@monkeetime Hey thanks so much. What an insight. May I ask how long you were there? Also how many of you were there visiting and on the excursons etc and what nationalities were the the tourists? In the Vice magazine vids, the guys are American, which I'm very surprised about. Also there are Japanese tourists on film in those vids too. I thought the North Korean authorities would literally send them straight to detention centres with no question (judging by how much they fucking HATE them!)
About that tall building; one of my officers when I was in the army had been an UN observer in North Korea. He told me that the building stopped when the Koreans reluctantly had to use a Swiss company to install the elavators in the building. Surprisingly enough, the shaft made by the great leader's construction builders was too uneven, which caused the elevator to get stuck in the third or fourth floor already.
"In the late 1990s, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in Korea inspected the building and concluded that the structure was irreparable.[15] Questions have been raised regarding the quality of the building's concrete and the alignment of its elevator shafts,[4] which some sources say are "crooked".[16]" Wikipedia - a reliable page, as far as one can tell.
hey klar....: die USA sind die wohltäter, die nordkorea selbstlos mit nahrung versorgen....mann, mann mann, so einen schwachsinn kann wohl wirklich nur ein selbstverliebter möchtegern-"jackass"-plagiator nachplappern, der so grenzdebil ist, dass er junk-food aus gammelfleisch im brustton der überzeugung als "freedom fries" bezeichnet.
THANK YOU FOR THIS SERIES ! JUST AWESOME.. A true, compelling - and yet funny - depiction of what life must be like in DPRK. Always impressed by the propaganda and big show they put on for the outside world.. Just wondering - after a few days spent with your local "tour guides", you must have become more personal with them. And if allowed to welcome foreigners, they are the ones more aware of the grotesque of what they presented to you..
WONDERFUL! After watching all 13 episodes of that "paradise", I can't hardly wait to get me "A HOLE IN THE HEAD!"
If DPRK is "The Worker's Paradise", then HELL LOOKS MORE ATTRACTIVE! The workers don't WORK! They are always goofing off, singing to "The Big Kim Gook" or on parades. Probably they are UNIONIZED!
How you guys endured all that shit? I would had jumped off the highest balcony in the hotel!
Thanks, it really was a good report. Keep them coming!
WONDERFUL! After watching all 13 episodes of that "paradise", I can't hardly wait to get me "A HOLE IN THE HEAD!"
If DPRK is "The Worker's Paradise", then HELL LOOKS MORE ATTRACTIVE! The workers don't WORK! They are always goofing off, singing to "The Big Kim Gook" or on parades. Probably they are UNIONIZED!
How you guys endured all that shit? I would had jumped off the highest balcony in the hotel!
Thanks, it really was a good report. Keep them coming!
WONDERFUL! After watching all 13 episodes of that "paradise", I can't hardly wait to get me "A HOLE IN THE HEAD!"
If DPRK is "The Worker's Paradise", then HELL LOOKS MORE ATTRACTIVE! The workers don't WORK! They are always goofing off, singing to "The Big Kim Gook" or on parades. Probably they are UNIONIZED!
How you guys endured all that shit? I would had jumped off the highest balcony in the hotel!
Thanks, it really was a good report. Keep them coming!
your videos are fucking crazy folk, i started to watch the first one and i couldnt stop watching...perhaps ill broke my peggy and ill go there the next year...i want to visit the show-country, but im afraid to be kidnapping lol...greetings from ecatepec, méxico...
Human beings arent perfect you are right. That is why no government can work. You cnat make everyone happy all the time. One person cannot make the decisions for everyone. People go crazy with power they cannot control themselves. Its the same anywhere in the world. We need to start making decisions as a whole and not letting one person control what everyone says or does.
This is a good set of videos. May I ask how did you get in? I thought you couldn't visit North Korea? Where are you from BTW? I think if you are from the U.S. they won't let you in.
Excellent! Orwell really understood the Eastern mind in an era when because of colonialism only the Japanese were able to develop the personality cults he described in 1984. If you had made this during the Cold War, or in the 90's Id get to feel more smug in thinking .... There, not here. Now with the DHS, checkpoints popping up, and our imperial presidency, I fear we will look a bit more like them in days to come. Oh well, at least the streets will be clean.
That was a really good documentary, great commentary and editing! Also the high-jinx you and your pals got up to under the noses of the DPRK made me snigger.
These young people saw it through in North Korea. Must of the leftist from Europe and USA that goe to Cuba, go there and get an "orgasm" over the "free" medical care and "free" education without realizing the show put in palce for them. I remember the days, in the lab I work; when visitors were annonce we had to turn on all the medical equipment that has not work in 10 years, but they did have "little" lights and glow in color when plugged. We explained the visitors why they "are used for" :)
Awesome, great job! Not just astonishingly addictive and interesting, but ironicaly funny. The whole theatre you're surrounded by. I live in Czech Republic so I know a bit of a communism, however it cannot be compared to the North Korean regime. Despite the fact it's a definitely worst place to live, it still has some kind of a magic; one's lured same as by Chernobyl or Great Pyramids. Anyway, I'd love to hear, however far in the future, that North Korea became free. Once it will - has to...
@WOODONEJGTC Hey thanks! I think unlike in the former Eastern Block where no one really believed in the system and the leadership, in North Korea people are trapped 50% at gunpoint and 50% by mental slavery. Without outside word seeping in, they fall for the state religion, which mixed with a good dose of nationalism, chauvinism and xenophobia (all of Korean Peninsula is known for these among people who spent time) means that they indeed want to keep themselves in this hermitage.
One more brilliant documentary! Nicely done Emil! I hope that the "next generation Kim" has more on his mind than only him self. At least he spent several years in Switzerland. Maybe that will change things a bit.
Amazing documentary. No words in my poor english to describe what i just finished to see. I mean, one thing is learn about DPRK by press, wiki and reading here and there and being aware of kims marvels, another is actually having your face smashed with all that propaganda and fakeness. Congrats man. It's a shame you got those poor visualizations, everyone should know about NK and people just don't give a shit even now that anoter kim is on the throne and who knows what's going to happen.
Impressive, the best documentary I've ever seen about North Korea and I like the humour and the laughs that shows the Hermit Kingdom for what it really is. The Ariang Mass Games were awesome - if there is one thing that the North Koreans can do is put on a show. The choreography was absolutely stunning. It is like the Olympics opening and closing ceremonies without the sports in between. You should take over from the Lonely Planet team.
This NK series was awesome. It inspires me to go there and act like a dick. and I'm not being sarcastic. I really want to go there and urinate on every famous statue.
What a great series, this was one of the most interesting things I've seen on YouTube. How does it have just 22k views while generic crap like Bieber videos are peaking at millions is beyond me. Living a small part of my childhood in 'textbook' communism, in Romania, the whole thing felt like a flashback - in fact one of the cars on the street there was a romanian Dacia (a product of that era). Hope that one day the wind of change will bring freedom back to that country.
@NK0d3R Well at least you Romanians know what to do with your dictators when you've had enough of them! In the UK we imported a number of vehicles from Communist Europe including the Lada and the Skoda. We even had the original versions of the Dacia Duster and we have started importing the new versions of the Duster for about €16,000.
Dude when you say "NK are fu#@$ing Nuts" they have no choice...If they dont do that they will get killed u should know that....Plus how in gods name did u get into NK?...
Honestly, this has been the most informative 'documentary' about North Korea I've seen and the humour, often pleasantly vulgar, kept me entertained throughout. If only we could see mockumentaries like this on TV.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry about the state North Korea is currently in, but i sure know one thing, i'll be enjoying the collapse of the 'Great Leaders' ideology and the uprising of the citizens one day although with the mass brainwashing from birth it may be a long wait.
Ya, great series of video guys.. well done except the part where your stupid friend Jane Fonda got her makeup swiped.. stupid C'nt.. seriously dude, you'd better think twice about traveling to dangerous places with her.. don't know if she's a nasty bitch or a stupid bitch but you could end up in a world of hurt a long way from home..
Very slick and some awesome footage. You have far more balls than I. Well, bigger anyhow. I am planning the same trip in April but will conduct myself in a more respectful manner. I feel exactly the same about the regime, but your Beavis & Butthead appreach belittles people who have no choice. Loathe the government but sympathise with the people. I hope the folk in my group are less lairy. You knew nothing would happen to you in the DPRK - it will be the guides that carry the can.
After having visited NK, I find many similarities between NK and the West, for example I find the same fascination for the army between NK and the US and other countries who believe their army is doing everything right.
I really enjoyed your documentary, especially the ending, you've showed so many things I'd like to have seen in NK in the first visit, that I'd love to go again, now, I don't know if they are accepting tourists after the death of Kim Jung-il. It is interested how you ended the documentary.
Well done Sir! As a casual student of mass media for 40 years, I have had more than a passing fascination with NK and how an entire nation can become so completely controlled by its government. While there are other examples, the DPRK is best and most enduring. Your series does one of the best jobs of illustrating how this is accomplished, and the dangers. With the exception of some course language-albeit used with editorial and journalistic license-a professional and enlightening effort.
@Danointhenw Thank you for your comment. I know that I could go easy on the swearing, but my stance is this: as long as there are people like the Kims out there in the world, swearing is not humanity's greatest enemy. And I don't want to mask my disgust with polite language. They do stupid shit - I swear. THX for watching, please tell your friends!
Way to blame the victims asshole. You think these people are doing it out of free will? they have internalized after generations of abuse that if they don't do what they are told they'll be "corrected". Arguing with common north korean is like arguing with an abused slave telling them it's their fault they are a slave, while you're going to get on a fucking ilyushin at the end of your 3 weeks while they have to still live in the fucking gulag. And thanks for all the racist asian stereotypes ...
@YoLninYo You are welcome. The people ARE responsible. Just like Hitler didn't go door-to-door and kill all these people during WW2, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il didnt get to power by jelly-wrestling bears and winning hot-dog competitions. Rather, they got there because too many dumbasses turned their brains in and mindlessly clapped at everything spewed their way. North Korea is not the first to go through this, and certainly not the last.
@monkeetime hey I agree with your premise, I have a problem with the way you presented your argument and the way (it seemed to me) that you mocked the already abused people. But in the end the responsibility does lie with the people. If getting rid of that fucker in libya was hard, can you imagine how hard would it be for North Koreans? I just think mocking the common people, even party appartchiks is in poor taste as it doesn't change much and puts them in danger to boot... did like series. TBH
@monkeetime right! the nk people are as responsible for their crazy government as the US people are responsible for their totally silly government and the insane US foreign policy. as you said: "they got there because too many dumbasses turned their brains"
They may seem like a warped country but it's odvious each country has their own corrupted government. For example, in the U.S. we were all brought up by society to believe in a certain way of life. Our media sells and sells to us and we slave to death at our jobs every day just to buy and buy everything we see, not realizing that we are sucking mother earth dry. All for what??? Greed and desires! Pretty soon, we may just be worse off when resources run low.
Fantastic video, mr. monkeetime. Very precise, fact-packed, yet relaxed and entertaing way to deliver the view on gloomy reality of current North Korea. I've seen a few documentaries on this country already, but this was by far the best. I have been all over Asia during my traveller years, and NK is the only country in East- or Southeast- Asia that I have yet to visit.
But as by visiting it I'd indirectly financially support the savage tyrant regime, I'd mosly reconsider twice.
@casicadaminuto1: Yes but there are two sides of the medal. You´re financing the regime, but the regime needs foreign currencies to feed the population. Well, anyways i wouldn´t travel there till it´s clear who gains the power there. Kim Jong Un or the military generals. The weirdest thing about this country is, that the people -in my eyes- REALLY believe that they live in the best country in the world. Greetings from germany ;)
@casicadaminuto1 Sometimes that is the cost of spreading the word... Cant make a shark-finning video without filming a shark being finned... And we are all supporting the regime every time we buy anything "made in China", anyway...
It is a civic duty to keep the portraits of the Kims clean. NK inspectors make random drop ins to people's homes to make sure that the portraits are not dusty or dirty. It is insane when people are starving. Whatever problems that the USA has I am sure glad that I wasn't born in a country like NK.
@monkeetime Best vid about NK I've ever seen. And so true: it's a screwed up country, with nutty management and poor, misleaded people. Merry X-mas to you all!!
one of the best NK documentaries ....loved the humor !!! Now that you have been there do you think NK is a good touristy place ? My friends and I wud luv to go check out the whole deal :).....and any advise wud be gr8.
@monkeetime Why encourage a visit to NK? It's great that journalist types go there for documentation purposes, but we shouldn't ligitimize regimes like this by supporting them with foreign currency more than necessary.
@monkeetime True, and I both support and applaud what I call "journalist types" like yourself going there and shooting video. I wrote my comment merely because you were encouraging others to go there who weren't intending to make a documentary. :)
Watched all parts in one go, enjoyed it very much. You've probably done more than many dedicated documentaries. At one time I nearly wanted to stop watching...I couldn't take it any more...and by that I mean seeing the pictures of the shitty demigods in every room you entered. How were you able to cope with that on the field?
Thanks for by far the most awesome North Korea documentary to date, and I've seen most of them. Do you think you will ever visit again? If so, do you think they will let you in? They have let journalists who have "slighted" the gGreat Leader in again before...
It's much more interesting and with a better approach the point of view offered by Siegfried S. Hecker, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University in the documentary :
Saw the whole thing in one go. I've seen some disturbing NK documentaries before, so I loved the humor aspect you guys had. But I got to wondering, how long were you guys there? By part 9 I felt like going crazy soon with the North Korean indoctrination. So sad to see these people beeing forced to pretend happiness. The pictures of mourining north koreans was especially sickening. China and Russia can suck my dick for supporting NK. I don't care if "they don't have a choice", this ain't right!
The USA was putting heavy sanctions on NK, why don't you say anything of this in your documentary? In the USA many live so poor and so much money is put into the banks AND the military. USA has killed so many people in the world, most recently killed and displaced millions in Iraq, polluted Iraq with enriched and depleted Uranium. Go watch a documentary on Falluja and the disabled children there due to USA. What a hypocrite you are!
@derpresidentberlin So a governments crimes is the responsobility of every citizen of that nation regardless if you agree with them or not? Did you know Einstein was german? Was he responsible for Hitlers actions and do you think he agreed with them? Btw, as far as I know this guy here is Canadian!
@derpresidentberlin he probably didn't talk about that because this is a documentary about DPRK, not about the USA. All those things you said about the US is true but everything he showed us aboout DPRK is equally as true and messed up
@Mazman90 Well then his report is not balanced. You need to show all causes for the shown effects on NK. And he doesnt hide the fact that he is biased. He makes documentaries for monkeys.
@Mazman90 EXA-fucking-CTLY! Youtube gave me a 15 minute limit per video. I cannot talk about North Korea, USA, Kim Jong Il, George Bush, death penalty, environmentalism, spider monkeys, diabetes, cancer and the Nazi Pope in one series. That would be schizophrenic. Videos have a title for a reason.
I have watched all the videos today. You guys did a great job for showing us the real North Korea
I just hope North Korea can change to the better, but I'm not optimist either. Can't they just acknowledge and be truthful to themselves that their system is a failure. Oh, i forget they can't admit the failure, but rather living a lie. It really sucks !!!
So every person you met knows the real story, they all know its bullshit. Did you get any alone time with them? I saw in one video that they got to go and have beers with the minders. Did you get a chance like that?
interesting series here, thanks for sharing! It's hard to think that this country really exists...mapping the route he took through the building is really over the top!
Your last message is nice too, even if it's uncharacteristic! Have you heard about the SOPA bill? It's basically the internet censorship bill. It's pretty crazy and you should look it up if you don't know about it already, you seem like the type of guy that would see the bullshit in that sort of thing.
I don't know and not sure if I would visit there. However, at the back of my mind, I still have a tidbit of curiosity about this country. I want to see the backwards society there and how every citizen worship their state leader. It's actually living on a twisted Japanese anime world. It's a national level cult that normally you can only find on movies and fictional medias.
@TheSwedanes Correct. Unheard of. Watched constantly, no freedom to move at all. Once, during a dinner, I bolted for the bathroom, to see what would happen - they thought i was bolting out of the restaurant and went after me like the Secret Service. Amazing.
Loved it! Well done. You lads seemed to get away with a LOT over there. Interesting times ahead with "The Ultimate Supreme Chosen One" in the next few weeks.
Hey monkeetime, you're probably being asked this a million times but; what do you think happens now that their "leader" has passed on? Where do they go from here?
@MrU2kite Difficult to answer. If there was a time for an overthrow, it is now. But the people are 50% terrified, and 50% brain-washed-bleached-rinsed-spun. Most likely nothing will happen OR if the new pig-snout leader gets whacked out, the military will just run the country, Burma-style.
@monkeetime What a bunch of motherfucking ugly people you are!!! And You monkeetime...You talk like you have your mouth loaded full of monkey-sperm...maybe that's why you name yourself Monkeetime. I vomit on You always thinking that america is the best, i will feast when you get nuked!! Hear yourself: North Koreans are fucking nuts? Always this disrespect for other people. I FUCKING HATE MOTHERFUCKERS LIKE YOU!!!!!!!
@djmattOO1 Smile... nod... smile...nod... It is sad that people say stupid shit here online though. But I am working on a project where all the North Korea lovers get a one-way ticket to Pyongyang.
@djmattOO1 Obviously you've never lived under a bloodthirsty dictatorship where you live under the constant fear of "saying the wrong thing" and you end up spending THE REST OF YOUR FUCKING LIFE IN GUANTANAMO LIKE CONDITIONS... THE. REST. OF. YOUR. LIFE (if you're lucky, because they could haul your whole family if they so choose). Stop being a sheltered western prick and ask a russian or romanian how things were only 20 years ago. NK is 10 times worse. Enough of this self righteous BS...
Amazing Docu, lots of great footage. How that North Korea can sit there and lie to the world about their conditions and how people are in NK is just appalling.
Thanks for the great documentary, one of the few (only?) things of worth I have bothered to watch on Youtube and happily hit the next part. The right blend of informative and funny, with a raft of footage to make me feel like I was along for the ride. Most refreshing of all was hearing your opinions - whether you agree with them or not, its more interesting than the uniform, unbiased, politically-correct, red-tape footage on TV these days. Great stuff, thanks for sharing!
I absolutely loved the end words to this video. It actually made me pretty emotional. Beautiful words... The world is so backward and scary, I wish people just stopped and realized it doesn't have to be so and that only we create it
thank you so much for posting the videos ,amazing and full of information..i guess now i'm glad of country more and more ,i used to hate my country ,but now i understand that i'm living much better comparing to north Koreans ppl ..feel sorry for them
Dude...great video compilation! I'm so intrigued, yet saddened by this place. You really appreciate everything you have when you see this bat shit crazy society. Great job and glad you made it back safe especially after your boy dry humped that fucking statue haha! Awesome.
I've seen quite a few documentaries on NK but this was by far the most entertaining, yet at the same time informative one. Loved the sarcasm and the wise words at the end. So very true.
Just watched this right through from episode 1- absolutely fascinating and you seem to have gone with a good bunch of people. Dunno why but I have always been interested in this country- this is by far one of the best documentaries I have seen on North Korea. It looks literally another planet compared to where I am here in Middle England, did you breathe a sigh of relief when you got the hell out of there mate? I still think I may visit there one day.
I wonder how much of the tourists money goes to the government? All of it. Would be fascinating to see North Korea, just too frustrating to be put through their propaganda. We need to actively get involved in this country and help the millions in trouble.
@01costello while i agree with you, our active involvement in other countries is the kind of thing that pisses the world off and causes wars.we cant save the world. sometimes i feel its better to leave people to their own devices
@STATiSofVITALETHICS YEAH! They actually said it was for "our safety". Well, either the paradise is not much of a paradise and crime is RAGING, OR the propaganda machine is so anti western that the locals would lynch us. One way or another... FAIL!
@monkeetime safety huh, yea you might get hit by one of the 4 cars in he city...or 1 of the 7 residents, or the singing farm ladies might feed you to the pigs
I had a thought that this country was just a little bit fucked up. But you guys show the whole truth. That country is a disaster and thank god i will never ever visit that country! Great documentary guys!
Ok took 2 weeks to view it. Like a good book.From first to last savored it.Cinematography awesome, Commentary witty,Images...from disturbing to insightfull. Historically accurate.My only comment is a warning to not go sightseeing there again. they will have your pics up in all airports with shoot on sight
I forgot the mention the impeccable music selection in your recent vids; super appropriate. I too love EDM: house and trip hop, lounge chill-out and bossa nova . Awesome ambiance in editing. moarr!
Bravo dude :) This topic never held my interest but your tour held me for 13 vids. Yall should get signed dude... and be like that snark-tastic Anthony Bourdain. I think Monkeetime are the best travel vids around. where are yall going next?
I'm sorry, but you just behave like a child all along this trip. Ok it's fun too see these idiotic leader's country. But it's cruel for these people starving. I hope they will be free like YOU.
@monkeetime Hey thanks so much. What an insight. May I ask how long you were there? Also how many of you were there visiting and on the excursons etc and what nationalities were the the tourists? In the Vice magazine vids, the guys are American, which I'm very surprised about. Also there are Japanese tourists on film in those vids too. I thought the North Korean authorities would literally send them straight to detention centres with no question (judging by how much they fucking HATE them!)
SpeaksIt 3 hours ago
Thanks for making this, more views deserved.
Rimm3rCZ 6 hours ago
Thank you for the episodes, awesome work!
anwest 2 days ago
About that tall building; one of my officers when I was in the army had been an UN observer in North Korea. He told me that the building stopped when the Koreans reluctantly had to use a Swiss company to install the elavators in the building. Surprisingly enough, the shaft made by the great leader's construction builders was too uneven, which caused the elevator to get stuck in the third or fourth floor already.
IchrimoLi 2 days ago
Great documentary, this should be on discovery channel :)
kallefili 4 days ago
so what do you think it will take to make the people understand that they are living in a nightmare on elmstreet?..didnt you see any rebels at all?
pgice 5 days ago
Thank you for a truly eye opening experience.
srombing 5 days ago
WOW! Thank you for this truly intresting tour. Great work!
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"In the late 1990s, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in Korea inspected the building and concluded that the structure was irreparable.[15] Questions have been raised regarding the quality of the building's concrete and the alignment of its elevator shafts,[4] which some sources say are "crooked".[16]" Wikipedia - a reliable page, as far as one can tell.
simon201063 5 days ago
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simon201063 5 days ago
a 13 episode long nightmare...*pinch me*
How did you guys survive?
282sleeper 5 days ago
hey klar....: die USA sind die wohltäter, die nordkorea selbstlos mit nahrung versorgen....mann, mann mann, so einen schwachsinn kann wohl wirklich nur ein selbstverliebter möchtegern-"jackass"-plagiator nachplappern, der so grenzdebil ist, dass er junk-food aus gammelfleisch im brustton der überzeugung als "freedom fries" bezeichnet.
ich lag vor lachen fast unterm tisch!!
maxxx2703 1 week ago 7
@maxxx2703 Ja ja ja, Sieg Heil, you fuckin' Nazi!!!
monkeetime 6 days ago 2
Great work on this series. Loved the opinions and getting to watch your travels!
drewdenmeade 1 week ago
All of your videos are helping me with a history paper. Thank you so much for posting these!
TheZachJohnson 1 week ago
Wow....what a way to kill a Saturday morning. Thanks for posting all of this up. Truth has a way of spreading and your efforts are inspiring
lucabrasi1337 1 week ago
I watch this series for 2 days. Thanks for uploading this very interesting video. I am from north korea now in seoul.
Ashiania 1 week ago
The ending = well said.
1happiness 1 week ago
The Nazi's look human compared to this country.
ProtoMario 1 week ago
most childish country in the world. they are literally stupider than 5 year olds. this made me very happy to be born american.
joejoeroko 2 weeks ago
I'm sad... all that and I never once heard Pangapsumnida.
teknotoast 2 weeks ago
Wow. I just watched all of this now, and it's mindblowing to see somewhere that foreigners dare to tread.
So, essentially, North Korea is the world's biggest Potemkin village?
ErikJAwesome 3 weeks ago
THANK YOU FOR THIS SERIES ! JUST AWESOME.. A true, compelling - and yet funny - depiction of what life must be like in DPRK. Always impressed by the propaganda and big show they put on for the outside world.. Just wondering - after a few days spent with your local "tour guides", you must have become more personal with them. And if allowed to welcome foreigners, they are the ones more aware of the grotesque of what they presented to you..
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WONDERFUL! After watching all 13 episodes of that "paradise", I can't hardly wait to get me "A HOLE IN THE HEAD!"
If DPRK is "The Worker's Paradise", then HELL LOOKS MORE ATTRACTIVE! The workers don't WORK! They are always goofing off, singing to "The Big Kim Gook" or on parades. Probably they are UNIONIZED!
How you guys endured all that shit? I would had jumped off the highest balcony in the hotel!
Thanks, it really was a good report. Keep them coming!
P.S. Make one from the former Burma,
elculodemiabuela 3 weeks ago
WONDERFUL! After watching all 13 episodes of that "paradise", I can't hardly wait to get me "A HOLE IN THE HEAD!"
If DPRK is "The Worker's Paradise", then HELL LOOKS MORE ATTRACTIVE! The workers don't WORK! They are always goofing off, singing to "The Big Kim Gook" or on parades. Probably they are UNIONIZED!
How you guys endured all that shit? I would had jumped off the highest balcony in the hotel!
Thanks, it really was a good report. Keep them coming!
P.S. Make one from the former Burma,
elculodemiabuela 3 weeks ago
WONDERFUL! After watching all 13 episodes of that "paradise", I can't hardly wait to get me "A HOLE IN THE HEAD!"
If DPRK is "The Worker's Paradise", then HELL LOOKS MORE ATTRACTIVE! The workers don't WORK! They are always goofing off, singing to "The Big Kim Gook" or on parades. Probably they are UNIONIZED!
How you guys endured all that shit? I would had jumped off the highest balcony in the hotel!
Thanks, it really was a good report. Keep them coming!
P.S. Make one from the former Burma,
elculodemiabuela 3 weeks ago
your videos are fucking crazy folk, i started to watch the first one and i couldnt stop watching...perhaps ill broke my peggy and ill go there the next year...i want to visit the show-country, but im afraid to be kidnapping lol...greetings from ecatepec, méxico...
zio1986zio 4 weeks ago
Human beings arent perfect you are right. That is why no government can work. You cnat make everyone happy all the time. One person cannot make the decisions for everyone. People go crazy with power they cannot control themselves. Its the same anywhere in the world. We need to start making decisions as a whole and not letting one person control what everyone says or does.
fireice2037 4 weeks ago
Small Dam, look in Holland..!
vliegendehollander55 1 month ago
FREEDOM FRIES ;)
wrathallll 1 month ago
amazing and sobering epilogue. Well done, sir.
melanyebaggins 1 month ago
This is a good set of videos. May I ask how did you get in? I thought you couldn't visit North Korea? Where are you from BTW? I think if you are from the U.S. they won't let you in.
barakas49 1 month ago
The scary part is that this CAN happen to the United States. Look at senators like Lindsey Graham.
ParadoxPerspective 1 month ago
@ParadoxPerspective No, no it can't.
Aggiesgigem 1 month ago
Excellent! Orwell really understood the Eastern mind in an era when because of colonialism only the Japanese were able to develop the personality cults he described in 1984. If you had made this during the Cold War, or in the 90's Id get to feel more smug in thinking .... There, not here. Now with the DHS, checkpoints popping up, and our imperial presidency, I fear we will look a bit more like them in days to come. Oh well, at least the streets will be clean.
TalksWithDirt 1 month ago
I just spent my entire evening watching through this series.
The subject has interested me for a long time, and I can't see enough footage from the inside. Would love to go one day.
Time for some sociologists or whatever to do some studies as well. This particular instance of mass suggestion is astonishing.
Your comment about the kids' future following the inevitable collapse (made during the kids' theatre bit) really got to me.
Thank you!
overmenneske 1 month ago in playlist North Korea
impossibiru NKoreans watched this video according to the map views :O
CarbonDioxide1990 1 month ago
That was a really good documentary, great commentary and editing! Also the high-jinx you and your pals got up to under the noses of the DPRK made me snigger.
MyThingsRedux 1 month ago
These young people saw it through in North Korea. Must of the leftist from Europe and USA that goe to Cuba, go there and get an "orgasm" over the "free" medical care and "free" education without realizing the show put in palce for them. I remember the days, in the lab I work; when visitors were annonce we had to turn on all the medical equipment that has not work in 10 years, but they did have "little" lights and glow in color when plugged. We explained the visitors why they "are used for" :)
CubanodePlacetas 1 month ago
Awesome, great job! Not just astonishingly addictive and interesting, but ironicaly funny. The whole theatre you're surrounded by. I live in Czech Republic so I know a bit of a communism, however it cannot be compared to the North Korean regime. Despite the fact it's a definitely worst place to live, it still has some kind of a magic; one's lured same as by Chernobyl or Great Pyramids. Anyway, I'd love to hear, however far in the future, that North Korea became free. Once it will - has to...
WOODONEJGTC 1 month ago 7
@WOODONEJGTC Hey thanks! I think unlike in the former Eastern Block where no one really believed in the system and the leadership, in North Korea people are trapped 50% at gunpoint and 50% by mental slavery. Without outside word seeping in, they fall for the state religion, which mixed with a good dose of nationalism, chauvinism and xenophobia (all of Korean Peninsula is known for these among people who spent time) means that they indeed want to keep themselves in this hermitage.
monkeetime 1 month ago
One more brilliant documentary! Nicely done Emil! I hope that the "next generation Kim" has more on his mind than only him self. At least he spent several years in Switzerland. Maybe that will change things a bit.
purrability 1 month ago
Amazing documentary. No words in my poor english to describe what i just finished to see. I mean, one thing is learn about DPRK by press, wiki and reading here and there and being aware of kims marvels, another is actually having your face smashed with all that propaganda and fakeness. Congrats man. It's a shame you got those poor visualizations, everyone should know about NK and people just don't give a shit even now that anoter kim is on the throne and who knows what's going to happen.
FutureMad747 1 month ago
This was fantastic!!!
iguire 1 month ago in playlist More videos from monkeetime
Impressive, the best documentary I've ever seen about North Korea and I like the humour and the laughs that shows the Hermit Kingdom for what it really is. The Ariang Mass Games were awesome - if there is one thing that the North Koreans can do is put on a show. The choreography was absolutely stunning. It is like the Olympics opening and closing ceremonies without the sports in between. You should take over from the Lonely Planet team.
6edTelevision 1 month ago
Thanks to your vids, I really appreciate that both the Kims are ass holes and I am really happy that they are dead.
amosgoh85 1 month ago 3
@amosgoh85 Unfortunately the third one is still alive, and there is no indication that he is any less of an anus.
monkeetime 1 month ago 10
@monkeetime The upside is his dad set the bar so low he can't really be a worse leader.
ava0000 4 weeks ago
Brilliant work !!
johnmoreland 1 month ago
This NK series was awesome. It inspires me to go there and act like a dick. and I'm not being sarcastic. I really want to go there and urinate on every famous statue.
frankiebaby725 1 month ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this documentary, funny at times but very informative nonetheless.
StarGyrl 1 month ago
What a great series, this was one of the most interesting things I've seen on YouTube. How does it have just 22k views while generic crap like Bieber videos are peaking at millions is beyond me. Living a small part of my childhood in 'textbook' communism, in Romania, the whole thing felt like a flashback - in fact one of the cars on the street there was a romanian Dacia (a product of that era). Hope that one day the wind of change will bring freedom back to that country.
NK0d3R 1 month ago
@NK0d3R Well at least you Romanians know what to do with your dictators when you've had enough of them! In the UK we imported a number of vehicles from Communist Europe including the Lada and the Skoda. We even had the original versions of the Dacia Duster and we have started importing the new versions of the Duster for about €16,000.
6edTelevision 1 month ago
Dude when you say "NK are fu#@$ing Nuts" they have no choice...If they dont do that they will get killed u should know that....Plus how in gods name did u get into NK?...
burnit01 1 month ago
Honestly, this has been the most informative 'documentary' about North Korea I've seen and the humour, often pleasantly vulgar, kept me entertained throughout. If only we could see mockumentaries like this on TV.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry about the state North Korea is currently in, but i sure know one thing, i'll be enjoying the collapse of the 'Great Leaders' ideology and the uprising of the citizens one day although with the mass brainwashing from birth it may be a long wait.
ItsTiedToAStick 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing this! Loved it from start to the end! 5/5 :)
Kommunisten91 1 month ago
Great Job ! Keep up the good work ! Wow thanks i enjoyed watching the video.
bpwalker70 1 month ago
Ya, great series of video guys.. well done except the part where your stupid friend Jane Fonda got her makeup swiped.. stupid C'nt.. seriously dude, you'd better think twice about traveling to dangerous places with her.. don't know if she's a nasty bitch or a stupid bitch but you could end up in a world of hurt a long way from home..
MrMeanderthal 1 month ago in playlist More videos from monkeetime
Did you mention they even have an own calender?
As we start with of Jesus, they start with birth of his Godhead, the great leader! No kidding!
HesseJamez 1 month ago
It must be finished in 2012 - 100th year of yuche, the birth of the great leader!
HesseJamez 1 month ago
I"m ronry...so ronry
Wupster1 1 month ago
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77777XYZ 1 month ago
Very slick and some awesome footage. You have far more balls than I. Well, bigger anyhow. I am planning the same trip in April but will conduct myself in a more respectful manner. I feel exactly the same about the regime, but your Beavis & Butthead appreach belittles people who have no choice. Loathe the government but sympathise with the people. I hope the folk in my group are less lairy. You knew nothing would happen to you in the DPRK - it will be the guides that carry the can.
ogvert 1 month ago 2
wow man, really great series, i enyoed and it really felt like i was there:)
fructal100 1 month ago in playlist norTKOREA
I love this! You're very brave for traveling there.
getfuckedanddie1 1 month ago
Thanks. I watched the whole series, very interesting.
nihihico1 1 month ago
good music!
chizhigang 1 month ago
Great job! Thanks!
MrFleegle 1 month ago
After having visited NK, I find many similarities between NK and the West, for example I find the same fascination for the army between NK and the US and other countries who believe their army is doing everything right.
quimiorlando 1 month ago 3
I really enjoyed your documentary, especially the ending, you've showed so many things I'd like to have seen in NK in the first visit, that I'd love to go again, now, I don't know if they are accepting tourists after the death of Kim Jung-il. It is interested how you ended the documentary.
quimiorlando 1 month ago
I'm not sucking up to people so fuck you but you did a very good job, saying thanks for the series.
brusinthemishka 2 months ago
I watched the whole series. wow
thx for the insight.
takecareofyrshoes 2 months ago
What's the piano theme during the ending? It was very well done segment :)
poopoopanties 2 months ago
Well, I made it all the way through the series, so I think I should leave a note. There. Done!
RedPillonTopix 2 months ago
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Superanthony2006 2 months ago
Well done Sir! As a casual student of mass media for 40 years, I have had more than a passing fascination with NK and how an entire nation can become so completely controlled by its government. While there are other examples, the DPRK is best and most enduring. Your series does one of the best jobs of illustrating how this is accomplished, and the dangers. With the exception of some course language-albeit used with editorial and journalistic license-a professional and enlightening effort.
Danointhenw 2 months ago 8
@Danointhenw Thank you for your comment. I know that I could go easy on the swearing, but my stance is this: as long as there are people like the Kims out there in the world, swearing is not humanity's greatest enemy. And I don't want to mask my disgust with polite language. They do stupid shit - I swear. THX for watching, please tell your friends!
monkeetime 1 month ago 14
What is the name of the lovely song that plays at the end?
sonoki82 2 months ago
Could anyone please tell me the name of the piano song at the very end of this video? It would be highly appreciated.
SleeKInnovationS 2 months ago
how do you get into the country if its communist? they dont let anyone in ...or out...
MrEddieswife 2 months ago
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@MrEddieswife they do allow tourists. You are more than welcome to check out the information from NK website.
littlepermman 2 months ago
@MrEddieswife You can visit as part of a government-run tour.
criskity 2 months ago
Way to blame the victims asshole. You think these people are doing it out of free will? they have internalized after generations of abuse that if they don't do what they are told they'll be "corrected". Arguing with common north korean is like arguing with an abused slave telling them it's their fault they are a slave, while you're going to get on a fucking ilyushin at the end of your 3 weeks while they have to still live in the fucking gulag. And thanks for all the racist asian stereotypes ...
YoLninYo 2 months ago in playlist More videos from monkeetime 2
@YoLninYo You are welcome. The people ARE responsible. Just like Hitler didn't go door-to-door and kill all these people during WW2, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il didnt get to power by jelly-wrestling bears and winning hot-dog competitions. Rather, they got there because too many dumbasses turned their brains in and mindlessly clapped at everything spewed their way. North Korea is not the first to go through this, and certainly not the last.
monkeetime 2 months ago 2
@monkeetime hey I agree with your premise, I have a problem with the way you presented your argument and the way (it seemed to me) that you mocked the already abused people. But in the end the responsibility does lie with the people. If getting rid of that fucker in libya was hard, can you imagine how hard would it be for North Koreans? I just think mocking the common people, even party appartchiks is in poor taste as it doesn't change much and puts them in danger to boot... did like series. TBH
YoLninYo 2 months ago 2
@monkeetime right! the nk people are as responsible for their crazy government as the US people are responsible for their totally silly government and the insane US foreign policy. as you said: "they got there because too many dumbasses turned their brains"
maxxx2703 1 week ago 2
Very sad indeed.
They may seem like a warped country but it's odvious each country has their own corrupted government. For example, in the U.S. we were all brought up by society to believe in a certain way of life. Our media sells and sells to us and we slave to death at our jobs every day just to buy and buy everything we see, not realizing that we are sucking mother earth dry. All for what??? Greed and desires! Pretty soon, we may just be worse off when resources run low.
lindakay00 2 months ago
Your guide has probably been sent to a re-education camp for not stopping you from filming all that footage. He deserves it - seemed like a prick.
strike1337 2 months ago
Lol. You really sound like Odo in this video. :)
whitetornadoisback00 2 months ago
You seem to have lost your voice over time?
whitetornadoisback00 2 months ago
at lest they ask for help and not lets the people died.
972928andrew 2 months ago
Fantastic video, mr. monkeetime. Very precise, fact-packed, yet relaxed and entertaing way to deliver the view on gloomy reality of current North Korea. I've seen a few documentaries on this country already, but this was by far the best. I have been all over Asia during my traveller years, and NK is the only country in East- or Southeast- Asia that I have yet to visit.
But as by visiting it I'd indirectly financially support the savage tyrant regime, I'd mosly reconsider twice.
casicadaminuto1 2 months ago
@casicadaminuto1: Yes but there are two sides of the medal. You´re financing the regime, but the regime needs foreign currencies to feed the population. Well, anyways i wouldn´t travel there till it´s clear who gains the power there. Kim Jong Un or the military generals. The weirdest thing about this country is, that the people -in my eyes- REALLY believe that they live in the best country in the world. Greetings from germany ;)
mirco1205 2 months ago
@casicadaminuto1 Sometimes that is the cost of spreading the word... Cant make a shark-finning video without filming a shark being finned... And we are all supporting the regime every time we buy anything "made in China", anyway...
monkeetime 2 months ago
Nice documentary. Have propaganda vacations always been around in North Korea, or is this a new thing?
alexlemke 2 months ago
@alexlemke They have been doing this for a few years now.
monkeetime 2 months ago
The red dog should NOT be fed !
VegardMinde 2 months ago
It is a civic duty to keep the portraits of the Kims clean. NK inspectors make random drop ins to people's homes to make sure that the portraits are not dusty or dirty. It is insane when people are starving. Whatever problems that the USA has I am sure glad that I wasn't born in a country like NK.
evillurkswithinusall 2 months ago
@monkeetime Best vid about NK I've ever seen. And so true: it's a screwed up country, with nutty management and poor, misleaded people. Merry X-mas to you all!!
Grotpaddestoel 2 months ago
Can't wait 'til these guys return to North Korea to report how much "improvements" were made under Kim III, i.e., Kim Jung-Eun,
SuperYT4Ever 2 months ago
one of the best NK documentaries ....loved the humor !!! Now that you have been there do you think NK is a good touristy place ? My friends and I wud luv to go check out the whole deal :).....and any advise wud be gr8.
abhijeeth 2 months ago
@abhijeeth Do it! But not as a honeymoon!!! And backup your memory cards...
monkeetime 2 months ago
@monkeetime Why encourage a visit to NK? It's great that journalist types go there for documentation purposes, but we shouldn't ligitimize regimes like this by supporting them with foreign currency more than necessary.
ZrednaZ 2 months ago
@ZrednaZ This video could not be made without some people going to North Korea, bringing back footage, and sharing it with the world...
monkeetime 2 months ago
@monkeetime True, and I both support and applaud what I call "journalist types" like yourself going there and shooting video. I wrote my comment merely because you were encouraging others to go there who weren't intending to make a documentary. :)
ZrednaZ 1 month ago
Watched all parts in one go, enjoyed it very much. You've probably done more than many dedicated documentaries. At one time I nearly wanted to stop watching...I couldn't take it any more...and by that I mean seeing the pictures of the shitty demigods in every room you entered. How were you able to cope with that on the field?
marius5641 2 months ago
Thanks for by far the most awesome North Korea documentary to date, and I've seen most of them. Do you think you will ever visit again? If so, do you think they will let you in? They have let journalists who have "slighted" the gGreat Leader in again before...
senhuan 2 months ago
It's much more interesting and with a better approach the point of view offered by Siegfried S. Hecker, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University in the documentary :
What I Saw in North Korea and Why it Matters
jorgecalivalle 2 months ago
Saw the whole thing in one go. I've seen some disturbing NK documentaries before, so I loved the humor aspect you guys had. But I got to wondering, how long were you guys there? By part 9 I felt like going crazy soon with the North Korean indoctrination. So sad to see these people beeing forced to pretend happiness. The pictures of mourining north koreans was especially sickening. China and Russia can suck my dick for supporting NK. I don't care if "they don't have a choice", this ain't right!
feonor26 2 months ago
The USA was putting heavy sanctions on NK, why don't you say anything of this in your documentary? In the USA many live so poor and so much money is put into the banks AND the military. USA has killed so many people in the world, most recently killed and displaced millions in Iraq, polluted Iraq with enriched and depleted Uranium. Go watch a documentary on Falluja and the disabled children there due to USA. What a hypocrite you are!
derpresidentberlin 2 months ago
@derpresidentberlin So a governments crimes is the responsobility of every citizen of that nation regardless if you agree with them or not? Did you know Einstein was german? Was he responsible for Hitlers actions and do you think he agreed with them? Btw, as far as I know this guy here is Canadian!
feonor26 2 months ago
@derpresidentberlin he probably didn't talk about that because this is a documentary about DPRK, not about the USA. All those things you said about the US is true but everything he showed us aboout DPRK is equally as true and messed up
Mazman90 2 months ago
@Mazman90 Well then his report is not balanced. You need to show all causes for the shown effects on NK. And he doesnt hide the fact that he is biased. He makes documentaries for monkeys.
derpresidentberlin 2 months ago
@Mazman90 EXA-fucking-CTLY! Youtube gave me a 15 minute limit per video. I cannot talk about North Korea, USA, Kim Jong Il, George Bush, death penalty, environmentalism, spider monkeys, diabetes, cancer and the Nazi Pope in one series. That would be schizophrenic. Videos have a title for a reason.
monkeetime 2 months ago
I have watched all the videos today. You guys did a great job for showing us the real North Korea
I just hope North Korea can change to the better, but I'm not optimist either. Can't they just acknowledge and be truthful to themselves that their system is a failure. Oh, i forget they can't admit the failure, but rather living a lie. It really sucks !!!
chhimsop 2 months ago
I'm sure you've gotten this questions a bunch of times, but I'm too lazy to search through: How did you get the chance to go there?
imw5007 2 months ago
So every person you met knows the real story, they all know its bullshit. Did you get any alone time with them? I saw in one video that they got to go and have beers with the minders. Did you get a chance like that?
BobCassidy 2 months ago
at first I thought the narrator might be Irish, but the accent is different at times
1488slav 2 months ago
interesting series here, thanks for sharing! It's hard to think that this country really exists...mapping the route he took through the building is really over the top!
Your last message is nice too, even if it's uncharacteristic! Have you heard about the SOPA bill? It's basically the internet censorship bill. It's pretty crazy and you should look it up if you don't know about it already, you seem like the type of guy that would see the bullshit in that sort of thing.
runimina 2 months ago
I don't know and not sure if I would visit there. However, at the back of my mind, I still have a tidbit of curiosity about this country. I want to see the backwards society there and how every citizen worship their state leader. It's actually living on a twisted Japanese anime world. It's a national level cult that normally you can only find on movies and fictional medias.
kinzzey 2 months ago
@TheSwedanes Correct. Unheard of. Watched constantly, no freedom to move at all. Once, during a dinner, I bolted for the bathroom, to see what would happen - they thought i was bolting out of the restaurant and went after me like the Secret Service. Amazing.
monkeetime 2 months ago
Do they have dear leader Toilet paper?! lol
Conkuur 2 months ago
Loved it! Well done. You lads seemed to get away with a LOT over there. Interesting times ahead with "The Ultimate Supreme Chosen One" in the next few weeks.
blasketboy 2 months ago
Great doco.. Love your work... now for the next stupid chapter of this feeble pig of a country.. with their new 'leader'...
Digitalplayground100 2 months ago
@Digitalplayground100 The new guy has such a hateable face... Hopefully not gonna rule long.
monkeetime 2 months ago
Hey monkeetime, you're probably being asked this a million times but; what do you think happens now that their "leader" has passed on? Where do they go from here?
MrU2kite 2 months ago
@MrU2kite Difficult to answer. If there was a time for an overthrow, it is now. But the people are 50% terrified, and 50% brain-washed-bleached-rinsed-spun. Most likely nothing will happen OR if the new pig-snout leader gets whacked out, the military will just run the country, Burma-style.
monkeetime 2 months ago 5
@monkeetime What a bunch of motherfucking ugly people you are!!! And You monkeetime...You talk like you have your mouth loaded full of monkey-sperm...maybe that's why you name yourself Monkeetime. I vomit on You always thinking that america is the best, i will feast when you get nuked!! Hear yourself: North Koreans are fucking nuts? Always this disrespect for other people. I FUCKING HATE MOTHERFUCKERS LIKE YOU!!!!!!!
Hrabanderwisj 2 months ago
@Hrabanderwisj Can we get some FBI on this guy?
Golde91 2 months ago
@Golde91 Your FBI is sucking cock in oval office, so they are to busy.
Hrabanderwisj 2 months ago
@Golde91 He is just angry because he got kicked out of his fingerpaint class...
monkeetime 2 months ago
It must of been annoying when you heard stupid shit from north koreans,and if you wanted to call them idiost you would probably get shot.
djmattOO1 2 months ago
@djmattOO1 Smile... nod... smile...nod... It is sad that people say stupid shit here online though. But I am working on a project where all the North Korea lovers get a one-way ticket to Pyongyang.
monkeetime 2 months ago 8
@djmattOO1 Obviously you've never lived under a bloodthirsty dictatorship where you live under the constant fear of "saying the wrong thing" and you end up spending THE REST OF YOUR FUCKING LIFE IN GUANTANAMO LIKE CONDITIONS... THE. REST. OF. YOUR. LIFE (if you're lucky, because they could haul your whole family if they so choose). Stop being a sheltered western prick and ask a russian or romanian how things were only 20 years ago. NK is 10 times worse. Enough of this self righteous BS...
YoLninYo 2 months ago
Amazing Docu, lots of great footage. How that North Korea can sit there and lie to the world about their conditions and how people are in NK is just appalling.
MrBigglessworth 2 months ago
Thanks for the great documentary, one of the few (only?) things of worth I have bothered to watch on Youtube and happily hit the next part. The right blend of informative and funny, with a raft of footage to make me feel like I was along for the ride. Most refreshing of all was hearing your opinions - whether you agree with them or not, its more interesting than the uniform, unbiased, politically-correct, red-tape footage on TV these days. Great stuff, thanks for sharing!
TeeCee32 2 months ago
Great series, I think you did a fantastic job! Keep up the good work!
117Patt 2 months ago
May I just say that I have watched this series of videos from part one onwards & found them highly illuminating & very much an eye-opener.
Thank you very much Emil.
Luke.
lmali1985 2 months ago
great series of videos. Why aren't they a playlist? Now is the time: Lest in Peith Kim Jong Ill.
elastoplastscavenger 2 months ago
I absolutely loved the end words to this video. It actually made me pretty emotional. Beautiful words... The world is so backward and scary, I wish people just stopped and realized it doesn't have to be so and that only we create it
dancesonpoles 2 months ago
Thx for making my weekend a whole lot more interesting :)
ItsJustEvil 2 months ago
thank you so much for posting the videos ,amazing and full of information..i guess now i'm glad of country more and more ,i used to hate my country ,but now i understand that i'm living much better comparing to north Koreans ppl ..feel sorry for them
ArwaLaw 2 months ago
That was very entertaining and informative. Thanks for posting!
drandydds 2 months ago
Dude...great video compilation! I'm so intrigued, yet saddened by this place. You really appreciate everything you have when you see this bat shit crazy society. Great job and glad you made it back safe especially after your boy dry humped that fucking statue haha! Awesome.
Audi24Guy 2 months ago
Awesome video series, man :)
I've seen quite a few documentaries on NK but this was by far the most entertaining, yet at the same time informative one. Loved the sarcasm and the wise words at the end. So very true.
Thanks a lot for posting!
daic0r 2 months ago
Just watched this right through from episode 1- absolutely fascinating and you seem to have gone with a good bunch of people. Dunno why but I have always been interested in this country- this is by far one of the best documentaries I have seen on North Korea. It looks literally another planet compared to where I am here in Middle England, did you breathe a sigh of relief when you got the hell out of there mate? I still think I may visit there one day.
bishyboy1 2 months ago
I wonder how much of the tourists money goes to the government? All of it. Would be fascinating to see North Korea, just too frustrating to be put through their propaganda. We need to actively get involved in this country and help the millions in trouble.
01costello 3 months ago
@01costello while i agree with you, our active involvement in other countries is the kind of thing that pisses the world off and causes wars.we cant save the world. sometimes i feel its better to leave people to their own devices
antesignani 2 months ago
i wuda used that pic of dear leader as a napkin
Tilleyass 3 months ago
@Tilleyass I was going to, but then thought about the value of it as a souvenir...
monkeetime 2 months ago
@Tilleyass
I would have wiped my ass with it
eiufrank 2 months ago
did they ever explain to you why you cant just stay in the hotel and travel wherever you want?
STATiSofVITALETHICS 3 months ago
@STATiSofVITALETHICS YEAH! They actually said it was for "our safety". Well, either the paradise is not much of a paradise and crime is RAGING, OR the propaganda machine is so anti western that the locals would lynch us. One way or another... FAIL!
monkeetime 3 months ago
@monkeetime safety huh, yea you might get hit by one of the 4 cars in he city...or 1 of the 7 residents, or the singing farm ladies might feed you to the pigs
STATiSofVITALETHICS 3 months ago
@STATiSofVITALETHICS Seriously, if you get hit by a car in North Korea, you must be the most unlucky person in the universe...
monkeetime 3 months ago 12
Wea bit pessimistic, but fun and informative. Thanks!
martinthew 3 months ago
I had a thought that this country was just a little bit fucked up. But you guys show the whole truth. That country is a disaster and thank god i will never ever visit that country! Great documentary guys!
ClaesKenya 3 months ago
I love your commentary. Awesome documentary, genuinely funny and informative.
spencerdoust 3 months ago
Ok took 2 weeks to view it. Like a good book.From first to last savored it.Cinematography awesome, Commentary witty,Images...from disturbing to insightfull. Historically accurate.My only comment is a warning to not go sightseeing there again. they will have your pics up in all airports with shoot on sight
brucegor 3 months ago
@brucegor So you are saying I should cancel next weeks trip? ;-)
monkeetime 3 months ago
I forgot the mention the impeccable music selection in your recent vids; super appropriate. I too love EDM: house and trip hop, lounge chill-out and bossa nova . Awesome ambiance in editing. moarr!
imhellag 3 months ago
Bravo dude :) This topic never held my interest but your tour held me for 13 vids. Yall should get signed dude... and be like that snark-tastic Anthony Bourdain. I think Monkeetime are the best travel vids around. where are yall going next?
imhellag 3 months ago
I'm sorry, but you just behave like a child all along this trip. Ok it's fun too see these idiotic leader's country. But it's cruel for these people starving. I hope they will be free like YOU.
Nokturnal1999 3 months ago
@Nokturnal1999 Thank you for watching and commenting.
monkeetime 3 months ago
@Nokturnal1999 NO BEHAVING LIKE CHILD YOU BEHAVE LIKE ROBOT AND DO AS TOLD!
STATiSofVITALETHICS 3 months ago
Just got done watching . Nicely done. Must of been an interesting trip. Loved the comedy you threw in.
Sdshirtman 4 months ago
Loved every minute of it! great job!
samfwz 4 months ago
good video !!! series indeeed
Knowtheylikeme 4 months ago