Plot twist: the most famous building in North Korea was built by grian which is why there's no photos of the back (there's no back)

"We're going to do this fun thing where we try to build the entire earth in minecraft. I think it'll be a neat community project that could last years." Later: "We have to topple the North Korean government in order to complete this project."

Half way through I forgot this was a Minecraft video 💀

I think we need to send a strongly worded letter to Kim Jon Un demanding we want to recreate his country in minecraft.

I mean, no one can blame you for not being able to accurately recreate a 1:1 scale of one of the current worst countries on the planet; especially if it's because there simply are not enough images to highlight the multiple humanitarian crises currently happening.

Interesting fact: Volvo once received an order of ~1000 cars to North Korea. North Korea has yet to pay off the 234 million euros bill

Next up: "So we snuck into North Korea to record it and build it in Minecraft"

At first I thought it's because they were trying to stop you from building it, after watching I've discovered it's impossible

I can just imagine one of NK's top ranking officials browsing KZfaq and stumbling on one of Pippen's BTE videos, then frantically making a phone call a few minutes later, "Great Leader, we've uh, got a situation. No they're not making The Interview 2. It's much worse."

So sad how Pippen wont ever see the day light again

if you observe the satellite images, you can see in most cities in North Korea, the amount of slums that are present, just behind buildings blocking any tourists from seeing them... Such a sad reality, I hope some day North Koreans get to live in better conditions.

3:45 he didn't steal the poster, they only had footage that someone (it was a small blur you couldn't make much of anything out) tore it down, he was basically tortured into confessing to it, kind of in poor taste to claim he did it when he was more than likely completely innocent and then murdered for it

I’m in Taiwan on vacation atm. Even though things are fairly “westernised” here, I’ve noticed Google Maps is still pretty inaccurate at times (which makes navigating the many small narrow alleyways quite challenging).

next video: We attempted to start a revolution in North Korea to build it in minecraft

"no one's allowed to see the back of the building" Griancore lmao

imagine if 200 years later someone plays the earth 1:1 map to look at how the world was before, goes to Nort korea and only see a large empty green area and think "wow, there´s empty, so I think no one interesting thing was here before, probably was not important"

Not so fun fact Otto didn’t steal that photo he was framed… there are photos of him at a New Year’s party at the same time the poster was “stolen”

You are really doing good for the planet! You are a historian and bringing attention to those suffering.

And here I forgot that you were talking about building the north korea in a 1:1 scale in Minecraft, thats how good the video is

This nation-sized prison honestly scares me the more I think about it. Also... *9:25* *9:45* Grand reveal: _North Korea is run by GRIAN!_ None of the buildings' backs are finished, and instead of building them the government doesn't allow people to photograph them.

Idea: let 2b2t players build North Korea, either they somehow do it 1:1 or make it a wasteland, and since there is no way of knowing how it really looks like, it won't matter

if you want to build china you can use baidu maps, i think its far more accurate than google, but idk about the streetview

If you look up Jaka Parker, he worked for the embassy there and was legally allowed to film. You can watch those videos to get a better picture.

More than likely, these high end buildings only look good from the outside and are likely bad and empty on the inside... The so called largest building in Pyongyang is built with just the frame in mind and nothing else. Nobody lives in it, nobody works in it (except the construction workers who are building up the interior slowly, and most of all, it's dark inside. Completely dark and dull. But who knows, maybe that's changed in the 5 years since we got any real update from the building... or maybe not.

10:36 WHY IS THERE A HEAVY MACHINE GUN…oh, wait, yeah, North Korea…but why show it to the tourists!

I didnt expect this to be almost a documentary on the north korea situation geez

Actually, building North Korea may not be too hard when it comes to rural landscaping. There are plenty videos of video views of rides on the Korean Railway throughout the country showing close ups of buildings you wouldn't be able to see with satellite view. And, since North Korea is a communist nation, many buildings across the country are copy paste and are almost identical, so once you see one close up of a certain building, you can keep creating that building in areas you recognize it from satellite view in places with 0 on the ground coverage

Correction: Allegedly stole a poster of the wall. Just because North Korea said he did it doesn’t mean he did.

You could compare North Korea and South Korea as the slight extremes of their economic ideologies. North Korea is a totalitarian regime, hell-bent on secrecy and total control of its populace while attempting to mask itself under smoke and mirrors. South Korea is a corrupt democracy, holding only a twisted mirror of themselves while their populace suffers from the majority of monopolies active in the state. (Did you know that nearly every South Korean president has been arrested after their presidency) I mean, in the end, South Korea may be considered a better place than North Korea to live in due to it having opportunity, they are just an interesting economic experiment.

10:00 Grian must be responsible for building that place That's why they don't allow you to take pictures of the back

in 10 years we'll wake up to the news of north korea's government being overthrown by people wanting to build it in minecraft

1:49 This is the most realest "What" I completely agree with.... WHAT?!?!

Everything new I learn about North Korea strikes horror into my core. I mean that genuinely. And this is just a minecraft video.

I say you just black-out (cover in black concrete blocks) any counties that have done this. And allow people to build temporary personal builds in the sky on top of it (e.g: +15y levels). These could then be moved down if the map data is ever released. That way the culture can remain whilst explicitly saying we do not tolerate or condone the leader's behaviour.

bruh... at 10:36 you can literally see the boat has a turret on it... what is it... they scared of the tourists so they have a weapon on board to execute them? xd

For anyone wondering, North Korea does not allow Google maps because it is a concern to their national security; the same reason why the USA does not allow Google maps to display military secrets. If North Korea were to allow this, they worry that their neighbours (South Korea) who are very strongly backed and trained by the USA will be able to easily invade them using the data from these maps. This is not far fetched considering that the USA are very much afraid of North Korea and its crazy rocket man dictator. Similarly, if China were to allow the same, because they back North Korea (and are pretty much the only reason why North Korea still exists currently) then if North Korea's crazy little rocket man did something then they would also be dragged into war with the West. China prefer to take a more neutral stance currently so they don't piss other countries off, that is until you double cross them, hence why when Russia went and did something China specifically asked them not to do because China wanted to build a train route or something they lost favour with China, and is also why China have not come out swinging with Russia in this war with Ukraine, but is also why the West hasn't exactly come out swinging against Russia (because nobody wants a war with China). If these things happened, and war with China happened, China also worry that Google maps could be used to gather data that would be paramount to an invasion or war with the West. Another reason why both of these countries don't allow this is due to the censorship that both dictatorships employ. Their whole dictatorship's existence solely relies on this censorship system, telling the citizens there is nothing happening while many bad things happen in the background. If they did not apply this censorship they would be exposed to the world and also to their country which would be detrimental to the existence of the country. China relies mostly on exports, if their censorship went away and all of their misdeeds came to light, no country would buy from them and their economy would collapse within weeks. North Korea relies on its relationship with China and Russia, but also relies on its nuclear capability which they often use as a scare tactic against countries like the USA who fold and send medical or food aid to them. If North Korea's censorship went away, these nuclear targets could be destroyed, and combined with China's economical collapse and Russia's ongoing war they would have nothing left to deter an invasion. This is also why people that attempt to circumvent the censorship are considered enemies of the state.

It honestly sucks to be one of those North Koreans having to live a life where you have no rights and you’re basically living in a prison not a country

i love your hair :), seriously though, this situation is bad, and you did a good job of explaining it, while still staying close to minecraft.

bro did not use yeongmi park as a source 💀💀💀

Funny you made the skidrow comment on Washington D.C. - Having been to D.C. myself more than a few times and living not far away, I can safely say the homeless population are ever-present from the moment you step out of the train or arrive in D.C. There are bad neighborhoods you don't want to go to either, literally just a few streets away. I walked the streets at night which you would think the capitol would feel safe to walk at night, but you take just one turn into a street and it turns real bad real quick, especially homeless with tents sleeping everywhere on the sidewalks. There are some real worn down areas that could certainly use improvement. The roads are in worse shape than my hometown roads in some areas! This is the CAPITOL! Granted there is far more DC has to offer than NK obviously.

I can help you, although there is a language barrier, there is a 10 episode documentury of a Lithuanian entering North Korea (some footage was in China before North Korea)

0:16 honestly, i've heard so much miss information about my country that i stopped believing what the media says cuz i'd be a hypocrite accepting what the medi says about other countries but not my own

make the areas you couldn’t map out a desolate nuclear wasteland; which is probably whats gonna happen anyways

No no no no no. The reason South Korea has not allowed google maps is because it does not need to. We have our own online map system that actually works with the advanced public transport system and it's tied to our bigges search engine(Naver) so it is even more convinient. If you search for, say, a restraunt in SK on a google maps, 9 times out of 10 it doesn't even show the correct open and closing times. However, all that information and more(the operating hours, how to get to that location from where you are at, etc.) There is no need to provide to google and/or pay them to accurately record map data and all the other stuff, because what we have is already very well established.

Thank you for using your platform for sharing this. It's not an easy subject to bring up but an important one we should not ignore none the less.

„Funded by the Northkorean government“ what it actually said: „German publicly funded Media“ xD

It'd be funny to just send balloons to photograph China's road data

Lol Otto Wambler. Cmon bro. That big of story? It’s Warmbier. Like warm-beer.

4:43 you could at least have searched for a north korean/chinese or russian one. No you take a german broadcasting service nice work!

tl,dr you made a error, please correct. DW is not north korean it's german, and the state has absolutepy 0 say in what they broadcast. They just fund it. 4:40 what are you talking aout? DW is a GERMAN public broadcast service. The german public broadcast services are news companies wich agree to refuse from any other funding through for example advertisement (for the most part) and in turn get funded through german tax payers money. This was designed by the USA and UK after ww2 to prpvide the german public with a domestoc, impartial news coverage and has since then achived a position pf hogh regards and trust among the german public. They are so impartial that german public broadcasting news providers have even uncoverd scandals and cases of corruption within german parties and the goverment. In fact they, more often then not, critticise the very goverment of germany which provides there fumding, simply becouse they know there is nothing the german goverment can do against it.

I just had the realization that the republic of east gorteau, which is supposed to be a parody of the DPRK in hunter x hunter is a way better place to live in than the actual real life north korea how is that possible 😭😭

if only we can be completely anonymous and omnipotent to record the tyrany of these countries, i sure do wish to strive for that cause

this video went from i want to build north korea in minecraft to the atrocities that are going on in north korea that are preventing us from doing it.

what if someone was to wear those extremely tiny spy cameras? like is there any possible way to detect them?

Noooo pippen you used Yeonmi Park footage

Are we just gonna IGNORE THE FACT that at 3:45 he said OTTO WAMBLER!?

I know this and everyone knows this. If superpowers did exist. N. Korea would be the first place to be liberated.

as long as you dont go to north korea you its fine to build north korea

4:45 is this supposed to be a joke?

bruh this is sucha well made video- halfway through i forgot this was suppose to be a minecraft video

Why even try? Just buikd something else in the meantime Might aswell just generate the nether in that area, it's not yhat different

It’s crazy that all of those buildings in North Korea, are probably 80% empty.

Someone should go there on a trip and take a tour while wearing glasses that have a camera 😂 but if you get caught don’t say I told you to do it

Feel bad for anyone living in North Korea

Well then, we have space for slander then. Just make the North Korean area an absolute hellscape, there wouldn't be much of a difference anyways 😅

4:08 the sheer disgust i feel everytime i remember that the governments of america and such tolerating such things is unparalleled

Why not make a big sign dissing kim jong un in that part of the map. Then say the only way to change it is to build the real thing. Maybe his ego will actually cause him to do it.

*bro risking his life for this*

Great video, poor people :c Does anybody knows the song's name from 11:02, I forgot the name.

Google said "nah" to South Korea, " give me all dem secrets."

South Korea: Naver Map app is a thing; also in-car GPS in Korea also has 3D mapping. Google isn't the only map tech out there.

This is my moment of recommending the show "Crush Landing on You"

Kim Jong un should tour pipens minecraft builds.I think he would be convinced.

9:33 Proof that the camera man never dies

If they did let you recreate it, would you put mines all over the border between north and south?

I wonder if anyone has tried going on one of those tours with a concealed body cam in an attempt to update the maps.

They're not blurred It's the real top down view

You said sometimes it will show it is supported and funded by North Korea, but the screenshot you showed said it was a German Public Broadcast service. How is German anything to do with North Korea? I feel like that needs to be explained.

*normal rural house* Omg why is the world so harsh, anyway why don't we spend more money on rebuilding things in Minecraft (6:32 and 15 seconds after)

i almost forgot i was watching a minecraft video for a few minutes

I wonder when Minecraft Earth will be finished

10:30 my cellless Brain laughed when he Said kid from Ohio, 😔

South Korea has its own public map system, using the browser Naver, for navigation

I didn't even realise this was a Minecraft video till the last quarter of the video 😭

When you think about it, if North Korea or other countries don't authorize Minecraft Builders to make their country, they'll be fully empty, which would show that the countries are extremely poor and don't have a single house.

i look forward to the future where build the earth becomes like fourchan and build the earth in minecraft anyway.

This is a good video about North Korea, almost forgot it was really all about Minecraft lol

Weird thing is that most militaries have satellites which have already mapped out those areas. This is just blurred out for the public and doesn't stop foreign intelligence for the most part.

This doesn't seem like too big a deal. By the time we finish everything we have good data for it will probs be enough time for private Satellite tech to advance enough or for the authoritarian regimes to collapse and for the poorest countries to industrialize.

I love national sociali- WAIT NO I MEAN COMMUNISM I NEVER SAID NATIONAL SOCIALISM.

skid row is practically right next to the white house, you ever seen videos from downtown washington DC? the police sirens in the presidential speeches outdoors

I think a person dedicated to this build will go to NK and start to secretly record infrastructures.

"DW is a German public broadcast service" Deutsche Welle is not north korean fundet XXXXXDDDDDD

Honestly, I can see a bunch of people demanding to recreate these conturies on Minecraft. As long as no war happens, it would be interesting.

1:13 I caught that pun and so did the auto captions.

People could visit or get teams from south korea at least, also some pictures of the country north korea have been taken from the borders of china

Just build a big wall around where North Korea should be with "FREEDOM" in the wall.

LONG LIVE TO DPRK!!!!

Yknow it’d be an interesting series if you did a series on building the most totalitarian states. Maybe up next could be Eritrea, Nicaragua, and Turkmenistan.

If you somehow know somebody who can get there hands on synthetic aperture radar photos you likely could map North Korea but its rare to find those and you likely need someone who has some level of clearance to get your hands on one.