North Korea in 1996 - see how the country has and hasn't changed

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@UsTheMusicTVOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

I love the host of this video. He is very unbiased, and not a jerk. That counts for a lot! Thanks Koryo Tours!

@pinedelgado4743 Жыл бұрын

Unbiased. Of course. After all, the TRUTH stinks, don't it?? At least Andy Kershaw made mention of the fact that Kim Il Sung was born on the same day that the RMS Titanic sunk.

@FIXTREME 8 жыл бұрын

tourism...during the arduous march?!

@unabhangigenachrichtensh7296 7 ай бұрын

*famine

@DNchap1417 4 жыл бұрын

He sounds like joyful, almost praising the country and its authorities. But when you read between the lines, you can see he’s both horrified and also having some fun. He doesn’t genuinely admire the authorities, but has a genuine admiration for the locals who deal with this dystopia, especially in '96 when the famine was soaring, and would peak the next year.

@northkoreakp834 10 жыл бұрын

thank you for your video, read show more, very nice to see your tour in the year 1996,

@SUPERWSXQAZ 7 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you can certainly see the malnourishment in their figures.

@robertsilva8097 2 жыл бұрын

Thank You For sharing this Video

@joejoematic8206 4 жыл бұрын

The southkorean house at the boarder has not been built so far in 1996

@jesper99 5 жыл бұрын

17:50 is that a Chinese coke can?

@koryogroup 5 жыл бұрын

It is indeed. You never know what you will find in Korea these days. Chinese versions of many products are quite common. Sometimes you can even find the American versions.

@jongrantuk 4 жыл бұрын

amazing, looks the same in 2007!

@zenokarlsbach4292 4 жыл бұрын

those people know where they're at. makes the rest a lot easier I guess.

@juliancumming6893 3 жыл бұрын

Looks almost the same in 2020 too, just with nukes. And lots of them.

@ВарттижиидидЛсзалзмэб 2 жыл бұрын

@@juliancumming6893 I think you don't know what you're talking about

@avus-kw2f213 Жыл бұрын

19:38 wow that’s 70,000 people . A bit small . Now I know how big ancient battles were

@gerbergamesofficial 4 жыл бұрын

What’s the song name at 0:14?

@Bombersman 9 ай бұрын

Snowflakes Falling from Night Sky, cannot find the specific version though.

@FriendsoftheDPRKNorthKoreaDPRK 9 жыл бұрын

nice holiday in 1996

@yirmiyahu7265 3 жыл бұрын

In the middle of the arduous march.

@thefunbuns1 3 жыл бұрын

The anticommunist propagandized perspective makes this frustrating to watch but it is very cool to get such a window into this period of DPRK development, I'm glad the greatest hardship of famine is over and I wish to be able to afford a trip to this amazing country one day

@leahachase 3 жыл бұрын

Yikes

@alicesenz6374 2 жыл бұрын

What anti-communist propaganda? He seemed pretty unbiased but maybe I missed something.

@josephstalin9357 Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@A_White_Male_Man 2 жыл бұрын

11:53 you can just see the hate and annoyance in his face.

@Galunggong1 3 жыл бұрын

I am critical of north Korea, but I respect the way they defend their nation and I am always first to question ppl who make dumb, unsourced assertions about dprk

@Petra44YT 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Think before you judge, I think that's a good way of thinking. I've been to North Korea twice (in 2012 and in 2015). Of course I am aware of things that are wrong in the country, but it would not make any sense to speak about this with the guides, as they have been brought up to believe their version of the story. Still, there were some interesting dialoges. For instance, I asked about the Ryugyong hotel, that's the unfinished pyramide shaped one. And I told my guide something that I had read and he probably hadn't. That is, a well-known international hotel chain (I forget which one, but think Marriot, Hilton, Kempinski or similar) had meant to finish construction of the Ryugyong hotel and operate it. However, that hotel chain was threatened with a boycott of ALL its hotels in the U.S. if they did that. So, not surprisingly, they decided agains it. My guide listened without commenting this, but I'm sure he will remember. And another guide was there when we visited Pyongyang station, asking me whether it was like that where I came from. I was like, "er, not really". There were no soldiers guarding the station. Anyone could just walk in. In Germany, you don't even need a ticket to get on the platform, but in some other countries, such as the U.K., you do. But in both countries, you can acccess the platform at any time, no questions asked. And there are no plush chair with crocheted doilies in the waiting room either. Which is something that I regret ;-) ... No, really, I didn't know where to begin explaining how different it was. I didn't even mention the homeless people, drug addicts, pickpockets, etc. Just normal operations as it should be was different enough from Pyongyang for a start. That guide was just starting out, he said it was his first tour. His English was not yet perfect, sometimes he had do ask me to repeat something. But he listened carefully, and I'm sure he will remember, too.

@MichaelRe-c7q Жыл бұрын

It's crazy to think that this was at the height of the famine. I think in those days what happened in North Korea was not widely published like it is today so perhaps people were more comfortable with going.

@mrconfusion87 3 жыл бұрын

I CANNOT believe the NoKor censors allowed that part (9:48 - "reports of starvation") to stay on the film!

@drcarnage83 3 жыл бұрын

He did the voiceover back in the UK

@alicesenz6374 2 жыл бұрын

The North Korean government acknowledges the famine, why wouldn't they allow him to talk about it?

@WizardOfOss 10 жыл бұрын

Very interesting (and sad) to see just how little has changed in almost two decades.

@ndog37 10 жыл бұрын

Seems the tour schedule hasn't changed much either

@GSKim-pv5ey 9 жыл бұрын

WizardOfOss What kind of changes were you hoping for?

@LOL60345 4 жыл бұрын

@@GSKim-pv5ey shitty new cars, advertisements, consumerism, im guessing

@엔진터보 2 жыл бұрын

아닙니다. 1960년대 후반에 한국이 북한을 GDP에서 앞서기 시작했고, 1970년대 중반부터 한국의 생활 수준은 북한을 확실히 이기기 시작했습니다.

@GSKim-pv5ey 9 жыл бұрын

Documentary from before GWB's "axis of evil" speech, and during the famine period.

@_jmeg_3436 2 жыл бұрын

They actually do have nice motorways.

@thatkindofguy234 4 жыл бұрын

this guys commentating is hilarious hahahaha

@khust2993 4 жыл бұрын

"He was born on the day the Titanic sunk" lol Umm..thanks for fun fact, I guess

@ChristopherGray00 3 жыл бұрын

also note how he refers to a building as an "erection" and touching as "fondling"

@sc9881 Жыл бұрын

“Ummm yeah, thanks for giving us like…facts in a documentary or whatever. Weird thing to do but ok”

@avus-kw2f213 Жыл бұрын

This was during the arduous March it’s interesting how normal thing look

@aliyafuady8032 4 жыл бұрын

back in that time when both korea seems equal

@motro1301 4 жыл бұрын

No its not. This was a time when north was crashing down because of the famine and south korea was already very economically prosperous compared to the north. But soon after we south koreans had to face the asian financial crisis in 1997 when our bubble economy began to collapse. This crisis was locally known as the "imf crisis", because we had to lend a lot of money from the international monetary fund, which we suffered from repaying the debts until like 2001 when we finally recovered completely.

@juliancumming6893 3 жыл бұрын

North Korea's economy halted growth in 1976. By this period they were in famine. Nothing alike.

@hyunseoklee4027 3 жыл бұрын

@@motro1301 even during the collapse south korea was still doing like 100 times better than the north.

@hyunseoklee4027 3 жыл бұрын

Nah that was the late 60s

@Bombersman 9 ай бұрын

South Korea was already ahead of the North in the late seventies, in 1996 the North was suffering from economic recession, they had virtually no more economy nor industry, things improved a little since but it's still far behind the RoK

@healthierlife235 3 жыл бұрын

That's hell of dystopian reality.

@robertsilva8097 2 жыл бұрын

Hello To Everyone From California

@heatherracho666 2 жыл бұрын

This was filmed during the Arduous March or the March of Suffering (고난의 행군), was a period of mass starvation together with a general economic crisis from 1994 to 1998 😳 😱😳 oh how we just don't care

@matheusgomessoares6180 2 жыл бұрын

Do you Know the Us was trying to emphasize de effect of the starve? During this period, North Korea tried to open it economy to the global bank, and was prevented by a US letter

@PateFish-rj9mp Жыл бұрын

the hardest years of NK（1995-1997）, the food production cam only provide half the least requirement of people, many people starved to death（about 0.5 to 1 million）, you can see many dead body when out of Pyongyang, a tourist in 1998 said that he even saw people eat human, many technology workers can only stay on bed because it's too hungry, even the tourists can be only allow to have one bowl of rice in each meal

@earlyBUDisme Жыл бұрын

Type into Google: 'World Bank DPRK population,' read the statistics, and stop lying. The only time when population of DPRK dropped was during Korean War.

@jesper99 5 жыл бұрын

17:04