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[QUOTE]Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, has changed its looks with each passing day.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]the appearance of skyscrapers and the People's Theatre, built in Changjon Street along the banks of the River Taedong from Mansu Hill.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]There also sprang up the Rungna People's Pleasure Park, Ryugyong Health Complex, People's Open-air Ice Rink and Pyongyang Folklore Park.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Meanwhile, Unha Scientists Street and Haedanghwa Service Complex emerged new models of residential district and multifunctional service center. And sports and cultural service complexes such as Rungna People's Sports Park took their shapes in different parts of the city to provide the citizens with better living conditions. Many schoolchildren and other citizens enjoy a pleasant time at renewed pleasure grounds and parks every day, playing various kinds of amusement and sports games.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Besides, such new projects are progressing apace as Munsu Swimming Complex, Mirim Riding Club, Children's Hospital and Dental Hospital to renew the looks of the capital city.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.kcna.kp"]KNCA[/URL] - .kp
[URL="http://www.kcna.co.jp"]KNCA[/URL] - .jp
[video=youtube;NU2Epby5diw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU2Epby5diw[/video]
As I said, NK is experiencing economic growth of sorts. Kim Jong Un is doing a decent job it seems.
They're also building a new modern airport, a ski resort, a spa resort, and a swimming complex near the capital.
Let's just hope that their next move is to make sure everybody can get their "daily bread" so to speak, since I've heard a few horror stories about the food problems in NK.
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42272788]As I said, NK is experiencing economic growth of sorts. Kim Jong Un is doing a decent job it seems.
They're also building a new modern airport, a ski resort, a spa resort, and a swimming complex near the capital.[/QUOTE]
They have always been building luxurious shit, its not an indicator of economic growth
Now, they should focus on everything outside of Pyongyang and the people living there
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42272788]As I said, NK is experiencing economic growth of sorts. Kim Jong Un is doing a decent job it seems.
They're also building a new modern airport, a ski resort, a spa resort, and a swimming complex near the capital.[/QUOTE]
Meanwhile everyone who is capable of using those facilities is either:
A. A member of the government / friend of Kim Jong-Un
B. Starving to death
C. In a gulag
[QUOTE=BusterBluth;42272832]They have always been building luxurious shit, its not an indicator of economic growth[/QUOTE]
I don't remember NK ever building hospitals, parks and resorts while Jong Il was running.
All he did was put all the money in the army and in that butt-ugly hotel.
IMO it's a good change.
Luxurious shit is pretty useless anyways when the common people of the country can't enjoy it.
Truly a modern city that demonstrates the Democratic People's Republic to be working towards the betterment of the people at large. If only there were more nations willing to stand up to the corrupt imperialism of the West and to fight for the glory and honor of the coming Revolution of Socialist Labor!
i find it more hilarious that the OP tries to make it sound NK isn't a harsh place when I've read a lot of testimonies online from people who seeked refuge to China or SK saying how people want to start a revolution but with the lack of food and the imbalance of powers nobody is game enough to do it
[editline]22nd September 2013[/editline]
Sure NK is building itself up but I still think it's a shady fucking place
RAYHALO is the op and the source is literally 'News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK' I'd take this thread with a hefty pile of salt
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42272852]I don't remember NK ever building hospitals, parks and resorts while Jong Il was running.
All he did was put all the money in the army and in that butt-ugly hotel.
IMO it's a good change.[/QUOTE]
considering the testimony of that one North Korean refugee, i honestly don't want to know what goes on in those "hospitals" of theirs. she said in a UN trial that the North Korean procedure for abortion in all-female prison camps is apparently to just give birth then strangle it or something horrific like that
[QUOTE=Cabbage;42272930]RAYHALO is the op and the source is literally 'News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK' I'd take this thread with a hefty pile of salt[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.rolandwooster.com/National%20&%20State%20Parks/Salt%20Mountain.jpg[/t]
Is part of their plan to break up with Russia by firing at their fishing boats?
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42272852]I don't remember NK ever building hospitals, parks and resorts while Jong Il was running.
All he did was put all the money in the army and in that butt-ugly hotel.
IMO it's a good change.[/QUOTE]
Its not a change, its just more dressing for the city.
[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;42272847]Meanwhile everyone who is capable of using those facilities is either:
A. A member of the government / friend of Kim Jong-Un
B. Starving to death
C. In a gulag[/QUOTE]
A plus Tourist's
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;42272788]As I said, NK is experiencing economic growth of sorts. Kim Jong Un is doing a decent job it seems.
They're also building a new modern airport, a ski resort, a spa resort, and a swimming complex near the capital.[/QUOTE]
I feel that this is more the DPRK finally exiting the period of restructuring and rebuilding that it entered after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the subsequent "Arduous March" famine and the death of Kim II-sung.
The recent push for infrastructure just seems to be a byproduct of an economy that has been modernized and no longer almost entirely reliant on foreign trade - as the DPRK was before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.
[QUOTE=Cabbage;42272930]the source is literally 'News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK' I'd take this thread with a hefty pile of salt[/QUOTE]
I think that a DPRK news agency has a better picture of whats happening within the DPRK then any outside source.
[QUOTE=ironman17;42272830]Let's just hope that their next move is to make sure everybody can get their "daily bread" so to speak, since I've heard a few horror stories about the food problems in NK.[/QUOTE]
While food rationing is still in place in some extremely rural areas, the DPRK has come a long way from the outright food crisis it endured throughout the 90s.
[QUOTE=Limed00d;42272844]Now, they should focus on everything outside of Pyongyang and the people living there[/QUOTE]
Over 60% of the DPRKs population is classified as "urban" (Pyongyang has a population density of around 1,178 persons per square kilometer) - by undertaking these projects they are improving the quality of life for the majority of the population.
[video=youtube;GjbIMr4HnHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjbIMr4HnHM[/video]
[video=youtube;CW_kAgGLmac]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_kAgGLmac[/video]
I think we should make a kickstarter to send rayhalo to North Korea with that one foreign tourist program they have.
[QUOTE=RAYHALO;42273261]Over 60% of the DPRKs population is classified as "urban" (Pyongyang has a population density of around 1,178 persons per square kilometer) - by undertaking these projects they are improving the quality of life for the majority of the population.
[/QUOTE]
And the other 40% still live in hovels or prison camps!
Quick question, do you ever hear about projects like this outside of Pyongyang?
...so we have an actual North Korea apologist.
I didn't even think that could be a real thing.
[QUOTE=OvB;42273291]I think we should make a kickstarter to send rayhalo to North Korea with that one foreign tourist program they have.[/QUOTE]
Personally i would prefer a kickstarter to send me to Indonesia, so that i would apply for political asylum at the DPRKs Jakarta embassy.
[QUOTE=RAYHALO;42273320]Personally i would prefer a kickstarter to send me to Indonesia, so that i would apply for political asylum at the DPRKs Jakarta embassy.[/QUOTE]
This boy needs therapy. You do realize that you would be shot if you were in the DPRK and you were openly talking about escaping to the US.
[QUOTE=OvB;42273291]I think we should make a kickstarter to send rayhalo to North Korea with that one foreign tourist program they have.[/QUOTE]
He's already a member of the North Korean Friendship Association, he probably just needs to shoot an email to Kim's personal email account
[QUOTE=RAYHALO;42273320]Personally i would prefer a kickstarter to send me to Indonesia, so that i would apply for political asylum at the DPRKs Jakarta embassy.[/QUOTE]
Everyone look, its the first person in the whole of human history to apply for asylum INTO the DPRK as opposed to out of it!
Oh gosh. RAYHALO is back in town, boys. Saddle up.
[QUOTE=CapLaPorte;42273456]He's already a member of the North Korean Friendship Association, he probably just needs to shoot an email to Kim's personal email account[/QUOTE]
I have had contact with representatives of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (High Ministry).
If i was not 100% positive that i would have zero problems in applying for political asylum within the DPRK, then i would not even be considering it.
[QUOTE=Timebomb575;42273466]Everyone look, its the first person in the whole of human history to apply for asylum INTO the DPRK as opposed to out of it![/QUOTE]
[url]http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/s-korea-troops-kill-man-trying-swim-north[/url]
[QUOTE=Thlis;42273451]This boy needs therapy. You do realize that you would be shot if you were in the DPRK and you were openly talking about escaping to the US.[/QUOTE]
Who would want to escape from glorious DPRK to capitalist imperialist US?
[QUOTE=RAYHALO;42273261]
[video=youtube;GjbIMr4HnHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjbIMr4HnHM[/video]
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That's some discipline those "normal" people have. They're lining up like it's going to be some sort of parade. The only thing in the clips that makes me think these are normal civilians is the way they enter the mall.
It's sort of sad that it looks like no-one has the money to buy anything there. Just look at them. You never see anyone actually walking around with a product in their hands or even a shopping basket or cart. They walk up to the beverages that looks like they can be alcoholic, and just stands there and looks awkwardly at each other.
And it's funny how even the mannequins look sad.
I remember watching the video VICE did when they were there at the same time Dennis Rodman was. That was some seriously interesting shit to watch. Its just frightening how everything is.
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