I have never met you before. I am not subscribed to your YouTube channel. I am sure it is full of wondrous adventures and vlogged places I wish I can go to (if I have enough money to top Trump). I am sure I would enjoy watching you going from city to city and indulge so much food and culture. But recently, I watched your video for the first time. And I got extremely uncomfortable.

First, let me clarify that I am not of North Korean decent nor have I been or born in North Korea. However, as a Korean person, I find this very questionable.

I told my mom, who is Korean, about your video. The first thing she asked was--

"Is he okay?"

Mom didn't need to be a citizen to know North Korea is a dangerous place. I continued to explain your travel to the Communist country and your purpose to her. She was baffled then said "That is false advertising."

What you are doing is promoting North Korea as if it wasn't a bad place after all. Your collection of vlogs is ignoring the fact that there are people--families, children, every North Korean living there--who have been tortured, raped, punished and killed. I am aware this wasn't your intention, Louis. But you are bringing a certain propaganda that tries to make North Korea look great.

Phil DeFranco says it best from 1:53 until 4:55. It's like going to a big mansion with unlimited video games and candy while forgetting that it is the same mansion where people were sexually assaulted or raped.

Also why is there a freaking water slide at a Communist country like North Korea?

Walking into a museum where they pride themselves as if they defeated United States?

What stood out to me the most out of all your vlogs was your description in very video:

"I’m trying to focus on positive things in the country and combat the purely negative image we see in the Media."

I am guessing you haven't heard stories from actual North Koreans who were born there and at some point, manipulated by the idea that their dictator was doing good things for his people (when in reality, not so much.)

If this is what you think speeches like Hyeonseo Lee is negative press, then I don't know what it.

However, I don't blame you.

Maybe the people who invited you and your crew might have warned you behind the scenes that if you said anything bad about them, you'll be in big trouble. I can't really say that you are wrong for doing this. Well, you are wrong for doing this but you tried to do this with good intention. We all need positivity one way or the other. To get away from things like Donald Trump's consistent hate speech towards immigrants and other minorities and watching the news satirizing the world around us. We need something that would cheer us up and tell ourselves, "So there is good in this world after all."

But not like this.

What you are doing is manipulating your audience that North Korea isn't a bad place but hiding the fact that people had been raped, punished and murdered there for various reasons. If I were born and raised in North Korea, I wouldn't have the guts to write this article down nor would my mom say "Whatever they are doing over there is false advertising" or call its current dictator a coward. All of my family members would've been punished or worse, killed.

It may sound like I'm dramatizing the issue but it is true. I don't necessarily mind if North Korea has the best beaches or has a rich history. However, I would not want to live in the country where communism is still used and pretend that nothing bad happened in that country.

You have to understand. The criticism you are facing is valid. Vlogging only the beautiful side of a dictating country like North Korea is an one--sided narrative and ignoring the fact that there are problems in that country, bigger than its monuments.

So Louis, I may not be North Korean or be the voice of the survivors who actually went through those tramatic times. However, please take this from a grain of salt:

Be careful.