00:005. Amazing Facts About North Korea
00:02Fact 1. They train kids to spy on their parents.
00:05From a young age, children are taught to report any disloyal behavior by their own parents or teachers.
00:11Fact 2. They have fake hospitals.
00:13Some hospitals in North Korea are set up just for show, with no real medicine or doctors, just to impress foreign visitors.
00:20Fact 3. There are loudspeakers in every home.
00:22North Koreans have wired speakers in their houses that play government propaganda every morning, and they can't turn it off.
00:29Fact 4. No birthday celebrations on July 8th or December 17th.
00:33Those are the death anniversaries of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.
00:37Celebrating your own birthday on those dates is banned and seen as disrespectful.
00:41Fact 5. North Korean defectors send USB drives in balloons.
00:45Activists from South Korea launch balloons with USBs filled with movies, K-pop and news, hoping North Koreans find them and learn the truth.
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