Full movie: http://videosift.com/video/PROPAGANDA-Full-Version-of-North-Korean-Movie-About-Us

>> ^lucky760:

"Trained monkey collaborators of death."
LOL


"Narcissistic parasite."

They're impressively poetic, and also depressingly accurate in their portrayal of a small slice of Western culture. However, I'm in no hurry to swap

>> ^ulysses1904:

I kept waiting for the misinformation but it all seemed like a pretty accurate picture of U.S. pop culture to me. Except the tobacco bit looked pretty outdated and I have no way of knowing how accurate the Iraqi civilian death statistic is.


Actually, Arnie can't be president because he's an immigrant. So that makes everything else false.

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It's a dupe, I'm afraid. http://videosift.com/video/The-North-Korean-Kid-Guitar-Army-will-prevail

(I tried to post it too, but @mrsid was there a year ago)

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>> ^flechette:

So this has been posted before http://videosift.com/video/The-North-Korean-Kid-Guitar-Army-will-preva
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That video's embed is broken, however.


Yeah, not sure what to do in this situation. It is definitely the same North Korea video, but I have no idea whether it is a complete dupe or not. Definitely parts of it were in that other video.

Anyone know the protocol?

So this has been posted before http://videosift.com/video/The-North-Korean-Kid-Guitar-Army-will-prevail
That video's embed is broken, however.

I got hooked on Vice ever since watching Shane Smith doing coverage on North Korean labor camps in Russia (http://www.vice.com/vice-news/north-korean-labor-camps-full-length). This guy always seemed to know what was going on and what kind of games the people were trying to play on him, despite him coming from a non-native culture. I've never seen a Westerner fully understand the intricate socio-political games the locals play except for Shane Smith (http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3).

Not even Lisa Ling, who is of Asian descent, was able to fully grasp what the North Koreans were thinking or behaving a certain way when in front of a camera. The documentary she did on North Korea really lacked fundamental understanding of North Korean life and focused on sensationalist stuff. It was really disgusting (http://youtu.be/A_268_pBvPs). Shane on the other hand focuses more on how power and economy works in the given environment. He sees the situation from multiple angles, identifies where the motive is coming from, rather than just taking in everything as fact (which most of young Vice correspondents does), then starts playing the game with the locals. The man really is intelligent.


I've read a NYTimes article about Shane Smith some time ago wanting to be a playboy millionaire like Tom Freston lol (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/fashion/19upclose.html?pagewanted=all)

Also there's a whole Vice episode about the company and Shane Smith's background. I'm watching it right now (http://www.vice.com/spike-spends-saturday-with/shane-smith-part-1)

In reply to this comment by geo321:
They go out of their way to do edgy topics though. I think you're right a bunch of the docs I've watched from them have gone nowhere. Like they gave an ambitious person a camera and said "Go!" . But more than not they do good docs. My biggest problem with Vice is their site is shit and they haven't figured out how they want to distribute their content online. They DCMA other people posting their stuff pretty quickly but don't post their own stuff themselves in a good way if at all. I heard the owner himself say his website is shit. The new youtube channel isn't very good either. My impression is that he doesn't care, but maybe it's just him becoming a billionaire and the documentary side of his empire not being a priority.

On one hand its absolutely awesome to see 10.000+ japanese people sing in german about the brotherhood of man... add to that all the associations like the hymn of the european union or even clockwork orange..

But on the other hand it just has this north korean flair of a mass parade...