North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program

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[@dave2.077]

its actually impressive how a 11 year old can speak a nearly perfect brittish english

[@kinght676]

Same

[@oscarandria]

not really. If she went to an international or English school, in china probably as her dad was the ambassador (I think that's what sam said), she learnt it there.

[@balpreetsingh6834]

She most probably studied outside DPRK for some years, or had private tutors, considering she is part of the elite.

[@jonas1015119]

had to laugh when she said bonkers, its like you taught someone perfect british english without ever having seen the UK

[@dave2.077]

@@jonas1015119 yes exactly. that one seemed so out of place...well maybe because it literally is

[@lordsiomai]

Never thought I'd see the day where I hear a North Korean 11-year-old say "bonkers" in a perfectly British accent, but here we are.

[@KorporaalHax]

Flipping bonkers, yeah?

[@AdamMGTF]

As someone who lives in great Britain I can promise you that's NOT a British accent. I mean. There is no such thing as a British accent. But I mean it's not an accent you'd hear anywhere in the British isles. I'm not deriding her language skills which are amazing. Just saying

[@trstmeimadctr]

The most surprising thing I learned today is that youtube wasn't banned in North Korea until 2016

[@TheRavenir]

Basically no one even had access to the internet in North Korea until recently, so they probably just didn't even have to bother banning it for the longest time.

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

No point banning it if nearly the entire country is restricted from accessing the internet in the first place.

[@thePronto]

That was when VPNs became popular.

[@SteelSkin667]

There is even an Indonesian KZbinr (Jaka Parker) who used to upload videos of his everyday life in the privileged diplomatic district of Pyongyang. It's a bit more run down than what those fake influencers are showing.

[@User31129]

They probably just realized KZbin existed in 2016.

[@UnoB8938]

Mom: *takes child to hospital for severe malnutrition* Child: “Mom I’m not hungry anymore, these cartoons made me forget why we even came here!” Edit: 2k likes damn guys😅 this is my most liked comment ever

[@snippy7990]

Yer i hate it every time this happens...

[@carsongeo]

same but with a like severed leg

[@LordDomielOfElysium]

North Korea and Cuba have both been praised as third world countries for their good healthcare Also the famine in North Korea mostly ended in the 2000’s

[@splurgeverse521]

@@LordDomielOfElysium And where does your source come from? Oh yeah, from the North Korean and Cuban Government...Lol

[@fangbozhu7379]

very bold of you to assume that they are capable of taking their child to hospitals

[@erictaylor5462]

When I was a kid in hospital, I never forgot why I was there, no matter how many cartoons were on the walls.

[@sirBrouwer]

those where no NK cartoons so... who knows.

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

@@sirBrouwer NK Kids cartoon characters: "Remember, if you die here: you will be processed and eaten" Huh, Suddenly I've forgotten why I'm here. Strange.

[@JMLMF1]

this are NK cartoons, they have magic powers or something.

[@johnladuke6475]

Just a sign of how obviously deficient your hospital was compared with the futuristic achievements of Best Korea.

[@Milkmans_Son]

well you obviously weren't in a coma

[@thatverseguy]

I did not expect to hear North Korea join the KZbin game. Would love to see who'd sponsor them or how they'd handle talking to the support team lmao.

[@Robbins996]

Nord VPN would be the perfect sponsor!

[@andrewbounds]

Raid shadow legends would probably try.

[@bababababababa6124]

@@andrewbounds wouldn’t be shocked 😂 Hello Fresh might take a stab at it too

[@SarumanTheStinky]

"Are you tired of hearing the pleas of the poor?, try this Raycon Earbuds"

[@LittleLem0nJuice]

Lol pls stop.. with these sponsors...😂

[@bertilhatt]

“This video sponsor is way cooler and better than North Korea” must have really make the marketing team at Factor happy.

[@Milkmans_Son]

Two Stars!

[@User31129]

The lowest bar imaginable

[@quillmaurer6563]

Probably better food than is available in North Korea, surprised he didn't say that. A relatively low bar, but relevant to the video and surely not wrong.

[@bertilhatt]

@@quillmaurer6563 Still true, getting darker though.

[@ILoveRuskia]

@@quillmaurer6563Go to North Korea

[@johnladuke6475]

I really loved how Song'A gave such a natural and heartfelt endorsement of the children's hospital. Clearly her opinions and adventures are genuine average fun times for the people of Best Korea and I should go visit right away.

[@thePronto]

Kim flunky: "Song-A, our 'Dear Leader' would like you to make DPRK propaganda videos." Song-A: "Sod off, you wanker! I'm not bloody interested in glorifying that fat little toss-pot." Kim flunky: "Oh, look, isn't that your family perched precariously over 'Dear Leaders' crocodile pool?"

[@brianw1620]

It sounded like a great place to visit until they revealed that their Mothers Day is in November. 😞 That's too bonkers for me.

[@johnladuke6475]

@@brianw1620 Don't worry, I'm sure there's a special camp where three generations of your family can all go to learn about why you're wrong. All who survive will be delighted to enjoy November Mother's Day!

[@User31129]

No, see, calling it Best Korea implies there is more than one Korea. There is only one Korea.

[@egheltzer]

just make sure you dont get brainwashed by the rebellious southern part of best korea

[@felixsmdt]

These Hai videos get ever better. Last time the jurnals, and now investigative journalism. Props Sam

[@tortolus3222]

Right now its just half as interesting. Imagine if it ever becomes fully interesting

[@Ironbanner12]

He's bringing back old vice

[@erichildebrandt9490]

This is no longer half as interesting, it’s nearly interesting. Almost as interesting as Wendover Productions.

[@SteelSkin667]

@@Ironbanner12 Vice News is still around.

[@Chris-ic4ue]

I always thought you and Wendover were the same person, because your voices sound so similar. Now it all makes sense.

[@Beetless]

@RmBeast no i havent

[@TheOutsideFox]

@@c.james1 it most likely is one

[@soundscape26]

@@Beetless Don't reply to bots.

[@Beetless]

@@soundscape26 why

[@soundscape26]

@@Beetless Because it's useless.

[@BoyProdigyX]

You can't be _too_ upset with these girls.They were born into families who probably just said, "This is what you're *going* to do", and neither of which probably even know what they're doing, nor the scope. Their UL's *have* to be either scripted first, or at LEAST approved before going live...

[@iandavidvillaloboswong5180]

Young girls being absurdly popular is a constant in both Koreas

[@BoyProdigyX]

@@iandavidvillaloboswong5180 Really in the Asias as a whole. When I read your comment, my mind went to a Japanese vending machine with girl's dirty panties in them haha

[@saintazepam]

I don't think many sane people would watch this video and think "oh I'm just so *mad* at these girls for doing propaganda out of their own free will with complete knowledge of the implications of what they're doing"

[@BoyProdigyX]

@@saintazepam Well when the topic suddenly swung to nepotism and the girls' relationships to prominent communist figures, it very well _may_ have left that impression...

[@skyisreallyhigh3333]

@@Ajarylee-qh9ln They have plenty of agency

[@thebeardyyc]

I love how the girl describing the “football” match sounds like shes reading a translated description of what people do at sports events.

[@Leipaa]

Whatever do you mean? I too have personal opinions regarding the results of sporting matches and other forms of popular entertainment.

[@thebeardyyc]

[@dennis8196]

The young one has that RP English. It's quite telling about the education she has had.

[@maxx_2245]

For real, she sounds like my Speaking Class prof

[@FreakyRufus]

I don’t think even upper class Brits have RP accents any more. If you listen to the way King Charles speaks compared to the way his sons speak, you hear quite a difference.

[@nibblitman]

Yeah very clearly went to an extra extremely upper class type private school to end up with that accent.

[@pacoramirez7363]

I doubt she is truly educated, so much as heavily trained specifically for propaganda. Try to ask her general academic questions, and it's almost certain glaring holes in her "education" would become apparent.

[@dennis8196]

@@pacoramirez7363 that's what I said

[@zorohibiki]

if north korea gets into vtubers i will eat my hat

[@thecactusman17]

No don't, you can donate your hat and the vtuber can eat it. Your hat can feed a vtuber double their daily calorie intake with only half the usual amount of artificial flavoring.

[@_jax]

I will hold you to this

[@Dhdjksjsnsnsnnsnsna]

Delete this before they see it! Please!!

[@andruloni]

Brave putting a statement like that without a time limit.

[@polygontower]

@@thecactusman17 Yes you can. Your hat is perfectly edible. Just stuff it in your mouth, go to the hospital or die and whether you have died or not, you have eaten a hat!

[@hansenyang4014]

Alternative title: Sam roasts North Korean 11-year-old for 6 minutes.

[@phoenixbagri744]

And also manages to find sponsors for that

[@ghgggx]

Hahajaha liberal jokes never ended 😅

[@KrypandeNej1]

​@@ghgggx hello Kim

[@badgerattoadhall]

He didn't roast her once.

[@EmotionalParaquat714]

@@badgerattoadhall 3:22

[@aperson9576]

Tbh the creepiest part of this(not really) is the amount of filters. You can't escape the ultra creepy body image ruining filters even in North Korea.

[@jakestar121]

as if Photoshop doesn’t exist in America??

[@armadillolover99]

@@jakestar121 Do you not know what the word “even” means or are you just intentionally ignoring its existence?

[@pitiantifriz]

Well most of them don't have Internet, tv and most Magazines (as opposed to magazines like Vogue) will be propaganda and just propaganda)

[@MarvinHartmann452]

When you see their hand, and the fingers don't have nails, you know there's a lot of filters. I hope it's only just because of the filters..

[@MuchWhittering]

I know people say North Korea is decades behind the rest of the world, so it's only appropriate that SongA speaks English like she's a 1950s English housewife.

[@kjh23gk]

I'd love it if she had a more interesting accent, like Babs Windsor in the Carry On films, or Vicky Pollard!

[@LordDomielOfElysium]

Yeah because the rest of the world bombed them to hell and then sanctioned them, have you no shame?

[@soundscape26]

Her accent was great actually.

[@madeline6951]

and the sound quality is on par it's literally like listening to old radio

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

As a British person I noticed that immediately. Her fluency in English and that region-free received accent is an absolute hallmark of someone who is from an extremely privileged background and has been immersed in the language in a very refined setting, i.e. with top-tier tutors or a hugely expensive British international school. I knew another girl who was also like that. She was mainland Chinese who studied at Oxford them Cambridge, now lives and works in London. The generic British name she had adopted for herself, her 100% fluent English and the regionless accent - I didn't realise she was actually from China, instead assumed she was British-born and had grown up here. It's also rumoured that Xi Jinping's daughter is the exact same and that she enrolled and graduated from Oxford under a false name.

[@brickrose9756]

"My favorite book is Harry Potter!" That arrow killed me 😂😂

[@Ostermond]

SAMEEEE

[@ohajohaha]

​@A B what trans thing

[@SonOfTheChinChin]

​@@ohajohaha trans fat

[@ohajohaha]

@@SonOfTheChinChin I HATE trans fat 😡😡 Saturated fat is better

[@entropybentwhistle]

@@SonOfTheChinChin You’re thinking of Divine, who is no longer with us.

[@aardappeleten7701]

Song-A's british accent is so very odd, like some aristocratic british accent

[@rebralhunter6069]

That's very much by design. You can speak multiple languages with a native accent if you start early enough. She's definitely had a good English education starting from a very young age.

[@hedgehog3180]

If she's from an elite family in North Korea she has likely attended private school somewhere in Europe and the UK is a likely option given how little transparancy there is there. Same reason why Switzerland is popular among NK elites.

[@kjh23gk]

@@bgezal No, it's Received Pronunciation i.e. non-regional.

[@karaqakkzl]

@@kjh23gk oh, i thought it based on Transatlantic

[@Ellie-rx3jt]

​@@karaqakkzl Imo it is. It's all just slightly wrong for received pronunciation. I suspect she watched old films to learn the accent.

[@andydyer6591]

4:20 “It may sound bonkers to you, but in our country Mother’s Day is celebrated on 16th November” No no, not all. In fact a sea of bonkers, that unremarkable fact was a tranquil island of normality.

[@fantasypvp]

yes very bonkers indeed innit

[@IwasFRAMEDiTELLyou]

This makes me feel like I'm not crazy in thinking that some of the videos I've been recommended recently about NK history and culture were way too... generous in their portrayal. I had a video pop up about food shortages and one about the power grid and both ended up concluding that if it wasn't for the west NK would be the greatest place on earth to live and I could taste the propaganda. I was surprised because the videos looked and were presented like real educational videos but by the end I was really uncomfortable

[@grapeyard1778]

Do you remember the names of the video's/channels?

[@hedgehog3180]

They might also just be tankies.

[@dougerrohmer]

How long before the Trump supporters start telling each other that North Korea is actually cool.

[@prkp7248]

To be honest - a lot of false information and overreaching conclusions were made about NK in last 2 decades. Many of those were created by tabloids and clickbait pages in order to gain attention - that's how those things work. When it comes to NK you have people like Yeomni Park who made her career on making claims about NK and she made a lot of stories over the years. She is living on her status as NK refugee, so it is beneficial to her to gain attention from media - and shock and tabloid level stories are easiest to sell.

[@darkithnamgedrf9495]

@@hedgehog3180 tankies are so weird. I can understand seeing the merits of communism, but clearly countries like China and North Korea are not liberal paradises lmao. It’s like they like being stomped on with a boot

[@tombo416]

3:25 how much y’all wanna bet she was forced to predict South Korea losing every game 😂😂

[@shadowrealm3651]

I'll bet 1 dollar

[@enriquemunoztorres9900]

Predicting its loss would be acknowledging its existence.

[@matthew_natividad]

Her entire channel

[@wisehippo3072]

No such thing as South Korea if you ask the friendly DPRK government.

[@wandereringshadow8658]

I knew I wasn't going crazy. I saw this dude who went onto several trips to North Korea and he was being very... generous with his reviews of it, even after he returned and was safe to give his true oppinions.

[@887frodo]

Lmao. The TERF confirmed arrow I can’t with y’all 😂

[@stevencooper4422]

I'm crying laughing 🤣

[@SuperSnake50]

based kid

[@sahaquiel4640]

>named after shitty german rifle lawl they lost @@SuperSnake50

[@SuperSnake50]

Ironic, not a fan of the regime, just a random name i used when i created this account back then haha@@sahaquiel4640

[@dory8812]

I’m shocked they don’t have the youtubers be in their late 20s to early 40s. I imagine most people that would travel to North Korea would be in that age range.

[@JoelMatton]

My guess is they're trying to get impressionable kids to follow them, hoping the kids will grow up with a positive image of the country and already be brainwashed by the time they learn anything about the country in school

[@dory8812]

@@JoelMatton fair point

[@Paula-lw9uj]

Also, late 20s to early 40s are likely to appreciate kids just out of instinct (child bearing age)

[@saintnicole3209]

i bet that they use younger children so that the videos can be used in classrooms in their friendly nations

[@wisehippo3072]

​@@JoelMattonIn all honesty, today's kids will grow up brainwashed even if they don't watch DPRK's propaganda videos.

[@petersmythe6462]

Regular people are allowed onto the national intranet. It's the global Internet that is banned for the vast majority of citizens. As for smartphones, this is not that wierd among Pyongyang or Wonsan residents. North Korea has a semi-domestic cellphone manufacturing industry that modifies Chinese models of phone to be compatible with North Korean tech. They are expensive for the average person to afford, but not unobtainable. Curiously, one of the biggest factors for smartphones there is actually battery capacity due to the unreliable electricity.

[@petersmythe6462]

Note however that this does not mean there is no surveillance on the national intranet and even offline activities. North Korean Linux and Android variants store the ID of the device in files that are created there and have spyware built in. There has been recent evidence if similar functionality in NTFS and it would be astonishing to me if the NSA doesn't have the ability to get into most consumer hardware in the west, so it's hardly unique that North Korea spies on their Internet users, but make no mistake, installing RedStar is almost certainly giving the DPRK government access to your machine. Which in many ways would be fine. However, their desparation for hard currency to keep the economy solvent means that I'm not sure I trust they wouldn't install ransomware or a cryptominer.

[@carlireland5049]

Similarly to cellphones access to the Kwangmyong network is limited not by active state repression but by the fact that only the elites are given computers or the electricity to run them.

[@polygontower]

What is the intranet??? EXPLAIN!!!

[@carlireland5049]

@@polygontower An intranet is just a closed computer network not connected to the Internet (which is actually a network of computer networks, hence the term “INTERnet”)

[@AlyphRat]

The part about North Koreans being under surveillance is quite hilarious, like, come on. You can't point fingers while having the NSA and watchlists xD

[@sharkatzor]

3:21 TERF CONFIRMED MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD 😭

[@MahlenMorris]

I'm suspicious of the claim that these channels are receiving revenue from KZbin, unless the creators are registered outside of North Korea. The economic sanctions apply to KZbin.

[@darkithnamgedrf9495]

Probably just a joke

[@thedausthed]

Well google broke sanctions against Ru, so I would not out it oast them!

[@LordDomielOfElysium]

People make a LOT more money if they make propaganda shitting on North Korea, you can be paid tons by goverments themselves to do that.

[@theiris1002]

Didn't youtube defend a r*ssian pr*paganda channel stealing someone's content because they were making a f*ck ton of ad revenue?

[@danielp415]

Yea aint no way yt is making deposits to NK bank accounts wth lol

[@hamsterclamper]

Those kids’ accents are suspiciously south-east England private school🤔

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

Probably not Eton, they're still boys only, I think the kids are both female, and - in any case - take only kids aged 13 and over, these children are definitely too young. I do agree though, they've definitely been shipped off to some prestigious British prep-school or other, like so many other kids from rich families in impoverished and oppressive countries.

[@multilangcoder8723]

And another part of the way they talk is suspiciously like they are anxious about their life. " S-ome say t-that t h ose", etc.

[@carlireland5049]

In all seriousness it’s possible they might have gone to boarding school in a neutral country in Europe. Kim Jong-un himself was educated in Switzerland.

[@apjapki]

As a British person, Song Ah sounds like she learned English from the 1950s.

[@carlireland5049]

That’s also how North Koreans in general sound to Korean-speakers, because the peninsula was partitioned after World War II and the South’s dialect changed

[@mandalorian_guy]

Maybe she learned by watched My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins or at least Veruca Salt.

[@saltmeiner8910]

A pinch of Veruca salt.

[@belfner10]

When you said at 1:08, “and sure, I’m a lot of them”, I actually laughed out loud

[@quokka_yt]

2:58 I love how there's just a Country north of North Korea. North North Korea!!!

[@guaymaster]

Norther Korea

[@hedgehog3180]

The Even More Democratic Peoplest Republic

[@maruftim]

0:54 love how everyone walking is a pair lmao

[@mrlegodude96alt2]

state mandated gf

[@nayem_saki]

Wow

[@wooy1701]

@@mrlegodude96alt2 breaking news thousands of incels move to north korea

[@thecactusman17]

Responsibilibuddies.

[@ghastor1393]

their English accents are so posh that even I, speaking as a posh Englishman myself, am disgusted by the unbearable Hermione-ness of it

[@wolverinefangowings]

0:45 Funny how they want that to be some statement on how good the machines are, and instead they accidentally admitted that their citizens are malnourished.

[@M4-Z3-R0]

Were is your source list?

[@georgiab5102]

i love how sam called an 11 year old living under a brutal military dictatorship a TERF

[@sp00kyduck30]

I think he's just joking, considering it was done with a funny little arrow, and not actually a topic that was discussed at all. It was a bit random, but a lot of things on this channel are, after all! Edited to fix "is" to "are".

[@bgbear4668]

@@sp00kyduck30 it wasnt random it was because of jk rowling. who is a terf

[@sp00kyduck30]

@@bgbear4668 yeah, I just meant that calling a kid a terf was the random part that I don't think was meant to be taken seriously. Rowling is an absolutely horrible bully who pretends to care about others as long as she can use them to bully people that she doesn't like. The fact that she's cosying up with anti abortion activists just because they are also transphobic tells us all just how much she actually cares about protecting women...

[@billfrench1069]

@@sp00kyduck30you’ve gobbled up the propaganda congratulations

[@sp00kyduck30]

@@billfrench1069 unless Rowling is personally working for these people writing the so-called "propaganda", then I have no idea how you could even think that, considering she is always randomly going on about how much she can't stand trans people or people that support them on twitter. She's so petty that she went on about how amazing Stephen King was for ages, then deleted all of those tweets when he showed support to trans people. I wish I had as little to worry about as she does, because her biggest problem is just the existence of other people who don't agree with her. 😂

[@ryankoroll5421]

I love how the young girl has a partial British accent. Was she raised from birth watching British tv to get the accent? Constant speech training? Kidnapped? Any way you look at it is bad. Poor kids.

[@nathansavage8692]

Her dad worked at the NK embassy in the UK

[@lukidjano]

If she‘s connected to high government officials there‘s a decent chance she went to school in Britain. For example Kim Jong Un went to school in Switzerland

[@skyisreallyhigh3333]

It's very likely she had an education in Britian. Yeah, poor kids getting an international education...

[@iancotton6915]

@@xdn22 neutral is allowing anyone an education regardless of which country they came from (so long as they can pay) according to Switzerland.

[@Jamie-kk5fq]

@@xdn22 He was only a student there, hardly a national swiss endorsement of the dprk

[@ritokazoriv]

I don’t know why but I really didn’t expect them to speak English, let alone have freakishly proficient pronunciation but also oddly specific informal or regional slang 👽👽👽💀

[@carlireland5049]

Many children in countries on bad terms with the United States are still taught English because of how dominant America is.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

It sounds like 1950's upper class British English.

[@carlireland5049]

@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Well, then, it seems the Queen will come back as North Korean KZbinr child if reincarnation is real.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

@@carlireland5049 LOL, that's exactly what she sounds like. The Queen re-incarnated as a North Korea child.

[@jamesfranklin4816]

They speak English very well

[@raineriramalho2669]

Notice how most places they show are very empty in the background? No people roaming around living, well, freely

[@rexcolt9742]

A child with 3rd-degree burns instantly forgets why are they at the hospital because of those couple of cartoon drawings on the wall...

[@swisscheese9540]

Imagine North Korea copyright strikes this.

[@ASocialistTransGirl]

3:21 “TERF confirmed?” LMFAO

[@ValiantValium]

Yeah. Even if its propaganda, its nice to know that Juche leads to not hating women!

[@ASocialistTransGirl]

@@ValiantValium do you know what TERF means?

[@ValiantValium]

@@ASocialistTransGirl yes, and it's a good thing to be

[@ASocialistTransGirl]

@@ValiantValium advocating g*nocide is not good

[@dovrob]

it's amazing how funny and entertaining u made such a heavy topic.

[@Omegadeemen]

thats how you know its an inappropriate video imagine mocking, demonizing kids from a country you've had under heavy sanctions after you brutalized them during a war (20% civilians gone many of whom tortured and much worse you can look at quotes from our own generals there was even a tribubal into our warcrimes) then through a massive famine (after you overthrew the allies they traded with) and even during a global pandemic in recent times do you know what sanctions do? you probs dont know about Cuba either cuz this isn't funny or entertaining its actually sick imagine doing Libya Iraq Afghanistan Yugoslavia Vietnam, never getting held to account no president tried in international courts and thinking we were good boy scouts the prior half of the 20th century. this is how propaganda works yet 2 people decide to do a vlog and they are treated like the worst gremlins in the world, jus shows if you're a north korean not paid to defect for western propaganda you're not the right kind of korean

[@tonaerio]

3:21 The fucking arrow saying “TERF confirmed?” I’m dying 😂

[@chloeerose004]

Calling an 11 year old a terf fucking killed me lmfaooooo

[@ProtocolAbyss]

Song-A’s RP accent really surprised me. I’d assume they’d go for a classic Californian LA influencer type accent, not someone you’d find here in the UK.

[@pmc_]

“TERF Confirmed” 🤣🤣🤣

[@Colorado-Coyote]

Don't forget about the American tourist who was sentenced to death in North korea for taking down a poster.

[@shiba7651]

To be fair, the us is doing the same, like how a couple of months ago every other creator uploaded a video sponsored by the us military even if their usual content had nothing to do with them.

[@AlamoOriginal]

I mean its irrelevant if its us, because you probably watch the same content for the algorithm to show the kind of sponsor and content you watch, for the North Korean its different because we've seen it they done it in a platform they banned themselves

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@AlamoOriginalare you fucking kidding me? The us government literally said they spent 500$ million last year on anti china social media campaigns and thats just the public part. Who do you think sponsors people like serpentza lmao, or china observer etc?

[@ollysza2833]

Oh man, I love this video format. Thanks HAI team

[@dmann2152]

The "TERF Confirmed" arrow made me go "HA!" loud enough that I'm concerned.

[@serge_the_comrade]

while talking about internet accessibility in the DPRK, you mention that only a small percentage of North Koreans have it. However, according to a South Korean 38 North research, there more that 6,5 million smartphone users in the DPRK. And this number is constantly growing, while North Korea is producing its own phone models.

[@jasminekaram880]

But those smart phones do not have internet. There are physical app stores in Pyongyang.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

What did you expect? This channel is straight up propaganda, or just super biased, all of his videos on china are extremely negative and very poorly researched with the same only jokes that everyone makes

[@thetrungtran5068]

And on the other half of the spectrum, we have Yeonmi Park. No one is immune when it comes to propaganda

[@tonmor7200]

And you just made me (a Korean) aware of these, and got me curious. Well done. That couldn’t have been imagined, right?

[@beatm6948]

What's so fascinating is that NONE of the KZbinrs mentioned speak North Korean dialect in their videos. They all speak British English.

[@cenci4913]

3:21 killed me lol

[@baronvonjo1929]

I feel so bad for North Koreans and Korea as a whole. It was a single entity for centuries and now its this. It's also crazy how likely Japan would have been broken up like this as well if it didn't surrender when it did and if the USSR and US had land invasions. Probably would have been split.

[@Lawnmower737]

I really doubt it would’ve gotten split, I’m pretty sure America wasn’t going to take 5 tears or even longer of war with Japan fighting them head on just for the Soviets to invade them at the last minute while their defenses are down and steal credit

[@Soyerz]

Can we please have an HAI video on Sam's family connection to Pajama Sam, and whether Sam's own car is actually Putt-Putt?

[@marcwenger9424]

I'm still reeling over the fact that WWIII was almost started by Seth Rogen and James Franco 😅

[@sion8]

Yep.

[@TheGrinningViking]

You're thinking of Joe Biden, he's still working on it. I thought he would be better then Trump at least, it's such a low bar. I don't feel great about it.

[@sion8]

@@TheGrinningViking 🙄

[@evilsharkey8954]

@@TheGrinningViking Biden is being very careful not to cross that line while not allowing Russia to do what Germany was doing shortly before WWII. It’s Putin who’s brought us this close, and it’s not as close as you think. Putin isn’t the only person whose approval is required to launch (the US also requires more than one person). Even if he has gone nuts, the others will still prefer Russia to exist over occupying Ukraine for the next 5 to 20 years. Even if it escalates, like if Russia hit a NATO country and a no fly zone was enforced over Ukraine or NATO forces drive Russia out of Ukraine, as long as they stayed behind Ukrainian borders, Russia would suffer no threat to their sovereignty, only their collective ego, and that’s already in the toilet because of the spectacular incompetence shown by their rulers and their military, revealing Russia to be a paper tiger whose only real threats are information operations and nukes, which guarantee self annihilation.

[@kayaguvendi]

@@TheGrinningViking Sir this is a Wendy's.

[@BlueChameleon01]

You mentioned the North Korean embassy in London but didn't show a photo? Please anyone reading this, look it up. (It's a detached house just off the north circular)

[@Jehty_]

What's so special about it? It's just a small house. Like many other embassies of poorer countries 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@Ellie-rx3jt]

That's amazing. Can you imagine living in the house next door? Giving people directions to your house would be so much fun 😂

[@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle]

LMAO the wendover joke got me dying

[@waterunderthefridge6058]

the Veruca Salt accent and use of the word bonkers is hilarious

[@luis.fcaldeira]

Since you like talking about North Korea, I'd suggest a video about when they kidnapped a south korean director to make him direct kaiju propaganda movies. (btw the suggest a video link is not working)

[@musicmanmatt87]

I wonder how long it'll take before KZbin bans them.

[@nyariimani7281]

If Kim Jong Un had a KZbin channel, EVERYONE would subscribe. He should be posting stuff himself!

[@modrak]

I’ve seen this recommended, actually watched a few, on the hotels to use when visiting and etc. 😅

[@Unknown20231]

Who has the same life as us in North Korea, are Distinguished Citizens, Agency Directors, Military Officals, Cabinet, and WPK Officals.

[@noneuklid]

You really need Real Life Lore on your family tree somewhere. Half removed?

[@ranggayogiswara5148]

Finally, we can share our Memes to them

[@ExUSSailor]

What you can't see in the videos is the DPRK political commisar just off camera, holding their mothers at gunpoint.

[@TheApplecyder]

Love the pajama sam reference, i can't believe anyone remembers those games.

[@lewismassie]

The weird thing about this is that the average North Korean is not the person I'm afraid of. Same with the average Russian or Chinese person

[@mech____]

how is that weird?? they're literally being systemically oppressed

[@dougerrohmer]

That's weird, because at the AK level they are the ones you should fear.

[@vladalgov1770]

I would like to hear what you say if some average person takes a weapon and invade your country (like russia did to ukraine).

[@lewismassie]

@@vladalgov1770 Russia is having to forcefully conscript it's people to go into Ukraine, and lying to them about how well it's going every step of the way. That is Putin's War, the average Russian doesn't want anything to do with it, which is why they have to be lied to the whole way

[@johnladuke6475]

Even if you come up with a valid reason to be afraid of a person from X or Y country in particular, I think average North Koreans rank pretty low on my list. What am I scared of, getting tapeworms?

[@joshgreen2164]

I didn't know north koreans spoke with a british accent! Thanks HAI!

[@DonSMDT]

itd be funny if the DPRK just became the next NordVPN and just started sponsoring random youtubers

[@RaquelFoster]

It's awesome to hear such an aggressive example of an upper-class English accent coming from a North Korean girl.

[@bigboy8285]

she got me at "it may sound bonkers"

[@NotAmira_]

3:21 LMAO I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THAT 😭😭

[@NotAmira_]

i can now add half as interesting to the list of based youtubers :)

[@Itsaysgullibleontheceili-gu7lq]

​@@NotAmira_ fr

[@StubMyToe]

Thanks for the channel recommendations :)

[@j.p.obregon1415]

That last comment about how they didn't return his calls.... I died laughing

[@matheusvillela9150]

America: does anticommunist propaganda all over the world for decades. DPRK: does some propaganda on youtube. Westerners: OH MY GOD DA PROPAGANDA

[@mokisan]

They even push this in tiktok. Lol

[@timvancolen]

TERF CONFIRMED was amazing!!!!

[@integre23]

i just stumbled across one of these yesterday which had been uploading for 3 years, it was called 푸옹 Phuong DPRK Daily

[@PatchworkRose567]

It’s crazy that they even try to show this wonderful and cheerful side of North Korea when practically everyone outside of the country knows how horrible it is to live there. Who are they trying to convince? A small part of the world population that has been living under a rock for the last several decades?

[@Thisisahandle957]

I was just digging through a North Korean KZbin propaganda rabbit hole.

[@RetroPlus]

Hearing that accent coming out of a north korean kid is terrifying to say the least

[@DanielQwerty]

They be like: "Hello fellow humans, as a human, I like making estimations for the victor of the football sport game"

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

The girl with the Harry Potter book and talking about middle school even has a room which looks so typical of Western girls her age. The decor, the way it's designed, and so on.

[@prakash_77]

I'm actually surprised that youtube shares revenue in North Korea. This shouldn't happen.

[@NikkyElso]

With that pitiful level of viewership and lack of outside sponsors, they're making pennies per video if anything.

[@Jehty_]

Why do you think that it does happen? Just because it was mentioned in a poorly researched video? (most videos on this channel are poorly researched. You shouldn't trust anything that is said on this channel. Just use the videos as entertainment and move on)

[@Cenentury0941]

@@Jehty_ "You shouldn't trust anything that is said on this channel." -Reply to a comment on a video by "this channel"

[@Jehty_]

@@Cenentury0941 sorry if you aren't able to read a complete comment. It must be hard if you can't concentrate for 10 seconds. Let me help you. Just read the last sentence of my first comment. You should be able to do that. And that sentence should be enough to aid in your confusion 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@pussy_destroyer2294]

​@@Jehty_ my man tell me how much money do you get from your glorious leader? Or are you just ignorant of the truth?

[@riccaromano5557]

i found a couple DPRK channels a couple months back. but they where more travel and history related stuff. and they towed the party line HARD.

[@matheusvillela9150]

All of the big american politics channels tow the pentagon line hard. Hell, the government even called influencers to brief them on what they were supposed to say during the Ukraine war

[@stevencooper4422]

4:00 I love how nobody knows the mothers for 3 GENERATIONS

[@michael_betts]

I didn't know you were related to pajama Sam.

[@Qreator06]

Before we begin today’s video, I would like to thank our sponsor, The North Korean Government

[@micayahritchie7158]

1:42 one would think food scarcity wouldn't be such an issue if there was free trade. Surely nobody has the power to help that though

[@aldotorres1983]

The only way this could be even more surreal is if North Korean influencers started promoting the country via ASMR. "Doing your makeup for Dear Leader's visit."

[@adweetiyamohapatra7326]

Now youtubers are ditching hello fresh for factor

[@prettypic444]

well, there goes the North Korean season of Jetlagged!

[@YoloMenace001]

An hour before this video i got recommended a dprk video about a new double decker bus

[@andreswristcut]

Song A sounds like the Red Queen from the Resident Evil movies