Reacting to How North Korea Finally Made It Impossible to Escape

[@tophers3756]

I'd love to see the entire Kim family and his enablers get the Mussolini treatment sooner then later.

[@briandonovan1584]

Good luck with that. You can thank Bill Clinton for giving him a nuclear power plant with cameras (to prevent cheating). Well Kim's father just tore down the cameras and the rest is history.

[@Labyrinth6000]

As an American, I take my freedoms for granted.

[@toecutterjenkins]

I never understood kim jong un could have freed his country , restored the economy, and went into history as one of the great leaders of the world. Instead, he will die one day, and he legacy will be of a monster.

[@tophers3756]

Power,I guess. And initially probably fear that other members of the family and the generals would go after him.

[@toecutterjenkins]

@tophers3756 he was also raised since birth that he is a god and this is they way of life . Even lightening up, he could still have power and wealth. Just crazy to me, i have no desire to rule over another human.

[@briandonovan1584]

You are naive. Never could or would happen.

[@zax8570]

North Korea is not a country, it is a prison. That pretty much says it all.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

If you want to see the journey of actual defectors I cannot recommend enough the Journeyman documentary 'Escaping from North Korea is Only the Beginning.' It's old but very good (and short) and very moving.

[@TechNextLetsGo]

Seems like just swimming would be the best option, or building a paramotor.

[@heyo80]

He didn’t mention this in the video but if North Korean defectors make it to Japan they will be accepted there.

[@chrisnarvaez3434]

Yeah because Japan is a US Ally

[@Trainwreck_Art]

I've watched a few people who escaped from North Korea talk about what it's like there, the mindset, etc, and it really boggles the mind that this is still allowed in 2023, with little to no interference from the outside world. From what I gathered, the government head and his family essentially behave as a royal family, and view themselves as a half-step below literally being divine. They own North Korea and every living thing on it: the land, the animals, the plants, and the people. The whole country essentially exists solely for their homage and people living there are expected, and required, to be grateful and humble for whatever the Kim dynasty allows them to have. Kim Jun Un's North Korea has essentially succeeded where Hitler's Germany failed, simply by staying within their own borders with their atrocities so that the rest of the world doesn't have a reason to get up in their business too much.

[@hodgepodge1476]

You're forgetting that they are being backed by China, who've literally been engaged in gen*c*de and enslaved the uyghur muslims for years....

[@RyanWRoehlAKZoomberBoomer]

Markiplier tho???

[@kaziu312]

To be fair, Salmon P. Chase may have been removed from the $1 note but got a promotion to the $10,000 note and gold certificate.

[@beazrich2.017]

At 21:53 it’s possible that they used some of the underground tunnels that haven’t been discovered yet by the North Korean government and they were tunnels that went into South Korea.

[@shivamrai2886]

This KZbin channel called Asian boss did loads of videos interviewing North Korean defectors in South Korea

[@ShayTheValiant]

Even if North Korean defectors make it to South Korea, they still aren't technically safe. North Korean secret police have snuck their way into South Korea and are tasked with taking back defectors by force.I

[@marcusbaker830]

think of britain vs france but if it was more serious and they were in land contact and were in medieval times

[@SilvanaDil]

Whatever happened to, e.g., Jolly at the Texas Rodeo?

[@marcusbaker830]

And in britain, one would get a mild fine for unauthorized travel to another province, if any fine at all

[@BadAssSykO]

Defector.

[@tomfox9083]

There is no point the family has been so cruel for so long that if they come of the pedal at all they will get torn apart by the people

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

You may want to read the book In order to live, by Yeonmi Park. Not a literary masterpiece but gives some insights. Growing up eating bugs, getting surgery without anesthetics, fleeing to China and end up as a sex trafficked girl. Now she is OK I beleive, lives in the US and works with human rights issues.

[@maozedong8370]

Yeonmi Park is a liar and a mor0n.

[@corvus1374]

an American serviceman defected to North Korea recently

[@Zach476]

he supposedly did it looking for a country with better human rights and somehow came to the conclusion of North Korea.

[@TheBasher-_-]

And there treating him like a hero there. Giving him housing and women and stuff. Smh

[@Labyrinth6000]

@@TheBasher-_-he was about to be sent to American jail or prison for something he did but I forgot. He pretty much got away with it. 😂

[@0816M3RC]

​@@Zach476 He did it to evade punishment.

[@0816M3RC]

​@@TheBasher-_- What will happen when they realize he is a useless bargaining chip?

[@scotthill1600]

Nothings ever impossible

[@arthurlara4282]

He didn't bring up the sex slave trade in China and Mongolia

[@jamesgiles4517]

That's an unrelated topic

[@SilvanaDil]

RLL's videos are always waaaaay longer than they need to be.

[@thatkristiandude4048]

Not really

[@Souledex]

@@thatkristiandude4048 he's an inefficient communicator that overemphasizes a bunch of random limited parts of the greater picture he actually want's to communicate. His stuff on Nebula is better and he's gotten better over time but he's definitely benefited from Branding and Visuals more than the low to mid level accurate or novel information he generally brings to a topic. If you've never found a video of his you knew more about before you watched it it's kind of a lazy claim. His best was on the Tigray War.

[@Subiwu]

@@thatkristiandude4048Yes really, his older videos were much better

[@cygnusx-3217]

This is similar to how Israel has millions of Palestinians locked inside what's essentially an outdoor prison camp. Yet Western countries consider Israel a democratic state and a staunch ally.

[@CamdenKnightly]

The long noses have gotten too uppity

[@0816M3RC]

The Palestinians are terrorists who are engaged in a war to destroy Israel. Israel has every right to deal with them as they see fit.

[@BTinSF]

That's nonsense. When Israel became a state by UN action, a large number of Palestinians living within its borders voluntarily left ("fled") to the West Bank of the Jordan River which was part of the nation of Jordan, giving up their homes and land in Israel. Israel did not force them out--they chose to go (many other Palestinian Arabs did NOT go and still live within Israel and are represented in the Israeli Parliament). In subsequent wars in 1967 and 1973, started by Israel's Arab neighbors, Israeli forces occupied the West Bank and what was Egypt's Gaza Strip. While they now allow the Arabs living in those areas a certain amount of self-government ("Palestinian Authority"), the Israeli military still maintains control and will likely do so until and unless a peace treaty is negotiated with all the Arab countries, including the Palestinian Authority, creating a legally recognized Palestinian State. So far, the Palestinian Authority has refused to sign a peace treaty with Israel because they want to take back all the former Palestinian land, i.e. what is now Israel.

[@MineneUryuu]

Free Palestine

[@Zrs3820]

@@BTinSF That bs excuse doesn't work anymore. Come up with something more convincing next time.

[@briandonovan1584]

Hey, my Red Coat friend. Watch the great Christopher Hitchens' talk(s) on "the axis of evil," countries in the 2000s. He was the only journalist to personally visit all three ... Iran, Iraq and North Korea. He will blow your mind with his brilliant speaking and arguments. He also was the star of a 3 person debate team supporting the necessity of the right to offend. Love ya, bro. Cheers.