Yodok Stories Documentary Trailer

[skuggedreper]

Technically the american/south korean army could just attack the north at any time, because the war is still going on, they are just having a "break". The same goes for north korea, but the high powers like usa want north korea to implode and thus ask ask us to help them, most likely they would then go back to "Korea" or become a part of China, since they have a long standing relatinship and the communism.

[skuggedreper]

In the second world war, they said never again, still this goes on today...

[JivickiDzemal]

Yodok soll ärger als z.B. die Konzentrationslager des Zweiten Weltkrieges sein...

[Sarranid]

If NK had oil the US woud have beaten the **** out of it. At least the prisoners would be free.

[McChodemuffin]

Imagine creating a full on documentary like The Cove... except in the different North Korean camps! just to let the world know the truth.... If there was ever a chance I would definately help out :( i went to sign a petition the other day about all this, they didnt let me cos im under 21.... sucks

[skuggedreper]

@McChodemuffin Come to Norway, its 18 ;)

[sibazbijan]

in the last months i read and watched a lot about north korea and especially yodok. i also read "the aquariums of pyongyang".

last night i dreamt i was standing in front of the gates of yodok and the guards caught me. that dream was so incredibly realistic, i haven't been so scared in a long time. with all the information my brain had stored about the camp it was like being dragged into hell.

sadly hundreds of thousands of people didn't have the luxury to wake up at some point like i did...

[KellyKorean]

So sad :/

[sarzamineiran]

Congratulations to our North Korean comrades in the DPRK.

Long live North Korea!

[zexeru]

i dont see america or france or uk or any other country , member of nato or un triyng to liberate these people ! yet in libya they were all over eager to help libyan people from their oil !

[ChristopherOdom]

@zexeru You are correct.

[watcherob]

@ChristopherOdom No, it's not correct. North Korea is a nuclear threat, a very difficult land to invade, has a huge military (poor but huge) and it's almost impossible to get information in or out. It's not that easy. Oh, and don't forget the military are mostly civilians who are forced to fight, so you'll be constantly killing innocent people.

[pussykiller89]

@zexeru listen u dont see coz it have cost. a lot of money! and build country from zero its very expensive. First operation, then the stabilization of the political, humanitarian aid and keeping North Korea for half a century by South Korea. Unfortunately, one can not afford (or do not want to pay for it) ...

[nick4uuk]

@zexeru There needs to be a serious uprising in N.K. and the issue here is that the people are so well brainwashed they actually 'believe' they owe their life to the dear leader.

[Weedisgoodshit]

so sad the world can't face the truth

[sohltofang]

So.... we went to Iraq.... instead of North korea... greaaat.

[srnixdorf]

PROPAGANDA if you ask me. Well done tough. Glad they could bring attention to this issue, its helpful.

[pawel29pl]

this film is PROPAGANDA?

[Alicia6387]

@pawel29pl Is the true! is what is going on in North Korea!

[SouthernSky]

I had a bad dream after watching this document. I've seen many other document about dprk, but this one was really special. Stories presented here were very disturbing and shocking, The worst thing you cant just escape from there. Chances of being hunted by the Chinese and handed over to dprk are very high, plus they put all members of your family to a fucking death camp.

[whatsyourproblem94]

i saw this docomentary at school yesterday. seeing this really makes me appreciate living in a country where i can do basicly everything i want to. and of course i fell really sorry for the people who live there, and i wish i could help them..

[ChristopherOdom]

@whatsyourproblem94 I don't have the answer, but it is indeed a horrible situation.

[DasTuppen]

i do not understand why american government and the rest of the free world is not rescuing the north korean people from this atrocity. i dont understand why the world is so silent about north korean people. and i do not know how to help them.

[ChristopherOdom]

@DasTuppen The American people don't know what's really going on, and shame on the American government for not playing a more active role in liberating the North Korean people. I have a feeling that sometimes their strategy is to simply let some of these dictators die off and then form a relationship with the new person in power.

[fedinhorax]

@ChristopherOdom

you have to take into account the destructive power that north korea has. Seoul is in reach of all artillery, even the oldest types of them, so invading north korea would mean a mass killing, never mind the 1,500,000 brainwashed north korean soldiers that will fight to the death. it's not really simple to justify an attack on NK

and after that, what will happen? the same as is happening now in iraq?

[yourface1115]

@ChristopherOdom a lot of the north korean people absolutly hate americans. i saw it in a difffernt north korean documentary. and why does america always have to be the hero?

[Alicia6387]

@ChristopherOdom NO, is because if they even try to do something about it

Kim il would get mad and throw missiles like a crazy ass!.. he's got the fourth biggest power on the world today when it comes to weapons of mass destruction

[0olka]

Sadly the history makes a circle again. It's like during the second world war when the whole world knew about concentration camps and extermination of Jews Poles Roms and did nothing about that fact. I saw this documentary yesterday& I'm terrified that I live in times that things like this still happens Anyway I understand thats very complicated issue& it isnt so easy to free NK I mean it's possible to do but what next? People are brainwashed. They dont know anything about the rest of the world

[RudeDan]

@DasTuppen

There is nothing we can do for now. North Korea has artillery trained on Seoul and the sudden collapse of the regime would result in a humanitarian crisis. China and South Korea would be flooded with refugees they cannot handle. I think the best we can hope for is a change in leadership that gradually opens up to reforms.

[TheTollundWoman]

@RudeDan

Re: "collapse of the regime would result in a humanitarian crisis."

The regime itself IS a humanitarian crisis. The entire reign of Kim Jung Il has been one massive humanitarian crisis. MILLIONS of people have been starved, tortured to death, and shot by this regime.

good god...did hitler's death also "result in a humanitarian crisis"??

[RudeDan]

@TheTollundWoman

Of course it is a humanitarian crisis, but the collapse would also bring down South Korea and China and destabilize the entire region with potentially dangerous consequences. With military intervention, Seoul would undoubtly be the target of North Korean artillery (one of the most densely populated cities in the world) and tank ROK's economy. It's easy to make these decisions from an arm chair in the West, but the Southern government has stated clearly it does not want the

[TheTollundWoman]

@RudeDan

3 million people starving to death, 200,000+ people imprisoned in concentration camps, 24,000,000 people deprived of their most basic human rights- you don't see anything "destabilizing" or "potentially dangerous" about that?? good god. I didn't know Neville Chamberlain had made such a comeback...

[RudeDan]

@TheTollundWoman

Don't mis-characterize my statement as if I am comfortable with the North Korean regime.  I'm simply saying that military intervention would further worsen the situation with many more casualties. Also, three million people are not starving to death right now. While hundreds of thousands of poor people in the North face starvation, your three million number is from the great famine in the 1990s.

[TheTollundWoman]

@RudeDan

you're not "comfortable" with it, you just don't think there's any alternative.

military intervention would save lives in the long run, just like american intervention in ww2.

[RudeDan]

@TheTollundWoman

The North Korean regime doesn't have any viable chance of expansion like the axis in WWII, the comparison is null.

I think the best we can hope for is a change in the party, maybe if more moderate generals take over and gradually warm up to the South. South Korea's former President Kim Dae Jung was actually have quite a bit of success opening up the North, but the US' hostile attitude derailed negotiations.

[TheTollundWoman]

@RudeDan

RE: "the north korean regime doesn't have any viable chance of expansion"

Except for nuclear weapons, continued support from China, the fourth largest military in the world (1/4 of the national budget spent on the military even at the height of the famine) and rockets pointed at Seoul, the regime has no viable chances of expansion...

[RudeDan]

@TheTollundWoman

The Chinese would never fight for North. If you've studied the region at all you would know that the Chinese fear, int he event of the North Korean regime collapsing, millions of Korean refugees flooding its borders and destabilizing their country. Such an influx of refugees would compromise China's development plan for the next twenty years.

[RudeDan]

@TheTollundWoman

The North's military is outdated, the use of nuclear weapons would be regime suicide, the North has no chance of expansion and they know this.... They just want to hold onto power.

[TheTollundWoman]

@RudeDan

Dae Jung's negotiations in the 90s may have been "a success" in bolstering Kim Jung Il's power within the parameters of the 'sunshine policy', but even at the climax of these "succesful" negotiations millions of North Koreans were being starved, tortured, imprisoned in concentration camps and killed.

[TheTollundWoman]

@RudeDan

the negotiations had NO positive effect on the human rights policies of the regime. while from a strategic standpoint it may have been temporarily successful, from a moral and humanitarian standpoint it was a total failure.

[TheTollundWoman]

@RudeDan

If the "more moderate" generals you speak of are willing and ready to release all political prisoners, allow free elections and a free economy, and remove the restrictions on criticizing kim jung il, then that would count as change. if the "more moderate generals" are willing to stop bombing the south in exchange for the world looking the other way while their own citizens are starved and tortured, thats not "change", but more of the same.

[RudeDan]

@TheTollundWoman

You should accept the world for what it is.  If anyone officials in South Korea, Japan, or China read your statement they would laugh. Change comes gradually; it's immature and dangerous to demand immediate change in such a complicated situation.

[TheTollundWoman]

@RudeDan

Replacing Hitler with Himmler or Ribbentrop wouldn't have constituted a "success". Replacing Stalin with Khruschev wasn't a "success" either. Replacing one tyranny with another, one dictatorship with another, is never success.

[RudeDan]

@TheTollundWoman

Also, we in the West should not override the wishes of the South Korean people and the South Korean government are in overwhelming opposition to military means of reunited the country.

[TheTollundWoman]

@RudeDan

Millions of South Koreans do want the country to be reunified, the government itself has an official "ministry of reunification", South Korea continues to lay legal claim to the land of north korea. while it is commonly recognized that reunification will take time and money, it is still the long-term goal of govt. policy and the desire of the vast majority of the people

[RudeDan]

@TheTollundWoman

Yes, most Koreans want unification, I never claimed otherwise, but this doesn't mean by military means, which you advocate. If you look at any polls, the majority of Koreans want peaceful and gradual reunification. They also recognize that the change will come slow and probably not in the near future.

[RudeDan]

@TheTollundWoman It does not want the Northern Regime to collapse. 

[Alicia6387]

@DasTuppen The are also with china, so messing with them would be III WORLD WAR!

[ahsramarsha]

@DasTuppen the north korean military is frighteningly gutless & huge.

[elconrad2]

this type of thing proves the importance of raising awareness of this issue. NO MORE KILLING IN THE DPRK!!

[RMSTitanic87]

I hope one fine day Yodok will be shut down and its prisoners released. It may take an invasion or the death of the north korean leader to see that happen. How in the hell can this crap go on happening.

[DigimonFan99]

i saw it ... its sad. . . listening to these stories.. .its Sick.. those damn communist

[meleszenawi1111]

Kalahridudex international law does not permit this and all those who call for the destruction of the great DPRK die in hell I am glad North Korean government does what it can to survive and Firesteel if you really say that then you have never been there I have been five times and have been near this area and people are not terrified I went and talked to people without my guides and minders watching me and talked to them and they were okay they liked the regime. So all kimand DPRK haterssuckit

[firesteel1]

I have been there. I wasn't allowed to go to the camps but the people are terrified.

[aagravka]

I was really shocked when I saw this movie, especially because it's the 21st century now and I live peacefully in Europe, while millions of people in North Korea are suffering so much.

[SMGJohn]

Hope they rat to hell because they deserve it mostly people that are in those concentration camps there have spitted on the government

[warpedcomedy]

I have studied many areas around the world, and none are more disgusting than this sick country which should not even exist in the first place. One day, North Korea will fall and be absorbed into South Korea.

[Kalahridudex]

international law says that if there is a major humanitarian crisis in a country, other countries may invade it. the US needs to get its ass out of Iraq and eliminate the North Korean regime. and shame on China and South Korea for helping that concentration camp of a country.

[SpiralZen]

I thought concentration camps were a thing of the past! This goes on right now!!!!

[shadowfox1383]

@SpiralZen As long as there's evil, nothing is a thing of the past.

[ChristopherOdom]

@shadowfox1383, sometimes I believe the nature of man has not changed since the dawn of time. What Kim Jong Il is up to is downright sinister.

[mkandyunafan4]

I wish I could have seen this musical when it was in the U.S. I am interested in the documentary, it is interesting to see some of the faces of the people who inspired the musical.

[sissoed]

Glad to see this on-line, to bring attention to this issue.

[gridsplicer]

This is overdone. The documentary's subtlety is gone with the horrible voice.