Ive watched hundreds of documentaries, but this small clip really stands out to me
@themanfromdystopia807
Жыл бұрын
Just 2 minutes in and I've already learned that N. Korean kids are better at geography than US politicians.
@Comradpetito
11 ай бұрын
Hope u troll
@MiniKodjo
10 ай бұрын
nope staged at all, with this fake globe where south korea doesnt exist
@fatnapster
8 ай бұрын
Most of the kid outside US know well about US, US kid does not really know US well
@William_Fei
5 ай бұрын
@@fatnapster As I know an average American student's geography is worse than most of their peers in Europe
@andrzejszpak688
3 ай бұрын
@@William_FeiDepends on the school system as every state has a different system. Kids from Massachusetts and Washington have far better education than those in Alabama and Florida.
@Vip__honey
2 жыл бұрын
We all just appreciate the content this man and his crew makes its just a masterpiece imagine what's he's gonna doing the future 💛....
@bedrock6443
5 ай бұрын
The reason they are taught English is to give the illusion of freedom.
@MasterKenfucius
Ай бұрын
Too bad he did not visit a school! He visited a SHOWCASE. That's not an average North Korean school by a looooong shot.
@calinasagilitypartner4444
Ай бұрын
Prove it
@MasterKenfucius
Ай бұрын
@@calinasagilitypartner4444 Try to visit a "normal" school and then come back and tell me what your minder said to you! HINT: "NOT ALLOWED"
@Spartan-ec8gt
28 күн бұрын
@@MasterKenfuciusso you went there and saw what normal school looks like?
@MasterKenfucius
28 күн бұрын
@@Spartan-ec8gt Do you say the same thing when people tell you that the Earth isn't flat? Take that ignorance and go bother someone else.
@xXxJokerManxXx
2 ай бұрын
2:56 someone translate this girl's blinks into morse code. I think it's a distress call....
@dontaskmyname1
Ай бұрын
No if it was translated to morse code, it will be a bunch of "........." which mean nothing because for the dash to appear, she needs to blink longer so in this case she's just blinking
@JamieRHubert
8 ай бұрын
I’ve watched every video possible of NK, including all of the ones of visitors in schools, and every single one never fails to fill my body with SOOOOOOO much anxiety. Never fails. I would NOT survive as a kid like this.
@Steveinthailand
5 ай бұрын
Hi James: you've watched every video about North Korea? "My Brothers and Sisters in the North" is a wonderful award-winning documentary made by a SKorean film-maker. No anxiety in this documentary. Its on youtube.❤
@AJnzxv1
5 ай бұрын
When you've been born and raised there, you don't know any different. Its hard to grasp for us. These kids have very limited knowledge of the outside world and what they are missing.
@braunreal
11 ай бұрын
1:39 Ah, I knew it. As soon as he pulled out the globe I was like, "There's no way that they'd let him bring in a western globe...?" It's got southern Korea as a country on it, as opposed to representing Korea as one peninsula. I'm guessing his crew either anticipated this or they bought it as a souvenir of some kind.
@jasonb.6623
7 ай бұрын
You could see the anxiety of the teacher when it was passed around
@braunreal
7 ай бұрын
@@jasonb.6623 interestingly enough as of january the DPRK has stopped showing the entire korean peninsula everywhere, instead opting for just the national borders.
@JRFrancisco20088
16 күн бұрын
A foreign visitor once said a group of North Koreans told him they would like to visit Czechoslovakia, which no longer exists. I doubt he was allowed to correct them.
@Twilleh
Жыл бұрын
Imagine a Python just showing up in your school, but basically nobody knows who he is.
@davidc4408
7 ай бұрын
Palin is a geographical legend. That globe was smuggled in 😂
@nassauguy48
Ай бұрын
The look on the face of the teacher is one of constant anticipatory fear. So sad.
@scottdowning799
8 ай бұрын
No, we call that brainwashing
@agalgonzalez
Жыл бұрын
That group of students was hand picked from the politically influential class and they have been groomed since birth to excel. They are about as representative of the average N. Korean as John Cena is of the commonly seen overweight North American men, of which I am one.
@V0YAG3R
Жыл бұрын
Yep, just by their features, faces and BMI it is crystal clear that is no ordinary NK school, especially like those in second and third rated cities and rural areas, many of them will end up studying abroad in places like Switzerland, just like KJU himself, most will become top diplomats and ambassadors. The red shirt tour is always omnipresent and pre-planned, choreographed. Nothing but propagandist charade and macabre kabuki!
@surendramumgai631
5 ай бұрын
The average north Koreans r equally patriotic...many of them aspire to join the military and all show loyalty to the leadership...
@rasbro87
3 ай бұрын
"You can throw it back hard to anyone you DON'T like." Next kid throws it back to him. :D
@roz1
2 ай бұрын
The teacher looked very tensed
@nassauguy48
Ай бұрын
Michael Palin was able to get away with this, but no American ever would. They would not even be asked into any classroom.
@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329
2 жыл бұрын
Look he’s talking to the Korean students in English and they are talking English to him
@murdertv9110
2 ай бұрын
The students read scripts and instructed before meeting the foreign guy.
@nassauguy48
Ай бұрын
The girl who wants to be a writer will soon realize that her works better constantly be in praise of the regime, or her career (and life) will be short lived.
@agalgonzalez
Жыл бұрын
The devotion to their leader is their religion with all of its zealot fervour, inculcated from birth and reinforced multiple times per day for life.
@natn41r
Жыл бұрын
N.Korea doesn't at all look like the terrible place the media would have us imagine And what is so bad about "mass military parades"? Every country does parades.
@thisone981
Жыл бұрын
What are you talking about? The kids look like robots programmed by the government.
@Chaziltasm
Жыл бұрын
Yes but there's one thing you are forgetting. Everywhere he goes, government representatives are following him. He has no freedom, he can only see what they let him see. This school, this class, these students were specifically chosen. This may be one of the more fortunate areas, but most of the country is in poverty, people starving to death constantly, washing themselves in rivers. The people themselves are brainwashed and have no freedom of their own. People who try to escape are trapped in China and turned into slaves, or sent back and put in concentration camps to work hard labour.
@samanthapeppers546
11 ай бұрын
Many of these people are actors. You are under constant surveillance. There is no democracy. You have no freedom of speech. It’s illegal to improperly address the leader of the nation. There’s so many issues.
@brucekilby9957
11 ай бұрын
Michael Palin is the best traveller on TV. His documentaries are brilliant. Nth Korea is so rarely covered,he is the perfect host for those who have little knowledge of the'Hermit Kingdom'. The visit to school was very revelling. Smart intelligent students and perfect English. Thanks to Palin on another fine trip.🇰🇵🇬🇧
@Comradpetito
11 ай бұрын
Yes it is a terrible place, idiot
@wordscapes5690
7 ай бұрын
When they put on that fake, wobbly, emotional voice… it just makes me angry.
@JMajik24
5 ай бұрын
It makes you angry when someone recites poetry?
@wordscapes5690
5 ай бұрын
@@JMajik24Only when they use a fake, wobbly voice filled with insincere emotion.
@stormcoulsonjohnson6532
4 ай бұрын
@@wordscapes5690do you mean poetry in general or North Koreans? As plenty of literature is read with certain flows or cadences deliberately as a art form/ aesthetic choice, this is just one of theirs just like one that might exist in our cultures
@wordscapes5690
4 ай бұрын
@@stormcoulsonjohnson6532 Nonsense. South Koreans do NOT read poetry like this. This is a Maoist/ Stalinist era technique used to drum up maudlin emotions.
@stormcoulsonjohnson6532
4 ай бұрын
@@wordscapes5690 well considering Mao and Stalin lived in the 50’s, this would be enough time to have seeped into the culture to make it Korean. The south and the north have existed separately for 70 years, this would be enough time for this to have developed into a more naturalised expression of north korean poetry. Just because something derives from a overarching power does not mean that any forms of expression of this 70 years later would make it not legitimate, you may disagree morally with its originality but surely enough time has passed where this expression of poetry has standing as part of their culture.
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