North Korea's incredibly talented and rehearsed children performers

Our guides took us to see the children's performance palace (I forget its official title), where they put on display groups of children whose performances were incredible.

Who knows what training they've had or what motivates them to get to this level. I think the usual first guess of people who are critical of North Korea is that the government coerces them -- that if they don't perform well someone will harm their parents or something like that.

Someone also told me that these children hold very high status, so maybe they have internal motivation.

I'll never know. All I can say is I'm incredibly impressed with their performances, mystified by how they train, and creeped out by the state putting them on display and having them put on those facial expressions.

I wrote more about this video at -- http://joshuaspodek.com/north-koreas-incredibly-talented.

Видео North Korea's incredibly talented and rehearsed children performers канала Josh Spodek