We Tried Sneaking Journalists Into North Korea
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Sneaking into North Korea was one of the hardest and weirdest processes VICE has ever dealt with. In North Korea, if you get caught being a journalist when you're supposed to be a tourist, you go to jail, or worse. Our rare footage is some of the craziest ever captured, providing an honest look inside the hermit nation. 00:00 Intro 03:00 One of the most dangerous places in the world 06:15 Bribing the Chinese consulate 09:14 The first sight of Pyongyang Hosted by Shane Smith | Originally released in 2008 at http://vice.com Continue where this left off here: http://bit.ly/HLpgn2 Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw46Ll-Zy4s Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJj85K_7MQ More from Shane Smith: http://www.vice.com/author/shane-smith Follow Shane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shanesmith30 Watch Shane go to North Korean slave labor camps in Siberia: http://bit.ly/vice-nk-labor Subscribe to VICE on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: http://youtube.com/vice Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com
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