Domestic tourists were “astonished” by what the South has dubbed “North Korea’s Waikiki”.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-opens-massive-beach-resort-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-russians
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They are surpressed culturally they are not too stupid to build things.
Yeah and one thing autoritarian regimes are known for is sufficient oversight and regulatory rigour!
They are a piss poor insular dictatorship, it is reasonable to expect lacking standards and outdated methodologies as they do not have sufficient investment for cutting edge processes.
I think it’s insensitive that you choose to dunk on the USA in a thread about North Korea.
And of course someone had to mention the US…
fair but i mean you guys are relevant in half the worlds history, and not in a good way.
Chaps my ass that people constantly assume everyone is an American. You know there’s other countries out there too??
chaps my ass that people assume people can only be americans if they come from the us too but i digress.
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You made a false assumption about where I’m from and get annoyed that I use the common denonym for it? Lol
not really, just saying. stuff like this happens.
On top of that, there will likely be a lot of foreign contractors without much pressure to produce quality results.
Yeah like that navy warship a month ago. Cultural suppression in action
[slow clap]
I’m not picking on the people… hell, hopefully this project brings a bit of prosperity to the region. Down side, Russian tourists are a handful — search “what air defense doing” for someone awesome memes 😉
No, but they are smart enough not to put in too much effort.
Probably the suggestion is related to authoritarian corruption, rather than average intelligence.
I think that if the glorious leader really believes in the project, them it may getsonw reasonably well, so it should be safe.