For those who are confused, the North Korean girl escaped and is currently living in South Korea. There are about 30000 (correct me if I am wrong) North Korean defectors in South Korea.
@pureheartedassassin8865 Generally, she is safe. I mean, there are some North Korean spies in South Korea, but I haven't heard of recaptured cases yet.
This just makes me realize how many good and kind people must be living there and doing their best to get by. Western media is often unfair to the North Korean people as a whole. I hope Hyun Kyung is living a good life in South Korea.
it definitely opens the eyes on the citizens especially the country folk who are starving to death because they have to live in a. country where a photo is worth more than their lives
Actually, I have never heard of shaming or badmouthing North Koreans in western media. I heard bad things about the country, their leaders, politics, but as for the citizens of NK it was usually more of a compassion that people have to live in that country, where they have to act with fear of the government, where they starve, are forced to hard labour etc.
It's true. According to research at the end of the 1990s, old, no longer used trains with the nickname Dora from the Construction year between 1956 and 1964 were sold to North Korea.
I know this a serious subject, but even if they’re forced to live in fear of the Kim Dynasty, they could use a chuckle. Heck the relatives of said dynasty have never once laughed as a human being in their life.
That's ironic, cause some North Koreans feel really sorry for those people living in North America... they wish very much the same upon them: for the working class to one day rule their own lives and not by the government 🤩
@@chinobandito7625 NYC (I'm a NYer I can say this) bothers me because we have the everything transit: best, worst, dirtiest, sweatiest transit. Best because it's always running, so many locations, so many lines - worst because a lot of times trains skip stops, reroute or are out of service, lack ac, dirty. I always say it, it amazes me how we have the best and the worst transit atst. Like how are you so advanced and always running, yet dirty and always broken atst? It's like magic, it baffles me. We could be so much better and we should be so much better. Tbh I blame the politicians and the tourists. most NYers want a clean city, we used to be, but tourists think it's "so chill you can do anything city" they litter so it becomes dirty. And naturally dirty because of some homeless people, but every day should be city employees cleaning the stations. It really should not be the way it is, and majority of our politicians were non NYCers, they came from Jersey, Massachusettes, upstate NY, and etc. NYC constantly gets trapped. I love it here, we have everything, but I also hate it here bc it should be a lot cleaner and cheaper. It's so expensive now it's hard to live.
They inspect the dust on the frame? And you have to have cash to bribe them (in an EXTREMELY impoverished country) to avoid going to a reeducation camp? Did I understand that right? "Training center..."
Wouldn't be surprised if there was an official NK Tiktok channel. North Korea used to promote their propaganda on RU-vid too on the "Echo of Truth" channel.
...Squirrel & Hedgehog. Lieutenant Fox Vixen is supposed to embody the unwholesome temptations of the outside world, particularly the United States. The internet's view of Fox Vixen is... rather different.
i remember back in like 2022 there's was a yt channel run by a female who uploaded really REALLY aesthetic blogs in pyeongyang like if she was in tokio. instantly i realized it was some propaganda shi, but i subscribed so that later i could remember to watch her content more carefully. months later the channel was gone, it didn't appear on my subscribed channel tab ever again...
north korea hate is an american thing. as a south korean, south koreans dont hate north koreans. we are probably all cousins of cousins of cousins after all..we feel sorry for them and feel bad for them. And ultimately, we're pretty fascinated with them
Yeah. but it would also have been cool if they'd had a big fight, divided the room into two halves and then just stood and stared at each other tensely through binoculars for the next fifty years whilst blasting propaganda at each other saying that the argument was their fault. Either works for me.
Hyun Kung seems very open and energetic which is the opposite of how i imagined north koreans. I expected them to be less talkative and shy lol. Thats great that she talks about her experience that easily.
This was both fascinating and lovely to see the interaction between the two girls. One of the most interesting and genuinely insightful videos about North Korea I’ve ever seen. Thank you for sharing!
We had something similar like "crowd dance" in ex-GDR. Every Saturday we had school too, but only half as long as in the week, and everyone had to be there on the schoolyard 7'o clock 30 in the morning. All pupils had to stand in formations and sing the national hymn before the regular school started at 8'o clock. That happened every Saturday in every school in ex-GDR. The North-Korean subway is a former ex-GDR subway by the way. As teenagers we did making fun with jumping out of the incoming subway when it slowed down. Sadly it's impossible to do so anymore with newer subways. :) EDIT: It's crazy to watch for me, since it feels like a travel back in time.
She is really nice I could watch hours of videos of her talking about north Korea, it's surprising they learn British English, I didnt know that, also seeing her having good memories of north Korea is nice, although surprising, same with her saying they don't like the being told what to do, I thought it was trained out of them from a young age. (I have now followed her on IG) 😊
i don't know why but at the start of the video before they introduced themselves, for some reason i assumed the girl on the left was from North Korea and the girl on the right was from South Korea.
damn i heard about north korea being strict however i didnt think itd be so strict that they had to walk around with a portrait on them everywhere, thats so silly
I believe the permission to move from one area to another helps control migration from rural to urban areas. That's the thought that popped up when I asked why.
Its sad what one mentally ill person can do to his own nation. Total isolation. Same with the war in Ukraine right now. One person is not normal and because of him hundreds of thousands of people are dying...
She is from NK but escaped and currently they are filming in Seoul obviously. Why should she be in danger in South Korea? There are many defectors in there, you can find on youtube too
I think the man that was protecting the photo knows that if any of his family member survived and that photo got burned, the survivors will suffer the consequences lol
The "falling apart" building , i think is from China, the architecture style doesn't fit DPRK architecture style. Those falling materials are thermal insulating materials. That "catastrophe" doesn't affect the security or the structure of the building but could hurt or kill pedestrians.
The last scene where there is a party if you pay attention there are only tourists like europeans. It could be just a facade to impress turists and when they get back home they tell everyone North Korea is a great country. I hope the people there will be free one day 🌄
