The Secret Life under Kim Jong-il's North Korea

[@KnightSlasher]

"How's North Korea" "I can't complain" "That's good" "No I literally can't complain"

[@shokhrukhsharifkulov2498]

lol

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

That sounded like an Oblivion conversation at first.

[@easiesteevee2532]

AND WE SAID THAT'S GOOD. God, this guy. Doesn't he understand engrish?

[@BigBangAttack-mt6pz]

@@markolysynchuk5264 💀

[@shadowknight_2505]

@@easiesteevee2532 Bruh you stupid? the joke is that the North korean citizens are forced to lie about the horrible conditions of north korea.

[@frenchhonhon]

Being born in North Korea is the equivalent of starting a game on veteran difficulty.

[@sethenewman4309]

The game: Scorn

[@JusNoBS420]

is it true that the general population of North Korea is clueless to how poor they are? Or more importantly what life is like is the rest of the world?

[@googane7755]

@@JusNoBS420 I mean they do have some idea, the NK state media is always railing against the west and South Korea. There are also government programs where NK sends labourers to work around the world, I'm sure they can shed some light about the world when they come back and the fact that there is significant amount of SK brands that are imitated in NK means that they clearly have some contact.

[@jerkurface602]

@@googane7755 some heavily censored contact that's probably few an far between.

[@amogus43628]

i would probably escape or kill m1self lmao

[@monarchist1838]

I’m half Korean on my Mother’s side. Her parents escaped North Korea on a wagon in the early 1960s. They had actually lived quite comfortably in a large house near Pyongyang. However, they felt things could worsen in the future and fled south. Their relatives decided to stay behind. I often wonder what became of them. My Gran seldom spoke of her homeland. She was born under Japanese occupation and then Communist rule. One day I hope the north will be free.

[@Philosopher-Z-]

I hope the north becomes free In our lifetime, the people deserve to see what the world has to offer

[@-sweyn-9559]

🫶🏼

[@aquatic4760]

@@tankle found the kid who lives in a 1st world country and doesn’t have to go through any hardships but still acts stupid

[@clay5581]

@@tankle from whom

[@Draagenn]

@@tankle your comments on this channel are hilarious you Russian bot

[@peterK12]

I'm Korean and my grandfather on my mom side was an officer in North Korean Army in the Korean war era(1950) but he took his platoon and surrendered to south korean troops. He started a business in South Korea after the war and met my grandmother in Seoul. But according to my mom he would always cry in the middle of the night, being drunk, longing for his wife and children who were back in North Korea. And he suffered from a stroke for many years until he died when my mom was 14. It is still hard to believe that I have a semi related family who I have never seen in North Korea and I don't even know if they are atill alive or executed.

[@Arctagon]

Thanks for sharing. I feel for your grandfather. That must've been really tough.

[@peterK12]

@@Arctagon Thanks man. I have never met him personally and I can feel his agony that he had been through as well. He was not a great provider for the family in the last couple of years of his life but he was just a victim of this bullshit war of ideaology

[@Hoax69696]

They are alive and thinking about you

[@prodigalpriest]

I highly doubt that. His grandfather came from N Korea and so his family there would not have heard of him.

[@peterK12]

@@prodigalpriest You are prob right. I don't think he had seen or heard of his family back in NK ever since he escaped from there. So there's no way they would know my existence.

[@IndianaJenkins615]

My professor is from South Korea, despite living in the USA, he is still registered for the SK military draft. If war breaks out with the North, he says he is honor bound to return to SK and join the fight.

[@Vulpine407]

Respect to him.

[@tommybrown9534]

What if he doesn't? Just curious

[@123carth]

@@tommybrown9534 He would be punished by government.

[@mynameismaxdowis]

Someday I hope to be cool enough to tell strangers my South Korean professor participates in a mandatory selective service. Someday.

[@tommybrown9534]

@@123carth dam.. that's rough

[@Furzkampfbomber]

I was born, grew up and lived in the GDR. My dad is a physician and worked in a huge hospital. This hospital often trained and educated doctors from other, socialist 'brother' countries. There were doctors from the USSR, some from countries like Nicaragua or El Salvador and then, in the early 1980's there was this doctor form North Korea. I was still quite young at this time, but I still remember him. I remember a very nice, polite and quiet man, the brooch with the portrait of Kim Il-Sung that _every_ North Korean always wore on their lapel and that he was always in the mood for a joke. I remember that he bought everything he could get and took it home to North Korea - canned food, a cassette recorder, a water kettle; flar iron; hair dryer; cookware; pans; ... He was _never_ very open about that, but he always hinted that those things were... a scarce thing in North Korea. And he brought gifts. There was that beautyful little porcellaine rabbit that is still sitting on my shelf and there was this book with pictures of North Korea, in the typical beautiful, almost photographic and slightly cheesy korean style, which I also still have. In this book, there were also pictures showing Kim-Il Sung, which always came with an extra page, containing a story from Kim Il-Sung's life, praising him and his feats to the skies. And every picture showing Kim-Il Sung comes with a broad gold edge. I also have a book that explains the Juche ideology, praises the capable North Korean economy, industry and agricultural sector, shows _incredible_ export figures and also shows pictures of an industrial fair, as well as pictures of Kim Jong-Il visiting said fair. Those pictures also have the broad gold edge _and_ it's quite striking that all pictures are black and white and often quite grainy, whereas the pictures showing Kim Jong-Il are in high resolution and in color. I was quite used to a certain level of personality cult as a citizen of the GDR, but _this_ was and is a whole new level. Sorry for this wall of text, in case you've made it this far; thanks a lot for your patience and interest, but I thought this is an interesting bit of information that I thought I should share.

[@andersandersen6295]

It was.

[@medidmi]

Thank you for sharing❤️

[@petarvanj4343]

I support North Korea 💯 Please forward contact information for that North Korean Doctor Our Dear Leader would like to chat

[@jenniferpistello6569]

@@petarvanj4343 your crazy

[@ajasonto]

thank you

[@badwolf9956]

Wasn’t expecting the opening photo to be nickado avocado

[@Real-Agent-Meta]

Neither was I, but still funny

[@Pete-vz5uj]

I thought the exact same thing!

[@KnightSlasher]

I don't blame you lol

[@diamoz7597]

Nikocado likes Samyang Korean Fire Noodles more than the Nongshim Shin Ramyun

[@mabinuqi03]

Damn

[@xiaoheluo0521]

No matter what we faced in our life, we should be thankful that we are not living in a gruesome country

[@Micktheadventurer]

Or we're not an animal.

[@att2075]

Given what's currently taking place in the US and my desire for a change of lifestyle, I'd gladly trade places with a suffering north korean

[@Li.Meng.]

轻易相信别人会让你变得愚蠢。

[@Gainsforlife]

⁠@@att2075 I’ll buy you a ticket to North Korea. You can live with Travis King. Don’t need people like you in the land of the free anyway

[@TheSludg3]

Move to north korea then@@att2075

[@TheChiefonator]

I find it hilarious that he was a fan of James Bond. Seeing as how he is basically a real life bond villan

[@Rakshasa1986]

He was a Bond villain, but he probably didn't see it that way.

[@NatureSymphonicMusic]

​@@Rakshasa1986he probably did and just laughed about it.

[@Laksilaks]

I'm very sure there even IS a Bond movie where Bond is taken hostage in North Korea 😂😂😂

[@Mirek-e7v]

​@@LaksilaksDie Another Day (2002).

[@lucianoosorio5942]

MacArthur: Nuke em! Truman: No! MacArthur: NUKE EM! Truman: NO! MacArthur: AH COME ON! Truman: You’re fired!

[@General-F]

A fan Over Simplified fan awesome.

[@spiffygonzales5899]

Just gonna say that they'd honestly be living better lives if we nuked em. But like... if we got away with it I mean

[@Pavlov_Hub]

Maybe macarthur was right

[@erwinsetyo1061]

MacArthur tried to pulling out the Belka move

[@crazychase98]

@@Pavlov_Hub We are gonna suffer for noy listen to him and patton before the globalist got to them

[@eisbergsyndrom5010]

"But what if I were to purchase fastfood and disguised it as my own cooking? Ohohoho, delightfully devilish, Jong-Il."

[@helloidharbl6753]

Under a new star, under a double rainbow on Pakto mountain in 1942? "Yes!"

[@Jartran72]

Nice Simpsons Reference

[@guybrushthreepwood2014]

That one made me laugh out loud. "Ohohoho no. I said two pieces of bread with some meat in it. Thats what I call Hamburgers. Old Jong-Il recipe."

[@vinylmassacre1659]

Seymore!.

[@Lewis-fd9js]

“And you call them double meat with bread, despite the fact they are clearly hamburgers?”

[@sumee5628]

“His 17 bodyguards verified his record breaking feat.” Of course they did; they didn’t wanna die!

[@myrda0]

People are just jealous....

[@MichaelDScott144]

😆 🥶

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

@@myrda0I don’t think anyone is jealous of being a complete monster.

[@myrda0]

@@TheBestEverEverEver People love him. When his father died, the whole country cried...

[@gerlynanne4741]

@@myrda0they had no choice but to cry. If they didn’t cry they would face punishment.

[@lindagodfrey9994]

Peaktu mountain is actually a volcano that has experienced very large eruptions (VEI 7) in the past, which is why there is a lake in the middle of it, the lake formed from the collapse and formation of the caldera.

[@cloutmastermemes2007]

That’s so cool tbh

[@zerophoenix8312]

And it serves as the borderline between China and Korea, so if you take a trip to the Chinese side of the mountain, there's a slight chance you might see Kim Jong-un staring at you from the other side.

[@justacat2]

IT BECAME A LAKE WHEN THE SUPREME LEADER KIM IL SUNG WAS BORN please help me, the north korean government kidnapped m-.....

[@johanvangelderen6715]

Crater Lake in Oregon was formed the same way. It's also a collaped volcano with a deep lake in it.

[@jareds.7063]

I appreciate how the thumbnail makes the Kim family look like a bunch of mukbang KZbinrs

[@drill_fiend1097]

Kimcado Jungcado spicy mukbang

[@dl1083]

That's all they are!

[@MORE_BEANS_PLZ]

@@killeanmcchesney5138 dawg what??💀

[@KingOfTheCapybaras]

@@killeanmcchesney5138 The onion is satire

[@killeanmcchesney5138]

@@MORE_BEANS_PLZ dude it’s fucking hilarious I’ll try to find the link for you lmao 😆

[@aliefabdurrahman3302]

1. (0:08) Kim Jong il vs Starving masses in North Korea 1993-2011(18 years) 2. (9:57) The Sokcho Submarine Incident 3. (17:27) Kinong dong North Korean Potemkin Village 1950-present. 4. (25:08) Choi Eun-hee and Shin Sang-ok An Actor and Actress who kidnapped by north Korean government to make a North Korean movie.

[@iyayiobose2181]

A blessing to humanity ❤

[@KairosRabbit]

Forcing people to cry for someone is just sad

[@feministssuck4439]

No it's not it's brilliant

[@no1up]

I’m pretty sure it was genuine… the man DID birth the man that invented meat with 2 breads after all…

[@giftedfox4748]

Sad enough to cry. But in all honesty, I think that was a time for them to let go the build up of emotions.

[@hennesseyme9112]

The Egyptians use to hire criers for funerals. It is nothing new.

[@TheBeverly7]

​@hennesseyme9112 The Egyptians paid their mourners, which is totally different from being publicly forced to mourn a ruthless dictator !!!

[@allys744]

The clip of Kim Jon Ill kickin the golf ball into the hole never ceases to make me laugh 🤣✋

[@blackdesign8197]

the sarcasm of editting is just too much 🤣

[@DaveSCameron]

It's hardly laurel and hardy now is it!

[@peterlee9691]

Our illustrious Leader kicked the ball off the tee and landed a hole-in-one without a club.

[@iskandartaib]

Doesn't the Drumph do something similar? I.e. cheat at golf.. 😂 Zooms out ahead of his playing partners on his turbo golf cart and does things like kick their balls onto the rough, etc...

[@DaveSCameron]

@@iskandartaib hahhaha!! Yeah so Ttrumo is Kim il. Behave yourself and read a book

[@joshhdebolt]

Rare fact he actually invited Larry Bird and challenged him to a 3 point contest. Larry said in an interview with time magazine he's never been more humiliated in his life.

[@Zack-xu2zw]

Source?

[@kimetheus]

​@@Zack-xu2zwjust trust bro

[@mike7652]

​@@kimetheusIn bro we trust!

[@crownprincesebastianjohano7069]

@@Zack-xu2zw It is known.

[@redemption3830]

​@@kimetheus😂

[@frankgerace5997]

Korea was divided after World War II, not the Korean War. North Korea started the Korean War in 1950 by invading the South.

[@paulv2141]

North Korea is a tragedy. It's truly upsetting to know people live like this. Even if you're upper class, you must live in fear. I can't imagine being trapped in such horror. May God have mercy on the people of North Korea. My Grandfather was captured by the Chinese in the Korean war. The atrocities and torture he experienced were horrific. The only reason he wasn't executed, was because his last name is Dragon, and the Chinese will never kill a Dragon. He was told to hike for miles with a blindfold on, and he eventually rode home in a truck full of dead American soldiers. Some of which were his friends. He was never the same again, and left his family when he returned home.

[@Beyn1]

No..... isn't a tragedy... it's a good thing for comunity.. no homosexuals, no genders, no drugs on the streets, no pain, no thiefs, no mass school shootings....... south Korea lost dignity, honor and culture.... China is life and behemoth for civilization

[@envii_2]

that is a crazy story! thank you for sharing a piece of history and God bless your grandfather

[@tomservo75]

The only silver lining for the poor North Koreans is that they don't know any better way of life, they're actually brainwashed to believe this is good. Maybe their forced ignorance of western culture is the only think keeping what little sanity they have left :`(

[@sranvujnovic5409]

God have mercy? Isn't he the one who threw them to this misery?

[@brantgentry1463]

​@@sranvujnovic5409how is God responsible for people's decisions they make? Please explain

[@soohyunkim678]

7:18 The movie was about 'bulgasari (불가사리)', which is a Korean legendary animal, One day, an old man made a tiny figuerin of imaginary monster animal with leftover rice, and it is brought to life. The man fed the tiny animal with bits of iron and it grew everyday, eventually to a gigantic monster.

[@Matteus2109]

It seems so absurd as to be comical, but Choi Eun-Hee and Shin Sang-ok's ordeal must have been nightmarish. They could have been killed at any moment.

[@alanfike]

I'd watch that movie, the story of their kidnapping.

[@Micfri300]

No. They were too famous to be killed.

[@AntiMullahs]

@@alanfike movie name pls?

[@chrisg5219]

@@AntiMullahs he meant if a movie was made he'd watch it. Although there may have been a movie made in Korea but never heard of it.

[@abeartheycallFozzy]

There was a pretty good documentary made about that weird story. Called "The Lovers and the Despot"

[@IsmaelLovecraft]

Little-know fact: Kim is the true author of The Shining and all of Stephen King's supposed best novels, and of the Harry Potter series, and the real reason that no new Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) books have been published since 2011, a dozen years, is because Kim died before he finished the series.

[@MetamanW]

He also wrote the Star Wars Original Trilogy. “George Lucas” is just some guy he hired to pose as the director so the movies would do well in other countries.

[@upresins]

Also the Lovecraftian books

[@mayumisinag1802]

Plus the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series.

[@shardinalwind7696]

Not to mention the Lord of the rings

[@Elyseon]

​@@upresins Especially the Lovecraft stuff.

[@bboylalu]

I'm pretty amazed of the complexity and the quality of the animation, as a first-timer in here! Great job!

[@evankimori]

Give one family unrestricted, dictatorship control over an entire nation and the people are repressed, depressed, oppressed and suffer. Who'd have guessed?

[@michaelfinger6303]

Hillary-ous

[@reliantncc1864]

@@poketz100 How? With all the guns they have? For that matter, why? Because they know things could be so much better? They are brought up from birth to believe that Kim (no matter which one of the dynasty is in charge at the moment) is single-handedly saving them from the foreigners who are keeping them down. I'd sure like to see them throw off the Kim regime, but that can't happen without external support.

[@nikoraasu6929]

@@poketz100 how? Like bro tell me how? Fucking underfed people would have to fight with one of the biggest armies in the world

[@krashd]

Except most kingdoms throughout history were fairly benevolent as most monarchs realised that you live longer if you rule through love rather than fear. People seem to forget that dictatorships were the default form of government for 10,000 years.

[@evankimori]

@@krashd Except most rulers don't seem to get this and go about oppressing their people.

[@gruuv5560]

I'm afraid "gojigo pang" isn't the North Korean word for hamburger. In fact, it's "gogi (meat) gyoub (double) bbang (bread)". Although it's Korean language, the word is only used in North Korea as they normally avoid using English, the language of their enemies. Therefore South Koreans would not associate the word with hamburger immediately if they heard it for the first time as it literally means "meat double bread". South Koreans simply use the word hamburger.

[@jenniferbaumgarden9293]

Yup. The South uses lots of "loan words", while the North uses a more "strict" form of Korean. Learned that from Geography Now! LOL

[@YourXellency]

Haem-boh-goh haha

[@thomaswoods0831]

It's called '고기겹빵' if you understand Korean

[@CH-ru1sj]

...that reminds the world of Germany ruled by the Adolf H regime...

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

The word "Hamburger" is German not English.

[@cyberdroid2300]

Oh wow, I was so engrossed in the video that I had not realised how early I was to its premier. Great work as always Simple History crew. Here's to a merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.🥂

[@joe_mmamaa]

Bro imagine being sent to death via pipe bomb exploded in stomach because your grandma’s cousin watched Toy Story 💀💀

[@Donnirononon]

9:40 My grandgrandmother fell down the stairs, this pretty much "ended" her life. After that she was a broken person, constantly dependent on very strong opioids and in the end she starved because her neck "dissolved" and blocked her esophagus. Walking stairs being dangerous might sound funny when you are young but it can kill you when you are old, such injuries do not heal espicially when you are old and weak.

[@ceedub3894]

I feel your your grandmother ❤️ by that age you hope someone is there too help you up the stairs

[@davidlatimer-lj7tn]

You sound very guilty for some reason..

[@rickywinthrop]

In a world of ramps she might still be with us today.

[@drzerogi]

Absolutely. Hip injuries, in particular, are often a death sentence for the elderly.

[@mikeestrada8581]

I lived in South Korea during that Submarine incident. You should have covered the 1996 incident as well. There was a manhunt looking for the North Korean special forces. All of South Korea was on lockdown with checkpoints everywhere. News would talk about clashes with South Korean forces locating the Special forces and having gunfights with grenades being thrown. Wild times

[@RoastBeefQueefSniffer]

SPAGHET!

[@bluscout1857]

I’m surprised that South Korea didn’t restart the war right there, i don’t know about you but when a submarine blows up a ship i don’t immediately try and find the special forces I see that as a HUGE act of war

[@Delatta1961]

I remember that. I was stationed at Camp Eagle and we assisted in flying ROK troops through the mountain areas they were hiding. Very few, if any, prisoners were taken

[@Delatta1961]

@@bluscout1857I really believe the 39k+ troops we have there are keeping the south from going north. They could easily take them

[@botdfbvb]

Only grenades and gunfights? That's just Chicago during the weekends sadly 🤣

[@Itch703]

"You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at McDonalds." "Hohohoho, no! Patented Kim burgers. Old family recipe!" "...For double bread with meat?" "Yes."

[@beautifulplaces2703]

They are called kimburgers.

[@catcrimes80]

Yes......

[@andlemmejustsayJus]

I saw that 😂 double bread with meat

[@ladymuzankibutsuji121]

"You call them Patented Kim Burgers despite the fact they're obviously grilled."

[@shishirmishramishra1014]

​​​@@beautifulplaces2703kurgers

[@jonathanpaxton7791]

My man! So happy to see your success. Please keep up your passion. Never let it die! I’m sure if the future goes how I hope you’ll be a legend for centuries

[@bowlampar]

The ability of any mourner who can weep the loudest and pound the floor the longest during a state leader funeral process would undoubtedly get the attention of the supreme leader and would be rewarded later for highly committed personal loyalty to Kim Dynasty.

[@d0rryx274]

It only a matter of time before Kim jung Un and Nikocado Avocado to do a collab together.

[@LanderKoenig]

Lol

[@karanaher5030]

Who knows, maybe on day Nick will dissapear and months later his new vid will be a collab with Kim

[@69Peopleshit]

Bruh💀

[@crxtodd16]

Would be a win win.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Rap is Crap and stupid name

[@ACEGAMER120]

Damn. Imagine being one of the South Koreans that got tricked into defecting to North Korea. That had to be an awful surprise

[@proybankins709]

I literally said out loud when the video went over it "There were South Koreans who actually defected!?!?" I assume they must've not none better at the time, rest their souls

[@Brandonhayhew]

@@proybankins709 this whole country of North Korea makes no senses

[@heyhoe168]

@@Brandonhayhew well... it make no money. But it make a perfect military and geopolitical sense. China and US are basically still fighting a cold war there.

[@Brandonhayhew]

@@heyhoe168 that makes sense. There still a new cold war

[@heyhoe168]

@@Brandonhayhew unfortunately.

[@lesroberts3226]

The up and down of this situation is suffering. The masses are starving to death and are terrified to speak out for fear of violence and imprisonment for themselves and their whole family. Living under a dictatorship governed by insanity doesn’t get any worse 😢

[@Mysucculentchinesemeal]

I served with some guys that did a tour in S. Korea and they trained with the ROK soldiers and said they were some of the toughest troops around.

[@Mannsy83]

Of course they are..born and raised in steel

[@danielbroache]

Check out ROK service history in Vietnam. Pretty brutal reputation, the Vietcong and NVA feared them.

[@reliantncc1864]

I've done naval exercises and also sports with South Korean sailors. They beat us in baseball and soccer, we beat them in basketball (height may have had more to do with it than skill). I wouldn't bet against them in a hot war with the North, despite being outnumbered. Of course, we'd back them up, and rightly so.

[@antcantcook960]

@@Mannsy83 wut

[@drzerogi]

@@reliantncc1864 Yeah, NK lacks the logistics to win a prolonged ground war. Additionally, NK troops are notoriously undernorished and undersized.

[@watsonace4387]

11 holes in one? Imagine being forced to believe that....then he retired. It must have been horrific.

[@TreeFrogOnATree]

he singlehandedly shut down any competition

[@MetamanW]

Forced to believe? Are you implying it isn’t true?

[@genericyoutubenameee]

​@@MetamanWYis

[@a.9492]

​@@genericyoutubenameee*Kim wants to know your location

[@MichaelDScott144]

🥶

[@livingcorpse5664]

One of the Godzilla suit actors, Kenpachiro Satsuma, played as the monster Pulgasari. Another suit actor, Masao Fukazawa, who played Minilla in the old Godzilla films, also played as the baby Pulgasari. No clue if he was kidnapped.

[@hungryburger1170]

Korean citizens after the end of Japanese occupation: "WE'RE FREE!" Kim Il-sun: "I wouldn't say free. More like, under new management"

[@jaycee509]

I remember that 2010 S.Korean navy ship being sunk by a N.Korean sub. I was stationed at Camp Stanley at the time and we were all put on alert. Really thought another korean war was going to kick off.

[@Mr.DontKnow]

That's crazy!

[@crazychase98]

Technically its never ended longest on going conflict . we have only ever gotten an armistice

[@sorian_delorean3348]

@@crazychase98 aren't Japan and Russia still technically at war?

[@holyhero6380]

@@sorian_delorean3348 yes

[@chrisx5127]

@@crazychase98 Doesn't matter South Korea has democracy. South Vietnam vanished. U.S protesters have blood on their hand!

[@jakobgrayson1039]

"The submarine was impossible to board at sea" *US Coast Guard has entered the chat*

[@kittensncasket]

What does the coast guard have to do with submarines?

[@Rob-fc9wg]

What are you on about?

[@Zekeurr]

@@Rob-fc9wg There was a video of the US Coast Guard actively boarding a drug dealing submarine while it was in the middle of SUBMERGING which became a wide spread meme cause it looked like a video game cutscene because of how cool it was.

[@neuropathical]

@@Zekeurr it wasn’t submerging it was a semi submersible, the top is always above water

[@fibecheee]

Living in North Korea is playing dark souls in nightmare mode

[@tomcha75]

The silver chopstick was traditionally used among kings and royal families as a tool to detect poison. It wasn't just a wealth symbol.

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

Lol sure explain how that works instead of just making crap up.

[@synergy8879]

@@TheBestEverEverEver silver tarnishes when exposed to poisons, particularly arsenic based, ex: rat poisons, arsenic poisons are popular to use, so silver chopsticks would help detect any poisoning attempts

[@Mancada100]

@@TheBestEverEverEver got owned buddy

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

@@Mancada100 sure lol it’s only effect to detect one poison lmao let’s just forget about the 10,000 other poisons it can’t detect. FACT is it was a sign of wealth and hey it can detect arsenic. One poison down thousands more to go. Sorry buddy.

[@colubrinedeucecreative]

It is disgusting to see this and to think these people are still living like this. It feels like a crime against humanity and the fact that we all as humans have just strood by and watched it happen, as well as it still happens is horrifying. It feels like on a micro scale when you are neighbor to the drunk father that beats his family. There is some time before it hopefully gets fixed or maybe they move away under pressure of law enforcement trying to end it. Just because they moved away the pain it still lingers and that secondary guilt survives because you didn't intervene when you could have. I know it would have been dangerous, and you know all the family had to do is leave, but it would get very ugly before it got better, and we all know those wounds will never ever heal. At some point you have to step back and understand it is thier challenge, and empower them when you can, and try to think of clever ways of dealing with it to pass on, but that guilt is tough to live with. Worse yet is these ragimes that were set up were based on dictataorship of Russia that failed, and gave up long ago. Due to rising ways of intellegence gathering they eliminate the enemies within before they get very far and it is self sustaining. Like you want to think there is hope, but years of it has created structure that holds it all up. We have learned that the cost is great and near impossible to help provide the people with ways of changing it, and those put in place are wiped out. But still the guilt lingers, the pain lingers.

[@archer8288]

Wow.. perfectly said!! It is mind blowing that the rest of the world are not doing anything about all of those people practically being held hostage.

[@colubrinedeucecreative]

@@archer8288 Come to think of it, I think we have, tried arming initiatives that want to topple a corrupt government only to install a worse one. Isn't that what happened with the US in the middle east? I guess there is that problem and what it would cost as far as lives lost, so I am sure they would rather be alive and captive then dead and free. I would guess after such a long time riased in a dictatorship, I wonder if people would be able to even function as a democracy. Here is the US it was kind of a perfect storm because we all invaded the land, and we had to coexist. But we are dangerously close to the possibility of it turning toward a dictatorship. Given what Trump tried to pull, who also was improving relations with the other dictators of the world. I also live in ohio where blatant Gerymandering is occuring. But we also just had one of the worst environmental disasters here. Hopefully we will be forced to restore the balance. Otherwise it can and will become the dictatorship. With a facade of democracy.

[@ttyt4078]

@@archer8288 two words to answer your question: nuclear bombs

[@tylermiller6820]

I think the problem with that is the isolationism of NK. In that analogy it's basically okay, I've called the cops and they're arriving. The kids start fighting the cops because they've been taught they're evil, the husband drives a tank out of the garage as the battered wife starts shooting out the window at them. There is no easy fix to NK's decades of brainwashing and isolationism.

[@altasairetopsej]

You said so much but still nothing. DPRK WILL ALWAYS EXIST

[@Allias_TheToon]

It's so weird that the Kim's love American culture and entertainment but claims to hate them with a passion

[@youthoughtaboutit6946]

Fun fact: Joseph Stalin absolutely loved American “Western” films. Its a bit odd, kind of like those “not a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice” sort of situations.

[@paulohagan3309]

Divide and rule.

[@FoodNerds]

I know it’s ironic!

[@赵雷-v5v]

Because he is a man, his slaves are not. Slaves are only tools for the master to show off and enjoy himself.

[@JiggyGinJoints]

he´s not idealogic. He´s just a lying dictator. No socialism as far as your eyes can see.

[@kekipark77]

nicely put together. good effort on reflecting the cultural and emotional aspects, and not only talking about financial and military issues

[@Bloodlyshiva]

It looks good, but somehow it also(whilst being true) feels like propaganda itself. Maybe it's the way it's told. I hope you get where I'm coming from.

[@SaladofStones]

@@Bloodlyshiva Okay Tankie

[@devendrajha3788]

I don't usually comment on videos but damn this was a great one ! Awesome editing and anchoring. Keep it up

[@OptiPopulus]

I think I can say with confidence that the guards who escourted the 2 South Korean actor and movie producer who escaped were either executed or worked to death..

[@bobross8786]

Got to star in their own snuff film

[@paulohagan3309]

Or,if they were smart, immediately defected themselves.

[@andrewrussell5360]

@@paulohagan3309 but then both of their entire families would be killed/ worked to death.

[@paulohagan3309]

@@andrewrussell5360 Yes, there is that. However, they could go back and still they and their families could face the same threat. You cannot trust such a regime. Human life turns on the whim of an over-fed tyrant. A horrible dilemma, to be sure.

[@anthonymort5202]

Even his hostages live a life of luxury while his people starve this is messed up

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

I appreciate the thumbnail portraying the Kim family as mukbang youtubers

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

It's kinda true tho

[@imcoolpramesh]

5:15 That couch gives plenty of hidden messages of his movies collection.

[@beekind6267]

Can you elaborate? 🤔

[@chicagotypewriter2094]

Kim Jong Un would be an AMAZING goalie for the DPRK national team. He’d take up the whole goal! Nothing comes in or out, just like his country

[@youngblood2]

Lmao!!!

[@freddiecunningham2860]

When the supreme leader died I was pounding the pavement, punching stop signs, drop kicking high ranking officials.....I was so sad!

[@BONESTORM2501]

I actually took my own life in hopes that it would reverse his passing. Not sure if it worked

[@theguywiththeicebreakers4345]

kim is just a real life cartman

[@DutchGuyMike]

Oh my god.. I never thought of that but you're so right! ahaha

[@redheads604]

respect my ARTHORITAH!!!

[@nightmarerex2035]

do you know any fuckign meme makign software?i wanted to make a meme of emporor pilaf and kim jim un and his farts.

[@Cricket2731]

Kindly refrain from insulting Cartman!

[@extraordinarily1980]

That's what gangsters are cartoon characters

[@USAcountrygalBoKim]

My dad has been trying to find his grandfather who got stuck in North Korea after war happened. Hope he had a good life..

[@JZXS_Edits]

So guys actually my grandpa (on my mothers side) was born in North Korea and lived there until 10 years old and escaped with his mom (not his dad sadly) and he actually remembered the powdered milk and the corn

[@12floz67]

I’m glad to hear that he was able to get out of there. I imagine life expectancy isn’t very high considering their harsh treatment and lack of food.🍻

[@Hamdad]

It's wild af that the Simpsons steamed hams gag where Skinner pretends to have cooked Krusty burgers is something Kim Jong Il actually did

[@nathanrobbins8976]

Lmfaooo I really didn’t think anyone would Make the connection

[@shuiniuniu]

Even still, on a video about North Korea I can’t get away from steamed hams

[@howdyhamster]

Oh, no, I said "gogigyeopbbang". That's what I call hamburgers.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Stupid cartoon

[@theomen7665]

Well I'm from Hamhung and I've never heard them called that. No, it's a Pyongyang expression

[@walker68175]

North Korea may just be overall batshit insane, but you can't deny that their anthem is real K-pop

[@spyderman4206]

Kim Pop

[@Gurtington]

@@spyderman4206 If the Korean doesnt sing it, their heads pop. Yeah

[@insertnamehere5809]

Potato Pride is an absolute banger

[@PaladinKonrad]

@@insertnamehere5809 Oh Oh Oh! Potato Pride!

[@PaladinKonrad]

I really like "We Are Masters of the Farm," myself.

[@kf7721]

I like how happy the dogs looked.

[@CrippledMerc]

Years ago I read somewhere that the golfing thing was a misunderstanding of how they/he were keeping score, and that misunderstood scorecard was then spread far and wide by media because it was so outrageous. It wasn’t that he scored 11 hole-in-one’s. His scorecard read 11 1’s in a row, but that was because he supposedly recorded strokes over par per hole instead of total strokes per hole. So if it was a par 3, he was 1 over that which meant 4 total strokes for the hole. If was par 4 and he was 1 over then it was 5 total strokes. That could all be complete bunk, but I just remember reading that years back. Even still, that isn’t much better because there’s no way that would happen to a first time golfer either, but it is slightly more reasonable than 11 hole-in-ones.

[@barbieblues7639]

Yeah, it's just as made up as the double rainbows and him not pooping, dude. It's just a wholesale lie lol

[@marshallmintz7564]

Short fat dictator/despots usually have excellent golf scores.

[@michellerichardson1427]

T7t7t

[@barbaraGobert31]

It's still a pretty damn good score to shoot the for your first time picking up the clubs, if what you say is true.

[@CrippledMerc]

@@barbaraGobert31 for sure. I don’t believe either story actually happened, but getting all par is at least realistic compared to all hole-in-ones.

[@NJgateway]

I'm only 7 minutes into this and it seems like I'm watching an animated horror movie.

[@pickledragonrebel]

Imagine having to live there ..

[@Pactastic042]

This video certainly has no bias to it

[@michaelhowell2326]

I love how the animations, though basic, are excellent but the LIFE magazine was actually just a small picture of the cover.

[@paulgap7012]

0:42 nice pattern on the flowers

[@TheGuardianOfMany]

Im dead....😂

[@MZ-bl6wg]

It’s disturbing the amount of poverty he puts his people through when he could 100% change it and suffer nothing himself. He WANTS them to suffer, keeping them at poverty level he believes assures he stays in reign. The pressure of hot magma below the surface is rising and tthe people in the near futur won’t require much of a spark to ignite agaisnt him. We’re seeing what I’m talking about in Russia currently with the forced mobilization of everyone and the rich oligarchs that support Putin abandoning his side and even plotting against him. I pray for thr North Koreans and hope they can one day understand that level of propoganda and the hatred bred in them for the west to be seen and understood as thr brainwashing it is to keep them under control from an uprising.

[@expansionpackdeluxe636]

The only reason why North Koreans are poor is because of US imposed sanctions since the 90s.

[@spino2001-vb9gt]

The North Koreans for Pulgasari also kidnapped Japanese actor Kenpachiro Satsuma who was the actor for Godzilla in the Heisei series in addition to this the film is also heavily inspired by The Return of Godzilla.

[@pauldacus4590]

Simple History: "We need a celebrity to do a voice-over on our North Korea video for a fifth of vodka and a carton of cigarettes.." Charlie Sheen: *HELLO*

[@alhomie6006]

This is gonna be a good one. The respected leader should have a 1 hour long video there is so much more accolades to be said.

[@gabruelguidry]

당신은 국내법을 위반하고 있습니다. 5분 남았습니다.

[@J4ve]

@Morgan Null the original poster probably died by now

[@crf80fdarkdays]

@@J4ve lol

[@godblessamerica6391]

Respect leader? F..k Kim family

[@DvNAssaultMain]

@@morgannull4685 it says "You are violating domestic law. 5 minutes left."

[@Snoogen11]

haha, the idea of taking your enemies malfunctioning spy sub, and turning it into a national public tour, is just really rubbing their faces in it XD

[@paulohagan3309]

The Norht Koreans have done the same with an American boat they captured in the 60s.

[@lambporks]

This thumbnail will haunt my dreams for the rest of my miserable life

[@blueninja_41]

That thumbnail tho... 💀

[@greekpestnyc3145]

Mukbang 😭

[@Gurtington]

It doesn't have to be miserable.. but then again that requires a lot of work i just cant be bothered with,, lmao

[@lambporks]

@@Gurtington HAHAHAHA no man keep on pushing

[@nate2946]

I will never look at Shin cup the same

[@moreedcola6837]

North Korea: the closest thing the Earth has to a ‘hard mode’

[@jaydendunn8180]

India and the Philippines too

[@LMOSIS]

​@@jaydendunn8180India? I don't think so. I am from India. Watching this video makes me question the amount of freedom that we have here. NK doesn't even have 1% of it.

[@Linounchi]

Thank you do you in depth videos and animations. It really shows my cultures struggles between north and South Korea. I really feel to the north as those civilians are really.. victims under Stockholm syndrome

[@BVonBuescher]

I can’t believe how brainwashed the average citizen is in North Korea. I heard they even believe there are more than two genders lol. Can you imagine how stupid you’d have to be to believe that!?

[@pickledragonrebel]

I think that's an understood fact

[@LiterarischeAktion]

🤡🤡🤡

[@Linounchi]

@@BVonBuescher also how some people Believe the earth is flat. Also those who believe in god. Everything is stupid to another if you don’t share the same beliefs.. also when you are raised in such strict mind controlling conditions.. you can only see and hear what you are shown

[@hobobaggins8938]

What if Kim Jong-il reincarnated into Nickocado Avocado?

[@Casinogirl56]

Bold of you to assume he hasn't.....he's so amazing he can be in 2 places at once.

[@e.a.corral4713]

A South Park character?

[@helloidharbl6753]

Dear Leader reincarnated into a social media whore... Could work.

[@LATVERIAN1]

Whenever you feel the blues, remember just how much God blessed you by not having you be born in N. Korea.

[@GorGob]

there is no god

[@jas9181995]

@@GorGob ok mr Reddit

[@pickledragonrebel]

Don t know about the God thing, but yea, we don't know how lucky we are....

[@timestate9718]

Not everyone is religious. However, I agree we should all consider ourselves lucky.

[@timestate9718]

@@jas9181995 Were does reddit fit in that, I'm genuinely curious?

[@구독자500명되면이같은]

The golf scene at start is already inaccurate. Usually Kim Jong Il never had to grab a putter. One of his cronies usually picked up the golf ball and put it in the hole for him, and told him it was a hole in one

[@GamerMax]

I know cartoons are expensive, so my hats off to your amination team.

[@monolithsound]

I sure do hope that the people of North and South Korea and the world can be free of this scourge sometime in the near future.

[@Abelius]

Not gonna happen. He has nuclear missiles.

[@niro6492]

This loser has nukes..to protect his unhealthy eating habits, he will go above and beyond.

[@Noneck1999]

Kim won’t give up power

[@monolithsound]

@@Noneck1999, yes that much is clear. Something must intervene. This is not beyond the realm of possibility and this would be the hope. Noone would assume that this dictator would give up power willingly.

[@Hann61669]

@@monolithsound North koreans rising up against Kim dynasty is probably the best and most likely outcome

[@stankthatank7074]

I did not expect this to be so terrifying. …horrifying Thank you for the content 🤙

[@nenegrey2282]

To anyone reading this: look up James Dresnok, he was an American soldier who defected TO north korea and became an actor there. It's the strangest story 🥴

[@JRyan-lu5im]

I recommend anyone to read "In Order to Live" by Yeonmi Park, to grasp the truly horrible cruelty exerted on the North Korean people, and the scale of twisted cult personality and psychological indoctrination pushed over them.

[@nightmarerex2035]

ive listene to bunch her videos but its odd her story changes i mean idk if becuase lying or becuase a represed memory coems back but yea some odd happenings. she also talked on IW on how she not gonna get vixxed then went and did it and has been caughign ever since......

[@JRyan-lu5im]

@@nightmarerex2035 Honestly a lot of people end up filling in gaps in their story were they cannot remember everything. Not to say its made up. Could I give you a chronological story of a 3 year long traumatic adventure? It'd be really hard, and if I misremember something or forget it later, than it doesn't help. Peoples memories come and go, and get murky. As far as her political standings, her beef is the rejection of government control. A significant margin of people didn't voluntarily get the vaccine, and I assume she realized how marginalized she'd be if she didn't concede to it.

[@paulohagan3309]

@@JRyan-lu5im She works for a right-wing libertarian foundation. She could have gone without it without repercussions.

[@reliantncc1864]

I haven't read her book, but I've seen some interviews with her. It's bizarre to say it about someone who went through such awful trials, but she got lucky. She didn't get stuck in North Korea, and is now free. That's a happy ending for her, her mother, and her sister, but unfortunately not her father.

[@barbieblues7639]

She's full of lies. A lot of defectors are. The west really wants to hear horror stories and they get paid to comply

[@erictaylor5462]

Frankly, I think it is extremely rude to be fat if you are the of a country with a starving population. Especially in a Communist country, where "everyone" is is equal.

[@paulohagan3309]

Every time you see him with an ordinary North Korean, the contrast is very striking.

[@reliantncc1864]

Turns out communists are liars. Who could have guessed?

[@tmane1862]

Lol all the info that was just presented along with our basic knowledge of the north korean regime…….and that’s what you take away from this??? Lol and “rude”? Dude is a fucking sadistic psychopathic maniac who is oppressing an entire nation of people with his totalitarian dictation. There is no freedom or basic human rights at all they have absolutely nothing and no say in anything and you’re calling him rude lmao wow. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤯

[@pickledragonrebel]

That's the least of his atrocities

[@paulohagan3309]

@@pickledragonrebel Oh absolutely. A horrible depraved human being. 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@silent0089]

Nikocado Avocado-Ung: "IT'S YOUR FAULT" **proceeded to starve millions of N Korean while doing mukbang**

[@Deca.Knight]

North Korea pretty much IS what The Capitol represents in The Hunger Games

[@davidgriffin9247]

So the movie makers got out of prison and made a movie about a monster toppling an evil regime? THAT'S ballsy

[@petergamache5368]

More amusing: Since the Kim family was full of sociopaths, nobody noticed they were being lampooned.

[@brianhoward7277]

Currently in America eating a double bread with meat all thanks to Kim Jong, it wouldn't be possible without him. Truly a great and supreme leader, I'm so grateful. 🇰🇵🍔

[@e.a.corral4713]

?????????????

[@philliplamb2761]

@@e.a.corral4713 the leader of NK said that he created the burger 😐

[@bunzeebear2973]

He believed that was REAL MEAT?

[@senjusama8518]

@@philliplamb2761 he always thinks he creates everything as if he thinks his a God may the Lord punish this lunatic pig sick and stupid greedy leader who controls and brainwashed his people to control his own power.

[@annafarr582]

You're funny, Brian Howard, lol.

[@DeadBird94]

Democracy: Kim Jong-un: And I took that personal

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

Bro is about as Democratic as the 2020 election 😂

[@LiftUpYourEyes]

You dont get it, north Korea is a democracy. This is what democracy turns into. It always ends up like this. The United states is a republic. Thomas Jefferson said in the question of power let no more be heard in the confidence of men, but bind him down from mischief in the chains of the constitution.

[@Jtworthy1]

That Ramen brand in the thumbnail is AMAZING 👌

[@connorclemmons8698]

I remember back in high school about how there was something about North Korea threatening America for food or else face war/nukes (might’ve been propaganda). I laughed at the thought and said, “Sure, let’s send them a giant box of Cheez-Its Trojan Horse style.” Honestly I wouldn’t have been surprised if that actually worked.

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

Yeah each generation makes threats then makes a deal for their salvation and get food, the people embrace the leader once again after he just “saved” them and rinse and repeat.

[@pichaelthompson]

Lolll I remember watching Olympic golf back in the late 2000’s and the broadcasters reported “the world record is supposedly Kim jong il with 11 holes in one on his first try ever playing golf” they literally had to cut to commercial because the broadcasters couldn’t stop laughing when they said that.

[@Timillion]

You guys have to make a history video on Khmer Rouge and Democratic Kampuchea.

[@l3luel3xus]

Richard Nixon started the Khmer Rouge. The end

[@kabbablabba4073]

3:41 this is LITERALLY the premise of Steamed Hams

[@honkeykong85]

Isometric exercises!!

[@burstman1364]

Sneed

[@kabbablabba4073]

@@burstman1364 im a sick chuck i break a quick buck

[@Some_Guy6]

Fun fact : A student "illegaly" downloaded the South-Korean show : Squid game. he was sentenced to death, together with his teacher, and fellow classmates where ordered to work for the state.

[@MsPrasatko]

More like sad fact don't you think?

[@ichibanmanekineko]

I can't say I disagree with this lenient punishment.

[@suspiciouswatermelon7639]

I hear if they catch you with k-pop, they have your genitalia surgically removed and fed to dogs.

[@DHWOW]

How did they know this student download? They say snitches get stiches but in NK being so hard to live, snitches get rewarded, probably

[@Trgn]

@@DHWOW It' very likely fake news. How do outside media even know this? as NK is very isolated, secretive country, with strict visitor control. If NK can easily make anyone disappear like Western media say, getting rid of some nobody student should be so easy it wouldnt raise any attention or public concern at all, he's not a high profile person or anything. There's no way outside media could even catch news of this. So it's mostlikely a typical made up story. There've been plenty of cases in the past when Western media reported some high profile NK people to be executed, but turn out to be fake, tthey were still alive and even travelling foreign countries to perform

[@easterbunny3850]

Kim Jong Il was born in Habarovsk, Russian Far East, USSR. His family fled there because of japanese occupation of Korea. He even was given russian name Vasiliy.

[@Thatboytravels]

Thanks for the very informative video.

[@uoutubeusername]

Silver chopsticks has been a tradition in much of asain ruling class for centuries, there's a certain poison that taste funny when touching silver then it became a style/trend

[@mdperkins1482]

Terrible shame that a leader would not consider it honorable to make sure their people were not starved & would treat them with respect as human beings. I pray for right to prevail. God bless u people of North Korea with freedom.🙏❤

[@tommo9176]

Oh yeah, can't go on any dangerous missions without my 1995 issue of life magazine...

[@notreallymyname3736]

I'm not trying to mitigate any of the awful things that these despots did; but the McDonald's run story is borderline hilarious. I'm just imagining the conversations that poor chef had that day. Poor guy probably didn't know anything about McD's, and had to figure out what to order all while thinking about whatever would happen if he screwed up. Imaging Kim just smoking 2 cold McDoubles and a 10 pack of McNuggets like a hungover college kid is an image I can't get out of my head.

[@johnr797]

Genuine question: even with the latest tech, if you can detect a torpedo is there anything you can realistically do to avoid it at that point?

[@helloidharbl6753]

Yes. There are ECM countermeasures that can be dropped. Also modern Navy ships train to do break away maneuvers to present the smallest profile. There's other things I'm sure.

[@johnr797]

@@helloidharbl6753 thanks

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

Love the video history, thanks! FYI, some of the North Korean films had in them American GIs who defected to the North in the 1960s. The documentary Crossing the Line (available online), about James Dresnok, shows some stills. They played the villain of course.

[@viysnjor4811]

I wonder if they regretted their decision to defect

[@niro6492]

​@@viysnjor4811 I don't think they can regret anything any longer

[@robertbihn3005]

There needs to be a military revolution in North Korea.

[@EyeOfThePhi]

maybe its just because im a democrat and not a gullible republican but i can see right through all of kim jun ills lies. like cmon you didnt write all those books, golf that well and write operas. but if trump told republicans that itd be a waaaaay different story lmao.

[@JeffreyjkKlein]

@@EyeOfThePhi Its because you are a democrat that you and your ilk will lap up anything Kim Jong Il's would say. You are literally doing that right now.