I Went to North Korea. Here's the Shocking Truth 🇰🇵

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In today's video, I share my honest thoughts with you about North Korea after 4 years since my visit... I didn't mention in the video that I am one of the very last Americans to step foot in the country because a few months after I left, all Americans were banned from visiting (which is still in effect today).
I often think about North Korea and I wanted to take this time to re-tell my story, share my thoughts, and also get some feedback from you. What are your opinions about North Korea? Would you ever visit North Korea?
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Special thanks to my friends Hjalmer and Wander Wilbury for sharing some extra footage from your trips!
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How is no one talking about how cute this little girl is at 8:03 when she was about to eat her ice cream but took it out to bow towards the camera

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Yes, I find that very cute :) we didn't know the whole scenario but the fact that the little girl communicated through a simple gesture is really something, plus the smile! :)

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@@kevinboseman1461 Its asian culture bowing to older people and I did that too

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@@kevinboseman1461 it's just a sign of respect that you'd also find people doing elsewhere like South Korea or Japan.

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@@renny832 also China or India or Vietnam or Taiwan

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[@yuchan063]

2:22 As a South Korean, it is very sad for me to say that it was “One family chain”. My grandfather hadn't seen his family in North Korea since the Korean War, and he always looked at pictures and missed them, but he eventually passed away. Many of my friends have grandparents from separated families, and most of them never saw their faces again until they died.

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That is very sad, I know many Korean families were separated. It's easy to blame the Kim family in the North, but Stalin (and his growing rivalry with Churchill and Roosevelt) played a huge role in what happened on the day the Soviet and American occupations were supposed to end. Hopefully one day Korea will be one again.

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​@@jbm0866they play a huge role, absolutely. But for 2 generations now the Kim's, who have absolute power, have the complete control over the current situation. Truthfully there is no longer an excuse. :( the only thing that could save North Koreans is a revolution by their people, which is highly unlikely

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I was in the DPRK in 2014 for about a week, same tour group as yours, Koryo as well. We flew into Pyongyang from Beijing and saw a few of the sights there, then did an overland train across the country and spent nights in Wonsan, Hamhung, and Chongjin in the far northeast. I extended my tour too to Sinuiju and Dandong. My big highlight: shaking hands and saying “hello” in Korean to a little boy in Hamhung, probably his first time seeing a foreigner let alone connecting with one!

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7:43 loved the way how the girl greeted you...shows how they respect people..

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I was surprised that they allowed someone from another country to win!

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I was surprised that there were actual foreigners taking part.

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It felt staged after seeing your comment.

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Wow! Great story. Reminds me on Bulgaria in the 70‘s. You were only allowed to go to restaurants prepared for the tourists. The people looked all very depressed. In Sofia they all had pale faces. All looking on the ground running to their jobs. I had the feeling I am in a Kafka movie. So that is Communism at it‘s worst.

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Thanks Drew. I can really relate to your DPRK video. My interest in the DPRK was piqued a few years back by the captivating BBC series, ‘Michael Palin in North Korea’. Also, several years ago, my intrepid son (like you) visited Pyongyang for their annual marathon and was enthralled by the experience. I’m an Australian who's been living and working in Vietnam since 2017, and have taken every opportunity to explore neighbouring countries. So, back in late July 2019, and at very short notice (8 days), I managed to book a three-night, four-day sightseeing tour of the DPRK with Explore North Korea tour company in China. On the 25 July I joined a Chinese tour group at Shanghai’s Pudong Airport, and we caught the night flight to Pyongyang. I was the only Westerner in the group of forty wonderful Chinese tourists. I have lived and worked in China for a total of about four years, so I am very much a Sinophile! The airport at Pyongyang is modern, and the DPRK customs and immigration officials were polite and efficient. The tour began immediately after lunch on the first day and the itinerary was very full and very much designed for my Chinese companions. I discovered that there is a very strong bond between China and the DPRK. Food for thought. Fortunately, I was assigned an English speaking DPRK tour guide, Hong, who was extremely helpful, a fountain of knowledge, and good fun. When we first met, he did however ask me where I worked, and when I mentioned the American University in Da Nang, Vietnam, his brow wrinkled with that look of consternation. Whoops! ‘Nice weather today Hong...’ Hong was nonetheless surprisingly open in terms of the topics we discussed. Pyongyang is completely out of step with cities as we understand them: wide and bare and spotlessly clean tree-lined streets, with smartly dressed locals walking with purpose alone or in pairs. There is no advertising (save propaganda billboards), no shops or shopping centres that you could identify from other buildings, no crime, no graffiti, barely any traffic (a consequence of the sanctions) and giant candy-coloured government apartment blocks everywhere. On the second day, I was wandering through an exhibition and chatting idly with Hong when he said to me ‘We launched another missile yesterday. I was surprised to hear that!” I feigned shock and said jokingly “Quick get me out of here!” He grabbed my arm, and laughingly started to escort me away. He then looked at my arm (I had goose bumps from the chilly aircon) and said to me “You’ve got chicken skin!”. That evening we attended ‘The Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance Arirang’ at the 150,000 capacity May Day Stadium in Pyongyang. ‘The Mass Games’ involve 100,000 participants and performers. Spectacular! On the final day we visited the DMZ where, at a guide’s suggestion, I was afforded ‘the rare privilege as a foreigner’, of being photographed with a DPRK soldier (I do acknowledge that some readers might be ‘uncomfortable’ with that). Cheers! Paul LP

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@Phillip hanna And that's exactly what Drew DIDN'T do. He didn't glorify it, he was honest without getting political.

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He is though because he clearly doesn’t know the history of the Korean War what was the background and why North Korea is unAmerican.

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Your video inspired me to do more research on North Korea as an international relations student. NK is an isolated country and it’s extremely interesting in many aspects. Thank you for sharing an awesome video!

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Thanks Drew just for talking about Korea so that ppl around the world can have an idea what's going with these countries. Im from Seoul and my granpa was also refugee from north Korea. He almost got killed if he couldnt find a hide spot luckily somewhere in toilet while escaping. I'm now studying in US as graduate student and sometime I just got surprised by this significantly big contrast between the two same but different countries... We don't have a clue when this will end like how Germany did, and maybe it might not happen until I die. As a Korean this is emotional and very sad :(

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Such a unique experience you were able to have! I also taught English in Korea! I was there from 2017 until last fall and it is one of my favorite countries as well. Have you been able to hold onto the Korean you learned or have you lost most of it from lack of use? I learned a lot while living there and I'm actively trying to keep my ability to speak/read/write it because I think it is such a beautiful language

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I'm thinking about Malaysia now after you uploaded a video about North Korea...

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I went 2 times to North Korea, first time as tourist, I spent a 5 days tour there and as you mentioned in the video, its also for me the most interesting country in the world. After this 1st trip I had more questions then before and these brought me to write my master thesis about tourism in north korea. Basically about the motivation to travel there and how the perception is changing. At the beginning I wanted to collaborate with tour operators doing tours there but didnt get any positive response so I decided to do a tour again in order to get to know more people who travelled there and afterwards was conducting an online questionnaire. Summarising, I am glad to have done this so I was on my own trying to get to know more about this isolated country. Thank you for creating this content about NK, it always amazes me how other people experienced this country.

[@unique_mushroom]

what were your thoughts on being there? did it feel staged? what stereotypes or preconceived notions were challenged/reinforced? is there anywhere we could read your thesis? sounds very interesting. cheers

[@patgenest9961]

The perception is changing? An American tourist was returned to his family in a vegetable state no less than 10 years ago… North Koreans still eating crickets in prison camps..

[@andreasknogler8754]

@@unique_mushroom Obviously when you do a tour there, you will only visit places they want to show you. Individual traveling is with a few exceptions not possible and therefore a major limitation. Nevertheless, we had many random situations, e.g. when taking a break/walking randomly on a street where we had spontanous encounters with pedestrians which can't be staged. Stereotypical was definitely the repeating praising of the "great" leader by the North Korean tour guides.

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When you go there you are supporting a violent cruel regime. The leaders are lunatics and put many millions of their own people in prison…including their children and entire families.

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Kudos Drew. Wonderful insights as always.

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you were lived in south korea!! i found you by chance, and im south korean...amazing. and thanks for exact travel experience and deliver reality for seriously!

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I love your channel Drew! You are living my dream life! I’m originally from Liberia but I grew up in the US and still live here. Yes, of course I saw your video on Liberia! Lol. Btw, do you learn the languages of all these countries you visit?! Your life has gotta be crazy awesome and you’re probably one of the most well rounded people out there. Keep doing what you’re doing!!

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first of all thanks for that clear subtitles and clear voice of yours. so we can understand the English of yours...thanks buddy

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What about him? I keep looking.

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Small correction: The Korean Peninsula was already split before the Korean War, since the end of World War Two, as the US and Soviets both established regime-loyal governments for their own influence in their sides of the peninsula.

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Josef Stalin put Kim il sung in charge and that’s when it turned into the place it is today

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@@Mikamichae then kim il sung quickly quitted the soviet union

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Thanks WW2 😒

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Korea hasn't been united since 1910. Before 1945, Japan annexed Korea.

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@@Buttcakes15 i mean not trynna be that guy but before ww2 korea was part of Japan and life is pretty much the same as it was back during japanese times in North Korea (Aka. Terrible)

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Love from Nairobi, Kenya

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Great video! I am interested in Asia in general, hope to get the opportunity to visit South and north korea at some point! Cheers, stay healthy!

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I clicked so fast, North Korean soldiers failed to capture me trying to cross the border

[@SpicyMang0s]

Seriously? Tell the story pls

[@rhoydplaz2853]

@@SpicyMang0s he told a meme broo

[@SpicyMang0s]

@@rhoydplaz2853 no he’s telling the truth i want to know what happened

[@rhoydplaz2853]

@@SpicyMang0s oh your being sarcastic

[@SpicyMang0s]

@@rhoydplaz2853 perhaps

[@AnnuSia]

Can’t miss any videos of Drew! Such an inspiration

[@drewbinsky]

Thank you for your support 🙏🏻❤

[@thekiltedveteran]

Thanks man, good vids! I spent a year in Korea as a soldier back in '96. The only NK we experienced was constant propaganda being blasted at us from the North. Some of us would actually hallucinate during training because of it. We always wondered about Puyang, not much known about it at that time. Also caught malaria.

[@patrickjones1143]

Hi Drew, i was in North Korea in Dec 2018 for 5 days, pretty much the same experiences as you, i was however able to speak freely with citizens as i took the train to and from Dandong. I have also traveled to nearly every country in the world and agree that its a very interesting experience (when i was there only 6 people in our hotel yet everything was open and staff on duty 24h we were able to leave our rooms but not the hotel at night.

[@karapatriciaagbayani6373]

So much thoughts and I loved it! Aside from sharing the story of North Korea, your insights meant so much on the realities every country face day by day. That aside from all the beautiful places, there are indeed pressing issues that we (from other places/outsiders perspective) cannot see or unable to see. Glad that you’ve shared this. Fascinated and would want to visit this country soon.

[@taiger8088]

Drew, I’ve been following your channel ever since the North Korea video, and it’s honestly amazing to see how your content has improved greatly (not that it was bad to begin with). Keep doing what you do, and I hope that you’ll have even cooler experiences to share from traveling around the world!

[@darlenesimmons6065]

very intresting great information seems like wonderful lifestyle yes i love your videos

[@cjb8010]

Fascinating content. So very sad for those dear people. I visited Czechoslovakia while on active duty as a U.S. naval officer, 1985. What stunned me is that it was every bit as depressing and gloomy and sad as my advance information said it would be, and that was nowhere near the level of the DPRK.

[@laleluna8053]

Just a quick fact about the Pyongjang Metro: It was the public transport system of East Berlin, North Korea bought it after the German reunification. Also very interesting and high quality video you did there, Drew. I just love your channel because in many cases, it is just the only way to find out about some countries without the prejudice of western media. Thank you so much❤️. I hope that one day we can all be as one free people without repressing systems!

[@herodesees3767]

Actually the current rolling stock of the Pyongyang metro I'm pretty sure were the West Berlin ones, but yeah

[@laleluna8053]

@@herodesees3767 Maybe you're right, I'm not completely sure.

[@TankEngine75]

I'm a railway Enthusiast and I didn't know that! Well as they say,you learn something new everyday!

[@cthulhuseyelash6569]

@@herodesees3767 I think the Pyongyang subway trains are indeed from the former GDR/East Germany. I once watched a documentary about North Korea in which people from several countries shared their experiences in NK via video logs and it was super interesting. One of them was a guy who grew up in former East Berlin and he said stepping into the Pyongyang subway was like a slap to his face because he recognized the wagons from his youth in the GDR, only the paint was different. Unfortunately I can't find this documentary anymore. It was one of the older documentaries and I guess it has been deleted from KZbin which is a shame because it was super interessting what different people from different countries noticed about North Korea. The guy from East Germany focused on different things than the guy from the US, for example.

[@herodesees3767]

@@cthulhuseyelash6569 Actually were are two types of rolling stock in the Pyongyang metro. Originally there was both East Berlin and West Berlin rolling stock. The east Berlin metro was a slightly different type than then West Berlin ones. However, the Pyongyang metro these days only runs on the West Berlin ones. They have retired East German rolling stock.

[@susanlaurie7441]

Another awesome video, Drew, please come back to Canada some day and show the world our beautiful provinces.

[@mbvarun]

Guess, the video was really good. And thank you for follow-up video. NK is really an interesting country to visit.

[@nicolemascarenas7892]

Hi drew,I recently discovered your videos,I've been binging out on them ,and they are fantastic! In your north korea videos are really something.I can't put into words.Your outlook on life is beautiful.please keep making more videos❤

[@matas253]

So proud of this guy. I subscribed back when he had 80,000 subs

[@dhlee62]

Even though I am South Korean, it is so impressed what i can feel and see North Korea from your channel. and thank you for your effort!

[@ComputerCurry]

This is definitely better than your first video on the topic!

[@aqk9578]

I agree with ur opinion....keep going brudah ❤️🇮🇳

[@deemednot7024]

This is the main reason why im still comparing you to other traveller/s vloggers,content creators.I just found out that you being raw and natural is just satisfying.The way you deliver your opinions and sympathy towards people of a certain country makes it beautiful.

[@noidea01]

This is exactly what I want to see. Great content. You really said a lot about NORTH KOREA

[@annemcclearnon4231]

Great video!! I really enjoyed it! I'm reading "Under the same Sky" by Joseph Kim. It was great to see some video of North Korea so I can picture the area while reading the book. I feel so sorry for the North Korea people.

[@richardnichols8154]

I just got introduced to the videos. Love everyone I watched so far. Safe travels

[@nabinranamagar2695]

8:05 best part of this video... love this child ♥️♥️

[@haziqdanial03]

Yeay!!I'm early! I JUST FINISHED WATCH YOUR NORTH KOREA VIDEO!!

[@robertsilva8097]

Thank You For Sharing This Beautiful Video

[@dixgun]

Thank you for both documentaries on NK. Haven’t seen the ones you did featuring people who were born there, but have left.

[@MattKramerTravels]

Such an interesting perspective, thanks for sharing! Your story telling inspires me to improve my travel videos!

[@drewbinsky]

Thanks for watching 💕

[@athenaababy]

That gaves me goosebumps that how hard is their lifes. I hope one day all of them can live happly and people who made them live like this is just gone to anywhere where they cant make same things again

[@thesocialspectrum2464]

Very accurate observations

[@JohnSmith-qq4li]

I think you and your team are great kind people.

[@neelkanth3002]

Kim Jong Un wants to know your location.

[@brunomckeller3119]

No

[@bohyspendejo5121]

0:25 I thought it said sponsored by North korea xd

[@PR0KZi]

I am from Pakistan and it was soo nice to see that you loved my country.Plan your next visit soon plzz.Stay safe and I wish you the best ma guyy

[@akhilpendyala6394]

8:04 , cutest moment

[@divaaa1955]

I'm malaysian 🇲🇾. The average person here knows about the Malaysia-North Korea issue. We will continue to oppose and will not bow to the selfishness of North Korea and also oppose the insults from Malaysia's own neighbors.

[@yashcharanmahenthiran8989]

Kim tu cam budak tadika ah

[@user-kb1dw9kg9j]

which of Malaysia's neighbours insult Malaysia and regarding which matter?

[@mror6895]

You need to chill down and have some respect for your brothers and sisters .

[@Im.Your.God.]

Why so serious? Why dont you just ignore them? Whole world knows which country is in the right side. We are not blind.

[@ZetaR0yszawa]

Yes, that's right!

[@Varygain]

Great video as always, Drew! I was also able to go to North Korea in 2019, and just like you, I was naive and didn't know much about foreign cultures and didn't have a lot to put into perspective. My trip was very similar to yours, as I also went there during the Marathon event and it was indeed a unique experience to be able to run on the streets of Pyongyang without feeling restricted to a tour guide or the bus. Unfortunately I don't speak korean (yet), so I wasn't able to communicate with the locals just like you, although highfiving the kids was still absolutely surreal and remains one of the coolest things I've done to this day. :) I did go to South Korea 2 months later (as this was part of a 3 month long travel), and the contrast was just how you described it. Absolutely surreal! I did have the most amazing time in South Korea and definitely the most surreal time in North Korea. Oh btw! I see we stayed at the same hotel in North Korea! Did you also check out the casino in the basement? They actually had wifi down there when I was visiting. I was able to text my friends, but they freaked out and thought it was North Koreans who texted from my phone, since there was no way I should be able to text from inside North Korea haha! :D Stay safe! :)

[@nickcucchi]

That is the video I found you from! Keep up the great content Drew!

[@RUSLexplorer2020]

Thanks for sharing your experience ! Learnt many things !

[@Jacklee-ps3pi]

North Korea's embassy left Malaysia not long ago😁you just learned something

[@slaykween9]

Didn't leave Malaysia, it's that North Korea retracted the embassy from Malaysia after a controversy over a criminal case

[@Jacklee-ps3pi]

@@slaykween9 wow

[@Jacklee-ps3pi]

@@slaykween9 thank you

[@slaykween9]

@@Jacklee-ps3pi :)

[@Gildartz89]

@@slaykween9 malaysia did ask them to leave in 48 hours after NK severed ties with malaysia...they did covid test and then left in a bus all provided by malaysia government

[@rahmatahmad5947]

Love you bro You are my travel inspiration Thankyou for motivating me🤘

[@drewbinsky]

Thanks for watching 💕

[@carolemerle9995]

Drew, have you thought about doing a follow-up on the people you interviewed (like Evelyn) who escaped from North Korea and how they're doing now?

[@earlgreco8636]

Thanks for sharing such an interesting video allowing us to travel thru your eyes.

[@a0_l]

it's sad how people can't leave this country. i feel really really bad for them..

[@dragisa2015]

There is reason nk is poor, salary 60$ etc, if they allow people to leave, nk will lose tons of population and counrty would die.

[@kimilsung2608]

@@dragisa2015 reason why NK is poor is because of US led economic sanctions that make the lives of the people hard.

[@nedifar-haunts-you]

It's not a prison.

[@kimilsung2608]

Americans be like: Why is NK poor and depressing?! It's not as if sanction medical equipment or anything like that

[@a0_l]

@@nedifar-haunts-you i consider it a prison because people can’t even leave (if they are citizens and they’ll end up getting shot if they do, some people managed to escape it alive.) but ok then

[@elizabethmarie96]

This is awesome, the youtube algorithm has brought me videos about DPRK lately, for whatever reason, and now my favorite travel vlogger puts this out for us. Thank you, Drew! I've also thought about teaching in S. Korea but it's no longer feasible for me. Love seeing other people talk about these amazing experiences! I really hope to go to S. Korea one day 🤞

[@mrslick3366]

Man do what your doing love your videos your Awesome keep doing what your doing I love you stay safe(I do not love you in you know) I'm sure many people feel the same

[@thekingcellreacts8177]

Its amazing that u went to every place in the world

[@learntolove3683]

Hey Drew, thanks for all of your great content, your a great guy, in a bigger picture, what you are doing helps reunite us as a society. Being informed of other countries helps get rid of the closeminded stereotypes we tend to put on countries.

[@rubyparchment5523]

Amen!

[@rustyshackleferd875]

Drew out here stepping up his thumbnail game. Very cool.

[@Vincent12]

Yo😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tripgreat]

Hi Drew, you may enjoy seeing Fun for Louis and his visit to N Korea. I recognized your tour guide in this one, Louis Cole is from the UK, and has a lively KZbin channel. While in N Korea, he and his tour group taught this tour guide surfing, skateboarding, and made a video of her singing over shots of her surfing lessons. She was delightful and they made her laugh a lot. Really brought out her personality.

[@Limefilms]

8:05 this is the cutest part of the video