Michael Visits a North Korean School | Micheal Palin in North Korea | Channel 5

[@JamieRHubert]

I’ve watched every video possible of NK, including all of the ones of visitors in schools, and every single one never fails to fill my body with SOOOOOOO much anxiety. Never fails. I would NOT survive as a kid like this.

[@Steveinthailand]

Hi James: you've watched every video about North Korea? "My Brothers and Sisters in the North" is a wonderful award-winning documentary made by a SKorean film-maker. No anxiety in this documentary. Its on youtube.❤

[@AJnzxv1]

When you've been born and raised there, you don't know any different. Its hard to grasp for us. These kids have very limited knowledge of the outside world and what they are missing.

[@julianpignat9095]

@@AJnzxv1 not allways

[@CherryDreamer96]

Ive watched hundreds of documentaries, but this small clip really stands out to me

[@Twilleh]

Imagine a Python just showing up in your school, but basically nobody knows who he is.

[@nassauguy48]

The look on the face of the teacher is one of constant anticipatory fear. So sad.

[@julianpignat9095]

No

[@roz1]

The teacher looked very tensed

[@braunreal]

1:39 Ah, I knew it. As soon as he pulled out the globe I was like, "There's no way that they'd let him bring in a western globe...?" It's got southern Korea as a country on it, as opposed to representing Korea as one peninsula. I'm guessing his crew either anticipated this or they bought it as a souvenir of some kind.

[@jasonb.6623]

You could see the anxiety of the teacher when it was passed around

[@braunreal]

@@jasonb.6623 interestingly enough as of january the DPRK has stopped showing the entire korean peninsula everywhere, instead opting for just the national borders.

[@JRFrancisco20088]

A foreign visitor once said a group of North Koreans told him they would like to visit Czechoslovakia, which no longer exists. I doubt he was allowed to correct them.

[@davorbrijacak]

@@JRFrancisco20088 Tbf, some Americans mistakenly think that country still exists and in general often show bad knowledge of geography despite having easy access to learning tools.

[@julianpignat9095]

one do no see it

[@davidc4408]

Palin is a geographical legend. That globe was smuggled in 😂

[@julianpignat9095]

bad reply

[@scottdowning799]

No, we call that brainwashing

[@Vip__honey]

We all just appreciate the content this man and his crew makes its just a masterpiece imagine what's he's gonna doing the future 💛....

[@nassauguy48]

Michael Palin was able to get away with this, but no American ever would. They would not even be asked into any classroom.

[@themanfromdystopia807]

Just 2 minutes in and I've already learned that N. Korean kids are better at geography than US politicians.

[@Comradpetito]

Hope u troll

[@MiniKodjo]

nope staged at all, with this fake globe where south korea doesnt exist

[@fatnapster]

Most of the kid outside US know well about US, US kid does not really know US well

[@William_Fei]

@@fatnapster As I know an average American student's geography is worse than most of their peers in Europe

[@andrzejszpak688]

@@William_FeiDepends on the school system as every state has a different system. Kids from Massachusetts and Washington have far better education than those in Alabama and Florida.

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Look he’s talking to the Korean students in English and they are talking English to him

[@julianpignat9095]

later they will speak perfect English

[@rasbro87]

"You can throw it back hard to anyone you DON'T like." Next kid throws it back to him. :D

[@agalgonzalez]

That group of students was hand picked from the politically influential class and they have been groomed since birth to excel. They are about as representative of the average N. Korean as John Cena is of the commonly seen overweight North American men, of which I am one.

[@V0YAG3R]

Yep, just by their features, faces and BMI it is crystal clear that is no ordinary NK school, especially like those in second and third rated cities and rural areas, many of them will end up studying abroad in places like Switzerland, just like KJU himself, most will become top diplomats and ambassadors. The red shirt tour is always omnipresent and pre-planned, choreographed. Nothing but propagandist charade and macabre kabuki!

[@surendramumgai631]

The average north Koreans r equally patriotic...many of them aspire to join the military and all show loyalty to the leadership...

[@julianpignat9095]

thank you for this small video of a school in the DPRK

[@xXxJokerManxXx]

2:56 someone translate this girl's blinks into morse code. I think it's a distress call....

[@dontaskmyname1]

No if it was translated to morse code, it will be a bunch of "........." which mean nothing because for the dash to appear, she needs to blink longer so in this case she's just blinking

[@davidc4408]

​@@dontaskmyname1the eye open can be the dash!

[@dontaskmyname1]

@@davidc4408 Nope, you need to have a neutral position to use morse code, so what are you saying is B.S

[@davidc4408]

@@dontaskmyname1 not if reversed...for short periods you can do it

[@dontaskmyname1]

@@davidc4408 nope, If you think that's a message then decode it

[@bedrock6443]

The reason they are taught English is to give the illusion of freedom.

[@davorbrijacak]

No, most likely because these are children of elite class who'll become politicians, scientists and high-ranking citizens in general, English would be useful to them.

[@nassauguy48]

The girl who wants to be a writer will soon realize that her works better constantly be in praise of the regime, or her career (and life) will be short lived.

[@davorbrijacak]

She probably already knows that.

[@MasterKenfucius]

Too bad he did not visit a school! He visited a SHOWCASE. That's not an average North Korean school by a looooong shot.

[@calinasagilitypartner4444]

Prove it

[@MasterKenfucius]

@@calinasagilitypartner4444 Try to visit a "normal" school and then come back and tell me what your minder said to you! HINT: "NOT ALLOWED"

[@Carnotaurus-g6s]

​@@MasterKenfuciusso you went there and saw what normal school looks like?

[@MasterKenfucius]

@@Carnotaurus-g6s Do you say the same thing when people tell you that the Earth isn't flat? Take that ignorance and go bother someone else.

[@murdertv9110]

The students read scripts and instructed before meeting the foreign guy.

[@agalgonzalez]

The devotion to their leader is their religion with all of its zealot fervour, inculcated from birth and reinforced multiple times per day for life.

[@natn41r]

N.Korea doesn't at all look like the terrible place the media would have us imagine And what is so bad about "mass military parades"? Every country does parades.

[@thisone981]

What are you talking about? The kids look like robots programmed by the government.

[@Chaziltasm]

Yes but there's one thing you are forgetting. Everywhere he goes, government representatives are following him. He has no freedom, he can only see what they let him see. This school, this class, these students were specifically chosen. This may be one of the more fortunate areas, but most of the country is in poverty, people starving to death constantly, washing themselves in rivers. The people themselves are brainwashed and have no freedom of their own. People who try to escape are trapped in China and turned into slaves, or sent back and put in concentration camps to work hard labour.

[@samanthapeppers546]

Many of these people are actors. You are under constant surveillance. There is no democracy. You have no freedom of speech. It’s illegal to improperly address the leader of the nation. There’s so many issues.

[@brucekilby9957]

Michael Palin is the best traveller on TV. His documentaries are brilliant. Nth Korea is so rarely covered,he is the perfect host for those who have little knowledge of the'Hermit Kingdom'. The visit to school was very revelling. Smart intelligent students and perfect English. Thanks to Palin on another fine trip.🇰🇵🇬🇧

[@Comradpetito]

Yes it is a terrible place, idiot

[@Djkuuh]

They're wearing Under Armour in North Korea??

[@wordscapes5690]

When they put on that fake, wobbly, emotional voice… it just makes me angry.

[@JMajik24]

It makes you angry when someone recites poetry?

[@wordscapes5690]

@@JMajik24Only when they use a fake, wobbly voice filled with insincere emotion.

[@stormcoulsonjohnson6532]

@@wordscapes5690do you mean poetry in general or North Koreans? As plenty of literature is read with certain flows or cadences deliberately as a art form/ aesthetic choice, this is just one of theirs just like one that might exist in our cultures

[@wordscapes5690]

@@stormcoulsonjohnson6532 Nonsense. South Koreans do NOT read poetry like this. This is a Maoist/ Stalinist era technique used to drum up maudlin emotions.

[@stormcoulsonjohnson6532]

@@wordscapes5690 well considering Mao and Stalin lived in the 50’s, this would be enough time to have seeped into the culture to make it Korean. The south and the north have existed separately for 70 years, this would be enough time for this to have developed into a more naturalised expression of north korean poetry. Just because something derives from a overarching power does not mean that any forms of expression of this 70 years later would make it not legitimate, you may disagree morally with its originality but surely enough time has passed where this expression of poetry has standing as part of their culture.