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bumping up against the limits of what I can upload in a certain time frame. I will post more when I can.
These are great. Thanks for sharing.
That looks so nice. It alway surprises me how few cars there are considering the planning of their roads and stuff with roundabouts etc. I guess this is what it looks like when you have a government that is willing to plan ahead.
I always wondered why the DPRK had such wide roads everywhere seemingly without the traffic to require it, until I saw a road map of Moscow highlighting the ring roads the Soviets built so they could rapidly deploy air defence equipment at a moment’s notice, and suddenly it all made sense.
Road mobile launchers and ability to easily move military equipment.
But guuuuuuuuuuuuuys, these are fake Potemkin villages for the tourists and just a visibility project so some local leader gets promoted /s
By the way, this is an indirect result of the Ukraine-Russia war. Russia began selling large amounts of oil to North Korea in return for weapons since the war started. One of the new buildings was recently dedicated to the memory of North Korean soldiers who died while fighting Ukraine.
North Korean urban planning and architecture fascinates me as someone with a deep interest in urban planning. If I go there I wish I could study their guidelines and have discussions with planners.
The architecture feels almost cartoony with its designs and bright colours. This district feels modern but not sterile by being all white, glass and steel, I love it.
I do hope they extend a metro line to it, it badly needs it.
They really have an eye for color
That’s why the Workers Party Of Korea has the paint brush in its logo.
Kim personally gave out the keys to 60,000 new apartments yesterday, obviously a photo op, but the fact that the state built and gave those apartments to citizens for free compared with people having to sacrifice 60%+ of their income for shitty accommodation without any ownership in sight for most, shows the difference between the DPRK and neoliberal states
That second photo (the very isometric one) looks like a render from a video game or something.
It’s really wild to think that they just… Did this. Can you imagine if trump shaved like $20 billion off the military budget and built Trumpville? Slam dunk PR for peanuts
I really like the cutaway style of these 2 white building fronts, I also want to know what’s going on with the brown building with the pillar roof too it’s a really strange design.
This is the source of your photos, click the camera icon. The article says that 50,000 new living spaces have been constructed. I’m guessing that’s why the 4th photo you posted has a ‘50000’ sign.
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/b84f1af857e5a9bd76e4300a91133f7a.kcmsf
Photo 23 & 24 shows Kim Jong Un + daughter at pet store. I’ve wondered why many of DPRK signs have English translations.
i’ve wondered why many of DPRK signs have English translations.
lingua franca for international tourists, although i might’ve guessed they don’t have the numbers coming through to need it.
Pyongyang (and to some extent a few other places) get a meaningful volume of tourism (though it has waned with Covid, that waning is regarded as temporary I think). I don’t really know why a pet store has English signage like that though, since I don’t think the tourists have much business there. Maybe just for when they take pictures and videos to publish for an international audience?
perhaps they broadly regulate all such signage and don’t micromanage it enough that anybody cares to make an exception on the business type.
canada has french labelling requirements even in the places where nobody speaks it.
That’s a good point
This endlessly fascinated me. I would love to visit North Korea one day and compare it to life in Guatemala. From the pictures it really does look like they live better than we do.
Wow that’s beautiful, I genuinely didn’t know North Korea could look like this (of course I knew corporate media lies about North Korea but still)
Not a single ad in sight
This is amazing. DPRK is winning lately, I think they’re making wonderful strides towards socialism.
