Real HD footage | Inside North Korea in the 80s

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[@saulponcedeleon7266]

It looked better back then than now

[@doesnt_exist_]

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the famine really did a number on the country. Wonder how many of these people were alive a decade later.

[@user-zo6iy1tl3q]

Sin sanciones y sin la caída de URSS

[@Yk1000-]

The country is still a joke cause they can't feed themselves and the people suffer under a brutal dictatorship,if they were democratic they would of BIGGER and BETTER like Japan and Germany they wouldn't have suffered the massive famine where 3.5m pershied.

[@Yk1000-]

The country is still a joke cause they can't feed themselves and the people suffer under a brutal dictatorship,if they were democratic they would of been BIGGER and BETTER like Japan and Germany they wouldn't have suffered the massive famine where 3.5m pershied.

[@PrinceChaloner]

Wow the way they dress in the 1980's and the way they dress in 2021 hasn't changed much...

[@starwayrunner]

I would say they used to dress way better back then than now

[@mestredosmagos10]

when a country is sanctioned and its biggest economic partner falls, it gets stuck in time

[@1nemann]

People in Pyongyang faired much better than the countryside but it's wild to watch these videos and know they were on the doorstep of massive famine.

[@Dorian-lq3up]

@@nedifar-haunts-you Thats why he said on the DOORSTEP of the famine.

[@nedifar-haunts-you]

@@Dorian-lq3up I was probably tired this day.

[@jonhart7630]

The "Arduous March" happened in the mid 90s. This is in the 80s still.

[@N3Garage]

N.Korean food system started having problems in the mid 1980s the Soviet Economy was going bad in the same years, when the Soviet Union collapsed the N.Korean economic output was almost halved in an instant unemployment skyrocketed and food rations essentially collapsed. that starting in 1990 there were campaigns to only eat 2x a day, rations were reduced. plus the severe reliance of N.Korea on fertilizers made the soil weak that the early 1990s typhoons and floods destroyed N.Korean crops that by 1995 - 1999 it was a full blown famine, and the effects continued till 2000s

[@N3Garage]

@@jonhart7630 yes but you have to take note also that the N.Korean economy is tied up pretty much with the USSR and China unlike China.. N.Korea didn't experiment early on w Market Economy so the effects of the USSR's collapse on N.Korea was far more severe compared to China. and that in the 1980s the N.Korean economy was essentially stagnating and food supplies started dwindling especially when the Soviets reduced aid to N.Korea in the mid 1980s potateos, wheat and other food supplies started drying up.

[@keneda-mq3ky]

It hasn't really changed much 40 years later

[@DarcyTheManstop]

Hasn’t*

[@ismaelkleber778]

Actually few years after the 80s the situation changed dramatically. After the collapsed of the Soviet Union and the change of system in China and Eastern Europe , North Korea ended up more isolated than ever. Then, in the 90s they started having problems of famine so for sure things have changed. Even by Soviet standards , North Korea was a bit too much. I was in Belarus when Soviet Union collapsed and I remember that Cuban students were allowed to finish their studies, but after their bachelor degree the Cuban government make it mandatory to go back to Cuba. However, North Korean students could not even finish they studies, their government made everyone to go back to North Korea as soon as possible. As far as I know, right now some people of the elite study in China, Russia and Switzerland but in the past, almost everyone could study in Soviet Union if they were good students. Right now North Korea is totally isolated..., so even if things look similar, i think they are not...

[@keneda-mq3ky]

@@ismaelkleber778 I totally agree with you. I just wanted to say the buildings, the way the people lives doesn't seems to be changed since the 80's.

[@ismaelkleber778]

@@keneda-mq3ky Agree with you . Even clothes havent change that much!.

[@oldmangaming6620]

meanwhile the rest of the world is going to shit.

[@mrmakhno3030]

North Korea had the same ''the Miracle around the Han River'' like the South, but that thing stopped in 80s when Soviet economy was fucked up. North Korea need to import oil , gas and fertilizer from USSR, but after the fall of USSR there was no oil. The GDP per capita of North Korea in 1994 decrease to 1/3 of 1989 , about 741 USD/2400 USD.

[@rosaburgs6019]

Socialist bloc acted as one big functional economy, when gorby fucked it up in the 80s everybody’s went with it because it was the integral link.

[@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098]

Interesting. Btw fascism is awesome

[@stoggafllik]

​@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 yes

[@Yk1000-]

If they were democratic they would've been bigger and better kept going even after the soviots pershied like Japan and Germany.😤🤦🏾‍♂️

[@youtube_ungmeh8510]

세상에..42년동안 하나도 안변했고, 오히려 후퇴했음.

[@basedkaiser5352]

It still surprises me that up until the 70's North Korea was the superior Korea.

[@N3Garage]

that's because North Korea had a good head start in the 1950s Japan industrialized Northern Korea back in 1930s when they were still occupying it so after the Korean war most Japanese built factories were in the North while South Korea was only used for agriculture this is why N.Korean economy was ahead of the South during 1950s upto early 1970s in terms of industrial output then when Samsung, LG, Hyundai, Daewoo and many others started selling abroad, South Korean Economy shoot up so fast that by year 1981 the standard of living of the average S.Korean is 2x better than their Northern brethren in terms of US$/person by 1990s that disparity is more than 8 to 1.

[@Dzeividz]

It was actually a good life in North Korea at this time. Soviet Union supported it with everything and let it grow, but after fall of the Soviet Union North Korea became like the hunger games where only the strongest survive.

[@Yk1000-]

If the US occupied all of Korea then both would've thrived and no one would've starved and It would of been democratic just like Japan after there defeat in ww2.

[@Dzeividz]

@@Yk1000- Yea, that is correct and they nearly did occupy it, however China did not let them.

[@Yk1000-]

@@Dzeividz if China and Russia were democratic then we all could've been best friends and the cold war wouldn't have happened 🤦🏾‍♂️😒

[@Dzeividz]

@@Yk1000- Maybe, who knows, however wars don’t start only because of different ideologies and democratic countries are still fighting with each other.

[@Yk1000-]

@@Dzeividz You are correct but during the cold war era it was about two ideological nations who were fighting cause they didn't get along which would've have NEVER happened if the red army didn't win during the russian revolution instead join NATO.

[@tokyowarfare6729]

looks better in the 80s than it does now.

[@fra9873]

Soviet Union was the mother who protected and financed, Cuba, North Korea, Bulgaria, Romania, etc

[@MihaiKrieger]

@@fra9873 the soviet union pillaged Romania, not funded.

[@makehumus4hamas]

@@fra9873 up until 1953 yes, after that the relationship between the revisionist USSR and its satellite states was semi colonial.

[@emperornero2658]

North korea looks more progressive and non stressing country compared today

[@ianhomerpura8937]

In terms of schooling, defectors say the education system in the North is much less stressful than in the South, with children staying in hagwon until 10 pm.

[@thro_wawaypng]

genghis khan taking Ws from beyond the grave

[@Rawarart]

wow in the 80 their road full of car

[@lemau8458]

Damn you're right, I didn't even notice that

[@mrmakhno3030]

there isn't any oil sanction against DPRK at that time. After 1991 US started that and made North Korean have to use cow instead of plane in cropping.

[@MsPaintMr]

@@mrmakhno3030 lmao. If you're trying to argue that North Korea is poor due to Western sanctions it's literally the opposite, American and South Korean aid saved them in the 90s.

[@user-iv3si7pf8t]

​@@MsPaintMrlol 'Aid' when US literally surrounded NK with its navy in 1994 and wanted to start a war. Further, economic sanctions for three decades isolating an entire country 😂

[@wellsengrey4768]

Still doesn't seem much different than today's North Korea. Their hairstyles & fashion still look the same as today. 😅

[@crimson7554]

Except they are richer,had a decent military,tech and can be feed.

[@SuperTomtom1995]

This music is comically evil

[@basedmarxist1762]

Right and it’s just footage of normal people living normal lives. The wests fetish with the dprk is weird

[@DafyddBrooks]

if I'm not wrong, this was the last time they had plenty of money to feed its people. Please correct if I'm wrong

[@emsipin9480]

You are correct. North Korea is largely dependent on food imports from the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 90s, that’s when the famines started.

[@DafyddBrooks]

@@emsipin9480 thanks man, real shame though whats happened since

[@StreetDrilla]

well they werent really doing the best in the 80s but it wasnt too much of a special country to be thought of. North Korean leadership should have threatened china to give the exact same amount of material as the soviet union did otherwise they surrender their country to the south. The flaw with that plan is China was not yet a country good enough to be another countries life line.

[@nedifar-haunts-you]

Yes, after the collapse of the USSR, droughts floods, embargo and a system that had to be reformed, famine started. It's called the Arduous March.

[@dauzlee2827]

@@emsipin9480 North Korea relied on soviet fertilizer and oil, since North Korea have alot of farm and even surplus to feed its citizens and most of them are mechanized. When the USSR collapse, thing get worse and became what we know today

[@StreetDrilla]

the closest decade in which north and south korea were closest to being similar. Every other decade either north or south was a better country.

[@realAlexChoi]

That would be a few years earlier. South Korea surpassed the North in 1975, so that would be the best time to see the two koreas being equal

[@TRNGL]

South Korea in the 80s 👉: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoS2l3Wahrd4oqM

[@user-gd7nd3qh9l]

What’s the name of the song?

[@biluu2780]

@@user-gd7nd3qh9l senorita

[@FCS7]

There are not nearly enough monuments of me.

[@lemau8458]

who asked

[@jrdn.9469]

I assume you were a parody account of Kim Jong Un

[@scoobydoobydoooo]

@@jrdn.9469 Imagine it's the real Kim Jong Un sitting there at his PC going "chchcchchchchh tee hee hee"

[@jrdn.9469]

@@scoobydoobydoooo God have mercy. My house my get nuked soon

[@itsaeon6288]

Holy moly, 42 years and these people is still the same as today

[@Samuelrodrigues_]

Why does during Kim Il Sung NK seem less isolated? Like they even allowed someone to record

[@user-iv3si7pf8t]

because now north korea is grobally sanctioned

[@sc9881]

I don’t understand this comment. There’s literally hours and hours of footage inside modern North Korea on KZbin. There’s barely any from Kim Il Sung’s period outside official newsreels/propaganda.

[@debudasatriawibawa3814]

Before 1990s, they just were a normal communist countries like East Germany. Everything getting worse after collapse of Soviet Union and they are going crazy

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

Things look better back then. In the 60s-80s NK is actually more prosperous than the south

[@ubacow7109]

2:58 NK invents the Dab in the 80's confirmed

[@T3TomTomAwesomeYTchannel]

Those North Koreans that spoke English were very fluently great 😊

[@jovanlopez5284]

Back then when you could of travel to north korea compare to today

[@bolinocroustibat]

The music sounds very much like the one from "Papers, Please"

[@ItsMikeLearns]

i love watching these past videos. I always wonder where these people are now in 2023

[@rockndisco3874]

Maybe executed

[@terryyou2819]

even look better than china at that time

[@digitalmarketinghumans]

Still think Dennis Rodman was on another level to go

[@Dorian-lq3up]

Lol I'd go. Pay for my trip idc.

[@sonye-jin6737]

What is that background song? Please upload or link the soundtrack!

[@ulvialtnkaynak7884]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6vLk3WcpJ2Mf68

[@gytis296]

I think in these times they lived better than now

[@crimson7554]

NK just need somebody who can support their economy

[@user-pw7yz6sb6m]

어디에서 구해오ㅛㅣㄴ 영상여여?? 귀한 영상 고맙워요

[@user-wu3jdh8jwje]

Time paused in the 80s

[@Pepinho-jr9tj]

whats the name of the music used in the video?

[@Emppu_T.]

It all went a bit wrong after that.

[@Owool17]

People talking about how they haven't changed since this time. They are correct, because the 1980s was the last time they actually had money and an economy.

[@august2241]

I’ve heard this song before, what is it?

[@TDion94]

South Korea: our city is safer North Korea: we have working and probably boring stuffs

[@richardsonrichly8456]

Was hoping for a nice lofi beat

[@fairoadiary]

i feel like that wouldn’t go with the theme of north korea….

[@lutho7693]

@@fairoadiary It would perfecly.

[@mibukdesjarlais534]

@@lutho7693 No it wouldn't. 😂

[@arcie3716]

Lmao

[@simmi5493]

as a girl have obsession wiyh 80s..nowadays the only country that still has 80s vibe is north korea.. despite everything i really like to visit this country

[@swedhgemoni8092]

Same, I adore the '80s vibe as well. Although little by little, even North Korea is changing. Some defectors have begun talking how rapidly computers are spreading in the public domain such that even waitresses in restaurants take orders on tablet devices.

[@Toxic_Man_]

If you want to explore the atmosphere of the 60s, then I advise you to go to Cuba 🧡

[@netajiadmirer9422]

Visit this city called Kolkata in India

[@no_daddy]

I love Korea 🗻🚀⛓️

[@ikaiko8612]

I hope you're either talking about the southern part of it or that this is sarcasm

[@user-qb6jq9os3p]

We also want be lovely korea with unification

[@ghgggx]

​@@ikaiko8612 You mean wrong something about it?

[@christopherkelly577]

Seeing the Ryugyong....the concrete behemoth just sitting there for so long is also very cool in a strangely compelling way. It was just a massive concrete structure. For so long. So much money spent on that alone. And now, its lit up so least it is a cool massive thing to behold but, it could not and likely would not happen anywhere else.

[@realdy]

Whenever I see any of these North Korean footage vids it is really hard to tell if they were filmed in the 80s or 90s or yesterday🤔

[@TriplePistol]

They're not that different compared to then. except they actually look happy than the ones today.

[@user-ml7eo3jp7t]

What’s the name of the song?

[@user-hm4vf8hh9l]

Shave ivers "Soviet March"

[@user-hm4vf8hh9l]

Shave ivers Soviet march

[@user-ml7eo3jp7t]

@@user-hm4vf8hh9l thank you!

[@yachtimtv5156]

Name of song?

[@user-hm4vf8hh9l]

Shave ivers Soviet march

[@dietbobzero8053]

3:56 **boing**

[@rk-iw1in]

Lol

[@Bluewave369]

This just makes me want to cry

[@aliciaarden2019]

0:00 reminds me of Argonath statues from the Fellowship of the Rings.

[@swedhgemoni8092]

I miss the 1980s North Korea so much, sigh. It's almost like looking into a manga, a lost paradise.

[@richardsonrichly8456]

I think even at that time their GDP was higher then the south

[@swedhgemoni8092]

@@richardsonrichly8456 Yes. It was from the '90s that the economic situation reversed.

[@swedhgemoni8092]

@Sławek 言語 Oh. I was always under the impression that throughout the '80s, they were neck-to-neck and from the '90s onwards, the southern regime took the lead.

[@crimson7554]

The reason why they failed now is the leader fault,kim jong un is a failure and need to be replaced

[@realAlexChoi]

@@swedhgemoni8092 North Korea had a larger economy until the mid 70s. Remember, South Korea was historically an agriculture backwater whilst northern Korea was where all the industry was. In 1945, Northern Korea was second most heavily industrialised area in Asia, with only Japan leading ahead. The south was much less developed and far poorer. Non Koreans often forget about the huge head start North Korea had and maintained until 1975.

[@The-Real-Blissful-Ignorance]

30 years later, Kim Jong Il would die of extreme roneriness. ☹

[@jovanlopez5284]

Sucks after the soviet union collapsed 😢 Praying for them 🙏🏻 ❤️

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

😢

[@yessiryesboss]

North Korea has not changed. Until now their clothes are like the 80s, 70s 😅

[@billnelson5870]

4:38 was that Denise Rodman I just saw??? Stop playing!

[@raditya5663]

likely N.Korea after 1990s famine they became upside down

[@dimidas2580]

Everyone was so much happier then

[@CynicallyDepressedx]

Not long after this was filmed, up to 1 in 7 of the people seen in this video would die of famine.

[@babykllersarenotheroes.4295]

You gotta remember that at this time, SOUTH Korea was ALSO a dictatorship!! So, within this time, If you're gonna critisize one, critisize both!

[@Koko_clair]

former soviet countries shocked they stuck the psst

[@kittipongas]

wow

[@lutho7693]

Only real Korea

[@Joseph-lz5er]

There were similarities between the two cultures, SK and NK, during the 1980s. But now, NK looks like it hasn't evolved for 40 years, while SK is a modern country.

[@joshuacrazone]

America should be more like North Korea

[@LinhNguyen.]

Wtf

[@LeoMkII]

they're not that different tho, they both have evil governments and would take over the world and kill millions if they could

[@yumallah]

Yes.

[@yumallah]

@@LeoMkII DPRK is not evil, only the US is.

[@CripplingDuality]

@@LeoMkII lol

[@relax.recover]

until now North Korea is stuck in 1980

[@Bruhbruhbruhbruhbruhbruhbruhbr]

RIP functioning north korea

[@replyliveonearth]

All their conditions looked better back then than now hmm....

[@roshanthakur8662]

why does it look better?

[@kenchino0161]

Imagine as a nation obeying evil people…. Just smack him off his position. Military people should not be supporting or protecting these evil leaders.

[@alternativeeurovisionsongc8245]

dprk was literally a paradise before ussr collapsed, people in dprk genuinely like their government that actually does stuff, the only reason of famine was the united states

[@user-ib6hm9ez3x]

I'm afraid to disappoint you, but the world is not divided into white and black.

[@realAlexChoi]

@@alternativeeurovisionsongc8245 North Korea was not a paradise in the 1980s or even before. It was richer than the South until 1975, but the north had historically been far more developed and the south was an agricultural backwater. South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world in the 1950s, and North Korea was better than that, but that’s not much of a standard. After 1975, South Korea surpassed the north and never looked back. The north was never that great of a place to live even by eastern bloc standards, it was just better than the South early on, which hardly made it a paradise.

[@olegnesterov1712]

Good country! Really independent.

[@lesnoybaggi7321]

Лучше только Туркмения.

[@thehunter8965]

i dont know why its looks like a Japan

[@nguyenvanphu8217]

Imagine that if North Korea gave up its nuclear weapons, accepted reforms, the Korean people were as happy as South Korea, the economy was equally rich, what would happen to the leader Kim?

[@nedifar-haunts-you]

Probably the same that happened to Gaddafi and Hussein.

[@nguyenvanphu8217]

@@nedifar-haunts-you If that's true, that's the biggest mistake of the leader Kim

[@nedifar-haunts-you]

@@nguyenvanphu8217 no, it's the opposite. They are right to do it. They couldn't do otherwise.

[@Dorian-lq3up]

@@nedifar-haunts-you I agree it could end up as the same as Gaddafi or Hussain but they are in very different areas of the world, chaos of a different kind would ensue sponsored by the west/America. I very much doubt the people of North Korea would live live as "happy" as those who live in South Korean. They would like end up in a proxy war between China and America and come under vassalage of one of these superpowers.

[@nedifar-haunts-you]

@@Dorian-lq3up you are right, yes. It would be a disaster if this happen anyway and the people will not be happy and will regret the old times. Plus, "happy as the South Koreans"? Since South Korea have a high suicide rate and suffer from depression (Hell Joseon), it's not the best example of happiness. Claiming that a nation is happy and another isn't doesn't make any sense anyway.

[@eduardosuarezalvarado1467]

BASED

[@balazs8330]

But its not true that n-korea was the last communist regime with a personality cult in the 80s. Causescu had that too in romania

[@sc9881]

Good point but hardly any Romanian genuinely worshiped Ceausescu, unlike Kim. The more he glorified himself actually, the less popular he became.

[@fra9873]

Grandissimi!!🇰🇵

[@user-ml7eo3jp7t]

It is terrifying that such a dictatorship exists as close as 1300 kilometers from Tokyo.

[@rk-iw1in]

Yeah, japan should arm itself well, especially when its surrounded with countries that are not at good terms with it.

[@user-ml7eo3jp7t]

@@rk-iw1in It is a pity that there are many dangerous countries around Japan.

[@lemmygrad5425]

@@rk-iw1in japan brutally occupied Korea for 35 years, if anything North Korea deserves to have nuclear weapons

[@user-ml7eo3jp7t]

@@lemmygrad5425 In those 35 years, Korea has developed modernly.The identification system has been abolished.

[@grow1820]

But because Japan is actually a dangerous country due to earthquakes and tsunamis, Many people died too. North Korea hasn't attacked Japan, so wouldn't japan be better to worry more about earthquakes, Japan siking and tsunamis instead?

[@mskiara18]

Interesting what the country looked like when they were being funded by the Soviet Union: so many healthy, plump faces and the infrastructure looks pristine. I wish only for the North Korean people there and hope better times come for all individuals there.

[@HerrAndreasSkog]

It looks almost like today, just... Less pathological somehow. Like the people in the 80:ies had sufficent nutrition, some peace of mind and and thought life would go on like that. My heart breaks. I hate the 20th century. And now we are in for another one just like it.

[@pedroaugustonascimentodasi1764]

I don't understand the evil militar music in this video. It just normal people doing normal things

[@2prize]

05:14 😍😍😍😍

[@lxiox5362]

쟤네는 시간이 멈췄네 ㅋㅋㅋ

[@joewarrior619]

Man I feel bad for all those poor babies being born there.

[@user-hoe25xsni2hn4n4gs]

During 10years USSR collapsed and Germany reunite In CHina there were democracy protest Tiananmen massacre

[@AlexVictorianus]

It will get worse

[@opa6893]

이야 류경호텔은 저때도 짓고있었네 ㅋㅋ

[@Toxic_Man_]

All thanks to the cooperation of Moscow! The USSR practically helped Korea for free before the collapse, and it was a more progressive Korea! But as soon as the USSR fell the same year in the DPRK there was a massive famine!Then guess who helped them?!? Not true!Actually, the curse of capitalist decaying America helped them 🇺🇸🦅!

[@belstar1128]

1984.

[@f14tomcat46]

The best in North Korea

[@proofofmyexistence2352]

Lol

[@ricardomarte1902]

??????

[@ricardomarte1902]

Interesting country, is allow anyone to visit

[@aliciaarden2019]

That's a dystopian world

[@crimson7554]

Its was a beautiful times NK was in 1980

[@nedifar-haunts-you]

No

[@user-mq9hn4kr8e]

원래 북한이 더 잘살았다.

[@alexfriedman2152]

You can't escape Death, and God's judgment. I hope he repented but man talk about creating a lot of suffering and death.

[@Halsavian]

The best and love north korea from Indonesia.

[@nordfreiheit]

Supremely based!

[@user-ev2tj1gd2u]

어케 갈수록 쇠퇴하냐?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@jovanlopez5284]

Kim jong un

[@user-iv3si7pf8t]

제재때문에

[@dedidi3347]

Ussr collapse

[@sandeep9513]

Best Korea

[@lesnoybaggi7321]

🤮🤮🤮

[@Toothily]

These clips have a certain kind of, lack of intimacy. They feel like propaganda material, at least in way of being PR selected and sanitised shots. It almost looks normal. Almost.

[@realAlexChoi]

North Korea was/is very sensitive about what can and cannot be documented, so these were most likely sanitised shots