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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Wasn’t expecting the opening photo to be nickado avocado

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.

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

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.

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.

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

"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."

I appreciate how the thumbnail makes the Kim family look like a bunch of mukbang RU-vidrs

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

That story with the rabbits is true. He ate them & then wanted more but the breeder was pissed & refused.

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.

Forcing people to cry for someone is just sad

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

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

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.

Living in North Korea is playing dark souls in nightmare mode

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.

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

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

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

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 😢

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.

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.

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.

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

kim is just a real life cartman

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

0:42 nice pattern on the flowers

I am thoroughly impressed; very accurate.

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

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.

I want a Korean Meat Between Bread 🥪. What a fabulous culinary invention he came up with.

I like how happy the dogs looked.

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.

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.🥂

That Ramen brand in the thumbnail is AMAZING 👌

To those who believe they’re oppressed in this country, or those who believe America is evil, you have no idea how cruel the real world can be.

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

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

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 🥴

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.

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

I appreciate the thumbnail portraying the Kim family as mukbang youtubers

The Interview, one of the best movies ever made

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.

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

한국인들, 즉 북한인들은 손으로 밥을먹지 않습니다. 젓가락도 사용하지만 숟가락을 주로 사용합니다.

This is what it will look like everywhere if Rotschild (Orsini) and his people win.

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

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

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

The thumbnail is just, crazy to say the least 😂

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

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.

Sick man

Kim Jung has as many amazing achievements as the guy that holds the door for everyone at my local Seven Eleven... whether they like it or not! Lol

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.

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

He really is a nice chap having fun everyday so nice that he enjoys himself.

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

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.

The sounds of them gulping down the wine sounds so satisfying

17:55 time flows, but nothing changes

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

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.

Love the thumbnail. He is now Nikado Avocado.

The dog part got a good nose exhale outta me there

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

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

Dang, I loved the Three Ninjas growing up. Didn’t know it was tied to these two

0:03 kim starts a mukbang like niko cado

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.

What if Kim Jong-il reincarnated into Nickocado Avocado?

"Still you will not find a skilled war that lasts a long time." - Sun Tzu.

What is that thumbnail bro😂😂😂north korean mukbang😂😂

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

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

Thats sum good eatin..minus da Roast Donkey.

4:09 “You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger”

The channel releases videos regularly, with an easy to understand and interesting historical recap. Hope the channel produces more interesting historical videos☺☺

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..

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

The very first clip has me dead😂😂😂

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.

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

Thumbnail : Welcome to Kim Family's Mukbang ASMR 😇💀

It's so weird to have what is essentially a highly militarized communist monarchy.

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

$720,000 on Hennessy that’s a lot of henny, that’s like 45 bottle per day kimmy out there getting crunk