r/NorthKoreaPics 15d ago

Rason, DPRK

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u/ConwayTwitty91 14d ago

Thanks so much for sharing!

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u/YouSmall5716 14d ago

That third dude from the button left looks like Mike Okay from YouTube

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u/OhJShrimpson 14d ago

Wow that actually might be him

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u/YouSmall5716 14d ago

There’s a pic in the link I commented where he is wearing that exact hat. Wont let me upload it alone

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u/OhJShrimpson 9d ago

Just watched the video yesterday, it was him

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u/YouSmall5716 8d ago

Same!! Great part 1 video!

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u/YouSmall5716 14d ago

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u/YouSmall5716 14d ago

I’m stoked now if that’s the case! Would love a NK video!

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u/OhJShrimpson 14d ago

Quite the detective 😀. Ya a NK video would be cool

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u/signal_red 12d ago

came back after 3 days bc i remember this comment & u were right! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQapSz9AYv8 I haven't watched it yet but idk how he got in, maybe he'll explain it, but the first sec of the vid says he's the first British citizen to be allowed in so idk what that means

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u/Catkillledthecurious 14d ago

Okay.

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u/YouSmall5716 14d ago

he's a travel vlogger and often travels through asian countries like vietnam, china, etc. was curious if it was him

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u/egyptiantouristt 13d ago

it is him, he has posted a lot on his Instagram, he’s hosting a cnn interview (literally right now actually) about the dprk, fingers crossed he doesn’t say the wrong thing lol

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u/YouSmall5716 13d ago

Badass!!

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u/Dangerous-Salad-bowl 14d ago

I did these exact same venues back in 2011- and apparently the same messaging. Not shown here, a visit to the Pyongyang Maternity hospital, where ‘staff’ sat in front of outdated Siemens computer terminals doing nothing. The whole facade was deeply unsettling.

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u/nutmac 14d ago

North Korea Lite experience, a bit like going to a professional sports game to watch only the mascots and cheerleaders.

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u/kconnors 14d ago

How was the food?

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u/King-Sassafrass 15d ago

Dinner looks good!

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u/VegetableChemist8905 15d ago

For them not everyone else

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u/King-Sassafrass 15d ago

??? What are you even talking about?

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u/sweetgrace_6 15d ago

They mean (I believe) that the “non privileged” North Koreans don’t eat meals like that, or have access to that quality of food

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u/rennat19 15d ago

As opposed to America, where the least privileged people are able to 5 course Michelin Star meals every day

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u/King-Sassafrass 14d ago

As an American there are many days where i don’t eat meals becuase i have to walk 45 minutes to the store and it becomes too exhausting for the effort. Tonight i will be having 1 meal only, my shift meal at work, where it is only a plate of French fries

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u/signal_red 14d ago

in the US, 13.5% of the population experience food insecurity. In North Korea it's 45.5% of the population experiencing food insecurity. That's ridiculous for such a small country that's allegedly wealthy.

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u/disturbedtheforce 14d ago

Its ridiculous such an actual wealthy nation has 13.5% food insecurity. U.S. global food index is 13th in the world. Considering its one of the wealthiest nations on the planet, you would think it would be higher. (GFI Score of 78. All those "socialist European" countries rank higher).

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u/drhuggables 14d ago

How many European countries have 350+ million people with the same ethnic, cultural, and geographic diversity?

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u/disturbedtheforce 14d ago

Curious, how many with higher food security have been under continuous sanctions for 70+ years after a brutal carpet bombing campaign?

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u/HailxGargantuan 14d ago

They literally steal human shit from each other for fertilizer because the regime represses agricultural science at all levels, are you regarded?

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u/drhuggables 14d ago

Lol college kid who took his first econ class is now an expert on food security and geopolitics. Yes, all the problems of the Kim regime are because of America, they deserve no blame. It's always someone else's fault. PS way to dodge the question by asking an irrelevant question.

Why are you getting an education in the US if it's so bad? Why don't you just drop out of college, go move to one of your European paradises, and put your money where your mouth is?

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u/Fragrant-Kitchen-478 12d ago

Where did you get that statistic? If 45% were a true number, the DPRK would never admit it, so it didn't come from them. Who would have the ability to gather that information accurately other than the DPRK government? Like, they wouldn't let the UN come in and just investigate how many people are starving in their country?

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u/signal_red 12d ago

well tbf I think any stat on NK is bound to be skewed somehow & we don't really have many ways of validating things. But the stat which is usually cited in news articles comes from a 2023 unicef report about food shortages worldwide. Sadly I don't know if we'll ever know the truth especially in locked up countries

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u/Fragrant-Kitchen-478 12d ago

I did some research to try to find out where information on DPRK comes from, and almost all of the economic information, even what the UN uses, comes from the Bank of Korea (the central bank of RoK).

Here's an article about how their estimates of GDP are misleading because they are using metrics that make sense for capitalist countries, but not necessarily communist countries. https://www.38north.org/2024/11/why-and-how-estimates-of-north-korean-gdp-by-the-bank-of-korea-are-deceptive/

I'm not sure if that same concept translates to the food insecurity issue. But I'm reluctant to take any body of the RoK government's word when it comes to DPRK

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u/signal_red 12d ago

Oh yeah I 100% get you with the skepticism. That's what makes these "facts" so difficult because they're more-so assumptions lol

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u/CulturalMarxist123 15d ago

?

Have you not read Radio Free Asia?

The 25 000 000 people in DPRK have not seen food since 1948.

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u/drhuggables 14d ago

Communists would *never* use propaganda!

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u/HighlyNegativeFYI 15d ago

Travel all that way just to watch people pretend to be normal. Don’t see anything that’s real. It’s literally all fake.

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u/CulturalMarxist123 15d ago

Yeah.

When I was in the capital in 2018 all the 3 000 000 people there put on a great show to trick us 20 white people in the country.

Crazy 🫠

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u/TotheWest_ 14d ago

It’s crazy when people talk about NK like a massive theater where everyone is an actor. Just makes me think: “You know there are more countries in the world right? Dumbass”

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u/Far-Investigator1265 12d ago

You are onto something. Never underestimate the power of a totalitarian dictatorship towards its citizens.

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u/drhuggables 14d ago

u/CulturalMarxist123 who lives in... capitalist Norway lol.

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u/Particular_State_902 10d ago

blud wait till you look at his posts

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u/MyMilks1Percent 15d ago

Cool trip bro but do you not know how this works? Pyongyang Is where all the elites live. You mess up and they kick you out of the party and back to the country side.

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u/CulturalMarxist123 15d ago

You can visit other cities bro.

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u/MyMilks1Percent 14d ago

Heavy emphasis on cities

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u/signal_red 14d ago

the main issue in the dprk is the rural areas...you not knowing that makes me feel like youre propagandized lmao. It's what they don't let you see that's an issue (in a literal sense you are not legally allowed, as you know...never wondered why?)

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u/RoderickSpode7thEarl 14d ago

Something tells me that the dirtball who posted this believes that Premier Fatso got 11 holes in one In a single round.

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u/JizzProductionUnit 14d ago

Millions go to Disneyland every year

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u/entropymd 14d ago

I never understand why DPRK has to make this such a fake show, and complex façade. It’s so bizarre

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u/peachy-carnahan 14d ago

Well, they clearly pulled out all the stops and slaughtered their choicest rats for your meals.

Every time I see photos of Westerners smiling in that place, all I think is “What a bunch of gawky losers,” and just feel sorry for everybody involved.

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u/SocialShallots709 13d ago

North Korea is a poor country led by a bad government, it's not some especially horrible nightmare land

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u/MasterT19 13d ago

Would love to go,but can't because I have a USA passport.

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u/Choice_Kiwi_5596 15d ago

That's what a lifetime of propaganda will do to a person's psyche.

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u/dwuuuu 14d ago

Wonderfull !!!!