not really. If she went to an international or English school, in china probably as her dad was the ambassador (I think that's what sam said), she learnt it there.
As someone who lives in great Britain I can promise you that's NOT a British accent. I mean. There is no such thing as a British accent. But I mean it's not an accent you'd hear anywhere in the British isles. I'm not deriding her language skills which are amazing. Just saying
@@sirBrouwer NK Kids cartoon characters: "Remember, if you die here: you will be processed and eaten" Huh, Suddenly I've forgotten why I'm here. Strange.
Mom: *takes child to hospital for severe malnutrition* Child: “Mom I’m not hungry anymore, these cartoons made me forget why we even came here!” Edit: 2k likes damn guys😅 this is my most liked comment ever
North Korea and Cuba have both been praised as third world countries for their good healthcare Also the famine in North Korea mostly ended in the 2000’s
Basically no one even had access to the internet in North Korea until recently, so they probably just didn't even have to bother banning it for the longest time.
There is even an Indonesian RU-vidr (Jaka Parker) who used to upload videos of his everyday life in the privileged diplomatic district of Pyongyang. It's a bit more run down than what those fake influencers are showing.
Probably better food than is available in North Korea, surprised he didn't say that. A relatively low bar, but relevant to the video and surely not wrong.
I really loved how Song'A gave such a natural and heartfelt endorsement of the children's hospital. Clearly her opinions and adventures are genuine average fun times for the people of Best Korea and I should go visit right away.
Kim flunky: "Song-A, our 'Dear Leader' would like you to make DPRK propaganda videos." Song-A: "Sod off, you wanker! I'm not bloody interested in glorifying that fat little toss-pot." Kim flunky: "Oh, look, isn't that your family perched precariously over 'Dear Leaders' crocodile pool?"
@@brianw1620 Don't worry, I'm sure there's a special camp where three generations of your family can all go to learn about why you're wrong. All who survive will be delighted to enjoy November Mother's Day!
No don't, you can donate your hat and the vtuber can eat it. Your hat can feed a vtuber double their daily calorie intake with only half the usual amount of artificial flavoring.
@@thecactusman17 Yes you can. Your hat is perfectly edible. Just stuff it in your mouth, go to the hospital or die and whether you have died or not, you have eaten a hat!
I don’t think even upper class Brits have RP accents any more. If you listen to the way King Charles speaks compared to the way his sons speak, you hear quite a difference.
I doubt she is truly educated, so much as heavily trained specifically for propaganda. Try to ask her general academic questions, and it's almost certain glaring holes in her "education" would become apparent.
You can't be _too_ upset with these girls.They were born into families who probably just said, "This is what you're *going* to do", and neither of which probably even know what they're doing, nor the scope. Their UL's *have* to be either scripted first, or at LEAST approved before going live...
@@iandavidvillaloboswong5180 Really in the Asias as a whole. When I read your comment, my mind went to a Japanese vending machine with girl's dirty panties in them haha
I don't think many sane people would watch this video and think "oh I'm just so *mad* at these girls for doing propaganda out of their own free will with complete knowledge of the implications of what they're doing"
@@saintazepam Well when the topic suddenly swung to nepotism and the girls' relationships to prominent communist figures, it very well _may_ have left that impression...
I know people say North Korea is decades behind the rest of the world, so it's only appropriate that SongA speaks English like she's a 1950s English housewife.
As a British person I noticed that immediately. Her fluency in English and that region-free received accent is an absolute hallmark of someone who is from an extremely privileged background and has been immersed in the language in a very refined setting, i.e. with top-tier tutors or a hugely expensive British international school. I knew another girl who was also like that. She was mainland Chinese who studied at Oxford them Cambridge, now lives and works in London. The generic British name she had adopted for herself, her 100% fluent English and the regionless accent - I didn't realise she was actually from China, instead assumed she was British-born and had grown up here. It's also rumoured that Xi Jinping's daughter is the exact same and that she enrolled and graduated from Oxford under a false name.
That's very much by design. You can speak multiple languages with a native accent if you start early enough. She's definitely had a good English education starting from a very young age.
If she's from an elite family in North Korea she has likely attended private school somewhere in Europe and the UK is a likely option given how little transparancy there is there. Same reason why Switzerland is popular among NK elites.
4:20 “It may sound bonkers to you, but in our country Mother’s Day is celebrated on 16th November” No no, not all. In fact a sea of bonkers, that unremarkable fact was a tranquil island of normality.
This makes me feel like I'm not crazy in thinking that some of the videos I've been recommended recently about NK history and culture were way too... generous in their portrayal. I had a video pop up about food shortages and one about the power grid and both ended up concluding that if it wasn't for the west NK would be the greatest place on earth to live and I could taste the propaganda. I was surprised because the videos looked and were presented like real educational videos but by the end I was really uncomfortable
To be honest - a lot of false information and overreaching conclusions were made about NK in last 2 decades. Many of those were created by tabloids and clickbait pages in order to gain attention - that's how those things work. When it comes to NK you have people like Yeomni Park who made her career on making claims about NK and she made a lot of stories over the years. She is living on her status as NK refugee, so it is beneficial to her to gain attention from media - and shock and tabloid level stories are easiest to sell.
@@hedgehog3180 tankies are so weird. I can understand seeing the merits of communism, but clearly countries like China and North Korea are not liberal paradises lmao. It’s like they like being stomped on with a boot
I'm suspicious of the claim that these channels are receiving revenue from RU-vid, unless the creators are registered outside of North Korea. The economic sanctions apply to RU-vid.
I knew I wasn't going crazy. I saw this dude who went onto several trips to North Korea and he was being very... generous with his reviews of it, even after he returned and was safe to give his true oppinions.
I’m shocked they don’t have the youtubers be in their late 20s to early 40s. I imagine most people that would travel to North Korea would be in that age range.
My guess is they're trying to get impressionable kids to follow them, hoping the kids will grow up with a positive image of the country and already be brainwashed by the time they learn anything about the country in school
Probably not Eton, they're still boys only, I think the kids are both female, and - in any case - take only kids aged 13 and over, these children are definitely too young. I do agree though, they've definitely been shipped off to some prestigious British prep-school or other, like so many other kids from rich families in impoverished and oppressive countries.
In all seriousness it’s possible they might have gone to boarding school in a neutral country in Europe. Kim Jong-un himself was educated in Switzerland.
I love how the young girl has a partial British accent. Was she raised from birth watching British tv to get the accent? Constant speech training? Kidnapped? Any way you look at it is bad. Poor kids.
If she‘s connected to high government officials there‘s a decent chance she went to school in Britain. For example Kim Jong Un went to school in Switzerland
Regular people are allowed onto the national intranet. It's the global Internet that is banned for the vast majority of citizens. As for smartphones, this is not that wierd among Pyongyang or Wonsan residents. North Korea has a semi-domestic cellphone manufacturing industry that modifies Chinese models of phone to be compatible with North Korean tech. They are expensive for the average person to afford, but not unobtainable. Curiously, one of the biggest factors for smartphones there is actually battery capacity due to the unreliable electricity.
Note however that this does not mean there is no surveillance on the national intranet and even offline activities. North Korean Linux and Android variants store the ID of the device in files that are created there and have spyware built in. There has been recent evidence if similar functionality in NTFS and it would be astonishing to me if the NSA doesn't have the ability to get into most consumer hardware in the west, so it's hardly unique that North Korea spies on their Internet users, but make no mistake, installing RedStar is almost certainly giving the DPRK government access to your machine. Which in many ways would be fine. However, their desparation for hard currency to keep the economy solvent means that I'm not sure I trust they wouldn't install ransomware or a cryptominer.
Similarly to cellphones access to the Kwangmyong network is limited not by active state repression but by the fact that only the elites are given computers or the electricity to run them.
@@polygontower An intranet is just a closed computer network not connected to the Internet (which is actually a network of computer networks, hence the term “INTERnet”)
The part about North Koreans being under surveillance is quite hilarious, like, come on. You can't point fingers while having the NSA and watchlists xD
That’s also how North Koreans in general sound to Korean-speakers, because the peninsula was partitioned after World War II and the South’s dialect changed
Does the average American influencer not portray the American experience from a privileged, wealthy point of view, completely devoid of the truth of most peoples lives there?
To be fair, the us is doing the same, like how a couple of months ago every other creator uploaded a video sponsored by the us military even if their usual content had nothing to do with them.
I mean its irrelevant if its us, because you probably watch the same content for the algorithm to show the kind of sponsor and content you watch, for the North Korean its different because we've seen it they done it in a platform they banned themselves
@@AlamoOriginalare you fucking kidding me? The us government literally said they spent 500$ million last year on anti china social media campaigns and thats just the public part. Who do you think sponsors people like serpentza lmao, or china observer etc?
I don’t know why but I really didn’t expect them to speak English, let alone have freakishly proficient pronunciation but also oddly specific informal or regional slang 👽👽👽💀
0:45 Funny how they want that to be some statement on how good the machines are, and instead they accidentally admitted that their citizens are malnourished.
@@vladalgov1770 Russia is having to forcefully conscript it's people to go into Ukraine, and lying to them about how well it's going every step of the way. That is Putin's War, the average Russian doesn't want anything to do with it, which is why they have to be lied to the whole way
Even if you come up with a valid reason to be afraid of a person from X or Y country in particular, I think average North Koreans rank pretty low on my list. What am I scared of, getting tapeworms?
I think he's just joking, considering it was done with a funny little arrow, and not actually a topic that was discussed at all. It was a bit random, but a lot of things on this channel are, after all! Edited to fix "is" to "are".
@@bgbear4668 yeah, I just meant that calling a kid a terf was the random part that I don't think was meant to be taken seriously. Rowling is an absolutely horrible bully who pretends to care about others as long as she can use them to bully people that she doesn't like. The fact that she's cosying up with anti abortion activists just because they are also transphobic tells us all just how much she actually cares about protecting women...
@@billfrench1069 unless Rowling is personally working for these people writing the so-called "propaganda", then I have no idea how you could even think that, considering she is always randomly going on about how much she can't stand trans people or people that support them on twitter. She's so petty that she went on about how amazing Stephen King was for ages, then deleted all of those tweets when he showed support to trans people. I wish I had as little to worry about as she does, because her biggest problem is just the existence of other people who don't agree with her. 😂
I feel so bad for North Koreans and Korea as a whole. It was a single entity for centuries and now its this. It's also crazy how likely Japan would have been broken up like this as well if it didn't surrender when it did and if the USSR and US had land invasions. Probably would have been split.
I really doubt it would’ve gotten split, I’m pretty sure America wasn’t going to take 5 tears or even longer of war with Japan fighting them head on just for the Soviets to invade them at the last minute while their defenses are down and steal credit
You mentioned the North Korean embassy in London but didn't show a photo? Please anyone reading this, look it up. (It's a detached house just off the north circular)
Does anyone else find it super hypocritical that this guy criticizes RU-vidrs making “North Korean propaganda” while he’s literally doing free propaganda for the CIA? This guy never shuts up about how terrible and evil the DPRK supposedly is.
Anybody who regards little girls reading "Harry Potter" and amusing in their spare time as the reincarnation of Satan should be sent to the closed psychiatry, called State Dept. or CIA in the USA.
I stumbled across some nk propaganda channel on youtube it's called phuong dprk something. I, stupidly commented a joke. A very stupid joke, insulting them. And they replied!! The thing is, i have a nk embassy in my country. What should i do? Kim jong nam were killed in Malaysia, i lived next door to them. I don't wanna be poisoned.
The girl with the Harry Potter book and talking about middle school even has a room which looks so typical of Western girls her age. The decor, the way it's designed, and so on.
i think you genuinely need therapy if you think the dprk is a good place. i'm not saying this as an insult, if you're not joking, i genuinely hope you can find some human decency, and if you are, stop joking about people suffering.
@@no_one2197 newest hottake "calling someone who pretend to care about feminism to attack trans people a Trans Exclusionary Feminist is slur" by the people who call me a tr*nny on the regular
Song-A’s RP accent really surprised me. I’d assume they’d go for a classic Californian LA influencer type accent, not someone you’d find here in the UK.
You're thinking of Joe Biden, he's still working on it. I thought he would be better then Trump at least, it's such a low bar. I don't feel great about it.
@@TheGrinningViking Biden is being very careful not to cross that line while not allowing Russia to do what Germany was doing shortly before WWII. It’s Putin who’s brought us this close, and it’s not as close as you think. Putin isn’t the only person whose approval is required to launch (the US also requires more than one person). Even if he has gone nuts, the others will still prefer Russia to exist over occupying Ukraine for the next 5 to 20 years. Even if it escalates, like if Russia hit a NATO country and a no fly zone was enforced over Ukraine or NATO forces drive Russia out of Ukraine, as long as they stayed behind Ukrainian borders, Russia would suffer no threat to their sovereignty, only their collective ego, and that’s already in the toilet because of the spectacular incompetence shown by their rulers and their military, revealing Russia to be a paper tiger whose only real threats are information operations and nukes, which guarantee self annihilation.
Why do you think that it does happen? Just because it was mentioned in a poorly researched video? (most videos on this channel are poorly researched. You shouldn't trust anything that is said on this channel. Just use the videos as entertainment and move on)
@@Cenentury0941 sorry if you aren't able to read a complete comment. It must be hard if you can't concentrate for 10 seconds. Let me help you. Just read the last sentence of my first comment. You should be able to do that. And that sentence should be enough to aid in your confusion 🤷🏼♀️
It’s crazy that they even try to show this wonderful and cheerful side of North Korea when practically everyone outside of the country knows how horrible it is to live there. Who are they trying to convince? A small part of the world population that has been living under a rock for the last several decades?
while talking about internet accessibility in the DPRK, you mention that only a small percentage of North Koreans have it. However, according to a South Korean 38 North research, there more that 6,5 million smartphone users in the DPRK. And this number is constantly growing, while North Korea is producing its own phone models.
What did you expect? This channel is straight up propaganda, or just super biased, all of his videos on china are extremely negative and very poorly researched with the same only jokes that everyone makes
things in NK are obviously not like how they are portrayed in their propaganda channels but dunking on them (by Americans especially) kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth. In the Korean war they lost 1.5 million people, mostly civilians that died because the United States bombing campaign destroyed 85% of all structures in the country as well as all major dams--flooding huge swaths of farmland and causing a horrific famine. How do you think your country would look if it lost 10+% of its people, 85% of its buildings?
The Kim regime reaped the whirlwind they had sown, I feel bad for the people of the land but not the government that forced war upon the South and drawing in folks who had no interest with the conflict. Make no mistake at the time the southern regime was run by a dictator but as time went on more democracy became prevalent and its people were allowed more doors in life and eventually it became the nation of the Republic of Korea we recognize today. Meanwhile the northern government sent spies, assassins, and kidnappers across its borders to wreck havoc on its neighbors all the while starving its people and refusing to modernize and instead choosing to go military first. Kim had an empty slate to rebuild his nation with major Soviet and later Chinese help but he chose to squander it for personal projects. North Korea has no one to blame for its current situation but itself.
Buddy several of your videos amount to "LOOK AT THIS COOL SHIT THE US MILTARY IS DOING...." i dont think you should be throwing stones while living inside a glass house
In reality, North Korea is so secretive that it's almost impossible to really know anything about the country for sure. Most of what we hear comes from defectors, many of whom are encouraged to exaggerate their stories for greater coverage. For example, one of the most famous defectors actually changed her stories a few times (an obvious 'red flag' all by itself, pun intended). Some of her stories include that her family went over mountains to escape the country (when there are no mountains at all in the region she claimed to go through) and that you're only allowed to have Kim's hairstyle......only to later claim that you're NOT allowed to have his hairstyle. Red flags galore! All we know for sure is that the country is: A. Ruled by a military dictatorship B. Has completely closed borders (hence why it's so hard to find factual information on them) C. Claims to be Communist but in fact hardly shares anything in common with other Communist countries (like Vietnam or Cuba for instance) in their political system, such as the absence of elections and other notable factors D. Is ruled by Kim Jong Un E. The capital city is Pyongyang F. The country's economy is based on mining infrastructure Very little else can be confirmed. And frankly, I'm curious. I wish they'd open their borders so we could actually see what their country is like. Whether it's good or bad......that's anyone's guess. It's most likely bad (since dictatorship is never effective at making a good system) but there are SOME positives. For instance, the WHO referred to North Korea's Healthcare system as above par. But I'm willing to bet that's likely the only above-par thing in their country. Come on, North Korea! Open your borders so we can see what you look like! I'm too curious!
People can visit North Korea. They even promote international tourism. It’s the US that doesn’t allow American citizens to freely travel to North Korea. Just like they do with Cuba. Another example of US exceptionalist hypocrisy.
@@Lawnmower737 Not sure if that'd be so good. North Korea has its own problems, but so does South Korea. In fact, in South Korea, people are forced to spend so much time working (Samsung controls a whopping 20% of their entire economy) that people can only go home to sleep. Both countries are bad in their own way, and unifying them would just give the North or South New problems to deal with. I'd say both countries should simply focus on fixing their own political systems.
Outside of Covid you are actually free to travel to NK from many countries. I think the US people have it harder on that front because of the US-Embargos, but from germany I could just get a travel visa and go there (except rn which is due to Covid). Of course you are right on the other points and I would be far more comfortable to travel to Vietnam or Cuba, if I was to visit any non european country.
