Kim Jong Il's Foreign Adventure - North Korea

North Korean villages in the Siberian wilderness?

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We take a madcap look at one of the weirdest experiments of globalisation: North Korea's deceased leader Kim Jong-Il exporting his people and propaganda machine to Russia in a bid for cold, hard cash.

"You should see their way of living. They live in smelly barns in multiples of ten," a Russian police chief tells us as he drives towards the Korean village. Speaking to the Korean loggers as they take a cigarette break the picture is painted in even starker terms: "What he's saying here is that the majority of workers have a ten-year plus labour commitment to live and work in the middle of nowhere for almost no pay." So why do they do it? As ever the North Korea propoganda machine is present to remind the workers of the 'home land' and the wise teachings of Kim Jong-Il and his father Kim Il Sung. A sign at the town reads: "Kim Il Sung lives with us forever." Yet travelling into one of the strangest of North Korea's frontiers, it is clear that the hermit kingdom's isolationist tactics are not paying off in these camps. Will new leader Kim Jong-un continue the bizarre experiment?

January 2012

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• North
• Korea
• Kim
• Jong
• Il
• Labour
• Camps
• Russia
• Propaganda
• Experiment
• Money
• Journeyman
• Pictures

[bungalah]

i love this guy i'm a lso a Canadian and i'm from russian decent))

[theonestar1000]

For all you who want translations click the annotations box, you'll get excellent translations.

[ArizonaWildcats]

How did they let this dude into crazy North Korea.... Twice?!

[smedlings]

Extremely well made and very interesting. Definitely worth a watch

[GunShyLoyalist]

Lol great documentary

[SamuraiPie8111]

I love you.

... ok

[st4r0y3]

the Russian kid is a troll

[MrPointforward]

.Jesus, what's with all the drunk Russian dickheads ruining the docu?

[FarewelI]

@riddlemeshit Are you serious? I think you should check your eyes - read my comment below again, it clearly says 'Canadians'. Seems like you are the one who should get your facts straight, idiot.

[riddlemeshit]

@FarewelI He's not an American. He's Canadian. Get it right, moron!

[FarewelI]

@trupoed12 Couldn't agree any more. What an impolite bunch of idiots, these Canadians were. Though they were there to record the way of living of these North Koreans in the camps and finally didn't even made their goal, they should have respected their rules. The Koreans even said it as polite as possible. What a disgrace. Rednecks.