Yes, I think I see Curtis from NKEconWatch in this video because he is as well as some others. I saw the smaller clips on YouTube with Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y Pérez yelling “Yankee go home!” I think I posted that a while back. This looks like the full video. Here is the description of the video:
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In 2004 I went to North Korea to make a video. I had little idea about how the trip would turn out, other than it was organized by a group called the Korean Friendship Association. It’s leader, Alejandro Cao de Benos, is a megaphone for the North Korean government.
The KFA wants to show Westerners its verion of reality in North Korea which is little more than a Potemkin Village. Alejandro would probably say that I have been brainwashed by CNN for describing North Korea as a Potemkin Village, or for calling North Korea North Korea, instead of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (or DPRK).
Andrew was in North Korea to do a feature for ABC’s ‘Nightline’. His story never made it to air because his hotel room was broken into and his tapes were stolen. That is, his North Korean experience was authentic. I’m just glad I was around to capture some of it on video.
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I have been falling behind on the posting of videos and other articles messing around with the podcasts, but things should be running smoothly very soon. In the meantime, enjoy this video.
That feels like being recorded while walking out of the shower!
That is hot.
Having watched this, I now must conclude that Morse got exactly what he had coming. He was doing everything but let the KFA thugs narrate his report for him. And yet that was still not enough. Morese wanted to put this crap on TV screens across America.
I have no idea why KFA has that much power. Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y Pérez is a dumbass.
I’d say that the main reason the KFA gets away with doing what they do is because they bring in hard currency to the regime. If you haven’t noticed, for all their left-wing posturing, the KFA has been trying to involve themselves as middlemen in a variety of business ventures.
Thanks for posting the video Jack. Care to write a review?
Sure you want a review done here or your web site? Furthermore, some things are not very clear because I have not really seen or heard much of the back story to it. Perhaps you or Curtis could help in this regard?
I’m just curious about what people think of it. There’s not that much of the story that didn’t make it to the video other than the former communications secretary resigned and got in a scuffle with Big Al at the end of the trip. At one point Andrew asked to be taken to the Swiss embassy but he told me not to film him doing so before I could hit the record button. He apologized later though.
Sure, I will do a review for you.