Instagrams from North Korea
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Instagrams from North Korea
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#2How about this site go fuck itself with its "log in with facebook" banner that won't go away
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#3How about this site go fuck itself with its "log in with facebook" banner that won't go away
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#4These are fascinating, but please keep in mind that this is Pyongyang, not North Korea proper. The city itself is managed to look as modern as possible; a more interesting look would be into the villages, where they use horse-drawn carts and have barely a television in each home.
People who live in Pyongyang are selected, usually because of their connection to politicians. The rest of the country resides either in primitive villages or labor camps in the north, where they are barely clothed and fed during the harsh winters.
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#5Unable to log in to post this comment, but there is discussion in the comments about how nobody is smiling. One observer points out that although people in the US and Europe rarely smile on streets, nobody was even smiling in the wedding photo. I'd like to point that if you look at wedding photos from a lot of hispanic cultures from more than a few years ago, you won't see many people smiling either. "Say cheese" may be very ingrained in western / European culture, but it's absence is not necessarily a sign of oppression. I'm sure there are plenty of sinister goings-on in North Korea, but I think it's easy to overlook some key cultural differences and see all sorts of signs that aren't there.
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#6I was expecting pictures that the govt doesn't want you to see. Not the usual censored stuff. Why is this interesting?
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#7How about this site go fuck itself with its "log in with facebook" banner that won't go away
Just use a social media blocking browser extension. You should do that anyways.
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#8Looks like a nice place to visit. Too bad this is the "Elysium" (Pyongyang) of North Korea. Where are all the pictures of the political camps and people literally starving to death (including children) and living in complete filth and sub-animal conditions.
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#9Unable to log in to post this comment, but there is discussion in the comments about how nobody is smiling. One observer points out that although people in the US and Europe rarely smile on streets, nobody was even smiling in the wedding photo. I'd like to point that if you look at wedding photos from a lot of hispanic cultures from more than a few years ago, you won't see many people smiling either. "Say cheese" may…
Indeed, we had discussion about Russians not smiling just a few days ago.
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