Every time I see a picture of North Korea I'm left stunned by how much nicer the landscape is to look at without advertising and sleaze covering every corner of the environment.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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Funnily enough that's actually one of the reasons so many people feel like there's something off in all the photos, or that it's all fake. Literally no context for what an industrial society without need for constant advertisement looks like.
It's kind of scary realizing how conditioned we are to accept constant the noise of advertising
"place with many screens showing constant advertisements" describes multiple popular tourism locations
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It's kind of funny because people remark on there being heavy-handed propaganda everywhere, and they are kind of correct, but it's way less than the corporate advertising you see in the West and actually has an argument for mostly being for the public good.
If I could replace all corporate propaganda for propaganda that was reminding you to stay healthy and contribute to your community, I'd be happy
“You cannot drive while drunk”
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It feels like the moment a leafblower I'd stopped noticing outside suddenly turns off
every week 20,000 people will be forced to lounge at gunpoint! in the evenings they will be brutally entertained!
The lazy river... Of Death!
I hope they built this with the money they stole from crypto bros 
Do they think North Koreans just go to work and then come home and stare at the wall the rest of the day?
No, silly, they think the people stare at the government mandated photo of the Kim family on their wall
They literally have to go to the state barber every day to get the Kim haircut
But Doctor, I am the barber
And then be immediately killed for having the Kim haircut
Unironically yes
No, they just aren't rendered anymore, as soon as they leave the main character's view.
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Think we could get a group rate if we all agreed to go together?
Bit idea: scheduling the Hexbear meet up in the DPRK and having the hotel list it as the "turbo lib convention."
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I have all sorts of diseases, we would be quarantined
You know it
But there's no posh white tourists.
A lot of people will talk about how the DPRK doesnt have the same "technology" as in like there arent tech gadgets everywhere for no reason, and i can't help but look at this and think like; How nice would this be? A pretty, clean beach town with no stupid internet shit everywhere. No advertising. I bet it has actual 3rd spaces where you can just go, and hang out without being expected to spend money. It would probably be so relaxing.
Those lake houses look like they are within reasonable walking distance of those bigger buildings, and i bet there are shops on the first floor of those. So you take a short stroll through those trees, and your at some local shop. No car needed. Since the sanctions restrict what they can get they probably have a lot of locally made stuff. Like little hand made things.
I would love to spend a few weeks there just to see what that is like.
Also i want to point out too that going off the design of those smaller buildings i think they are all multi-family units. Like the red ones seem to be split between upstairs/downstairs units, and the grey/beige ones look like they could have 2 units on each floor. Just going off the way the balconies are arranged, and the shape of the buildings. So these are clearly designed with the desire to house lots of middle-class-esque families while the larger white buildings are probably the even more affordable option. So the west will try to say this is for the "Kim family" or some other "elite class" of the DPRK but it seems pretty obviously designed for use by the masses not by a small number of elites.
I would guess the skyscrapers are the cheapest option, the gray/beige ones are the mid range option, and the red ones are the most expensive(maybe meant for foreigners specifically? Would be easy for them to find if they know their place is a different color, and the signs are in korean). Makes sense to have the most expensive ones along the water too. It looks really well thought out, and like it was designed to actually be a very nice place to go visit.
GHOST BEACH CITIES
Just like China's "ghost cities" which are now not ghost cities they're going to pretend this is all some spooky stupid shit instead of acknowledging that they're being constructed as part of long term plans and expectations in the future.
The biggest concern the west has about tourism in dprk however is that it undermines the idea it is "closed" and that people know nothing about what is going on there.
Boy boy should visit
North Korea gets a fair amount of tourists, just near-zero from America because America banned travel there for its citizens. If the WPK is saying it's a city for tourism and that's not just some made up term like the "propaganda city" is, it will probably be mostly tourists, diplomats, and domestic bureaucrats, and capitalists rather than common citizens, but I suppose we don't know and there's a good chance they'll be doing some sort of subsidy thing for at least part of it.
Being banned isn't a problem; the DPRK don't stamp your passport specifically so people don't get problems when they go back home.
Good on the DPRK for that, but it seems like a serious problem still. I think you need to report on something like that and if the state found out that you lied during customs or whatever, that's an actual crime. Maybe if you plan on never setting foot in the US again it's fine, but that's a more specific circumstance.
So basically if you're from the States you have to use some sort of layover? Can you even buy tickets to there on US websites?
Basically you go to China and book a ticket there
I heard it's the same deal for US citizens visiting Cuba except with Mexico
It really is incredible what a difference it can make being North Korea, situated next to China and Russia, compared to Cuba with it being situated next to the US. Cuba would probably look more like this as well if it wasn’t located where it is.
Cuba has resorts. It's one of the most popular vacation destinations for people from Canada, if I remember correctly.
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I guess you could compare it to Venezuela and Nicaragua. Even under heavy sanctions, Venezuela still have huge shopping malls and resorts, and things have improved since Brazil and Colombia elected Socdems.
But also at what price?
Probably pretty reasonable. I'd be down to go if I coudl afford to.
I'm sorry but 
this is obviously fake.
Everyone knows North Korea doesn't get the sun. It is always perpetually overcast to give the nation a doom and gloom look to it. Everyone knows the people of North Korea haven't ever experienced happiness and if they do they are taken by a commissar of emotional regulation and given 5 minutes to control their outbursts before they are killed and sent to work in a gulag.
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Not whitey lol
And Russians most likely
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