It is kinda amusing to me that their megaprojects are all hotels and aimed at attracting tourists... when you consider that North Korea is right up along side with Afghanistan as places most people wouldn't dream of visiting, due to the high likelihood of not being able to leave again.

@andromidius

11 ай бұрын

Probably aimed at Russian and Chinese tourists.

@RedXlV

11 ай бұрын

@@andromidius There's also some Americans who go to North Korea to look down on the peasants.

@johnmiller8975

11 ай бұрын

@@RedXlV the last one who tried that did not leave in one piece

@NickThePilotUSA

10 ай бұрын

@@johnmiller8975he left in one piece, a piece of vegetable

@tomcollins5112

10 ай бұрын

@@andromidius Made by bad people for bad people, now just a worthless pile of rubble.

Places I don't want to vacation: 1) North Korea 2) Titanic Wreck

@fredk.2001

10 ай бұрын

I'd rather go to the Titanic wreck. Just not in an expired, de-rated pop-can sub.

“Failed North Korean megaprojects” Simon, do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

@tagomisan2865

10 ай бұрын

As little as the homeless population in the United States and the people living on foodstamps

@ManiaMac1613

9 ай бұрын

@@tagomisan2865 The poorest person in the United States is better fed than the average North Korean citizen

@aaronfreeman3890

9 ай бұрын

@@tagomisan2865 Even our homeless eat better than North Korean citizens

@shekelmcfreckle

9 ай бұрын

@@tagomisan2865you replied to a comment about North Korea on a video solely about North Korea, produced by a Brit. And your first instinct is to whatabout the USA. Lmao. You’re obsessed, you can’t keep it off your envious little tongue. Success breeds contempt

@simonbone

4 ай бұрын

There are only two listed here.

North Korea's entire GDP is equal to about 1.5 months of business for Samsung Electronics, and theyre trying to run a whole country complete with a nuclear armed submarine fleet, its not a surprise they bite off more than they can afford to chew

@mvb88

2 ай бұрын

They do have 2 GDP's. Russia kinda props the country up. Hince why South Korea took off and north Korea failed. South Korea was told to look after themselves. North Korea was told Russia will look after them. So they are being paid monthly by Russia

@Ellie-rx3jt

Ай бұрын

Labour costs are very low though, especially when you have a certain percentage of your population doing forced labour

@stephenconnolly3018

9 күн бұрын

One man rich and all the rest poor.

Am I the only one who's suspicious of the fact that it never looks like plumbing, gas, sewage, and water lines are not installed PRIOR to the buildings being built? Shouldn't there be all types of lines put down BEFORE you start buildiing? It always looks like they just clear the spaces, build the buildings, and the roads then "pretend" that the whole thing is going to actually be for humans to occupy.

@miscme6046

Ай бұрын

thats what id expect yea. harder to dig under a building then to dig then build.

I once talked to an engineer from east Germany who worked at the hotel in the late 80s as part of a exchange program between socialist countries (or something like this). He said for the price of 750 mio. US$ the building should have been easily finished. North Korea has it's own steel and concrete industry and the cost of labour is pretty much zero. The problem was apparently an insane level of corruption and misuse of funds where everyone and their grandma wanted to be bribed to do anything and government officials just moving the decimal dot (or comma, don't know what they use) to the right to literally pocket 90% of the money. Also the military would randomly confiscate material and machines never to be seen again. More over, the north korean workers who were organized in bataillons would be regularly assigned totally pointless jobs like brooming the roads when a foreign leader was visiting Pjongjang.

@shudipjoy

10 ай бұрын

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@Real_SkyRipper

10 ай бұрын

makes sense, corruption was the silent killer of communism

@realjmferguson_

10 ай бұрын

The reason why the hotel was not finished was communism’s economic illiteracy.

@DeathMetalMusic-SavedMe

10 ай бұрын

​@@Real_SkyRipper what is with the word "was", should be "IS", 😊😊👋👋🇦🇺🇦🇺🤠

@HkFinn83

10 ай бұрын

@@DeathMetalMusic-SavedMedunno if you’ve heard, but there was a little reorganisation of things in the early 90’s😂

I loved how in all propo photos of Kim visiting the many, many projects and initiatives he has in his country, he's followed by an entourage of his generals, scribbling on notepads like it matters. There has been no greater depiction of "the boss is here, look busy". Seriously, why are the bottlecap (their medals) generals overseeing the progress of a beach resort project?

@shudipjoy

10 ай бұрын

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@jameskiehm546

10 ай бұрын

Exactly my thought. Why would you have your incompetent generals building resorts? They look like they’re 90 years old but likely only 50.

@cleanerben9636

9 ай бұрын

they're probs only 30 lol. Heck, they were probably shot or fed to wild dogs after the photoshoot to save on feeding them.@@jameskiehm546

@Jbridge621

9 ай бұрын

Because men go straight into the military for 10yrs after high school, but it isn’t really military, it is the government construction workforce. Then you get out of military get married have kids doing the job the gov gives you for the rest of your life. You can not visit outside your province or move from your province without government permission, which essentially never happens. NK is virtually the largest prison on the planet, less than 100 people were able to escape last year. The border is 100% walled, mined, camera’d, with shooting towers and jammers every so many meters to prevent broadcast or reception of any information.

@tomlxyz

9 ай бұрын

​@@jameskiehm546loyalty is more important to a dictator than competence. High competence also often led to that person being removed, as to not outshine the leader

It doesn’t get more dystopian than having propaganda cartoons played for the public on a 105 floor building that’s intimidating on the outside and empty on the inside.

@daffers2345

10 ай бұрын

It'd be fascinating in a fictional book of a dystopian reality. In real life, it's just sickening. :/

@cleanerben9636

9 ай бұрын

I think the building looks good tbh

@schlippschliddley

9 ай бұрын

lol it doesn’t get more dystopian than that? NPC detected xD

I swear every time I see the immense statues of the dear leaders, I immediately think of the statues of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at Disneyland. Come to think of it, Disney could easily do a better job of running North Korea.

@stardolphin2

11 ай бұрын

Though Walt wouldnt've been interested. When asked if he'd run for political office; "What for? I'm already King of Disneyland!"

@GlenHunt

11 ай бұрын

@@stardolphin2 Perfect. I love that.

@MomMom4Cubs

10 ай бұрын

I doubt it, as Walt Disney was a virulent racist.

@banditlord8210

10 ай бұрын

Well given the competition a rock could run North Korea better

@mehrcat1

10 ай бұрын

NK already is a Mickey Mouse country.

I was in North Korea in 2012. Every hotel we stayed at was half empty. The Ryanggang hotel had a revolving restaurant that didn't revolve. We were stuck in the elevator twice because of power cuts. Hot water was limited to 1 hour in the morning and evening.

@muppetb.lansing8374

10 ай бұрын

​@@jtsct Because not everyone believes that "thar be dragons" in the rest of the world (like most sheltered US citizens)

@ericsmith8373

10 ай бұрын

Is that the one which is supposed to be a 6 star hotel. And it's pretty much on par with a Motel 6.

@mwangikimani3970

10 ай бұрын

For a country that has been on the receiving end of brutal US sanctions it's actually done pretty decently for itself. Produces nuclear energy and weapons, is more industrialized than Portugal, Greece or Ireland, had to create it's own pharmaceutical sector. Of course the propaganda fed to Westerners is extreme but for the few people who have lived there longer than a tourist visit it is a country that has existed against all odds. The irony of meeting Westerners is that they are the most brainwashed slaves on earth yet they hardly know it. They are slaves who can't see their own shackles.

@Joaquin546

10 ай бұрын

@@muppetb.lansing8374lol who cares about dragons be worried about some North Korean jackboot putting jumper cables to your balls! It's should say something when a US citizen was worked to death.

@Joaquin546

10 ай бұрын

@@mwangikimani3970😂😂😂 if North Korea is so great and all the lies from the west are that why not go there?

Who the hell considers visiting or vacationing North Korea recreationally lol

@Rcampo42

11 ай бұрын

Traitors, to communist numskulls

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

11 ай бұрын

Rich Chinese people

@SOASwig

11 ай бұрын

Thousands of people every year

@jwenting

11 ай бұрын

Right now, I consider my chances of coming back alive from North Korea greater than those of coming back alive from the USA. Still doesn't make me eager to go there, but it's starting to become somewhat appealing.

@PhenomRom

11 ай бұрын

@@SOASwigwho

At this point - I couldnt, and wouldnt think N.Korea could finish a Lego project, even if you gave them all the pieces...

@WindTurbineSyndrome

10 ай бұрын

Well they built a nuclear arsenal and the world's largest concentration camps outside of Western China.

@wesnohathas1993

9 ай бұрын

Depends on if it can be used as a weapon

Just imagine if they spent that money on things that actually matter. They could have had been almost respected nation at this point rather than a laughingstock with a human muppet as a dictator.

The glee with which you present this video is just glorious. :D

Authoritarian rulers are in love with these kinds of grandiose pet projects that serve as monuments to their egos.

I love how Simon's voice is full of mocking laughter and sarcasm the entire video 😅😅

@lynnettecottrell6542

10 ай бұрын

One of the reasons I watch his videos

@blackcountryme

10 ай бұрын

Yep, it's called English... we are good at that

@653j521

10 ай бұрын

@@blackcountryme No it isn't. That is beyond ignorant, but maybe you are good at that, too.

The fact they think Westerners want to ever visit their dictatorship shows just how insanely delusional this regime is 😅😂

@lordmontymord8701

11 ай бұрын

Thats right for most people, but i think there would still be enough to reach their one million-goal. Thing is we already have resorts like this in countries that are not exactly nice to their own people (even if there is no one beating NK in that regard). And their concept works. You don't see the real country except maybe some bus tours to important locations and the rest of the time you are in the resort which of course is nothing like the rest of their cities. And there you have amenities the people usually don't have (like alcohol in coutries where that's normally illegal). Personally i'm not interested in something like this but there are many people love such resorts. And if the price isn't too high they would even go to NK, especially just to say they visited the country (even if they didn't really) ...

@tomhenry897

11 ай бұрын

Not really Cheap labor No safety or epa Hookers

@katanabluejay

11 ай бұрын

I think targeted to Chinese and Russian tourists

@jackolantern404

11 ай бұрын

@@katanabluejay thats not "Westerners"

@jackolantern404

11 ай бұрын

@@tomhenry897 none of that gives me any incentive to vacation there..

Great strategy. I'm sure people will be rushing to have a vacation in North Korea. One of the most attractive countries to visit.

@vehicles_n_stuff

11 ай бұрын

It’s so nice they’ll never leave

@go4brookle761

11 ай бұрын

They’ll leave but in a coma like Otto.

@leehill9922

11 ай бұрын

You'll become long pork.

@GuitarGuy4647

10 ай бұрын

I’d go.

@NSLuke

10 ай бұрын

@@GuitarGuy4647why 💀

I like how the only really successful accomplishment the country ever made was making statues and monuments dedicated to their leaders. Does show that whoever is in charge gets the say at what gets done, the rest is up to the scraps.

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un

11 ай бұрын

That's not true. We've created a missile program despite sanctions, built a huge dam that costed billions, and built monuments for other countries around the world.

@brandongaines1731

11 ай бұрын

​@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un you say that you've built monuments for other countries? Name one.

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un

11 ай бұрын

@@brandongaines1731 African Renaissance Monument in Senegal, the largest monument in Africa! We've built several things around the world through our Mansudae Overseas Projects, like the Tiglachin Monument in Ethiopia and the Three Dikgosi Monument in Botswana.

@PinkSakuraBunnie

11 ай бұрын

​@@SupremeLeaderKimJong-unfat load of good missiles do for starving ppl. 😕 To be fair, if sanctions weren't in place, NK would probably be doing a lot better, but nuclear weapons are more important to the leader, so the sanctions remain (and I can't blame other countries for doing them either).

I've seen a few videos purportedly from tourists to North Korea who showed how their nearly antique in-hotel TVs and other electronic devices had enough cables in them to look like IT spaghetti. I wouldn't be surprised if the bedbugs had little microphones on them at this rate. How they expect to attract tourists while spying this hard on them is anyone's guess.

@Americanpatriot-zo2tk

10 ай бұрын

🦟

@RK-zf1jm

10 ай бұрын

They do have microphones in the rooms bbc did a documentary holidays in the axis of evil and yeah the rooms are bugged and they even interview a yank who got arrested for asking his tour guide how come your leader is so fat when your all starving he got six months in prison

@w.reidripley1968

9 ай бұрын

At least one defector author has remarked that DPRK is built more like a counterintelligence agency than a state.

And so sad that their attempt at megaprojects only made the “Side Projects” show!

@BaronVonQuiply

11 ай бұрын

It had a Geographics video, too

@PaulTheFox1988

11 ай бұрын

It's a meagre-project then? 😂

Go on then Whistle boy, entertain us!

@KaptajnKaffe

11 ай бұрын

Whistle for us!

"Worker turnover" just reads different in the context of some places.

@flexinclouds

10 ай бұрын

Yeah theyre not paid, barely fed, and are then worked to death😕 Turnover is a nicer way to put it

So this is Dubai...without the money.

Staying in North Korean hotels is great! You get to pet wild dogs right in your room, and anything you need can be brought to you immediately since they're watching and listening to you for your entire stay! The sweeping view of unfinished buildings is only beat by the sight of their famous dirt farms and hunger competitions.

I am just sad for the people living there.

Like that disheveled gambler with the remainder of his savings in his hand muttering, "This is the roll. This one will change everything!"

I love these videos because they make my own failures seem so small in comparison.

Another instance of the DPRK outdoing South Korea when it comes to height is flagpoles. In the 1980s, the South Korean/ROK government built a 99.8 m (327 ft) flagpole in Daeseong-dong, which flies the ROK flag weighing 130 kilograms (287 pounds). Naturally, the DPRK responded by building an even taller one, the Panmunjom flagpole, at 160 m (525 ft) with a 270 kg (595 pounds) flag in the village of Kijong-dong. For over a decade, the flagpole was the tallest supported flagpole in the world. But in 2010, Azerbaijan took the record as they built one in Baku at 162 m (531 ft). Currently, the Panmunjom flagpole is the sixth-tallest flagpole in the world. And another famous megaproject is of course our Rungrado 1st of May Stadium. After the 1988 Summer Olympics had been awarded to Seoul, the DPRK intensified its efforts to present itself as the legitimate Korean state. As part of these efforts, it successfully bid to organize the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang in 1989. Massive construction projects were initiated in preparation for the festival, one of which was the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium. It has a capacity of 114,000 and is home to the Arirang Mass Games, which is the world's largest gymnastics display. It was the world's largest stadium from 1989 to 2020 when India rebuilt Motera Stadium and renamed it Narendra Modi Stadium.

@stringalongmike1953

11 ай бұрын

Greetings Dear Supreme Glorious Leader!!!! Long time, no see.

@jonnywatts2970

11 ай бұрын

Meanwhile their citizens starve to death...

@catsantos353

11 ай бұрын

Thank u dear leader for that elaboration

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

11 ай бұрын

It's almost like you're trying to make up for something, Kimmy-boy.

@videre8884

11 ай бұрын

Bon appetit Kim Kong

Way back when my husband was a working aerospace engineer, he would need to fly to Taiwan many times - but the pilots had to be extremely careful about where they flew as it was very easy to just muck a corner of North Korea - which did happen once! Luckily the plane was not shot down!!

@matthew_natividad

10 ай бұрын

Jesus they must really hate flybys

The fact that the Kim Dynasty can't afford to feed their own people but they can splurge massive amounts of money on these failed "megaprojects" is fucking insane.

@MosoKaiser

11 ай бұрын

Priorities... Priorities, man.

@michaelhowell2326

11 ай бұрын

That's communism

@tessiepinkman

11 ай бұрын

@@michaelhowell2326 Nothing that's going on in North Korea has anything to do with communism. What about reading up on the subject before you fall for the lie?

@PinkSakuraBunnie

11 ай бұрын

​@@michaelhowell2326NK is not practicing communism. Neither is China for the record despite the name of their gov in power (they have stated they are the Chinese Communist Party bc getting to communism one day is their goal so they say). They are as communist as North Korea is democratic (they call themselves the Democratic ppls republic of KR despite) or the Nazi's were socialists (they weren't despite their party name, they killed actual socialists and communists). The only thing these regimes are are dictatorships, often with fascism and capitalism as well.

@tomhenry897

11 ай бұрын

A democrat

A giant super close runway paralleling the beach and resort?! SEEMS SUPER AWESOME. 🥴👍🏼

On an off hand I kinda dig the triangle/pyramid like architecture they keep going for with these failed hotels

I can't imagine one of the most repressive governments in the world having problems drawing tourist?

@samuellickiss8463

9 ай бұрын

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have little issue attracting tourists, especially the latter. I appreciate they're not quite on the same scale of oppressive as North Korea, but they're not great. It's amazing what can be accomplished when all the dodgy stuff is kept out of sight.

The major problem as I see it is anyone in the North Korean government thinking that anyone really wants to visit or invest in North Korea.

You pretend to pay us, we pretend to work...

An amusing instance of North Korean business dealings was an order of 1000 Volvos from Sweden back in the 1970s. Volvo agreed to the order, delivered it, then North Korea decided to not pay up. It is now known as the largest car theft in history.

@Aligartornator13

10 ай бұрын

They also bought a used Mercedes 190 from Thailand and copied it as Kaengsaeng 88.

@willissudweeks1050

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for mentioning that I’m looking it up

@Charlie-ly9kp

10 ай бұрын

Don’t forget all the directors they kidnapped to make propaganda movies lol

Kim- can I borrow money for a hotel? World- how do we know you won’t spend this money on nukes? Kim- oh, I got nuke money

What a tragedy for Korea and the Korean people that they were used as pawns and their country split. It is beyond sad.

@AB-gj8re

10 ай бұрын

No bro come on bro they did it to themselves dude! It has absolutely nothing to do with the entire western world barring them from any participation from the get go forcing the government to become this insane military state that thinks everybody is trying to kill them (everybody is trying to kill them)

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10 ай бұрын

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@tim3172

10 ай бұрын

It's impressive how you can simplify the Korean conflict down well past the point of a braindead take.

@w.reidripley1968

9 ай бұрын

Go further: Hyper-Stalinism Kills.

@cleanerben9636

9 ай бұрын

All socialism eventually ends up this way.@@w.reidripley1968

Even if I got a fully paid, all-inclusive trip to North Korea *nobody* could make me go. I'm way to curious for my own good and I swear I'd be screened and jailed in a heartbeat for asking something I think is completely normal, or just going on a walk and end up somewhere they wouldn't like. And then I have a huge problem with keeping my mouth shut when I see things that I think is deeply unfair, and that whole country is nothing if not *deeply fucking unfair* - so I'd probably come back from that trip in a coffin.

@nancycurtis7315

11 ай бұрын

You sound like an Aussie! They can shove their country. I'm staying home!

@funtechu

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, after what they did to Otto Warmbier, they've put a real wedge in their tourism economy.

@lordmontymord8701

11 ай бұрын

I'm sure the risk of going somewhere they don't want you to go is relatively small in this case. If this resort will ever be opened it will be surely cut off from the rest of the country, which wouldn't make it look better, but that doesn't matter. This is why the airport makes extra sense in this case. It will be probably the only way for the tourists in and out. Nobody inside is allowed to see the actual NK and all the things that might not be very nice ... on the other hand their own people are not allowed in except for the workers. So even if someone wants to see the country they won't - at least not really ...

@dx1450

10 ай бұрын

Well, for one thing, you won't be allowed to just wander around. The way tourism is there now (or was before the pandemic) is that any Western tourists, at least, could only go where their guides took them. They'd take tourists out to see a bunch of staged stuff, like a farm with a bunch of successfully grown crops, but not to an actual farm with dying crops. There's no way they'll ever let someone see the real North Korea.

@clamcrewcarclub6017

10 ай бұрын

@@dx1450I think she meant like a Otto warmbier situation where he went to a floor of the hotel he wasn’t supposed to be on and taking a propaganda poster off the wall as a souvenir Yeah he died

It's really the saddest of all stories of what the North Korean government has done to It's people. The Kim family puts all other dictators pale in comparison. I remember reading an article about North Korean refugees & how, because of the lack of proper nutrition, are all considerably smaller than their South Korean counterparts. May God have mercy on their souls (the people, not their government). 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️

The Wonsan beach resort project reminds me of the Nazi workers (pre-WWII) vacation project, i.e., "The Colossus of Prora" along the Baltic Sea coast.

Can't believe that it's only an eleven minute video! Would have thought that it would have been at least 2 hours long 😂😂😂

@urbanurchin5930

10 ай бұрын

Likely, very difficult to acquire information on anything else.

Airport 500 m from your hotel and Beach? Perfect place for rest 😆😆😆😆😆

Now please do the new MSG Sphere in Las Vegas. Seems like a good Megaproject.

@QBCPerdition

11 ай бұрын

I was just thinking of this. My wife and I are going there later this year to see U2, and I've been looking at videos of it lately.

@InterstellarTaco

11 ай бұрын

@QBCPerdition I saw it December on 2021 when it was under construction. Had no idea what it was until I saw videos of it recently all lit up. It's pretty cool

Failed megaprojects: 😕 Failed megaprojects, north korea: 😱😱

The fact they just pretend it doesn't exist is hilariously pathetic. Ew! I would never go to that beach after learning it had been covered in faeces... all it takes is one missed and covered pile and your day is ruined.

How many channels does this guy have/ is affiliated with.. I've seen him more times than I've seen my dad at this point

NK makes me think of someone playing Civilization who doesnt quite know the rules, and makes a lot of bad decisions.

A megaproject they've completed successfully is the Nampo Dam. It was built by the Korean People's Army from 1981 to 1986, with the resources of the whole country directed to this big construction project during this time. It's located 15 km west of the special city of Nampo on the Taedong River which is the country's most important river. It closes off the Taedong from the Yellow Sea. Why? Because their goal was the prevention of seawater intrusion into the fresh water, thus solving the water supply problem as well as the irrigation of additional land, enlarging the arable territory of the region. It is a large, eight-km-long system of dams, three lock chambers, and 36 sluices, allowing the passage of ships up to 50,000 tons! The West Sea Barrage non-electrified railway line (which goes between Cholgwang and Sillyongri in Nampo) of the Korean State Railway also runs right across the dam! It was built at a cost of four billion US Dollars, and it's an achievement they are quite proud of as it's shown in many North Korea music videos as well as a backdrop for KCTV news segments. And of course, they take tourists there too!

@TheKrausenKid

11 ай бұрын

How many unpaid people uprooted from their homes died building it?

@johnmiller8975

11 ай бұрын

So a moderately successful white sea canal then. lovely

@rich-qk7dc

10 ай бұрын

Thanks to Russia who paid for it

1:48 it is so freaking ugly (and impractical). Update: Ok; it does look a lot better with glass on the outside; but it’s still impractical.

Dude you have so many amazing channels, I love it 😊

Why anyone would want to visit is a mystery to me

@marktg98

11 ай бұрын

Because some people actually want to see the world.

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un

11 ай бұрын

Because we're a unique place. Unlike the south, we've kept our culture and language intact.

@Fizz-Pop

11 ай бұрын

@@marktg98 Some people want to to be POWs

@australien6611

11 ай бұрын

​@@SupremeLeaderKimJong-unan absolute shit hole

@darlenefraser3022

11 ай бұрын

To understand other cultures and not stay home with your head in the sand

Reading about NK is so surreal. From the parasite epidemics resulting from overusing human fertilizer, to the tallest building in the capital city being abandoned. The entire state is almost a parody of the faults of authoritarianism

I would actually love to see a video of sideprojects which the DPRK did complete, there must be something that a government like that must have acheived through sheer force of "will", I mean oppressive coercion, that's radical or impressive??

@ChuckDanger

11 ай бұрын

Pretty sizeable minefield I'm sure.

@Demitry0013

11 ай бұрын

It's just nukes and ICBMs...that's literally where all their money goes trying to keep their military relevant and the upkeep so that if they do start something they won't be wiped away like a bad pot of Texas red...

@Diverball1

10 ай бұрын

I suspect that all of the impressive ones are military, so you’ll never see them unless the regime falls. There’s supposed to be a great many underground air force bases, including a handful of runways that run through mountains.

@SpadeDraco

10 ай бұрын

@@Diverball1 Think they technically have the largest fleet of submarines in the world.

@Diverball1

10 ай бұрын

@@SpadeDraco Technically. However most of them are less than 40m long, and only used for landing special forces. The rest are fifty-year-old Romeo-class derivatives.

Thoroughly enjoyed that into, great man

Come, check out this hotel, come check out this beach, come check out the nuclear missile launch test? yeah I’ll get right on top of that. Various countries over the years have paying them off to not develop nuclear weapons. At this point I wouldn’t give them 20 bucks to change a tire.

Who in their right mind would choose North Korea as a fun get away. Maybe North Korea could use the people who designed their nuclear weapons to build tourist sites.

@TMBpk

5 ай бұрын

I would go to visit - it’s better to be open minded than a slave of western propaganda. Go see the country yourself and make a decision on your own about how good or bad it is.

I actually work in a building like that hotel. So poorly designed the skyscraper lists a bit because the materials used... well, you got what you paid for.

01:39 - A Japanese lounge is where Geishas live and ply their trade 😂😂 We in the west call our equivalent....Brothels!

@SkunkApe407

11 ай бұрын

Nah, that's just Kiki's house.

@drcovell

6 күн бұрын

A true “Geisha House” is *NOT* a brothel. The word “Geisha” means “”Skilled Person.” These women have spent years learning traditional Japanese arts of entertainment, such as the *Samisen* or *Koto* as well dance and songs. Sex with the Customers is NOT requisite part of it.

It all gives off an atmosphere of a little kid mirroring their parents

North Korea skyscraper looks like a freaking housing project lmao lol.

Fun Fact: The Ryugyong Hotel was featured in Mecenaries: World On Fire. It was the site of the first major boss battle and the player had to destroy it using a fuel air bomb.

Can't wait to visit! 😊

I love the titles of some of these segments :D

That building was used in the background of a Netflix B-movie I saw a few years back. The context was that a group of people found a building that could jump through realities and they jumped into a version of New York City that was "20 years more advanced than us".

Yes, because I want nothing more than to visit North Korea. It's totally a safe tourist destination and I'd never have to worry about my safety and ability to return home 🙄

First Ferengi rule of business, right after profit, which as we all know is the definition of "business" is DON'T kill the investors... at no right away...

20 dollars to anybody that can land on Kim jong-un head

I enjoyed the mega projects channel plug at the beginning.

Why would any soul WILLINGLY go to North Korea?!?

@SpadeDraco

10 ай бұрын

They actually have a small tourism industry.

@dkakito

10 ай бұрын

@@SpadeDraco Be that as it may. My Original Question stands. lol

Lol I love the opening of this one, with Simon's head popping out of the centre of the screen like he's Porky Pig at the end of a WB cartoon.

It's sad, really. Imagine how many disappointed people wake up each and every day saying, "Y'know, I really, really wanted to vacation in the oppressive totalitarian regime of North Korea." Cheers....

Who TF would wanna go there? lol

The tourist resort isn't insane to me in concept. We need only look at the success of places like Dubai to know that autocratic nightmare realms in a perpetual state of humanitarian crisis are still somehow considered perfectly acceptable places to go spend your money if the hotels are nice enough.

@DennisHeikki

8 ай бұрын

Fair enough!

Simon, please, please, please tell us what a 'Japanese lounge' is?

@neoqwerty

11 ай бұрын

el broth. with red lights. and a boss you call "Madamme".

@handyandyaus

11 ай бұрын

@@neoqwerty Well, that's obvious, but I'd prefer Simon told us.

Their biggest accomplishment is famine and death! 😮

I see Simon everywhere. But I am not complaining. I just hope to see him more.

0:50 - Chapter 1 - The hotel of doom 7:05 - Chapter 2 - Wonsan - kalma beach resort

HTF hasn't the North Korean government been overthrown yet from all this wasteful spending, I haven't a clue. When people are desperate, they will go to extreme lengths.

@justinspriggs2979

11 ай бұрын

Because the people are disarmed and fed nothing but state propaganda media.

@watcherit1311

11 ай бұрын

For the same reason why Russian or any other dictator government is not overthrown - people are too scared and indoctrinated to make a change

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

11 ай бұрын

When you're hungry and have a family you're just trying to survive.

@kurousagi8155

11 ай бұрын

NK is so incredibly brainwashed. They know they are starving, but blame the Americans for it. They also think that, though they are starving, that everyone else in the world has it worse off than they do.

@tomhenry897

11 ай бұрын

Only government has guns

Beach resort with average summer temperatures of around 20c lol

How are those Chevy trucks getting to North Korea? Plenty in those pictures..

My main concern is how to recover from all of these economic and geopolitical problems and stay afloat, especially with the political power conflict in the United States.

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11 ай бұрын

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11 ай бұрын

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Ahh yes an expensive disco ball for a building

That’s crazy homeless people were able to move in I didn’t think shit like that could happen in such authoritarian countries

feel sadness for people over there, caught in the grip of a sadistic crime family

"the elevator shaft is straight" "yes sir" that's the problem with dictatorships that won't take no for an answer "russia has the #2 top military equipment in the world" sure it does... North Korean tourism "you will have fun...or else!"

A 105-story billboard! 🤣😂🤣 Beach resort: here’s an idea: complete one thing at a time. Make a modest hotel, a restaurant, and a small shopping center. Start generating some revenue in one corner. Then build another piece. Over the decades, you will end up with a quality resort. You don’t need to build the entire thing in one go!

Will u plz make a biographics video please

Simon and Kevin are "today's equivalent" of the WONDER TWINS of the early 1980s!

And to think they could've just used all that money to invest in improving their agriculture infrastructure so that their people aren't constantly starving. And how the heck do you attract foreign investors and/or tourists when you're incredibly insensitive about your national pride that you have incidents and this horrible reputation of making people horribly suffer or worse: killed.

The simple throwaway of the phrase, "the hotel of doom has yet to open its doors" is so hysterical. The way Simon says it so casually with that super dry sarcastic wit that the British are so goddamn good at, is why I am subscribed to every single one of his channels, at least I think I'm subscribed to all of them, he has so freaking many I can't always keep track. 😂

This was almost mind-blowing

Strategic Nuclear Weapons, think about it.

lol, the beach RESORT WILL NEVER GET DONE!!

Kim jun:This should be on the megaprojects channel 😂

I see the military wears lots of hats, Generals do it all, they are resort builders, auto mechanics, bakers, bus drivers and any other jobs needing help.

The yelp rating is 14/5

Love the videos but as fast as you speak those whisper moments make me have to scan back and turn the volume up, back er down a few syllables a second bro.

Knowing what i know now, I’d still take the Titan to the Titanic before going to that portal of hell. South Korea - different story. My dad served there after the armistice and he’s often said he wish he could see the countryside around near where he served as a radio operator in the mountains.