Full video is mainly in Korean, but in this portion, they are interviewing students during English class.

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      From my experience there, they seem pretty serious about language learning. There was a university focused on language learning that had brought in a lot of native-speakers as teachers for all kinds of languages, and I met a lot of adults that did after-work programs to learn different languages as well. Russian and Chinese seemed to be the most popular, unsurprisingly.

      I am not surprised they start much younger.

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    pretty cool that they have some lathes and mills, i wish my supposedly well equipped private university had more than 1 fucking lathe and 1 mill for all the university.

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    holy shit. these children look terrified. i wouldn’t be surprised if the teacher was holding cue cards behind the camera.

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      Nah they do not look terrified, they look how the average kid their age looks when asked questions in class, on the spot, with a camera pointed at them, in a foreign language.

      The cue cards comment is very funny, it’s very obvious there are no cue cards in this situation, watch from 6:32. Take a look at the whole video and everyone’s demeanor. Kids are smiling, some are laughing, some are bored. Your brain refuses to see normal and calm people existing in DPRK because you are conditioned to see fear in everyone’s eyes.

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        Obviously shy children speaking in a second language while being filmed: evidence of a violent authoritarian dystopia

        Children getting gunned down en masse every other day: …? I pretend I do not see it.

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      of course they are scared/embarrassed, they are kids getting interviewed with a camera in another language in front of all their friends. 😂