Last year, entrepreneur Jacob Laukaitis visited North Korea on a 7-day stritctly guided tour. This year, he traveled to South Korea on a mission to compare life in the two countries.

What he encountered was a stark real-life picture of the way the two nations live daily life on vastly different planes: A video summary of Laukaitis’s two trips shows people playing, hiking, laughing and picnicking in the South, interspersed with footage of synchronized marches and empty streets in the northern hermit kingdom.

The contrast was gut-wrenching, Laukaitis said.

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Laukaitis said.

“Why was the whole power in the North concentrated in one person’s hands... whereas in the South people had the power to elect their own leaders?” he asks in the video.“Why were the people in the North not allowed to freely interact and share their thoughts with me, while the people in the South could do whatever the heck they wanted? Seeing these differences firsthand broke my heart.”

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Of course, these images are just one visitor’s perspective. But overall, they reflect a real and wide chasm between the two Koreas, said Jennifer Jung-Kim, a Korean history expert at UCLA.

″[Some of the photo pairings] may have been selected to purposely show a stark contrast with South Korea,” she told HuffPost. “But yes, overall, the two countries are vastly different today, and the average life of a North Korean is vastly different from that of a South Korean.”

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I think the media is just showing us the bad side of North Korea. The media decide on what they want you to see and its unfurtunate alot of people are believing everything the media show them

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NK citizens deserve better, they are just like yorubas whom have been taught never to disobey elders even if they are stupid and useless.

MasViews:
I think the media is just showing us the bad side of North Korea. The media decide on what they want you to see and its unfurtunate alot of people are believing everything the media show them

You're right about that.

North Korea just like Northern Nigeria is still backwards, looks like their is something wrong with that geographical area called north�������

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North Korea I believed is ruled by a Dictator