What It Is REALLY Like Living In North Korea?

Life in North Korea is kind of a mystery. Kim Jong-un is very restrictive on what can be shared with the rest of the world, so true information is difficult to find, but we did our best to dig up what life is like living in North Korea in this animated documentary.

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[TheInfographicsShow]

And nonetheless the number of foreign visitors to North Korea keeps growing... I'm not sure why though... 🤔

[machector]

No one really lives there, everyone just survives.

[MKMK-bjsk]

*I asked my friend from North Korea what life was like there*

*He said he couldn’t complain*

[soumiu.]

I feel so bad for these people living in North Korea. I hope they can maybe one day, finally be liberated.

[amandamathews]

In other words.. I’m extremely glad I wasn’t born in Korea.

[savin_theez_hoez]

A huge army like North Korea’s means nothing in war if you can’t feed that army.

[benaiahwright]

How do people living like this convince each other to have children.

[opalwaters]

I was stressed at work today. I’m now on lunch watching this. Safe to say I’m now going back to work feeling so much more grateful and happy. I can’t even imagine how these people must feel. The people of North Korea are so strong and I hope one day they will be able to experience at least a fraction of the freedom I experience everyday. No nation’s people should have to suffer so much.

[bludeuce]

my moms friends Escaped North Korea and tried to hide the truth that they escaped by lying that they left i guess they don't like to talk about the traumatic horrors they witness before escaping

[kikiza]

"democratic people's republic." what a joke.

[MasterChiefColin]

Easily one of the best narrative voices on YouTube.

[brobot_]

"What if you were born in north korea"
i would crawl back inside of my mom

[jalsthehals]

God bless people from North Korea, I hope that everyone from North Korea will be free one day.

[Artliker]

The most terrifying statement “hospitals filled with the sick and starving but then emptied”. The images don’t match what’s being said at all

[gokaren]

I dunno how they maintain a starving military.

[mollymollie]

Barbara Demick’s book “Nothing to Envy” is a beautifully written narrative of the experiences of about 6 North Korean escapees who were able to get to Korea, mostly in the 1990s/early 2000s. It is their stories, told to Demick who was the LA Times S. Korea correspondent for many years. It is really moving and paints a vivid, but not sensationalized, picture of the experiences of these people…different social classes, but all from the same area (very close to the China border) and the price they also had to pay for leaving. One thing left out of this documentary was that many, many women who escaped into China were s*x trafficked, and that is a terrible tragedy. I believe it is quite difficult for the average person to get out of N. Korea now as China has stiffened up the guarding of the border, and there are very few refugees getting to South Korea. Keep in mind, that China deports all North Koreans back to North Korea if they are caught, hence the complicated, dangerous and expensive ways to escape and get to a S. Korean embassy. My best wishes for the people of N. Korea to live in freedom.

[davids.]

I'm a 14 year old incoming 8th grader, and this makes me glad I don't live under fear and secluded.

[asparagussyndrome]

So how do you guys survive?

North koreans: The secret ingredient is crime.

[pessimisticpianist]

People: * Watch this video *

Kim Jong-Un: *Wait, that's illegal*

[Dancooper.]

I listened to a podcast about a lady who lived in Korea and she said, “pretty much the only thing I was aloud to do was breathe” I also heard the most tragic things she had to experience to even survive. I honestly think about them a lot more now.
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