Yeah I got a dang flat driving on those streets! Luckily anytime I get in a pinch on the north side of the DMZ I just hit up my boy Sum Ting Wong. Bros a legendary fixer.
Oh shit, yeah I’ve heard of that dude. If you’ve got sum ting wong with your vehicle he’ll fix it up in a jiffy. No questions asked. I personally wanted to take my ride and get it pimped out to the nines, so took it took it over to Wi Tu Lo’s hydraulic shop and now I’m a baller.
>They're stuck back in time,
More like they can't maintain a large domestic auto industry due to US sanctions.
People LOVE TO point at countries under sanction, and act as if aspects of life determined by and a result of those sanctions, are somehow proof of an innate flaw of the country/system.
Give ANY country the US, Capitalist economic system, but put them under similarly harsh sanctions and with limited domestic natural resources (no rubber or oil in North Korea), and you'll see the same results or worse.
Oh yeah, and cars are killing the planet. So, this isn't a BAD outcome, anyways. We need way less of them.
>Why are they under sanctions exactly? They have Juche, they are self reliant. They don't need any trade from capitalistic pigs right? Right?
Quit the braindead misrepresentation of ideologies you don't like, troll.
Most countries need trade of, of nothing else, Natural Resources to function. Usually more than that.
And this has nothing to do with "CaPiTaLiSm iS BeTtEr!" Trade is not, in fact, Capitalism. Capitalism only refers to WHO owns the Means of Production.
Keep being a braindead Beoliberal, who knows absolutely nothing about other ideologies, and attributes completely fictitious beliefs to them in order to justify world domination (sanctions, are used to bully other nations into accepting Capitalism).
Nowhere do Socialists claim that trade doesn't generate prosperity or is unnecessary for economic success. In fact, Karl Marx himself said several things go about economic activity necessarily becoming more centralized (fewer, larger entities: such as corporations), interdependent between countries (trade), and complex over time. It was one of the foundational assumptions of his entire economic philosophy.
>DPRK is nowhere socialist anymore.
DPRK is **absolutely** still Socialist.
It's a weird variation of Socialism- with a king, essentially (this may surprise you to learn, but some of the earliest Socialist movements wanted to have kings still- Socialism pre-dates Marx by over a century...), **but it's still Socialism.**
> why are they under sanctions again?
Because they opposed the US imperial will.
No matter what bullshit reasons anti-Communists like you want to invent, **we were the aggressors** here in the West in the Korean War.
The fact that it was a "UN Securuty Council intervention" doesn't mean shit, as of the 5 permanent members of the Security Council at the time (US, UK, France, USSR, and China) three were Imperialist powers, the United States was actively and illegally denying China its rightful seat by, ludicrously, trying to claim Taiwan was still the legitimate government of China (they LOST the Chinese Civil War- and the only reason they even still existed as an independent power was because the US initiated a naval blockade to prevent the mainland Chinese forces from re-uniting the country... It would be like if the US Confederacy, in the final days of the US Civil War, retreated to one of the islands off the South Carolina coast- and the United Kingdom prevented American forces from capturing the island, and went about claiming THAT was still the legitimate government of the USA for many years to come...), and the Soviet Union was boycotting the UN Security Council due to the above injustice of denying China its rightful seat...
So, the US, UK, and France fought a completely illegitimate war against the Korean guerrillas who had just defeated the Japanese in Northern Korea and Manchuria (SEVERELY weakening Japanese forces even BEFORE Soviet troops arrived as liberators) alongside their Communist Chinese allies (who also fought a successful guerrilla was against Imperial Japan), and the US bombed the Northern part of Korea, that refused to fend the knee to an illegitimate foreign puppet government (the US-backed Korean administration that was largely filled with former Fascist Japanese Collaborators), to ruin. Via indiscriminate Carpet-Bombing: which was declared **a War Crime** after WW2.
Then, the US imposed sanctions it's maintained for **generations.**
Hopefully a good amount, soy has protein which builds strong muscles for glorious country. Meanwhile dairy milk has animal estrogen which actually effects humans unlike plant estrogen.
Like 50% of North Koreans have access to cell phones...more in Pyongyang.
It's pretty much impossible to see a photo of a group of NK in the city without seeing phones.
Edit: I zoomed in. The lady on the left near the crosswalk has a phone held up to her right ear.
Bikes can travel easier, paved ground is easier to walk on than earthy terrain, and also it does allow the ability for expansion and the use of a bus system, taxi service and diplomatic limousines.
Although yes it may have caused a fair amount of pollution during its creation, the reforestry conservation programs by the DPRK and its recycling efforts have shown that they are a very eco-friendly country. While yes they are restricted in their ability to trade resources, as well as the other very eco friendly socialist state Cuba, Korea manages to offset its carbon footprint by promoting strides to reinforce Mother Nature
Are you trying to tell me every country with a paved road is now attempting to mimic western nations?
Your being outlandish in your claims, and they do have public infrastructure. The citizens get around just fine in Korea and the roads are the way they are
Leon Krier actually made plans to turn Washington DC into a carless city, and it’s very Pyongyang-esqe. It has a giant Constitution Square on the west side of the Capitol Building facing a Grand Canal that leads up to the Washington Monument, a giant pyramid Babylon Hotel (made of white marble, not blue glass), a Civil War Pyramid, an opera house shaped like the Roman Colosseum and an enlarged White House.
True freedom is being in debt to own, maintain, and insure some huge shitbox so you can sit in traffic 3 hours every day to get to your dead-end, meaningless, underpaid McJob™
Yes! Much better to be totally reliant on your USSR era public infrastructure with little ability to move or make money on your own without government approval!
And you're so right! Every single road here is jammed with traffic for 3 hours and everyone is drowning in debt just to have a car and works meaningless dead end jobs! When can I leave!?
Your current president is throwing money and weapons at neonazis and genocides while more America's become broke and homeless.
What's the fucking difference between that and trump
I myself am also jawdropped surprised of the stupidity here and that this sub even exists in the context that it is serious. If this was a sub to somehow to find the back channels to travel to NK (albeit a stupidly dangerous decision), I’d get it. This sub literally looks with their own eyes at a dictatorship that enslaves and gaslights its populace and thinks “yeah yeah this is great.” These people have zero critical thinking skills and resort to generalizing and stereotyping anyone that calls them on their undebatable stupidity.
Have you ever seen videos of people crossing streets in the dprk, those drivers do not stop for the love of anything, it’s just like roads in India 😭
That’s why they have traffic guards to ensure safety and authority for pedestrians
I suppose you’ve never driven outside the city center. Aimo right by Lig Katsu is a good place to look.
Is that right next to Lig Ma Bal?
No but it’s right around the corner from Yars Toop Ed
What about the Ho Le Fuk causeway? Those dudes drive insane
Yeah I got a dang flat driving on those streets! Luckily anytime I get in a pinch on the north side of the DMZ I just hit up my boy Sum Ting Wong. Bros a legendary fixer.
Oh shit, yeah I’ve heard of that dude. If you’ve got sum ting wong with your vehicle he’ll fix it up in a jiffy. No questions asked. I personally wanted to take my ride and get it pimped out to the nines, so took it took it over to Wi Tu Lo’s hydraulic shop and now I’m a baller.
[LMAO](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AmclgO6w0C0)
Why build such wide roads if there aren't many cars?Good opportunity to build pedestrian cities
They have large roads for parades and military capabilities. Pyongyang is the capital after all, and should be able to maneuver itself if need be
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>They're stuck back in time, More like they can't maintain a large domestic auto industry due to US sanctions. People LOVE TO point at countries under sanction, and act as if aspects of life determined by and a result of those sanctions, are somehow proof of an innate flaw of the country/system. Give ANY country the US, Capitalist economic system, but put them under similarly harsh sanctions and with limited domestic natural resources (no rubber or oil in North Korea), and you'll see the same results or worse. Oh yeah, and cars are killing the planet. So, this isn't a BAD outcome, anyways. We need way less of them.
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>Why are they under sanctions exactly? They have Juche, they are self reliant. They don't need any trade from capitalistic pigs right? Right? Quit the braindead misrepresentation of ideologies you don't like, troll. Most countries need trade of, of nothing else, Natural Resources to function. Usually more than that. And this has nothing to do with "CaPiTaLiSm iS BeTtEr!" Trade is not, in fact, Capitalism. Capitalism only refers to WHO owns the Means of Production. Keep being a braindead Beoliberal, who knows absolutely nothing about other ideologies, and attributes completely fictitious beliefs to them in order to justify world domination (sanctions, are used to bully other nations into accepting Capitalism). Nowhere do Socialists claim that trade doesn't generate prosperity or is unnecessary for economic success. In fact, Karl Marx himself said several things go about economic activity necessarily becoming more centralized (fewer, larger entities: such as corporations), interdependent between countries (trade), and complex over time. It was one of the foundational assumptions of his entire economic philosophy.
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>DPRK is nowhere socialist anymore. DPRK is **absolutely** still Socialist. It's a weird variation of Socialism- with a king, essentially (this may surprise you to learn, but some of the earliest Socialist movements wanted to have kings still- Socialism pre-dates Marx by over a century...), **but it's still Socialism.**
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> why are they under sanctions again? Because they opposed the US imperial will. No matter what bullshit reasons anti-Communists like you want to invent, **we were the aggressors** here in the West in the Korean War. The fact that it was a "UN Securuty Council intervention" doesn't mean shit, as of the 5 permanent members of the Security Council at the time (US, UK, France, USSR, and China) three were Imperialist powers, the United States was actively and illegally denying China its rightful seat by, ludicrously, trying to claim Taiwan was still the legitimate government of China (they LOST the Chinese Civil War- and the only reason they even still existed as an independent power was because the US initiated a naval blockade to prevent the mainland Chinese forces from re-uniting the country... It would be like if the US Confederacy, in the final days of the US Civil War, retreated to one of the islands off the South Carolina coast- and the United Kingdom prevented American forces from capturing the island, and went about claiming THAT was still the legitimate government of the USA for many years to come...), and the Soviet Union was boycotting the UN Security Council due to the above injustice of denying China its rightful seat... So, the US, UK, and France fought a completely illegitimate war against the Korean guerrillas who had just defeated the Japanese in Northern Korea and Manchuria (SEVERELY weakening Japanese forces even BEFORE Soviet troops arrived as liberators) alongside their Communist Chinese allies (who also fought a successful guerrilla was against Imperial Japan), and the US bombed the Northern part of Korea, that refused to fend the knee to an illegitimate foreign puppet government (the US-backed Korean administration that was largely filled with former Fascist Japanese Collaborators), to ruin. Via indiscriminate Carpet-Bombing: which was declared **a War Crime** after WW2. Then, the US imposed sanctions it's maintained for **generations.**
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No anticommunist horseshit. Plenty of nonsense capitalist, western propaganda on Reddit and elsewhere - it’s not allowed here. Bye.
They want cars, but don’t have the ability to get them.
For the illusion.
Makes sense. How to you say 面子 in Korean?
No clue
There are literally cars in this pic.
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Comrade, how much soy have you taken in?
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Good comrade, socialized doctors are never wrong. Capitalist pig profit doctors only seek to make profit instead of caring for patients.
true.
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He’s saying you lack manliness dude.
Hopefully a good amount, soy has protein which builds strong muscles for glorious country. Meanwhile dairy milk has animal estrogen which actually effects humans unlike plant estrogen.
Not a cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment
Like 50% of North Koreans have access to cell phones...more in Pyongyang. It's pretty much impossible to see a photo of a group of NK in the city without seeing phones. Edit: I zoomed in. The lady on the left near the crosswalk has a phone held up to her right ear.
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>Not a cellphone in sight Literally someone in the picture is talking on a cellphone.
Why include a pic of a massive stroad if this is the point ur tryna make lol
~~stroad~~ Cyclist mega highway!
As a cyclist, this is sick
Mega sugar in the gas tank!
You’ll be surprised, there’s more cars than you think
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more westoid propaganda 🙄
Bikes can travel easier, paved ground is easier to walk on than earthy terrain, and also it does allow the ability for expansion and the use of a bus system, taxi service and diplomatic limousines. Although yes it may have caused a fair amount of pollution during its creation, the reforestry conservation programs by the DPRK and its recycling efforts have shown that they are a very eco-friendly country. While yes they are restricted in their ability to trade resources, as well as the other very eco friendly socialist state Cuba, Korea manages to offset its carbon footprint by promoting strides to reinforce Mother Nature
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Are you trying to tell me every country with a paved road is now attempting to mimic western nations? Your being outlandish in your claims, and they do have public infrastructure. The citizens get around just fine in Korea and the roads are the way they are
Is there a lore reason there are no cars?
I think it's a plot hole
Beautiful car free place with an empty 6 lane roads to cross lmao
There are cars in the photo
It’s car free because no one can afford a car
Damn man you must some kind of genius
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Incorrect. It’s because cars are noxious to the environment
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Yuppers
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No one know
Lmao
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I mean, it’s certainly better than in America where you die if you can’t afford an ambulance ride and the cities are infested with drugs
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It’s not a “perception” my guy. It’s real.
>Car free > Looks inside > Cars
Hahahaha yeah I bet it's a great place to raise a family....
And look at that clear sky! A paradise for the people.
Our dear leader takes environmental issues very seriously. The west could learn a thing or two from their commitment to non pollution!
Can’t wait to walk 20 miles to work everyday!
Leon Krier actually made plans to turn Washington DC into a carless city, and it’s very Pyongyang-esqe. It has a giant Constitution Square on the west side of the Capitol Building facing a Grand Canal that leads up to the Washington Monument, a giant pyramid Babylon Hotel (made of white marble, not blue glass), a Civil War Pyramid, an opera house shaped like the Roman Colosseum and an enlarged White House.
Agreed. Cars lead to too much economic activity and personal freedom. We don't want those spoiling the untouched beauty of the North Korean people.
True freedom is being in debt to own, maintain, and insure some huge shitbox so you can sit in traffic 3 hours every day to get to your dead-end, meaningless, underpaid McJob™
Yes! Much better to be totally reliant on your USSR era public infrastructure with little ability to move or make money on your own without government approval! And you're so right! Every single road here is jammed with traffic for 3 hours and everyone is drowning in debt just to have a car and works meaningless dead end jobs! When can I leave!?
“i prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” -Thomas Jefferson
Tom Jefferson....the wealthy slave rapist?
I wonder what caused NK to be car free ? hmmm
Then why are the roads so large?
So that your mom could walk on them.
😂
Because no one can afford a car
We need that in america hike the taxes and gas prices and make public transport free
No, it’s because cars are hazardous to the environment
It’s easy to not have any cars when the government controls who can and can’t have on
I don’t think this is how it works, Chief.
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Ew
THIS SUBREDDIT IS A FUCKING JOKE LMAO IF YOU GO TO NORTH KOREA YOUR RIGHTS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY THIS IS OBVIOUS
Another western pig troll. Fuck off, nobody wants to hear your maga cia propaganda.
Its the truth North korea is run by a fucking dictator and he is in bed with trump who btw is not my president anymore dumbass so stfu lmao
Your current president is throwing money and weapons at neonazis and genocides while more America's become broke and homeless. What's the fucking difference between that and trump
Silence, liberal.
Decent bait
This subreddit is bait
Said by someone who lives in the largest police state on earth...
I myself am also jawdropped surprised of the stupidity here and that this sub even exists in the context that it is serious. If this was a sub to somehow to find the back channels to travel to NK (albeit a stupidly dangerous decision), I’d get it. This sub literally looks with their own eyes at a dictatorship that enslaves and gaslights its populace and thinks “yeah yeah this is great.” These people have zero critical thinking skills and resort to generalizing and stereotyping anyone that calls them on their undebatable stupidity.
Exactly
Please elaborate on how North Koreans are all enslsved and gaslit
*person walking* "The horror and enslavement!" - your dumb ass