This American man went to North Korea and regretted it welcome back Charlie here North
Korea is without a doubt the scariest country to live in videos of the secretive country are rare
but sometimes brave people leak videos to the outside world from a mother and daughter caught
on camera trying to escape to child's labor being used at Kim jong-un's personal ski resort first
we have to look at this arrested American you are looking at prisoner number 429 or at least that's
his name in North Korea his real name is Kim Dong Chul he's an American businessman who was
born in South Korea Kim is a Christian and in 2015 went to North Korea to do missionary work
but in October of 2015 he was arrested by North Korean police he was accused of being a spy for
the USA despite there being zero evidence of this in March of 2016 he was forced to go to
a press conference organized by North Korea he was forced to apologize for stealing military
secrets and for working as a spy for the USA and South Korea he was forced to admit to these crimes
despite there being no evidence after this show trial Kim was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor
and he was sent to one of North Korea's Infamous work camps many people never make it out of these
camps alive but thankfully in May of 2018 Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong-un after the meeting
several American detainees inside North Korea were released thankfully he was returned to the USA a
few days later which is where he still lives today but this man must have been absolutely terrified
when he was arrested by the North Korean police in total he spent 950 days inside a North Korean
Work Camp next we have to look at this woman directing fake traffic North Korea makes their
citizens act out various jobs and roles to make their country seem normal this is mainly done for
foreign visitors this video was filmed in downtown Pyongyang the streets are very busy the cameraman
then starts filming the traffic on the road as soon as the traffic controller sees she's being
filmed she starts working or at least pretending to she starts blowing on her whistle and directing
traffic but despite her blowing her whistle and waving her flag she's actually not doing anything
cars keep driving past as normal and people simply ignore her and cross the street anyway it's almost
as if she's pretending to work the truth is North Korea doesn't need Traffic Control Officers barely
anyone in the country has a car that's why many working people including soldiers often have to
hitchhike also there are so few cars that children are often seen playing in the rooms next we have
to look at this homeless family in North Korea Pyongyang is one of the more affluent areas in
North Korea but clearly not everyone there has money this video shows a homeless woman and her
child they're both very malnourished they also live in a tiny Shack they talk about how they
sneak out at night time to scavenge food but they say they never go out in the city during the day
that's because they fear they may be arrested and sent to a labor camp or even worse killed
it's very depressing to see the poverty that exists inside North Korea's capital next we
have to look at a mother and daughter trying to escape North Korea this video was taken from China
on the other side of this lake is North Korea the crowd of people here are North Korean soldiers and
standing on the frozen lake is a mother and her daughter if you look closely you can see they're
being arrested by North Korean police the mother and daughter bribed one of the North Korean guards
to get through but as they were crossing the river other guards saw them the mother and daughter were
then arrested but here's where things get really sad the daughter is jumping up and down crying
that's because she knows their fate they will be sent to one of North Korea's Infamous work camps
and to make matters worse all of their family will be imprisoned too North Korea has what's known as
this means generations of punishment for example if one person goes to prison their parents and
their children will go to prison with them this is to try and keep their populations scared and
brainwashed mainly to make sure that no one ever tries to escape now we have to look at these scary
videos of child labor being used in North Korea in 2016 a Human Rights group leaked this video
it shows a North Korean child Chain Gang working on a railway these are Kim jong-un's child slaves
they mend railway tracks with hammers and have to lift heavy rocks in bags they're forced to do
this work all day in the hot sun working 10-hour shifts they're also not paid any money for this
work the footage was filmed with a secret camera the kids are eight to nine years old and a clearly
very malnourished in another video children were seen being used as slave labor children as young
as 11 were made to work at Kim jong-un's Elite ski resort they had to work shoveling snow in
Sub-Zero temperatures doing this for hours on end a small group of soldiers watch over them making
sure they don't try to run away now we have to see this video of North Korean soldiers shooting
at U.S Seoul soldiers in 2014 a training video from the North Korean army was released it showed
them firing at cardboard cutouts of U.S soldiers the soldiers even had us painted on their helmets
this just shows North Korea's hatred for the USA and the U.S troops in another disturbing
clip a North Korean Child Soldier decapitated a U.S crew the young girl did this by knocking the
head off an effigy of a U.S soldier now we have to look at this video of people smuggling food
into North Korea it's no secret North Korea lacks food you only have to look at the average North
Korean citizen to realize they're very hungry most people in the country are very malnourished except
of course their dear leader because there's not enough food food often has to be smuggled in by
other people here you can see two people crossing the Chinese border with food carrying it back into
North Korea they bribed a guard to do this and then covered up their tracks in the snow using a
jacket it's a lot of work but it's necessary to keep people alive if these people didn't bring
break the law North Koreans simply wouldn't have enough food which could cause starvation or even
death now let's look at this empty airport you may assume this airport is abandoned but no this is
actually North Korea's busiest airport you won't have to worry about long queues or missing your
flight that's because there's absolutely no one anywhere there's barely any staff and even less
passengers North Koreans are not allowed to leave the country so the airport only exists for foreign
visitors but because it's rare to be allowed inside these are scarce when you fly on North
Korea's only Airline it's very common to be the only person on the plane just imagine how Eerie
that would be now we have to look at this North Korean army trail in 2016 the North Korean army
put on a show of force they did various bizarre exercises for the camera this included having
large rocks smashed on their stomachs and being beaten with sticks all this while Kim Jong-un
looked on at one point a soldier even breaks bricks with his bare hands and another Soldier
breaks a pane of glass using his body every North Korean citizen is forced to join the Army for at
least 10 years which is why the North Korean army has around 1 million troops on the ground
this bizarre propaganda video was likely released to try and scare foreign militaries now we have
to look at these Starving Children inside North Korea this video comes from heiju city in North
Korea it shows an orphanage filled with Starving Children farmlands in North Korea are sadly not
well maintained the regime simply doesn't care about their people enough causing many people
to starve sadly many of these kids also have diseases which can't be treated that's because
there's not enough medical supplies to go around in North Korea when farming fails the government
doesn't give their people more food instead they slash food rations meaning that people get less
food actually making the problem even worse all this while Kim Jong-un spends an estimated 5
million dollars a year importing luxury foods for himself finally let's look at this North Korean
propaganda video about the USA ever wondered why North Koreans seem to dislike the USA well it's
because this is what's shown on North Korean TV take a look at this video these people lie
hold together where they're dead friends in blue body bags drinking coffee cups full of
local snow many Americans have to live like this daily and are entitled to one cup most
days that was shown on North Korean TV they claim Americans are homeless and live in tents in the
snow they also have to drink coffee made of snow they also show people sleeping in sleeping bags
but say the sleeping bags are actually body bags these blatant lies are to make America look bad
and also make it seem like living in North Korea is the best country ever if they showed how good
America actually was North Korean people might be annoyed they'd realize their lives are much worse
in North Korea sadly access to the outside world is very limited inside North career so this is
all they'll see meaning that most people in the country actually believe this propaganda but now
it's time to make your voice heard comment below which of these videos was the most scary I've been
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