Technologically yes

I think most of the buildings are (or atleas look like they are) from that era but they have modern cars, computers, smartphones, tv's etc etc...

Brian Baer Looks like they're trapped in hell

Free Man..you do realize that Pyongyang is literally the all of the most wealthy and privileged of North Korea. Move outside of the city and there is much more poverty than any place in America.

MrCrockaG you're wrong, the richest cities and regular and small cities n towns have both a wealthy and poverty side with killings suicides and malnutrition from not enough government spending funds to create jobs in and around those areas and low funds for proper food benefits promised by the u.s. government. where I was born n lived most my life, a reservation in South Dakota called the Pine Ridge Reservation is 3x times under the poverty line of America, it is considered a third world country inside America, even with treaties made in the U.S. Constitution to provide schooling homes jobs n food for stealing most land for America. the treaties are broken and he funds are getting lower n lower and government made alcohol is distributed into our illegal alcohol reservation from white towns next to our bordering counties. they are slowly killing us off and taking more land illegally and for money, especially the president right now continuing his wasicu tradition for the government. wasicu a Lakota word in my language made for the symbol of the u.s. government, it means takes the fat, it was said to either be a greedy person, usually wasicu was preferred to the whiteman. I hope one day to to take my grandmother n our family out of the reservation and to a better place

Do you have any videos of your trip we could see?

xpto41 I thought as much but how anyone could go and film in the NK country side!? that seems to be riskier than smuggling drug

xpto41 like beijing ，China

@@bing4126 are you stupid the whole country is a wreck. It's not just him saying that, everyone knows that. .

@@bigpardner do research

I feel this may have more to do with them thinking unkindly of the western visitors and less so to do with them being "oppressed" Wouldn't you think if it was so dangerous to wave/communicate with foreigners then they would teach their kids that they are risking their lives by doing so. If I was a kid in a country where you could be punished by the government for waving at someone I sure as shit wouldn't do it on camera 🤷‍♂️

No one would wave you back in any country, everyone would think that you are crazy 😂

@@dauletshynybaev I don’t think kids have the same concept of considering something “crazy” as adults.

@@mardmard

@@mardmard I wrote a long comment but it got deleted idk why. Basically I said that in my country it would be crazy to wave to unknown person

Yeh just wait til you see their "fun camps"

Mr.Sinister yeah, that's what you would looks like when you are brainwashed for your entire life also since it is the capital the people must have been strictly chosen

Also, everything seems too clean, too nice...

What the actual fuck do you expect from people? It's a normal day, probably in the afternoon, everybody chilling. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT?

Of course it looks innocent. It's north koreas wealthiest city that isnt available to most north koreans. It's a privilige to live in there. its being taken care of because its also the only city that they show to tourists and outside world

michael That's because most of the time you can only see Pyongyang. The countryside and other cities are fucked up

can you prove it?

link me

i Firekirby I would also like a link

It looks really bare to me.

Arch Stanton are you kidding me? The western media tells mostly false truths on this matter.

Actually they did. But the funny thing is - the reforms are "hidden" from the NK population itself. In the sense that the official propaganda does not call them reforms, it pretends everything just goes as usual. But yes, since Kim Jong Un assumed power they got reforms similar to China in 1970s. But only economically. Politically, in China there was some (albeit minimal) liberalization. There is no such one in NK - in fact, everything indicates KJU's regime being more oppressive than his father's.

They're in the capital, during the national day and foreigners were allowed to roam with less strict supervision. Of course there will be cars, but most of the population cannot afford such luxuries. They either walk or use bikes.

That explains it then...thanks.

i feel like what we're seeing is a stunt for those tourist to see

10%

You meant the USA?

Not defending NK, it's still a horrible place, but the 10%... as opposed to the US 1%, and shrinking every year. The US is not better in any way, whatever propaganda likes to tell you. Corporations are part of the government and they tax our hard work constantly.

@República de España But dont forget that even in Pyeongyang there are also a lot of slums. You can see this slums even on google maps.

@@televikkuntdaowuxing are you dillusional? Too even compare USA to NK is hilarious. Our slums atleast have freedom and the ability to become something more.

You are telling me that cyberpunk was inspired by North Korea, they were right about the most immersing open world

@@ducstatiba2 No its like a pre version of real life

It’s like the Truman Show

@@ducstatiba2 every time I watch these vids I think of cyberpunk too

There are some videos that shows the city at night, what I noticed is that it seems the sky is always clean, no clouds

It’s considered a very high honor actually. She probably feels good about being able to have that occupation

The same traffic men are in China. Despite having traffic lights, you stilk have this pointless job. It's because they have to provide work places for ppl, no metter how useless they would be (work places not ppl :P)

You can see her counting on her fingers before she moves. She's dancing on time because her life and livelihood are the same thing.

Her neck must be hurting from all that rapid movement when she goes home.

Shes one of the lucky ones. You have babies born in concentration camps out there. Their entire existence being a prison within a prison. Being beaten, tortured, starved and worked to the brink of death

+Julian George Mostly teens on the "THE FREE MARKET AND CORPORATIONS ARE FASCISTS MAN". They will grow out of it, probably.

+Neal McBeal, the Navy Seal And just teens who are trolls.

+Julian George Because North Korea is GREAT

+Julian George If they love it so much they should fucking move there. Put their money where their mouth is.

+Judicial78 One does not simply move to North Korea.

Vlad Fishermann I think that she’s some kind of a spy tbh

Nah, they just all look alike and dress the same. They even have standard mandatory haircuts.

I do not speak Korean. But I hear what I think is "hasimnikga" often when I hear others speaking Korean. Is that a Korean word?

North Korean dialect is more formal then Seoul and Busan, makes sense since N Korea is more conservative and stern.

Ikr!!!!

"Big cities are different to rural areas" ok so you mean just like every country...

The US is close to the Hunger Games right now with the current administration

@@katsuminara4036 you must not be from america. its okay. we forgive you

That's just communism for you. The most evil ideology man has ever created

+Christian Jiang Magnificient! No freedom of the press but even clean public streets. Wow!

+Alexaj Kesavaraj There is no freedom of the press in the west, either. Unless of course you consider the ability of wealthy corporations to control the media while the voices of the downtrodden are ignored as... "freedom of the press". Not only is DPRK clean, you don't have mass shootings everyday, you don't have police officers gunning people down, you can see children playing on the street even late at night and walking around, there is virtually NO advertising, leaving the city clear of marketing messages trying to make people feel worse by telling them they're inadequate and need to buy some skin care product or some hair styling product or some fancy car, etc. Within the next 10 years, the true glory of the DPRK will be seen that even all the North Korea haters will have to finally admit they were wrong and manipulated once again, just like they were manipulated about France, Syria, Libya, Iraq, etc. etc. etc.

Jaret Wood Usually when people display the same kind of anger that you do about the DPRK it's because of cognitive dissonance. You're in anger stage now. lol But may I ask, did you also believe in WMD in Iraq? Did you also believe the story about babies being taken out of incubators in Iraq prior to Desert Storm? Did you also believe the stories about Gaddafi before 2011 invasion? Did you also believe the stories of Assad using chemical weapons in 2013? Please try not to get killed by American police officers for running away. Please try not to get body slammed and have your head cracked in by a baton because you looked at a police officer the wrong way. Please try not to go crazy as the rich continue to get richer and your country continues to wage more wars all at your expense. Yes, because "muh Freedumb"

LMFAO at you trying to compare American cops to the North Korean remige. Guess what? If i were to protest, they may club me on the head, sure. Meanwhile, you don't display youre Kim Jon Craps on youre wall straight, and youre whole family is condemned to prison camps. I don't expect you to go against the regime, that would put you, youre family, any children, etc, in a labour camp, and i'm glad you've found a job, even as a paid North Shithole bot Must be terrible to be a sheep worshipping grown men like gods and having no freedom, whatsoever PS, You get paid in cabbage?

Jaret Wood LOL, so you admit you may get clubbed in the head by American police? LOL, how sad and pathetic that you accept that kind of oppressive police state. Seems like Americans aren't so fond of the "freedom" they like to forcefully install all over the world (while also taking natural resources and setting up a puppet gov't, of course). Dude, wake up. America is a shit hole. It doesn't exactly have the greatest track record. Lol

No internet = More productive. Perfect imo.

bigpardner worse, no memes

I believe they do they just can't use it

At least they don't have to face the cancerous side of the internet

Fuck the internet

Used to like there (China), it was BUSY not with cars and trucks but lots of people and it was not clean. Great place to live though.

SkyeGurl Not just their childhood, their lives.

like how? because they don't do vines and youtube and act like assholes?

@@kimjungun9444 no, more along the lines of they’re forced into unfair labour work until they die, they have to obey everything their dear dictator said or they’ll be put to death, they live a depressing life and if they kill themselves, their family get punished for it

@@kimjungun9444 labor

@@kimjungun9444 name checks out

+Judicial78 Looks like a standard city mate. You can make that argument for every society.

jordan lukach No no no no no.

+Judicial78 The events they are rushing you are pre pepared and scripted to an extent. A rare opportunity to walk around the city is not scripted, nor are any of the travels from place A to B. The people living and walking around the area the tourists are allowed to, are the the top 1% wealthiest of N-Koreans, which is why they even let them walk around this much. Not every person you see on your N-Korea trip are actors and scripted to a minute schedule idiot

I'd rather go to Fiji

Wow. You're as brainwashed as they are.

Dumbass

He’s just implying it’s cleaner then nyc. He’s not saying he loves North Korea or has a grudge against America.

Mad new Yorkers lmao

@@sunitapandey7846 i guess if you litter you get executed. That's why it's so clean.

If people in North Korea littered they would probably be severely punished or killed. If the US did that there would would probably be clean streets there too.

Have them in many countries like Ukraine too

All the country is prepared in case of war they can use it as a shelter

@@FernandoMartinez-nc6kg If only they knew how useless that would be right?

Difficult to impossible for wheel chairs, strollers, toddlers, old people, people with walking difficulties, with bikes... The people in the cars should have it difficult, not the people not in cars. Even with a lift, it's not a good a idea. Lifts break down regularly, lines form in front of them etc..

We have them in England. It's called an underpass.

+DannyWilliamH or just the fact that its weird to wave at strangers? i wouldnt wave back to some weirdo going around filming everything

+Fredrik Melin Yeah.....because waving is a thing that is *only* done by people that know each other. Nobody has ever met due to an until wave - totally awesome true fact. I just looked this stuff up. DID YOU KNOW: Humans aren't meant to know anyone they don't already know! BONUS FUN FACT: Humans are only meant to be kind towards people they already know, unlike the elephant which will share it's peanuts with both giraffes and mountain goats! "SHUCKS, WHY NOT" FACT: The human "wave" was invented in 1988 by Arnold Yates, a Chicago businessman. Yates, 42, was driving to the grocery store when he had noticed his wife blowing another man in the parking lot. As they met eyes it was soon obvious that any vocal pleasantries couldn't be exchanged (due to her mouth being full of cock) and so he shook his hand back and forth in her general direction. This "wave" would soon catch on but only between people that already knew each other because it is, in fact, ILLEGAL in every country to shake your hand kindly toward a stranger! By golly, I guess it is weird to wave at a stranger! The more you know.....

DannyWilliamH youre putting a lot of effort into your youtube comments

+Fredrik Melin I'd rather have a lot of effort/substance than try to be a snarky KZfaq douche-bot. Not saying you are (!) but the internet is full of useless dipshits with literally nothing to say but quick, snarky, empty bullshit as if they're in a "who's more clever" contest. Also, it's a fucking comments section, not twitter. In your case it's nothing too offensive/lame but it's as empty of a comment as any I've read. "I think waving is weird" would have been better than a veiled attempt at being clever. Because....ya know.....liek....whatever.

DannyWilliamH ok

Leave the surface of the Earth to the people, as it always been. If you want to drive freely, you go underground.

We have a lot of them here in Russia. Urbanist activists oppose them because they're inconvenient for pedestrians. Older pedestrians often jaywalk.

+seancb1990 I filmed this with a Sony RX100 Mark II camera

+Erick Tseng thank you eric! Do u recommend that camera if i were to buy it? Or another one

+seancb1990 It's a great camera. I'd highly recommend it!

Hey Sony is made in south Korea how are you allowed to use them in north Korea

@@anshikashukla7395 Technically its japan bro

yea cuz ya know pedophiles and whatnot.

I don't know what you're talking about. This avatar is from the movie _The Godfather Part 3_.

No he played Vito Corleone in the Godfather Part III

Ya whatever.

is your profile pic Dolph Lundgren?!

What's your country?

He asked?

Freedom with a handler????

Stuck in stalinist 1950s.

yash kapur everyone's an actor

@@wik1613 Ofcourse you can’t pass the same person twice how stupid!

@@jejh600 that’d be pretty fucking unlikely in a city of almost 3 million though

@@floo1465 Unlikley yes but not impossible

I had the same thought honestly

Southern United States people will wave!

@@tangobravo5752 good for them 👍🏻

@@tangobravo5752 Canada too

We will wave. If you're nice we may give you our country.

Blow it out your ass, idiot.

I know right. no facial expressions, no personalities, no say, its so scary.

Ir you really think this way, I'm even more impressed by the western propaganda.

Then you should see the people of Stockholm, complete zombies. Stop being brainwashed, jesus. The western lie about everything you have heard about North Korea, get your own look on things.

I see normal people. You were so brainwashed to hate North Korea that you believe in such conspiracy theories like that. How would they have a functioning economy if everybody were actors trying to make tourists think it's real? Do you really believe they built things just to impress tourists? Wtf, tourism only brings them little money, it doesn't make any sense that they would do such a thing (which is also impossible btw)

+GodXela - The Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, Hi, I'm from the US

+Erick Tseng You're a politician?

+Cosmic_Infidel Nope, just an everyday person from the US

+Erick Tseng so how did you go about and get permission to go?

+GodXela - The Mayor of Columbus, Ohio I traveled there through a non-profit called The Choson Exchange. Check them out. I'd highly recommend them!

it's like that in China too

Noah Qiu So its common?

+Crash X yes, it is quite common in busy cities

+Noah Qiu Thanks,

Mexico City has some of them too and bridges over intersections

U’re Mom he knows it but he still has to act like he dont .... you know am saying ? P.S. DPRK its not communist , it never was , it tries to be socialist but in reality its just feudalistic and extremely racist lol

So, what do you think they were???? They seem pretty happy as compared to US kids who are indoctrinated by all sort of propoganda. Few weeks ago some kids in UK freaked out because the teacher pronounced the name of country Niger.

@@arminius6506 yeah, you're right. North Korea is known to be a basically propaganda free zone.

Most of their cars are Chinese, so either rebranded or reverse engineered cars of the main companies such as Toyota. Though i have also seen a lot of legitimate asian car brands too

I have, and do not regret it one bit. Laos, Vietnam and N. Korea are my favorite of visited countries.

Vietnam is not purely a Communist country any more=)), it's like China nowadays. They are both red-capitalist countries which are ruled by a single party- Communist party but economically, somewhat the same as capitalists countries

It's the curiosity factor. I'd visit NK for the same reason.

Rite of passage

Wayyyyyyyyyy more clean than Ho Chi Minh city, this is weird

@@randomspartanhoe4501 The 1% all live in Pyongyang unlike in Saigon where there's the general population.

Google it

The capital is north korea at its best

+Htet Pye seriously? That's one of the people who came on the tour with them

She's a minder.

what? he hasn’t been put in a labor camp lol

In Pyongyang definitely, I can imagine when you go to the countryside it would be doused in poverty.

Cuz they're stuck in the 70-80's

...

+krnpowr That's because they do not have the ability to change their buildings. They don't have the modern infrastructure to develop modern building.If you have even watched one of their videos when they are building something it's usually thick concrete and very little metal used. Very reminiscent of old Soviet building during the cold war.

Bryan Rodgers I'm cognizant of that, and that's not what I'm marveling about. I was marveling at the similarities of the two countries despite the long separation, the difference in economies and technologies, and the lack of foreign influence in North Korea.

;)

Triple negative! Who am them? Who am you? Kim Jong Un he don't want you!

Чварков Ђорђе REALLY? Please show us some statistics on how many NK's who defect go back to NK? I would really like to see that. Or are you just another NK want to be moron trolling this comment? I think your just a troll, and a second rate one at that.

As a Cuban, you’re stupid if you think that.

I think it was a mother and her daughter

+serbetli100 really?

serbetli100 while soviet russia was still around

serbetli100 No way HAHA

It looks like Moscow of the 1970's xD

It looks like some places in Poland too

They probably don't know what a camera is

@@pakistaniboi342 bullshit, stop making them idiots.

@@menzosoft2 how am I making them idiots?

XD

HOLY SHIT!! I THINK THATS THE ONLY FAT NORTH KOREAN WE HAVE SEEN OTHER THAN KIM JONG HIMSELF

Not even fat

entao tu queria morar em pyongyang ? kkkk