Name: Inside North Korea (Part 1/3)
Uploaded: 2013-04-10T14:27:37.000Z
Duration: 20 min 52 s
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SHANE SMITH: Right after we launched VBS, people started

Because nobody knows anything about North Korea.

And we tried to get in for a year and a half, but couldn't

because North Korea doesn't let anyone in.

They do not want anyone to corrupt their 100% homogeneous

society that is 100% percent ruled by one

In the end, we just got so frustrated that we ended up

flying to South Korea and saying, well at least we can

go to the DMZ and put our foot into North Korea and at least

Let's go see the DMZ, which is the demilitarized zone, which

is the border between North Korea and South Korea.

Since the Korean War ended, it's been the most militarized

zone on Earth with two million estimated troops on the North

Korean side, about 500,000 on the South Korean side.

Missiles pointed at each other, artillery tanks.

There's three million mines on the border itself.

In fact, there's so many mines that the North Koreans built

invasion tunnels, where they went 70 meters down.

And they're like, we could be in Seoul in

And it's the closest you can get to seeing North Korea.

It's only an hour and a half north of Seoul, but you have

Then you have to go through United Nations indoctrination

session, where they're like, don't point.

We're only going to be there for 2 and 1/2 minutes.

We're at the last stop in South Korea before

Right after the Korean War, it was the last time the North

And on the other side of that now, a little further back is

Right here, it's kind of like a theme park.

But as you see, just beyond the theme park, hidden by the

trees, there's barbed wire and land mines and checkpoints

A lot of families come, and they put up messages or

prayers for their family in the North that they've been

So they'll come here and make a pilgrimage and say, OK, this

I think the South's going to lose pretty damn quick.

They're going to be rave soldiers brought up on

Playstation versus the North Koreans who eat grass and

And you look across, and there's North Korea.

And the barracks room is half in North Korea,

And they set that up so they could have talks.

But it's the only place where you can go and actually set

And this is as close as 99.9% of the people in the world

will ever get into getting into North Korea.

The gravel is South, and the concrete is demarcation line.

GEORGE W. BUSH: North Korea has a regime arming with

missiles and weapons of mass destruction.

States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an

The United States of America will not permit the world's

most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's

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