North Korean Fast Food
All of its burgers, whether made of minced beef, fish or vegetables, come with lashings of kimchi
Minced beef and bread costs $1.70 , roughly the same price as a McDonald’s cheeseburger in the UK but almost half the daily income of an average North Korean. The average wage in North Korea last year was just under $1000
Sunan International Airport
An eight-lane super highway in North Korea is almost devoid of traffic in this image taken by Swedish photographer Björn Bergman. The road – which stretches around 160km from capital Pyongyang to the border with South Korea – is also in a state of disrepair
With advertising non-existent, these are the kind of billboards that exist in North Korea
Pyongyang Gold Lane Bowling Alley
North Korean military rocket-launcher tractors
North Korean School Bus
Paying respects at the Munsudae Hill statues of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il
Traffic Officer in Pyongyang
Breakfast at the Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang
For a long time, bans against black market sales have been strictly enforced. Grey market vendors are more common. They earn a little money selling cigarettes or sweets.
How the children slept at the orphanage
North Korea’s 18 state sanctioned female hairstyles
North Korea’s 10 approved hairstyles for men
Tractor-driving simulator at Samjiyon Schoolchildrens’ Palace
Young North Korean schoolchildren help to fix pot holes in a rural road in North Korea’s North Hamgyong province
Flight Attendants for North Korea’s national Airline
Phone booth
Red Star OS, The North Korean Operating System
North Korean Elections – North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was elected with 100% of the votes. The ballot listed only him. Citizens are allowed to cross out his name and write in a new one, but they must step outside the election booth to do so, and write down the new name in front of election officials.
North Koreas Mission Control Room
Chronic food shortages in North Korea have made people desperate for food. Here is a man collecting grass from parks
Morning in Kijong-dong a propaganda city in the demilitarized zone of North Korea
Inflight meal service on Air Koryo, the national airline of North Korea
North Korea currency
North Korea’s Marathon
Children’s Day in North Korea
This is North Korea at night
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It's nothing but a propaganda campaign.
and your last statement barely applies. those people are conditioned since birth to the cult of the kims and led to believe that their long hours and minimal living conditions are due to america persecuting them. in their eyes, kim is doing his very best to keep them alive despite everything. those who fail to share that full belief tend to disappear overnight, along with their families.
Also, you'll be surprised if you see the full picture of life in the _South_ Korea. About same degree of totalitarian control (say, they claim 150 000 dissidents to be missing in just 1979-87, when Chun Doo-hwan ruled the country) , but performed much differently.