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link: https://imgur.com/a/BybJ7DQ

[reposting for our new lib friends]

The album includes pictures from Hamhung, Chongjin, Sinuiju, Nampo, Wonsan, Kaesong, Sariwon, Pyongsong, Haeju, and Anju.

There are some descriptions along the way (mostly just city names + general info)

I also included rural photos, and some showing various housing/development projects

kim-peace

edit: i put together the album sometime last year. most pictures are pre-pandemic and sourced from various travel blogs and instagram accounts

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

You silly communists don't get it. This isn't human nature. Human nature is surrounding yourself with parking lots and stroads and taking heartburn medication every day for your entire life so you can work on digital surveillance and eat processed corn cubes without feeling sick.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

huge streets

very few cars

tons of bikes

pog-dolphin

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

really beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

I appreciate the picture of the massive street with the statues in the background and the "no cars" sign in the foreground

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Woah must be really hard to stage all those photos.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the statues are paid actors

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

North Korea doesn't have statues. They just paint people and force them to stand perfectly still at gunpoint.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

End the SAG AFTRA strike! Bring our boys home!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Such a beautiful country. It's the one I most want to visit, I think. Hopefully someday I can manage it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it is amazing they got all of those prisoners to pose in those photos for one tourist. clearly this is another example of how epic-marvelbadguy-1894-totalitariorino the North Korea is. So wild and crazy!

soypoint-2 soypoint-1

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is clearly George Foreman 1989 (Taylor's Version)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, things are so crazy in North Korea! I will literally believe anything I am told! so-true

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I love seeing traditional buildings in the DPRK. Normally you never, ever do because all the coverage is of Pyongyang and almost literally all of the older buildings there were destroyed in the war afaik.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah, i believe the estimated destruction for pyongyang is something like 75-80%

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

estimated destruction for pyongyang is something like 75-80%

FUCK THE UN, FUCK AMERICA amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

all fake, get better CGI, I only trust pictures from Radio Free Asia

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Thank you for sharing! I love seeing North Korea pictures, it's so closed off, I'm always hyper curious about the place.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Two things always stand out in pictures from NK

  1. The buildings have colour and are pretty.

  2. No advertising to be seen.

It makes you realize how depressing capitalist cities are.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

also very few cars and no parking cars. the amount of urban space we surrender just to parking is incredible and we barely notice it. we could have really nice streets but there's 2 lines of cars parking on every one of them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And in most of the US the areas with street parking are much better to walk around. In my area street parking means low speed limits and walkable space, no street parking means the speed limit is 45 and there’s 2-3 lanes each direction.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beautiful photos, thank you for sharing. What struck me most about the architecture was the use of color, especially bright or pastel ones. And lots of road space but little to no cars, just pedestrians or cyclists. It's nice. The traditional houses look super cool, too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

yes, i love all their use of bright colors and pastels! it's so visually appealing

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish I was useful so I could move to NK or China. :(

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

It really is just a beautiful place, it's a pity I'll likely never get to visit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Uhm, sorry sweaty, but these pictures aren't real. They're hiding all of the oppression out of frame and are also cooking and eating orphans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

i wish i had put some information/statistics about how awful the firebombing of korea was in the original album.

sariwon, for instance, was almost completely reduced to rubble (the US air force estimated the destruction to be at 95%). and yet all wikipedia has to say about the city is that its folk costume street—a popular tour spot, built to showcase old korean traditions and customs—is an "inaccurate romanticized recreation" of an "ideal picture of ancient Korea."

there's no mention of the bombing; not attempt to explain why a street built to preserve old traditions, customs and architectural styles might be important for the city. if it can't be explained as some devious, state-sponsored brainwashing plot, then it's not worth mentioning

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I’m going to yell “HA HA HA” and run across the border. Beautiful album.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fucking suburbs I wish NK was more isolated. Obviously a pretty regular country though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fucking suburbs I wish NK was more isolated.

jesse-wtf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every new development looks like it's in the US, isolated identical single family homes with no amenities close by.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

with no amenities close by

and you knows this... how? also these are (mostly) rural housing developments surrounded by farmland. idk why you would compare it to us suburbs that are designed around car usage