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

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.❤

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.

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

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

Hope u troll

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

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

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

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!

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

It makes you angry when someone recites poetry?

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

@@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

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

@@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.

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

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.

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.

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.🇰🇵🇬🇧

Yes it is a terrible place, idiot