An American tourist’s independent tour of North Korea in May 2010. This is 2 of 4 Videos total, for almost 5 hrs of footage. North Korea allows a 21st Century visitor to time travel back to China during the Cultural Revolution or to Russia during Stalin. I recommend a visit there to see this bizarre country: it’s open to almost everyone and is extremely safe for tourists. The tour Company I used is Young Pioneer Tours. They are not very organized but do offer younger, smaller group sizes which I like. If you are more risk adverse and prefer a well-run, stress free tour company, and can live with an older, larger group size, Koyro Tours, a British owned tour company based in Beijing, is highly recommended and they do a great job. A big disclaimer with these videos: I went as a tourist and this is a propaganda tour. This is not representative of most of North Korea. This is their Disney World I saw: look for real hidden video that is smuggled out of the country before drawing any conclusions. 4/30/2010 Set off from Beijing Train Station to Dandong, China. Train passage to North Korea is the best way to see the countryside and get to know some elite North Korean passengers, without your Govt. minders present. Americans have to fly into the capitol however (unless you have dual citizenship). 4/31/2010 Arrive in Pyongyang by train. Meet with Government Minders who serve as the tour guides (two of them) and who rarely leave your side. There is also a separate driver. Drive to …
Video Rating: 4 / 5
I think it would be interesting to go to North Korea, but as a tourist, I would have a deadly fear of not being able to go back. I know it sounds like bullshit, but what if the government decided to keep you there or imprison you indefinitely? Sure as hell nobody outside that country would ever hear about you again.
Looking at that scene from inside the store and noticing the shelves all neatly arranged and in order def has scripted, movie-set feel to it… Awesome footage though and I cannot say enough how valuable it is and RARE! Thanks for your efforts in a huge way man..
This is awesome footage man, thanks for sharing it. BTW, Americans CAN get into North Korea as tourists? As weird as it sounds, if there was anywhere in the world I could visit, I’d choose DPRK.
18:46 MY GOOD FRIEND JOHNNY WALKER!
personk1, do you have any blog (or something) with description or thoughts or notes to this traveling? so many questions, but hard to find most of answers to them in commentaries. thanx!
North Korea looks better than the vast majority of the world, or think in africa, asia, south america everything is modern and luxury?. According thoughts about comments that Americans are quite ignorant and uninformed.
You and everybody who does not live there haha
at 41:58 a woman is holding a mobile phone? I gues they are starting to get new technology like this in N.K. but it’s probaly a closed mobile net.
Is it weird that I was thinking the same thing?
To sleep with a NK chick, isn’t that the ultimate fantasy?
How many non NK people can say that they did?
All the totalitarian horror aside, It’s a beautiful country
this guide is real hottie …have u tried something with her
I myself would not wish to live there!
In other documentaries I have seen, it looked way dead and empty.
I think the space-time is diluted in North Korea
That’s wonderful! So, if I travel to NK, then a Japanese camera that costs a thousand euro in Germany will only cost one hundred euro in NK?
Things really are great in NK. That’s why so many North Koreans are willing to die to escape.
beautiful country n culture
e.g. housing is free of charge in Northkorea – I guess also education and health care.
Why actually the camera men is filming so long this woman searching for plants? There is no private property everywhere as in USA ! They are free.
$2,000 per capita GDP is non-senes since it is based on external currency exchange.
Also china has not much, but people can have a good live with less money, because anything is extremely cheap – in local currency, and that is what counts internally.
It looks like a well organized country !
These are better than most “Documentaries”. Awesome job!!!
I was thinking the same thing
Thank you for posting. I think it is interresting how no one seems to show much interest in you. The little kids don’t even show much interest. In most countries I’ve been to, the little kids will wave, smile, etc. I guess within the current N.K. government/society you don’t want to show interest in other people’s affairs… best just to mind your own business… at least when it involves a non-North Korean.
The underground at the start of your video looks fairly busy. Do you subscribe to the theory that they’re mostly actors put there when tour groups are visiting or is that a ridiculous notion?