The country has a heavy and painful history. Its territory once belonged to China and later became a Japanese colony after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. These events left deep scars that still shape life there today.
People in North Korea generally avoid being photographed. Public attention is discouraged, and from early childhood people are taught to live by the principle: “Don’t stand out — nothing good will come of it.” This mindset is absorbed from a very young age. Many of the people seen in the footage appear exhausted, worn down by daily life.
North Korea remains a true fragment of the Soviet past — a living relic of a system that many nostalgically remember in Russia and some post-Soviet countries. But what looks like nostalgia from the outside feels very different when seen up close.
The video offers a rare chance to look beyond propaganda and carefully staged images — and to see a reality few outsiders are ever allowed to witness.
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