North Korea Pictures - Page 5

393Bird · August 1st, 2009, 01:47 AM

Fantastic Pictures. Reminds me of South Korea in the 1960s.

Rekarte · August 4th, 2009, 01:07 AM

Interesting Pics!
Thanks

wizardist · August 5th, 2009, 02:43 AM

image hosted on flickr

Oh, my! Pinch me, please!
The buses are really ugly.

They have been already utilized even in Belarus... But trolleys still ride somewhere...

Landscapes are great. It's a pity those people suffer this ugly existense. I wish they have such government...

kspec · August 5th, 2009, 06:45 PM

bump for more pics

lucy.ice85 · August 6th, 2009, 07:49 AM

i like these photo and like this country .

benKen · August 25th, 2009, 03:24 AM

image hosted on flickr

***dhuwman*** · August 25th, 2009, 04:21 AM

nice commieblocks, I see.

tq · August 25th, 2009, 11:03 PM

image hosted on flickr

can someone explain me this? is this an advertising for a mall? I though that there were no western brands in North Korea.

This thread is very insteresting.

Gag Halfrunt · August 26th, 2009, 01:12 AM

This photo was taken at the 12th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair in May 2009. The photographer, "Kernbeisser" on Flickr, explains:

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Tissot watches are very popular among Pyongyang's elite, as this poster at the 12th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair demonstrates. The Korean address 네거리상점 ("Intersection shop") given in the poster refers to the location of Pyongyang's Tissot outlet at an intersection next to Koryo Hotel. The vagueness of the address is characteristic: those who have enough money to buy Swiss watches will know how to find this shop, those who haven't don't need to know. The outlet doesn't have a shop sign either.

diz · August 27th, 2009, 09:49 AM

So the only difference in the democratic world is that...

those who don't have the money have the right to know where such a shop is located.

MNL · August 30th, 2009, 03:14 AM

I'm awe-stricken.

I surely want to visit that country.

Jamuary · September 21st, 2009, 02:41 PM

jlee · September 24th, 2009, 02:18 AM

Looking across the border in Cheolwon...

http://pic.joins.com/article/photo/a...tal_id=3787293

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남북 분단은 대지의 색깔마저 달라지게 만들었다. 강원도 중부전선 최북단 철원평야가 21일 황금빛으로 물들어 있다. 들판이 끝나는 곳에 산명호가 보이고 그 위로 비무장지대(DMZ)가 숲을 이루고 있다. 비무장지대 너머 황량하게 보이는 곳이 북한의 평강고원이다. [경기도 연천 고대산=연합뉴스]

skyscraper03 · September 24th, 2009, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by benKen

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Hey hey...
Let's say South Koreans are okay dealing with those kinds of postings... They are quite rational and somehow they forgive(?) you Japanese...
However, if North Koreans see what you're doing here, they will get crazy and try to shoot Nukes into Tokyo.

*I'm not saying Japanese architecture is ugly to have, but those pictures of Japanese architecture shows very well of how Japanese tried to exterminate Korean culture and make Korean peninsula completely Japanese...
易地思之, Think about it reversely, if Koreans invaded Japan and destroyed all the temples and your traditional castles, and build Korean architecture instead!
Wouldn't you get upset about that?
Yet, what you're doing now here in N.Korea thread is reminding them the dark history by posting those pictures.
Just *think before you *do

skyscraper03 · September 24th, 2009, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by benKen

image hosted on flickr

This is very interesting one btw.
Does anybody know what and where this is ?

manrush · September 24th, 2009, 06:20 AM

Quite the beautiful, sad and striking photos.

The contrasts are astounding. Hell, not even Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, including poor republics like Moldova and Tajikistan, have that big of a divide.

If communism does fall in North Korea, would the transition be as painful as the one endured by Central/Eastern Europe and the FSU?

ainttelling · September 24th, 2009, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by manrush

Quite the beautiful, sad and striking photos.

The contrasts are astounding. Hell, not even Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, including poor republics like Moldova and Tajikistan, have that big of a divide.

If communism does fall in North Korea, would the transition be as painful as the one endured by Central/Eastern Europe and the FSU?

The transition of Eastern Europe to capitalism was THE biggest screw-up in the history of the universe EVER. I'm sure the North Korean switch will go a lot smoother.

Gag Halfrunt · September 25th, 2009, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by skyscraper03

This is very interesting one btw.
Does anybody know what and where this is ?

I think that photo is by Kernbeisser on Flickr, but I'm not feeling well and I can't face searching for it now.

superpilyoako · September 25th, 2009, 11:17 PM

what are those advertisements for if normal people are not allowed to purchase or own one?

***dhuwman*** · September 26th, 2009, 11:54 AM

It's probably not that people are not allowed to own personal things, but people who can actually afford them are the ones related to the government anyways.

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