I think even communists and socialists(if they're real ones, I think there are almost none in this world) should be against this regime of repression.
@manchester117 this is not about whether a country is running in a way america believes is right, this is a question of people having the freedom to be human beings and having access to basic human rights. This documentary shows people who have been through hell in concentration camps, which in todays era, should not exist anywhere. What happened in the past happened, but the situation in North Korea now is their people's reality today, and it is an devastating truth which cannot be disputed.
I don't believe a single word that American documentaries say. America would make every country in the world seem bad just as long as their country looked like an ideal country. Just because ones country doesn't go along with the beliefs of yours; doesn't mean that it is worse. If America never came into Korea it would still be one great country today.
@manchester117 It has nothing to do with beliefs. It's how you treat your civilians. No countries perfect, not even the US. We do make other countries look bad & make ours look good. But only because we have a large influence on them. But at least we don't teach our civilians how to hate other countries. It's very inhuman that you have to kill your own civilians just because they don't want to believe that you're god, not to mention use 11-year old girls as prostitutes. That's quite illegal.
@manchester117 It's not the fact that if the US never invaded Korea, then it would be a great country. The Japanese invaded Korea first. It brought shame to Korea. We only got involved because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese loss Korea to the US in WW2, the country slowly split into 2. NK was tired of being ruled by major powers. They wanted to unify Korea but by the use of the Soviet Communist's methods. We wasn't having that. That's why they're split, because of the North.
@manchester117 & lastly, I don't think that it's just American Documentaries. Other countries are probably documenting North Korea & is saying the same thing we are saying. You just don't hear about it was much because it's not like it's open to the American Media. & North Korean not only don't like the US. They dislike other outsiders as well.
@DatEnigmatic No country has the right to say anything about another country, until they truly know everything about it. Every country hates on North Korea because they don't know it and because it is different from most other countries
@manchester117 I understand very well. I was born and raised in the inhumane shi hole called Soviet Union. And even Soviet Union was way way better than the hell on earth shit hole called North Korea.
The Soviet Union was definitely not a shit hole. You should be ashamed of yourself for calling the country of your birth a shit hole. You have turned against your own country and have been brain washed by the Americans.
Actually even the Soviet had to denounced Stalinism, the ideology believed by Mao and today's Kims in order to survived. And we all know that PRC today too had to denounced Maoism (same shit as Stalinism really) to survive. The problem is communism will not work as humans are not perfect and also Marx never believed in single party leadership...
@manchester117 No. No it would not. And don't tell me otherwise, because I AM Korean with parents who had to live the nightmare that was the Korean War. You cannot seriously be saying that, if Korea was united under the flag of Pyongyang, there would be no starving children, no guns pointed towards the people, and that the people would have a voice. Go to Korea, LISTEN to their testimonies, and I dare you to say that again.
@gmrqorsprite I will tell you otherwise, because I do have a right to state my own opinion about North Korea; Just as anyone else does. Now I'm not saying everything would be perfect if Korea was under a unified flag, but it would be a unified land of the same people! If the country unified you could have the militarized North help with militarizing the South, while the South helped economize and modernize the North. You should also hear out what other people have to say about the topic.
@manchester117 The South was classed as a third would country not too long ago, and the only reason it's not now is because people there were allowed to flourish. Sure, if the communist push succeeded in subjugating all of Korea, we would be unified. But it would just be one giant North Korea, not the balanced Korea you painted in your comment. They have daily rations there, and they can't ask for a gram more. Their rations were recently severely cut from 700g of rice to 200g a day.
@manchester117 People are STARVING. My kin, are DYING at the hands of their own. If Kim IlSung managed to take control over the whole of Korea back in the Korean War, what would have happened?
We, more than anyone else, wish to be one whole again, and I commend you for valuing a unified country. But we're neither naive nor ignorant enough to know that simply giving them what they want will ensure our chances of being a healthy nation. Kim JongIl needs to stop. NOW.
@gmrqorsprite Haven't you ever heard "I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it"? Koreans ARE the "same people". We're just split by different political ideas, and our Northern kin have shown us that theirs isn't working. To be honest, I find your reply really naive. The "North" could help with militarizing the "South" while the "South" helps economise the "North"? The only reason the "South" is so "economised" is because communism never took hold.
North Korea is out of the limelight just now. Important things happening in Egypt and Tunisia, but the people go on suffering . Can't forget them. The piano music is by Michael Gordon. Red Poppy music. You may be able to find a recording of it. the Korean music is by the People's Army chorus.
I've watched quite a bit of NK documentaries and just finished watching this one and I have to say, I'm glad more attention is being paid to NK these days. It's horrible knowing how people are made to suffer just for being who they are while the "Dear Leader" indulges in life's pleasures. On a totally unrelated subject, anywhere I can find that cool piano music to the film? lol it sounds very dramatic.
This movie is available on Netflix live stream (and dvd). I just watched it and it's given me a whole new outlook on the Koreas. These people (especially in the North) have suffered a lot.
thank you. the film is now showing on The Documentary Channel in the US and available in North America on DVD and I-tunes, netflix, etc. Was on TV in Poland. Still Western Europe or Scandinavia. sorry. wish we could get some distribution there.
@Rain2103 You should be disgusted with yourself, supporting an authoritarian regime. You are no socialist, you are just a plain conspiracy nut that hasn't been in living in the real world. It's people like you that encourage the stigma on socialism.
Looking forward to seeing this documentary...DVD or in a theater soon! Thank you for your work and spreading information about the suffering in North Korea.
@NCHeikin Yes, but what about us europeans? I'm a scandinavian guy who is really engaged in the situation in North Korea and would like to see the documentary.
good for you. yes, it's been a lonely task, but now NK is getting more and more attention and becoming less of a marginal issue. Close the camps! Free the North Koreans!
I made a (VERY) low budget documentary on North Korea's regime a few years ago in high school because no one else had. I'm glad to see someone is finally tackling this important issue. Looking forward to this documentary.
They deserved it.
HenryJohnson3 1 month ago
Fat speccy cunt, rot in hell.
thagrammarnazi 2 months ago
im slap hapy that fat fag is dead
penguinlord76 2 months ago
My hero
Nappy1987 2 months ago
I think even communists and socialists(if they're real ones, I think there are almost none in this world) should be against this regime of repression.
joefreeman856 2 months ago
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joefreeman856 2 months ago
Can someone tell me where i can watch this online??
yobiwolrd07 7 months ago
@yobiwolrd07, why not just dl it.. google Kimjongilia 2009 DOCU DVDRip XviD-JETSET
iceroadfuckers 6 months ago
@iceroadfuckers
thanks
yobiwolrd07 6 months ago
@manchester117 this is not about whether a country is running in a way america believes is right, this is a question of people having the freedom to be human beings and having access to basic human rights. This documentary shows people who have been through hell in concentration camps, which in todays era, should not exist anywhere. What happened in the past happened, but the situation in North Korea now is their people's reality today, and it is an devastating truth which cannot be disputed.
BlaisingWaters 8 months ago 6
@BlaisingWaters He's a serbian. Serbians are not normal human beings. They think Gaddafi and Stalin were great leaders who cared about their people.
normalais 6 months ago
What is the song at 1:31 I love it
zukyyy 8 months ago
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adamsan87 8 months ago
I don't believe a single word that American documentaries say. America would make every country in the world seem bad just as long as their country looked like an ideal country. Just because ones country doesn't go along with the beliefs of yours; doesn't mean that it is worse. If America never came into Korea it would still be one great country today.
manchester117 8 months ago
@manchester117 It has nothing to do with beliefs. It's how you treat your civilians. No countries perfect, not even the US. We do make other countries look bad & make ours look good. But only because we have a large influence on them. But at least we don't teach our civilians how to hate other countries. It's very inhuman that you have to kill your own civilians just because they don't want to believe that you're god, not to mention use 11-year old girls as prostitutes. That's quite illegal.
DatEnigmatic 8 months ago
@manchester117 It's not the fact that if the US never invaded Korea, then it would be a great country. The Japanese invaded Korea first. It brought shame to Korea. We only got involved because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese loss Korea to the US in WW2, the country slowly split into 2. NK was tired of being ruled by major powers. They wanted to unify Korea but by the use of the Soviet Communist's methods. We wasn't having that. That's why they're split, because of the North.
DatEnigmatic 8 months ago
@manchester117 & lastly, I don't think that it's just American Documentaries. Other countries are probably documenting North Korea & is saying the same thing we are saying. You just don't hear about it was much because it's not like it's open to the American Media. & North Korean not only don't like the US. They dislike other outsiders as well.
DatEnigmatic 8 months ago
@DatEnigmatic No country has the right to say anything about another country, until they truly know everything about it. Every country hates on North Korea because they don't know it and because it is different from most other countries
manchester117 8 months ago
@manchester117 'If America never came into Korea it would still be one great country today."
The only people who would agree with that statement are NOT koreans. Meaning, they really don't have a clue about the situation in North Korea.
normalais 6 months ago
@normalais
You're an American fanatic. There is not point in arguing with you because you will never understand
manchester117 6 months ago
@manchester117 I understand very well. I was born and raised in the inhumane shi hole called Soviet Union. And even Soviet Union was way way better than the hell on earth shit hole called North Korea.
normalais 6 months ago
@normalais
The Soviet Union was definitely not a shit hole. You should be ashamed of yourself for calling the country of your birth a shit hole. You have turned against your own country and have been brain washed by the Americans.
manchester117 6 months ago
@manchester117 Huh? Foook off you braindead commie. Soviet Union was a shit hole. Fuck you and fuck soviet union .
normalais 6 months ago
@normalais
Actually even the Soviet had to denounced Stalinism, the ideology believed by Mao and today's Kims in order to survived. And we all know that PRC today too had to denounced Maoism (same shit as Stalinism really) to survive. The problem is communism will not work as humans are not perfect and also Marx never believed in single party leadership...
Balencian 3 months ago
@manchester117 it was a shit hole. He meant the system and the government not the people, culture or land.
TheMossad921 5 months ago
@manchester117 No. No it would not. And don't tell me otherwise, because I AM Korean with parents who had to live the nightmare that was the Korean War. You cannot seriously be saying that, if Korea was united under the flag of Pyongyang, there would be no starving children, no guns pointed towards the people, and that the people would have a voice. Go to Korea, LISTEN to their testimonies, and I dare you to say that again.
gmrqorsprite 4 months ago
@gmrqorsprite I will tell you otherwise, because I do have a right to state my own opinion about North Korea; Just as anyone else does. Now I'm not saying everything would be perfect if Korea was under a unified flag, but it would be a unified land of the same people! If the country unified you could have the militarized North help with militarizing the South, while the South helped economize and modernize the North. You should also hear out what other people have to say about the topic.
manchester117 4 months ago
@manchester117 The South was classed as a third would country not too long ago, and the only reason it's not now is because people there were allowed to flourish. Sure, if the communist push succeeded in subjugating all of Korea, we would be unified. But it would just be one giant North Korea, not the balanced Korea you painted in your comment. They have daily rations there, and they can't ask for a gram more. Their rations were recently severely cut from 700g of rice to 200g a day.
gmrqorsprite 4 months ago
@manchester117 People are STARVING. My kin, are DYING at the hands of their own. If Kim IlSung managed to take control over the whole of Korea back in the Korean War, what would have happened?
We, more than anyone else, wish to be one whole again, and I commend you for valuing a unified country. But we're neither naive nor ignorant enough to know that simply giving them what they want will ensure our chances of being a healthy nation. Kim JongIl needs to stop. NOW.
gmrqorsprite 4 months ago
@gmrqorsprite Haven't you ever heard "I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it"? Koreans ARE the "same people". We're just split by different political ideas, and our Northern kin have shown us that theirs isn't working. To be honest, I find your reply really naive. The "North" could help with militarizing the "South" while the "South" helps economise the "North"? The only reason the "South" is so "economised" is because communism never took hold.
gmrqorsprite 4 months ago
Debatable. Try comparing democracy with totalitarianism, rather than communism with capitalism.
NCHeikin 10 months ago 7
Please notice this video was very professionally made.
If I have money and time, I can make a movie that looks capitalist country 1000 times worse than this.
Anyone can, because there are so many more horrible things happening in capitalist country.
dongsoola 10 months ago
i just finished watching the entire thing...so powerful and such tragic stories...
i think this documentary should be viewed by many more people.
jasminehks 10 months ago
True, but endangered species don't have million man armies, nuclear weapons and ruthless rulers.
NCHeikin 1 year ago
@skatRdudes911 How do you do that? Is there a way to petition them?
NCHeikin 1 year ago
@NCHeikin
Since I can't put a link to another website here, you'll have to do an internet search for
"How to Have Your Video Featured on YouTube"
ohdaysoo 11 months ago
If the N Korean people were an endangered animal species, the world would take action to save them.
ohdaysoo 1 year ago
Can anyone find out what the second song is in this video? Thumbs me up so everyone see =D.
bigdragon8me 1 year ago
North Korea is out of the limelight just now. Important things happening in Egypt and Tunisia, but the people go on suffering . Can't forget them. The piano music is by Michael Gordon. Red Poppy music. You may be able to find a recording of it. the Korean music is by the People's Army chorus.
NCHeikin 1 year ago
I've watched quite a bit of NK documentaries and just finished watching this one and I have to say, I'm glad more attention is being paid to NK these days. It's horrible knowing how people are made to suffer just for being who they are while the "Dear Leader" indulges in life's pleasures. On a totally unrelated subject, anywhere I can find that cool piano music to the film? lol it sounds very dramatic.
ShadowValentine 1 year ago
does anyone know the songs name in the background in 1:29?
claymorefann 1 year ago
Can anyone get the theme song ALONE? It's a really nice documentary btw i saw it on Netflix.
bigdragon8me 1 year ago
Glad to hear you were able to find it at the library, and even gladder you will be buying it!
NCHeikin 1 year ago
My local library had a copy. The film was excellent. Now I"m going to buy it.
ohdaysoo 1 year ago
This movie is available on Netflix live stream (and dvd). I just watched it and it's given me a whole new outlook on the Koreas. These people (especially in the North) have suffered a lot.
gimmedavidb 1 year ago
I REally love the second song they use .
bigdragon8me 1 year ago
NO release so far in UK. It has played a couple of festivals. Sorry, wish it was!
NCHeikin 1 year ago
Anybody know if this film might be released in the UK?
rubberritchie 1 year ago
thank you. the film is now showing on The Documentary Channel in the US and available in North America on DVD and I-tunes, netflix, etc. Was on TV in Poland. Still Western Europe or Scandinavia. sorry. wish we could get some distribution there.
NCHeikin 1 year ago
Only the first 22 seconds are so great - I like to cry because of the deep feeling of Love and Eternity.
Rain2103 1 year ago
how about us international people? will it be available for streaming somewhere? of course paying for it.
NattHrafn 1 year ago
The reason of starvation in DPRK (North-Korea ) is not because of Juche and Songun but because of embargo by USA-imperialism and their slave-states.
I adore DPRK who is not a capitalist main-stream-country.
Rain2103 1 year ago
@Rain2103 go live there idiot
t88supraman 1 year ago
@Rain2103 It's nor a social-democratic country either.
89murph 1 year ago
@Rain2103 You should be disgusted with yourself, supporting an authoritarian regime. You are no socialist, you are just a plain conspiracy nut that hasn't been in living in the real world. It's people like you that encourage the stigma on socialism.
89murph 1 year ago
@Rain2103 Retardation has never been more obvious. Seek medical help...
flyvid 1 year ago
Looking forward to seeing this documentary...DVD or in a theater soon! Thank you for your work and spreading information about the suffering in North Korea.
JEANNIE7432 2 years ago 2
KIMJONGILIA will open in NYC at CINEMA VILLAGE on E. 12th St. on MARCH 19, 2010. First theatrical booking!!! Come see it!!!
NCHeikin 2 years ago
I wish I could make it to NYC, but I'm all the way out in Washington State. I hope you'll have some screenings out West and/or get this on DVD.
JEANNIE7432 2 years ago
I hope you can makeit to NYC. Tell your friends. if it works there it will play in more cities around the US.
NCHeikin 2 years ago
@NCHeikin Yes, but what about us europeans? I'm a scandinavian guy who is really engaged in the situation in North Korea and would like to see the documentary.
NattHrafn 1 year ago
thanks for your interest. it'll be playing in theaters around the US starting around Nov, and will be out on DVd probably next summer.
NCHeikin 2 years ago
The only thing that saddens me is that I cannot find a screening anywhere near me. Any chance of this coming to DVD?
AgentMulder3667 2 years ago
good for you. yes, it's been a lonely task, but now NK is getting more and more attention and becoming less of a marginal issue. Close the camps! Free the North Koreans!
nc
NCHeikin 2 years ago
I made a (VERY) low budget documentary on North Korea's regime a few years ago in high school because no one else had. I'm glad to see someone is finally tackling this important issue. Looking forward to this documentary.
FuzzyDuck 2 years ago 17