Kim Jong-il V.S. the Starving Masses of North Korea

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Kim Jong-il was born in 1941 in the Siberian village of Vyatskoye. He would follow his father Kim Il-sung as the second leader of North Korea, living an extravagant and eccentric lifestyle, while oppressing and starving the ordinary people.
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Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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Lim Jae-Cheon (2009), Kim Jong Il's Leadership of North Korea (1 ed.), London: Routledge
Kim Jong Il: Brief History 1998

[@finley8113]

When he mention the cold hamburger. I thought he's going to send the dude who bought the burgers to 10 years in the camp.

[@Discosaturn]

I heard from somewhere that the person who gave Kim the cold hamburgers was his personal chef.

[@capncake8837]

@@Discosaturn That’s what it said in the video.

[@D0NU75]

the chef provably bullshit his way into telling him those burgers were always served cold and that NK double bread with meat could improve on them by being warm.

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

I thought that too.

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

@@D0NU75 That actually makes sense.

[@richardkim3629]

I am Korean(South). My one of mates had escaped from the gulag of the north korea. When i bought some meals in the Seoul. He sometimes cry for a long time. He told me never imagined for eating the wonderful meals in his life

[@memelol385]

I'm a Korean too (North)

[@spenjak18]

The fact that young Americans now are actually sympathizing with the DPRK is just... It's terrifying.

[@richardkim3629]

@@spenjak18 Do not sympathize that animal's kingdom.

[@richardkim3629]

@@memelol385 Really

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

[@bluevioletandlilac]

I always remember that passage from "Nothing to Envy" where a doctor from North Korea escapes into China and finds some food laying out in a bowl that just baffles her, because it seems so wonderful. But then she realizes it's for the dogs. "Dogs in China eat better than doctors in North Korea."

[@TheHollandHS]

Gratitude at its finest. 😅💀

[@k-baye6292]

Its ironic that he was a James Bond fan while at the same time being a real life Bond villain.

[@AlQatala]

He also bans western media like how tf he smuggles it in his country

[@shannon9677]

Total James bond villain.

[@thepoleontheroad]

Besides, North Korea was literally one of the villains in one of the Bonds, for them it would be enough to threaten war on UK.

[@guyledouche7939]

If James Bond were a Chinese film, it would be labelled as government propaganda. The villains are never state actors, they are always rouge actors from a nation state, like in Goldeneye or Die Another Day if they are related to a government body, or private businessmen bent on ruling the world...and the only one that can save us from those evil private businessmen is the good old government. This is why the character of Defense Minister Mishkin and Xao's father are necessary elements in the themes of those movies. They are there to show the audience "this is what people in world governments are really like...they are reasonable people who just want peace all over the world...not like these money hungry rouge state actors that team up with the private sector." It's also a message to those other countries saying "you aren't the villains in this film."

[@guyledouche7939]

​​​@@thepoleontheroadthe only other NK military member shown in that movie is portrayed as a moderate, peace loving, reformer. Like all Bond villains, the real villain is a private businessman who just so happens to be a rouge state actor in Die Another Day. North Korea isn't portrayed as a villain in that movie because it's a nation state. The villain in that movie is portrayed as a private businessman using his money and influence to build military strength and leverage power over the peaceful...moderate nations of the world....like North Korea. It's laughable. If James Bond movies were made in any other country outside of the West we would immediately recognize them as state propaganda. If James Bond were James Bondolvski, we'd all agree it was Russian anti-capitalist propaganda. You should check out the Chinese film Wolf Warrior 2, then ask yourself "how is this different than a Bond film?" Spoiler alert: it isn't.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

The guy was literally Cognac's single biggest customer, He and his inner circle were feasting like Kings

[@jamesabestos2800]

Like a king to die of a heart attack but ok *weird flex*

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

@@jamesabestos2800 I can name a handful of kings who died of heart attacks

[@jamesabestos2800]

@@TihetrisWeathersby Wait, hold up ... And fixed

[@jamesabestos2800]

@@TihetrisWeathersby I was maybe using satire, I honestly don't remember my original intentions.

[@gubuh_]

@@TihetrisWeathersby do it :trollface:

[@iwillpunchyouruglyass]

hearing anything about north korean dictators feel like a parody, its genuinely unbelievable.

[@danthonygregory4157]

It's not even a dictatorship at this point, it's more akin to a monarchy these days.

[@jojomaster7675]

@@danthonygregory4157 *a country sized gulag

[@smokeyplane3285]

@@jojomaster7675 Ordenstaat Burgundy

[@MK_ULTRA420]

@@smokeyplane3285 Yeah but without the efficient industry so it's never actually a threat.

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

The north Korean poeple know that Kim is the Supreme ruler of the universe

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

“It’s the kind of evil where there is no feeling, it's just emptiness.” -Michael Breen, author of _Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's Dear Leader_

[@jojoreztorc0396]

Fun fact about Pulgasari, the man they tricked and kidnapped to play the monster was none other than Godzilla himself, Kenpachiro Satsuma, who played the G man from 1984 to 1995. He had also worked alongside the original Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima in the 70s, playing the monsters Gigan and Hedorah to combat Nakajima’s heroic nuclear King of Monsters. Not only that, a massive amount of Showa era (1954-1975) effects crew members for Godzilla were also duped into filming Pulgasari. The last fun fact was that Kim’s monster pet project was inspired by Kenpachiro’s first outing as Godzilla, 1984’s Return Of Godzilla.

[@jamie.777]

It's actually a decent Kaiju movie. I find it fascinating. There certainly 😅dramatic 🙄

[@Hwje1111]

@@jamie.777odd thing is that pulgasari, which was meant to be an allegory for north korea’s revolution, turns on the people who fought with him becoming just as greedy as the king they overthrew.

[@PugglesH1]

“Children need the love of the great leader to grow” So is that why the average North Korean man is 5’4?

[@theterribleanimator1793]

No thats just starvation sadly.

[@namethatisallowed8829]

@@theterribleanimator1793 He was just making a joke

[@Winter_lights]

@@theterribleanimator1793 oooooooof

[@theterribleanimator1793]

@@Winter_lights what? i though my comment was quite clever. If malnourished during adolescense the body cannot grow to the defined parameters in their genes.

[@firstname105]

i hate to think of the north korean women then

[@Goffy]

Dude eats more in a day than thousands of families do in a week.

[@justacarbonbasedlifeform4990]

I bet he does asmr

[@Goffy]

@@justacarbonbasedlifeform4990 yeah deffo in his basement as well

[@justacarbonbasedlifeform4990]

@@Goffy he eats prisoners

[@YoureRatharStewpidMate]

Fat jong-li

[@Journey_Awaits]

In most of the world

[@robertmiles1603]

and he could actually live with himself. the definition of a psychopath

[@cramsa]

I had a college friend who was a North Korean and his family got out, he is a very intelligent and hardworking person and if North Korean was a free society, imagine the potential.

[@swissswcc1545]

Yeah, it needs to be free from the boot of western imperialism! 🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵

[@Henrique____]

@@swissswcc1545 Imperialism? The only imperialist is the rat of the Kim Jong Un, eating his nice burger while forces another people to follow the rule of the state, If yourself find communism good, go live in NK.

[@mrtrollnator123]

​@@swissswcc1545💀💀💀💀

[@Lightingninja]

That so rare having a North Korean friend

[@theprofessional155]

There is a mission in Hitman that is based on the kidnapping . It is the Singapore sniper mission . A poet from from Khandanyang a fictional East Asian dictatorship that is based on North Korea is kidnapped . The soldiers agent 47 fights are called the heavenly guard which are based on the North Korean supreme guard. The dictator in the game is called the heavenly leader when Kim Jong Il was called the dear leader .

[@patrickbasedman8532]

i’d never thought i’d see you here omg

[@MageOtter27]

Hey whats up man!

[@angryman900]

Hantu Port Isn't it? Loved that mission

[@lonanderson5740]

Hi The Professional here to give you some tips on grinding history lessons

[@khoalinski]

woah fancy seeing you here TheProfessional

[@RDSyafriyar]

"Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey." - Hyeonseo Lee

[@remydaitch9815]

Maybe another life

[@20fadhilRevolution]

For real. Some NK deserters claimed they're so deprived they couldn't understand love. A guy claimed eating delicious food is already the ultimate delicacy. Loyalty to family is often nonexistent, everything is for the Kim dynasty. There were people selling off their friends and families just to get better foods. These people basically living in real life Apokolips.

[@PrincessTwilightdash]

@@20fadhilRevolution we can’t do anything about them unless China sides with us then we can get rid of north Korea

[@FillyCheesteak]

@@20fadhilRevolution Apocalypse*

[@FleurLavie]

@@PrincessTwilightdash North Korea is a chinese puppet state in the way that if China ceases trade the regime would fall, It's just a way to keep U.S Allies away from China. (Was funded by the soviet union, but they collapsed 1991, Korea is right in china's backyard)

[@gastheleft6535]

Kim Jong Il: "You look suspiciously nourished.. ARE YOU STEALING DOG FOOD?!"

[@krockettz3231]

He got the achievement “100 percent golfing” and said “that’s enough too easy” 😂 meanwhile his guards and shaking their head and smiling knowing damn well he didn’t even get a single ball in any holes 💀😂

[@fortis3686]

Can we appreciate how the thumbnail portrays Kim Jung Il as a Mukbang KZbinr?

[@acnhtourneypirate8508]

as nikocado avocado no less lmao

[@Ben-jl2rh]

Mukbang youtubers are disgusting and gluttonous. Idk how millions of people can watch somebody stuff their faces with hundreds of dollars of fast food, and also get payed to eat.

[@caiminmills2667]

@@Ben-jl2rh I do it at home, my family's like "Don't eat that much, you're gonna get fatter. Why do you eat that much junk food, is it because you're sad?" But when they do it in front of a camera, everyone's like "Wow! Amazing, so good! I wish I could eat 17 lobster tails, 3 pounds of wagyu A5, 27 pomegranates and 9 pounds of aged parmesan!" Dumb mukbang KZbinrs

[@Ben-jl2rh]

@@caiminmills2667 Well im glad someone else shares my opinion, and either way those youtubers are going to get very sick or end up like Nikoavacado.

[@NSS7779]

Yeah

[@deadlockraven1849]

How horrific must it be to live in a world like that with no knowledge the world outside is any better?

[@paulwalker1617]

What?

[@TheFlohRiDa]

Not very. The propaganda brainwashes them into thinking that they are the last bastion of humanity and everyone else is way worse off then them. As the video told just now, most of the citizen dont even have basic electricity. So theres no way for the bigger part of the population to get any info other then what the state tells them.

[@trainman1647]

@@TheFlohRiDa They must think the rest of us are living in the Stone Age.

[@TaintedMojo]

Imagine being one of the people who were kidnapped and forced to live in that surreal nightmare

[@thunderbird1921]

There's actually tourist filmed videos on KZbin of what it's like in some aspects of the country. It is frickin CREEPY. They have giant statues of both Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il that people bow down to, and their actual bodies are preserved and on display in the government palace. The North Korean calender begins IIRC with the Day of the Sun, Kim Il-Sung's birthday (the years of the calender start with that literal date). If that isn't creepy enough, every morning in Pyongyang they play a wakeup song called "Where are You, Dear General?" Apparently this has been played virtually every day since he died in 1994. There are some more normal aspects like car dealerships, hotels etc., but even there you get the sense things aren't right. Actors seem to be used to embellish the actual customer numbers, and the cars look like they lack major safety features like airbags. Probably the most depressing and creepy place I've ever heard of.

[@johnycoho7830]

I have heard about a Christian North Korean defector who freaked out inside a South Korean church when they started singing “How Great Thou Art” this was because I’m North Korea they were required to sing that song about Kim. The defector could not stand South Korean Christians worshiping Kim (or at least that was what he thought they were doing) He calmed down after learning they were singing praises to the Lord and.not Kim.

[@dylansuxx]

I read a book about a defector who kinda puts it that they are basically forced to become Christian in exchange for a chance to escape by those who offer them escape. A lot of North Koreans pretend to worship Jesus just to get assistance from Christians in China.

[@SuitedGhost]

@@dylansuxx So forcing religion on people in exchange for freedom?

[@DrewC36]

Imagine people being like, “remember when you played golf?!” Kim: “Maybe, was that when you hit a white ball with a metal thingy? I don’t want to play anymore…” Them: “Yeah!!! You did the hardest feat ever in that sport by getting 11 holes-in-one in a row!!!” Kim: “Oh yeah, I remember that now…”

[@josho7138]

That would be funny

[@XYZ-eo8um]

North Korean "double bread with meat" is a delicacy on state airlines' planes, which are often used by foreign diplomats and embassies' workers to travel to the capital. And everyone who was tasting it, claimed that this was the worst kind of burger they have ever eaten.

[@lilnelox6354]

One word: LOL

[@Soopy.19618]

Cause there poor

[@nathanielchavarria4106]

@@Soopy.19618 they're***

[@Juber777]

That's sad to hear 😞 If only we/anyone could get em some more livestock/crop without it just all going to the military.......

[@Soopy.19618]

@@Juber777 there not much flat land there. Also trump said he would give them food if they would stop making nukes but they didn’t.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"If your heart isn't in the right place, you're no different from the beasts in the forest" - Hwang Sok-yong

[@DavidGTech]

I really love the new art style and Simple History really is a good sight to take in learning history

[@noanyabizniz4333]

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Il are one in the same.

[@smokingcrab2290]

@Noanya Bizniz, take your meds

[@nomad_lyfe]

The beasts deserve more respect than that, these cretins have no heart, only a void, disgusting evil leaders.

[@angel.6920]

@@noanyabizniz4333 nah trump is way better than Kim jong

[@Liphted]

I love the endings of this channel. Everything about it is so creative and the voice of the presenter is badass.

[@solaris2340]

These people are pure evil-how could a person get in power and do these things to human beings? My heart hurt for the people of North Korea. They're prisoners and deserve to live a free life. Free to make choices , be happy, and healthy. This regime will get their judgment , their reign of terror will come to an end one day. Just awful....

[@noname-bu1ux]

Bro, I live in America. My grandfather had to pick to pick cotton and tobacco in the 40's because there wasn't anything else a black man was really allowed to do back then. He had to join the military to get an education. He had to BOMB north korea (and south korea) to get a a bare minimum quality of life. He watched his cousin get shot down by people defending their HOMES from AMERICA. Do you know how pissed he was when he realized that the people he was bombing planned to take care of their own citizens? That what he had to sell his soul for, people in the DPRK are entitled to? Bro my has legalized slavery still. The 13th amendment bans slavery unless you're in prison. Now ask yourself, why does america have the largest prison population on earth, and why do we have prisons that run PRIVATELY for PROFIT? If your heart hurts for the people of north korea, I urge to look deeper than the american perspective. I don't blame you for your ignorance. It's not your fault. They don't teach you about this stuff in school. But the reason north koreans are suffering is because of these reason I will outline 1. The attempted genocide of koreans by the americans. 2. when their war failed, and the americans turned tail and left to terrorize vietnam, laos and cambodia instead, but placed harsh economic sanctions on their enemies. This wasn't much of an issue when the soviet union was still active. At the time, North Korea was better off than south Korea. South Korea was still a fascist military dictatorship, the kind of government that the united states typically backs. But when the soviet union fell in the 90s, the north koreans suffered a huge famine, because they couldn't get supplies from anywhere else. Americans take the oil and lithium and whatnot they get through imperialism for granted, but that was no longer an option for the DPRK. This is a common tactic for America, who controls most of the globe's economy. They choose to starve their enemies to make them abandon their ideology. That's why Cuba is poor. If we're talking about human rights, America has a far worse record than the DPRK or Cuba. My grandfather is old enough to remember segregation. There are homeless people everywhere in America. And that's not their fault, that's by design. It's the only reason any of us go to work for the mini tyrants in our country. We think we have democracy, but nobody votes to let McDonalds in. Nobody would work for these mini dictators if the threat of homelessness, and then your subsequent death from cold/hunger or arrest for loitering/vagrancy (and then being put in the private prison slave complex) wasn't looming over your head. We'd all do the work that was neccesary to benefit society instead. If you didn't have to pay rent, if you didn't have to go to a job that owns your house or whatever, you would probably be working with your family to help build your community. But instead we slave away at whatever job we can to keep the lights on. Sorry about the novel. Its just...I really wish my people would get a little more mad about how they're being fleeced.

[@EonServoXA]

@@noname-bu1ux yeah, no one’s reading that

[@analizin]

Words.

[@CrowLot]

@@EonServoXA I read it

[@Henrique____]

@@noname-bu1ux First of all Cuba has only sanctions with USA, leaving the rest of the world the freedom to trade or not, especially with Venezuela, Argentina, Rússia. Second, Why would a democracy or a capitalist country trade with tyrants? Third, Communism is the real problem, they create a problem in production and sell, since it's the state that supply the demand, and since there's no longer another market to supply if the state is inefficient. Four, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Argentina is supplied with THE PUBLIC MONEY OF THE STATE OF BRAZIL, the new president Lula Inácio da Silva, is friends with all of these dictatorship countries, they send our money to supply these dictatorship countries and he also used the money to buy governators votes. Five, NK started the war, and had the help of USSR and China, and yet the imperialist is USA. Six, USA helped SK because of the USSR influency getting in the region, not to conquer like NK, USSR and China wanted. Seven, If USSR was doing soo good, explain me the NPE, and the famine that was happening in Ukraine, the genocides by the communists in Estonia, the sexual abuse of women by soldiers and CHILDREN in East Germany, and the reports that were taked by Stalin as a joke and funny thing. Eigth, The USA is against slave and banned it after the war with CSA. Nine, The prisons is one of many companys that are established by dirty money business, example: Apple, Heineken, Ambev, Monsanto, HSBC, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Chimet, Marsam, BP Trading, Banco Paulista and 100 Million another companys that use ilegal ways to make money because of the economic freedom and inefficiency of the state to stop the dirty money.

[@C21H30O2]

Team America's portrayal of him was spot on...

[@Backroad_Junkie]

I'm so ronery... I wonder if Team America was in his library of films, lol.

[@elionlima9055]

Team America is one of the most based movies ever produced!

[@garrettsattem4799]

“Hans Brix, oh no!”

[@Backroad_Junkie]

@@garrettsattem4799 Don't get Hans mad, or he'll have the UN write a letter telling you how mad they are!

[@youraveragefloridaboy519]

uhhhh herow?

[@natejones902]

So the village where the power goes out and there is the tower in the center, a friend of mine told me about that village when he was on the dmz in the 80s. It's a completely empty village where they drove people in the morning to walk around the empty buildings and bus out in the evening. One of his tasks as an observer was to watch the same guy ever morning drive up to the tower and hook up the huge NK flag and raise it. He said at night cut outs of people would go by the windows automatically, he said you could set your watch to when they would come by the windows.

[@KAT-hs3xh]

Tf do you mean he was in the DMZ

[@dementious]

@@KAT-hs3xh DPRK has a few "villages" near the DMZ that are fake villages in order to make DPRK seem like a wonderful place to live. Not IN the DMZ, ON it or near it.

[@KAT-hs3xh]

@@dementious makes sense

[@natejones902]

@@KAT-hs3xh he was stationed at the Demiliterized Zone (DMZ) as those who where there call it.

[@kayagorzan]

Interesting story

[@RougeHimbo]

I’m blown away by how their top brass have like a million medals despite not having seen action since the 1950’s lol

[@littlekong7685]

I am reminded of the young journalists who were given a tour of NK, and used modern cameras (without film as the NK guards had no clue about digital media, but they brought film cameras to be confiscated to alleviate suspicion). They talked about "full market stalls" with no locals near them, alone in empty buildings with no upper floors, and them being walked in circles around the "market" seeing the same carts and people in new clothes and rearranged to appear different, they got hints at real stalls with like 4 tiny, spoiled cabbages and some grains and 30-40 people in line for these half rotten cabbages. Wild to see the photos and hear the stories. Also a youtube channel interviewed escaped NK citizens over BBQ.

[@evandromiyake1071]

There was a brazilian journalist (i'm brazilian btw) who went into a trip to NK and he was explaining that one day he was walking down a country road alone (with his guides). No cars, bikes, motorcycles, horses, nothing, and then, a girl in traditional clothes crossed his path and smiled. A single girl in a remot road with no traffic whatsoever wearing traditional korean garments just happened to pass by and smile to him...

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

Maybe she wanted to clap some alien cheeks.

[@bouncydachon]

Yup its very common for a well dressed individual to randomly walk by in a very wealthy country that treats its citizens properly

[@phil4863]

@@bouncydachon sarcasm?

[@theshlauf]

​@@phil4863 Hard to tell, North Korean shills tend to come out in these types of videos. Usually they say stuff like the mainstream media is exaggerating the problems in NK and then make some both sides argument that America is also corrupt.

[@bouncydachon]

@@phil4863 yes

[@thunderbird7020]

“Sir, the people are starving” Kim: oh no. Anyway

[@jamesabestos2800]

He *flexed* when he *died* of a heart attack and -also gave none of his bones to the peasants- .

[@thunderbird1921]

Like grandfather, like father, like son. Word got out that Kim Jong-Un apparently enjoyed sipping Chilean wine with his dinner steaks (while some people in the rural NK countryside reportedly eat boiled tree bark). Word is that the President of Chile was so embarrassed by this discovery that all wine exports from the country to North Korea were halted. I can't tell if this is fully true or not, but NOTHING would surprise me with this dadgum insane regime in Pyongyang.

[@abelincoln8446]

A subtle nod to Clarkson, well played.

[@TheOfficialSJCProductions]

@@abelincoln8446 Nice!

[@xSintex]

@@thunderbird1921 Doubtful that it is true. There's no reason to export it there, as only a handful of people would be able to buy it. More than likely they ship it in from China, as most of their other food. And nobody who wants to make money for their business would ever in a million year stop shipping to China.

[@FalconTrooper]

9:09 YEET

[@mishmash4760]

1:07 Guard: “Damn bruh you suck at golf.”

[@user-vs9oo8yr3l]

The fact that he gets to enjoy his food while the people are starving is disgusting behavior

[@JohnSmith-yk1ee]

Isn’t that just every country tho

[@yassopicasso6375]

@@JohnSmith-yk1ee exactly

[@vanessauosukainen7631]

If he would fed them then they would turn against him. Now only thing in those people mind is were they get their next meal. If they would be fed they would have time to think about being free.

[@jamal2982]

@@JohnSmith-yk1ee No

[@detroitandclevelandfan5503]

That is communism, and sadly America is heading that way.

[@darianthescorpion1132]

I’ll be the one to say, I feel very privileged to not live in North Korea. All my life, I’ve seen it as a terrible place to raise a family. And unfortunately that will never change for as long as the Kim Dynasty still reigns.

[@DutchGuyMike]

For most of humanity's existance, just living/surviving was as good as it got. Its only since the past 80-100 years orso that the average human lives in generally comfortable conditions with enough food.

[@abetteryoutubehandle]

@@DutchGuyMike In some cultures.

[@rickoshay5525]

Most of America's "poor" live like kings compared to the poor of many other countries, ESPECIALLY NK. And yet the former still demand MORE money stolen from the taxpayers to be added to their welfare checks.

[@kellychuang8373]

You're right on that and I'm sure it would be illegal there if this video was shown in that place too and someone would have the risk of getting arrested and sent to a Labor camp along with 3 generations of family members along with horrific tortures.

[@gothicgolem2947]

@@rickoshay5525 taxes aren’t theft

[@mikkelnpetersen]

One of the main ways to see how great a nation is, is to look at its food situation, how much does it grow itself, how much is imported, how much does cost for the citizens (based on their salary), how many different types of food is there etc. A nation that can't even feed itself is bound to revolve or starve to death.

[@Postntalkmemes]

I'll never forget when I first heard about this, I always wonder if Kim knows the rest of the world views him as an absolute joke of a leader.

[@minipolenet]

What was odd about Kim Jong-il was that he extremely avoided public exposure. First of all, he has no videotaped speech material. His voice, almost the only recorded one, was filmed by South Korean reporters during a summit meeting with President Kim Dae-jung.

[@alex-hc3sk]

is there a known reason for why he was so avoidant?

[@capncake8837]

@@alex-hc3sk Probably paranoia over being assassinated.

[@capncake8837]

Y’know, it just dawned on me that I’ve never heard him speak.

[@herbet3011]

"Aw he's just shy "

[@peterpanda4296]

@@alex-hc3sk propaganda, they always portray themself as super sporty, smart, and basicly super humans, but if u would see the small chubby guy u wouldnt belive it

[@Gian_Galeazzo_Ciano]

When you're deppressed, just remember that you're lucky enough not to be born in North Korea.

[@remydaitch9815]

Affirmed

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

*Confused African noises*

[@samuraijackoff5354]

@@PROVOCATEURSK At least upper North Africa is relatively fine, relatively.

[@Gian_Galeazzo_Ciano]

@@Bubba___ It seems like you don't get the point of this comment. Alas, not everyone is supposed to be smart.

[@albofrfr]

@@Bubba___ Coming to north Korea will depression is banned😎

[@crisnicolainflores2252]

Fan fact (if you think it's fun) The studio that made pulgasari was made by the same studio that made Godzilla toho studios and the man in the pulgasari suit was the same man that wear the suit for Godzilla in the hesei trilogy of films (1985-1995).

[@calgraherentertainment7101]

Never thought i'd see the day as Nickocado Avocado as a North Korean dictator.

[@jameswells554]

I remember intercepting internal NK communications during the late 90's (95-96) while stationed in Korea detailing incidents of not only deaths due to eating grass and kudzu, but incidents of murder for the purpose of cannibalism. This included an incident where an older couple rigged a scythe blade to decapitate victims coming through their front door.

[@thessop9439]

Sadly this is all believable.

[@Jenga_Henga747]

That’s nuts

[@MrDoggo23]

Damn...

[@grandmastertiners]

Hungry hungry hippos North Korean edition :D

[@thegermanfool8953]

It's about corn it's about flour you stay hungry I devour

[@jsj3536]

When I was a kid, my parents always said that I am lucky to born in South Korea because in North you have to survive with 1 corn a day or even a week... I guess they were right

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

You don´t have to survive. Sneak up on some guards and become a hero.

[@dr.seytan4310]

Jesus christ

[@clawyraptor9029]

@@PROVOCATEURSK And then die a hero

[@mohab35]

@@clawyraptor9029 And all your family members become heros too.

[@yiwoon_cr8s]

*hugs you* Just be grateful that your parents were also not born in North Korea

[@pop5678eye]

Fun fact: Kim Il-Sung, long deceased is still officially the 'eternal' president of North Korea.

[@Kbuckaroo]

Nikocado Avocado be like: 3:22

[@heckinmemes6430]

"Children need the love of the great leader to grow.” Technically correct.

[@DutchGuyMike]

Let's just hope it's not in "Epstein" ways of love...

[@rickoshay5525]

@@DutchGuyMike Epstein DIDN'T kill himself.

[@samuraijackoff5354]

@@rickoshay5525 WE WILL TAKE EPSTEIN ISLAND!

[@patriotenfield3276]

@@DutchGuyMike epstein ain't the only one we got here.

[@DutchGuyMike]

@@samuraijackoff5354 "WE WILL TAKE EPSTEIN ISLAND!" And do what on it? dun Dun DUN

[@ishikawagoemon4397]

I really love the new art style and Simple History really is a good sight to learn history

[@justsomebodyontheinternet9089]

I pretty sure there isn't a new art style

[@ishikawagoemon4397]

@@justsomebodyontheinternet9089 well they put detail on Kim face like wrinkles and such

[@claytonpactol8851]

@Fathima nazri B2 29 Interesting insight. However, I do not recall any visual or audible memory in which such information was inquired about.

[@trulyen]

@@claytonpactol8851 nice

[@uncleho1945]

Do you love the new propaganda? (Just kidding, it's old and recycled)

[@baidash3104]

Always remember "It can always be worse".

[@szgcgelsoft9768]

That golf part was good lol

[@woodchuckcider1]

To be honest, it kind of pissed me off watching this. How someone in power live like that while people are starving to death is just evil.

[@akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804]

this video is false propaganda lmao btw

[@proud_emmerian6510]

@@akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804 Lol bootlicker

[@P3keteus]

@@akjdhajkdjhaghjkadh9804 +15 Social credits

[@DAinv.]

@@proud_emmerian6510 This guy is a troll (I hope)

[@gunswinger3110]

Result of power in the hands of the few

[@venerable_sensei6272]

I like how Kim jong il doesn’t hit a hole in one, so he kicks it, and everyone claps This just goes to show how *terrifying* North Korea is

[@leonorange7700]

I love north korea

[@Lord_Inquisitor_William7391]

@@leonorange7700 well its not going to exist for long when I bombard it from orbit.

[@leonorange7700]

@@Lord_Inquisitor_William7391 be quite

[@Icon5150]

You should see the American left. Kinda the same thing.

[@your_-_mom]

@@Icon5150 no

[@perfectionbox]

"Everything tastes better when you know other people are starving to death ha ha ha"

[@drjustin84]

Sometimes I think about how wild it is the vending machine in my building has more calories in it than a small North Korean village

[@mr.bluebird2140]

The only reason NK exists today is because the Peoples Republic of China wants to keep it as a buffer state against the south, if the PRC did not intervene in the Korean war, North Korea would have been nothing but a distant memory

[@civilengineer3349]

To be fair, if the United States did not intervene in the Korean war, South Korea would have been nothing but a distant memory. North Korea invaded South Korea and captured most of it until the US sent troops from Japan

[@skyyukna505]

@@civilengineer3349 To be fair, we have seen over 100 million deaths of innocent people because of communism. The United States had the courage and the power to try to stop this from happening to the Koreans. What other people would sacrifice their own lives to try to prevent evil from happening to strangers on the other side of the world?

[@civilengineer3349]

@@skyyukna505 100 million deaths? All of those are from executions, wars, and hunger; which communists are against but conservatives support. Conservativism killed over a 100 million people in human history because they prefer conserving the old against human progress

[@AveryXII]

@@civilengineer3349 so the great leap forward and literally ever other commie disaster ever did not exist?

[@RinzlerKia]

@@skyyukna505 The PRC and communism in general is the biggest shitstain our society could have. Seriously, I don't know how those scumbags can live with themselves lmao.

[@savageantelope3306]

Choi’s story is insane and in its own way movie-worthy, glad they’re ok

[@t0m1337n]

Great animations in this one!

[@stephenlavin7512]

Great episode

[@prestonjones1653]

Having been dragged along to my grandfather's golf games, I can understand Kim Jong Il retiring from the sport after playing once.

[@l0sts0ul89]

Lmao

[@heydudewhatdidudotomygarli5081]

golf is hockey for boring people. change my mind

[@dogwoodhillbilly]

He technically won the game, the overall goal in golf is to play less golf.

[@AzureRoxe]

The stuff that happens in North Korea legitimately sound like parodies from how extreme, disturbing or flatout ridiculous they are.

[@matthewskudzienski888]

1. Don’t go to North Korea 2. Go to South Korea instead 3. Stay safe in South Korean Country Border 4. Don’t walk into North Korean Border at DMZ 5. Stay in South Korean Country where the U.S. Troops and South Korean troops are stationed

[@TheCandywho]

Amazing mukbang video! when's the next one?

[@Jemi08]

Damn the thumbnail of kim jong il doing a mukbang is both ironic and poetic, its like a piece of art

[@Dipp182]

Dibs on that NFT!!!

[@marcosbravo9645]

North Korea scares me. I thought that we as external observers were in consensus that the place is terrible and its government is guilty of several crimes against human rights, liberties and dignities. That was until I found out my cousin's husband thinks North Korea is a wonderful place, he would probably move there if learning a new language and going to another continent to start a life from scratch wasn't such a hassle. And when I saw where he comments on Facebook, I learned he isn't the only one. I think that scares me as much as North Korea.

[@DutchGuyMike]

Yup, one of humanity's worst vices - ignorance.

[@noobyt3559]

because they are leftists

[@DutchGuyMike]

@@noobyt3559 *humans ruling humans

[@firstname105]

Then put him there, it's one less communist shitstain inside your country, and i can think of thousands of North Koreans who would be more than happy to take his place.

[@noobyt3559]

@@DutchGuyMike thats exactly what the leftists want

[@seagletime3848]

lmao I love how the title says versus like this is a who would win episode

[@Bluelober332]

The intro after the sponsor was low-key wholesome

[@Ihatetechnology]

I had the pleasure of talking to a coworker who attempted to compare breaking the law in North Korea to the US. The audacity shocked me so much I had to stop the conversation and correct him. Normally, I try to stay away from conversations like this as usually such a statement would spark an endless argument. However, he was nice enough to listen to me when I said that I have researched the country and even spoke to former North Koreans about their life under the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. I won't tell you here, but the story of their 'job' (which was not optional) and their general tone of absolute hopelessness was truly heartbreaking. Sometimes life can be unfair in the US, but it is far from an impoverished, fearful, suicidal living, under a military composed of indoctrinated youth.

[@arandomchinese6706]

Well that kind of guy has the opinion to defect to North Korea. It’s not like anyone is stopping him.

[@justinkase9483]

And yet, 20 year old kids and some people in their fifties praise and welcome communism today. Very disturbing times we live in. America isn't perfect, but we are still (for now) able to live by the rights endowed to us by our creator. God bless America!

[@Ihatetechnology]

@@justinkase9483 I thought you were talking about America in the first sentence. lol

[@876jamaicanyouth]

Buy yet I can bet the suicide rate in America is more than Korea how comes

[@deadlockraven1849]

It's so entitled and Karen like to compare a dictatorship to America. It's so obnoxious and out of touch

[@dendi9883]

I always likes when you have a moment of silence in the end of every tragic and sad story

[@Icon5150]

Then you listen to the news and.. well you know the thing.

[@kakikaku4059]

kzbin.infosZncwqbABO0?feature=share 👍👍👍👍👍

[@jimmybon9314]

Lots of tankies will deny this actually happen and will peg this as "Western propaganda" and equate that to the US where poverty and starvation is found.

[@dprkstan1403]

A lot of this is propaganda though.

[@NobodyNowhereKnowhow]

Wow, such a accomplished man! Our world truly lost a renaissance man the day we lost Kim Jong Il. Well, at least we can live vicariously through his amazing life! Yes I’m being hyperbolic and factious. I feel so sorry for the people of North Korea and wish we could free them from the horror that is their government. I’d rather see them just be a communist nation rather than the totalitarian regime it is.

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

They should free themselves. Democracy ftw but I know what happens when the USA or the West tries to bring "freedom and democracy" somewhere.

[@Baconator5642]

@@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 stabilize a nation and it runs perfectly fine but as soon as they leave it collapses due to internal corruption and extremist uprisings?

[@EonServoXA]

@@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 the thing is, if North Korea gets invaded, China will most definitely get involved just like the Korean War

[@drmujtabashaikh8]

It's always a good day when Simple History uploads

[@mgk155]

Yes

[@s.i.m.poster6823]

Yeah but can you *not* copy and paste the same comment with the channel name just for likes?

[@-Vantablack]

I like how the animations keep the simplistic theme but also improve in fluidity, awesome stuff

[@abs0luteOne]

I love the sarcasm in this video

[@sarthakkhattar8]

Thanks

[@beastof_]

I literally smiled at the thumbnail because it literally explains every mukbang ever

[@tankhead2645]

Great current pfp my dude

[@smokeyplane3285]

Do you have the onion troll face?

[@Ajc606]

LiTeRaLlY

[@funnimonkibdog]

When I saw that thumbnail I thought that Simple History had completely lost it and made an animated mukbang with a historical figure, I was so confused until I read the title haha

[@yty1941]

3:33 can confirm silver chopsticks are especially effective in getting your fingers burnt when placing in hot rice/soup

[@MooZILLAZ]

Man, the animation quality has improved drasticly , congrats

[@ChaseCool506]

Hey I just discovered that kim jong-il was not born in north korea he was born in the soviet union

[@hesh9646]

Back then NK was a part of it

[@dominionofquebec10452]

@@hesh9646 Actually japan owned all of Korea at that time then after WW2 USSR owned the North

[@ChaseCool506]

@@hesh9646 true, I can see that his face is korean maybe is because kim il-sung move to Russia with his family when korea was occupied occupied japanese empire.

[@firstname105]

@@hesh9646 Actually he was born in Russia, completely outside the Korean peninsula in either the camp of Vyatskoye, near Khabarovsk, or camp Voroshilov near Nikolsk. Both were located in the Soviet Union, and are now located in modern day Russia, his birth name was Yuri Irsenovich Kim, yeah Kim Jong-il was a Russian by birth. Also, Korea was never part of the Soviet Union, it was temporarily occupied by it, this is like saying Iraq and Afghanistan were once parts of the United States because they temporarily occupied it once.

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

@@hesh9646 NK was never a part of South Korea ffs.

[@tangobravo5752]

5:10 “You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger”

[@donjuan2621]

At extreme levels,Joy and grief are unrecognizable 👍

[@davidgerholdt5416]

Escape from Camp 14, In Order To Live, and Nothing to Envy are all books on those who successfully defected. My heart breaks for these people. Just for having a different opinion you get executed or your family (down to your grandchildren) will not know anything but torture inside a jail cell, lack of food, and death from overwork

[@ExtremelyRareDPRKvideos]

LMFAO all written by criminals and liars imagine believing those books the the people.

[@kimilsung2608]

Escape from Camp 14, it's author Shin Dong Hyuk admitted he made up parts of the story and In Order To Live, it's author Yeonmi Park is very well known to have changed her story multiple times, makes up baseless claims on podcasts for example "North Koreans have to push trains" even though everybody is starving to death at the same time?

[@ExtremelyRareDPRKvideos]

@@kimilsung2608 Yeonmi's lies are endless

[@WinVisten]

@@kimilsung2608 I can understand why people thought that given how poor and undeveloped and lacking in any sort of electrical or fossil fuel-based power North Korea is.

[@Icon5150]

Hey man, with luck we can get more Democrats elected and I'm sure after the censorship is final.. we can do it too, because we are progressive to Destruction.

[@gaminggator37]

You’ve been kidnapped: 😨 You wake up in a fancy hotel: 😁 It’s in North Korea: 😱

[@slickwillie9526]

The new "star" was Randy Quad's RV commode from Christmas Vacation.

[@MicrowaveFork]

For some reason the rest of the world has good McDonalds - in USA we eat the same cold burgers lol

[@TheMemeDynamics]

As a South Korean, I'm impressed at Simple History's North Korean jokes and details in the animations!

[@z-man1237]

Yeesh! Im surprised things didn’t get chaotic with all that going down. Then again given how people lived there, guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Great vid as always

[@genericscout5408]

China keeps the region stable, otherwise South Korea would have assasinated that terrorist organization already.

[@Nile15rush_fj]

@@genericscout5408 no they won't lol DPRK have all the ICBMs and military personnel lol its only the western powers that are stopping the DPRK from completely destroying South Korea.

[@cruzaider5339]

“So what's the plot for our new movie?” “Uhhh it's very relatable....”

[@Alexkiszl]

I Love the Thumbnail Showing Kim Jong-il's Mukbang! 😂

[@junedhussain6252]

Thank you Simple History. It is really heartbreaking to see the North Korean suffering from the hands of a evil dictator. In honest truth something needs to done to get rid of the Kim family.

[@kristofferhellstrom]

You didn't know about this before watching this channel? ^^

[@junedhussain6252]

@@kristofferhellstrom Of course I knew about this for years. The thing is what is the solution to this problem as technically the Korean war is not over.

[@Icon5150]

Pretty sure Europe has taken the model of NK. Should watch the vids of cops beating people for no masks, dragging them from their homes, and tossing them into camps. I'm sure nowhere in history did people get dragged into camps to stop a "disease". Im sure it never happened before.

[@kristofferhellstrom]

@@Icon5150 In what country do you live? I live in Europe and in my and neighboring countries what your saying hasn't happened. Where did people get dragged into camps? You're talking about a single country or every country in Europe? ^^

[@Icon5150]

@@kristofferhellstrom Glad you went for the weak hyperbolic point. So the cops beating people in the streets is fine and you didn't try to argue that, well because you cant. Plus im Europe you apparently have no bodily autonomy. If the government says get an procedure done, you better do it or else. Be a good boy and do as youre told.

[@nuttherbutter4075]

YEAH PULGASARI Something funny to note is that Kim actually fooled Toho (Godzilla's parent company) to send a special effects team, as well as Kenpachiro Satsuma (Godzilla's suit actor from 1984-1995) to play Pulgasari and work on the film's FX.

[@TheOfficialSJCProductions]

That's so screwed

[@esterbond4048]

It is depressing that such a nation can exist in the 21st century.

[@khameriengibson1975]

narrators voice is so intoxicating. i could listen to it forever

[@crustaceanfrustration1446]

Wow, the quality in this vid and the small details definitely made it a fun watch. From scenes that made me wonder how long it took, to scenes that made me laugh from small references, I really hope we get more uploads like this in the future

[@normaleverydayman7004]

It's just sad It's feels like the one bully on school that we hate but we can't do anything about it

[@Simboiss]

You mean, the USA bully ?

[@lindagodfrey9994]

The mountain where he was born was actually a very large volcano

[@johnthegreat97]

8:00 "Oppa gangham style" *Go to jail. Go directly to jail do not pass go, do not collect 200 grains of rice*

[@Discosaturn]

Kim Jong-il's birth at Mount Paektu looks like a creation story that would make Jesus blush.

[@misaelquevedo5160]

Blasphemous

[@gimzod76]

And it's cultists still try to claim that communism isn't a religion

[@firstname105]

Ironically, he was actually born in a camp in the Russian far-east, not in Korea.

[@adamscott7354]

Outlaws religion, but copies a key component of its mythos for his own, they're cut off from exposure of evidence to his lack of originality anyway.

[@Donaldtrumpgaming]

*sees thumbnail* "finally, i have seen everything"

[@liamcrawford9861]

Sounds like a very fair and democratic leader of a very stable, thriving democratic nation where the average citizen is eating like a king and living a very comfortable life. Lol!

[@imposternaruto]

I love the dedication to the truth, the research put into the videos. The other… erhm… show irritates me to no end because they sensationalize and exaggerate. I’ve noticed they even make things up. You guys cite your sources in the description. Keep it up, I appreciate your great work so much.

[@jackgoodman2498]

Imagine just living a chill life in Germany and then a communist dictator who starves his own people and kills them for daring to think against him asks you to breed some giant rabbits for him

[@civilengineer3349]

Germany was a communist republic (called the German Democratic Republic) but there was more food and electricity and people lived easy lives but there was no freedom, so many people left.

[@stefthorman8548]

@Epic Meme Name ddr was pretty recently absorbed, when that guy was in power, so there's still communistic sediments.

[@ZeroResurrected]

@@civilengineer3349 Actually, by the time Kim Jong-Il took power in NK, 1994, East Germany no longer existed. It was absorbed by West Germany in 1989

[@khameriengibson1975]

@@civilengineer3349 not all of germany was. most of it was under the federal republic of germany

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

@@khameriengibson1975 But all important cities were in the east.