Life Inside The Hermit Kingdom | VICE on HBO
North Korea is locked in a dangerous game of brinksmanship. The isolated country has tested over a dozen ballistic missiles this year and continues to develop its nuclear weapons program.
VICE traveled to the Hermit Kingdom during the annual Day of the Sun celebrations as global tensions reached a fever pitch. As North Koreans celebrated the 105th birthday of their country's founder, Kim Il-sung, correspondent Charlet Duboc sought to learn firsthand how its citizens are reacting to the escalating crisis.
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VICE returned to North Korea to witness life inside the Hermit Kingdom. Learn why North Korea won't back down against Trump next: bit.ly/2uZlqAN
@Janeymacmac
6 жыл бұрын
On point as usual, great report.
@DakotaTheRota
6 жыл бұрын
VICE News But they already backed down...
@GymClubHouse
6 жыл бұрын
WHERE IS DENNIS RODMAN??
@teethgrinder83
6 жыл бұрын
Eric Young VFX I hope you don't think Trump will keep NK from having nukes that can reach all of America because it will happen for sure-unless you want a war even worse than the Iraq war? It's the only way the Kim's feel they can hold onto power-in other words they won't back down like VICE said in the blurb. Short of all out war nothing will stop them-it's how the world and especially America deals with them that has to be examined. And that fool Trump doesn't know the first thing about NK so his "fire and fury" rhetoric will mean nothing to the NK leadership-so,e "deal maker" he's turning out to be
@walter80922
6 жыл бұрын
VICE News North Korea just backed down. And will continue to do so. Strongmen only understand strength.
thats a submarine launched missile, this way please
@AdynForever
6 жыл бұрын
She put the guides life at risk in that moment, you could see it. She was scared.
@JamesSmith-jq1ik
6 жыл бұрын
She was executed after the film
@capslock3417
6 жыл бұрын
The Apple Tree how do u know?
@spencer871
6 жыл бұрын
I'm sure he's joking, but the risk is real. You have to say rehearsed lines to western media when they are let in and present the country + leader + pahtee as ze shining shitty in the hirr.
@dickgoesinya9232
6 жыл бұрын
he so ronry
Tour Guide: "It is our pride and our success of our country." Journalist: "Flowers and Rockets." Tour Guide: "Satellite, not rocket Satellite. This way please." Journalist: "That one's a submarine-launched ballistic missile." Tour Guide: "Missile?" Tour Guide: (shit she knows its missile... better get her away) Tour Guide: "This way please..."
@smokey7930
6 жыл бұрын
The Soaring Eagle about to write the same
@MaaniacRabbit
6 жыл бұрын
i guess we will never see that Journalist again. rip
@smokey7930
6 жыл бұрын
Fabzor no we will! It's Charlotte from Vice, but yes the lady with the headset has probably vanished of the face of the earth
@that1guy335
6 жыл бұрын
My question is, how could the reporter verify that model is actually that of a submarine based warhead? Did she serve in the Navy?
@idgogr
6 жыл бұрын
She didnt have to ask that missile and continue the journey. Very rude women
5:28 That reporter just seriously endangered the life of that poor woman and her entire family. To anyone who might go to North Korea for whatever crazy reason, DO NOT correct the people. It might be funny in the moment, but they'll suffer horribly for being wrong later.
@feketetv
6 жыл бұрын
you are absolutely right, that was my first thought. you can literally get in trouble there for not clapping at whatever the great leader says
@akawillll
6 жыл бұрын
Julius Caesar savage.
@LittleSparklingStars
6 жыл бұрын
that's not the reporters fault, but rather NK's shitty dictators' fault.
@ambycakes
5 жыл бұрын
Was thinking the same thing and wrote a comment whole finishing the video.
@vawexa123
4 жыл бұрын
The same thing happened in one video where a guy was hidding from men that killed his brother. Guess what vice jornalist did showed were he was hidding during the interview. Later they killed him too...
i hope that tour guide lady is ok, you can see she was scared
everything looks very well choreographed. even the kids looked so scared that if they do any mistake they'll be punished.
@C.A._Old
Жыл бұрын
Ah man
I can barely draw a stick figure and these kids are out here drawing portraits. 😭😭
@loudpaw8723
6 жыл бұрын
😭 i know
@pbee2447
6 жыл бұрын
Well you should've had someone pressure you into drawing at an early age.
@mrboleus8240
6 жыл бұрын
Kierstin Johnson No smartphones, games, music, porno, cartoons and other brain damaging stuff..
@Stuttful
6 жыл бұрын
No childhood, either. That's pretty damaging.
@mrboleus8240
6 жыл бұрын
Stutter Smartphones, porn etc aren't neccesaary for one good childhood.
I get bugged when Western journalists ask questions which they know the N Korean's can't answer truthfully. I feel like they're endangering the N Korean over a stupid question they know the person can't answer.
@pierreo33
4 жыл бұрын
It's to show the rest of the world that they're forced to be quiet.
@Dave102693
4 жыл бұрын
It's the euro/american antagonism.
@rysnlsmlmy7688
4 жыл бұрын
I agree,
@konung5
3 жыл бұрын
And if they didn't ask, everybody under the sun would criticize them for not asking it. It's their job!
Vice has balls of steel going there I would never enter that hell hole they just take you at night and no one would ever hear from you again
@islandgroovies1444
6 жыл бұрын
hahaha what a loser
@MrMason30127
6 жыл бұрын
Island Groovies lmao what
@islandgroovies1444
6 жыл бұрын
you are a coward
@MrMason30127
6 жыл бұрын
Island Groovies oh look at you on the internet that North Korea dosent allow people to have why don't you go there coward
@KYPspikes
6 жыл бұрын
MrMason30127 unlike normal US citizens they're reporters protected by cameras and media and are always out in the public so they can't be set up as easily.
Damn yall just killed that women at the end
"That one's a submarine launched ballistic missle" "Missle?" "Yeah" (Hard Spooked Pause😳) "This way please" Lmao she thought about her future in that pause
Every time I see a reporter say anything to a North Korean citizen, I instantly fear for the North Korean's life. You never know if someone's observing them, and if they'll be punished for what they say or do. I know that VICE is trying to prove a point, but just tell the camera, later, that that was a missile. Take care with that tour guide's life because, unlike the reporter, she doesn't get to leave after they're done filming.
We need james franco in there
@candycane1686
6 жыл бұрын
Why?
@mchalet9006
5 жыл бұрын
Because he is an artist
@MP-ei4kd
5 жыл бұрын
Of course you mean television superstar David Skylark?
watching that kid sing only made me think of his ten years minimum requirement in service and the possible attrocities he may be forced to commit for his country
Those kids singing made me want to die
@zavtradnem
6 жыл бұрын
you are free to do so
@NoneOfYourusinesss
6 жыл бұрын
This way please :)
@sentientbeing9781
6 жыл бұрын
What do you mean?
@patriciacarteno631
6 жыл бұрын
They look scared
@himlaz_2398
6 жыл бұрын
Reidnhour Reidnhour I felt bad for them
3:33 His voice would be perfect for anime intros..
That ladies and gentlemen is the definition. Of dystopia
@leonardobenavides8300
6 жыл бұрын
Come to capitalist 3rd world countries and you'll see the true distopia.
@pierreo33
4 жыл бұрын
the definition of dystopia is not having enough money for medical bills so you die. the definition of dystopia is getting shot in school.
reporter: that's a submarine launched missile North Korea lady: No u
4:12 Is that nigga wearing a Adidas jacket? Yea boy, even north Korea knows how fashionable and comfortable adidas jackets are.
@DEMONX62
6 жыл бұрын
Aleksei Addidas is the only thing that prevented the USSR from nuking the west
@210Caveman26
6 жыл бұрын
Aleksei WTF that means their fake.
@xin0
6 жыл бұрын
that jacket was taken from a westerner who was then killed and then given to the sweet dancer -____-
@zavtradnem
6 жыл бұрын
probably chinese fake
@tomtom4867
6 жыл бұрын
It's not Adidas, it's a Jimjongildidas jacket I'll have you know.
Did he just say Kim's motherly face is more fearsome to us than 100 nuclear bombs? Good stuff.
"Missile? Yeah, yeah This way please"
Apparently North Korea launches their satellites from submarines. Who knew?
@DEMONX62
6 жыл бұрын
The Humungus They also put a man on Saturn. They 1 Upped those filthy westerners so badly
@humanman2358
3 жыл бұрын
@@DEMONX62 they were planning to test their prototype Astro-nuke into the sun
Tourist: this is weird af man these people arent acing normal North koreans: DAMN our acting is spot ON today!
Missile? This way please. Poor girl got killed.
I read the title like “life inside the Kermit kingdom”
North Korean: this way please. TAKES VICE NEWS INTO A LABOR CAMP
"That ones a submarine launched ballistic missile.."
The soundtrack is just amazing!! Well done !!
Can we please get an hour long video on this?
I like this kind of Vice.
3:27 it could be seen that beyond these iluminated buildings, there was a power blackout in the rest of the city
more of this sort of journalism please!!!
5:31 a perfect example of when you're already lost but still trying to win.
You do a great job..thanks
I love how none of the peices of art were a work in progress.Yep, definitely the work of kids.
Funniest moment for at least a year of VICE news reports. Thanks, Charlotte!
-That's a satellite, not a missile. - Why can't I get HBO Go on the hotel tv then? -This way please.
vice, upload a full video ! it slowly kills me to watch only 5 min
How do they get those kids to be so amazing? I worry that they are being over stressed or otherwise psychologically harmed in order to achieve that level of artistry at such a young age.
@wendellwalter2865
Жыл бұрын
They 100% are.
Anyone who thinks that Pyongyang isn't just an elaborate prop for PRK to show the rest of the world needs to read "The Aquariums of Pyongyang". It is written by a young man who managed to escape NK and spent his childhood, with his family, in a remote NK work camp. They were eventually relocated to Pyongyang. The book details the horrors of work camp life and the absolutely rigid controlled conformity of life in Pyongyang. It will break your heart to know how joyless the average North Korean's life is.
"yes that's a satellite not a missile" "No that's a submarine ballistic missile"
How do they organise this opening? How do they get the specific people and crowds and the flowers and the parade so perfect when their technology and communication isn't as widespread?
@bobsagget8620
6 жыл бұрын
Ben Palmer Fear and control, if they don't they'd be beaten or possibly murdered
3:42 , the amount of happiness on that little girls face
Tour Guide: "Satellite, not rocket Satellite. This way please." Journalist: "That one's a submarine-launched ballistic missile." The journalist wanted to get herself arrested for saying that.
"That's a submarine launched ballistic missile," I can't believe she got out alive after that comment.
Even their nicest buildings are tacky and cheap looking
Enjoyed the edit!
One thing catches my attention,no mobile phone during the monument grand opening 😅
So nice to see Charlet again! 😊
Eh satellite ballistic missile close enough
I'd be suicidal for them to attack anyone and they know it. They would just get invaded and their leader would be overthrown.
I wonder where did they buy the camera, the car, the piano
she knew damn well that was a missle lol
Wow great footage
Ive never seen so much excitement over a damn street.
Honestly I love the reporters facial structure, it's so angular, defined, and sharp. Most definitely attractive, also the quick news was good!
5:31 how to get out a conversation "this way please"
WOOOOOW.... did not fckin think that North Korean kids would have more talent and focus than American and Western kids.... just look at these kids on violin, they would probably be like famous violin players in the US
Oh man, that ending was adorable :D
the music makes north korea looks like you know a hidden country inside a game. A hidden magical city inside a game!
I wish school was like this. Going to a certain subject that you love.
@user-zi8kl1fv5v
4 жыл бұрын
@@michaellagasca6601 very unclear but it was a joke XD
When Vice News guys are in North Korea, you know that they are on a vacation.
Looks like everyone's got the same tailor🤔
3:51 it killed me 🤣😂
Rhat boys voice was angelic😍😍
Does anyone know where I can watch the full video instead of this 5 min video? thanks.
those schools, wow breathtaking
In the beginning had nice beat to it. I need to know the original song
That kid was a awesome singer
4:54 got some slayer going on there
RIP, prayers and thoughts to that english speaking tour guide
She has some guts confronting on that missile
the medals on that one general going all the way down to his waist XD
If anyone has read the book "1984", the way of life is eerily similar to this. And the book was describing a terrible future of war and control.
What if she had no idea it was a missle and the whole time she was told it was a satellite
Where can I watch the whole thing?
What the fu... uhhhh that ain't no satellite. That's a damn ballistic rocket
tht poor lil girl seemed so confused and afraid, hope shes alive and living
The ending had me dead
Damn that ending is actually sad...
Something we both share is that All our citizens really want is to maximize prosperity to their families and themselves. It's a shame the government constantly fucks up our world by taking all of our money and putting us on the brink of war.
Does anybody know the name of the background music at 0.38?
why has this been continuously re-uploaded for months?
The flowers are called Kimilsungia and kimjongilia hahaha I want a flower by name too 😂😂
3:40 Yaaassss Queen lol
That boy singing beside the piano. Somehow it's like he is held at gunpoint.
Me when I saw the balloons "rip turtles"
@fgonzalez7058
3 жыл бұрын
Why?
Giving a plaza but no one is ever outside 😂
I'm so saddened by the fact that there wasn't a celebration of this magnitude when I adopted a cat :/
3:34 SOOO CUTE 💖💖💖💗
5:30. LOL. That one's a submarine-launched ballistic missile. Idk why that one got me xD
3:44 that little girl looked straight terrified of fucking up
_I love North Korean people_
Those are some talented kids.
Honestly, those kids are really good.
The end man xD hope she didnt get killed :/
the last conversation was very LOL...
(serious question) What would I have to major in in college in order to be a reporter for Vice? and what other career paths?
"Thats a submarine launched ballistic missile" "Missile!?" "Yeah!" "This way please!"
Hey ! Whatever was that song name the kid was singing ?