insanely synchronized children dancing at the mass games in north korea

[DarkkestNite]

You know, I wonder where they got all these kids. Most of North Korea's population is dirt-poor and living off of corn meal because they can't afford rice.

[eddabed2]

if they dance out of time their whole family dies

true story

[oliberalone1]

my eyes!!!!

[ReemDay]

Snow white and the 10 billion dwarves

[littlerhythm]

It's CRAZYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!

[spiliada]

Horror 0:16 -34, than the real hell at 0:45.

Incredible.

[FABIOSPK]

do it right or your mommy dies...

[stephymoorable]

what the shiit lol

[dtminifun]

if you get out of sync, your parents will die. thats how they train them

[ZeroTendency]

... It's a mirror trick...

[Sweetcleopatraa]

much better than toddlers and tiaras

[MrCaptFalcon]

Could you imagine looking for your kid in that crowd?

[viva4ever520]

@MrCaptFalcon I think it's a honor if your kids can be part of this game in North Korea, the family might get extra supplies from Government.

[EmiRozitu]

@viva4ever520 Yup, for a kid to perform in these games is like the ultimate honour. I saw one documentary (not sure how true it was), but the family got a TV because their daughter took part in the games twice.

[DigitalGunStudios]

damn asians!!!! i call cheat codes

[xAyaLollikies]

Human Pixels in background. Saves a LOT of Electricity.

[Zavon415]

lol Americans will never do this

[euroalbanian88]

@Zavon415 maybe 50 years later

[kristineyweenie]

O_________________O

[billpg]

The one kid that's slightly out of step on the day will probably be executed. Enjoy the show.

[djw101]

I couldn't help remember a line from Peter Hitchen's article about his visit to North Korea. He said of the Arirang games: 'It is the only show I have been to where the cast is far bigger than the audience'.

[roygbiv330]

its like human image pixels.

[whathecabbage]

Amazing what discipline can do....

[EricHaverpowell]

They must have been severely punished whenever they made a mistake.

North Korea is best Korea

[Maloy7800]

@EricHaverpowell Oh yes! VERY severely! Maybe even almost as severely as young Canadian hockey players and figure skaters.

[3anaurv2]

i don't know how they can make a choregraphy with so much kid doing the same thing at the same time.

[Maloy7800]

@3anaurv2 It's called hard work! Something you should learn, mon amie. :-)

[shock80ey]

...and you can't even get one american kid to switch on the lights during a crappy christmass play at the right time.

[louroboros]

@shock80ey hmm... maybe we should stage more public executions in our elementary schools.

[shock80ey]

@louroboros That is fucked up if that is true. 

[Pikabuu2]

The trick is to take their monthly handful of rice away if they mess up.

[SageCrowIey]

north korea is best korea

[bluegreen1138]

so wrong

[adiksadiatabs]

I was expecting to see Mickey Mouse and the gang in the backdrop.

[Maloy7800]

Hmm... I don't see anything insane about it. Neither too synchronized either. To westerners this probably is something strange. Just a different culture.

[Verschrankung]

@Maloy7800 No, it's called a cult of personality and it's part of what makes North Korea one of the most backwards, oppressive countries in the world. This video is disturbing and grotesque and symbolic of the continuous violation of basic human rights in North Korea.

[Maloy7800]

@Verschrankung Excuse me, but what exactly in these children's dancing is the reflection of the cult of personality and oppression? Have you seen the children's ballet schools in US and UK and other "democracies"? Are they part the cult of Obama's and Cameron's personality? If they had any...

[Verschrankung]

@Maloy7800 Those children should be able to make their own choices instead of being forced into this shit hours a day. They should be getting an education instead of wasting their lives "pleasing the Great Leader." What this video shows is incomparable to anything in the West, where children aren't brainwashed by the hundreds to cheer for a man directly responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people.

[Maloy7800]

@Verschrankung I don't even know where to start with you. I grew up in the USSR and we did a lot of practicing for public holidays. And we did to please our parents who were watching, not "the great leaders". Those children get education, they practice AFTER school. And everything you say about brainwashing and being made to do this is just your imagination of a brainwashed one-track-minded American who thinks everything he doesn't like should be destroyed.

[Verschrankung]

@Maloy7800 I don't particularly care about your personal childhood experiences because I don't think that the USSR of the 20th century and North Korea of today are at all comparable. The title of the video indicates that they are "dancing in honor of the Dear Leader and the Great Leader at the mass games in the DPRK", who was also a mass-murdering lunatic whose father turned every building in NK into a shrine for their cult of personality.

[Maloy7800]

And the title was added by one of those children? Or someone even remotely related to the country? Or by another American who has never been within 5000 miles from North Korea?

[leprechaun426]

@Maloy7800 I see something different guys, I honestly do. I'm sure there are many people in N. Korea that feel trapped and they hate their government, but they also know they can never say anything negative. But remember that so many N. Koreans survived the Japanese occupation and subsequent Korean Conflict. They suffered, starved, saw family members murdered, were raped, and deprived. But when Kim Il-sung formed their now gov't, they experienced a reprieve from these horrors.

[leprechaun426]

@Maloy7800 Second part... Follow that up with some propoganda (every country has it constantly) that Kim Il-sung was their savior from devastation and I think the majority genuinely feel that these leaders were and are the only saviors they have protecting them. Just my opinion...

[Verschrankung]

@leprechaun426 You're probably right. North Koreans are blocked off from the outside world; they don't how bad it is there. North Korea's a disturbing place.

[Maloy7800]

@Verschrankung And with the latest additions to NDAA you better start worrying about your "great leader" who has just established military dictatorship in your own country. Maybe you should finally revert your sanctimonious patronizing American glaze from other countries and mind your own business? Think about it.

[Verschrankung]

@Maloy7800 You talk about me being brainwashed when you're the one who can't get damn a sentence out without complaining about America. I don't give a fuck what you think about my country. Yours has been slowly devolving back into the totalitarianism of the Soviet era, culminating with the latest election fraud.

[mattmatt115]

@Verschrankung Yeah these kids should be able to play Call of Duty, and watch MTV, and go on Facebook to hook up and get their peers pregnant. Rock and roll baby, individualism say no to authority! Rock on anarchy!

Yeah good call, you are so damn smart raised right here in the west no doubt. Shit, your so smart that by watching this video you have proven that North Korean children receive no education. Thanks for the insight. I've already shit it out into the toilet

[Verschrankung]

@mattmatt115 I hate American kids who sit at home all the time and play video games. I hate anarchists AND authoritarianism. There are a lot of stupid stereotypes people like you toss around that I'm really getting sick of.

And if you're going to make fun of how smart somebody is, try not to confuse 'your' and 'you're'. You've not only shown your stupidity, but you've also been arrogant enough to stereotype me. There a reason why the world calls American stupid and arrogant--people like you.

[mattmatt115]

@Verschrankung The last thing i worry about when typing a comment on Youtube is the spelling i use for "your"

I tend to use the shortest spelling, while completely ignoring grammatical prowess. It is not in my interest to worry about such minor details when railing someone for being such an idiot. You will learn this in time, padiwan

[Verschrankung]

@mattmatt115 When you make stupid mistakes you leave yourself open to being called stupid.

[mattmatt115]

@Verschrankung Oh, and haha by the way, im not American, nor was i born in America and i thank the good lord for that wonderful blessing. I got the chance to grow up without indoctrination, and made a kick ass life for myself, while getting into one hell of a worthwhile career. Can you say the same?

[Verschrankung]

@mattmatt115 You can spew ignorant bullshit about the US and North Korea all you want, all you are proving is how out of touch you are with the real world. Really sad considering how much older you are than me.

[royalstarfish17]

Discipline is what the West needs.

[OwlAlwaysLoveYu]

This is what they practice their whole lives doing. :/ Pretty sad and pointless

[Maloy7800]

@OwlAlwaysLoveYu Yeah! MUCH better to lie on the couch and play videogames and if mommy dares to not bring you your healthy and nutritious hamburger, you call child protection services and report abuse!!! THAT's the true meaning of life! :-)) Get lost, yank.

[OwlAlwaysLoveYu]

@Maloy7800 Wow who pissed in your cheerios? Way to stereotype someone. Perhaps I should be calling you "brainwashed" as well since your basing your generalization on whatever you perceive from entertainment media... >_>; Not all Americans eat Hamburgers all day and sit on the couch and play videogames. I can proudly say that I don't stereotype people from other countries much like you do. :/

So go outside and go find someone to give you a hug, dear. <3 You need it badly.

[OrionSyndicate]

0:31 ASTRO BOY!

[andydeemer]

I think you mean kim jong dead

[aznsushi41]

all for the entertainment of kim jong il

[totesredic]

In the beginning I was like, wow that's really goo- and then the unicycles came.

[Morvarid06]

No disney ride could ever compare to this! Wow. These kids are micro chipped.

[Pikabuu2]

Ok first of all the backdrop of 0:15 is a lie THEY CANT AFFORD TO GET A COMPUTER IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

[mmikenajj]

@Pikabuu2 they are actually human pixels. it's incredible yet terrifying.

[momofspawn50]

@Pikabuu2 I don't think it is computerized, the image you see there is created by thousands of people holding different colored cards....similar to what you see here in the US at a football game in the cheering section. If you watch the fourteen part videos here you will see them doing it and changing from scene to scene quite quickly...it is truly amazing.

[Maloy7800]

@momofspawn50 I'd love to see all 14 parts. Where can I find them? I tried to find the rest of the show but couldn't.

[pinalo2009]

insanely? is there any other greater word for this English term

[carambola08]

Yes, they can.  Yes, they did. Why not?

[Vitalii00]

жуть коммунисты зажигают! показуха! как это гнилым несет

[vanillabeanduck]

JUST GIVE THEM FOOD ALREADY! STOP THE FAMINE PLEASE!

[itzMarioable]

Amazing.

[InfiniteUniverse88]

@J4YM5 Compelling argument mate.

[ganzorigankhaa]

WOW



[Rokondrius]

look, a bunch of asian spy kids

[interkomentarista69]

party rock anthem brought me here

[XxxRXPxxX]

This is actually kinda horrible.. no individuality.

[pmunkyandpals11]

I don't think I've ever seen this many kids in one place before D:

[InfiniteUniverse88]

Talk about a unified culture. Imagine what the human race could accomplish if we could all learn to work together, without conflict, like the North Koreans do.

[Nix4dogs]

If one person messes up in this, they get shot on site.

[Mayeatcookies]

wow thats kinda scary

[MagikGimp]

Which ones are we supposed to watch exactly? That's what's so sad about these "games".

[MrJonslife]

when millions of their own people are suffering in the towns and villages, they waste their time on this. Poor souls.

[InfiniteUniverse88]

@MrJonslife The same could be said about the U.S.

[MrJonslife]

@InfiniteUniverse88 At least those suffering in the US are not in the millions. In NK its almost everyone outside the city who are on the verge of death.

[InfiniteUniverse88]

@MrJonslife Western propoganda aside, what evidence is there that the average North Korean is on the verge of death?

[YoshidoriAnimation]

Holy shit.

[OMgGirRaFe]

ahahhhhh what the ehffff

[dillarofdenmark]

Perfect Wheres Waldo frame. 0:54 

[jagara1]

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World fails in comparison to North Korea!

[Stillwater900]

I'm just imagining them all in 10 years wearing fatigues and carrying rifles

[janmadytay]

@Foraeable It's the maniac running their country we should be afraid of...

[HinataLovesNaruto51]

This is amazing, but they need to be less worried about sychronized dancing and more about feeding their people, and why does the description say dear leader

[XShamayimX]

@HinataLovesNaruto51 When I was in South Korea (U.S. Navy sent me there for a time.) I learned that everyone raised in North Korea call Kim whatever his name is... Forgot how to spell it. Anyways, the North Korean leader is always referred to as "Dear Leader" or, sometimes, "Fearless Leader". Mostly Dear Leader if I remember correctly.

Also you'll see in every home at least one picture, usually a very large and fancy one, of their leader in the main living area. Yet none of any family members.

[ImWeirdAndILikeIt]

what if you were that one kid who screwed it all up and everyone hated you

[BrianKMediaDotCom]

Isn't that nice...Just like little robot ants...Wonder how many were executed for being out of step.

[andydeemer]

Oh yep, nothing sinister at all. (Except the scene in the "A State of Mind" documentary, where the kids admit they don't have mats to practice on, instead attempting these head-flips in a concrete parking lot, in freezing winter. "When you fall, it hurts, but you just remember the Dear Leader and the Great Leader, and the pain goes away," says one kid. Real nice....)

[Ortheos2006]

Synchronized dancing is nothing sinister, it is actually a sport. The north koreans just do it on a massive scale, and who can blame them, it's an activity for these kids to do.

[Ov3ract1ve]

In North Korea they know how to raise the children. Do it perfectly or get sent to camp.

[matt605]

Americans can't do it. Don't say they're robots just because you can't do what they're doing.

[GhostOfAStranger1]

Damn...imagine how fucking gruesome practice must've been. Poor kids.

[matt605]

@GhostOfAStranger1 Practice would be gruesome for Americans because we can't do anything near this precise on such a big scale. Don't say they're robots just because you couldn't do it.

[GhostOfAStranger1]

@matt605 Did I say they were robots? Was I even criticizing their capability?

[matt605]

@GhostOfAStranger1 No you did not. It's fun if you can do it. If you can't, then practice would in fact be gruesome, as it might be for Americans, who have nothing comparable to these displays.

[djay00009]

@matt605 what are you blabbering about ? Listen its hard for these kids to treated like that , Who do they display it to ? think about that ? Their Leader ? He is such a bad dictator , simply even worse than muslim nations

[MrHabibun]

@djay00009 and u brought muslim in here? u think ur leader is better than muslim nations' leader huh? stfo!

[djay00009]

@MrHabibun you stfu , Compare Iran to USA , see the amount of freedom in US compared to Iran,Somalia, Chad .... then say , Talk about rebellion in Egypt , in yemen , in Libya which is going on presently , then question me .... Idiot , Just cause your a muslim raised in a nice nation doesn't mean you know what goes on in all Islamic nations .

[Ravengaurd6]

fear at work

[CJKoko1000]

It kinda reminds me of cheerleaders in the US. But of course it's less creepy when kids in the US do it...? Just because the kids in this vid are better behaved and learn the routine better does not mean that they aren't still individuals and nice normal kids...North Korean people aren't defined by their fckuing leader, and anyone who slates them is just too simple to understand that simply being born into a free country does not entitle you to look down your nose at others who appear different

[eXcommunicate1979]

@CJKoko1000

Their country is in the middle of a famine and their government puts on shows like this for propaganda purposes.

[gordonchalupa]

creepy

[Ovidiu91]

Oh my land!!

[sozmuso]

Oh Land brought my here :)

[Mayday246]

And this is the essence of why North Korea is fucked up.

[jakieboy99]

OH LAND!

[lobbert8]

@forgeable this is their military.

[Sasilmin]

@KillJunglll 딴나라당 알바 ㅋㅋ

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

wtf

[Forgeable]

Well, shit. If their military is anywhere close as synchronized, i'd actually be somewhat afraid of them.

[awesomeness2571]

@Forgeable /watch?v=DnZBgiZ3d8s

[blanketshades]

@Forgeable THIS IS THEIR MILITARY

[xraidedlok]

@Forgeable it is even more

[Verschrankung]

@Forgeable Be very, very afraid.

[lmFromNorway]

This makes me sad.

[oozykoozy127]

Wow