‘It is also forbidden to photograph malnutrition.’
‘You can find all kinds of food and drink in Pyongyang’s two supermarkets where things are sold in both euros and dollars. They even have Evian water. Only the elite can shop there.’
‘It’s not a circus, they are workers in a country with low safety standards.’
‘When visiting the delphinium in Pyongyang, you can photograph the animals, but not the soldiers who make up 99% of the crowd.’
‘Paranoia is strong in North Korean minds. I took this picture at a funfair of a tired mother and child resting on a bench. I was asked to delete the picture since the guides were certain I would have said those people were homeless.’
‘This is never supposed to happen: a broom standing on the base of Kim Il Sung’s statue in Mansudae, in Pyongyang.’
‘This kind of picture is widespread in the west. The caption often explains that North Koreans eat grass from the park. The guides get furious if you take it.’
‘When you visit families, the guides love it if you take pics to show the world that kids have computers. But when they see there is no electricity, then they ask you to delete.’
‘It is absolutely forbidden to take a picture of the Kim statues from the back. It is considered very rude.’
‘Queuing is a national sport for North Koreans.’ This is the line for the bus.
This is what happens when the bus breaks down.
‘In the art centre of Pyongyang, we experienced a power outage, a daily event the North Koreans hate to show. When it happens, they tell you it’s because of the American embargo.’
If you want to visit North Korea, one of the things you just have to do, whether you like it or not, is to bow to show your respect to their eternal leaders. It may feel a bit weird, especially if you’re not that much into believing that some beings are superior to others. Still, you do it. It’s somewhat similar to not really belonging there but still taking off your shoes in a mosque or your hat in a church.
Wood gas is a perfectly good alternative to petrol during times without cost-effective access to oil. What happens is that wood is burnt in order to produce gas, which then is led into a fairly normal combustion engine that runs the vehicle. 1000 kilograms of wood may correspond to up to 365 litres of petrol in an ideal setup. Somehow I suspect that many of the cars we see on the roads in North Korea are not ideal setups. Anyway, it’s a car that runs on wood!
This is how the children slept at the orphanage.
A street in Kaesong, North Korea devoid of any cars.
Yay communism! Pay close attention, left wingers. This is the goal and end result of your socialist policies.
I agree with Fred. There are many productive socialist countries. It sounds like You Aaron, have been brainwashed into hating anything but capitalism, which is not a whole lot different.
When you take away a nation’s ability to defend it’s self they can do whatever they want you think if north korea had something similar to the second amendment they would be like they are now. Probably but that’s cause north Koreans have been heavily brainwashed be side the point don’t take my guns away so you can feel safer cause instead of actually having a means of defending yourself and remember the police will get there…..just in time to load your dead body on the ambulance
I am not even a liberal and I am embarrassed that there people that exists like Aaron. What an a**.
Typical ignorant right-wing thinking. Black and white. If things are not run completely your way, we will descend to North Korea-style communism. How do you live your life as such an ignorant coward?
He sits at home with his assault rifles and stuffed animals. Watching the ‘Gators and drinking Bud light.
Lol who’s he assaulting exactly except your temper it’s a defense rifle get your temper if we’re as bead as you think you are half of the liberals in this great country would be dead the other half would be smart enough to bare arms
I am not a right winger, but Aaron is right about communism. Socialism, in a nutshell, is the greatest evil disguised as the greatest good. It isn’t a “share the wealth” program. It is funded by megalomaniac sociopathic billionaires (think Rockefellers, Rothchilds, Buffet, etc.), and implemented by their sociopathic political puppets (think FDR, Obama, Bush). The endgame of socialism is the complete consolidation of all of a nations resources and placing them under control of the state. The state, as socialist (Facist, communist, or any other form of collectivism) governments always play out, is run by the same people who funded it and so they control the resources of the state, not the people.
“One does not establish a dictatorship to safeguard a revolution, one establishes a revolution to safeguard a dictatorship.”