North Korea - See The Real Country

For many years North Korea has been considered a closed country, and there is little knowledge in the world about its people and the way they live. What they eat, what they drink, what they wear and what they have in their minds. I am Alexey Yaroshevsky and I'm going to tell you in this special report.

The camera spots a smiling North Korean girl. She is enjoying an intimate moment with her boyfriend in a Pyongyang park. It is quiet and peaceful here, just like it is in the rest of the country nowadays. But it hasn't always been this way.

The Korean War in the 1950s left the country in ruins, especially in the north, where many historic sites were devastated by bombs. Pyongyang also suffered greatly. The United States dropped 428,000 bombs on its 400,000 population.

Official North Korean history credits this man, Kim Il-sung, with the country's subsequent rise from the ashes. Fifty years ago this young and energetic politician had overwhelming support. His speeches at demonstrations attracted hundreds of thousands. Whether it really was Kim Il-sung who brought the country back to life is still debatable, but the North Koreans claim he created an economic system which revived the country within just one decade.

In order to encourage the people to work harder the government had to find a hero. So it looked to a legend for the answer.




Footage courtesy of RT.com - Copyright RT.com 2011
Used with kind permission.

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[alunhill]

North Korea and Russia are very separate countries... odd that people are thinking they're the same country!

[alunhill]

Press possibly not welcome in those areas .. if they exist ... same as US and Guantanamo - secret!

[bestorigultom]

The Presenter exactly don't look like Russian

[12123188]

It is a shame what western propaganda can do. It is sure that NK has inmense propaganda, but western propaganda is well hidden and very harmfull. It is a fact that NK suffered hard, but that is not odd at all: The eastern block collapsed. But NK somehow survived, and now it goes every year a little better. And i think that untill 2020 NK will be a quite good country to live in, and the country will be one of North Koreans and not a country occupied by foreigners.

[kayzeemoschino]

Russia is a terrible country and anti America....rt channel is a stupid channel run by stupid Russia leaders...shame for this lie

[TommehBabeh]

Wow, I used to love Russia Today until I saw this piece.

[dickstoyevsky]

Wow. What a propaganda peice....nothing about the concentration camps and torture and famines?

[calvinchan100]

read "nothing to envy"

[calvinchan100]

its all fake....how sad and how one can have no freedom .....