[KP] Highways of North Korea

[keber]

As I read numerous reports about North Korea and foreign visitors, it's definitely fake.

[FM 2258]

The traffic girls look cute.

[Triceratops]

That MINI guys might've been spies.. But it seems things improve in North Korea - just look at that traffic flow!

[bogdymol]

Originally Posted by Triceratops

That MINI guys might've been spies.. But it seems things improve in North Korea - just look at that traffic flow!

And a red Mini won't give away the spies in a country with few (old, rusty and grey) cars?

[keber]

It is better to be questioned, if above video was indeed filmed in Pyongyang. Regarding filming style and American guys filming that freely, I doubt that a lot. North Korea is still the most closed country on Earth and construction updates from renewing Ryugyong hotel, which anyone can see and take photo, if he/she visits North Korea, are still sparse as snow in Africa.

[Bad_Hafen]

I think it is fake

[Fargo Wolf]

Originally Posted by FM 2258

The traffic girls look cute.

Look cute??? They ARE cute.

[Triceratops]

But actually somehow toursits visit NK, and if it is a fake, where else would that be taken, considering the surroundings and that girl , it really seems to be some secretely filmed short video!

[keber]

Read some trip report about tourists in North Korea. There is one in Railways subforum:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=728480

If you'll follow closely this report (and many others on the internet), there is hardly such thing in North Korea as secret filming. And about above video: there is no problem for taking film anywhere in the world, you just need some additional accessories. And amateurs or half-professionals can even make computer montage of above Mini onto previously taken video by someone else.

[Haljackey]

This picture reminds me of North Korean highways.



Too bad it's in Canada. (It's actually the busiest highway in NA closed during the Toronto Propane Explosion. I guess 1 car got past the blockade. More pics here.)

[Mektub]

Pyongyang traffic girl of the month (July 2010)

[AUchamps]

Originally Posted by Mektub

Pyongyang traffic girl of the month (July 2010)

Looks like:

[Gag Halfrunt]

Originally Posted by Triceratops

But actually somehow toursits visit NK, and if it is a fake, where else would that be taken, considering the surroundings and that girl , it really seems to be some secretely filmed short video!

One of the comments on the video says "Why do I get the funny feeling those in the mini are inner party member children?", and that seems to me a more likely explanation that some kind of elaborate fake.

[Haljackey]

Speaking of traffic girls...

Global Alarm: North Korea Now Has Flying Traffic Girls


Ummmmm................ ok then.

[Singidunum]

Originally Posted by keber

As I read numerous reports about North Korea and foreign visitors, it's definitely fake.

If you say so...

[Angelos]

What if you go there with a Supercar ? Will they ever catch you with their old rusty police cars ? So this is a good challenge for Top Gear!

[bogdymol]

No, they won't catch you with theyr old rusty cars, but I think they have other methods like: catching you at the border when you try to leave the country, block the road with the tanks (don't forget about their military power) etc.

But I don't see how would you be allowed to enter North Koreea with a Supercar. Maybe TopGear will succeed (hope so)

[Angelos]

if they send Richard Hammond the dear leader might show some mercy !

[nerdly_dood]

Originally Posted by Angelos

if they send Richard Hammond the dear leader might show some mercy !

Yup, he's short enough that he wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb (or would he? maybe they really are that short!) - Clarkson and Cap'n Slow surely would though since they're taller.

[bogdymol]

Almost one year without any posts here? We have to revive this thread!

Some pictures from The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang 윈 - 모스크바 - 두만강 - 평양 blog:

Highway to Hyangsan:



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Hyangsan:





Road to DMZ:





A group of South Korean nuns on their visit to Kaesong:



At around 16:15 we were back in Pyongyang – "rush hour" on the roads: