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hermit Kingdom welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 ridiculous facts about
North Korea
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at realities big and small that
proved that North Korea stands out from
other nations number 10
they built a fake town behind me over
there is North Korea’s propaganda
village surely named with just a dash of
irony
North Korea’s peace village can be found
right along the border at shares with
South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone in
addition to being significantly more
aesthetically pleasing than your average
village in North Korea it’s also
anomalous in the sense that according to
South Korea
no one actually lives there built in the
1950s it’s been advertised as a
collective farm village boasting a
population of 200 families and many
desirable facilities and services
however it’s widely believed to be
nothing more than a propaganda tool to
entice South Koreans into defecting and
that theory isn’t disproven by videos
posted by YouTube channels like Noah
Lambert and Chris 5-1 for around the
world but if it is a propaganda tool and
it hasn’t been especially effective but
when South Korean villagers here
recently renovated their houses in 2015
North Korea responded by repainting the
buildings of their propaganda village to
make them a bit more colorful number 9
the discovery of a unicorn layer the
state news agency there claims that
archeologists have just located an
ancient unicorn layer when your nation
is insular it’s very easy to disseminate
false facts to your people still when
you want to keep yourself aggrandizing
claims within the realm of possibility
unicorn related announcements are sure
to elicit a great response from young
children but the general population not
so much regardless in 2012 the Korean
Central News Agency informed the public
of a truly groundbreaking discovery
their unparalleled scientists had
discovered a unicorn layer specifically
that of
unicorn written by King tongyoung how
are they able to tell well because the
words unicorn lair had been carved into
a standing stone of course number eight
Kim Jong Il’s cognac budget we’re going
to need lots of cognac the best Hennessy
most people world leaders included liked
to imbibe from time to time but few
would have a bar tab like Kim Jong Il’s
he reportedly spent about 1 million
dollars u.s. a year on con yak his drink
of choice not just any con yak though
Hennessy Cognac he loved Hennessy Cognac
apparently spending eight hundred
thousand dollars a year on the drink
according to the Daily Mail he was the
company’s single biggest patron although
a Hennessy spokesperson has stated that
they wouldn’t miss his business in the
grand scheme of things considering the
average North Korean yearly income is
estimated at one thousand to two
thousand dollars this sort of spending
feels particularly outlandish according
to noted visitor Dennis Rodman Kim
jong-un has similarly expensive tastes
he loves basketball and I think that’s
the key for anything in the world
basketball music number seven your
birthday isn’t always the day you were
born
[Applause]
if the deer leader dies on your birthday
best to skip the party for ever in North
Korea the death of a leader means a day
of uninterrupted mourning each and every
year for the foreseeable future because
of this birthdays are no longer
celebrated on July 8th or December 17th
in the country due to the respective
death dates of past rulers Kim il-sung
and Kim jong-il since the passing of
each of these illustrious leaders
residents born on those days now
celebrate their own birth the day after
it’s been estimated that this shuffles B
Day celebrations for some 100,000 North
Koreans you can see thousands of
students are here putting on a huge
group dance in honor of the birthday of
the late leader number six they have
their own Godzilla
Kim jong-il was a serious movie buff by
some estimates he personally owned over
20,000 DVDs committed to making his
nation great however he wasn’t satisfied
with simply consuming foreign films in
fact as far as the public was concerned
they were considered illegal so he set
about trying to encourage a North Korean
film industry but when we did more
research we found out that OH
Kim jong-il was a huge film buff in the
late 1970s he actually kidnapped South
Korean filmmakers shin sang-ok and
forced him to produce films for him rife
with propaganda of course of the various
films produced perhaps the most
notorious was pooja sati which was a
blatant ripoff of the Godzilla films
number 5
fake football fans
the enthusiasm of North Korean crowds
often raises accusations of acting but
outsourcing actors to feign interest in
your sports teams on the international
scale that shows serious commitment to
keeping up appearances when North Korea
sent a football or soccer team to
compete in the World Cup there was a
suspiciously large crowd of dedicated
fans suspicious because as a North
Korean it’s nearly impossible to get a
visa to leave the country and it turned
out that these were Chinese volunteers
later revealed to be paid actors well as
long as it helps team morale they just
look like they just just been giving it
just before they walked into the ground
here you go you’re watching the football
today North Korea is putting them here’s
your kit here’s your house number four
they seem to really like accordions sure
there are plenty of Polka fans and who
hasn’t rocked out to weird al’ yankovic
at some point in their lives but North
Korea seems to take accordions really
really seriously we’re not sure if they
got a bulk deal on some accordions or
what but at some point it became
mandatory for all teachers to learn how
to play accordion so they could teach
their students dubbed the people’s
instrument it was considered a
morale-boosting portable instruments
that the entire country could enjoy
though guitar and harmonica are also
popular instruments of choice the
accordion holds a special place above
the rest in North Korean culture
[Applause]
[Music]
number three blue jeans are illegal
be it ripped baggy or skinny jeans in
North Korea all blue jeans are
off-limits period according to the Daily
Mail this was a move by North Korean
ruler Kim jong-un in an effort to weed
out American influence because what’s
more American than a pair of denim jeans
The Children’s Day we play a game in
school all nationwide we do that but we
have a several a game that we have to
step American of course in addition to
cracking down on dungarees the
government is apparently taking a
stricter hand elsewhere including
regulating the shoes and t-shirts people
wear ironically however from 2007 to
2011 North Korea was actually a minor
player in the gene trade manufacturing
and exporting Naoko jeans for a Sweden
based company number two there are a
limited number of approved haircuts when
it comes to style North Korea isn’t
limiting its government-mandated looks
to just wearable fashions they’re pretty
strict about hair styles two men have
ten choices at their disposal while
women have between 14 and 18 styles to
choose from depending on the source
you’re using unsurprisingly options do
not include the Mohawk mullet the
Skrillex either Bieber or the Miley
Cyrus double knot and are instead of a
fairly modest conservative collection
oddly Kim jong-un’s own cut is not on
the official list and has been
reportedly made illegal for anyone else
to wear while conversely made mandatory
for all male university students despite
the style being considered a Chinese
import number one Kim Jong Il was
considered magical or at least
superhuman it’s been very difficult to
sift through what is fact and what is
fiction when it comes to the claims made
by and about Kim Jong Il according to
official records and books written about
the dear leader Kim Jong Il his birth
was accompanied by both a double rainbow
and the appearance of a new star also he
was walking in a matter of weeks and
talking in a matter of months but that
was just the start of his alleged feats
he reportedly played a round of golf
that included 11
and one invented the hamburger wrote six
operas and thousands of books in just a
few years and depending on who you ask
had the ability to mentally influence
the weather his son Kim jong-un
naturally learned to drive at age three
and was a yacht racing champion by nine
he does not have a butt hole he has no
need for one do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
hermit Kingdom welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our picks
for the top 10 ridiculous facts about
North Korea
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at realities big and small that
proved that North Korea stands out from
other nations number 10
they built a fake town behind me over
there is North Korea’s propaganda
village surely named with just a dash of
irony
North Korea’s peace village can be found
right along the border at shares with
South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone in
addition to being significantly more
aesthetically pleasing than your average
village in North Korea it’s also
anomalous in the sense that according to
South Korea
no one actually lives there built in the
1950s it’s been advertised as a
collective farm village boasting a
population of 200 families and many
desirable facilities and services
however it’s widely believed to be
nothing more than a propaganda tool to
entice South Koreans into defecting and
that theory isn’t disproven by videos
posted by YouTube channels like Noah
Lambert and Chris 5-1 for around the
world but if it is a propaganda tool and
it hasn’t been especially effective but
when South Korean villagers here
recently renovated their houses in 2015
North Korea responded by repainting the
buildings of their propaganda village to
make them a bit more colorful number 9
the discovery of a unicorn layer the
state news agency there claims that
archeologists have just located an
ancient unicorn layer when your nation
is insular it’s very easy to disseminate
false facts to your people still when
you want to keep yourself aggrandizing
claims within the realm of possibility
unicorn related announcements are sure
to elicit a great response from young
children but the general population not
so much regardless in 2012 the Korean
Central News Agency informed the public
of a truly groundbreaking discovery
their unparalleled scientists had
discovered a unicorn layer specifically
that of
unicorn written by King tongyoung how
are they able to tell well because the
words unicorn lair had been carved into
a standing stone of course number eight
Kim Jong Il’s cognac budget we’re going
to need lots of cognac the best Hennessy
most people world leaders included liked
to imbibe from time to time but few
would have a bar tab like Kim Jong Il’s
he reportedly spent about 1 million
dollars u.s. a year on con yak his drink
of choice not just any con yak though
Hennessy Cognac he loved Hennessy Cognac
apparently spending eight hundred
thousand dollars a year on the drink
according to the Daily Mail he was the
company’s single biggest patron although
a Hennessy spokesperson has stated that
they wouldn’t miss his business in the
grand scheme of things considering the
average North Korean yearly income is
estimated at one thousand to two
thousand dollars this sort of spending
feels particularly outlandish according
to noted visitor Dennis Rodman Kim
jong-un has similarly expensive tastes
he loves basketball and I think that’s
the key for anything in the world
basketball music number seven your
birthday isn’t always the day you were
born
[Applause]
if the deer leader dies on your birthday
best to skip the party for ever in North
Korea the death of a leader means a day
of uninterrupted mourning each and every
year for the foreseeable future because
of this birthdays are no longer
celebrated on July 8th or December 17th
in the country due to the respective
death dates of past rulers Kim il-sung
and Kim jong-il since the passing of
each of these illustrious leaders
residents born on those days now
celebrate their own birth the day after
it’s been estimated that this shuffles B
Day celebrations for some 100,000 North
Koreans you can see thousands of
students are here putting on a huge
group dance in honor of the birthday of
the late leader number six they have
their own Godzilla
Kim jong-il was a serious movie buff by
some estimates he personally owned over
20,000 DVDs committed to making his
nation great however he wasn’t satisfied
with simply consuming foreign films in
fact as far as the public was concerned
they were considered illegal so he set
about trying to encourage a North Korean
film industry but when we did more
research we found out that OH
Kim jong-il was a huge film buff in the
late 1970s he actually kidnapped South
Korean filmmakers shin sang-ok and
forced him to produce films for him rife
with propaganda of course of the various
films produced perhaps the most
notorious was pooja sati which was a
blatant ripoff of the Godzilla films
number 5
fake football fans
the enthusiasm of North Korean crowds
often raises accusations of acting but
outsourcing actors to feign interest in
your sports teams on the international
scale that shows serious commitment to
keeping up appearances when North Korea
sent a football or soccer team to
compete in the World Cup there was a
suspiciously large crowd of dedicated
fans suspicious because as a North
Korean it’s nearly impossible to get a
visa to leave the country and it turned
out that these were Chinese volunteers
later revealed to be paid actors well as
long as it helps team morale they just
look like they just just been giving it
just before they walked into the ground
here you go you’re watching the football
today North Korea is putting them here’s
your kit here’s your house number four
they seem to really like accordions sure
there are plenty of Polka fans and who
hasn’t rocked out to weird al’ yankovic
at some point in their lives but North
Korea seems to take accordions really
really seriously we’re not sure if they
got a bulk deal on some accordions or
what but at some point it became
mandatory for all teachers to learn how
to play accordion so they could teach
their students dubbed the people’s
instrument it was considered a
morale-boosting portable instruments
that the entire country could enjoy
though guitar and harmonica are also
popular instruments of choice the
accordion holds a special place above
the rest in North Korean culture
[Applause]
[Music]
number three blue jeans are illegal
be it ripped baggy or skinny jeans in
North Korea all blue jeans are
off-limits period according to the Daily
Mail this was a move by North Korean
ruler Kim jong-un in an effort to weed
out American influence because what’s
more American than a pair of denim jeans
The Children’s Day we play a game in
school all nationwide we do that but we
have a several a game that we have to
step American of course in addition to
cracking down on dungarees the
government is apparently taking a
stricter hand elsewhere including
regulating the shoes and t-shirts people
wear ironically however from 2007 to
2011 North Korea was actually a minor
player in the gene trade manufacturing
and exporting Naoko jeans for a Sweden
based company number two there are a
limited number of approved haircuts when
it comes to style North Korea isn’t
limiting its government-mandated looks
to just wearable fashions they’re pretty
strict about hair styles two men have
ten choices at their disposal while
women have between 14 and 18 styles to
choose from depending on the source
you’re using unsurprisingly options do
not include the Mohawk mullet the
Skrillex either Bieber or the Miley
Cyrus double knot and are instead of a
fairly modest conservative collection
oddly Kim jong-un’s own cut is not on
the official list and has been
reportedly made illegal for anyone else
to wear while conversely made mandatory
for all male university students despite
the style being considered a Chinese
import number one Kim Jong Il was
considered magical or at least
superhuman it’s been very difficult to
sift through what is fact and what is
fiction when it comes to the claims made
by and about Kim Jong Il according to
official records and books written about
the dear leader Kim Jong Il his birth
was accompanied by both a double rainbow
and the appearance of a new star also he
was walking in a matter of weeks and
talking in a matter of months but that
was just the start of his alleged feats
he reportedly played a round of golf
that included 11
and one invented the hamburger wrote six
operas and thousands of books in just a
few years and depending on who you ask
had the ability to mentally influence
the weather his son Kim jong-un
naturally learned to drive at age three
and was a yacht racing champion by nine
he does not have a butt hole he has no
need for one do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos
every day
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