How to Escape from North Korea

Embark on a gripping journey into the heart of North Korea's oppressive regime with our latest video. Discover the harrowing tales of defection, where survival demands unparalleled courage and resilience.

[CanadianSnowflake]

Do.. do you just forget the password to one channel and just start a new one?

[socialistrepublicofvietnam]

This man is secretly behind 20% of all educational YouTube channels, I swear

[MisterPlanePilot]

The mother that sent her husband to defect, got worked and beaten and starved, only to send her son to defect knowing what will be coming to her is a straight hero, unconditional love.

[KawaiiKasai]

Independent Simon's content is honestly better than Simon the Paid Host
I don't remember Geographics getting this gritty, but the gritty context of the situation makes it more authentic and, therefore, more interesting

[Berengier]

My coworker is married to a woman from North Korea. And this isn't a joke, she escaped in 2007. Her mom escaped in 1998. The mom hired a smuggler to get the daughter out

[jodi_kreiner]

at some point imma just need Simon to do a biographics video on himself where he recaps all the channels he has now 😅😂

[thehun]

In the middle of the 60s, one of my high school classmates tried to escape to Austria during the summer holidays. He knew that he had an extremely low chance of getting through the Hungarian/Austrian border or even getting close to it (young people's ID was checked several times on public transport on the way to the border area), so he decided to go through Yugoslavia. It was relatively easy for him to cross the Hungarian/Yugoslav border, but was caught by the Yugoslav border guards near the Yugoslav/Austria border. They beat him up so badly that he required hospitalisation for several weeks. After that, they handed him over to the Hungarian police. The police were so shocked at how bad he looked that they refused to charge him in case the court case would cause international embarrassment. So he was allowed to return to school. Of course, he was not allowed to travel outside Hungary, not even to other communist countries, until the late 80s. He died recently.

[KeyLimeAllaTime]

My ex boyfriend had a north korean mother. She ended up moving to china, the united states, and ultimately canada where she met my ex's father. She eventually ended her own life. I never got a chance to speak with her much, but I wish I had. I know she had tremendous guilt for the family she left behind, and that she struggled to make friendships or even basic connections. I wish I had a chance to ask her the hard questions, to check in on her, to help her feel less alone. Thank you for this small insight into what she experienced.

[joeboggio]

How people could take advantage of defectors is so unbelievably sad to me. To be so devoid of empathy and morals to enslave or exploit those escapees is horrible.

[swat]

Everytime I see a video with Simon Whistler and a new channel I just subscribe. This man probably makes up 15-25% of my subscriptions.

[Chris-hxom]

Well, that's probably one of the most depressing 'Simon' episodes I've ever watched. I actually think it's worse than Pedro Lopez. The thought of those women thinking they'll escape to a life better than the one they left, only to be sold as slaves, sex or otherwise, is just horrific. And when those who do escape find out they are just dropped into 'modern' life and effectively abandon, I just can't imagine it.

[rickbase]

I'm first generation American citizen born here after my parents escaped from one of the Iron Curtain countries, Bulgaria, in 1967. The lockdown of people was just as harsh. North Korea makes Bulgaria 1967 look like a minimum security prison.
Parents were approached several times while in America about doing a book and they refused because they feared repercussions on their families in Bulgaria. If North Korean defectors get book or movie deals...I have no doubt that NK would put a hit out for said defector. Kim had his own brother killed abroad.

[KawaiiKasai]

Simon, you need to advertise these channels better.
I haven't even heard them mentioned in videos on your other channels.
Be a better capitalist, Fact Boi ❤

[julianaylor]

The North Korean regime told their people to have more children recently. How can you when you're starving or short of money, all the time, or being disposed of at a whim?
If you look at North Korea from space at night, it's like the Sahara Desert, very few lights are on.

[erichair]

Anyone else need an update on all Simon's channels?

[mikeharris]

Go on then 😅 I'm not even paying attention to the subject matter anymore, I'm just following you around the tube of you while you educate me on now what is such a wide array of topics that i am able to hold a conversation with real people, even though i am a mere uneducated buffoon.
So thanks for that.
New channel tomorrow?

[TashaBryanRENegade]

Who gave Whistle a _window_ ?

Great channel Simon, gladly subbed.

[hiiiimymelody]

I loved how you covered the social control elements. For the social control of the stay at home moms and wives and children, there is actually a "neighborhood Mom" who is a politically ordained watchman of each building or group of row houses and also of each neighborhood too.

[xRiotMakerx]

I swear Simon I have found a new Simon hosted channel every week for the last 10 years.

[MagnificentlyHighAlien]

At some point Simon's videos will have every topic covered from every angle