How North Korea Became What It Is - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on North Korea in the Post-War period as we talk how it became what it is right now under Kim Il-sung.
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[@masterimbecile]

When I pressed the bell button, clouds over Paektu mountain opened up and rainbows bursted forth from the sky. All of the flowers bloomed simultaneously and any broken farm equipments on the Korean Peninsula miraculously became brand new once again.

[@adolfgaming1761]

And then everyone starved to death

[@TheColdWarTV]

Were you able to locate the cave with the unicorns?

[@masterimbecile]

@@TheColdWarTV unfortunately no. Our dear leader must have rode off with it.

[@wjrjbnjd]

@@masterimbecile its okay just enjoy a nice cold “Double bread with meat”

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

@@TheColdWarTV if you’re referring to that fake news article about North Korea claiming it found evidence of unicorns, it’s a lot more complicated and involves a lot of misinformation. It’s pretty obscure but would make an interesting video.

[@eetutorri8767]

Weird fact: There was small interest in Juche doctrine in Finland (but on very small circles) in the 60-70s and as some people would make visits to North Korea during this period they could easily end up with cardboard box full of books concerning Juche and Kim-Il Sung. Weirder enough, North Koreans have actually translated some 70 books in Finnish.

[@Tomi-oe5mz]

Olen lukenut parikin noita käännöksiä.

[@73288]

Cool, thats the trivia I like. Thumbs up.

[@yetigriff]

You can see why there'd be interest in that region. Finland is only one country over from North Korea.

[@rafaelazambuja1099]

Good to know they have good relations after the Finno-Korean Hyperwar.

[@rhrabar0004]

But did anyone from Finland ever Finnish them?

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

The "worship" of the Kim family sort of reminds me of the devotion once expected to be shown to the Korean king. It's actually not that anomalous compared to the rest of their history of being an isolated kingdom ruled by a very strict legalist/confucian court.

[@riddhimaansenapati5006]

Yup they are kings in all but name.

[@user-we2ex3sy5z]

Not really. Most kings in Korea didn’t hold as much power or authority and ones who did the most were kings were kings of Joseon but even they were strongly under check by Confucianist scholars and bureaucrats. NK’s cult of personality is something very new

[@thunderbird1921]

Goes to show you how complex the Cold War really was. The "monolithic" front of Communism only lasted until the late 50s. Stalin's death really accelerated this fracturing. It made things a lot more challenging for the "free world" countries though.

[@enduser8410]

It's ironic the amount of ethnic-based politics that occurred in the USSR despite being supposedly 'united in Socialism'.

[@nationradical]

I know man, despite its founding of solidarity pretty much every ethnic minority faced surveillance arrests and deportations. there was a lot of Russian chauvinism that tinged the Stalin era (even though he was Georgian)

[@TheColdWarTV]

make sure you are subscribed and stay tuned for more on how the Soviets dealt with the question of nationalism!

[@jakeavakov5230]

@@nationradical what nonsense are you spewing? that was everywher in the world, especially in the US under "capitalism". despite it being called "United States"

[@donnyboon2896]

@@jakeavakov5230 Go away Peacock!

[@naguoning]

Not mentioned but worth noting in regards how Kim Il Sung managed to be the leader is that he was absolutely fluent in Chinese (NE accent). He was able to maintain close personal ties with CCP leaders because of this and his fighting with them in NE China.

[@SCH292]

North Korea is that one player who started off with a lot of military bonus, aid and support but he didn't invest into his economy. He kept upgrading his military. As the game prolong his allies all left the server room and now he's stuck in mid level tier.

[@juantamayo5295]

more like low tier

[@mikeyorkav4039]

When a country (usa) bombs 80% of your infastructure, kills 20% of your mainly civilian population, and poisons your crops with anthrax then sanctions you...THEN sets up a hostile puppet government to the south of you...you tend to get a bit jusrifiably paranoid with defense...

[@michaelpelzek8882]

@@juantamayo5295 the lowest tier.

[@masonreed6845]

@@juantamayo5295 low tier but could still nuke you

[@chernoblyat.152]

While being sanctioned by usa and being indirectly threatened with war from usa

[@megawackoking]

I love learning about different times in history but our very recent history of the world I'm not too good at so I am glad you guys have made such a comprehensive channel talking about the Cold War.

[@saltycoins8835]

I LOOOOVE this channel. Thanks for your quality work man!

[@BTScriviner]

Always look forward to your videos. My interest in history has primarily been in the medieval and Renaissance periods, so I've been enjoying learning about more modern history (although I've always liked Cold War spy novels).

[@usertttt7483]

Keep them coming buddy ❤️

[@bigsarge2085]

Learned something new, thanks! Very informative.

[@D3xt3rity]

YESS! i've been hoping you cover a topic like this for ages! :D

[@TheColdWarTV]

We hope you enjoyed it!

[@D3xt3rity]

@@TheColdWarTV I absolutely loved it! Keep up the incredible work! :D

[@mr.goodvibes4126]

Very informative ! 😄👍

[@anonymousadult]

I was just wondering about this recently… I was going to do my own research… glad you did it for me! Excited to watch!!!

[@TheColdWarTV]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@christopping5876]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@TheColdWarTV]

You are welcome!

[@NotTsarNick]

Another impressive video!

[@TheColdWarTV]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jwenting]

yes, the DMZ is still a flashpoint, though both sides seem determined to downplay the regular incidents. I've heard (through family of servicemembers involved) that there have been at least 2 deadly firefights involving platoon sized or larger units on both sides in the last 2-3 months. And that's just the ones I've knowledge of. Deaths are typically classified as "training related", probably by both the US, ROK, and DPRK militaries in order to keep things at a low profile. Nobody really wants a large scale conflict there, including it seems the North Koreans themselves, the latter probably because they (like the USSR in the 1980s) aren't confident enough that their forces are sufficient to guarantee victory in an all out war.

[@mpetersen6]

I worked with several men who were stationed in Korea in the late 60s. They all told me there were guys that volunteered for Nam just to get out of Korea.

[@Mondo762]

@@mpetersen6 That's true, Korean DMZ was miserable duty back then. Those wooden guard towers were easy targets. My best friend from high school got his parents permission to join at 17 and was sent up there. The reason? He was too young to go to Viet Nam. He was in a fire fight when a Nork climbed up his guard tower, so he cut loose with his machine gun and killed him. Just one of a number of incidents he was involved in.

[@kayzeaza]

Well North Korea shouldn’t worry too much. China (and Russia) would rush in to save them. They wouldn’t want America right on their border.

[@mpetersen6]

@@kayzeaza If North Korea did something really insane all on their own I suspect China and Russia would act to keep them in line.

[@007kingifrit]

your profile picture is the french amx 40 tank

[@lampshadeheadache1357]

Cho Man-Sik was my great great grandfather! Thank you. It was nice to learn more about him

[@mickeywebb6850]

Oh please

[@lampshadeheadache1357]

@@mickeywebb6850 jealous?

[@obsoletedelete6059]

Is your dad a cartoonist?

[@deepat]

loving the alternative points of view. every story has two sides and we normally only see one

[@gg3675]

Speaking of not being able to overwork people indefinitely... Would you do a video on the post-WWII strike wave in the US?

[@donnyboon2896]

I am a US Marine. I served from 1982 to 1986. Thank you for this channel that covers the world I grew up in.

[@elennet4116]

How did you dealt with the defeats in Asia?

[@deanbroome7855]

Thank you for your service may GOD BLESS YOU!

[@GM-xk1nw]

@@deanbroome7855 no

[@deanbroome7855]

@@GM-xk1nw what do you mean no are you a communist Nazi or just way off in the left

[@nunoalvarespereira87]

@@deanbroome7855 lmao

[@brokenbridge6316]

I love Magellan TV. I recently watch the series called "Generals At War" and it's amazing. I want to see more of those episodes. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[@shaider1982]

I think I watched episodes of that in Nat Geo.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@shaider1982---Maybe. But you should try n watch the ones on Magellan TV and compare. Just a suggestion. Because Generals at War is exclusive to Magellan TV.

[@ottomanosman2463]

Another aspect you should be aware is the rise of Kim Il sung was facilitated by a Soviet advisor Terentiy Shtykov, who had little military knowledge.

[@SHAHIDKC]

Cho's murder is pretty sad and sick.

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@sargesacker2599]

Video starts at 2:06

[@danbeyer6333]

Excellent video. Need to continue narrative into the 70s to present. South Korea too. 😀😀🎆🎇

[@allaroundarbiter4809]

Very Interesting

[@ayu1978]

“Juche” would not have been possibly without the political, military and material support from patron nations like China and Russia. It’s like declaring you are a self made person without thinking about the friends, Teachers, benefactors and support from others that made it possible to get to where you are today.

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

Kim Il Sung affirms the old adage from Friedrich Nietzsche, that one who fights monsters should see to it that he himself doesn't become one. That's exactly what happened with him. He was originally trying to fight off the Japanese and free the Korean peninsula, but in doing so, he effectively became even more ruthless than the Japanese even were. Furthermore, he emulated the core belief of the Japanese into his regime: The belief that the leader was a living god. If you will recall, that was the same thing that the Japanese believed about Emperor Hirohito.

[@bingobongo1615]

He was more influenced by Stalin and Mao though. Hirohito was a very "distant god" while especially Mao wanted to be depicted as "one of you but the best at everything" which NK still does to this day

[@dominikgerhart5919]

Actually, I have been to North Korea and it is similiar to a cult. Bowing in front of statues of Kim? Putting down flowers for him? That guy is worshipped like a god, not a person.

[@trisgilmour]

Very interesting 🤔

[@TheColdWarTV]

Hope you enjoyed the video

[@ThugShakers4Christ]

So Magellan can't even afford the real, authorized biography? Hard pass

[@SHAHIDKC]

I can't wait for the ' learn more about the cambodian genocide on magellan tv'.

[@boobah5643]

Just imagine how boring a world it would be if you could say with certainty that John was sarcastic.

[@ThugShakers4Christ]

@@boobah5643 I'm not even sure how sarcastic I'm being

[@johnb7046]

@@ThugShakers4Christ Now wait here a damn minute...

[@kayzeaza]

What you mean

[@user-cx1ki8li4t]

The Soviet dance at the beginning of the video is very beautiful. It is called kazachok. Although the Russian ballet art is beautiful and kazachok is also lovely, I think this dance comes from India, which reflects the great friendship between India and Russia.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Damn I didn't knew this

[@trizvanov]

"I think this dance comes from India, which reflects the great friendship between India and Russia." The dance originates from the Caucasus region. It got adopted by the "Kazaki" folk, who then spread it across the regions of Russia.

[@macariomatira3234]

Please Can you do a feature episode about South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand E. Marcos

[@user-cx1ki8li4t]

I add some knowledge about Coordinating Committee for Export to Communist Countries (an organization that manages the import and export of goods and technology to communist countries). Due to the Korean War, China and North Korea were imposed the highest embargo in 1950. Jimmy Carter released China in 1980, this is the reason why China's economy began to rise . There is no doubt that this also affected North Korea's economy. In addition, North Korea's nuclear technology came from the Soviet Union. before 1991, the Soviet Union provided North Korea with cheap oil to help the North Korean economy. After 1991, Russia stopped this, so the North Korean economy was destroyed. I was reading a book(美国的冷战战略与巴黎统筹协会 、中国委员会） about CCMEC , which gave me dome now view on the economy of China and the Soviet Union.

[@Bobxchen333]

Richard Nixon released China from embargo in 1972.

[@user-cx1ki8li4t]

@Bob Chen：The sanctions against China changed many times. In 1950, the sanctions against China were the highest. In 1972, Nixon liberated China, China and the cccp(Ussr) in P. in 1980, Jimmy Carter moved China to y and gave China MFN treatment, and even the US gave China some military technology.

[@user-cx1ki8li4t]

@Bob Chen：I made a mistake before. Before 1972, China was in Z. Nixon transferred China to y (the USSR and most Eastern European countries were in Y). In 1980, China was transferred to P by Jimmy Carter. In 1984, China was transferred to V (Japan and Western European countries were in V), but North Korea was in Z in1990. China bought a large number of chemical fertilizer plants and chemical fiber plants from 1972 to 1980, which gave the Chinese people more food. Thank Nixon.

[@DodgyDaveGTX]

7:33 So Kim Jong-Un inherited absolutely everything... everything but his grandfather's dashing good looks!

[@ironheart5830]

North Korean could have been better if they kept the Kim il Song oppositions rather than turning it into Kim dynasty.

[@Bobxchen333]

I doubted. His opposition maybe just as bad as him.

[@jakeavakov5230]

NK isn't a dynasty. Keep the propaganda though

[@ironheart5830]

@@Bobxchen333 yeah but at least better than dictatorship

[@ironheart5830]

@@jakeavakov5230 Really how ?

[@007kingifrit]

@@jakeavakov5230 3 generations have ruled it from the same family.....its a dynasty

[@vasilerogojan4520]

How Kim Il-Sung managed to came on top and eventually became the supreme leader and to remain so even post mortem ? The obsession of Kim-Il Sung to play like Stalin and Mao in terms of consolidation of power.

[@LayX201]

Kim Il Sung was chosen because he was very young compared to the other guerrilla fighters that escaped to the Soviet Union he was 33 with military experience they chose him because they thought he’d be an easy puppet to control and a young person who’ll be their ally for years but Kim Il Sung had his own intentions

[@davidbarcelona5083]

The prologue of The Limits of Air Power makes some interesting points about the american bombing campaign in NK, like the recicency to destroy north korean dams as they will flood the fields and this will condemn the civilian population to starvation...its quite interesting

[@Numba003]

I may have to read more about this Juche philosophy. North Korea is a strange place in the modern world that I could certainly learn more about. Maybe they'll change one of these days. Thank you for the fascinating video! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)

[@tng2057]

These days South Korea officially identifies the Korean War culprits being Kim Il Sung / Park Heon Young, not just Kim. I believe it is a smart way not to antagonize the Kim family too much by putting some of the blame on a person - namely Park - who had already been purged and executed by Kim post Korean War hence no political backlash from his faction.

[@MM22966]

That statement implies appeasement to a family of gangsters & tyrants. Not something to be proud of.

[@icrushchildrensdreams4556]

our government is being overrun by more and more communists lately. that's why

[@joshbrumleve7886]

The real culprit is the US

[@MM22966]

@@joshbrumleve7886 Yes, because the spent even 10 seconds thinking about Korea before the war broke out. We totally knew about & encouraged a communist tyrant from initiating a war we didn't want and tried to stop. Grow up.

[@MM22966]

@@joshbrumleve7886 Not sure what fantasy world you popped out of, but you are dead wrong. The US had zero interest in Korea before the war started, but spent blood, lives, and treasure to protect them from an unprovoked attack by a superior enemy, run by a family of megalomaniacs...and has done so for 80 years.

[@tannermurphree8247]

Praise the one true and great eternal bell button! We will surpass notification quotas before the third year!

[@olivertaltynov9220]

18:23 there is some similarity :-D and not only in glasses .-)

[@kvltntr00]

the two episodes on the Koreas have been disappointing. this episode completely failed to mention the influence of Joseon neo-Confucianism on Juche. you cannot make sense of modern day North Korea without understanding this legacy. the episode on South Korea completely glossed over the fact that the police and state bureaucracy were almost entirely staffed by collaborators of imperial japan. the latter was a major source of tension not only between the two Koreas but within South Korea itself.

[@ytcensorhack1876]

How's the weather in Pyongyang today? Say hi to kim 4 me

[@sleepyowl76]

@@ytcensorhack1876 Funny how you types call people ops and North Korean shills for wanting any level of nuanced and historical analysis of Korean conditions beyond blind anticommunist chauvinism

[@ytcensorhack1876]

@@sleepyowl76 strictly speaking north korea isnt a communist state, they r a feudalist state that uses the language of communism to retain power.

[@deezeed2817]

This channel missed a lot of details.

[@sleepyowl76]

@@ytcensorhack1876 I agree in the sense that the DPRK is definitely not Communist and has long abandoned Marxism-Leninism, and I'd also argue they're very economically stagnant and underdeveloped (what being a Chinese semicolony will do to you), but the unfortunate reality is that people see the failings of the DPRK and attribute them to Marxism, when their own leadership have stood against Marxism in theory and practice for decades now.

[@HeyGuy4321]

18:26 I recognize this music 🎶 from Kings And Generals channel when casualties are spoke of!!!!!!!! WTF! There's a conspiracy afoot! or is that what comes up when "royalty free sad and melancholic militaristic music" is searched! lol I love it!

[@shatterquartz]

18:02 A small reminder: Beijing is pronounced Bei-DJING, not Bei-ZHING. It's the same character as in, say, Nanjing.

[@DaveSCameron]

Behave yourself please 😂

[@rockybalboa9274]

can someone give me the song name in end of video?

[@kirbytrooper]

bless kim il sung a name given to him. kim song ju

[@thorthewolf8801]

This should be interesting

[@iwantsifegold]

So to my Soviet fans basically the entire intelligencia ran off to the south.

[@stefanodadamo6809]

...where there were enough true or presumed Communist sympathizers that during the war tens of thousands of them were exterminated.

[@JanicefromKansas]

Hello from Kansas 🇺🇸

[@adinga6174]

Yes... I've pressed the one and only eternal great bell button

[@lenabo9929]

Sort of funny. One type of Tae Kwon do. ITF version none Olympic. Have a kata/pattern called juche. It was added to the second dan black belt in the 1980s when the creator of ITF TKD was promoting TKD in North Korea.

[@michaelsinger4638]

North and South Korea were on relatively equal footing until the 80’s. Then the latter began to far outpace the former.

[@noobster4779]

Helps if you finally get rid of your (enter cold war superpower) sponsored dictatorship. If you arent going to Gulags or "anti commie reeducation centers" (or get straight up shoot) you tend to have more time to do this thing called "economics" :D

[@user-jw5pn5nt1p]

obvious reason for this is one received massive aid from the most dominate world super power while the other was imposed strict sanctions.

[@user-jw5pn5nt1p]

@@dragosstanciu9866 the dprk has a “do not fire first policy” they have never invaded a country nor dropped an atomic bomb. The USA cannot say the same.

[@noobster4779]

@@user-jw5pn5nt1p South Koreas entire economy was paid for by US rax dollars even before the korean war. Part of gje resaon the south korean doctatorship even fell was that the US no longer wanted to subsidize the entire country and the major problems in south koreas economy suddenly became obvious and resulted in sovcial pressure. So no it was not the US throwing money at south korea that resulted in the changes, in fact it was the opposite.

[@noobster4779]

@@dragosstanciu9866 The nukes were never there to threaten the USA, that is just US fearmongering talking. North Korea developes to thos day nukes because tjeir previous defender, the soviet unio, is gone a d the regime needs something to keep alive. A country with nukes will not get attacked or invaded like Iraq or Lybia. Lybia for example also developed nuked bit gave up its program for garantees. Soon after its dictator was toppled and killed by a US backed rebellion. Nukes afe primarily for any country and more importantly the ruling elite a sdcurity garantee. Ones you have nukes a conve tionell war againsr you to topple your dictatoeship is not going to happen anymore. Its tje strongest possible securiry garantee a dictator could get for himself. The "we are goibg to nuke america" stuff is just propaganda from north korea that is used by the US to scare its own population (Similar to the hole "Iraq has WMDs he wants to use on the USA" bullshit before the Iraq war) Same rhing btw applies for Iran. Gjey are not going to nuke Israel even if they could. Best example are always Pakistan and India who both got nukes out of fear from each other and hate each other as arch enemies. Still no nuke has been dropped by eather side.

[@kababyenoh]

AKA: Sad Korea.

[@vasilerogojan4520]

And recently the grandson of the founder of Kim Il-Sung celebrated 10 years in power.

[@eff_gee321]

2:36, yo man sick

[@icecoffee1361]

All hail the great bell 🔔 button

[@yetigriff]

Are those posters behind available anywhere? Specifically the woman with her finger in her lip.

[@toukairin354]

I am part of the supporters of the One True and Eternal Great Bell Button.

[@steinschneider1314]

i'm still perplexed, how did they manage to mix hereditary succession into marxism-leninism and noone questioned it?

[@Dave_Sisson]

I've always seen North korea as a kingdom, albeit a feudal non-constitutional one.

[@007kingifrit]

they used guns. its very hard to argue with guns there are communist idiots even in these comments saying north korean leaders aren't a monarchy as they are "elected"

[@anderskorsback4104]

Well, Juche is its own thing. It's really a mix between Communism, Nationalism and Confucian social conservatism. The last part is the key, with the importance of filial piety and family structures as power structures and units of social organization. To Koreans, three generations of the same family ruling North Korea is no stranger than three generations of the same family ruling Samsung. In the South Korean megacorp world, dynasties of top executives is the rule rather than the exception, even when the dynasties themselves don't have the ownership share necessary to force it through.

[@cole27456]

Yeah I think people really ignore the fact that this is Korea, a country that’s probably the most Confucian and was one of the most isolated in the world, even from other Asian states. The Confucian conservatism and social order permeates and overcomes any Marxist ideology

[@sonofnam4418]

The world has a lot to offer in terms of wonderful and interesting places to visit, both old and new. I don't understand why man is willing to destroy all of it.

[@amazinggrace4507]

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[@tompegorinno5141]

North and South. Take your pick

[@jayschmidt6373]

North

[@cameraman655]

@@jayschmidt6373 Have fun and good luck

[@danielnin3484]

Middle

[@chinesesparrows]

@@jayschmidt6373 then stop using youtube XD

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Both North and South hot chicks😤😀

[@mebeasensei]

2:06

[@totalfreedom2408]

Ten principles is wild shit

[@gulliverdeboer5836]

Once upon a time the bell button decided to try the game of golf and scored 11 hole-in-ones in a row.

[@user-jw5pn5nt1p]

Making this video without the mention of the war in which 15% of the population was slain, cities leveled by bombs, and the later sanctions on oil gas and other materials is missing key historical context.

[@mikebaker2436]

You mean the war that the channel already devoted several seperate videos to?

[@user-jw5pn5nt1p]

@@mikebaker2436 in that case my mistake this was my first time watching a dprk video from them.

[@user-cx1ki8li4t]

I agree with you .due to the Korean War, China and North Korea get serious sanctions in 1950. Nixon limited lifted China's sanctions in 1972, and Jimmy Carter lifted all China's sanctions in 1980. But North Korea has been forgotten

[@xiaoka]

@@user-cx1ki8li4t forgotten? The US troops on the DMZ since the 1953 have not forgotten, including the 43 killed there in fighting between 1966 and 1969

[@user-jw5pn5nt1p]

@@xunqianbaidu6917 in a socialist nation military expenditures are a drain on the nation. They have decided their sovereignty depends on their military strength. I don’t believe them to be wrong when the Korean War is over it’ll be interesting to see what they do.

[@tadsklallamn8v]

Was hoping this video would actually talk about Kim il-Sung. Instead we get "for some unknown reasons he was preferred. He won some battles. End of story"

[@CrisisMoon7]

3:03pm Dec,7,23 Thursday 12:32pm Jan 6 24 Saturday

[@Virsho]

north korea is doing pretty well compared to countries with similar wealth even tho north korea is being heavily sanctioned and embargo

[@RuaTheHua]

I hope they grow and thrive without the military or war.

[@walangchahangyelingden8252]

It was a slow descent towards what we see N.Korea as nowadays.

[@kd1s]

I cannot for a moment believe that Kim Jong Un would nuke the U.S. For if he did Pyongyang would in fact be a glowing flatland withing 20 minutes.

[@007kingifrit]

plus america can shoot down nukes now

[@JokeShinet]

It's such a paradise that people flee the location

[@MM22966]

A recurring theme. What puzzles me is the eagerness to elect socialist/communist/'progressive' types in the West now, with all the evidence of how it goes once they get in charge.

[@jakeavakov5230]

flee? people immigrate all over the world. there have been countless NK going to Japan and SK and returning back to north korea due to how they're treated along with how culture is there. That's like me saying Mexico is a hellhole because people immigrate over the border, and ignoring the past 80 years of the US fuelling both cartels over there, and funding them with weapons. Why do you think it's a bad place? The US and allies bombed and destroyed 80% of north korea's land and infastructure during the war, along with countless embargos

[@jakeavakov5230]

@@MM22966 flee? people immigrate all over the world. there have been countless NK going to Japan and SK and returning back to north korea due to how they're treated along with how culture is there. That's like me saying Mexico is a hellhole because people immigrate over the border, and ignoring the past 80 years of the US fuelling both cartels over there, and funding them with weapons. Why do you think it's a bad place? The US and allies bombed and destroyed 80% of north korea's land and infastructure during the war, along with countless embargos

[@JokeShinet]

@@jakeavakov5230 how many people immigrate to North Korea these days? None. This is not the Cold War where it was working both ways. Even more people are emigrating South Korea due to the capitalist toxic hyper competitive self-hating society there

[@jakeavakov5230]

​@@JokeShinet you realize that not every country has the same immigration process? do you think it is easy to immigrate to north korea? no. you might be surprised too, that it's not easy to immigrate to china. you need family ancestry there or have to go through a long process. the US doesn't have a hard immigration process.

[@ethancook3245]

5:00

[@Gigika313]

Mango press 🥭 did great video on this

[@vortigern4804]

Kim Two Bong, excellent k-pop star name.

[@Yuhon100]

I really enjoy watching this video knowing about the life in the most isolated country in the world, North Korea. I wish one day they could have opened the door for us, not sure when.

[@user-ug2qz7ln3n]

"...not sure when." Never !!!! independent, Separate ( from south korea and usa), Sovereign Nuclear North Korea, this : FOREVER !!!!!

[@pyeitme508]

Ye

[@stevenbaksh5545]

Imagine if Cho Man Sik became the leader of NK

[@ayu1978]

Unable to overwork people indefinitely? I beg to differ. Even today such situations are possible, e-commerce delivery man, package sorters in eg. Amazon or other e-commerce platform. Literally the delivery men died of over-exhaustion in Korean and China. Just victims of corporate exploitation and societal indifference. You die, another will take your place. No different from the factories in the 19th century during the industrial revolution in England.

[@007kingifrit]

stop. you have no idea what you are talking about. the north koreans worked 16-20 hour days........amazon still only works 8

[@C2K777]

Please tell us all more about "corporate exploitation" in 1950s Communist Ideologically based countries. Those nations SO well knows for their Corpo Entities 🙄 Or better still how prevalent Amazon delivery men are in 'Korea' and/or China today. I think you need to re-read your Ladybird "My 1st Book on Communism" as you're somewhat deluded and randomly assigning diametrically opposed constructs from across more than a half century period to try and make a point. Spoiler alert: It's not going well for you thus far. Let me guess. Stalin was really a nice guy and just misunderstood AND the only reason communism has repeatedly failed is coz 'they weren't real communists/ were doing it wrong' Please consider taking possession of the Family Brain Cell before posting next time. It saves us all some time.

[@LarzGustafsson]

The DPRK was not a USSR project.

[@slee4653]

While I dont know much , I also know a few things. Lets just say, political leaders are opportunists . Kim il sung became the leader of North korea , and park chung hee became a le a der of south korea. But it could very well have been the other way around. Park chung hee was a Japanese army officer, a communist party member when it suited him , and a general of south korean armed forces allied with the us. The lead general of south korean forces, general paik , became so when it suited him, while he himself was born in the north and served as japanese army officer. So I suppose opportunists are also pragmatists. Is that moral ? Is that ethical? Does that show less than good character? I am nobody to make that judgment.

[@cl5619]

What a great subject to make a historical series about. There’s so much content, so many stories and narratives to explore

[@Game_Hero]

For everyone here in this cold war video, would you like a glorious north korean song about how potatoes are the best thing to happen in humanity's history, sung by a singer who's over and under-expressive at the same time? I sure do : kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIq0iK2JpZWBpNU Enjoy!

[@shanshajahan8160]

10:27 - 10:32 The lady looks beautiful 😊

[@UsTheMusicTVOfficial]

Nice. Thanks for making an episode about North Korea. Particularly by not being negative towards their country.

[@rosebit524]

The biggest victim of the Imperial Japan and WWII, Korea, got the biggest punishment - The division, instead of Japan. Japan enjoyed biggest economic jump in history due the following devastating Korean war. We are writing biggest human rights crisis in history every day.

[@boobah5643]

I'm not convinced that Korea was the biggest victim given China next door. Although if you somehow measure per capita they'd probably edge it out. Also, division wasn't punishment; just further victimization, albeit not at Japanese hands.

[@TV-jg2kj]

@@boobah5643 나는 아이러니 하다. 한국이 일본의 식민지로써 2차대전에서 부역했기 때문에 일본이 아니라 우리가 갈라져야 했는가? 중국과 러시아의 바로 아래에 있기에 미국의 입장에서는 한반도 전체가 공산화 되는 것은 일본도 그렇게 될 가능성을 염두해서 분단했다고 들었다.

[@monkebiznez]

Appreciate the videos, but the fact, that Magellan (your sponsor) only accepts credit cards is a big no no for the rest of the world.

[@Orovenir]

Your video on south corea has been censored. That’s awful

[@bangmo7]

A hidden strife between the USSR and the PRC. Mao, just after the final success of the civil war in 1949, wanted to 'annex' the whole Korean peninsula. NK's armed forces was under heavy Chinese influence. Tens of thousands of soldiers were veterans of the Chinese civil war in Manchuria. Manchuria had been in the Japanese rule from around 1920 and there were millions of Korean immigrants. Many of them became communists and fought in the Chinese civil war. The commander of the NK's armed forces was a Korean-Chinese communist, Moojung. Stalin went along with Mao's vision. China paid every penny for the Soviet-made weapons which the so-called 'Chinese Volunteer Army' had used in the Korean War. In the late fall of 1950, after the Incheon landing, the NK forces were annihilated. In November one million Chinese Volunteer Army intervened and gave a hell to the Allied forces. From then to July 1953, for about 33 months, it was not a North-south war. It was a war between China backed by the USSR and Korea allied with the US and other countries under the flag of UNC(United Nations Command). The NK communists were not indigenous. Kim was a Chinese communist and later became an officer of the 88th international brigade of the USSR. Kim was a rope walker, One hung between the USSR and China. By playing between two devils, he could consolidate the absolute power. Actually his son, Jungil was the one who built this bloodline cult from the middle of 1960s. One pole of the tight rope, the USSR, collapsed in 1991. Kim Jungil chose to substitute the USSR with nukes. It seems Putin gave the initial technology to maintain some level of influence in the Far East. Apparently Jungil used the Russian technology as a leverage to secure more nuke tech and parts from China. "Hey, this guy gave us nuke tech. How about you?" The 'raison d'etre' of the NK regime is a buffer between the US and the PRC(and Russia/USSR), A buffer should be stable. Nuke is not fit for a geopolitical buffer. China greedily have wanted both: a buffer and a nuke-armed puppet. Now it is time for China to pay the price for its stupidity and greed.

[@parolof]

Why is your sound never in sync with your lips‽?

[@007kingifrit]

maybe the lips are added to his face after he speaks to mimic the sensation of having a human face? youtube makes you give up your face when you monetize your channel. no lie, look it up. all youtubers are faceless

[@katiempojer]

North Korea is on my list of beaten weird places to go

[@truth1472]

지구상에서 홀로 냉전을 하는 미친 나라죠.

[@01296501923654]

I get the point you're making, but I think it's a bad idea to characterize a country as a child; it invites us to disregard their right to self-determination, view them as incapable of self-governance and justifying foreign intervention.

[@fearlesssquatcher5737]

But think of this, the North Korean people don't have any right of self-determination in this dictatorship.

[@SparkBerry]

Kinda like when a kid is abused and neglected and then grows up to be a criminal, except this childhood lasted a few centuries.

[@Fummy007]

"Heres the truth about DPRK" >literal communist propaganda posters in the background holy shit I never clicked away faster,

[@SINfromPL]

Ignoring all the controversy, North Korea does promote themselves in a very unique way. Hoping for call of duty Korean warfare lol

[@morisco56]

More like a battlefield or another diferent shooter, call of duty is garbage.

[@SINfromPL]

@@morisco56 can't see anyone else really commiting. battlefield 4 had a map based on pyongyang, essentially the one and only realistically taking place IN north korea, other games had north koreans invading other countries

[@sizor3ds]

You mean like a Korean War, North Korean invasion, or invasion of North Korea? Because a Korean War would be a pretty cool game using late ww2 weaponry and fighting in Korean Geography. A North Korean invasion of the states was done in the game Homefront but if you ask me, Homefront is what you get when you take every horrible thing about Modern Warfare clones, stitch it together, and try to sell it as a game. A game about the invasion of the Korean Peninsula would be really cool as fighting could take place in the brutalist architecture of Pyongyang

[@SINfromPL]

@@sizor3ds first and foremost i would love to see everything placed within North Korea borders. Bf4 took the architecture inspiration from the Capitol and it's very unique. Homefront wasn't a bad game for it's time, but they could replace it with Russia and noone would know the difference. I want the Soviet era inspired, propaganda filled street to street combat. I think there is potential, but i doubt anything like that would ever come out soon

[@TV-jg2kj]

@@SINfromPL 한국은 아직 전쟁이 끝나지 않았고 아마도 한국 전쟁이 나오면 당신은 산에 적응을 해야 할것입니다. 한국은 국토의 70퍼센트가 산입니다. 생각해 보십시오. 사방이 산입니다! 사방이 언덕입니다!-

[@-JA-]

😃👍

[@deadpilled2942]

You go to camp.