damn is this a socialist utopia ? also I've never seen something so extensive be built in 4 years. in my town potholes haven't even been filled for the 5 years I've lived there. Is it difficult emigrating to NK ?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 29 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's socialist, but not a utopia. No country on Earth is free of problems. It's also extremely difficult to move to the DPRK.

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago

It's also extremely difficult to move to the DPRK

Sadge

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 24 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I was under the impression that everyone in North Korea basically lived in underground bunkers, with above ground having monuments to Kim Jong Un.

No I will not explain or elaborate.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 26 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

To be fair, the DPRK are tunnel-maxxers, similar to Hamas, due to the legacy of Statesian bombing campaigns during the Korean War.

[–] Athena5898@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Remeber when some US news rag or something said Hamas created the tunnel system. Me and my friends had a laugh at that.

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Tunnelmaxxing is undefeated in the meta

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 hours ago

It truly is!

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Learning of this here combined w Irani tunneling and both to avoid the us empire's bombing gives me hunger games district 13 vibes. Lol

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 hours ago

Tunnels work!

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 day ago

The kind of stuff a socialist country can focus on after they have nuclear weapons

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

north korea shows you can do things different than anyone else and still succeed against bad odds, as long as you are an actually free country.

[+] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca -24 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

I feel like this divide sums up the freedom that's allowed

wow, even the buildings. there's no lights on, it's not random. it's either off or accent lights

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

no THIS is what freedom really looks like.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 24 points 16 hours ago

In evil communist dictatorships most people are mandated to stand in front of the stage and only a select elite is allowed backstage

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 18 hours ago

Do you think OP is presenting this street, completely full with people, as an example of normal pedestrian traffic? This is the inauguration. Nobody lives in these flats. The people on the street are having a party, following a plan by the party organisers, and then at the end they will move in to their new flats.

Most likely the party organisers have made deliberate choices to discourage people attending from watching from behind the stage, on account of how stages work.

[–] EmmiLime@lemmy.ml 33 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

what next? the buildings are made out of cardboard and the people need to push the trains?

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 33 points 19 hours ago

And they couldn't afford a drone to take this picture, the crowd just had to get together to throw someone up high enough to snap it. Seventy photographers died before Kim Jong Un was satisfied with the white balance

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The "units" are "free" because "no" "one" "lives" there, am I right fellow liberals?

[+] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world -20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The DPRK has neither slaves nor a dictator.