We Tried Sneaking Journalists Into North Korea

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