How North Korea Finally Made It Impossible to Escape

My grandparents were both from North Korea, and they had an insane 6th sense of knowing what North Korea would become. They told me Kim Il Sung gave them nothing but bad vibes and didn't want to stick around. As soon as the Korean War ended, they, as well as my grandfather's little brother, escaped North Korea to the South when the borders were still being built up and defenses were nonexistent. They pretty much left the rest of their family behind and are presumably still in North Korea. It's kind of crazy to think that I, as well as the rest of my current family, could have been stuck in North Korea if my grandparents didn't go with their hunch and remained in the regime.

The worst part about this is that this isn't history, its happening right now.

Watching this while comfortably getting McDonald's delivered to my house through doordash. We take things for TOO granted sometimes

The sad part is we only saw the numbers for the successful detectors. We have no idea how many have perished trying to escape. If I had to guess it may be in the hundreds of thousands.

Imagine sending a two-year-old to life because their parents read a book. It's almost literally unbelievable.

The whole country is nothing more than an open air prison. I can't even find the words to describe how evil a person would have to be to do that to the citizens. Heinous, disgusting and deplorable.

my step dad in uni taught a man in Australia around 60 years old who escaped North Korea, he was so interested and had passion in everything he was always doing work. This shows how glad and happy they are to be out of the country and how much of a hell hole North Korea could have been. I wish I could have questioned the dude but it was 3 years ago.

Why is no one talking about how SMOOTH that Advertisement lead up was 💀💀 Like talking about electronics in Korea and App bans in china and then America and then BOOM! Nord VPN advertising… Like that was so smooth what-

Imagine living in a country so terrible they have to build massive walls and barbed fences to keep people IN.

Those 210 people who managed to escape during the pandemic must have balls of absolute steel. I can't imagine feeling like you have no choice but to walk into certain death for a better life.

i still dont understand how even after telling this with sources, theres tankies on twitter saying that all of this is false.

Sometimes when I'm feeling like garbage and depressed about the way my life's going, I only have to think about how lucky I am to be born in the USA and about how many people aren't as lucky as me, and the depression about my life goes away, only for it to come back as depression for all these people stuck in literal Hells on Earth.

I'm hoping that I get to experience the fall of NK in my lifetime. One of my friend's parents fled North Korea back in the 70's and made their way to the United States. Hearing the stories from my friend's dad really puts it into perspective on how lucky we are in the US.

“Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own” - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2:06 that little girl on the left end trying to make his little sibling bow as well. thats sad

Hi! A little note for the begging of the video: Afghanistan is the same actually since Taliban came.(you can't leave without getting the government's approval first) No one knows though because the Afghans who leave are too terrified to say ANYTHING about it. I'm from Iran and never really talked to them until a while ago since people here often feel threatened by the Afghans which is surprise surprise partially the propaganda of the regime. I learned this a while back when I realized I was unknowingly keeping my distance from Afghan illegal immigrants and started making conversations for the first time. The ones that came here have to go through a very dangerous path that can sometimes take a month on foot to pass and many die on their way here. They wouldn't go through so much misery and sh*** if they could legally leave the country.

My mother and (supposedly) father are defectors. I dont know them since my father disappeared and my mom decided to allow me to be adopted. I did a project on defection from North Korea and there has been a massive decline in defectors over the past few years due to massive crackdowns in the country. Its depressing to me to know that there are kids who wont be able to live civilized lives outside of the DPRK because their parents couldnt escape

A friend’s dad was an interrogator in South Korea when he was in the army. He was sent in to interview a North Korean man who walked straight through the DMZ. As he put it, he just started going through the DMZ. Crossed tigers, saw guards, etc. The dude straight up just said fuck it and crossed the DMZ. WHAT A CHAD

Kind of amazing that Google Maps still has a lot of data on North Korea!

The defectors who escaped from 2021-2023 were probably elite warriors who trained from their young age to the day of their escape