What a load of cr*p. If they wanted to stop you, you wouldn't make it out of your flat.

@@brane2379 Yeah Brane, you know everything and have been everywhere, and at all times. Drop some more of your profound wisdom on us while you're here because your story is fascinating.

Omg they have a super 8 motel!!! Those are total crap here in the states!

@@brane2379 you seem like an angry dude.

You guys wanted to reach 100k subscribers the other day, now it shows over 400 k... is that accurate ??

Thank you

MVP in the comment section! Thank you!

Asian written language is both bizarre and interesting.. I would presume the characters are "conceptual"... It must be really difficult to read and write in any of the Asian languages, because those characters er symbols are pretty complex... I mean obviously in English if you hear a word you can usually just spell it because English is a phonetic language, but if these characters are conceptual then you would have to memorize all of them, not only that but it must be difficult trying to explain abstract ideas via character format.

@@Swoop187OG187 believe it or not, korean hangeul is the easiest of all the asian writing system, its not like the chinese which is symbolic.

@@Swoop187OG187 Actually the Korean alphabet was designed to learn quickly. When I first started learning to write Hangul (Korean alphabet), it took me one day. It's actually easy.

It seems to be a school. It also says vertically, "lets learn for Josun." The block letter are drawing a blank. It could be the name, but doesn't look right. It could also mean, "knowledge, virtue, body," but I didn't think North Koreans used Chinese like that. i.e. it could be phonetic writing of "知德體" . Sorry, I don't know simplified Chinese.

@@victorwong3311 I thought Josun too but not too sure so i didn't put it down Thanks

Well, we all knew it had to have _something_ to do with the Great Leader.

@@deusexaethera To me it just another propaganda!!!

reads eerily similar to the Chinese sign at 6:40. Those slogan basically ask you to be a loyal party member.

But they had no ponytails.

@@warrenlauzon5315 That's a good thing.

The definition of adventire

@@Sk0lzky driving round China in a bike and being on the North Korean border. You was there when?!?

I discovered these guys recently. Damn man, it's like Spies Like Us but intelligent and deliberate. If people think they've got balls, I ask em to even think about the Stoic balls it would take. Let alone post it. Wow. In years to come this will end up in do cos as the main source. Champions un-recognised. For now.

Thank you! 😎👍

Is it any good? I’ve never watched that movie.

@@matty6848 I enjoyed it. It's stupid funny, but still funny.

@@matty6848 bro the movie is fucking hilarious. A must watch if you can

No it definitely doesn't lmfao

Except no interview or interaction of any kind and not even close to being similar.

Good for you buddy

me 2

same

I also.

I thought the same thing. Very much like looking back into a 16th century.

thank you!

Except feed their people

@@artygunnar to be fair, they just didn’t put their minds to it.

I am very naive, and child like, when I see these sorts of things. I mean when you get down to the core of the human race people like to get along, be left alone, and just live. Everything else is politics which destroys everything it touches.

You sure about that? Looks more like 조선은 xx하면 한다 but I literally can't make out that one word before 하면 but the last part doesn't look like 됀다

I'm 30 years old and have traveled extensively, I can tell you this type of stuff takes guts. My palms are sweating watching, and to me China looks like a place I would never ever want to be locked up, especially as a foreigner.

You can’t call out a regime

@@goclunker lol what? You definitely can an should call out regimes like the CCP

It's called a "Killzone" they clear it to give machine guns clear fields of fire.

@@kdrapertrucker still better chance of surviving then going through the DMZ

Westerners don't think about how it looks when you're doing innocent stuff. The only time I ever encountered "sensitivity" to photos was on certain USAF bases and in a German Polizei building.

*VERY* lucky

@@daneaxe6465 He is from South Africa... HE is not a westerner.

@@EC-dz4bq But with British ancestry no less.

@@noggin48 IF that's your case, then we ALL have have African ancestry.

It is indisputable fact that all Governments are good at theatricks. That is how they trick the people. That is DEMO-cracy Something that looks real but is functionally flawed. Also: Th form of government known as a DEMOcracy, is an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor "ADMINISTRATOR" the U.S. of A commonly and incorrectly described as America. This Act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955

@@andrew_koala2974 They may all be theaters, but one is using card board assets with no food while some are in VR and enough food for obesity. But hey, they're still the theaters, right? No difference at aaaalll.

Democracy = you're supposed to do what we say because the other people want it.

@@Gubers, ever studied Aristotle?

@@andrew_koala2974 "That is DEMO-cracy Something that looks real but is functionally flawed." Demos is literally the greek word for "people" you idiot. "Also: Th form of government known as a DEMOcracy, is an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor "ADMINISTRATOR" the U.S. of A commonly and incorrectly described as America." Who shit in your brain? Democracy predates communism by two millennia.

well most of those signs are

The dystopian thing sound like a stretch to most ppl living in China. If not for NK refugees being NK refugees, China would basically be like heaven for them. Just ask the guy who came from South Africa

@@lemons2300 If "you're living in a dystopia" sounds like a stretch to you, the inhabitant of the dystopia, then the CCP empire or IngSoc rulers or whatever the ruling force of whatever Brave New World it is has it made.

@@NajwaLaylah A place where u barely have food or dunno when u die in ur sleep for being white, vs a place where a 9 to 5 routine life is so mundane you decide to play chinese checkers with some half naked old man next door because you rage quit counter strike

@@lemons2300 Sounds like you have a very personal vision. Do mass stabbings of kindergartners figure into it anywhere?

@@NajwaLaylah Not rly tho. Just find some chinese person and talk about it idk And knife is less effective than gun. Guess what happens often in countries where there are guns everywhere. Also, look at South Africa now. Oh wait, look at it since a decade ago. Also, I take that "a very personal vision" means you have fist hand experience. And surprise surprise, I'm not North Korean. Anyways, there are ethnic Koreans living in China. They literally made videos about it. Of course, North Korean just means the nationality.

You dont actually care that much. Dont pretend like you do lmao

@@TheDsRequiem Nobody cares about you and not even pretending 😂 🤣

@@TheDsRequiem What is your fucking deal in this comment section

I know, right? I know they make it out ok (obviously), but man alive I was sweating bullets.

Hehehe me too... 😁

YES! I'm like, Risking your freedom for a pic? *Really???* I was imagining hundreds of mini-Lingpings with ckubs storming out of the bushes...

Also, there's no way I will ever have the guts to go to China and sight see like you guys have. So I will gladly live vicariously through you two haha

East Germany also had tons of land mines, so every now and then you'd hear one go off usually by some poor deer or other wildlife

Many borders are bare like that.

soviet union did the same thing. To keep people in and shoot defectors.

So pretty much what Winston said 😂

I thought the number 4 was evil in China. So does that mean the 4 communist things are evil? "4 consciousnesses: of the (communist) ideology, the whole, the core, and the line"? 🤣

You are right some of us appreciate that , and some don't . They don't understand that voting for politicians that push for more government and government spending , have to get that tax money to pay those gov .salaries from somewhere, ..it means more bureaucracy , increased costs of living , of doing business , and less liberties ..

I'm here in South Africa, waiting for Zuma to be arrested, 😂

For me lekker means tasty

That would be smakelig I believe

My god, the horror....

@@jeffprice6421, it's a relief to realize that these people never come up with anything original. The whole point of Communist propaganda is not to guide or to educate but to insult the intelligence of the listener, so that he will stop thinking, in fear that he would need to disagree about everything and end up totally, existentially isolated. The purpose of the slogans is to create a kind of alternative reality. Or rather unreality. There are two alternatives to this that I know of. One is to openly and knowingly vie for materialistic pleasure and success in the Western fashion. Another is some kind of Aristotelian or medieval Christian metaphysical worldview.

When seeing Communist slogans, a Western mind often thinks of them as kind of instructions. "You are supposed to start with these principles and then knowingly and willingly implement them as an individual." In reality, a Communist citizen is supposed to do what he is told to do, but in his mind he is supposed to rationalize and interpret his actions as stated in the slogan. "By scrubbing this toilet I am building an utopia and a millennial peace under the guidance of our wonderful leader." The end result is that you will scrub toilets until for some reason or other you drop dead.

Lake Ohrid. A couple of scientists from my university go there regularly to collect lake sediment data

@@miliba 🏆 🎵 Tada 🎵 🖖😎👍 ❗

Spot on 100%. I remember going to Corfu years ago as a kid on vacation with my parents. The hotel we stopped in our room and balcony faces east to the Albanian western coastline. which in 1988 was still under strict communist regime. The Irish guy who was stopping next door to us had really powerful Ex military binoculars and he said to my dad one night talking over the Balconies on the top floor, to look at the western coastline which he did and we could see Communist Albanian soldiers patrolling the beach, fully armed. And same as your view we could see lights coming from the shore line, but nothing else. No bars open, no hotels no people nothing but a military presence and that was it.

6-7 years ago we drove with my family through europe in a roadtrip. We knew we had to drive through Albania and weren't all that happy about it. We timed our drive so we could drive non-stop. Everywhere we looked we saw mercedes-benzes, i started counting them and soon i had to stop because i hit 50 and it was the first city and only half an hour in or something. Yet, no one seemed to be working, the sides of road in the city were filled with groups of men looking at us weirdly, we really didn't feel safe at any point. Plus the roads were just terrible.

@@alaric_ Have you seen any cars owned by people who are too poor to afford one, like high up in the mountains ? By the way, many of these cars are second-hand, imported from "rich countries", I personally knew men who buy cars with damage (due to an accident or something similar) in, for example, Germany or the Netherlands and then export them to "poor countries" as "scrap", there they are refurbished and sold. When over there I was offered a Mercedes (!) on loan, it was owned by the man who's apartment I rented, normally he used it to transport guests from and to a little airport nearby, after some inspection I refrained from this offer, the vehicle seemed reliable nor safe. Instead I rented a "Yugo" from Avis (Fiat licensed build), it was brought over from way up north and stupid enough left outside on a parking lot the night before it was handed over to me, the next morning when I collected it, chrome parts, hubcaps, mirrors, wind-shield wipers etc. were all gone (in those regions people tend to hide their cars in a garage or barn against this), luckily it was still reliable and someone from Avis came over with a spare wiper. I've seen many cars driving around without wind-shield wipers, only when it became really impossible to drive without one (and only one !) was installed temporarily (when not needed it was stored in the glove compartment (which I did too), the other was as spare part at home hidden in a safe place). Note, I'm talking thirty years or more ago. :-)

LMAO

You want to see that sort of bleak landscape a little closer to home? Just take a vacation to the Dominican Republic and from there take an excursion to Haiti. (The two countries share an island).

@@ZeldaZiplock Just as how this video described the Chinese side as having trees and the North Korean side as having few trees due to them being used up, the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic shows a similar contrast.

@@ZeldaZiplock At least Haitians are not being killed for leaving the country. Lots of them actually end up going to the US, for example.

@@diogorodrigues747 Granted Haitians are technically able to emigrate, although finding a host country is far from easy for them. But I was referring to the striking contrast between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. When you fly over Hispaniola,, the Haitian side on the island is uniformly brown while the Dominican side is a lush verdant green.

C-Milk interviewed her on his Laowhy86 KZfaq channel. Check it out, it's a great interview.

He did already >.

They are brainwashed most Chinese people have no idea what goes on in North Korea if they harbour a defector it's a death sentence. That's why the system works intimidation propaganda, and sheer terror.

You know that you dont HAVE to care about someone else right

@@TheDsRequiem That's very true if you pretend it never happened then it never happened thank you for your wisdom.

@@TheDsRequiem I'm being sarcastic.. dumbass 😂

One of their friends was one of the Michaels, he's stuck in prison there because of the CCP's political retaliation against Canada.

I know what you're saying, but I think these two know very well how close they were. Luck is involved, but I think it comes down to instinct, intelligence, and something akin to spacial awareness. Experience and being observant plays a big part. For example they mentioned not staying in one place for too long. Keep moving. That is very wise and has I think, saved my ass quite a few times.

@@gordonliu3972 they have done some really risky stuff like even the Chinese mafia situation could have ended badly if they didn't pack up and leave the town. I think they are lucky because they're not American.