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There's a whole bunch of stuff that we didn't actually get to cover in the North Korean

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Weave video. As much as I would love to talk more about this, there's not really a whole

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lot more to say about this, but I did find a lot of other stuff about North Korea that is just

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absolutely fascinating. So they have an entire line of tablets and phones and you can find these

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online or at least some information about it. You'll find pictures of Kim Jong-un looking at a

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cell phone factory. You can also find the tablet itself listed on a couple different North Korean

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websites. There are North Korean websites, so that's something to also note. The phones themselves

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that are used a lot in North Korea because they have had smartphones since 2014, I think, so a

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decade of having smartphones, the phones that they use are technically made in North Korea.

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Technically. A lot of stuff is technically made in North Korea, but really they're getting parts

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in from China or elsewhere in the case of other objects. They're getting them into North Korea,

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then they're just assembling them there. Part of that whole Soviet idea of being completely insular

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and doing everything your society needs within that society, it's a great concept in theory.

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The phones themselves are just called Pyongyang phones, which is really confusing, but also North

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Korea does not know how to name their electronics very well. This thing is called Moranbong,

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which is like moran hill, not moran, m-o-r-a-n. That is also the name of a North Korean girl group

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which is much more popular than this thing. That's a tangent aside though. The Pyongyang

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phones, we know what is on them and the answer is not very much, but we only sort of know what's on

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them. There are a couple of dumps on archive.org about it. In there you can find just some simple

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dictionaries, and I think there's like a cookbook in there. Don't really know why that was included,

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but they decided to include it. The apps that we don't get to see though are the ones that are

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spread around over Bluetooth. Yeah, I think there was a Boy General game. It was very popular in

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North Korea, but there was no download available for it because it was at one point available

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within North Korea's internal internet, but their primary way of actually transferring games

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is a peer-to-peer network of Bluetooth, which is an interesting use of Bluetooth. I support it,

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but Bluetooth, that is the first time I think I've ever heard of Bluetooth being extremely

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useful. Every other time it's like, couldn't you have done this a better way? And there the answer is

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sort of. Unfortunately, it's not really useful for getting apps that they wouldn't have access to

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normally because all of the apps still have to be signed by the North Korean government.

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They have their own security signature that they put on everything. North Korea puts their own

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security codes on all sorts of applications, on any application that they want to run on their

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various phones and tablets and whatnot, which kind of makes it surprising that there is sort of an

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external internet for North Korea. Like there are a bunch of websites out there for North Korea,

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and that's, I mean, that's how we found out about this. It came up on Ari Rangmiri, which is,

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or I guess was, one of their propaganda news outlets. It was their primary propaganda news

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outlet, but you know Kim Jong-un has been shutting all that down. We cover that in the video. We

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don't need to get to that. What we don't cover in the video though is that there's a phone number

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on these various external websites. Did you know that it costs 75 cents a minute to call North Korea?

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That's what it is in Canada. I don't know if it's cheaper or more expensive or completely prohibited

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in the United States or parts of Europe. I mean, parts of Europe have been pretty open to trading

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with North Korea in the past. French cartoons have just been widely animated by North Korea,

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and Mondo TV out in Italy actually dubbed Squirrel and Hedgehog. Not a great dub,

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but they did do a localization of Squirrel and Hedgehog for the Italian market. For anything that

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wasn't handled by Mondo though, and even for some things that are, you can actually find full episodes,

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full series, subtitled in English, Japanese, German, probably Italian and French as well,

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on YouTube. And they are on channels that look like they're North Korean. They all have the

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same kind of description to them. They all kind of follow the same concept. They know how title

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thumbnail works. That's impressive for a government. Most governments don't know how title thumbnail

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works on social media, but North Korea, they took some time to learn. And if you start reading the

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comments, it gets even a little weirder because they've got a very specific way of talking that

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makes it kind of seem like they learned English by just reading various translations of Karl Marx

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in English. You can find sort of the same idea from books like On the Art of Cinema by Kim Jong-il.

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I'm just going to open up a page and read some of this for a second because you can get an idea

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of what it sounds like. Oh yeah, that's English. This is the English version. And for anybody

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thinking that, oh, you spent money on stuff from North Korea, no, that's so illegal, like incredibly

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illegal. This one is published, I think out of a publishing house at a university in Oregon.

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Here, here's just a title. Processed by which a revolutionary outlook on the world is established

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should be clearly demonstrated. It's kind of convoluted language. Like this could be easily

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pared down to much fewer, smaller words so that it would make a lot more sense to a lot more people.

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It doesn't really matter in these kinds of books, though, because if everybody kind of speaks that

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exact same dialect of English, then everybody understands each other. And for the most part,

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English speakers will understand this sort of dialect. But it gets real weird when you start

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hearing it in YouTube comments over and over again. So yeah, that's a thing. Just North Korean

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YouTube. But there is a very sizable number of North Koreans who live in Japan. And like,

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they're not refugees. Yeah, there's something like 25,000 North Koreans, active North Koreans,

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loyal to North Korea living in Japan. They have their own schools, their own university,

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their own banks, their own insurance companies. They're like, they still speak Korean, they still

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interact with North Korea. They're North Korean. And you can find some uploads of North Korean TV

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and movies on some of their websites. The group is collectively called the Cheongryong.

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Don't speak Korean, I'm very sorry. You can also find a weird collection of just children's soccer

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tournaments. Just a lot of videos of children's soccer tournaments. I'm trying to think of what

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else we didn't cover. I mean, I would love to talk more about the Pyongyang Zoo. Pyongyang Zoo is wild.

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Look at this picture on the screen right now of this entrance to a zoo. Now imagine you're going

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in through that tiger's mouth and somebody says to you, hey, have you seen the smoking monkey yet?

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That's a real situation that can happen at the Pyongyang Zoo. They have 5,000 animals. They have

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an entire lineage of elephants that are just inbred from Ho Chi Minh's grand elephant that he gave to

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Kim Il Sung. There's a parrot that speaks English, but the only thing he says is glory to the great

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leader Kim Il Sung or something along those lines. The Pyongyang Zoo is wild. Everything in Pyongyang

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that's made for tourists just sounds otherworldly. Like it's a bizarro land kind of thing, which is

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what you hear about North Korea all the time, but that's not necessarily what life there is like. I'm

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sure it is its own form of that, but the tourist aspect is wild. I mean, there's a bowling alley

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that still uses equipment from the 1960s, which for some people living in parts of America, I'm

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sure is not that weird of a thing. But as somebody who really likes 10-pin bowling and lives in Canada

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where 5-pin is all we can really find, hearing about a bowling alley that's super old and still

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active really makes me feel some things. Also in that bowling alley is a bunch of gambling

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and imported video games. Kind of a weird thing to find in North Korea, but if you've only got

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foreigners there, I guess it makes sense. Let's talk about some of the books I've got here,

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a Kim Jong Il production. This is about the kidnapping of a South Korean film director and

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actress, two separate people. This is a really popular book. You can find this on Amazon under

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North Korean books. This is probably number six or number seven, but what you can't find on most

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Amazon, but you can on Amazon Japan, is the complete encyclopedia of North Korean anime,

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which is something that I am currently not able to read. They do not make a PDF version of it. I

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tried to contact the publishers to get some PDFs of their books, because this is the tip

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of the iceberg on this publisher and I wish I could read their name here somewhere, but I can't.

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Look at some of this. It just keeps going too, and this is probably the most complete encyclopedia

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you can find on this. Look at how it looks like they've got, I don't know, Rudolph the red-nosed

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reindeer, but it's everybody's dressed like they're in North Korea. Some more squirrel and hedgehog

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here, but not quite squirrel and hedgehog. I'm seeing what looks like one of the raccoon dogs

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there and a rabbit and some sort of wolf. They love to use wolves and say that they don't symbolize

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anything, but they almost always symbolize either Americans or South Koreans. Oh, I think this is

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one of their kaiju movies. When they kidnapped that director and actress couple, the last movie

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that they had to make was sort of like a Godzilla movie. It was a kaiju movie, so it was a giant

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monster, and I think they actually might have made more than one of those, but the big one was their

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last one. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm going to do that in the next 48 hours before this video

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comes out probably even. The animation quality of North Korea's just animation works. You can see

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it over the course of Squirrel and Hedgehog because they only released one or two episodes a year,

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so you can go from episode one and see, oh yeah, this looks like it was made in the 1970s, up to

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like episode 32 or 33 where the wolves are flying these things here, and it's all like

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pseudo 3D animated. It's probably 3D animated. I've heard that they were using Toon Boom or Flash or

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something like that, but I think at some point they got their hands on Maya or 3DS Max and started

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really kind of integrating that into some of their workflows. Overall, not bad for people who make

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$1 a month. Yeah, I haven't actually finished this book, so I don't know too much about it.

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Yeah, I'm pretty much illiterate at this point, so it's going to be a difficult read for me overall,

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but not nearly as difficult as this. It's so hard to get through. His sentences are so long,

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and his word choice is so needless. Like as a writer, but also as an illiterate, the word choice

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is too large. Like the words are this long, and they could be this long, or there could be two

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of them that are that long, and it still wouldn't match. So I think that's pretty much all I've

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