Myths & Misconceptions About North Korea | DEBUNKED

How close is North Korea to having a nuclear missile that can hit the USA? And can we really believe everything we hear about the secret state?
SOURCES: REUTERS, 38 NORTH, THE GUARDIAN, WASHINGTON TIMES, THE INDEPENDENT, NK NEWS, THE CONVERSATION, NTI, SBS AUSTRALIA, BBC, THE BULLETIN, NEWS WEEK, WASHINGTON POST, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK POST, THE DIPLOMAT, THE SMITHSONIAN, BLOOMBERG, AL JAZEERA, SPACE.COM, CSIS MISSILE DEFENSE PROJECT, LIVE SCIENCE, THE TELEGRAPH, EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA, YALE UNIVERSITY, AND NORTH KOREA’S HIDDEN REVOLUTION BY JIEUN BAEK.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Which other countries would you like to see covered?

[@joshlink2129]

Debunked Russia 🇷🇺

[@DavidRodriguez-qv5to]

Debunked Canada, democratic republic of Congo, and Israel!

[@MegaArMaN786]

Bangladesh!!! Pakistan, Germany, Albania.

[@GSC2000]

Debunked Canada please !!!

[@LouieCastro3]

USSR

[@joekim3307]

Do the USSR, no country has ever been lied about so much as the USSR .

[@petersmythe6462]

Like 800000, plus arguably 1200000 in Gulag. Even so "OMFG Saltin was horrifle monsert killdes billions of pepoles" is still nonsense.

[@joekim3307]

Peter Smythe i still would like to be able to speak Russian and read the reports on those prisoners . It cannot be a fucking coincidence that the gulags filled up during WW 2. And yes, the true numbers are so realistic , it’s almost like Stalin actually did a great job

[@MYG]

@@anton161817 Keyword, directly. Just because "only" 600k were directly executed doesn't mean the government wasn't responsible for the 62 million deaths. The Gulags killed plenty through terrible conditions, the system caused millions to starve, propaganda and the revolution had many killed as well. Stalin was in some part responsible for those deaths.

[@bellalizter7451]

@@MYG no there were no 60 million by stalin or 80 million by Mao. A one child policy was forced in China because their population got too high. Two rationales here for China: 1. Yes some died during its industrual revolution but so did British people died during theirs. Drastic environmental change does this 2. In canada, our standard of living is growing each year and our ckst of living is higher than real wages, our child rate goes down because we cant afford too many children Well im Chinas case millions were lifted out of poverty. Therefore real wages went up and capability to afford mire than one child. These 60-80 million is BS

[@user-qs2nr3ee6l]

@@joekim3307 oh yeahhh stalin what a great man

[@guritamarctiberiu1567]

About the unicorn lair: the original article in the korean media (which is public and can be found online on their sites) stated that a cave with a manuscript dating around 900-1300 has been found and the manuscript mentioned PyongYang as the capital of the Korean Empire, at the entrance of the cave the words: "unicorn lair" were found engraved. So basically they never claimed it really was an unicorn lair...

[@pedrob3953]

Just as in Europe, historical sites have often names that refer to myths and legends. When we talk about those sites we don't really believe in those legends, it's just a common name.

[@guritamarctiberiu1567]

@@pedrob3953 basically yes, but the media is really good at distorting the truth.

[@dsxa918]

Stuff like this makes it hard to consider media reports, even more - I don't speak Korean and this sounds like a better explanation than I've ever heard in news.

[@Ivan-xw5ol]

Thank you for making this video. Very few people are willing to debunk the propaganda and myths against the DPRK.

[@generalgk]

It’s actually a really great place to live

[@martthesling]

@@generalgk Yeah, I hear the food is great at North Korean Concentration Camps. Rat dumpling stew is awesome.

[@zulus548]

@@generalgk honestly yeah, it’s a country that relies on itself. All production in DPRK is ethically produced without the exploitation of any workers. And it’s not even a dictatorship, I’ve heard North Koreans talking about how the human rights of Americans sound horrible compared to DPRK. I mean it truly is a socialist state, the workers control the means of production. And it is democratic as well, they have a legitimate voting system. But once again people will think you’re crazy by saying this because DPRK is the biggest victim of anti-socialist propaganda.

[@MaoistTukhachevsky]

@@zulus548 I don't hate DPRK but as a socialist I have to agree that it's more like socialism under monarchy rule

[@AllGoodOutside]

But I suggest you immigrate there you sick f*** maybe Kim Jong-un will let you play with his many toys and palaces that he's built with his citizens sweat and blood you f****** puke m***********

[@Svorty]

This was very enlightening in comparison to all the hysteria the mass media is trying to produce just to get more viewers. Please, do keep up this awesome and blessed work of debunking the misconceptions.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks Svorty, we'll do our best.

[@MASSIVEMAN-wb1zx]

Why doesn't this channel have more subs? It has better production value than a lot of TV shows

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks Gotte Grisen

[@brads6304]

Gotte Grisen He's only been doing these exceptional videos since March of this year with only 8 thoroughly researched subject videos. Well, only uploading since this year. I imagine it's takes months to produce a single mini documentary.

[@petersmythe6462]

Channel challenges the Mainstream Media on North Korea? Obviously Google would never engage in censorship of... or would it?

[@GuiSama8000]

I'm glad i found this channel! This is amazing, and has such a great quality! I love it!!

[@cocofarianism4330]

Dude your channel is really fun to watch and I can tell it's gonna grow quickly congratulations and I am kinda jelly of you but also proud XD

[@SweetLilWren]

This is my first time on your channel, seen you on an all time 10s annnyyyy way. I really enjoyed this, subbed!

[@matthewsatthewsssss4115]

We will look back at this the same way we are looking back at the USA red scare.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks for watching, and helping us hit over 4000 subscribers! We hope we challenged some of your preconceptions about North Korea?

[@Hi-df2om]

Debunked Make a video about misconceptions of law school.

[@Hi-df2om]

Or Acting

[@chribbmechholst8194]

Can you make s video about communistic propaganda vs capitalistic propaganda or just communistic propaganda plz . PS Love your vids you are the best

[@hugogutierrez3991]

dude my mom was born in South Korea and lived there she problem knows more about North Korea than u

[@Hi-df2om]

Hugo Gutierrez *Probably

[@aussieknuckles]

Glad i found this channel. Look forward to future videos. Keep up the great work, editing is great.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks aussieknuckles, we'll get the next video as soon as we can, so stick with us.

[@kimilsungia7507]

Thank you for making this video. You don't even have to support the DPRK to acknowledge the lies being spread about it

[@darwingomez9341]

Isnt North Korea still bad tho (genuinely asking)

[@michaelf.4290]

@@darwingomez9341 no the world has no right to meddle in its affairs especially the U.S.

[@Lucretia916]

⁠@@darwingomez9341yes it is but America is worse

[@Im_a_Zionist]

​@@Lucretia916wtf

[@petersmythe6462]

Nice to see someone outside the hardline pro-DPRK side of the internet talk about this.

[@MJW238]

It would be nice to know about all the other authoritarian countries out there too, which are likely just as bad as North Korea, but which we never hear about in the media.

[@kucingcat8687]

I don think that the so called "hard-line pro DPRK" side of the story is much more crucial due to the fact that the mainstream media have fed us extremely anti-NK propaganda

[@NoverMaC]

Do Myths & Misconceptions Of China

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Great suggestion NoverMaC

[@wat9177]

I agree.

[@alexandrebony6221]

Great video!A lot of misconception about N.K

[@TheThunderQuake]

Wow, we're already seeing the consequences of the US pulling out of the Paris agreement, Portugal has already sunk beneath the waves in the map of this video which means I am currently living underwater.

[@milomhoek]

I know right!

[@cenourattis]

ta bom, ta calor

[@xxch1coriaxx]

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[@Becks1917]

Thank you so much for a truthful video on the DPRK

[@adrone2669]

Great video!

[@meoweth829]

Once I saw one of your videos, i got hooked and wanting more and waiting. *MORE!* I’d like to see a cover about the philippines’ president

[@ThumbWiggler]

This video is very well made! I love it!

[@DebunkedOfficial]

+ Thanks ThumbWiggler, we hope you learnt something new

[@StaticImage]

Well. This video sure didn't go the way I had expected. And I like that.

[@thomasmuntzerreal]

3:38 guess what? The real article talked about the discovery of the tomb of an ancient emperor which was related to unicorns in myths, the West totally distorted it

[@williamlandim5408]

Apparently, the word for unicorn in Korean seems to be related to this creature present in East Asian folklore. Plus, that king also apparently had a giraffe or something like that, which might explain the whole unicorn thing.

[@thomasmuntzerreal]

@@williamlandim5408 yes I think that was the Chollima!

[@thaadimattayya3369]

That's pretty good research and original!! Keep up your Good work. Cheers!

[@petersmythe6462]

The other thing people forget is that DPRK's army isn't a couple nukes somewhere. It has more soldiers than Russia, more tanks than Latin America combined, entire industries in nuke-hardened bunkers, and civilian infrastructure like subway systems built from the ground up to take a nuclear strike.

[@thearithmos3408]

nice, the quality is good , the content is very informative and amusing ,,hehehe..

[@mapoff]

You guys work hard to make these videos.

[@TwinRiver100]

Thanks for the debunk vid, was really interesting to learn. seeing the thumbnail I thought maybe you were going to talk about how Kim Jong Il made his Kaiju movie by kidnapping this director and his wife at one point. I thought maybe you were going to say that was overly exaggerated and breakdown what really happened.

[@kiviassumi1174]

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” ― Abraham Lincoln

[@TheTonyahawk]

Very informative, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I completely agree with your assessment that Kim Jong Un can't be that suicidal enough to start WWIII. It would have been nice though if you had gone into thier relations with China and Russia. just a thought.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks TheTonyahawk. We did start to investigate this avenue too, but as this was the longest video we'd made so far, we decided to end it at the US and South Korea.

[@TheTonyahawk]

Looking forward to the update!!

[@masterpirate1227]

Debunked and u nailed it 😃😃😃

[@Azathoth43]

@@DebunkedOfficial The US is just the worst. The UK too. When are you guys trowing out that awful "royal" family? So gross.

[@jdmking4776]

Great video! I foresee 1,000,000+ subs in the future for this channel.

[@caffe1n8ed]

Oooo so close so close to being right!

[@jdmking4776]

@@caffe1n8ed Damn. 6 years ago. Thats scary lmao

[@TheIzinator]

I really liked this video, provides another view on the country.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks, we aim to present what's behind the face of it all.

[@Titano_Tarocco]

@Huawei sucks sheisse so the media are authorized to spread Fake news?

[@Titano_Tarocco]

@Huawei sucks sheisse I was talking about the western media spreading them, the news about the man killed by 120 dogs ended being in the italian national channel, and I discovered that it was fake only 5 days ago

[@Titano_Tarocco]

@Huawei sucks sheisse wait you misunderstood, I saw the news around 3 or 4 years ago and I discovered that it was fake only this week, and there's no need to make bad things worse(exaggerating and creating absurd fake news) just look at "escape from camp 14" ,the more the time pass the more it seem that it was mostly made up. What I'm trying to say is that only because a country is bad doesn't mean that the others are authorized to spread Fake News are just straight up BS

[@gnbman]

It is good to know that there are people there trying to change things for the better.

[@SLACKLINEDUDE]

This needs an update

[@BigJanana]

Your channel blew up quickly.

[@terrideleon6350]

Do you also do thoughty2?

[@high-lowtrickshots9179]

I luv ur chanel

[@charlesdaloz2547]

8:34 love how Portugal ain't on the map lmao

[@BaSsGaZ]

Very well made video! Media is a powerful tool, especially on the minds of the non-critical thinking sheeple!

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks!

[@Azathoth43]

It's kinda weird that the Media is always so wrong about everything unless I agree with it.

[@irradiatedoreo1130]

Wow so many things I learned that I never knew before

[@nanagaming9731]

Why are u playing andy and the prehistoric adventures music in the background 🤔😭

[@yourmom2275]

debunk if it's ok to wake sleepwalkers! great video

[@DebunkedOfficial]

+Your Mom Good suggestion thanks

[@fulanitoflyer]

They got it now baby! Let's charcoal paint earth! ( Awesome channel btw)

[@JustMe-lg4be]

Great video but where is Portugal? 8:35 😢😂😂😂

[@xasthurwithin4178]

DVDs and western movies aren't illegal in the DPRK. Smartphones are widely distributed and when I visited the DPRK, they showed Frozen in a movie theatre. Many kids also were fans of European football clubs like FC Barcelona or Manchester United, and the games are broadcasted on state TV. There is also an international movie festival in Pyongyang that features indie flicks and alternative directors from Europe. The DPRK isn't nearly as closed off as people seem to assume.

[@elliotyourarobot]

What's it like? I'm around South East Asia and when I heard about them I wanted to visit.

[@engineergaming1669]

You know they show tourists a facade right? Everything you saw was a setup

[@davidstrelec610]

@@engineergaming1669 Theres no evidence everything is a setup

[@sahilrijwani]

​@@davidstrelec610 it's basic logic. You aren't allowed to travel alone, you aren't allowed to leave your hotel without your guide, you aren't allowed to shop in local shops that the government deems "not for tourists" or in other words "unauthorised"

[@paulussturm6572]

@@sahilrijwaniBasic logic dictates that at the urban centres they show you on purpose, in a country of 22 million people, you see thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people while being escorted by your guide. Your claim would necessitate all of them not only being willingly part of an elaborate charade to faithfully recreate all the minutia of normalcy, but to absolutely excel at it. If “basic logic”, to you, dictates that not only is this possible but no other option exists, to say I worry about your judgement would be a grave understatement.

[@israelwolstein9351]

What to do about North Korea? Nothing What has North Korea done to you? How does North Korea negatively affect anyone in the west?

[@inkaz2133]

Israel Wolstein the United States is still firm on its “anti communist anti socialist” beliefs and just want to impose sanctions on the DPRK to make everyone’s life there a living hell.

[@Azathoth43]

@@inkaz2133 Why does the DPRK need the US?

[@sayaksen7545]

@@Azathoth43 Most of the world needs them due to many successful companies in many different industries needing the products,and the US sanctions countries not just from the USA but allies as well Most socialist countries' were actually thriving before the USA sanctioned them

[@nonameprivate4689]

@@sayaksen7545 yeah US is like the guy who shot someone in foot and then ask why is he walking like that

[@TheTruth-ul6pm]

This channel will have at least 1mill subs after one year

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Wow! That's quite the compliment. Thanks!

[@jdnimal]

WTF why didn't it happened

[@jdnimal]

@@DebunkedOfficial but it didn't worked

[@utkarshrai3313]

@@jdnimal not even after 4 yrs😳🤯

[@swanthechosenone3975]

I would like to have link to the footage of the protests

[@bloom2105]

this is so interesting!!

[@jackikr6204]

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[@M4XC4V413R4]

I didn't get the part where you say they wouldn't be able to get rid of the nukes without detonating them. Why would you need to detonate a nuclear weapon to get rid of it? Unlike conventional explosives, a nuclear weapon won't just explode for anything other than the specific detonation sequence, which varies depending on the type of nuclear weapon it is. This mean it won't just explode for no reason, or from moving it, or dropping it, or because of heat or any other thing.

[@vanomisoo2492]

Thanj you

[@milomhoek]

8:41 why isn't Portugal on the map?

[@jonspilling9118]

c.9.00 what happened to Portugal? Where did it go?!

[@therealbs2000]

7:19 oh...this is an especially old and crude trick here. bring the father in to discredit the son...next day, son admits to trying to keep his father from being harrassed by the federales

[@whammywatermelon]

the amount of mental gymnastics you had to go through to bend this fact to fit your narrative is insane

[@plet0707]

Ummm, is the channel shutting down? Because I mean usually there are a few weeks in between videos and now it's 2 months since this was uploaded.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Hi Jesper0707 951. We are a very small team and we make our videos around our regular jobs. We've had a few videos on the back burner but unfortunately haven't had time to complete them. We're hoping to have a new video up next week. Thanks for sticking with us!

[@plet0707]

Awesome, i really enjoy your stuff and it would be a shame if it ended so early, good to hear you're still going strong :D

[@laetrille]

Yes!!! Make More!!

[@DebunkedOfficial]

We have a new video out on December 23rd

[@caydene7049]

This channel is underrated lol

[@TomAndyStripe]

Do little math if its even 200 000 oversee workers they cant physically produce so much money 1.2 b more like 400 000 million at best and thats without food and everything (accounting for minimal wage in every country..)

[@midoplayzz7601]

Do what is happening in Syria and when war could end in Syria pls I wanna know

[@SoWhat1221]

16:30 "even if it was possible to destroy all of them, they wouldn't be able to strike without causing them to detonate, creating a mushroom cloud across the Korean Peninsula" Nonsense. Making a nuclear weapon explode properly is very difficult when you're actually trying to do it, and you definitely can't do it by accident. If *anything* is out of sequence in the detonation of a nuclear weapon, it will fail to create runaway fission/fusion. Such an event might scatter radioactive material in a small area, but it definitely won't create a mushroom cloud. Unless you activate a nuclear bomb in *just* the right way, what you have is just a conventional bomb which scatters radioactive material, AKA a dirty bomb. The only way you'd get a mushroom cloud in such a scenario, would be if the conventional explosive you dropped on the nuke was powerful enough to create one by itself.

[@jamiegagnon6390]

Yep, he lost me completely when he spouted that line of bullshit.

[@easy8690]

@@jamiegagnon6390 It's a figure of speech not meant to be taken literally you dolt. He's saying that nukes would be dropped.

[@owenstevens5139]

no mention of Jeju Uprising or the Bodo League massacre

[@tomkenning5482]

Weibo isn't a blog, it's a blog platform, like chinese twitter.

[@prodbyicha]

well 1 month later they can hit all the way to alaska

[@israelwolstein9351]

People still believe so many lies about WWII . You should do a debunk about WWII

[@venuspluto67]

So what are the names of the two provinces from which the majority of NK defectors in SK originate? I would really like to know and was a little disappointed you didn't shade those provinces in on the map that was on the screen!

[@DebunkedOfficial]

North Hamgyong Province and Ryanggang Province Here’s one of the articles we based this video on: www.nknews.org/2017/10/where-do-the-majority-of-north-korean-defectors-come-from/

[@nathnathn]

One thing i don't get on the nuke thing is that even without icbms if they could get it on a civilian appearing ship they would only need more of a cruise missile and they don't really have to be accurate since a nuke going of anywhere inhabited is a disaster.

[@prodtheontar]

8:35 Where the heck is Portugal?

[@unscriptedinc7083]

Just found this channel. +1 sub

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks Julio!

[@unscriptedinc7083]

Debunked Hahaha still watching the video when you replied.

[@garcemac]

What a fantastic, level-headed video.

[@DebunkedOfficial]

Thanks, we aim to look behind the crazy headlines and investigate the facts.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

4.00 the "internet hands" thing

[@Davidplex]

Little Rocket Man

[@carlosbah4623]

Debunked Kamarada, sponsored by the beloved leader.

[@Saitaina]

We already know they can hit US Territory, it's called Guam. You mean the mainland.

[@thegustavodag]

Dude, 2 thousand KM up is *very* high for a missile

[@matthew5386]

0:08 no it hasnt? Sure i even know people who have gone there

[@whammywatermelon]

same, this is such slander, its extremely easy for tourists to go there as long as they aren't from countries that are trying to declare war on them

[@MultiTerpen]

I dont belive media at all anymore. I need to see the hard facts for myself.

[@disco1974ever]

Thanks for this.

[@norma8686]

Okay, should we be worried?

[@thelastprime3351]

Did Portugal sink o something?

[@xxch1coriaxx]

Thelastprime ?

[@zacharymontana9911]

IKR WTF

[@mathiasskovsblandersen7557]

About denmark and about how not everybody is rich

[@KneeoGeeo]

The great escape defector video is 100% fake.

[@dulvab9968]

It's not fake, he actually defected but not for a "better life" he defected because he murdered someone and didn't want to face the consequences of his actions.

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

7:43 -- "Korean Nationality Regidents Society" Oops.

[@UserHD143]

subbed my english friend

[@Freeaviator]

8:35 Portugal: im out

[@tonytheslugger]

When he says I’m “sh-chew” lol 😂

[@orothil]

Turkey would be interesting as well

[@generalgk]

I would love to see Michael Malice debunk this video

[@RazberryTech]

Was the thing about North Korean translating the Diary of Anne Frank as propaganda against the U.S. debunked? I remember hearing that all the time in junior high.

[@CAsnowman]

That escape from camp 14 guy said his parents were killed for planning to escape I don’t understand how his dad said some of it was false????

[@jackandersan3219]

Portugal is missing in the map. 8:16

[@olivialiive2309]

North Korea may be a horrible, oppressive nation, however it isn't hell on earth, and that's something a lot of us forget.

[@elliotyourarobot]

Like Singapore

[@Shawshank_nn]

Do you also work for all time conspiracies? 😰

[@Dhanushh]

Very much Informative. Debunk Syria or other Arab nations or ISIS

[@jdgoldvoxvoxcast1168]

nice thumb nail M888

[@northernninety7]

Can we just not have another war?

[@wat9177]

At least nothing in Germany. uhh... And in other countries! By the way, this has Quality like a real TV show! Seriously.

[@jort93z]

i wouldn't be too sure about that. there are american nukes stationed in germany and germany is a lot closer than the US mainland. And they handle those nukes quite roughly. they used drop them on concrete every couple of years in the cold war.

[@Dragoncam13]

Didn't kim jong un live in the U.S. at one point?

[@crispanm]

what if they got close with a boat?

[@GMPStudios]

Do myths and misconceptions on India.

[@timothypetrochilos9035]

there is no such thing as re entering the atmosphere because you can't leave it