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and Trump is talking about taking all the American soldiers home. But then what happens if the American soldiers go home? And North Korea get out some flowers and go, okay, it's around the air, or will they do something else? That's the difficult thing. That's North Korea's position. No foreigners here. Here's another hechium for you. First one, North Korea is not a failed state. North Korea works in the

In the world, there are some failed states. That means Tongulang Talmud. There's no police, there's no government, there's no health system. Look at what's happening in parts of Sudan or Haiti or things like this. The government doesn't work. It's broken. It's not good. And there's gangs and violence, and it's really bad. North Korea works. I'm not saying it's good, but North Korea has a Pyongyang, an agricultural ministry, and a transport industry get the work to survive.

North Korea survived longer than the Soviet Union. Soviet Union is done. North Korea survived longer than that. And still today it's doing okay. So it's not a failure. It works. It doesn't have any jayu or freedom, right? But still the system works. Second thing is North Koreans are people. They're people. I know North Koreans. I know North Korean people. I speak to them. They're just people like me. And actually when I first started to speak to them, I'd be like, what? I mean, I say, oh, I'm going to go on.

be weird with them like there's some kind of alien or something like that and then you just realize no they're just people and the people in north korea they have toothache and they worry about they're mojong-yong and they're getting fat does their husband still love them and what are they going to do and they dream at night and sometimes they can't go to the toilet well just like they're just people they're not robots they're not like our love That's the other thing to remember.

Some Western people think that about you guys, by the way. They think all South Korean students are like robots just studying and memorizing. You're not. You're just people. So are they. There's a couple of things to remember. Keep it in your mind. North Korea is not a failure. And people there are just like me and you. We know quite a lot about North Korea. North Korea is not a secret. North Korea is not a secret. English.

It's had an embassy in North Korea since 2001. In Pyongyang, in Daesakwon. In 2007, 2001. We've had people working there, living there. We know what it's like. I one time had an opportunity. I thought about applying to teach at Kim Jong-un University for one semester. We sent lots of teachers there, the British Council. And I thought, should I go there for one semester? No. Because I drink too much and I talk and I'm getting in trouble. and I've got kids. But we know lots of people that live in work there.

ambassadors, students, friends. So it's not a big secret. You think it's a secret. Normally South Korean people think it's a big secret and you don't know anything. You know lots. It's just sometimes it's boring. What can I say about it? Lots of people post Instagram stuff from there. I'm in Pyongyang, exchange students and things like that. This is one of my friends, Yi So Hyun. She's from Pyongyang. she talked to me about like,

When I talked to her, I asked her, what's a North Korean, how do you date? What's a pickup line? How do you meet guys? These are the questions I asked her. I asked her this, in winter, do you build snowmen? Yes, they do. And North Korean men are braver than South Korean men because they don't have Tinder or anything, or DMs, so they have to have this. That's what she said to me. Kim Jong-un went to school in Switzerland.

speaks English and French very well. Good school in Switzerland. This is one of my other North Korean friends, Park Ji-jung. She lives in London. She taught me this. You know, for my students in my Cal U class as well yesterday, do you remember the concept of Han? This kind of Korean sadness. Do you know Han? That sadness, that super Mao. When I asked her about it from North Korea, she'd never heard of it. North Koreans don't teach their people to be sad. It tells them they're wonderful, amazing, awesome.

I've never heard this. We're not sad people. In North Korea, it's like, we're the best in the world, right? She never heard of that. It's kind of interesting, isn't it? Because you think it's deep in the soul of every Korea. Every South Korea. She wrote a really nice book. It's called The Hard Road Out, or The Long Road Out. It's about her defecting. I read it, I was like really crying.

I have much respect. I'll say one thing about why she got out. She's really smart. She wanted to go to university in North Korea. She wanted to go to university, but they said, no, your Haribo-jin was chilling at that. A Japanese collaborator. She never met her grandfather. But they checked their records, and they said, your grandfather was on the Japanese side, so you can't go to university. And she said, well, and that was the moment that she decided I got to go.

They're going to get freedom. That was the moment for them. Today, if you have any stupid questions about North Korea, ask your friends or ask me. Do they build snowmen? Do they have all these stupid stuff? Lose your ego and just ask the stupid questions. Trust me. That's what I do. Okay, so let's do a bit of history. This is what Chinese people call China. They don't call it China. Chinese, Hong Kong

Chinese people call South Korea Hangua. What do Chinese people call North Korea? Joseon. They still call it Joseon. This is Hangua, like the modern South Korean Republic. Chinese people call North Korea Joseon. It's still the Joseon dynasty. It's still Joseon. Language very important. For a thousand years, for a thousand years, we have this kind of thing that's called a tributary system. And in this part of the world, China is ill-dum.

That's how it worked. Because China is so big, and China has the emperor, Korea only had a king, so there was a hierarchy. Because China was so big, there were no wars. There's not many wars here. So Japan comes in in 1500 years, in the 1500s. Japan comes in once for a war, And there's a lot of stuff.

Korea likes to talk about it, had really dark history in the war. In all that time, Japan came here once to do a war in the 1500s. And then there's no other wars. Think about the wars in Europe. European people are killing each other every decade. Catholics and Jong-gyon and kings of religion slaughtering each other. This area is very, very peaceful. Where? It's a lot of people who are not.

China was so powerful it was very calm. Korean people have normally been taught art history is very dark, it's very blue, it's kind of calm actually. But then this thing fell apart. I can't tell the whole story about it but China falls apart. They have uprisings, the government is terrible, they have these peasants rise up, England comes in with their boats and we do opium zongjen, like mayak zongjen, we want to sell drugs and Chinese people say no, so we kill them.

Yeah, 1800s, right? A couple of them. And so China starts falling apart, but China held everything together. And China starts falling apart, and that means there's a big hole. And who's going to come up? The Japanese. The Japanese were the first country in the area to put on suits and comb their hair and grow them as a style. of the ,, the .

They cut these off, they took off their kimonos and they started dressing like this. They were the first people to do it. They built some post offices. And they did like, enlightenment, civilization. They did it first. Japan did it first because America bombed. America came with their ships and they said, let's do some . And Japan said no. So America said, then we're going to bomb you. 1850, so Japan said, oh dear. So they quickly changed and they had Manji restoration.

They become modern and they become number one. Why? Because they were the first to modernize. Because they modernized, in 1895 Japan beat China in a war. Guys, look at the size of China. Remember China and Japan? Number one, number three.

right like this this little thing number three beat this big thing in a war in 1895 it took place around pyongyang it took place because of dong hak uprising there was chaos in korea the farmers were revolting and they were doing protests and there was chaos so china came in to help and japan Japan came into health and they had a war in Korea. And Japan won.

And everybody went, oh my, how can you, it's like Ecuador beating the United States in a war. That's weird. Why did Japan win? Because they had guns. China didn't modernize, they were still like, and Japan was like, okay, easy. And then in 1905, there's another war, Japan beats Russia. At this time, Russia is one of the biggest countries in the world. It has all of this civilization, this culture, this literature, this Dostoevsky, this Tolstoy,

Japan beat them. Wow. So Japan is like doing really well. And Japan says we are the future of Asia. There was this kind of like we are all Asian together. Let me just jump back a bit. What's happening in Korea? Who gets to control Korea? Because normally China controls Korea. China keeps Korea safe. It's a bit sensitive, right? But normally China protects Korea. Can you say? So who gets to control Korea? It's a big fight.

One of the troubles in Korea was this, their last royal family was divided. So here, , internal disorder, outside chaos. If the inside is messed up, the outside will be dangerous. So inside Korea, the royal family, this is the last one, was messed up. He's not a very strong king. He made himself an emperor. behind the emperor now.

This is his father. His father was . No foreigners here. They cut off their heads. We will always be China. We will always be Yu-Gi-Oh-Sai-Sang. And then the wife, Queen Min, they killed her in Yangbukun. They killed her in Yangbukun palace and burned her body. That's where you go to where the Hanbok can take a selfie. That's weird, isn't it? It feels like a theme park or a latte world or something. But that's where she died 130.

30 years ago. It was not that long. So Korea also was terrible. They had no strong leader. They didn't have a Gandhi. They didn't have a Nelson Mandela. They didn't have a Washington. Something like this. Their royal family was rubbish. So, Japan won all of these wars. So it wanted a prize. Today, Putin wants a prize. Netanyahu wants a prize. Trump wants a prize. And don't be like, no doubt saying that. I mean, if we win a war, we need to get someone accountable. We want some land.

Japan lost land. This is the deal it did with America. It's called the Taakatsura Agreement, 1905. Japan and America. Japan says, we'll take Korea, then you take the Philippines. So America colonizes the Philippines, and Japan colonizes Korea. And that's the deal. So Japan and America don't fight each other. Okay, you're good, we're good, you take that I only type this one. Japanese people say,

that's the agreement next slide is very sensitive I'm really sorry it's very sensitive so Korea doesn't exist this becomes Japan this becomes that's what it's called my tanginorin speaks Japanese very well my father-in-law speaks Japanese very well because the people here had to start speaking Japanese, have Japanese names He doesn't speak to you, he keeps it very quiet,

But people here started speaking Japanese. And if you looked on a map, this was called Japan. And in 1936 Olympics, when the Korean athletes are running and they win a gold medal in the Olympics on their chest, it's called Kekuk, it's a Japanese flag. So this place is kind of gone. In your mind you think countries are forever, don't want it. If you look at a map today, where is Manchuria? Optia. Where is Parijal?

Where is the Ottoman Empire? Where is Atlantis? I don't know if you know what Atlantis is, right? My point is, countries do disappear. Countries come and countries go. Korea went. Very sad. But then, remember America and Japan do a deal together? In the World War II, they're on the opposite sides.

So America and Japan were friends and then their enemies in World War II. Look, Churchill, FDR, Stalin, Young-Guk, 미국, Russia, Katsi, America and Russia together with England to beat the Nazis, to beat the Germans. England, Russia, America, France, Italy changed sides, Japan, Germany. These people versus these people.

fight. These people win. Germany loses. Japan loses. These people win. These people make the world in 1945. How did Korea get its independence? How did Korea get the light come back up? How did they get the freedom again? Because America dropped two nuclear bombs on the planet. Two, the only time in history we've seen a nuclear bomb on people

America dropped two. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it dropped two. And then Tokyo firebomb. Guys, go watch Great Fireflies and Crying. America destroyed Japan. So it dropped one nuclear bomb, and then the Japanese people were like, oh my god, you just dropped a nuclear bomb on us. And then it dropped another one, and then Japan Emperor came on the radio, they never heard his voice before. And they said,

thousands of years you never hear or see the Japanese emperor. It's like a god. The Japanese emperor came on the radio and said, in Japanese, very nicely, right? But you have to start. And so Japan was done. Makes you think a little bit differently about nuclear bombs. War is bad. Nuclear bombs are bad. It gave Korea its freedom. I don't know how to answer it. Yes.

This is Korea. When the Japanese flag went down, the American flag, for three years. From 1945 to 1948, this was managed by America. So one of the questions is, when did Korea start? Sashibonya? Sashipanya? Sanyang-doman, this was the American government managed the whole country. History is quite dark, isn't it? It's quite complicated and dark. It's okay to be confused by stupid opinions. So this is Korea.

Here's the story. Now this place, Japan goes home. Japan goes home. America is all over here in Japan. And Stalin is bringing his soldiers in here, into Korea. He's bringing his soldiers in. And America said, and Stalin wants to take the whole thing. Stalin wants this, like, I'll take this now. And then America says to Stalin, hey Stalin, how about we go pan pan, 50-50. And so Stalin says, okay.

think Stalin is scared of America's nuclear bombs. He doesn't want to fight with America. He's like, yeah, okay, right. So they agree to split Korea, Soviet Union and America in 1945. This is the true story of how Korea is divided. So in Washington, the American president, he tells two people, like, we've got to split Korea quickly, right? And so he tells two people, Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesfield, just two people working in Pentagon.

They've never been to Korea, they don't speak Korean, they don't know what Korea is. Their job is to divide it. So they go to the library. Remember, Korea doesn't exist. This has been Japan since 1910. They go to the library and they find a National Geographic magazine. Not geo, like on the long paddings. They find a National Geographic magazine, they open it up, they find the Korean Peninsula. And they get a pencil and a ruler and they go, okay, well, we need to do this.

want to have the capital city sold, because that's awesome, and we'll give them more land and factories. So on the 38th parallel that goes around the world, they draw a straight line across like this, and they sent it to Stalin, he said, okay, that's still the line today. That's still the line that divides this country. Drawn in 1945 in Washington on National Geographic magazine by two people who've never been here, don't know Korean, They don't speak the language. They just did that and it's done.

The weird thing about that line is, right, in the world there's some natural borders. Like if you go to Italy and you see the Alps, you can't go across them. They're very big. If you go to America, you see the Grand Canyon or the Rio Grande, you're like, this is the end of the land. You get to the end. The 38th parallel is just like, it's like me drawing a line across the class this way. And you guys and you guys never speak to each other again. It's not a natural line, it's not a tie-on straw line,

That's why there's two careers. That's the line still today. World War II didn't finish. I know in some parts of the world we think that the war is finished, the war is over, Cold War is done, the Soviet Union won. We still feel it today, that war is still going today. Some people think, and I agree with this, that maybe in a hundred years, when we think of the First World War, Second World War, Vietnam War, these all different wars,

In the future, we're just going to turn it into one big war, actually, because they're all connected. They're all connected conflicts. We might even call it the American War. That might be unfair because there's lots of different paths, but it's one way of looking at it. We call it the Vietnam War. We call it the Korean War. It's the American War. We call it the Iraq. We never call it America. So we think of that country more than this way. Okay. Okay.

Here's something really sad. In Europe, when the Nazis, we beat the Nazis. That's a good thing. We beat the Nazis. And then we said, Nazis, you're really bad. And we also, we destroyed Berlin. War crimes. People, civilians, we destroyed them. And then we said, because you're bad, we're going to kill you all. You die. War criminals. And then we're going to divide your country. And so we divided Germany. East Germany, West Germany. We split it.

We divided Germany as a kind of punishment to them. Don't do that again. Here, we didn't divide Japan. Japan gets to keep their emperor. We killed some of the Japanese people, but we let them keep their system. We let them keep their royal family. We let them keep their system. And instead we divided Korea. That's outrageous.

Why didn't we divide Japan? Why didn't we let Japan stay? And the director said to Japan, if you promise to be on our side, Minjujui side, democracy side, and never allow communism, we'll let you keep your emperor. And Japan said, hey, I'm dead. And that's what happened. Japan said, okay, we'll be on your side. We're good. We'll keep our emperor up. We won't go to communism, we won't go to China, and we won't go to North Korea, we're with you.

It's to be.

Korea was divided. So why are there two Koreas? All of that stuff. Dreadfully unfair. That's why Korea calls itself the shrimp between whales. The shrimp between whales. It's a proverb you can learn because when the whales are fighting, the whales are Russia, China and America, these big creatures. When they're fighting, who gets hurt? Korea. Korea is small. I think I've got my own place. I've divided families.

So you remember how Confucianism and family is really important. You don't have God, you have family. You don't have Hananim, you have Halabodji and Hanmeh and this kind of thing. We divided families. I'm sure maybe some of you in this class, your grandmother is from North Korea or something like that. Normally every semester there's one or two. Of course, you would be. Why wouldn't you be? It's natural. That's very sad. America created South Korea.

I chose the first president. Russia, sometimes I say Russia, I mean the Soviet Union, forgive me. You see that? He says I love Moscow. My Russians didn't even do it. Russia created... Looks a bit like Kim Jong-un, doesn't he? It's Kim Il-sung. First leader, I'll tell you something about him. So when they chose him, Russia chose him. He was a fighter. He was very young.

They chose him because he was young. Actually he didn't speak Korean very well because he grew up in the Chinese army and the Russian army. He speaks Russian, he speaks Chinese but his career was not good. His family, his father is a Moksa. A Christian family. He was chosen there because he's a young general. Yes, you. In South Korea, America chose Lee Seung-man. Also he didn't live in South Korea. He didn't live in North Korea.

They chose outside people. He's been in America for the last 30 years. He's the first Korean to get a PhD in America. He's not been here for 30 years. He wasn't in one of them. They chose him for three reasons. He's very old when they chose him. One, he spoke English so they could understand him. Because there's no chattypiti, there's no papagor. And when Americans are speaking to Koreans, they're like, I don't know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. So they chose him because he spoke English. He was a Christian, they liked that, and he hated communism.

sad thing is here in Korea there were other people they didn't all have the same side right some of them were right-wing some of them were left-wing but these were the people here but they weren't you need to have lots of support right you need to be very charisma to get everybody on your side but they couldn't get everybody on their side

Some wanted, like, communism is the future. Democracy is the future. Some wanted, like, career for ever. So the divide, they all died, they all got shot.

So we have two careers created by outside people divided. Now we're going to talk about the career. Does anybody have anything that I want to ask or shout or say to me?

Okay, please feel free anytime. Korean War, 1950 to 1953. 1950 to 53 years. It's only three years. It's only three years. In those three years, 약 300 million died, three million people. Most of the people who died were ruling civilians, not soldiers. Most people. Today in Russia, in Moscow, people are going to coffee shops and nightclubs. The war is not in Moscow. The war is on the front lines, right? It's there in the middle.

In the Korean War, there was no middle. The Korean War went up and down the country like this. So all the people in the villages got killed, not the soldiers. That's the sad. In case I forget to tell you, the Korean War was America fighting China. American soldiers against Chinese soldiers was the war. But we don't say that. We say the Korean War, Korean heroes and North Korea. That's how it started. And then it was America fighting China in a war.

It was a draw. Nobody won. It was a draw. Okay. So I'll show you a gif. It's going to move and watch a couple of times. Let's come and see what the next one. Not Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-un. Okay. Again, I'll tell you why they look so similar. He wanted to invade. Right? He wanted this will be ours. We'll get America out. I'll take over the whole country. So he went to Stalin and he said to Stalin, here is my plan to invade South Korea. What have you started in the U.S.?

So he made a new plan and he gave it to him and he said, but I'm not going to help you. You need to ask Chairman Mao in Beijing. Mao Zedong. So Kim Il-sung took Stalin's plan, it was a very nice plan, Russian was very clever, and he went to Chairman Mao. And Mao Zedong, he just became the leader of all China. China had civil rule. So, Kukka Chui versus Hong Sang Chui. Hong Sang Chui was one, Mao Zedong was one. And the other people got the Chairman.

So now Chairman Mao is the leader of Hong China. And Chairman Mao says, Okay, I do not do it. And remember, the Chinese soldiers are very good because they just want to walk. Pan Yong Jong, Song Dong Haesol, Tongong Do Inco, Shiryok Do Inco. They're skilled, they're good experience. So he's got his permission and plans, he's going to help him to be invading. And after three months, after three months, North Korea nearly wins the whole war. It was this close, Buzi Panko.

winning the whole world. Has anybody seen Busan? Train Busan? Some people? Yeah? It's not about zombies, it's about communists. It's not, it's a commune looking, it's a full of high-tech, I don't know, right? But watch what happens in the first three months of the war. North Korea attacked on a Sunday because all the South Korean and American soldiers are at church. I attack on Sunday morning.

June, July, August, September. It's nearly like a boom. Boom. You see how in three months they've nearly got it all. And it's only this little part of Busan that is there. When this little part of Busan is there, and he's nearly won the whole thing, and he's going to win, then MacArthur in Japan, the head of the American Army, not the president, the head of the Army, MacArthur's in Japan, he's a pretty handsome man. He says, I will go and save you. So your cup comes in and your cup comes in.

He kicks them out. American soldiers come in and kick them out. And he kicks them out up to here. But actually they should stop here. By Lord Pop Choguro. Yogi Kat. Don't go into another country. Kick them out of your country and stop. But he doesn't. MacArthur kicks them out. The American soldiers kick them out. Come on. Come on. Try to put this out one more time. Here we go. He comes down. When he kicks them out, they keep going. And they take over Pyongyang. There's photos of MacArthur in Pyongyang, North Korea. in North Korea, and then when they're up here,

They say, this is true, McCarthy says, let's take China as well. Let's go into Beijing and drop a nuclear bomb in China, and there will be no more communism in the world ever. That's America's plan. And the president hears that's McCarthy's plan, and he says, and he fires it, get out. But that was the plan. Now China has a rule. This is China's rule. Nobody goes near this river. This is the Yan River. So when the American soldiers were coming up here, China, in January 1950, sent all their soldiers in, kicked them out of his arse.

When I say America, I also mean Philippines, Turkey, England, and the others. And take soul again. Push them all back down. And then, for two years, nothing happened. Just stayed there. It went down, it went up, it went down again, and then it went back up. And during this war, if I ask you today, can you explain communism and capitalism very well, some of you might go, I'm a realtor. Imagine you're a Korean farmer in the Shigon,

Kongsanjui, jabonjui. Kongsanjui. Man. Yeah. And then two months later they come through and they say, yeah, kongsanjui, jabonjui. Ahaha. Jabonjui. Man. They just kept killing people. Both sides. The war stayed here. America fighting China. The war stayed here. During this time, when it just stays, for two years, America bombed North Korea into the executive. I just bummed it.

bomb and then in 1953 two things happened in 1953. Stalin died and America got a new president, Eisenhower. Russia's president is gone, America has a new president and those two people agree let's finish the war. So the war finishes. This is the signing of the agreement. Have you ever heard of the Underwood family, the Beyonce and things like that? They were the official to translators during this, they translated the whole thing.

This is the agreement. What's missing, Sophia? South Korea? South Korea does not sign it. The deal is between Kim Il-sung, China, and America. Lee Seung-ran refused to sign it. Lee Seung-ran said, I will never sign a big communist. Never sign a big special communist. You've read it to Chassan, and he caught lots of problems.

So today, sometimes, like Min Jae-in and Lee Jae-myung, they say, we're going to try to end the Korean War. It sounds beautiful, right? We end the Korean War. And they go to the United Nations, and they say, let's end the war. And everybody goes, and then the North Korean person stands up. He says, we want the South Korean person to sit down, because this is not your business. This is our business with America and China. Hands up. The South Korean person stands up. Because they're not on the...

this. This is the sun. Okay. Why are there two? And there's still a war today. That war hasn't finished. When I say they end the war, I'm sure you already know this, right? When I say they end the war, it's just pause. It didn't end the war. The war is still going. That's why you're don't say, you're saying, you're saying, and you're saying, and you're is they all do military service.

They all do military service because of this. My nephew is doing it right now. My son will do it. Because of all this is why they do military service. So the war is still going. Does anybody have any questions about history? So that's the first part. Why are there two careers? Wow, it's hard, right? Any questions or comments? Minso, tell me something. What was interesting? What was hard? Question or comment? I'm going to go to the next one.

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Soviet Union divided it. And like America is the good place, it's really . Like, Pyongyang doesn't kind of work here. It's not good and bad, it's very complicated. I actually wanted to say that I understand right now why Japan wants the islands back from Russia right now, because they still have this kind of situation when they're genocide by the people as well. So they were on pause as well, because still Japan wants their islands back, like Korea islands. And Russia is like, oh no.

you lost, like what do you mean? And they're still talking about this, like even in the situation where there is like a big door in Russia, to Russia and Ukraine, they're still like, oh, well, we'll think about this later, yeah. Japan won in 1905, but Russia won in 1945. Yeah, they're still like kind of... It's not history. It's still affecting people today, isn't it? Go on. Yeah. Himil-san is the name of like,

Hong Gyo Dong, Robin Hood, it's like a folk name. Kim Yo-sung is a folk name of like a fighter. Like Hong Gyo Dong or something, like a symbol. So that's not his real name, that's the name he took. Sometimes in Korea people have, what do you call it, Ho. Like a pen name, Takahiro, right? Ho. So he took that name. And many people say, so he's fake. It's not fake. He's a real young man that went out to try to fight in the mountains, like Che Guevara or something like that, right?

he's not a fake, but his real name is one of his own. His father is Moksa. His whole family is Christian. Okay, so now, what is North Korea? I need like 15 weeks to teach you this, but what is North Korea in, you know, 25 minutes? Some people think North Korea is a theocracy. Theocracy means like Iran, like Saudi Arabia. like it's not secular it's 정교

A religion. In South Korea we have Jong-il, we have religion, but religion doesn't make the law. Religion doesn't make the law. But in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Jong-il is a religion. Some people think North Korea is a religious state. Kim Jong-un is not Daetong-ryong, he's gone. And that's why they wear these.

and put him on all the rooms. You know, if you go to a Christian house, everybody wears crosses, and there's a cross on the thing, right? You know, if you go to a Buddhist house, everybody wears like Buddhist beads on their wrists, and then you go to a Muslim house, and they wear headscuff. You go to North Korea, everybody wears this, and they have the picture there, and they pray. That's how it works. That's how they create it. He's born. He's watching the North Korean. And if you get a North Korean person, because we are not pretty fascinated here. And you say to them, sorry to keep my data.

People say, what is the voice? Some people think in Christianity God is always watching. They think that. He used religion very well. That's what some people think. Some people think North Korea is a communist country. Abigail, what's communism? Because North Korea is communist, China is communist, and Vietnam is communist. So what's communism? I always think of communism in basic form. Communism is everyone's at the same level.

Everyone shares the same burden and the same level of everything. The level of economic difference in those three countries is outrageous, isn't it? Here is communism, very simply in one sentence. Because China is communism, Vietnam is communist, North Korea is communist, but they're all different. What do they have in common? What's the common point? There is only one political party.

China has politics. North Korea has an education minister, land minister, agricultural minister, transport minister. They have politicians, and all of this, but they don't have a ruling and opposition party. There's one party. You're on our team, otherwise you're enemy. Come on. Do what? Communism is one party, that's it. You live in democracy. So you have your , it's really noisy. You have lots of parties, and they move and they fight. And you're allowed to say, in democracy, you're allowed to say,

I think the president is an idiot and you guys are wrong. You can say that. In communism, there's only one party. That's what North Korea has. That's what China has. That's what Vietnam has. So if you think your country would be better with only one party, yeah, you're welcome. That's what it is, that's what it has in common. There's no opposition. There's no... Some people think it's a Stalinistic paintership, cult of personality, just like Stalin did. He made the country.

Some people think it's a monarchy. You remember in the Joseon dynasty and Goryeo dynasty, there's a king, and when the king dies, what happens next? Adon. And when he dies, what happens next? Adon. And he dies, what happens next? North Korea's just doing the same thing. That's what Korea has been doing for thousands of years. That's what they do. It's very normal. The weird thing is Pupyo. That's the new thing. So some people think it's just doing what it always does. When the head of Sancheon dies, who becomes the avid? Yande avid.

They still do it in the Chebots. It's the same thing. Some people think that it's the last home of the Joseon Dynasty. That's what North Korea believes. North Korea believes that they are the line of Korea. And this is megal. Baseball. Hot dogs. Hip-hop. That's their opinion. They're the namangok. They keep it alive. Guys, they're megal. Okay, so. These three. Do you know some?

Grandfather, son, grandson. First thing, North Korea don't have Christmas. Do you remember last week I told you about why is it 26 years because of Jesus and Christians creating time and that, right? North Korea doesn't care about Jesus. They don't care about Jesus. In North Korea it's not 26 years. They start their time from . That's when Kimo-san was born. It's also the same day the Titanic sank.

but that's the day he was born that is their Christmas every year that's their Christmas that's their day of the sun the day the sun came the son of God, Jesus they do the same thing but that day so right now it's 114 Juche the year Juche 114, that's their calendar Muslims also have a different calendar Buddhists have a different calendar the

know if you've got a buddhist mom or dad their birthday is always changing according to the right that's it okay so they don't care about jesus they care about him he's the god he's the god now him the current leader he tries really hard to look like his grandfather because he is the where is the second son of the third wife he's not the top dead he's not the top He's the second son of the third wife.

He's not meant to be the king. He was in Switzerland playing basketball. And then North Korea, he's going to die and he says, all my other kids are idiots. One of them keeps going to Tokyo Disney night. That's not very consangual. So if you're going to manage a country, you need the right songo. You need the right personality. So he got Kim Jong-un in to manage the country.

He has no sages with his hallebots. Sages no sages. So he has to intentionally look like him. Look, look, I'm the same line. Some people say this is from the German ambassador Thomas Schaefer. He lived in Pyongyang for eight years. And this was his conclusion. Kim Jong-un is a prisoner in North Korea. He wants to be in Europe playing games. He wants to be having fun. He doesn't want to be managing a country with the world trying to kill him. That's stressful.

But what do you do for your Hariboji and your Abboji? You have to drop that. Hyodo. For your parents. So that's how they run time. Most South Korean students, this is weird to me, you think Pyongyang is a farm. How do you think they build nuclear weapons? North Korea, Pyongyang is quite developed. If you saw Pyongyang, I'm showing you Pyongyang right now. It's quite developed. My Singapore students, when they see this, they come about that looks like our country. Pyongyang is quite well developed.

So you need to consider it. Why have you never seen photos of Pyongyang? Because the government doesn't want you to see them. These are their drink stands, just looks like a South Korean convenience store. You can go and search for this. And your immediate response is, they're all actors. They're people. They have subway. It's really built underground. It knocks up Pyongcharong. That's their city. That's Pyongyang. That's like the Han River. That's their big stadium, the Arirang Stadium.

have about 120,000. President Moon Jae-in in South Korea went there and he gave a speech. He said, Translate that something like, our race is superior. It's a bit weird if you think about it like that, but that's what he's saying, right? That's Pyongyang. That's their schools. He said, Yana, can you see them? Yeah, always watching.

Always watching. What's the difference between a North Korean water park and South Korean water park?

They don't use life vests. If you go to Caribbean Bay or Sopto Bortopia, everyone's in life vests. They don't use them, they just go. They have smartphones, built by an Egyptian company. They can't connect to the internet outside, but they connect to each other. Send photos, send videos, send cameras, send messages. Guys, do you know Chinese people can't connect to Instagram? Chinese people can't connect to Google, can't connect to YouTube. Chinese people can't get on Instagram, it's illegal.

so they use VPN. Chinese people do it, they use VPN, right? But if they do it, they're in big trouble. Technically, if a Chinese person is poor, Chinese people are not allowed to use YouTube or Instagram. They don't use TikTok. That's all Western stuff. So North Koreans have this. They have people. They have the countryside. This looks like Vietnam or China 40 years ago or something.

to go, it's to go, it's...

My friend goes hiking in the street. The mountains of the sand. It's a good day. It's a good day. It's a good day. No politics. There's meat going up there.

Why do some people live in the capital? This is Wonsan. This is where Dennis Rodman went. This is their Bussan, Wonsan. Surfing, Hauhushi. They do surfing in Wonsan. Why do some people live in the capital and some people live in the country? This is the art system. It's called, I didn't write it down, Songun system. I should write this one. You can feel it, just in case you want to search it. It's on Wikipedia and all these kind of things. So I'm doing the system.

Some people live in Pyongyang and they have a nice life. Guys, in Pyongyang they have department stores and coffee shops and hamburgers and apartments and Mercedes. Their life is nice in Pyongyang. It's not nice as Gangnam or Los Angeles, but it's not bad, right? And some people live in the countryside and their life is hard. So why do some people live in Pyongyang and some people live in the countryside? The Sonban system, it doesn't care about your Suna.

It doesn't care about your grades. Because in injury, the person that goes to the top in theory studies the best. Really, it's normally people doing flex with their children. In North Korea, they decide by what did your grandparents do during colonization time. Did your grandparents pick up guns and try to kill Japanese people? Sorry, this one's really bad.

Did they fight against colonization? Yes? Then you live in Pyongyang today. Did your grandparents make money during colonization? Did they do business? Then you live in the countryside. So they base their whole system, what did you do during colonization time? What site were you on? And today the people, they don't know their grandparents, right? But that's how they arrange the system. That's how it's arranged. Do you know in South Korea today, in South Korea today, it's a bit sensitive to the track, right?

So, Chin-nil-pa means friendly with Japanese people during colonization. They keep a database of the Chin-nil-pa that you can check in South Korea. It's an app that you can check in Patoons. Patoons is the president of the Serpenters. So, the reason they arranged their system is like this. What did you do during colonization? That's their whole thing. They're still living during colonization. The colonization is why the country is divided. So, it's still very serious to them. This is Kim Jong-un, is really important.

There is no middle class in North Korea. There is very rich people and very poor people. In Saudi Arabia, very rich people, very poor people. In Qatar, very rich people, very poor people. No middle class, no democracy. The middle class people, like, I don't know if you guys are middle class, I'm middle class right now. Middle class people are Minjoo-joo-joo. Nobi, Njitjuri. Elites, slaves, democracy.

So Kim Jong-un has this challenge. The rich people must be happy with swimming pools and department stores. They must be happy so that they don't protest. Because these people know that the outside world is nice. So he has to keep them happy. Otherwise they'll be angry. So his job is to keep the rich people happy so they don't protest. And then the poor people keep poor so that they cannot protest. That's his job.

New classes, democracy. Kim Jue, people say he's got three daughters. Is she going to be the next leader? No, he doesn't. I don't. Who knows? If I was Kim Jong-un, I would have some secret children. I'd be training them. Just like he was. Maybe she will. Wouldn't it be weird if North Korea has a female leader before America? Before France? They go like, look, we beat you.

won't make that noise. Okay, so power. Lucy, if you want to speak to me about something, should I go to you or do you come to me? You come to me. Why? Yeah, because there's a power thing, isn't there? Lucy, tonight, do you want to write a two-page essay on North Korea? No. If I tell you you must do it to pass the class, will you do it? Yeah. Why? How?

I have power over you in terms of your grades. You have power over me in terms of Hattie and Kylker. Evaluation. I have power over you to make you do something you don't want to do. You don't want to do the work, but I have power over you, so you do it. Who has power over my career?

back to this, let me, who has power over North Korea? Skipping, let me get my mind back in and I'll come to this. By the way, defective people to come out, kalbukjas, when they come out of the country, they often experience rape and very bad things and prostitution, so sometimes they say stories and it's not right and it's just, just give them some, that they come out. Some kalbukjas, they come out of North Korea, they come to South Korea and they don't like it and they go back.

some come out and they love it and they stay all of them that come out they all go to the conservative party every person that comes out of North Korea goes to the conservative party in South Korea sorry to show their face in South Korea especially if you're a Westerner or a foreigner you might think okay so this guy is Trump but this is Biden or something like this you see it through international politics there's nothing like that Traditionally.

Jinjudang, the blue party, they like North Korea, they don't like Japan. That's their traditional position. Democratic party, like North Korea, don't like Japan. Conservative party, they like America and Japan, they don't like North Korea. The difference between these two parties is, the red party, we love America, let's go America together and okay with Japan, we hate communism, we hate North Korea, we hate China, that's the red position. The blue position is normally we don't like to have.

North Korea. Every president from this party has gone to Pyongyang so far. Jingkaiji. Every president from this party has gone to Pyongyang. Here is a photo of all three of them together. There's Moon Jae-in, Kim Dae-jung, and Noh-my-hyun. They all went to Pyongyang. I guess Lee Jae-myung wants to go as well. Kim So-by-ho doesn't want to go there. It's different. So the difference in Korean politics has nothing to do with culture and LGBT. It's like, do you like North Korea or do you not like North Korea?

Are they our brothers and sisters or are they our enemy? And that's a dividing line between maybe not your generation, but Sashib De, Sashib De, 40 to 50 cities. This is one of my favorite characters. He said this. We've set borders, north and south, and we said the people the other side of the border are barbarians, and we use the fear of those barbarians to create more barbarians inside our own society.

This is the first Inter-Korean summit in 2000. It was the first time they met. Kim Dae-jung, he won a Nobel Prize for this. The chairman of Hyundai paid $500 million for us. We didn't know it at the time. We thought more pretty was being nice. The chairman of Hyundai gave us $500 million. That's true. We know now. They did it for money. And many people thought this was beautiful. This is Hoju Olympics. One flag. together, 2000, 26 years ago.

since then? This is 2007. No-my-hyun went up there. Bye bye. He's nearly dead. Go-yoo-juk-ti. He had a heart attack. Not then, but his body doesn't work. Six months after this meeting, six months after this meeting, this guy, President of South Korea, committed suicide. He jumped off a cliff. He was being investigated. Sorry. Moon Jae-in, three times. One, two, three. I'm going to be in three minutes.

Trump made. This is what the Korean progressives do. The Korean progressives meet North Korea. So when Trump goes to meet Kim Jong-un, the Korean progressives are like, let's go. Trump is a Korean progressive. That's a weird thing. I'm not saying this would be all bad. But every Korean president went to Pyongyang. They have to go there. Remember when I asked Lucy, who do you come? All the South Korean people go to Pyongyang. When Trump wants to meet Kim Jong-un twice, where did they meet?

Singapore and Vietnam, Trump got Kim Jong-un to come out of North Korea. I'm not coming to you. Come here. I'm meeting that. No South Korean presidents have done that. So Trump used to power there, actually. I don't know. It's going to be bad. Should we meet with North Korea? Should we meet with Kim Jong-un? That's a question. I'm not talking about Tong-il. I'm never talking about it. I'm like, should we meet them? Should we have them? These were the countries that recognized North Korea as a country.

We recognize North Korea, we all recognize North Korea, France. The reason France, by the way, France and North Korea are tight. When the North Korean elite have health problems, they go to France for medical service. When England, Tony Blair, he was flying to Korea in 2000, he was coming here to meet Kim Dae-jun. On the plane, he decided we're going to do radio gangue with North Korea, we're going to do diplomatic relations and build an embassy. But he forgot to tell the French president. And he announced it, he said we're going to do it. And all of Europe said, okay, we'll go with you. And the French president went.

he was angry though he didn't get told so he was accused. Most of the countries in the world have recognized North Korea. Who doesn't? America, Japan, South Korea, Israel. They killed her mom. There she is in Pyongyang. It's Bill Clinton in Pyongyang. Now I'm going to tell you, just give you five minutes, I'm going to tell you some terrible stuff that North Korea has done. This is terrible stuff.

In 1968, they sent 31 North Korean commandos from Pyongyang into South Korea to kill Park Chun-hee. And they got all the way into the Blue House, and then suddenly they got discovered. Everyone died. One person was captured. One person got all the way back to Pyongyang. He became a hero. This guy married a South Korean woman and became a hero. 1974, this is Park Chun-hee's wife. This is live on television on Independence Day.

In 1974, live on television, the president is giving a speech. North Korean loving person stands up, tries to kill Park Chung-hee, misses, and kills the wife. This is a real photo. It looks like Seert. She died live on television. Shot by North Korean. That's Park Chung-hee. In Myanmar, Burma, they killed 21 people. They tried to kill Chand-hung-wan. If you didn't kid it, North Korea is always trying to kill the presidents, right?

They killed Kuala Lumpur. 1987, one year before Palo-Lympics, North Korea bombed a Korean air flight, not an army plane, Korean airplane with civilians. They bombed it and killed everybody. There was a Korean airplane because they don't want Palo-Lympics. They don't want the Olympics to be in Korea, so they try to scare people. There's a plane taking off. It was coming from Iraq to Seoul. And because it's a long flight, it has to land to get more fuel and then go again.

She was a North Korean spy. She got on the plane here. When it lands the fuel, she gets off but leaves the bomb on. And then it takes off and blows up and kills everybody. And they caught her. She had some poison in her mouth so she could chass up and kill herself. But it didn't work. So they caught her. What did you do? I killed everybody. That was my job. I was a compong chill. I was trained. I was 007 to do this. She told the story. And then she wrote a book about it. even though she lives in South Korea and she's married?

This is not on the slide, but I like this one. There was a Yonsei professor at Yonsei University. He was head of Arabic studies. He was a proper professor, head of the Arabic studies department. He said he was from Egypt. He was North Korean. And he did that for 10 years. At Yonsei University for like 10 years, there was a professor. And he said, yes, I'm from Egypt. And he spoke Arabic because he was like, Arab sign. It's not Korean. And he was just North Korean. He just lied to everybody. And all those in South Koreans are like, okay.

I'm nearly done. In 2010 North Korea killed 46 South Korean soldiers. They shot the Cheonan. They shot this boat, all these soldiers died. North Korea actually denied this one. They said three little Cheonan. They didn't do that. Maybe a bad soldier did it or something. When this happened, the president of South Korea was Lee Myung Bang, conservative, also proud. When this happened, he said,

I said, get my planes in the air, fly them to Pyongyang and bomb them. You can't kill our soldiers. If somebody kills your soldiers, what do you do?" He said, no, we'll go and get them. We must punch back. So the planes took off. This is a true story. They're flying to Pyongyang, 2010, and they're Captain Tomah. I said, oh, I'm zero. Hello, this is Hillary Clinton, healing from President Barack Obama. Turn the planes around now. Yeah.

So the planes come around. America said you can't do that, there will be war. But Hillary Clinton and Obama said that. So they didn't do it. He went back and followed America's wishes. Maybe that's a good thing. 2020, this was in the news today, right? So this is, yeah, yeah, this is the true story. If you don't know this, Moon Jae-in, the previous Minjoo-Dang president, he had this like, dream of the border. We're gonna have this building with this flag, and we're gonna use South Korean money

and North Korean workers, basically slaves, right? We're going to do this, we're going to do this. And it worked for like six months. And then after six months, North Korea were angry with South Korea. So they said, you know that building, that very nice expensive building that you used David's tax to build? We're going to blow it up. We're going to blow it up next Wednesday. And we're going to live stream it on YouTube. And they did. Nobody died, they said we're gonna blow it up, get everybody out now.

So everybody got out, next Wednesday they went, ooh, bye bye to your building. And your mom's tax and your father's tax, right? That's what they did. Here's a true story. This is my house, and it doesn't look very good. Do you know when North Korea was dropping like balloons or rubbish on South Korea? I came home from the pub at like, 4am, 5am, and I came home like this, I'm crazy. that is unplasted.

I came home from the pub wasted and there was stuff all over my house. And by the way, there's nobody around me. In my domnet. I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor. It's just me. And so I'm like looking around going, oh my god, what is this? And I thought I was drunk. I just went in and went to bed. And I eventually woke up and I looked outside and it was still there. And so I started looking at it and it's non-Korean like drinks wrappers and packages. So I had to phone the army.

And they come and they say, you didn't touch it with your hands, right? And I was like, no, I didn't touch it with my hands. I kept those and gave it to my friends. Because they studied North Korea, and I look at this package and study it. So I told the police, yeah. And I had to clean them all up. I think maybe Kim Yo-jong was reading my articles. It's a bit like I... And then after me, some people don't like crash landing on you. Why? How can you show North Koreans to be nice and romantic?

I know it's not strong, but I like it. I'm saying some conservative people don't like this. How can you show them to be romantic? What are you trying to do? That's wrong. I used to be able to watch North Korean vlogs. Google and YouTube took them all down. But I want to watch them. I want to watch North Korean vlogs. They used to have these ones with this girl and she sounded like Peppa Pig. She had a really English accent. Hello, today we're going to go to Vincenewater Park. She was like that. But Google took them down. Now you can't watch them. Why? I thought we were democracy.

I'm going to read the North Korea newspaper. Shall we try? This is North Korea newspaper.

No. It used to come up with a government warning. You're not allowed to read it. Why? I can't read the newspaper. I thought we have freedom. If I read the newspaper, I'm not going to start... I should be able to read. I hope you should not call that. I'm finished. Because of North Korea... I love the fact I teach you about all this serious history and politics. And everyone's like this. And then I bring up some idols and everyone's like, oh look! Jesus, guys!

I'm sorry to teach you, I'm nearly finished. Everything I told you, that's why this happens. My wife didn't believe this. North Korea has Chuseung problem, low birth rate,

Because North Korean women now want to get jobs. North Korean women don't want to have taking care. They want to be educated in their place. Right? Like Uryos has to be in Korea. And so the birth rate is really low. Kim Jong-un is crying. He's crying because his country is not doing well. When the soldiers are dying in Ukraine, the North Korean soldiers, again there, you see him crying. It's weird. Have you ever heard Kim Jong-un talk? You know you speak Korean like the same language as you would.

and understand exactly everything you say. North Korea has a leader that cries right now. That's kind of weird. I'm not saying it's a little bad, but that's what they do. My friend was there. He told me all the stories recently. Ooh, that was a lot. Young Un, we all need a break. Give us something. Give us a thought. Give us an idea. Tell us about...

I hope to them already. Tell us about, I don't know, anything. I think it's very unfair that Korea has no choices about some wars and some of our songs are very unfair and I didn't know that influence till now. Here's something I want you to think about, Yonu. Does Korea have choice and influence now? Korea used to be very poor. Korea is a pretty big country now.

It's a very advanced technology and it's got a pretty big military group of all these men. Does it have a choice now? Does it have power now? Or should it just be... Should it have a position with Iran and Israel and Palestine? You know, what should it do to think about it? Ayami, tell us something, please. I'm really shocked because I know the history in Japan.

colonized meek. We did both of you. Here's the thing, China, Japan, Korea, North Korea, can they write one history book that everybody agrees on? That's the difficult thing. Even South Korea doesn't agree on history. Even in South Korea, not to your time and your time, the ruling and opposition party, they don't agree on history. It's a very difficult history. I've tried to give you history as I know it, as I've read it, as I've studied it, Apparently.

but also you need to have your version of history that you believe. Anybody have anything to say before you take a break? We'll give you a second. Go on, Abigail. I was just gonna say, it's really interesting looking at North Korea, and I remember seeing a documentary in my house one morning. It was just playing while my dad was working, and it happened to be about North Korea, and it was about Kim Jong-un's obsession with basketball and some Western things, which is really ironic to me. It was nice and cake-ball. Yeah, and he invited Dennis Ronman over to play for him.

and they had an interview with Dennis Rodman and he was like, just like, because when he played... I bet they smoked the weed. Yeah, I don't know. I would imagine if I know Rodman. Yeah, Dennis. But yeah, it was very interesting to see those two people in the same room being interviewed. I know somebody that was there with me. Really? Yeah. He knows everybody. I'm not sure. I think if you just don't know, Um... Dennis Rommel? Yeah.

What was his nickname? Oh no! That's a no! Dennis Ruegill is one of the craziest basketball stars. He has pink hair, Madonna was his girlfriend, Carmen Electra. He's a proper parundal, bad boy. He'd been drunk playing basketball. Legend. Legend, legend, and he won everything. He's a champion, he's Michael Jordan's teammate.

Kim Jong-un's friend. It's the first time I've seen him smiling. Look at that photo down there. He's like literally smiling. He's making a risk. That's so cute. Kim Jong-un is a little bit cute. Thank you for listening. It's coming up to 4.30, so 4.45 and then there one. Take 15, 18 minutes. Okay.

I'm just saying we definitely go on it.

Chinese students all have in stuff that they just... Yeah, yeah, China students, like, with the media, they're like, cool. You know, Chinese students, to graduate from university, they have to do a... Everyone, they have to do a mandatory course in Xi Jinping. Really? To pass. You know, to pass, you have to do power, right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you have to do power to pass. In China, they don't have to borrow, they do Xi Jinping. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss.

they should have the course of like, I love Russia, everything is so cool. They try to kind of follow the North Korean rules because in China there's no president's pictures all around, but like in Russia, you go to school, you'll immediately see the president's pictures, so this is kind of crazy actually, because they try to follow both sides. Like China is kind of like, well, I don't want to use media, like all the politicians and China goes like, you know, from the inside, like we have like, we have like, we have like, totalitarian politics here. Totalitarianism. Yeah, totalitarianism is like kind of more focusing, because like it's not communism anymore, like it's totalitarianism.

The war is making North Korea rich. So Russia created North Korea when they did all that, but now Russia needs North Korea. So the power situation is changing. Russia is still bigger, but now North Korea is not even money. South Korea got rich from Vietnam. South Korea got rich by fighting for America in Vietnam when they got billions of dollars. North Korea is doing exactly the same thing. I think I've got people waiting to see this. I'm going to go to the gym.

What is the English language? This is a English language. From Russia. Japan. French. French. Let me change this to the language. Yes.

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