North Korean Defectors - Movie | Crossing 3 of 10

[Jmjager1]

Don't forget, everybody is human. And other animals are just as sacred. You can kill too, and you are responsible.

[sexxyperv]

And now the search is on to find Graham6762's comment. Oi Ve...

[MrJonslife]

I hope the North Koreans watch this show, somehow. Tell them how the world is like outside. I don mind being as poor as them, but at least I have connection with the outside world. At least I will have dreams of my impoverished country becoming rich someday. For the north koreans, i think all they think is how to escape from government officials and live in fear everyday. I tear for them. :(

[Magicprincess9000]

@MrJonslife We often take things for granted until we see people that are far far worse off than we are

[SNESFanboy64]

It just makes me so sad that North Koreans have to suffer from malnutrition and torture. Communism is a mistake. I just wish there will be a time in the future where North Koreans can stop suffering and live in freedom and hope. I am Chinese and China had a time where it was even worse than NK but China soon became better and better and now China isn't even that poor anymore. If China can do that, that gives me hope for NK. Kim II sung is dead people, time to move on.

[TheNemesis274]

@SNESFanboy64 The way the North Korean government does to it's people isn't even communism at all. It's just pure corruption within the party.

[Therojo]

the only difference between this and south america is that here there is no militar dictatorship... but the poverty is the same

[cbohar84]

@Therojo At least theres plenty of food in South America

[ssanrock97]

a touching film.

[coovy1239]

can someone answer this for me

so north koreans are aloud to travel out of the country as long as they have a relative in china?

[gamergeektwo]

@coovy1239 no they cant leave it at all, but the border between china and nk is a lot easier to cross, but usually one of them just go so they can make enough for their family to cross, or they just all cross at once, but thousands of north koreans are caught every week in china and they get sent back.

[KellyKorean]

@coovy1239 No dude, not at all. NK is the most secretive country in the world. You're not allowed out no matter what. If they do find out you went out of NK, you will get sent to a camp depending on the severity.

[Ulysses1994XF04]

There are people living in such wretched squalor with nothing but paltry hand outs from a totalitarian government, and yet there are people in my country (U.S.) who have everything and yet their greed is so astronomical that it STILL isn't enough.

[MrRug3ree]

that old man saved his life :(

[Xxcloud126xX]

China changed, USSR changed, why can't North Korea change?

[lemongirlxxxx]

so sad!!

[vliegendehollander55]

North Korea is one of the most fucked up counrties in the world. At least the Muslims try to do something now, better then to die in silence for nothing...

[bobisnohere1]

Oh Lord how this movie with its truths, breaks my heart. Too bad most of the world is obssesed with material things to the extreme rather than fellow humans suffering

[joebtt]

@bobisnohere1 true.

[shakeyourbody246]

Kim Jung-il is one terrible bastard dictator

[Esoparagon]

Socialist paradise! They are all EQUAL in their poverty! Better than everyone being unequal but wealthy!

[TheDiscerningGent]

@Esoparagon They are all equal, but some are more equal than others.

[gopconservative78]

The Dear Leader can crap rice for his people!  He can!

[whatfay357]

THIS MAY SOUND DUMB, BUT I DONT KNOW, CAN THEY GROW A GARDEN?OR IS THE SOIL AND CLIMATE WONT ALLOW IT?

[pigkkk2]

@whatfay357 just to tell you, the mountains in North Korea are literally red. They're red because people grabs whatever it is edible. This includes leafs, grass, and even tree barks. That's how they survive. Even if they farm, they would have to offer bribery and try to keep off other people from stealing it.

[light00128]

@whatfay357 North Korea's geography is mostly mountainous, especially Northern area. Only 1/12 of land mass in North Korea is sustainable to grow crops. Northern mountains are too high and too cold for any suitable crop to be grown. That would have been fine Southern area was protected, but in turns of stupid government policies, by deforestation, for more farmland. Farm lands got f*ed up.

[hananokuni2580]

@whatfay357 Pomiculture and agroforestry are possible even on steep mountainsides, but for much of NK's history Soviet-style industrial agriculture was practiced - with disastrous results. Continuous use of chemical fertilizers and other chemical inputs has damaged the soil in many places. Going organic would be better, but perhaps this knowledge is not yet available in NK.

What is suitable for the chernozem steppes of Russia and the Ukraine will not work for the mountains of Korea.

[fatimazh]

what kind a people are they ohh mennn

[NearDeathExperienc]

Communism kills people.

[thehsushoe]

@NearDeathExperienc No, Communist dictators and their followers kill people.

[NearDeathExperienc]

It is a stark reminder of the contrast of the luxury we live in compared to those in North Korea.... It would be a wonderful thing for these people to rise up for themselves. Drop arms to all the prisons and it would happen on it's own.

[Graham6762]

This is not capitalism, it is a central banking warfare model. My point is that at least Korean officials control their money, they print it and disseminate it. Our politicians do not have control over our money, foreign banks print our money then charge us money to do it. It is a more sophisticated for a slavery. Private banks loan out more money to themselves till the banks collapse. The system is based on the people being in debt.

[TheHjky]

so why the hell they dont rebel? every nation deserves its leadership in some way. even the harshest dictatorship needs the consent of the majority. they may fail but at least they show they deserve freedom like Iranian activists etc

[AfroN1nj4]

@TheHjky why they don't rebel? they'd get killed idiot. they live in fear. the only way to stop all this is to send a team of black operations through the chinese border and kill every member of the dictatorship.

[TheHjky]

@AfroN1nj4 every dictatorship kills the rebels idiot. every dictatorship come to an end when a significant part of her subjects raise their heads and show will and courage to fight! nations deserve their rulers. we hear rebellion in Iran and china, back then in eastern block countries. but hear nothing of the north koreans. unless they raise their heads, dont expect anything of the americans.

[inday050]

i really cried out when i see this movie really sad for the life of joon.

[Graham6762]

At least north koreans are not slaves to fractional reserve banking and a debt based money system.  A patronage system of bailing out failed companies that is communism here.

[ManoftheBeret]

@Graham6762 Yeah, go ahead and tell a North Korean refugee whose family has died in camps or starved to death that, sure, maybe you don't have any human rights, or food for that matter, but at least you don't have fractional reserve banking! See how well he reacts to that shit.

[FunnyChloeMichelle]

@ManoftheBeret Wow! The audacity of that commentor! Some people!

[ShadowCrashed81]

@Graham6762 yeah we're so oppressed compared to North Koreans!

[SpudForce]

@Graham6762

Such naivety, it's almost amusing. If you hate it here so much, maybe you should become an NK citizen!

[elconrad2]

@Graham6762 i actually thought you were joking at first, but you really need to broaden your perspective. Also thats what happens in your free market system, least you are not sentenced to death or sent to a labour camp for wanting to get medicine for your sick family.

[KiraKirin]

@Graham6762 this is totally an idiotic statement that u made here.. what u have just said clearly have shown that u belittle their sufferings that they had suffered under the oppressive dictatorship. Please make responsible comments to do justice for the people who fled North Korea for freedom. You bring shame to the educated world for posting a totally irrelevant comment on their huge sacrifices by comparing with economic bailouts.

[BDParadigm]

@Graham6762 oh ya right, avoiding the fractional banking system and starving to death is better than fractional banking system and comfortable life? Use your brain idiot

[TheTollundWoman]

@Graham6762

You think you have it so bad being "enslaved to fractional reserve banking and a debt based money system"- you have NO IDEA what its like to be enslaved to a totalitarian dictatorship. If you ate dinner anytime in the last week you should really STOP COMPLAINING about capitalism.

[sewagedweller]

hmm if they go the china usually they go as family , NK will either execute or send rest of family to slave labor if they catch em .

[woden1809]

@sewagedweller It is fairly common for individuals to cross into China to work or purchase goods and then take them back into NK. Often one family member will leave first to be joined later by the rest of the family. They prefer to go with their family, but often they do not. In SK, many of the psychological problems of NK defectors are related to the guilt they feel at having left family behind. Of course, if they are caught you are right, they are sent to the camps.

[sewagedweller]

@woden1809 i know NK is awesome , its like one big theme park for stalinist russia .

[woden1809]

@sewagedweller I think you have misunderstood what I said. I never implied there wasn't persecution in NK. I was just pointing out that you are incorrect to say that individuals don't go to China without their families. It is common for individuals to flee the country alone, facilitated by traffickers or bribed guards. Of course, families also leave as a group the same way.

[sewagedweller]

@woden1809 in not saying you are right or wrong . all im saying is that NK is like soviet union under stalin , minus heavy industry .

[MikeUSUK87]

Wouldn't it to dumb though to go alone because when a family member goes to South Korea, the North Korean gov't can usually hurt the family of that person.

[ilovewii11]

@MikeUSUK87 i was wondering the same thing. Maybe he didnt know that o_o

[234fas]

i love republic of korea

[sangyuni96]

so sad...