Surprised that this isn't the typical shit-slinging by western media.
Because to them this sounds as insane and preposterous as Kim Jong Un forcing everyone to have his haircut or feeding his uncle to dogs
it's just whiteframing. Frames the story in a way that makes them look fare more backward than they actually are.
example: "India to ban marital rape in 2013" (even though most western countries only banned it in the late 90s/2000s. But the implied subtext is that western countries dealt with that issue back in WW2 or something)
"lol what a nutcase! jeeves, fetch me my night cap, i have grown weary reading these tidings"
Surprised the headlines not “Kim Kong un to completely eliminate manual laborers”
You know why?
Because he wants to eat all the manual laborers, amirite?
Radio Free Press Asia: Kim Jong Un wants to "force every North Korean into manual labor"
Come, climb into one of the many public juche sky shuttles, so that we may watch those oppressed by capitalism scurry across the earth. We shall weep for our fellow workers and give thanks that we have ascended.
Pyongyang unironically might be the most beautiful city in the world yet mayos prolly still believe its the chicago of the east
the chicago of the east
You say that as if Chicago isnt a beautiful city.
Eh, I don’t think it’s ugly like libs do. I’d say it looks fine but it’s a bit stark for my tastes. I’d probably prefer Havana but I do have a thing for Spanish architecture and old shit.
If you wanna piss right wing Weebs off just point out Pyongyang doesn’t look all that different from newer cities in Northern Japan.
Everything from the color palette to the architecture to the giant juche monument makes me love it's design. The metro stations are fucking gorgeous too. America sucks ass I hate this shit hole.
That and this: https://exploredprk.com/articles/monument-to-party-founding/
Very very cool stuff
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/opinion/sunday/architecture-north-korea-pyongyang.html
https://imgur.com/a/3xAwhR0
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Nope objection withdrawn this is amazing and the authors aren't doing propaganda.
There's some liberalism in there but it's mostly a good article. they say their guides studied in rome for five years yet also say DPRK is oppressive lol
I can't fucking study in Rome and I live in the US!
they also say they met a guy who supposed to be dead.
North Korean Rep: We built a new building, it's beautiful look at it.
American News: Ooooh, can we talk to the architect?
NKR: He's not here right now sorry.
AN: Did Kim kill the architect?
NKR: No he's just not here right now.
AN: Kim killed him.
Meanwhile the architect is playing in the park with his kids or something.
You see in the states it is customary for architects to permanently reside in buildings they design to answer any tourists questions. Those darn north koreans don't know shit about hospitality!
3 years later:
American news: We're here for a rare and exclusive look at North Korean life. We have a rare chance to interview everday North Korean. Sir, what do you do for a living?
Korean Man: I'm an architect, I designed that building over there. Isn't it nice? It's based on a fusion of Italian ideas with our homegrown architectural ideas!
American news: No Kim killed that guy. Why is Kim pretending?
Kim killed that guy before falling into a coma and dying again. Very fucked up they keep bringing him back to life just for him to murder another poor architect.
We were in North Korea on Nov. 9, 2016, with no access to the news, and our guides — surprisingly — informed us about the election of Donald Trump. We met the architect who designed the new Pyongyang airport (which was a surprise, as some media reports said he had been killed because Kim Jong Un didn’t like the design), and we discovered that he spoke perfect Italian, having studied in Rome for five years.
"Wow we thought that the people were starving and uneducated, and at risk of execution by the Kims for any minor inconvenience. Turns out that many of them are educated, and that they are aware of major global events!! [Could it be that the news.... lied??]"
Pyongyang is the armpits of my body cuz to most it's scary but to some it's sexy ☺️
I actually think Milan looks better but that’s fair. Pyonyang is in my top 30
Yeah what's your top 5 adam sandler films, nerd. Hubie Halloween better be number one.
I've got a friend who sings the entirety of dunkaccino any time I bring up adam sandler and it never stops being old
the milan skyline looks like shit though, pyongyang looks like candytown with a giant tower of doom in the middle of it. its a funny aesthetic
Yeah the skyline is shit, that’s why it’s lower down on the list. But I rate cities on things other than skylines.
Imagine if the rest of the world could trade with them, how much more developed and advanced they would be
I thought they were juche? They understand ML is crucial to the foundations of their society but they dont really identify with it
yeah probably. I thought they just stopped calling themselves specifically MLs and moreso juche
you know how people say China is communist in name only? I feel like DPRK is the opposite, they technically follow Juche but literally everything is the same from their ML days: command economy, one party state, etc. They are ML in everything but name
Juche doesn’t particularly conflict with ML, before they called it Juche it was Marxism-Leninism-Kim Il Sung thought, basically. Socialism adapted to the conditions of Korea.
