https://youtu.be/vMS9-y3pe-U?si=yW397ut7ksUDPugZ

The audio is in rus, the subtitles in English are available.

I’ve just found out about him and wonder if there’s been any updates on this ex detainee?i just can’t comprehend how someone can become a public figure and disappear. Is he even alive???

I know there are North Korean influencers who speak English and Chinese. What about for Russian and Spanish speaking audiences? I know there is a Russian girl in the DPRK now, but I mean actual Koreans. On second thought, if there are other foreigners living in North Korea who are influencers, I'd be interested in seeing their accounts too.

Also, I didn't notice any kind of minder. Looked like they were in their early 20s.

I've seen 2 famous docos on the drpk called "loyal citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul" and "my brothers and sisters in the North" just wondering if their is any sort of similar documentaries that give this look of the drpk that isn't seen much in the west?

This would be way easier if I could add a SS of the encounter, but I commented something on a YouTube reddit video, talking about North Koreans, and how bad they have it, and an account called, "Spaibo" replied saying. "It's overexagerated, most likely scenario is the DPRK is a country practicing isolatiosm to protect itself from the US, as it has very few military allies." I find it weird how he said the DPRK instead of North Korea, his PFP is also an Asian guy but when I reverse searched it it didn't come up on Google, so is this guy just an idiot? Or is he a propaganda channel? (He also joined YouTube 9 months ago) I only really think it's propaganda because I've seen prop channels on TikTok.

DPRK recently released a musical track called "Our Friendly Father" (which has gotten quite a bit of traction on social media such as TikTok to my surprise), to honor Kim Jong Un.

I am trying to find the full version of the song, either just the song track, but even better if someone has the entire music video (I will post part of it in the link below). Maybe my youtube searching skills are not the best, but I could only find shorter versions of it. I would greatly appreciate if someone could post a link to the full song/video.

This is the song in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGbvctOg5l0&ab_channel=CNA

Thank you so much in advance if you can help me find this.

I want to preface this by saying that I am not even remotely pro-North Korea. But having said that.....I seriously struggle to believe defectors sometimes. I was watching a video from a couple of North Korean defectors in which they state that men in North Korea were ordered to have a Kim Jong Un haircut whilst they were living there. Watch from 10:37 of this video https://youtu.be/Sq-0kCMPMhw?si=sML2qwHbnxmSatcS

It has been completely proven false that everyone in North Korea has to get a haircut like Kim Jong Un. The rumour was created by a website named "Radio Free Asia" and was actually intended to be satire but mainstream media took it seriously. If you look at any videos from North Korea, you'll see that nobody has the Kim Jong Un haircut. Just Google "Kim Jong Un haircut lie" and you'll see multiple results explaining this, including some from mainstream media correcting themselves. It is completely fake news which doesn't have an ounce of truth to it, literally just made up from scratch.

I was a little shocked when the defectors in this video parroted such clearly fake news. I don't really blame them, they've been through a lot and the writers of this show probably just told them to say that as it makes the video more shocking/interesting. I don't think everything that they said that is fake and I'm sure a lot of what defectors say is true, but many of them are definitely told to exaggerate and this video essentially proves that. It honestly makes me sad, because I really want to learn more about North Korea but I'm just finding it more and more difficult to trust defectors and their stories thanks to videos like this. Videos originating from South Korea especially seem to contain fake news/exaggerations (for obvious reasons).

In the newly released friendly father song, Kim Jong Un's name is in red (or at least in a very reddish brown). For those who don't know, in Korean culture, writing someone's name in red means that they are dead. Unless they no longer have this sort of belief. highlighting Kim Jong Un's name in red is a bit sus (has this every been done before with him or the other Kim's)?

I also remember that Kim Jong Il's name on Kim Jong Il mountain is written in red, I guess they don't view that superstition as important.

Very interested in seeing if anybody could find some of these harsh camps using maps (Apple Maps, google maps etc…) I’ve looked but can’t seem to find any.