A few days ago, a wise man said, "North Korea is the world's largest and most successful prison program".

Being able to escape is an accomplishment in itself

Im a South Korean. I knew an older gentleman, a Korean War veteran, who escaped thru Russia. He was a border officer stationed near Russia, and somehow fell in love with a Russian girl named Sofia or Sophia, who knew how to speak Chinese. Song also knew how to speak in Chinese, so that's how they communicated. He died many years ago, so I have no idea how the two even got into contacts, but the two escaped. He basically told his men to get an early night's sleep and that there would be no late night guard duty that day. However, there were other men who were under the supervision of other officers who had not given similar orders. With his own men out of the way, he took a mad dash towards Russia, and eventually got there undetected. He threw away his pistol and went to the place where his girlfriend marked on a map which was her house. She convinced her family that he was her boyfriend from China(she went to a Chinese university to study architecture), and gave him a fake Chinese passport another Russian managed to source. The Russian man who did all this found out about Song's real identity and decided to help out. He decided not to report him. The only problem was his uniform, the only piece of clothing he had. Thankfully, North Korean uniforms during that era looked very similar to Chinese uniforms(at least the color and style). However, in Russian flea markets, people sell old military badges and pins ranging from Chinese, Japanese, Nazi German, Russian, etc. This is how they sourced a Chinese badge and pinned it on his chest to make it seem like he was wearing a Chinese uniform. I still don't get why they couldn't have bought him normal clothes, but moving on. We gotta know that this was during the era of Soviet Union and the girl and her family wasn't rich. So, when they sourced a South Korean missionary in Russia, teaching Protestantism to Eastern Orthodox people, he agreed to take Song to South Korea. After contacting some people, he was able to go to South Korea. A few years later, his girlfriend came to live with him. She was able to track him down by tracking down the missionary who guided her to his church group. There, they settled in Busan and he was able to join the South Korean military. He converted to Christianity and retired as a priest in a small church, where my parents met him. He actually gave me his hat. His uniform and peaked cap was shredded to rags, but he somehow kept his field cap clean the whole time.

The fact that most images are AI generated, truely shows that North Korea is really isolated

The saddest part is not how they live, but how they don’t know how different it could be

Whenever I think of North Korea, I always feel so sorry for the people living there. I wish I could free them. I’m so grateful to live in England!

I follow Yeonmi Park's channel on YT. I also purchased both of her books, In Order to Live and While Time Remains. Her escape from North Korea with her mother is nothing short of a miracle and horrific as to what followed. A recent abdominal surgery, Yalu river crossing in winter, on to the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, into China, sold as a wife. She was 13. She and her mother eventually made it to South Korea and the U.S. It took years to find her sister. Her father didn't make it. He died in North Korea from misdiagnosed stomach cancer. One of her videos a year ago dealt with a defector who made it to China. He was captured. The video is titled: North Korean Defector Who Escaped Chinese Prison Recaptured and Fatally Shot By The CCP. I would post the link but that never works on YT. Comments with links are always deleted.

Unfortunately it's practically impossible right now to escape from North Korea. The borders across China, Russia, South Korea and even the coasts are heavily guarded now. If you see statistics, you will see that in 2021 and 2022 only 50 people approximately managed to escape. The insanity of this dictatorship only gets worse and worse and we say it couldn't get any more. I can assure you it can.

Anyone who escapes North Korea might as well call themselves the world’s best escape artists.

I feel *absolutely awful for the poor poor North Koreans*

I think there's a special place in hell for governments and leaders that control their people like this...

All of this because of the country you are born in, over which you have zero control. Absolutely horrendous. Very well presented with the darker aspects kept family friendly. Hard hitting, you really never know what direction this channel will take next 🙁❤

This comes to show how you should be thankful for everything you have

Really terrible situation for most of the people living in that country. What a tragedy for them.

I am shocked. As a UK citizen I'm disgusted we rejected them

The fact that no North Korean person will see this video is harsh 😢

Kingdom?....more like world largest self sustaining prison. (and even the sustaining part is considered lightly)

This was so wonderful to have been made! Part of this is a lot of people don't know how bad it is! They just know the people are punished for disagreeing with anything. You just raised awareness and maybe more can help.

I can't believe some people can be so evil. Thank you for showing me the truth

I'm a South Korean. It is heartbreaking that people in the North are living like that. South & North had lived in the same country for many centuries and shared the same history in the past. There are some who want unification here and some who don't, but I think before that, Kim's dynasty should end and someone reasonable should emerge there and take power. 6:18 At the right part of it, it is the photo of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea, not theirs. 11:46 It's East Sea, not Sea of Japan.

North Korea's story makes one appreciate the democracy in their own country which might not be perfect but, come on.

Its amazing how rocket man indulges in everything life has to offer but keeps millions of people living like slaves and trains them to be blind sheep

I didn’t know any of this before. This touched my heart. I wished more people knew about this..

20:21 wait a minute it is called the Underground Railroad. That is eerily similar to a similar movement that was in the United States in the early 1800s that helped African Americans who were enslaved escape to freedom and that Harriet Tubman was famously a part of.

If Kim Jong-un was an American and acted like that here, he would get a diagnosis of criminal insanity.

If anyone outside of North Korea thinks their life/country is hard, it’s nothing compared to this prison like country.

The people who escaped deserve to be in the guiness book of records

nobody in North Korea could watch this without being on a list

escaping from north korea fells like a true challenge.

I am 100% thankful for the country iam living in

I want to help these people so badly.

Thanks bro this helped a lot. I live in South Korea now

I was actually just watching a video that was similar about escaping NK the other day but this one was more detailed. So sad what those ppl go through 😢

There's a 10th option: wait until the countries reunite (may not happen) and escape the suffering.

So sad people feel the need to waste such precious time on things like war and hate, power and forcing your people how to live.. its just awful.

Excellent piece! I've never heard such a complex issue as the Korea's explained so intensely but yet broken down for everyone to understand. Thank you.

As a Polish person im sad that north koreans are working probably for saying a word like "We deserve more food!". Like we are very nice guys but sadly our country i facing threats from russia and we need resources or somthin please do not hate on Poland. I respect every single North korean expect the military there and goverment. Also i might be wrong about some things but im not sure so please do not slander/meme about this comment.

This makes me even more proud to be Canadian. We have so much empathy for others, but we have to also remember to take care of our own as much as we do others ❤🇨🇦

To learn how hard it is in each 9 routes. Refrain from taking harder routes. And he's right, an unholy amount of luck. Good thing Singapore isn't like that.

Kim jun un: Ima need you to delete this or ill send a bomb to your location

This is extremely sad.. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy

Very calming voice. Even if the video is basically a horror story

I've done research of my own on this subject bcuz it bothers me so much and I feel compelled to make a correction to some of the info Be Amazed has shared regarding the 'upper class' or 'elite' citizens, which is mostly government and military officials... First of all, the info shared here is really well researched and conveyed with accuracy and attention to detail so this is not a criticism at all, but, rather, an addition to the information that's been provided. So, that said I read an article about several soldiers that were able to defect to South Korea, one being the man who drove the vehicle across the DMZ, and after they were all given check-ups the doctors doing the exams noted that every single one of them was not only malnourished but had tapeworms!! And I mean, multiple tapeworms that were each easily 2' in length. Even the elite class are starving and, in fact, the military is expected to grow their own food bcuz the government doesn't have enough resources to provide it for them! So, when the soldiers' gardens aren't producing, they steal food from the civilians, which is always at gunpoint. Further, there is an enormous number of orphans that are left to survive on the streets bcuz the "Kim Dynasty" are such a bunch of evil, selfish monsters that they won't even spend the money to build orphanages. A journalist had snuck in a button camera to document the human rights violations and saw a little boy attempting to use a plastic bag to gather up dirty gutter water and the journalist stopped the boy, trying to explain that the dirty water would make him sick. The little boy became furious with the journalist, pulled away from him, and guzzled the water bcuz it was, literally, the only water there was to drink. There's no plumbing or running water available to civilians! Which also means that it's extremely likely that most of the population also suffers from tapeworms on top of the malnutrition. The UN is supposed to prevent these types of human rights violations, however, any decision to act must be approved by a unanimous vote by the Top Five Countries, namely the USA, the UK, France, Russia, and China and since China is an ally of N.Korea there's never a unanimous vote to intervene! Stupid? Very!! Regardless, this kind of thing can't be allowed to continue any more than Human Trafficking should be allowed, yet, we stand by and let it happen.

Im from south korea and im lucky to be in south korea

😔 wishing I could help all defectors 😞

No idea but nicely done on this video love you have a great day❤❤❤

Thank you for covering this extremely important issue!!❤

The most troubling episode ever. Excellent work.

God have mercy on their poor souls 🙏

This is why I’m happy I live in denmark

Watched three of ur videos today and learned a lot, ty ❤, also subscribed

I didn't know that there was an underground railroad in north korea too, I only knew that there was one in america

Imagine kim Jong-un watches this video 💀

If you feel useless, remember that there are more who suffered than you are.

This year the world scout Jamboree is in South Korea with scouts visiting the DMZ I wonder if some groups are planning to use the presence of often sympathetic western scouts to escape or to gain outside info

the narrators intro alone really pulls attention towards the content. very tense and suspense filled, if not for today i didnt know the situation in N. Korea was that dire. very sad

I couldn't think of anything to say I showed my family this video and with the stuff going on they said they're better off offing themselves than trying to escape it sounds worse, but they say it's better than having your innocent family pay the price for you trying to escape.

It's so ironic that the "de-militarized zone" is extremely heavily weaponised and guarded.

Bro really exposed the escape routes, ain't nobody getting out now💀

Damn, I’m Russian and this makes my home country look like Disneyland. We should send prayers to those poor people.

Too bad the people who need this won't see this

insert jurassic park “that crazy son of a b*tch he actually did it” meme here. i love anytime they cover north korea

It makes sense that none of the successful defectors would claim to have gotten out through tunnels, they don't want those tunnels discovered so that other defectors can continue to escape. Hopefully more will continue to escape that living nightmare of a country.

This is beyond sick and twisted. No human should be treated that way.. I wish we could somehow raise a bunch of money to give to the "brokers" to cover people leaving that nightmare country, so they still have money in their pockets to survive when they get there!!!

Whoever controlling North Korea should be held accountable for being so evil. This is absolutely Hell.

I hope my family would understand that I'm getting the heck outta Dodge if i had to work, and that i can't go back for them

I feel the urge to move to South Korea and join an underground team to help these people escape from that hell... what am I doing with my life right now? :(

North Korea gets bombarded with Propaganda meanwhile the USA gets bombarded with ads and commercials

When Kim John Un is gone North Korea will be free. North Korea will be remembered as a prison. Also you are great BeAmazed keep up your good work.

The dislikes are from kim jong un and his army

9:15 those guys shoot like stormtroopers

I like how he makes this video and makes it even harder for North Koreans to escape, cuz North Korean government and leader can use the internet just fine but nobody else can use the proper internet

If i could understand why some countries this strict exists

Well North Korea is something else not even a dead guy would want to rest in

well. people who try to escape, very often carry some poison to drink in case they get caught, just to quickly die rather than being tortured

I'm Korean and I'm really frustrated that 'the east sea' became 'the sea of Japan'..

Thanks for telling me the truth about my home country and it is not the paradise that I’m made to believe

Anyone can say what they think they would do in that situation, but who knows until you're in it. I would like to believe I would try to escape because my mentality is I'm already dead if I stay here, I might as well try.

I don’t think anyone should be ever allowed to govern people like that, stealing their lives from them

Hoping kim jong un doesn’t see this

I’m a Chinese and I am super surprised by how mean my country is , but I am thankful because I live in Canada

Ive learned a lot already from this. TYSM!!!

You know what I find weird about humanity? It’s that thousands of years ago, we all lived as one, single unit. But then hundreds and hundreds of years later, we became more divided, more different, more diverse, sometimes more negative. Let that sink in

You know it's serious when he hasn't cracked any jokes the entire video

Can you make a cute but deadly animals Part 2 please

And now that everyone knows, there are 0 ways out.

If you ever committed a crime just remember that being put into a uncomfortable place is better than getting your family killed or suffering right at the spot

I love the National Geographic map of the earth at night. One telling area is the Korean Peninsula. South Korea is brightly lit while North Korea is almost entirely dark.

Wow I feel really sad for north Korean people

Why can’t all these super power countries liberate these people. This is inhumane. Humans should not live like this in this day and age.

I thought I was going nuts cause I'm pretty sure the pictures in this video are AI generated but they looked close to actual photos so I couldn't even tell until one with clearly gibberish text showed up

Why dont all the broder patrol guards leave north korea?

😮 wow North Korea is HARD to escape

There's like a little piece on the north eastern part of N.K. that crosses a little part of china. Why not use that to cross a small piece of china and cross the border to the next country?

Knowing my country rejected all demands of asylum makes me incredibly embarrassed. We could help these people but no, truly disgusting

Knowing myself well to know I have a problem with authorities and my yolo attitude, I'd probably not escape myself, but die trying to get some across the border, or some of them down with me.

These people that escape north Korea deserve an award😢

2:45 On that map North Korea's outline looks a bit like old Germany's outline, when it still went further to the east...

Dprkan person: food Soldier: you have no Life now

First way 7:28 Second way 9:42 Third way 11:35 Fourth way 14:46 Fifth way 18:17 Sixth way 20:09 Seventh way 22:24 Eighth way 23:43 Ninth way 25:46