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@lfsg689 Your own experience and upbringing doesn't absolutely reflect what the majority north Korean are experiencing regularly today. You never ever step your foots in north Korea either, yet you have the audacity to tell me why I should trust you better instead? How come someone like you, who undoubtedly believes that "..north Koreans have to push a whole train for months to go to another city or town, when it should take an hour to get there by normal train ride.", can tell me the most factual, detailed and nuanced insight about north Korea better than every single first-hand foreign accounts I learned, ranging from tourist, businessmen, teacher, careerist, diplomats, representative, staffs of international organization and institution, etc. including many who have lived there for years??
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@lfsg689 I'm gonna give you a case study here. Say it's realistic and logical that north Koreans have to push a whole train for months to get to another city, if you still believe that's truth then please explain, with every case-specific counter evidences you could find out there, hundreds of the country's national development achievements in the last four years (just a few examples: Reconstructed Samjiyon City; new Chongjin City reconstruction; new Komdok City construction; Wonsan-Kalma International Tourist Area; Hamhung City renovation; Jungphyong Cooperative Vegetable Farm & Tree Nursery along with countless other coops farms built, tree nurseries built in South & North Phyongan Provinces, Kangwon Province, and North Hwanghae Province; hydro power station built in Wonsan City, two in Rason City, South Hamgyong Province, two in North Hwanghae Province, ten in Jagang Province, Kangwon Province, South Hwanghae Province, and South Hamgyong Province; Myohngsan Medical Equipment Factory; many other factories built across tens provinces and counties; a 50,000+ hectares large pasture, stockbreed farms, foodstuff factories, and villages built; and countless more including hundreds of renovated/rebuilt/newly built villages and towns across tens counties) and how come they could possibly achieve it all? Dozens of state-run/affiliated medias documented and reported all these achievements in great details and nuance as far as I can confirm, if you're so certain those are all propagandas, well-staged fabrications then can you absolutely prove every single one of them as fake with every evidences you've found, corresponding to each articles and videos?
I'm waiting for your answer first before you try to question me one, ain't gonna answer yours.
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52:30 FYI in case anyone wonder, the "Korean filmaker" in question is an aspiring Korean-American student David Yunage (not sure if it's his real name), who produced the film independently and uploaded it first on his YT channel Messy Room News Sheesh (then re-uploaded to PSL channel the next day). So yeah, it's very legit and he actually visited and filmed his interview with the north Korean defectors in south Korea by himself! He hasn't been active since the last video but nonetheless I highly recommend anyone to check his other videos on his channel!
At 53:10 on the bottom right is another must-watch: "My Brothers and Sisters in the North". I'm a bit surprised they haven't watched it yet because it's one of few documentaries out there that depicts a very honest, realistic, and objective picture of north Korea's daily life.
57:49 Another good travel vloggers recommendation on YT: SAO Documentary, a group of Chinese travelers who produced a whole 100+ video series of north Korea tour, compiled in their North Korea World playlist; Lei's Adventure (in Chinese 冒险雷探), a famous Chinese celebrity/internet personality who makes travel contents across China and other countries, including a 12-episodes north Korea tour series on 冒险雷探长：朝鲜 playlist, it's entirely in Chinese language but still worth watching; Jaka Parker, an Indonesian family photographer whose wife is a foreign diplomat at Indonesia embassy in north Korea, lived with his wife and daughter in Pyongyang from 2012 to 2018 which documented in his channel's videos (though he's more active in Instagram and his 2nd gaming channel lol), widely misunderstood by his foreign viewers sadly😔 but his contents are still worth watching!
1:01:53 Another good north Korea rap MV anyone should watch: Xiangyu - Rumors and Slanders. He's a Taiwanese American "Red Rapper" who visited north Korea twice, whose parent and grandparent have lived under both Japanese-occupied Korea, Korean Wars, and post-war Korea. I recommend to watch Mango Press Podcast episode 14 and 42 to learn more about his family and his own experience visiting north Korea.
Last but not least, I highly recommend to look up Phuong DPRK Daily channel and watch these in-depth investigative documentaries exposing lying defectors, originally from a north Korea-affiliated south Korean media Uriminzokkiri which re-uploaded to her channel, as complementary watches to Yunage's Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang documentary: The True Story Of Yeonmi Park, Who Got Rich Through Lies About Her Homeland DPRK; The Lies Of Yeonmi Park: A Cunning Witch Using Deceptive Tears (follows-up); Lies And Truths - DPRK Criminal Defectors Exposed; Escape From Camp 14? - The Truth About DPRK Defector Shin Dong Hyuk (two parts videos); The US Anti-DPRK Human Rights Smears Campaign; A Loathsome Witch - DPRK Defector Ju Sun Yong; How Christian Churches in South Korea Slander The DPRK; Back from South to North Korea: DPRK Citizen Reports Misuse In South Korean TV.
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@theon.953 It's a fatal combination of the most devastating embargo (sanction) ever imposed to north Korea at the time; a total socio-economic isolation due to the fall of the USSR, China undertook isolationist measure as result of the '89 Beijing color revolution, and embargo prohibited all other countries from doing trade with them; the deadliest series natural disasters the country ever faced from '90-93: torrential rain, floods and typhoon destroyed thousands of villages and towns and critical infrastructures (dam, power plants, etc.), followed with long drought and hot summer led to harvest failures, water shortage, and people dying from dehydration and the heatwave itself, all these combination effectively froze about more than 60% of north Korea's agricultural and industrial sectors around the northern and part of the southern region; and a joint CIA-NIS intelligence psy-op to alienate and lure in desperate and discontented north Koreans (hence all those lying defectors), and to sabotage every possible national efforts to restore the country's economy.
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@lfsg689 Fair enough. I admit, I was wrong about that all this time and I didn't realize the cognitive dissonance and yeah, she actually say "..one train go to another like once in a month.". BUT.., I still stand by my own words which remains true to the underlying 'logic' of what she said as whole "..like here (in US) it only takes one hour to go other place..". One hour train ride from one place to another would typically be a 50-80 miles of distance esp if we're gonna make parallel between her hometown Hyesan and her current home in Chicago, that's quite a far distance. Even when it's only a train and a passenger car, it's STILL heavy enough to require more than a hundred of people to get it moved at considerable speed and let's not forget, Hyesan is a small, remote city surrounded by mountains in the northernmost region of north Korea. Pushing a train and a car from Hyesan to the closest town would absolutely take MORE than a month to get there for many reasons and then, she said there's only ONE train operating in north Korea.. I mea-..🤦😤
Her lie is so obvious there.. and you still don't get it like at all🤦🤦🥴 Just stick your "victim mentality" tendency or whatever on your mouth, STFU from being so a** and entitled and move on, please. I know you're not gonna say anything sensible after this and before you began to answer, S**T UP and go!
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52:30 FYI in case anyone wonder, the "Korean filmaker" in question is an aspiring, young 1.5 generation Korean-American student David Yunage (not sure if it's his real name), who produced the film independently and uploaded it first on his YT channel Messy Room News Sheesh (then re-uploaded to PSL channel the next day). So yeah, it's very legit and he actually visited and filmed his interview with the north Korean defectors in south Korea by himself! He doesn't upload a lot and hasn't been active since the last video (I suspected he might've done more videos before but it mostly got taken down), but nonetheless I highly recommend anyone to check his other videos on his channel!
At 53:10 on the bottom right is another must-watch: "My Brothers and Sisters in the North". I'm a bit surprised they haven't watched it yet because it's one of few documentaries out there that depicts a very honest, realistic, and objective picture of north Korea's daily life.
57:49 Another good travel vloggers recommendation on YT: SAO Documentary, a group of Chinese travelers who produced a whole 100+ video series of north Korea tour, compiled in their North Korea World playlist; Lei's Adventure (in Chinese 冒险雷探), a famous Chinese celebrity/internet personality who makes travel contents across China and other countries, including a 12-episodes of north Korea tour series on 冒险雷探长：朝鲜 playlist, it's entirely in Chinese language, his target audience, but still worth watching; Jaka Parker, an ordinary Indonesian family man and photographer whose wife is a foreign diplomat at Indonesia embassy in north Korea, he lived with his wife and daughter in Pyongyang from 2012 to 2018 which documented in his channel's video (though he's more active in Instagram and his 2nd gaming channel lol), widely misunderstood by his foreign viewers sadly😔 and you can see this in some of his popular videos, with the most popular one has gotten 25+ millions of view as of today where comments are very polarizing.
1:01:53 Another good north Korea rap MV anyone should watch: Xiangyu - Rumors and Slanders. He's a Taiwanese American "Red Rapper" who visited north Korea twice, whose parent and grandparent have lived under both Japanese-occupied Korea, Korean Wars, and post-war Korea. I recommend to watch Mango Press Podcast episode 14 and 42 to learn more about his family and his own experience visiting north Korea.
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