Analyzing North Korean Defectors [26 mins]

They have a mental illness, so they limp. That one broke me, didnt know that a broken leg is a mental illness.

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I LiKe PiGeoNs

What is funny is that you get people thinking Aleksa and Alex think North Korea is genuinely a utopia or some shit. If you watch their videos and interviews on podcasts, they’ve said they’re aware it’s a messed up country in many ways and has a lot of issues. They’re just calling out the ridiculous propaganda like this, and pointing out the insane hypocrisy of the west. They’re not idiots!

Claire Rhiannon

Except when she was younger she thought other defectors are all lying about their horrible stories because the stories sounded nothing like her experiences in North Korea. She said that on TV. Her own mother has said they never experienced poverty or starved and that they had Gucci bags and other luxury items.

average Charleston Chew enjoyer

e se por alguma razão, algum brasileiro estiver lendo, um historiador reagiu à esse video e pode adicionar umas coisas bacanas https://youtu.be/8u0HFW8Qgis

Afonso Moura

Theres actualy a great documentary about it on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktE_3PrJZO0 They even go into the COYOTES that essentially kidnap north koreans on vacation in other countries to use them, again, for propaganda reasons.

Afonso Moura

one year late for the party but its very interesting the inevitability of people like this. The south korea government acctually has programs to enroll defactors of north korea to be peddlers of fabricated lies for propaganda reasons, but only while they remain relevant of course, after that, its normal capitalist unemployment (even more so beucause of the prejudice of being north korean), so of course there would be people telling the most absurd and unfounded shit in the planet... Thats their labor force, and they need to sell it to survive in this system.

Afonso Moura

Its like listening to a 6 year old made up stories

rice cooker

im blessed to be south african has got to be the funniest comment

Lachlan

"I subscribe to boy boy just to laugh, I didnt realize they were political" is crazy. Have you just been willfully ignorant until it meant not believing all the lies about north Korea? North Korea can have its issues without those issues being completely fucking insane and irrational. They perfectly criticized her absurd claims. Why tf are ppl gonna push a train? How are mentally disabled ppl that can't put on pants gonna farm shit berries from rats or whatever?

Michael Matthiesen

Wait: Comrade, ci conosciamo? :,)

Gianmarco Maioli

Compagino che bello trovarti qui!

Whatsacriticaltheory

Amazing outro

Raghad

Im so glad i found this

Varnusz

No dude

Dying Phoenix

Im so glad im an american and I dont have to live like that!! so ew!

Issac Peanut

joe does challenge ppl tho alexa, i just think he believed her so he let his mind skip over some of the insane claims she was making. plus booga ooga porbably made go brrrr. You know?

Igy

I’m so bloody glad I subbed to your patreon. Literally downloaded the app for the first time and made my first sub. Cannot support you monthly as I’m still a uni student, but your channel makes me feel less “lonely” in this grim world. Salute you from Italy, comrades ❤️ :)

Gianmarco Maioli

Yeah the train gets unwell so they have to push it

cogandbal

USA gov't plants for sure ngl

Kat Trueblood

when i watched your video about north korea i reealy wanted to see this girl in it

kotenk

But she's got the heavies! Jre is legit the worst podcast

MattY

Yeonmi Park on her way to say that "children who eat rats must find poop otherwise the teacher gets angry" with a serious face, at least you have to admire that

WattoSlave69

I watched some of her interviews when she just started out, a lot of what she used to say actually made sense, but she has derailed hard :'D I honestly think she just hates north korea and wants to make the rest of the world hate it as much as possible

Squaid Ink Arts

He said it on the deprogram podcast btw, great episode! You should check it out!

ComradeCupcake

He is of both Chinese and Russian decent I believe

ComradeCupcake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Did_a_Thing

py

what the fuck are you talking about

Emily Fisheye

After school, the teachers follow the children home to get a fresh supply of food, I mean poop, then they get sick and die from hep. It's just part of the cycle of life over there. I pray for every soul, and god will save them all. #saveNK

Grant

Isaac Stevenson

I haven’t laughed so much in a long time, I love you

Ian G

Can you honestly listen to this woman and tell me you believe what she's saying? Like logically, using your common sense? If yes, then I'm sorry but you really are stupid.

Zorana Gavrilović

"I didn't even know the word 'compassion'". With the amount of grifting she's doing, she clearly hasn't absorbed the full meaning yet

firstname lastname

from what i could find on wikipedia, she began say absurdities after 2014 when she found out it works better than truth

NEMESIS 64

i really do not think alex is chinese, did he say that somewhere? as far as i know they are both slavic

Gabriel Pappas

why are there so many narcs subscribing to communist youtuber patreons. ya'll weird af. how'd you even get into this channel lmfao?

Jesse Maddox

You just heard her say that the people pushed the trains and that prompted you to buy her book?... You heard her say there was one train that ran once a month and that prompted you to buy her book?... You can literally look up a railway map of DPRK. You can look up railway timetables/metro timetables. It just doesn't make logical sense. The family were mentally disabled to the point where they couldn't put on pants but were capable of keeping captives and farming?.. She's changed key elements in the story of her escape on numerous occasions, she's a grifter and you fell for it.

Liam ?

your ignorance is showing

SpookyBoi

north korea isn't communist and neither is the soviet union

SpookyBoi

They have no food and starve to death but when there’s an earthquake they go to the kitchen and eat. They eat wild plants and rats but need to collect their poo to fertilize fields. Makes sense… Thank you Boy Boy for another great video.

François R.

Turns out all along she was talking about the guy she married he is North Korea

Mario

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night with the urge to pee, lighting your candle and stumble across some bodys to get to the piss place and locking eye with a f*cking rat.. these kids get some serious PTSD issuses.. thats so SAD :(

Dennis Waschlos

longer than 26 minutes?

RaisingAgent

I'm so sorry we made you read her book. No one deserves that.

Boy Boy

Oh and no one asked

ComradeCupcake

You literally make no sense… First of all, leaving out the fact that Alex is literally Chinese and has more understanding of the region and East Asian culture than you do, where exactly did you see racism?? The Pyongyang elite argument is so tired. How are you going to say you know more about a country they’ve literally been to, seen with they’re own eyes and made a whole documentary about while the only information you have on North Korea comes from buzzfeed articles… embarrassing. What’s racist is the orientalism that comes from people like you that only see western civilisations as civilised and refuse to humanise people from places like North Korea when you have literally no knowledge about the country, it’s culture or it’s history. And I don’t even know what to say. BoyBoy has always been a (geo)political channel. Their first real video was literally the North Korean one and all their videos are political. You clearly have too much money if you’re a patron for a channel you clearly know nothing about.

ComradeCupcake

too bad unsubscribe

Dion and Tara Van Leent

Yeah no worries..and I'll pull my support here and go subscribe to things that make me laugh. Which is what i came here for..

Shakra Farrell

You're talking about a situation you seem to have absolutely no understanding of. Please just go and read about the Korean war and the events that led to the current political climate involving Korea, China, America and Russia.

Djuro Blazevic

LoL stupidly emotional.. ok.. sorry.. i subscribed to BoyBoy for entertaining content that makes me laugh.. not to get involved in debates about geopolitical power struggles. I'm entitled to form my own opinions on things also and I'm not sitting here crying. Love how people attempt to downtread others by using words like stupidly emotional. Emotional on its own would have been more effective and made you out to be less of an arsehole..but here we are..

Shakra Farrell

You need to realize that all sides use propaganda as a tool to shape our views of other countries. Its not that absurd to think that America and by proxy South Korea are spreading propaganda to make us in the developed west hate the North Korean government. Read up on the history of North Korea and what created the power dynamic that exists today between North Korea and South Korea, between China and America and you will realize how stupidly emotional you're being about a geo-political power struggle.

Djuro Blazevic

I think this epispde was in pretty poor taste and not entertaining at all. Didnt laugh once. In fact, it prompted me to read her book and now I realise what a bunch of blindfolded racist turds you're being. Alexa, imagine someone madr fun of one of your family members trying to describe their experiences during the Kosovo war and laughing about it. The only part of the North Korean shithole you two went to was Pyongyang which is the only part of the hellhole of North Korea that the government will allow foreign people to see..its a mask for the lies, corruption and abuse people there still face to this day.

Shakra Farrell

I'd be embarrassed for being part of a culture where 5% of people believe these fucking obvious fibs but there's so many people like you can basically hear the cogs turning in her head as she thinks of the dumbest possible thing to say next

Danny G

The guys mention her putting out this pro-west propaganda. I think there's value in noting that the propaganda doesn't have to come from the governments. There's no need for her to be a "govt plant", when the system and her situation encourages this - this is her marketable skill

citizencobra

Makes sense. Her stories are marketable, what she can use to survive/thrive. It's possible for her stories to be exaggerated while there also being lots of problems with living under the regime.

citizencobra

Honestly shows how racist so many westerners are that they would believe this

Luke Hudson

There is something kinda brilliant in the absurdity of it all, she is like if Andy Kaufman was funded by the CIA.

Brooke

I'll happily buy you another shirt, Alexi

Gavin

End the Sanctions on the DPRK 🇰🇵 End the the US occupation of the ROK 🇰🇷 onward to reunification! 🇰🇵🤝🇰🇷

Tom Wickham

Great video Estar

Marc

She will say anybody called out her only been to fake set and that's NK propaganda, and everybody will believe her. People just stupid.

Oiliki

Same western propaganda shit hasn't change for decades, they still use the same stories from 1950s.

Oiliki

Yes boys! great vid and great edit. worth the sub again. I will be shameless and ask for longer vids for next time :)

Bmanslay

Somehow I relate to what she's doing because I would certainly enjoy pranking Americans in this way and just seeing how far I could take it.

py

There is this amazing book that came out here in Czechia from Nina Spitalnikova where she talked to people who fled from North Korea, that shows a very scary reality of it. I feel like people when listening to these absolutely insane ramblings of the woman and realize that like 99% of it has to be fake then tend to feel like the place is "not so much worse than LA" but I really don't think it is the case. Hell, even here in Czech reoublic under the communist regime life was hell for a lot of people. Not that they had to eat rats and wlak over dead bodies to take a poop on the streets but still so lol

Tom Král

As of right now there are 2 possibilities I have in my head about her existence and why she’s so prominent in the media. #1 she is a government plant or #2 she actually is from North Korea and just loved the media attention so much she just started saying the most outlandish things to try and stay relevant lol

Keith Larsen

I'd never seen an interview with her, all I'd seen were the memes making fun of her where people would make up silly, outlandish things about north korea. But everything she said was 100% more insane than anything the internet could come up with for those memes, I had no idea she was actually saying such wild shit.

Bethany Branson

With how uncritically most of these interviewers seem to accept what she says I almost wonder if they have to sign a non-defamation agreement or something before she sits for an interview so they aren't allowed to push back

PatchIsRed

Good one to put on YouTube tbh

Chad Falatic

(…. that was the joke, lad. They’re all on RFA payroll lol)

Laura Maria

I mean not like Radio Free Asia is anymore accurate then Yenomi…

Miles M Davis

Great vid guys! Can you make a ‘how to’ video on remaining sane when talking with people who actually believe this blatant bullshit and keep actively supporting political systems that are rigged against them and just exploit them and the world further into eventual demise?

Repeet

I want the Ribena shirt

Doug

I would love to see a Video of an Interview where she just got called out on her ridiculous lies.

Henning Krall

lol

Lilythesnake

I don't know if it's intentional but the song used in the intro and outro sounds like a North Korean propaganda song but it is actually Japanese 😂

甫潤 文

Oh man I got gifted her book and I never read it, it just sits on my bookshelf. Now I gotta read it 😂

Bimmy

I don’t really see why we should be lenient on her for being the human embodiment of a Buzzfeed article that uses Reddit comments for content, tbh.

dogwheatbread

She seems to act like she is the only person ever to defect from DPRK, as if there aren’t multiple people who can contradict the stuff she says. Also hard to believe she has no incentive to lie and spread this false garbage when she is super right-wing and anti-woke, anti-« cancel culture ». 😭

dogwheatbread

she is so outrageously ludicrous that I'm beginning to think that she may actually be DPRK counter intelligence, sent by Kim Jong Un with the purposes of being so batshit unhinged that it actually ends up hurting the image of Radio Free Asia paid defectors as a whole

Laura Maria

I would also argue they visited the capital city, compared to if she lived in the rural areas, where the quality of services are different. This would make sense for the train. Even in the US, Washington DC has a great metro compared to literally everywhere else in the country. But everything else is outrageous

Maurice Ruttimann

Not similar at all. The only thing Russia has in common with China is that they're both under threat from the US. The Russian Federation is not the same thing as the USSR.

Jeremiah

She's obviously lying about the 3 times a month poops, we all know women dont poop :p

Edwin

Just subscribed to the Patreon yesterday. Lucky me

L Nordin

They could react to Russian propaganda. They probably are aware that we also have propaganda happening against Russia though. Maybe they should make a propaganda-off with some smart Russian person who lives in Russia or near that area. Basically confronting each other with propaganda and debating whether there are elements of truth to it or not.

Olemole

Agreed. She's most likely not willing to share it though as it makes her feel vulnerable and not as important as if she lived through the craziest shit. By lying she keeps control. Just like my ex. 😆 I feel bad for her husband.

Olemole

i think it would be much more interesting to talk about what she really went trough instead of silly things

NEMESIS 64

no its no reaaally communist but lets say its similar (china/russia/north korea are close friends)

NEMESIS 64

russia isn't a communist dictatorship

Daniel Jennings

guys, you have to find something about russia (im not pro russia but as you are doing things about communist dictatorship)

NEMESIS 64

Guys, she grew up during the great famine. I read similar stories in a couple of books and documentaries about that time. I think she basically just took everything bad she ever experienced or heard and reduced it into a ridiculous over-the-top version of what her childhood was like, giving the interviewers what they want to hear. She gets paid well for her speeches. 😅

Olemole

Best Korea moment

consneed

This is exactly the type of people that can call out yeonmi because they actually went there LOL

David Rempel

Long live glorious leader

Chris McBard

yas

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