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
edit: i put together the album sometime last year. most pictures are pre-pandemic and sourced from various travel blogs and instagram accounts
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.
I appreciate the picture of the massive street with the statues in the background and the "no cars" sign in the foreground
North Korea doesn't have statues. They just paint people and force them to stand perfectly still at gunpoint.
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!
Yeah, things are so crazy in North Korea! I will literally believe anything I am told!
Such a beautiful country. It's the one I most want to visit, I think. Hopefully someday I can manage it.
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.
yeah, i believe the estimated destruction for pyongyang is something like 75-80%
estimated destruction for pyongyang is something like 75-80%
FUCK THE UN, FUCK AMERICA
Two things always stand out in pictures from NK
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The buildings have colour and are pretty.
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No advertising to be seen.
It makes you realize how depressing capitalist cities are.
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.
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.
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Thank you for sharing! I love seeing North Korea pictures, it's so closed off, I'm always hyper curious about the place.
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.
yes, i love all their use of bright colors and pastels! it's so visually appealing
It really is just a beautiful place, it's a pity I'll likely never get to visit
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.
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
you are useful
