normal human beings going about their lives. I see a girl with her friend laughing in the subway, a girl doing something on her mobile phone, people reading books.
If North Koreans don't understand that they're being brainwashed, the same goes for people here who unquestioningly believe it.
4grammaton Anyone that uses the term, "hunky dory" should not be listened too. Lol
BBCA PAWNZ It's called irony.
Also, using a certain word is no reason for an argument to be discarded. That's a logical fallacy.
***** Thank you very much for your reply. I can see you feel very strongly about this subject and I respect what you say. I ask you to break your writing into paragraphs in the future, because it is difficult for me to understand everything you say when you write large blocks of text. It is hard for me to follow your thoughts when your sentences are not logically tied together.
I will now try to address all your points successively:
" theres alot of people like you in america that dont believe north korea is like that they are called leftists you idiot."
As far as I know, all major political parties in the US have an unfavorable view of North Korea, to say the least. I am sure there are people and left-wing parties who are skeptical about what the media tells them, but there are many, many more who believe it. As far as I know, most American citizens today see "North Korea" as synonymous with "totalitarianism" and "corruption".
"and dont think you are smart just because you believe this these topics like north korea are purposely perpetuated by the governments the create distractions, divisions and déceptions so that people can fight themselves."
Why do you assume that I think I am "smart" for realising that?
"contrary to common thought it actually expands state life expectancy then decrease it"
Could you please explain how this happens? I don't understand how it "expands state life expectancy" and then "decreases" it.
"people like you are still living in the past with the external view fallacy where you think that everything impacted must come from the outside."
I did not say anything about this. Could you please explain what you mean by this "external view fallacy"? Could you say when I used it?
"Their false notion of freedom of speech... it makes you not want to experience other scenarios and so you only feel free when you speak but then when you dont or are contradicted, you feel like you are not free, if they were not think like this they would not be always shouting and being so rash in the first place."
I disagree. Yes, if you don't use your rights, there is a higher chance they will be taken away from you. But that doesn't mean that people feel pressured to say things just because they can. And being contradicted does NOT make you feel less free. In fact, it makes you feel MORE free, because the person who is contradicting you is using his right of free speech. A French philosopher said this: "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". At the same time, not saying anything is also free speech. You have the right to say something, and you have the right NOT to say anything. It's the same right.
" if people can compromise they can be much freer. if they were to compromise with the situation they can regain their past wanted freedom and again become more free at the moment."
Compromise and Freedom of speech are different ideas. You can compromise and have freedom of speech at the same time. If you do not have freedom of speech, that means you will be punished for saying things that other people do not want you to say. Then there is no compromise.
You are trying to explain why Americans are often "rash". The reason for this is not their right of free speech. There are historical and ethnic factors that have shaped their mentality, just like historical and ethnic factors have shaped Korean mentality. It has nothing to do with "fear of losing free speech."
" the propaganda in the us does not work in the way you think it is. it does not work the same as north korean propaganda that goes to one subject."
Why do you think that I don't understand how propaganda in the US works? I know that it is different from North Korean propaganda. That was not the point of the discussion. What I wanted to say was that propaganda exists both in the US and in North Korea. I think you agree with that.
"do not think that america in the 1950s were bad they were actually better than now."
I never said that I thought the 1950s in America were bad. Why do you say that I don't understand things when I understand them?
"an increasing number of americans have distrust over the news. this contradicts what you have just said, instead the americans of today only look at it but then look at other views."
You are right. Perhaps I am wrong to use my notions of the previous century regarding this one. That is a valid point. But, the topic we were discussing was propaganda. The US government uses as much propaganda as it did back then. Maybe you are right that it doesn't work as well today as it used to. I don't disagree with that.
"what do you mean nobody questions it i have seen many people on youtube like you"
The majority of people still don't question it. You have seen many people who question it, but I have seen MANY more people who don't. It was a generalisation, but it was an accurate generalisation.
" now you must do something you have never heard of which is not promoting north korea in that communist fashion."
You have misunderstood me. I don't support communist North Korea. I never said I supported it. In fact, we were not discussing the political system in North Korea. We were discussing propaganda and whether it was an "evil" place.
" north koreans are also not communists they were for like 10 years until 1955 they had juche in 1972 complete in practice de jure removal to juche in 2009 de facto remove all symbols."
I was not aware of this. Thank you very much for informing me.
" it tells people to not have external influence like americans but seek their own salvation, stability unlike the stalin and mao révolutions like every 5 years kill 50 million people, a non antagonistic hierarchy "
You told me that "I am falling into a trap", and that my notions are wrong. But it seems you are falling into the same trap and you do not realise it. You are the victim of the same propaganda as many other people. First of all, Stalin did not lead a revolution. The revolution was led by Lenin. Also, where did you hear that 50 million people died every five years during Stalin's revolution? Did someone tell you this? Do you know that only 650 000 people were executed during Stalin's time? Do you know that Stalin tried to make the USSR free of external influence? Did you know that it was only thanks to Stalin that the USSR found its own salvation?
You think that you are right and I am wrong, and yet you spread the same lies as everyone else. Why do you think that?
" juche is a confucian ideology, mostly rooted from confucianism, very similar aspects like how it emphasize self reliance, the family, inner peace which is in accord with self reliance...diversity in ability and needs not same for all people, and being balanced, helping each other, good leadership, and that poor will be treated well to their ability and need."
The Juche ideology is a very good ideology. Confucian values are very important. It looks like you respect the Confucian ideology. I believe that patience and respect are important for Confucianists. But for some reason you called me an idiot two times in your comments, even though I did not insult you. I don't think that I showed any ignorance in my comment, so I don't understand why you insulted me. Is that what you call "being balanced" and "helping each other"?
You have written a lot in your reply to me, and I have tried my best to address everything you said and to be respectful to you.
Can I ask you to do the same for me?
Again, thank you very much.
Also, if you don't mind me asking: are you from North Korea yourself?
Jesus Christ, you're a moron. North Korea had one of the strongest Asian economy's all the way up until 1990. The US is preventing them from anything that'll make their economy strong and rich again. You do know the US doesn't allow them to make any type of foreign trades and block them from foodaid, right?
Learn your stuff. Sigh.
nice video, unbiased and clear thoughts/opinions, well done
I have watched a lot of these surreptitious video documentaries, some done by "pros." This one is among the best I have seen and the commentary is wonderful--informative and with a certain dry wit. Thanks!
Thank you uploader for risking your balls for our viewing pleasure. It's highly appreciated.
Excellent film, that's for sharing it.
I visited the DMZ/JSA from the south three months ago, it was fascinating.
Very good insight, thanks I enjoyed the video a lot !
Good to hear, thanks for watching
Thanks for uploading this. Awesome footage!!!
this was awesome to see and you did really good narrating. thanks for sharing it.
Thanks for watching and I'm glad you liked it.
I learned some stuff off this video that all the others never told. At the DMC I did not know the blue building were S Korea and the gray were North. I have watch almost every that on CZcams and nobody has told this... GREAT JOB and Thanks for posting
Yes, the DMC.
Surprising to hear that! It was one of the first things they explained to us on our Southern DMZ tour. Thanks for watching
Thanks for sharing. Took a great risk there buddy. ;P
Thanks for watching! Since I'm not an American I figured the 'risk' would be tolerable ;)
I really enjoyed watching your video and narration...thank you for posting it. :)
Great video. Thx for the upload!
Damn dude! You could have gone to jail! Phew, glad you didn't get caught!
You're a very brave man let me tell you that!
Curious mostly ;) once you find out it's possible to go there and start searching for specifics it's hard to back down!
Brendan Jackson said
I really enjoyed your video.. Thank you so much for publishing it so we can all see it..
Hey KoRadar. I'm sure you have seen this comment a million times but I just wanted to say thanks for posting this video. It is a fantastic view of NK from a tourist point of view. I'm so glad you were able to get this footage.
+anthony grazevich
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for commenting
Blackmarkets for fucking flowers? Srsly m8
all private markets are blackmarkets in north korea.
There are no legal markets in North Korea except the few for the elite that are run by the state.
great video. it seems like a horror movie with all those empty buildings. stores with nothing on sale. no cars. one hotel for tourists. one tv channel and no internet for the majority to know what is truly going on in the world. think of all the money they could make on top of what it wastes on its elite and defence instead of living standards. it needs a proper system in place, and pretending to have a 30 year old in charge of everything is not helping.
a massive difference from those videos on south korea. the north is not as threatening here as I thought it might be, but I am sure their forces can be when they want to be. I will guess american or uk tourism is not recommended
YEAH
america should come to north korea and bring democracy to them.
fuck yeah MURRICA!
lol I just searched and it turns out everyone in the US is allowed to come as long as they aren't from the media, and go on one of their tours, staying at the same hotel. I have just booked you in for next friday
thanks!
MrVidification what if its like in a horror movie and they allow everyone to come but not out anymore?
they do that already with the labour camps they drag their own people into,they often use excessive punishment on those that end up there. read up on some of the reasons as to why you can get sent into one. they are often compared to nazi prison camps
Nice warm feeling in your video, well done!
Fantastic job!!!! I appreciate some of the subtle insights you provided. Thank You
I seen similar things at my childhood and school years in Soviet Union. Same gray color of everything, except polished places for tourists and heads of elite. Mediocre public services for masses, regular shortages of some type of goods, including food and propaganda backed with security service, to keep people in line. However North Korea is taking it at very extreme - this is more like to Stalin Era at middle of 20th century. I want to thank the author of those video - he seriously risked and would been in big trouble if he would be caught.
Thanks for watching. Indeed, a visit to North Korea really feels like a time-travel of sorts, made me feel like the stuff from history books and USSR stories came to live.
KoRadar1953 did it seem from your point of view that the country has this lifeless feeling to it, sort of depressing, endless winter? It just looks like a typical Communist era city, square buildings, square plazas, everything is uniform but very dim, dark, grey. It's hard to explain but coming from Romania I remember early 90s having remnants of Communism but it was very lively. This seems very sad
+CTAjunior Definitely, North Korea must be the closest thing that comes to time travelling. Really feels like a leap back in the past!
Really great video & commentary. Thank you for this!
Well done getting this footage! I'm fascinated by DPRK and your video is very interesting and insightful. Thanks for positing!
Hi KoRadar1953 , your video is quite informative. You have great attention to detail :) I got new bits of information from your video that I didn't get from any other NK video on CZcams. For instance, you spoke about those concrete blocks that can be used for stopping tanks and armored vehicles, then the DMZ details, and the fact that the North Korean DMZ trip was rather dull compared to the South. O yes! And also that the restaurant doesn't revolve, there's nothing to see outside the window but darkness and hallways kept in dark to save electricity. Whew! What a country this is :( I live in India. Despite its monstrous drawbacks, India is a far better country that North Korea. India may be underdeveloped but it is fully democratic, with complete freedom of speech and expression, freedom of the press and media, freedom to buy anything you like and travel anywhere you want to, freedom to use the internet and curse the government's policies in chatrooms and various online forums (one blogger was even publicly praised by the ruling government for criticizing its policies)... I could go on and on :) And last but not the least, I can enjoy a total of 500 channels - both national and international - on TV, unlike in North Korea where they have just one or two channels for beaming state propaganda.
***** Superb! Here in Poland we are free people too! TV chanells as many as You want....
misiek vuychik That's great! Would love to visit your country sometime. My first introduction to Poland was through postage stamps - those colorful stamps with Polska written on them :) Indeed there's nothing better than democracy - a government for, of and by the people. But in dictatorial regimes you just have a government OF the dynasty (Kim dynasty here) AGAINST the people.
That is a very interesting point.
I like YOUR VOiCE.
It sounds FRiENDLY, EVEN COMiCAL. Suitable for a CARTOON CHARACTER. Fitting for N. Korea.
Triged
Haha most here keep complaining about my accent but this comment made me laugh!
Thank you for uploading. I find it very educational. Good job!
Amazing video. Thanks for your insights.
I wonder if those people ever seen a black person.
Hahaha
Yes. Actually, their Great Leader even has a black friend. Dennis Rodman, a pretty famous black basketballer from the US, went to North Korea to celebrate Mr Kim Jong Un's birthday. Search it up.
before that
+Tharore108 I don't think he counts ... :p
Have you seen any dogs and cats while you were in NK? I hope yes..
We saw parts of them in our soup yes. Sorry for that though.
+KoRadar1953 OH..
+KoRadar1953 Why does one intend to troll the individual while insulting the nation of The Democratic People's Republic of Korea in that manner?
Shut up, nobody insulted anyone. We had dog meat in our soup, I can't help it either.
+KoRadar1953 Your person is claiming a DPRK guide had openly expressed to your person that traces of dog meat were within one's soup? The scenario appears to be highly unlikely.
Wow very educational, thanks for sharing your trip to NK with us!
angel jarquin
Nice video! I think it's the first time I've been interested in watching fotos and videos from someone else's trip :)
Thank you for posting this video, it was very insightful and well done !
Great document , thank you so much for this upload !
This video was awesome! Thank you for sharing it!
Amazing. And, as a citizen-journalism document, it is really well done. Congratulations and many many thanks for sharing!
This was very well done and your presentation was excellent.
Thanks!
The video was great but what made it better was the excellent commentary. Great job!
thanks for this video. :) was so interesting to watch :)
Great video. Thanks for posting
mate amazing video. I have no idea what your accent is but that and your insights made this video thoroughly entertaining!
Nice video, thanks for posting.
Thank you. Fascinating. I've been to the DMZ from the south. Your commentary was great! :-)
Great piece! Keep up the good work!
hey bro... this is one of the best clip about ACTUAL north korea i have ever seen...great job mann.... love your ascent btw..!!! :)
Amazing documentary footage - good eye! Nice narration too. Kudos!!
Great documentary man! Very informative!
great doc, great narration! :)
Thanks, thanks for watching, take care :)
Thank you for sharing this vid the more I research NK on youtube the more I want to see. I enjoyed your narative as well.
That's the most interesting video I've ever seen!!!! Omg you did a beautiful job!
Interesting document, dude! Nice work!
Excellent video. Thank-you. Gives us a little insight as things are starting to heat up on the Korean peninsula again. Peace out everyone.
hey i just wanted to take a quick moment to say thank you for posting this video. it was very interesting.
Thanks for sharing some of your experience in North Korea. Excellent video and photos.
Great vid! Nice to have a tourist documentary with commentary.
Thanks for posting this... Very interesting.
Thanks for the insight. Probably one of the most interesting videos I've watched on CZcams to date. Something most Americans don't get a chance to see.
Excellent insight - well done!
Brilliant job dude! 👌🏼
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing.
Really cool video! Thank you!:)
Great video dude, really enjoyed what appeared to be an un-partizan view of DPRK
This is absolutely fascinating! You did an amazing, and ballsy, job!
Enjoyed the tour. Very interesting !
I like your video dude! Keep it up!
Really enjoyed ur video and commentary
Great video man!
Wonderful video!
Thank you so much.
You took a risk to film even though they did not want you to.
Thanks again.
Thank you for this excellent video. You seem to be a pleasant and decent person and your speech is extremely articulate, intelligent and agreeable to my ears.
thank you so much this was amazing
Excellent video. Enjoyed it very much.
wow ..... best video on ytube, i like the colour correction of your video.
Best regards from Lebanon
Nice job dude...well done.
Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting video in compare to other documentaries. You actually got to film and picture part of the daily life in NK, something really hard. Nice and thanks for the upload
nice vid, thanks for the upload.
Extremely well done. Narration very informative. This should be a top video on North Korea
This was really interesting and insightful. Most other videos focus too much on criticizing NK. Thank you for sharing this and taking the time to add commentary.
Nice commentary man :DDD
Well done! I'm impressed! More Please.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!!!
Very informative. Thank you!
Very interesting thanks for posting it.
You are lucky to be alive !! Wow , good video