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 8 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 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 6 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 18 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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 -9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 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

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 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 7 points 5 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 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 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

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 22 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 21 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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