The Vice Guide to North Korea Part 10 of 14

The Vice Guide to North Korea Part 10 of 14
Vice Guide to North Korea VBS.TV

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3#

Getting into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VBS has ever dealt with. After we went back and forth with their representatives for months, they finally said they were going to allow 16 journalists into the country to cover the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang. Then, ten days before we were supposed to go, they said, No, nobody can come. Then they said, OK, OK, you can come. But only as tourists. We had no idea what that was supposed to mean. They already knew we were journalists, and over there if you get caught being a journalist when youre supposed to be a tourist you go to jail. We dont like jail. And were willing to bet wed hate jail in North Korea. But we went for it. The first leg of the trip was a flight into northern China. At the airport, the North Korean consulate took our passports and all of our money, then brought us to a restaurant. We were sitting there with our tour group, and suddenly all the other diners left and these women came out and started singing North Korean nationalist songs. We were thinking, Look, we were just on a plane for 20 hours. Were jet-lagged. Can we just go to bed? but this guy with our group who was from the LA Times told us, Everyone in here besides us is secret police. If you dont act excited then youre not going to get your visa. So we got drunk and jumped up onstage and sang songs with the girls. The next day we got our visas. A lot of people we had gone with didnt get theirs. That was our first hint at just what a freaky, freaky trip we were embarking on
— VBS Founder Shane Smith

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[hcanuck7]

"Korear"

The strange accent is curtesy of an American defector to the DPRK who was originally from Tennissee who was in turn made to teach English to N. Koreans.

[MrLaser77]

hahahaha wow cassettes....those are like basically non existant now

[Seanox21]

Philosopher my ass I saw that computer homie uses google for all his so called "answers"

[culwin]

"Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly"

Yeah, I understand those bastards now.

[midwaymonster30]

@hcanuck7

I believe you meant to type Tennessee... right? lol

[boxnife]

I can't stand assholes who ask what the name of every song on YouTube is, but WHAT THE FUCK IS THE NAME OF THE SONG AT THE END?

[theeuprise]

that psychedelic music near the end was pretty cool

[DesmosediciAlice]

hahaha after watching this, anyone else feels like complaining about U.S. government :D

[RebelRadius]

@hcanuck7 It sounds as if this speech was computer generated and it is very good.

[galimir]

man,Im watching this shit and thinking-how in the world these ppl have gotten to this crazy system?were they not thinking with their f...g heads?