Inside North Korea by an American Tourist - Part 1 of 4 HD (TRAIN PORTION)

[@peronk1]

There was a North Korean man on the train who had spent time in Cuba learning Spanish, and he was conversing with a young female tourist from South America. The North Korean man was coming home after working in China- and he was very excited to speak Spanish with a native speaker.

[@Pris4008]

Are North Koreans allowed to travel to other countries apart from China??

[@noneyourbussiness5879]

@@Pris4008 yes but I think it is only for work/studies, and they have to go back. There are NK students in some Indian unis, Finland, Russia, also other 2nd world xountries.

[@LaraCroft36]

@@Pris4008 only the rich

[@arghyaprotimhalder5592]

@@Pris4008 yep the foreign affairs, and investigation department and it's students,

[@arghyaprotimhalder5592]

@@LaraCroft36 and foreign service officers , military admirals, and foreign investigation crew of NK

[@seavanmin]

As a 45yrs old South Korean myself, I’ve never seen any North Korean directly. There are so many in your video. It’s amazing but also very sad.

[@art5850]

Is popular 90's in South korea?

[@ВасилийЯрославцев-щ7м]

А чего грустного?все лица естественны ни одного обезображенного пластической операцией лица как в южной Корее это прекрасно!!

[@YuraShinkarenko]

@@ВасилийЯрославцев-щ7м вате слова не давали...как же за..бали ватные боты и тролли...Они и тут всунут свои погнутые 5 копеек...

[@YuraShinkarenko]

Can you understand what are they speak about?

[@myname49771]

@@ВасилийЯрославцев-щ7м Явно не до пластических операций. Более первичные потребности не удовлетворены.

[@edwardlo4167]

This clip is much more valuable than all the existing documentaries about North Korea which were filmed only in the capital city.

[@nigel900]

And if caught would result in death or imprisonment…

[@cyanakieva]

True, but it is impossible for a tourist, let alone an American, to photograph "inside" North Korea. You're always with a guide, who tells you what you can and can't photograph.

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

The international community should hang its head in shame that it has allowed such a disgraceful and totally evil regime to continue to exist as the oppressors of the North Korean people - we say that we value liberty and freedom, but in allowing such a horrible regime to continue to exist we are revealing our insincerity and our hypocrisy, at a point where the people of North Korea are clearly suffering and are yearning, are desperate for liberation - as an Irish Catholic patriot, I feel thier struggle at a very deep level, even more so than the Chinese people at the hands of the CCP regime - the North Korean regime has to be the most evil regime in the world, even worse than the CCP - why are the globalist elites remaining silent on this at a point when they could very easily bring thier considerable force to bear as a force for great good for the North Korean people?

[@kazy9502]

@@nigel900 source: trust me bro

[@nigel900]

@@kazy9502 It’s not Impossible… It’s Life Threatening.

[@Joyfful]

I'm Korean and this video gives me a feeling that l've never felt before. Listening to North Korean ppl's words is really touching even tho they are saying just normal things. Really hope we can meet each other near future.

[@mezmay12]

it seems that in the near future we will not be able to see even the inhabitants of neighboring civilized countries

[@PavltheRobot]

How similar is their language to your own?

[@Joyfful]

@@PavltheRobot Similar to the relation between American accent and British accent

[@PavltheRobot]

@@Joyfful Ah, I see. At first I thought these two languages are much different.

[@Joyfful]

@@PavltheRobot Only 60 years from seperation haha

[@crown674]

32:43 Dacia 1310 34:28 GAZ-31029 Volga 34:47 UAZ-469 39:05 GAZ Gazelle

[@Hazihan]

Ii

[@vyhruzka]

Lol

[@viipurinpoika]

@@АртурБережной-е1т остаётся только догадаться смыслу твоей фразы.

[@homuchoghoma6789]

и в самом начале "...китайские поезда" ... Москва-Пекин ))

[@AlbertKWD]

Lol daciaaa romanian car in north korea 🤣

[@evelynolson5731]

The man smiling and waving the first few seconds really touched my heart.

[@jinyax3321]

r u joking?

[@jinyax3321]

@O.G Autistler i cant believe there are any games in the country of dictator. Where ppl lives cost nothing.

[@SadaKiyoshi]

@O.G Autistler bro 😭💀

[@redfront6707]

He’s just a normal guy

[@Alex_Gordon]

the man??? what about the lady!! LOL

[@safeysmith6720]

I’m not being sarcastic here, or trying to make some veiled point.. but I wonder where all those soldiers were off to. Maybe basic training, or an exercise of some kind? I just get curious about things like that.

[@브라우니-n7u]

I can hear some Korean-Chinese speaking lol (I live in South Korea) 1:37 아~ 여기가 차도이구만! (Oh this is the road!) 2:16 Boy: 나 코해야지 고노(?) 가고! 한 한시간 있을라고. 가고 좀 쉴라고. (When I get there, I'm gonna sleep for a while. I wanna take a rest maybe for an hour.) Mom: 쉴 데가 없단 말이야, 이런데 한가운데 빠지면(?). (There's no place to rest though) (After a few seconds) Boy: 저기가 저승이에요? (Is that the afterdeath world?) 3:07 Old man: 근데 이 평양으로 가나? (BTW does this train go to Pyongyang?) They're speaking in somehow mixed-up Korean and Chinese language.. BTW it's really sad that I can't understand lots of them. Korean-Chinese language are similar to North Korean one, and probably I can't understand what they're saying because I've never heard of North Korean dialects since I was born.. This means it's been so long after Korean division. BTW dear Americans who think North Korea should be freed by America, you'd better let South Korea do it. Cuz it's Koreans who eager for reunification, by peace not war, and it's South Koreans' job to help North Koreans live in democracy in Reunified Korea.

[@urinelover6667]

Who asked

[@WasBlind_NowISee]

s s but then there are a vast majority who adapt well and do better than the avg. which perspective do we go with? A few complainers who want hand outs or the 99% who enjoy a better life?

[@WasBlind_NowISee]

@s s Its different but we have a lot of similarities as well. Speaking the same language and sharing the same history for starters is enough to work with. Ideologies can always be reversed. What you were referring to were a few KZbin videos or single documentary that you saw of those saying they disliked the aggressive competition. Those videos of them were after only a few months to a few years of living in the South. Some take years to adapt but they always end up doing so. You can't base a whole opinion off of one documentary that you saw because its always biased in the point of view of the person making that doc. Also KZbin America which im guessing your watching these vids from only have a select catalogue of videos regarding the North. They are mostly dated and tailored to the Wests narrative. Watch it from the South Korean KZbin. you will get better content. Good luck with findings subs though.

[@Ultra289]

North Korea wont let them be free without any military intervention

[@surasitdedkard9001]

Did South and North korea speak same language?

[@Kaijou.Japanese.Learning]

I'm from Japan. After I watched your videos, I am like I don't even know what to say. But, I wish that I really could help them all.

[@petergerritgroen3157]

Its a big dirty jale.

[@petergerritgroen3157]

Jail

[@user-dv9cb7tm8o]

Ты можешь помочь им всем, надо только, чтобы Япония перестала быть американской подстилкой, и отказалась от доллара и военного сотрудничества.

[@Waischess]

Уберите санкции и не целуйте задницу США. Вспомните Хиросиму и Нагасаки. Ядерную бомбу им простили?

[@Andy_Novosad]

@@user-dv9cb7tm8o Иди лечись.

[@XPHALCON]

The official color of the DPRK is dirt brown.

[@andyr0ck]

Well, it certainly seemed to be. Jong-il used to wear those brown Bond-villain jumpsuits made from that synthetic fabric they love in the DPRK, Vinylon.

[@undeadpresident]

the land looks desolate, I don't see hardly any natural vegetation

[@dimitriev7]

its called WINTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

[@gg-qj3gc]

@@dimitriev7 so grass disapears in winter and theres just dirt? and then it comes back in spring? maybe i livein a magic country where it stay kind of green even under snow

[@luziapereira6491]

MAYBE IT'S WINTER , THIS SEASON ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE DESOLATED ...

[@luziapereira6491]

LOOKS LIKE JAPAN IN WINTER TIME , TERRIBLE . i DID NOT LIKE IT , VERY DEPRESSIVE .

[@戸塚亭ヨット]

@@luziapereira6491​　​It is natural for greenery to disappear in winter, not only in Japan but also in the rest of the world. You have no common sense.

[@rp627]

10 years later, and still the best video i've stumbled upon. the slow motion scenes were all so touching, humanizing. thank you. and damn all news networks that cannot show the truth: reality. KZbin is a blessing.

[@-Alexander2001MB]

Everything is still the same over there😅

[@Deneb33]

A+ video. This is just as good as going in person. Everybody stands around looking at the train because it's the most exciting part of their day. Your other videos should be great too.

[@CentrePeice]

its disturbing how close my imagined setting for 1984 looks to this

[@peronk1]

Some areas of North Korea have more consistent electricity- those that use hydro dams for instance closer to the coast, and the capitol that has a large coal power plant. But most of North Korea has only limited periods of electrical power - perhaps just a few hours a night.

[@dmitryorloff7019]

this small but proud and brave nation lives in poverty thanks to American vampires. Nothing ... soon the universal harlot will be defeated

[@binsong1065]

@CommunistBotNo you are wrong! They lack energy only because they don’t have enough money to import petroleum and the dictator have used all the money to develop nuclear weapons! He treats his people as slaves!

[@felipeemanuel5790]

@CommunistBot Cuba and Venezuela for example, they do this to small countries to show to the world how "bad are the socialism" , funny thing is that no one is sanctioning China, because if they do, every country will break.

[@robbiesouthall8031]

it's kinda emotional seeing these sweet people live in these conditions i pray that north Korea will be a green country soon

[@gyunamchol6611]

선진 과학기술의 국제적 협력이 필요하지요 황폐해진 지질과 토양 에 대한. 선진 탐구 (적합될수밌음의 산림 조성, 더욱 더 풍족될수 있음의 식량의 씨앗 , 원조의 사회현상에서 자립형 씨앗 다수의 민둥산이 국제적신뢰로 최적의 산림환경 , 최적의 지방도시와 환경의 설ㅇ계 마을과 도시를 연결될수 있음의 이동성의 편읭성에 의한 최적의 설ㅇ계

[@MasterKenfucius]

Great job with this footage!! Some of the best I've ever seen considering they don't allow you to film 99.99% of their country.

[@VivianaRomo-ms2vw]

I saw a video of a man who secretly recorded and it’s so sad. They are starving to death. This is nothing to what I saw

[@digimaks]

Interesting, many people from Russia who visited NK say it reminds them of 1950's USSR in miniature. Most of the rolling stock seem like their own construction, altho it has very close resemblance to Chinese and Russian railroad. Except they got bogies made from rolled bars, instead of steel cast. The electric locomotives with six axles look identical to old Soviet ChS-2 .

[@Диванныйпехотинец-ь7ю]

Даже близко Северная Корея не напоминает СССР 1950-х. Это как сравнить курорт и концлагерь. В Союзе жили очень хорошо.

[@gyunamchol6611]

북한의 심리전에 말려들수록 평양시내의. 거리한복판의. 아주큰 삼각형의. 구조물의 설치될수 있음에. 대한 의문이 깊어질수록. 그러하지요

[@ДжеримиКарпинтер]

ПФФФ БРЕД 👎 😂😂 ГДЕ В КАРАБАЧЕ ЧС 2??? ТАМ И ДОРОГ ТО НЕТ ...😂

[@АндрейЧвертко-ж2у]

​@@ДжеримиКарпинтертам перевод неверный😂 NK - это не нагорный Карабах, а North Korea) Переводчик тупанул)

[@АндрейЧвертко-ж2у]

А по теме, думаю, эти люди правы. По рассказам моей бабушки, о Союзе 50х и 60х и кинохроникам, все сходится, когда я смотрю на это видео😊

[@peronk1]

Conditions in the areas I visited, locations the Elite live, were better than most Americans would likely think based on the media exposure we're exposed to. Conversely, If I had the ability to travel outside of the approved destinations, I would likely be overwhelmed by the poverty and brutality of this country.

[@gyunamchol6611]

누구나 잔혹함의 현상이라면. 놀랄수 밖에 없을듯요

[@tijuanaiguana190]

I wish there was a more recent video just like this. Amazing footage

[@DelightfulTravellers]

Fantastic video. Well done! We really loved it.

[@ankarianka9213]

Delightful Travellers kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3zFn6yCgLF7mNE

[@peronk1]

They encourage photos/video of many scenes inside Pyongyang, monuments, nature settings, etc. They don't allow filming of the countryside, but recognize it's impossible to stop. However the regions tourists are allowed to visit are areas NK is happy to advertise- most of North Korea is closed to tourists because conditions are so terrible there.

[@TrueChannelFor1]

ya we believe you ))) country is under hard sanctions for a decades living on it's own... try to give homes to homeless in your own country

[@cwnapier67]

I would be so scared to travel there in case I couldn’t leave again. It looks like USSR from 1950’s very depressing but extremely interesting at the same time. Maybe one day they will become like China a Country that is communist but embraces capitalism at the same time and has adopted some western ways.

[@gyunamchol6611]

​@@cwnapier67지도자의. 선택에 의하여.(정치, 사회, 문화, 자국민들의 권익보호 등, 보다 더 풍족될수있느냐 ? 그렇지 않을수 있느냐 일수 밖에요

[@binsong1065]

@@cwnapier67No, all the formal communist countries have the same faces: poverty, no freedom and no hope. Believe me, I know what it was like under Mao’s brutal rule,worse than current North Korea. Only because China too poor and the Chinese so unhappy that Denxiaoping has to change otherwise CCP would definitely break down

[@thfrussia6717]

I think the season when it was filmed gives some another amount of depression. If that was green it would look much better though...

[@FoolAndHisMoney23]

I wish you could hold your phone steady. Way too hard to watch. HD doesn't mean much when the camera is jiggling or is out of focus.

[@eloquentblack]

feels like I time traveled back to the soviet union

[@evesz7260]

what i'm trying to say, when i mentioned my grandma (just realised that this was quite random) is that there are things that you are amazing at doing and there are things that are brand new to you and you have to be taught how to do them - there is nothing wrong in that. the sad truth is that there are slightly more things that NKoreans needs to catch up with and be taught how to do.

[@peronk1]

Wow, that is fascinating! Being Chinese, you can blend in better: if you had legally taken the train in, you could have gotten out at a station during one of the many long stops, bought some fruit at the market, etc. But as a Westerner, you would be spotted right away.

[@icantcomeupwithagoodusername]

Did you forget to switch to your alt?

[@James-ju4gj]

@@icantcomeupwithagoodusername I don't think alts were a thing 10 years ago bro

[@icantcomeupwithagoodusername]

@@James-ju4gj Nevermind I just remembered that replies worked differently back then so he's probably replying to someone.

[@alicethecamel3191]

im suprised part 1 has over 2 million views and the other parts are only like 400k.. i also like how you took time to slow the video when passing something interesting.

[@1r1shdev1l]

Thank you for your bravery! It was always interesting to see how they live there. How are their cities and streets, such as they are!

[@gyunamchol6611]

수년전의명상이기는 하나ㅇ현제에도 크게. 달라져 있는것은ㅇ없을듯 합니다

[@oocares]

You were lucky to go by train as US passport holders usually have to fly in and out. I found the place fascinating and tragic in equal measures.

[@user-dv9cb7tm8o]

Я бы на месте корейцев вообще не впускал никого из владельцев американских паспортов...

[@miketate8554]

@@user-dv9cb7tm8o lol

[@Magpy93]

@@user-dv9cb7tm8o based

[@Fred_the_1996]

@@user-dv9cb7tm8o this post was fact checked by real Z patriots

[@user-dv9cb7tm8o]

@@Fred_the_1996 Я патриот России и СССР. Что такое "Z патриот", я не знаю, похоже, это тебе в голову насрали.

[@teresagouveia5741]

I get train sickness after whatch this video and I feel dizzy now...

[@bensaco341]

Thank you for this beautiful video recording ... You made my dreams come true ... Best regards from Poland

[@cocodriloco7780]

Are the trees and grass always so... barren?

[@abc-jm2zq]

great video! happy you made it so long , gives good impression!

[@summertimesadness8159]

Why KZbin has been recommending me so many North Korean videos lately? I'm scared

[@SaulTPokit]

@Easy Rider Google, that will known bastion of socialism.

[@Nic98SE]

Because Kim Jong Un is after you.

[@everkey74]

excellent work of the cinematographer, bravo! (sarcasm). Stabilization? no, haven't heard.

[@brianconlan4215]

I'm amazed that you were able to get this footage.

[@peronk1]

Well, you have very limited interaction with local ordinary people- very few who are bilingual. Most foreigners are Chinese, which is the one country keeping NK afloat, so they do like them (even though most Chinese people visiting look down on North Koreans). There are also many Russians visiting, which the N. Korean also like. Even if a N.Korean believed the propaganda ideology, it would be suicidal to ever get into a physical confrontation with a tourist- so its a super safe place to visit

[@sandesh9240]

True.. like 1950s Russia and East Germany !

[@SpottingWithTom]

00:01:25 I can see the hotel I stayed at when I went to Dandong sometimes ago. Yeah, I only cruised around in the Yalu River and the near shore to Sinijiu when I visited the area. It's pretty intriguing to see the huge difference between these two cities, one covered in skyscrapers and others a few beat up houses and an old amusement park.

[@pawbear56]

This video would have been so much better if you kept the camera or smartphone still or on a mount/tripod. The camera shake made viewing difficult and frustrating.

[@KolhoznyZagar]

interesting, like in Soviet Union 30-40years

[@Anthrax54]

No, it's Soviet 70th

[@decider1266]

So beautiful and peaceful

[@buttkid3548]

@@decider1266 not how I'd put it.

[@Подільськесело]

Слветский Союз 70-х.

[@TheGazmat]

Так пишете, как будто жили в 70х

[@aikotoba99]

I really like the style of this video when you slow some scenes down and then fast forward a bit. The effect shows both the humanity but yet also the realities of living in North Korea, at least to some point.

[@missgothika]

was an Argentinean person on the train? because I swear I'm hearing someone talking in Spanish. just strange..

[@Ravikumar.2102]

Laura Peralta 🙁🙁🙁🙁 So sad...

[@quesefoda1992]

Laura Peralta casa comigo

[@Ravikumar.2102]

Daniel Dutra can you translate in English please

[@safeysmith6720]

Yes. That was me you were hearing. Accept I’m not Argentinian and I don’t speak Spanish, and I wasn’t ACTUALLY actually there.. Hope that clears it up.

[@望北风那个吹]

Very real and not easy video. The shot is very good. The disadvantage is that the video is not clear and the camera shakes too much.

[@gyunamchol6611]

관객들은 이러한 품격높은 영상의 공개에도. 고마움을 표현할수 밖에요 퀄러티높은 더 높은. 영상은 다음에ㅇ 더 좋은 영상기기로

[@Nibbit]

Amazing to finally see north koreans, even for the fleeting moments as the train passes. Thank you for sharing your trip :).

[@gyunamchol6611]

우리가 인류문명을. 해택을 받기전에도. , 국제조사단의멸차를ㅁ신기하게 비ㅣ라볼ㅇ수 밖에요. , 과거의 우리또한 선진 과학ㅇ기술과 문명에ㅇ대한 신뢰

[@Authorsuzannemeadows]

It looks so barren and impoverished. This is how things turn out when people have no freedom to improve or interact with their environment, without the special permission of one unwise, oblivious dictator.

[@wkeon]

Dork Born difference is they can leave alabama or Mississippi

[@arianaoyola2988]

So I could be bashed by some of the racist people in the south.

[@chrispaw1]

It does look awful, so grey and drab, you don't see anybody seemingly enjoying anything? It's so sad that they see China over the river but if they tried to cross the bridge they would be shot! It's like a living hell for people living in North Korea....they cannot earn money or travel or do any of the things we all take for granted.

[@markt857]

***** Moron.

[@Authorsuzannemeadows]

***** So because there are still sad, or poor, or messed up people in every country in the world, we're all on the same misery wavelength? That argument is pretty far out there. I'm not pointing fingers. It's... truth. North Korean defectors aren't lying. You're saying we have it as bad as North Korea? What hole do you live in? And look at the lack of GREEN LOVELINESS, LIKE TREES AND FLOWERS. I LOVE GREEN PRETTY THINGS ♡

[@spechtbert]

looks like fallout 3.

[@theminttophat4848]

fallout: depression edition 북한

[@julianbristow4793]

I feel sorrow for those people who are forced to live in bad conditions. It seems like nobody cares. You get that feeling while watching the video. My prayers go out to those who suffer under the rule of this prison like dictatorship.

[@williamf4544]

People are living in bad conditions right under your nose

[@annw1984]

Julian Bristow it’s seems as China 40 years ago.the solder shooting behind the escapers who was trying to runaway from country’s border.its a shameful of dictator of China

[@bldomain]

@@annw1984 America is partly to blame for the poverty in NK, US and its allies have imposed economical embargo on NK since 1950 and because of this there were mass starvation . I think US and its allies have violated the human rights of North Koreans with this embargo where food and medicine are hard to come by, besides causing NK not to have a functioning economy. As for China, it is a modern, developed country with clean, safe, green, futuristic cities and a tech savvy young Chinese Millennials and Gen Z as shown in the playlist > 200 videos here on Sight & Sounds of China. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2LSp55jrtyEptU

[@annw1984]

@@bldomain here I found a CCP’s propaganda video, just no different than the other blowers who said that ChiNazi is SO great, food are SO yummy, house are SO beautiful,…….. have you ever heard that the word of dofu? China is #1 counterfeit that has been made the products in all industries , CCP killing innocent people is # 1 in the quantity , The country corruption rate is #1 in ranking of the world. The “best of best” , you bet ! LOL😅😂🤣😜🤪

[@bldomain]

@@annw1984 Show me CCP killing people, I can show you tons of US and Western goons killing people. Many of those are in Wikileaks. After Deng XiaoPeng reform the economy by his "doesn't care whether white mouse or black mouse, as long as it catches the mice" China has leapfrogged his economic prowess exponentially but unfortunately it encouraged corruption. It continues with Zemin and Jintao as President and that is why Xi made corruption his priority and arrested hundreds of thousands of corrupt officials. This is pivotal for China as the corruption will become endemic if not stop. Now China will continue to build the nation at a higher level. Watch the videos, these are videos were made by many Chinese KZbinrs to show the REAL China and not the anti china propaganda of the Western media. Watch it and see whether it is propaganda. Look at the people, the environment, look at the business - all the European luxury retail business and American food chain restaurant. Why would they be there if China is killing people, with Tofu buildings and all those stereotypical BS that anti China trolls churned out. Check out with people from the West, Americans, British, Australians, Indians, Israelis, Africans, Europeans who live in China? Stop thinking anything good from China is propaganda. If you do that China will forever be your enemy in your mind. What do foreigners think living in China? kzbin.info/www/bejne/r323m4V9iMuHd5o Connect the Dots. Don't close your mind. Just watch it without your preconditioned anti China mindset.

[@retroracingshirt591]

City landscape similar to Romania... and Russia

[@rlilla2326]

in Hungary too :)

[@kaffeice7]

and Serbia

[@captfalconXX]

So glad Viet Nam got out of that already. There're even no land for foreign investment in Viet Nam.

[@Liforus1]

You may not believe, but even Russia looks like bright place in comparison with NК

[@edwardandrews2618]

There is NOTHING like Russia here. Russian landscape is totally different. Bad comparison.

[@peronk1]

Curiosity Tourism. Same reason tourists visit the Amish in Pennsylvania. Pockets of isolationism is intriguing when the rest of the world is largely harmonized. Plus back then I was naive thinking North Korea would collapse because it was soon after the ROKS Cheonan sinking - and before I realized South Korea has long turned its back on the prospect of reunification- so I should have been in no rush to visit.

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

If the two Korea's reunited, who would rule, the communist North, or the Democratic South?

[@zorak1997]

Thank you for posting. What type of camera did you use? The clarity when you shift to slow-motion is pretty good stuff. I went to the DPRK last summer and wish I'd gotten better shots of the peasants on the road side as we whizzed past them in our van, being the only automobile on the pot-hole filled road for mile after mile.

[@nev7711]

There's no obesity problem looking at the people we see from the train. Lots of smiles from many. Thanks so much for posting an interesting video.

[@robrussell5329]

Got to have food to have obesity.

[@nev7711]

@@robrussell5329 Are you sure?? Checkout Vietnam, Laos, Philippines....etc. It's our western culture, with Uber eats, Deliveroo....

[@NewtNiko]

@@robrussell5329There is NO obesity and food is plentiful in glorious Juche society

[@hyperjon3903]

You have some great footage here dude, but maybe you could edit and trim it down a bit? Watching you go over a bridge for ~3 minutes could be shortened to 10 seconds. Just offering some friendly advice - bet you had a great experience!

[@DrJones20]

Then skip ahead you imbecile, this is meant to be a travel experience

[@neeksbeek9920]

HyperJon maybe some people like to watch the 3 minute train ride over the bridge

[@kimjongun7673]

Thanks for visiting :3.

[@roberttepper2641]

+Kim Jong Un You arer a great leader.

[@thatdutchguy2882]

Kim Jong Un Hey, you look like the guy who stole all my Marsbars last time i was in the DPRK.

[@0000000000eu]

Kim Jong Un, you are the ideal person to lead the Korean people. You are doing a great job. Please, keep up the good work!

[@rajapudota9324]

I like this joker...

[@coasterqueues5424]

Kim Jong Un lol your a trip

[@Thursdaym2]

That is the most depressing rail journey I've ever seen.

[@johnnylujano1383]

so sad....what is winter time or where is the fricking vegetation?

[@NanaelSoloer]

South korea has developed a lot, and when u compare north korea to it... you feel sad and angry.

[@captfalconXX]

Capitalism or Communism. Your choice.

[@AaxXxeE54]

I spent my childhood in a small Siberian town in Russia in the 90s. When I watch this video, I feel a strange sense of nostalgia, because at that time Russia looked about the same in the provinces: dirt, poor people, old cars, buildings from the Soviet Union. I also traveled from the province to the metropolis when I was 7-10 years old, and observed exactly the same picture from the train window (even the cars were the same, I think). Now, of course, everything has changed, but it's a very strange feeling.

[@НашаНиша-т7м]

Это первое о чем подумал когда это видео смотрел, ЭТО ЖЕ РОССИЯ, но с немного другим колоритом) Сейчас тоже самое в деревнях, грязь, бедность и тд. Стабильность как говорится. Сибирь. Красноярский Край.

[@AaxXxeE54]

@@НашаНиша-т7м согласен но раньше все было другой гаммы цветов, все цвета блеклые, сероватые, не было пестрой рекламы, было мало машин. Что касается глубинки и маленьких городов. Сейчас приезжаешь в маленький город - народу гораздо больше, все пестрит рекламой, много зданий из сайдинга которые разбавляют однородность стиля застройки, много машин вперемешку новые старые, левый руль, правый руль. В 90-е хоть и было бедно но гораздо гармоничнее смотрелось в одном стиле.

[@НашаНиша-т7м]

@@AaxXxeE54 Это да. Теперь Северная Корея нам позволяет взглянуть на то, как выглядел бы СССР в 2022)

[@AaxXxeE54]

@@НашаНиша-т7м я думаю что это скорее начало-середина 90х, когда все что было в СССР итак не идеальным начало приходить в упадок. Осмелюсь сказать что в 80е все выглядело получше судя по фотографиям, чем в первую половину 90х. Когда просматривал фото и видео об СССР у меня сложилось такое впечатление. Наверное СССР в 21 веке бы гораздо лучше выглядел чем Северная Корея, все же тогда хоть и была закрытая страна, но уж не настолько жёстко )) Из северной Кореи выехать непривилигированному классу практически невозможно, по-моему даже деревенский житель просто так в Пхеньян не может поехать. Это не коммунизм а диктатура, рабство под отмазкой коммунизма. Чего стоит трудовые лагеря, когда родственник сбегает или пытается сбежать , всю его семью в лагерь пожизненно.

[@AleksandrSlepov]

А я как-будто попал 40 лет назад. Я из Казани.

[@MayurPanghaal]

In India you will only see excreta and garbage next to railway tracks...and maybe some people squatting while youre looking.

[@takshbhardwaj7356]

Brother u r great making mind blowing vedio ... Is this tree year old video... Reply

[@peronk1]

I entirely agree with you. That said, are you Korean? The reason I ask, my experience with native South Koreans is that they have no interest in the topic of North Korea, and would not even be watching videos of tourist trips into that country. Needless to say, I'm a bit impressed by your engagement in the issue...which makes me think you're not a native Korean, or perhaps instead a foreigner living in Korea.

[@user-dv9cb7tm8o]

Южные корейцы - проститутки, продавшиеся сша.

[@nilsonhoxha6292]

I am from Abania and i feel very bad for those people because i know also what comunism means and how it destroys a country from the roots.Hope they one day get free and their country goes the right way.

[@tarkitarker0815]

albania was not destroyed by communism but by stalin, then it recovered, ppl couldnt wait the last few months until the state was finally debt free and had a bit of puffer and revolted, then made a coup, then the democratic party of albania fell for a scam and advertized it, destroying the country far more than ANYTHING before or after stalin. this is a really twisted view on your countries history.

[@lukaszumcs]

Your family name is the same like most famous Albanian Enver Hoxa

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

Being Irish myself, I totally agree - it is a stark reminder of how the precious principles of Liberty and freedom must be protected at all costs and why ideologies like communism are so wrong on every level

[@vaymesh]

Да что ты знаешь о горе?ты ещё не жил в России, ты не знаешь как нам тяжело

[@smilinggeneral8870]

​@@vaymeshmay your situation get better.

[@sojutime]

Reunification is blocked by the North Korean regime, not South Korea.

[@Jaksoncpp]

@Rational PoC do you know what a puppet is? Wtf SK is top 10 richest country in the world even if s country is an american bitch that doesnt create wealth.

[@KammiNeko]

Amazing footage! thank you for capturing it all and slowing down the interesting parts. I used the Google translate app to read the crazy propaganda signs everywhere!

[@FloridaSunshine]

Looks like Soviet Union from my childhood.

[@gomersimpson777ram]

California Sunshine.............

[@tibork3845]

Yeah same here ... LOL. Now we can see how depressing it really was...

[@GetToHellOut]

No, it does not. Unless your childhood was in 1940's - 1950's.

[@mrsTraveller64]

I was several times in Leningrad(today it is st Petersburg) in Russia,in the 70's. It looked so much like in this video. It was huge,enormous, but no people,no cafeterias,no neonlights or advertising signs(funny how neonlights and advertising signs actually makes a city!) and there were shops for tourists that the lokals good not enter. The lokals were hiding outside; asking tourists to go in to buy them items from those shops,like stereos,tvs,certain kind of clothes and grocerys and just about anything. Now I went back a few years ago and WOW what a change!!! Everything is available for everyone and there are nice cafeterias and restaurants and PEOPLE everywhere!! I hope that we all can go and visit N.Korea in the future and discover it has become human also,just like Leningrad did.

[@Psevdonim123]

Yeah, key word people everywhere... They so everyone that you have to shove yourself into a train car at metro terminus... And these "changes" killed an awesome biggest tram system in the world so now stupid Melbourne is ahead of us... (and speaking about the metro again, the development if it is slow as molasses, because of severe corruption, "Prospect Slavy" station design was approved by city government in late 1960's and it opened only in two thousand f**ing nineteen)

[@tomjones7184]

In the war Leningrad lost millions of its citizens to starvation, the Germans cut Leningrad of from the rest of Russia for about 2 n half years. I guess that’s why the place seemed so quite

[@GuerrillaGuitar]

Yeah because hellish capitalist corporation's advertising makes a city. I'd love to live in a country without that shit. It's dystopian, having coca cola and exxon written every fucking where, it's alienating. Countries like Dprk and Cuba are free fron that horror

[@میٹھیبہاؤ]

It is truly fascinating to watch this. I have been watching documentaries on North Korea for several days now. Such an interesting place. It's surreal. It is amazing that you were able to get footage like this of North Korea. Thanks for posting.

[@PeaceToAll-sl1db]

why did prophet muhammad beat his wife? was it because allah in the quran says muslim man can beat women

[@andrzej2501]

"Interesting" in the same sense it would be "interesting" to personally experience decapitation.

[@导演文森吴]

Why is it always grey and January in every footage from North Korea

[@peronk1]

Excellent! I hope you do get the opportunity of going back again. The train passage is slow and long, but sharing a cabin with North Koreans without your minders around is a rare opportunity to get a better insight into their psyche and extent of knowledge about the outside world .

[@димитрийлемехов-ш2р]

Речь отвратительная.

[@pavelsamkov3545]

Наверняка, один из северокорейцев был агентом спецслужбы.

[@angeltouch1389]

Can we just talk about how happy amd excited that kid was 😂❤

[@josefineyo]

This was a very informative and interesting video, altough I couldn't help reacting to some of the things you wrote in the description... It is one thing to say things about the government of South Korea (but I'm not sure that I agree with what you said about their government) but to generalize everyone living in South Korea (50 million people) and saying that they only care about "wealth generation, social status and K-Pop" also calling them "self absorbed & timid" is very.. I don't even know.

[@Sheeshhhhhhhh]

I've been watching a lot of NK documentaries, and from all those videos I've watched, there is a feeling that you are watching the past.

[@olegdc40]

No drugs, no criminals, no bureaucracy , no stupid children with guns and cruel games… are you sure they are not lucky?

[@АндрейЧвертко-ж2у]

В Союзе, хватало грубиянов, преступников и бюрократов. Думаю, в Северной Корее, это тоже есть, пусть и в малых количествах.

[@LEKOWSKIM]

peronk1, Great footage. I am curious how were you able to travel by train as a US Citizen? I had to fly out via Koryo Air(90Min)back to Bejing(2012). All the non-US Citizens went back by train(24 hours).

[@Yegoryevsk]

Обычная страна, скромная, чистая.

[@digimaks]

Plus- trudolubivaya.

[@andrewt2398]

Не знаю ничего про Россию , а вот Украину уже пора переименовывать в УНДР и начинать воздвигать монументы Пороху Солнцеликому

[@yegorpivnich4266]

в описании сказано же, что тур по местам-витринам.

[@oborkot]

ЕГОРЬЕВСК. Первый видеоканал что то не особо там чисто

[@ratcatcher2402]

"ЕГОРЬЕВСК. Первый видеоканал " - в зонах тоже чистенько и скромненько. Не желаешь?

[@ex-cabincrew]

Very interesting to see, but it looks a very sad place. Did you have to be secretive when filming or was photography 'free'?

[@feurzauber]

The stench of the big leader´s farts, still hovers in the air.

[@ernlast3059]

poor poor clueless ppl...i hope they rise up one day

[@rayespinoza9509]

go fuck yourself!

[@mikhailrudauk5494]

Very similar to USSR 1970-80

[@CzasowAnton]

1930-1950.

[@DocentUSA]

Last time I visited *rural* Russia in 2011. I can say it looks like at least 2011 Russia. I'm not considering Moscow, it's out of scope.

[@hartleyhare8316]

Trains tend to travel through the most industrialised (and wealthier) parts of the country. I suspect that things are much worse in the rural areas.

[@SyberianLynx]

Welcome, welcome to the City-17...

[@thebeaz1]

That bridge was really beautiful, could we please see more of it next time?

[@mytavellingdiary6557]

thanks for sharing. maybe others found it boring but i really felt like i was in that train. inimmersed myself in that landscape and it made me think a lot

[@Myogramme]

People who are born in North Korea are just in jail already. All I want for this country is to be free from dictatorship and opened to the world.

[@Myogramme]

@Jeffrey Markovic If you think that North Korea will never ever be free from dictatorship then that is just your opinion. No need to "get real" coz that's prob something far from being impossible.

[@Tirana44]

Fascinating video. I’m so happy I don’t have to live there. Your write up for your video puts it all very well. These people deserve so much better.

[@user-dv9cb7tm8o]

Эти люди счастливее тебя в разы 😂

[@MaVOfficialHD]

if Kim Jong-Un actually copped on and opened his country to other people, the possibilities would be ENDLESS! It would make the world such a better place.

[@Fro7enDesigns]

Dxvid You see, no one would allow that though.

[@kimjongun7673]

If you visit North-Korea and betray the rules i'll nuke you then!

[@MaVOfficialHD]

Kim Jong Un Boom

[@teakwondochest3287]

+✪ Dxvid yeah, we saw what happened when the sobiet union broke apart and free market was possible over night. The biggest theft in human history. Kim Jong Un is mart. He mkaes the chnage slowly, maybe over the period of 2 or 3 generations. First he allows tourists, latest new they open a surf beach for tourists. Some north korean army officers go to switzerland to military unisversity to see how the world outside works. There is a univesity run by an american korean in pyongjang where 300 students at a time learn how free market and capitalism works, basically the future CEOs Some Koreans students are allowed to go tu study abroad, for example in london. SLowly, but (Important!) CONTROLLED, the country opens up. If it opens too fast, their industry can not react and everything will be taken over by western managers and companies.

[@thatdutchguy2882]

Dxvid But then he run's the risk of outside agitation getting a real hold in his Utopia, something he already kills for to stop from happening like his Grandad and father did before him. Why do you think you can and will get the death penalty for owning a DVD player in North-Korea,.....yeah its not going to happen man.

[@left4d0g]

This is Russia. Seriously. I went on a train Ride from Sochi to Krasnodar and everything was same except all text was in Russian of course. Really. It looks all same to me.

[@HorizonFlansEntertainment]

left4d0g many say like so. It is sad

[@jacquelynnecalderon1411]

A lot of people stop and look towards the train as if it rarely passes.

[@1lonecrow]

they don't know anything different....they're at home....

[@SunnyFLBoy]

there is one thing I like about north korea... While in our civilization ppl are sitting together at the table but everyone is staring at his smartphone, in North Korea the people still talk to each other. I didn't see anybody with a smartphone. I miss those times.

[@Peter-sn9xo]

I wish peace and prosperity for the people

[@surgepensive2619]

Thanks, this is a very interesting video. Very reminiscent of the USSR. You are an unusually brave and risky person, because you decided to make a video in this terrible place.

[@leonarddurecki5988]

I don't know how you were able to get this footage out of North Korea but you're doing everyone a great service, please don't go back, it's not worth getting arrested or worse.

[@Stfukidnobodylikesyou]

Yeah the prisons are labor camps I would never go there

[@nigel900]

WORSE! ☠️

[@Januszntb]

They could use some off the Japanese rise pat's planting trucks, not hands labor-they will never be able feed the masses.Looks like the farm land have problem with water, no drainage system, and need more trees-fruit trees.Haw can anyone sanction these people,most of them live in poverty, day by day.And some parts of the commentator it's a shame.

[@MarkTitus420]

What was this person doing alone in N.Korea? Was he there for the purpose of making this film. If so he did a good job of blending in and concealing his camera well at the same time being able to get some decent footage of this fucked up place. What's there to do there anyway? I think I would die of boredom and depression not long after getting there.

[@ignat81]

+Porksoda 101 How can't you see N.korean people just happy there living simple life even being in slavery?

[@eclipsez0r]

A life of serfdom with no social mobility can be satisfying.

[@eugenejeong4573]

Slavery is a relative term. You struggle to make a living by paying expensive rent for an apartment in the major cities working as a waiter or waitress is no better than slavery.

[@Elleoaqua]

they don't get it

[@ruthlessrays9761]

Eugene Jeong but still they don't conflict your rights as a human being than what is the situation in North Korea, their system is messed up. That's the point.

[@edwardandrews2618]

No vegetations, no wild animals, no birds. THIS PLACE IS CURSED

[@АндрейЧвертко-ж2у]

В Китае так же.

[@Blahblahbox1]

I've just been looking at footage of seoul and south korea in general and then I stumbled across this and it just makes me so sad to see. There is such a dramatic difference between north and south korea, it's really scary. I hope the north koreans will be freed from this oppression someday.

[@RogowskiBubba0864]

And sanctions 😉

[@user-il4df2vl3d]

Did you not like the lack of bright advertisements and showcases with bare breasts or transgender people?

[@user-dv9cb7tm8o]

А я надеюсь, что Южная Корея освободится от гнёта 😂

[@BoggWeasel]

It looks like a soulless and lifeless industrial wasteland; it would depress the heck out of me to live in a place like that. I live in upstate NY with amazing forests, greenery. mountains and lakes, even in winter there's more colour to be seen.

[@BoggWeasel]

@Jackson Holloman Yet they have the capability to finance, develop and build nuclear missiles and maintain the 4th largest standing army in the world 1.3 million personnel strong. Maybe if that money and resources had been used in another fashion, the place might look more like the quasi-Marxist utopia it claims to be. Since 1995, the US alone has given N.Korea $1.1 billion, and there has been millions of dollars in "aid" from the UN and other countries. Not exactly going it alone. I don't think the problem is how much money they have but how they choose to spend it.

[@alessandragregori1518]

Non sono gli abitanti a poter scegliere, è il caro Leader che decide

[@BoggWeasel]

@@JohnAlexanderiii N Korea were the belligerents, there were many incursions into the South and government backed guerilla groups trying to destabilise and foment rebellion during the 1940s and early 1950s prior to their invasion of the south. Funding, weapons and personnel were provided by both the USSR and PPR in order to accomplish a complete destruction and takeover of the Southern administration. Many thousands of South Koreans died at the hands of communist forces. Since the "cease fire", South Korea has managed to prosper all be it with much help from the west. but their focus was on building industry and an economy, not on armed forces weaponry and nukes.

[@BoggWeasel]

@Jeffrey Markovic I don't "live in my mom's basement". and as far as travel, The places I've lived, worked and traveled to include, Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Uk and USA. I'm no spring chicken and had a father who served in WW2, I'm fully aware of how dictatorial authoritarian government works, It exploits paranoia and fear in the population that any moment they will be attacked and destroyed and use that to justify how they govern and the lack of basic freedoms keeping them subservient through hardship, policing and enforcement a code of acceptable behavior. No one wants to invade or destroy N Korea but it's what Kim sells to his people to keep power and justify developing unnecessary weapons while his people starve and worship him.

[@ashland1977]

North Korea fascinates me for the reason that it is an island of itself from the rest of the world. Terrible things go on there, but we are all human. I just fascinates me. Thanks for posting this video. I would go their if I was as brave as you.

[@19665600]

No greenery at all I wonder even the weather is cold