All sources are in the description. I want to thank all of you for your patience with me these past couple of months as my content has slowed to a trickle. It is my intent to focus more on quality over quantity, so I hope this video will be good enough to earn your forgiveness, haha. For those of you who are waiting for the next movie review, fear not, a new episode of NKMR is coming up next! Stay tuned.
I'm three years late to the party, but I appreciate your insight into this! I've tried to research women's rights in NK before but found a lot of the coverage to be quite dismissive of either their intelligence or their suffering, sometimes both. Great video!
Congrats on another great episode! Sorry for late comments, life is hard right now :D It's interesting to hear the mention of stakhanovite. I had no idea this term ever traveled outside of the USSR. Also, what you said about women being allowed to get a job, but having to do it alongside their regular duties - this seems to be exactly like in USSR and China. P. S. Please stop using Silent Hill music :D
@@NorthKoreaUncovered no, I like that music very much! I just think it's overused. Every mystery/conspiracy/documentary/atmospheric video uses that. And I feel like it (no offence) cheapens the original soundtrack. Cause now every time I play Silent Hill I'm gonna feel like it's not a music unique to this game, but a music that I've heard a million times on a million videos covering a range of topics :/ Not blaming you, mind you. The situation is pretty bad as it is 🤷♂️
@@Pyro-Moloch Damn I’ve actually never noticed people using the OST before. Hell the only reason I use it is because the royalty free tracks on CZcams as they are, are awful. I’ll look to some alternatives to be sure
this was really welll done thank you so much! btw i am pretty sure nk has rona, theres an al jezeera article out there that says the official propaganda admits it to its citizens, and there was the accusation of a detector returning with covid that sk didn't confirm
There are no public organizations to my knowledge that smuggle goods into NK for the purpose of charity. I mean you could say LINK does this, but there’s no way to verify that LINK actually does what they say they do. And I’m extremely skeptical of the scale of their alleged achievements. There are smugglers from China who make cross border trips but these are for the purpose of trade (making a profit) and they certainly aren’t in any organized state. The only people I’m aware of who semi-do what you’re asking are the people who send snacks and USB drives via small balloons from South Korea over the border. Such acts aren’t very helpful however and are redundant these days as the idea that North Koreans are starving and unaware of the outside world is twenty years out of date.
@@NorthKoreaUncovered I know north koreans have some contact with the outside world. But what is hygiene like? do people from China ever smug north korean women birth control? What about tooth brushes or tooth paste or toilet paper do they get their hands on that? I heard south Koreans fill bottles with rice and USBs of information and throw those bottles down a river that leads to north korea. Do those bottles help at all? Do they even make it?
@J P You won't find it on CZcams. naenara.com.kp/main/index/en/history Follow this link then click on the lower left where it says "folk songs". 'Girls Song' should be near the bottom.
I saw your video I do have to make one comment. Your claims that men just beat their wives to almost of the death do you have evidence to back this up? I mean I know men can be jerks but it seems a little strange that the men have no skills except being beat up their wives close to death. I don't know how else to put it. I know as well men are bigger then women too but all studies on dv have shown that women initiate them as much as men do in all cultures sometimes slightly more then men do. The woman's movement has politicized DV for gender politics which people use selectively for their own agenda's. Each country can accuse the other of abusing women by using these claims but the reality is much more nuanced. And as someone that grew up in an abusive home with a mother was abusive it wasn't to the point of death or black and blue just to intimidate. I was a kid and it did work.. But the women are adults and yes they are smaller but it just seems very convenient to say that men have this one skill that if they were so abusive how would they know to stop right before death. I would think that is they are full of rage it would lead to death. Just saying. You're narrative just doesn't seem correct to me that the men have no skills except for this. If they had few skills i would think they are not so skilled in physical area's either. Just my own experience a lot of men don't even know how to fight. Again, not that this is right, but what you are saying sounds the DV gender politics more then reality. And that women can't fight back by throwing things at them or doing anything. It just doesn't soune real to me but propaganda that North Korea a lot of women exaggerate victimhood to get ahead. Nothing unusual about that.
Refer to the disclaimer at the beginning of the video. As well as the pinned comment that states that all sources are in the description. Also, I never said men had no skills. I clearly stated that men have to report to their place of work by law even though they receive no pay. This is why women predominantly earn the money, not men. It has nothing to do with “skills”.
@@NorthKoreaUncovered I just looked at the first thee and the 3rd link on DV seems to only be one way. It completely assumes that DV is only done by men. This just isn't true in the first place. If you are going to do a study you also have to do a study on what percent of men have faced violence from women. If you only study one side of it that is a skewed study in the first place. Also how about interviewing children. Were they abused by the father, by the mother, etc. DV has been completely been politicized by women who want to use DV for their own victimhood to get ahead. They have sadly weaponized the DV movement for their selfish ends and even lawyers know this. I mean as well if women are obsessed with material goods that also doesn't suggest they are being abused. If you are being abused all the time you are not focused on material goods. I am just you are certainly not helping North Korean if you are using sources to claim women are abused that are not doing studies that are fair and that recognize that women engage in physical abuse as well. What is also sad is in the DV movement women take priority over children. Anyone who lives in the real world knows that this idea that family problems and serious family problems take many forms and they are not even about gender many times which is what the DV people think sadly. Like I said of course DV is not acceptable but to stop it you can't just pretend only men engage in it.
@@alk158 There are very few sources on North Korea, to begin with. North Korea with the rare exception doesn't release official statistics on crime. There likely aren't going to by any real statistics on DV against men because there are barely any statistics for DV against women. Even if there were, I wouldn't include it because the video is about women in North Korea and the struggles THEY go through. The video isn't called "Women In North Korea and the struggles which can also happen to men but are underreported". Absolutely nobody is claiming, or even insinuating that only women are victims of DV. Obviously, that is demonstrably untrue. It also isn't the point and at no point did I say anything resembling that. DV isn't even the main point of the video, why would I waste time going on a tangent to talk about a topic that has nothing to do with the video just to state the obvious? You're preaching to the choir with an agenda that isn't relevant to the topic at hand and you don't have a single argument that doesn't involve putting words in my mouth.
@@NorthKoreaUncovered Whatever. It just sounds the issue of DV in North Korea is the same thing you hear women say in every other country which again is based on only interviewing them so of course you get a skewed understanding of it because they know they can say whatever they want. Western women do the same thing because DV assumes the man is guilty until proven innocent in many cases if the guy is not a famous guy. It is sad but that is the reality that most studies are done in a way that women know they can say whatever they want and no input from anyone else if it is true. That is true in the USA. Not just North Korea. That is the irony is and what is said sounds not much different then women elsewhere but without any fact checking.
I dont think Korean women back then made it specifically a goal to stay home and give borth to as many boys as possible like you said in the beg. although males are highly favored and desirable in Asian culture in general but the way this guy was describing these so-called “facts” all need to be looked at again, a lot of the things hes spewing doesn’t sound right. I’ve been Korean my whole life so I know a little tiny bit about my kind.
What you “feel” to be right is not the arbiter of what is true or false. You’re free to look at all of the sources I’ve provided to see for yourself. Being korean doesn’t make your opinion about your own kind infallible.
All sources are in the description.
I want to thank all of you for your patience with me these past couple of months as my content has slowed to a trickle. It is my intent to focus more on quality over quantity, so I hope this video will be good enough to earn your forgiveness, haha.
For those of you who are waiting for the next movie review, fear not, a new episode of NKMR is coming up next! Stay tuned.
My second favorite series you do. Right after movie reviews of course
A review will be next :)
13:01 Sorry, I got a little distracted there by your stellar choice for music.
A man of culture
13:03 kudos for using music from Silent Hill 2, very fitting.
Your videos are just the best
Good stuff, very well put together.
I'm three years late to the party, but I appreciate your insight into this! I've tried to research women's rights in NK before but found a lot of the coverage to be quite dismissive of either their intelligence or their suffering, sometimes both. Great video!
Never too late to this party :) welcome
Congrats on another great episode!
Sorry for late comments, life is hard right now :D
It's interesting to hear the mention of stakhanovite. I had no idea this term ever traveled outside of the USSR.
Also, what you said about women being allowed to get a job, but having to do it alongside their regular duties - this seems to be exactly like in USSR and China.
P. S.
Please stop using Silent Hill music :D
Happy to see you're still around! Do you have something against Silent Hill music lol?
@@NorthKoreaUncovered no, I like that music very much! I just think it's overused. Every mystery/conspiracy/documentary/atmospheric video uses that. And I feel like it (no offence) cheapens the original soundtrack. Cause now every time I play Silent Hill I'm gonna feel like it's not a music unique to this game, but a music that I've heard a million times on a million videos covering a range of topics :/
Not blaming you, mind you. The situation is pretty bad as it is 🤷♂️
@@Pyro-Moloch Damn I’ve actually never noticed people using the OST before. Hell the only reason I use it is because the royalty free tracks on CZcams as they are, are awful. I’ll look to some alternatives to be sure
So the men in films like "Two Families in Haeun Dong" or "Myself in the distant future" are good examples of misogyns North Korean Boomers.
Da. I’ve reviewed those films as well.
Hey man can you please translate the song 'In the spirit of the arduous march' great channel!
I’ll be sure to get around to it soon. 😁
Some of the defector stories are quite shocking, really contrasts with the 'Women are Flowers' translation you posted a few weeks ago!
Reality can often be depressing.
this was really welll done thank you so much! btw i am pretty sure nk has rona, theres an al jezeera article out there that says the official propaganda admits it to its citizens, and there was the accusation of a detector returning with covid that sk didn't confirm
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your comments 😁
I trust Al Jazeera as far as I can throw them tbqh tho.
You should do a video on children in north korea
Name of the song at the start?
Are there any North Korean dances?
Do you know any organzations that smug goods to North korea? There's so many things I want to send to north korea to help those poor people
There are no public organizations to my knowledge that smuggle goods into NK for the purpose of charity. I mean you could say LINK does this, but there’s no way to verify that LINK actually does what they say they do. And I’m extremely skeptical of the scale of their alleged achievements.
There are smugglers from China who make cross border trips but these are for the purpose of trade (making a profit) and they certainly aren’t in any organized state.
The only people I’m aware of who semi-do what you’re asking are the people who send snacks and USB drives via small balloons from South Korea over the border. Such acts aren’t very helpful however and are redundant these days as the idea that North Koreans are starving and unaware of the outside world is twenty years out of date.
@@NorthKoreaUncovered I know north koreans have some contact with the outside world. But what is hygiene like? do people from China ever smug north korean women birth control? What about tooth brushes or tooth paste or toilet paper do they get their hands on that? I heard south Koreans fill bottles with rice and USBs of information and throw those bottles down a river that leads to north korea. Do those bottles help at all? Do they even make it?
The background of this film is 1910. Poor does not mean bad! DPRK is just poor, not bad. Do not abuse the poor!
also whats the intro song it sounds cool
“Girls song” 😁
@J P You won't find it on CZcams.
naenara.com.kp/main/index/en/history
Follow this link then click on the lower left where it says "folk songs". 'Girls Song' should be near the bottom.
Anyone know the name of the song in the beginning?
It's called Girls Song. You won't find it on youtube. You'll have to search through music archives on Naenara.
@@NorthKoreaUncoveredcan you post the song on CZcams pls
@@RedBird7 I can do a translation of it maybe. Sure
aaaaaaaahhhh yesss
Have you ever or do you ever plan on visiting NK?
It is currently illegal for US Citizens to visit the DPRK per US Federal Law.
@@NorthKoreaUncovered damn that sucks. I know this is not very smart but I honestly want to go just out of pure curiosity.
@@user-ov1ps7go4m I still plan on going whether it’s legal for me to do so or not. It’s just not likely to be in the near future.
@@NorthKoreaUncovered same. But we gotta be absolutely careful or else we’ll end up like Otto Warmbier.
I saw your video I do have to make one comment. Your claims that men just beat their wives to almost of the death do you have evidence to back this up? I mean I know men can be jerks but it seems a little strange that the men have no skills except being beat up their wives close to death. I don't know how else to put it. I know as well men are bigger then women too but all studies on dv have shown that women initiate them as much as men do in all cultures sometimes slightly more then men do. The woman's movement has politicized DV for gender politics which people use selectively for their own agenda's. Each country can accuse the other of abusing women by using these claims but the reality is much more nuanced. And as someone that grew up in an abusive home with a mother was abusive it wasn't to the point of death or black and blue just to intimidate. I was a kid and it did work.. But the women are adults and yes they are smaller but it just seems very convenient to say that men have this one skill that if they were so abusive how would they know to stop right before death. I would think that is they are full of rage it would lead to death. Just saying. You're narrative just doesn't seem correct to me that the men have no skills except for this. If they had few skills i would think they are not so skilled in physical area's either. Just my own experience a lot of men don't even know how to fight.
Again, not that this is right, but what you are saying sounds the DV gender politics more then reality. And that women can't fight back by throwing things at them or doing anything. It just doesn't soune real to me but propaganda that North Korea a lot of women exaggerate victimhood to get ahead. Nothing unusual about that.
Refer to the disclaimer at the beginning of the video. As well as the pinned comment that states that all sources are in the description.
Also, I never said men had no skills. I clearly stated that men have to report to their place of work by law even though they receive no pay. This is why women predominantly earn the money, not men. It has nothing to do with “skills”.
@@NorthKoreaUncovered I just looked at the first thee and the 3rd link on DV seems to only be one way. It completely assumes that DV is only done by men. This just isn't true in the first place. If you are going to do a study you also have to do a study on what percent of men have faced violence from women. If you only study one side of it that is a skewed study in the first place. Also how about interviewing children. Were they abused by the father, by the mother, etc. DV has been completely been politicized by women who want to use DV for their own victimhood to get ahead. They have sadly weaponized the DV movement for their selfish ends and even lawyers know this. I mean as well if women are obsessed with material goods that also doesn't suggest they are being abused. If you are being abused all the time you are not focused on material goods. I am just you are certainly not helping North Korean if you are using sources to claim women are abused that are not doing studies that are fair and that recognize that women engage in physical abuse as well. What is also sad is in the DV movement women take priority over children. Anyone who lives in the real world knows that this idea that family problems and serious family problems take many forms and they are not even about gender many times which is what the DV people think sadly. Like I said of course DV is not acceptable but to stop it you can't just pretend only men engage in it.
@@alk158 There are very few sources on North Korea, to begin with. North Korea with the rare exception doesn't release official statistics on crime. There likely aren't going to by any real statistics on DV against men because there are barely any statistics for DV against women. Even if there were, I wouldn't include it because the video is about women in North Korea and the struggles THEY go through. The video isn't called "Women In North Korea and the struggles which can also happen to men but are underreported".
Absolutely nobody is claiming, or even insinuating that only women are victims of DV. Obviously, that is demonstrably untrue. It also isn't the point and at no point did I say anything resembling that. DV isn't even the main point of the video, why would I waste time going on a tangent to talk about a topic that has nothing to do with the video just to state the obvious? You're preaching to the choir with an agenda that isn't relevant to the topic at hand and you don't have a single argument that doesn't involve putting words in my mouth.
@@NorthKoreaUncovered Whatever. It just sounds the issue of DV in North Korea is the same thing you hear women say in every other country which again is based on only interviewing them so of course you get a skewed understanding of it because they know they can say whatever they want. Western women do the same thing because DV assumes the man is guilty until proven innocent in many cases if the guy is not a famous guy. It is sad but that is the reality that most studies are done in a way that women know they can say whatever they want and no input from anyone else if it is true. That is true in the USA. Not just North Korea. That is the irony is and what is said sounds not much different then women elsewhere but without any fact checking.
I dont think Korean women back then made it specifically a goal to stay home and give borth to as many boys as possible like you said in the beg. although males are highly favored and desirable in Asian culture in general but the way this guy was describing these so-called “facts” all need to be looked at again, a lot of the things hes spewing doesn’t sound right. I’ve been Korean my whole life so I know a little tiny bit about my kind.
What you “feel” to be right is not the arbiter of what is true or false. You’re free to look at all of the sources I’ve provided to see for yourself. Being korean doesn’t make your opinion about your own kind infallible.