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Nice video of Pyongyang

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http://vimeo.com/19901182

Shot with a Canon EOS 5D apparently. I love the shots going down into the subway and the music track too match.

Edit: Not (exactly) North Korean propaganda. It was taken on one of the sanctioned tours, but the video was taken secretly and was not screened upon exiting the country.

http://stevegong.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/pyongyang-style-north-korean-haircut/
Filming in North Korea is a bit of an iffy task, and you never know when a minder may decide to confiscate your memory cards or camera. That was a risk I didn’t want to take, so I decided not to reveal to them the fact that my 5D was capable of shooting video. I taped up the back screen with black electrical tape.
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http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/17...et-video-inside-north-korea-and-lived/?hpt=C2
It wasn't photographer Steve Gong's first trip to North Korea. But on this trip, putting his life at risk, he practiced for months to capture secret video footage in the notoriously clandestine country. And he pulled it off.

To even enter the country, visitors must be given special permission and go through a monitored, government-arranged tour group. A few years ago, a South Korean tourist was reportedly shot for wandering off to watch the sunrise without her group.

Using a Canon 5D, Gong taped out the backside of the camera, and for weeks, practiced shooting video with the camera around his neck. What's captured is a precious glimpse into North Korean daily life, something very little known about in the outside world.

And when he was leaving the country, perhaps, with serendipity on his side, “…the [funny] thing is, the military officer who was supposed to go through every single picture on my camera [never] show[ed] up,” he wrote on his blog.
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Haha, I've been there.(The one in S.K) I was pretty young at the time so i don't remember much of it. But I do remember touching the statues and hearing that touching them all makes your Penis grow big.

Didn't help. I'm sad.
 
ultimatebob said:
It looks surprisingly nice, honestly. Nothing like the third-world hellhole I was expecting.
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From the half dozen or so stories I've read of tourists who visit North Korea it seems that you are basically taken on a well controlled tour of the country. You don't get to see anything that they do not want you to see. The travelogues are always interesting to read since you hear so little first hand experiences of the country. And they all seem to be very similar in that they all saw the same places and had similar interactions. Although it certainly seems that some of the things we hear about are not too exaggerated. I recall in one video the tour guide being very offended about being asked if it was a poor use of resources to have expanded the Kim Jong Il gift pavilion when there were the rampant famines. It seemed from the reaction that the widespread famine of the 90's was very real. I can't even fathom the idea of famine. How many generations of our families have never had to think about famine?
 
ultimatebob said:
It looks surprisingly nice, honestly. Nothing like the third-world hellhole I was expecting.
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communists are good at making the trains run on time and authoritarians are good at keeping stuff clean and nice looking. it's all a facade, of course.
 
Watch the documentary done by Nat Geo on North Korea, it's on Netflix streaming. You'll find out Pyong Yang is basically a wealthy city. All the citizens in favor with the government live there and compared with the rest of the country are quite wealthy. The rest of the country is incredibly poor. They even have trouble feeding their military.

The documentary follows a doctor who goes to North Korea to perform eye surgery free of charge for cataracts. A surgery that's so simple that it's taken for granted here, is not even possible in North Korea. The government basically gave this guy 5 days to come in, train their doctors on the surgery and do as many of them as he could before he left.

It was shocking but people actually were blind and all they needed was this simple surgery. All because "great leader" has isolated his country from the rest of the world. It was unbelievable how brainwashed these people were too. Rather than thanking the doctor who put together the trip to do the surgeries, they completed ignored that fact and would prostrate themselves in gratitude before a picture of Kim Jong and cry. Unbelievably backwards country.
 
AMCRambler said:
Watch the documentary done by Nat Geo on North Korea, it's on Netflix streaming. You'll find out Pyong Yang is basically a wealthy city. All the citizens in favor with the government live there and compared with the rest of the country are quite wealthy. The rest of the country is incredibly poor. They even have trouble feeding their military.

The documentary follows a doctor who goes to North Korea to perform eye surgery free of charge for cataracts. A surgery that's so simple that it's taken for granted here, is not even possible in North Korea. The government basically gave this guy 5 days to come in, train their doctors on the surgery and do as many of them as he could before he left.

It was shocking but people actually were blind and all they needed was this simple surgery. All because "great leader" has isolated his country from the rest of the world. It was unbelievable how brainwashed these people were too. Rather than thanking the doctor who put together the trip to do the surgeries, they completed ignored that fact and would prostrate themselves in gratitude before a picture of Kim Jong and cry. Unbelievably backwards country.
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i saw that one, very good, and pretty disturbing.
 
ultimatebob said:
It looks surprisingly nice, honestly. Nothing like the third-world hellhole I was expecting.
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This video shows that North Korea is a wealthy nation and doesn't need any aid. 😉

I don't see any poor people on the streets.
Hell, it looks a lot nicer than the areas and shopping malls we have here.
 
AMCRambler said:
Watch the documentary done by Nat Geo on North Korea, it's on Netflix streaming. You'll find out Pyong Yang is basically a wealthy city. All the citizens in favor with the government live there and compared with the rest of the country are quite wealthy. The rest of the country is incredibly poor. They even have trouble feeding their military.

The documentary follows a doctor who goes to North Korea to perform eye surgery free of charge for cataracts. A surgery that's so simple that it's taken for granted here, is not even possible in North Korea. The government basically gave this guy 5 days to come in, train their doctors on the surgery and do as many of them as he could before he left.

It was shocking but people actually were blind and all they needed was this simple surgery. All because "great leader" has isolated his country from the rest of the world. It was unbelievable how brainwashed these people were too. Rather than thanking the doctor who put together the trip to do the surgeries, they completed ignored that fact and would prostrate themselves in gratitude before a picture of Kim Jong and cry. Unbelievably backwards country.
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What is the title of that documentary? I don't have Netflix.

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National Geographic - Inside Undercover in North Korea
Is that it?
 
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ultimatebob said:
It looks surprisingly nice, honestly. Nothing like the third-world hellhole I was expecting.
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well they have minders on any foreigner and they are restricted in their movements, so yes, you only get to see the bits they think are nice enough to show. someone always benefits under such regimes after all.
 
The young Army girl on the train was sure cute as hell...

I was impressed by the mile-long inclined escalator. VERY nicely done. The train station looked clean and well kept...and the citizens almost looked like real people!

I did notice that like most Communist countries, there were lots of monuments to the cause...and to Dear Leader.
 
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