North Korean Labor Camps (Part 1 of 7)

North Korea has come up with a new way to bring cold hard cash into its isolated country: export North Korean workers to slave away in the Siberian forest (often without telling them they're no longer in North Korea). We set out to investigate these camps and almost landed ourselves in quite a bit of trouble.

[ZenEmir]

i miss old vice man, felt like some true internet culture

[yourneighbour]

In case you are thinking "Wow Vice doing good story!?"

Video was done 8 years ago.

[iandhr]

"I've been to the most fucked up place on earth twice." What an opening.

[jellyguar]

"Fun" fact Kim jung il was still ruling when they went there, but died 2 days before this video aired

[zitaotao]

North Koreans : actually scared of Kim Jong Un
The rest of the world : makes fun of him

[Wilhelmen]

"You dont mind if I drink some vodka with you?"

When you hear this, you know youre in Russia

[jeanbatisseur]

Vice this is exactly the type of content we want to see. Real journalism, real people talking about stuff we dont know about.

[mcgnso]

Does anybody else come back and watch this every year or 2? Vice used to make some great stuff.

[mai-qncs]

Please, never fire this man. He is comedy gold.

[RozzRoid]

🇰🇵 just realised this place has an emoji as if anyone from their country can even use it ha

[garrettyankton]

North Korea in the early 2000’s was a legitimately bad place to be for basically anyone. It was worse than Afghanistan or Iraq of the same time. The fact that Shane went during this time to North Korea and wasn’t assassinated once he got back is truly amazing. This man has balls of steel.

[EPIKSTER]

old vice man is an actual vibe, hate that they outed him

[TotallyArrJay]

A video of a trip into Russia has to have a Russian man asking to drink vodka

[kscck]

Shane is probably my favorite VICE reporter.

[jarionscarlight]

I missed this generation of VICE. If they stayed like this, they would still be a profitable journalism company today.

[mermaidonline]

By talking to these North Koreans, he endangered them.

[NOTGLOBAL]

"Her bum was hanging out of her shorts."

-Shane Smith 2011

[gameros]

I love this documentary, there is so much personality put into it it's insane, now i do like some of the new ones being done, but i gotta admit, Vice has lost so much of their personality and just kinda feel like a normal news network with the exception that the reporters go and get shot at a couple times.

[joopbertus]

You've got to admit this is the best vice video there is. Being drunk smoking cigarettes and making friends with the funniest people there are. And a little bit history

[cmblost]

"now you have to remember that everything in Siberia, almost without exception is very, very fucking far away from everything else. "