North Koreans maybe?

Every time I see a picture of North Korea I'm left stunned by how much nicer the landscape is to look at without advertising and sleaze covering every corner of the environment.

Funnily enough that's actually one of the reasons so many people feel like there's something off in all the photos, or that it's all fake. Literally no context for what an industrial society without need for constant advertisement looks like.
- It's kind of scary realizing how conditioned we are to accept constant the noise of advertising
- It's kind of funny because people remark on there being heavy-handed propaganda everywhere, and they are kind of correct, but it's way less than the corporate advertising you see in the West and actually has an argument for mostly being for the public good.
It feels like the moment a leafblower I'd stopped noticing outside suddenly turns off

every week 20,000 people will be forced to lounge at gunpoint! in the evenings they will be brutally entertained!

The lazy river... Of Death!

I hope they built this with the money they stole from crypto bros

Do they think North Koreans just go to work and then come home and stare at the wall the rest of the day?

No, silly, they think the people stare at the government mandated photo of the Kim family on their wall
- They literally have to go to the state barber every day to get the Kim haircut
Unironically yes
No, they just aren't rendered anymore, as soon as they leave the main character's view.
Don't be ridiculous. The North Koreans aren't allowed to stop working. The military police force citizens to work 24/7, and they don't even get breaks to eat. The guards just attach feedbags full of dead rats and blades of grass to the workers' faces so they can keep going.
- People eat in the DPRK, the Arduous March was 3 decades ago. It's similar to Cuba, or even better now due to having trading partners on its door in Russia and China.
- Do North Koreans not eat or something?

Think we could get a group rate if we all agreed to go together?

Bit idea: scheduling the Hexbear meet up in the DPRK and having the hotel list it as the "turbo lib convention."
- Tbh, a huge commie meetup where a bunch of different leftist groups from all over the world are all converging in one place, and telling the country involved's government and the hotel/conference center we were something incredibly lame and apolitical or obviously liberal, would be pretty funny.
I would absolutely do a Hexbear group trip if it was happening.
- Hopefully we could organise something way better than when Tumblr tried to do a convention, lol.
I have all sorts of diseases, we would be quarantined
You know it

But there's no posh white tourists.

A lot of people will talk about how the DPRK doesnt have the same "technology" as in like there arent tech gadgets everywhere for no reason, and i can't help but look at this and think like; How nice would this be? A pretty, clean beach town with no stupid internet shit everywhere. No advertising. I bet it has actual 3rd spaces where you can just go, and hang out without being expected to spend money. It would probably be so relaxing.

Those lake houses look like they are within reasonable walking distance of those bigger buildings, and i bet there are shops on the first floor of those. So you take a short stroll through those trees, and your at some local shop. No car needed. Since the sanctions restrict what they can get they probably have a lot of locally made stuff. Like little hand made things.

I would love to spend a few weeks there just to see what that is like.

Also i want to point out too that going off the design of those smaller buildings i think they are all multi-family units. Like the red ones seem to be split between upstairs/downstairs units, and the grey/beige ones look like they could have 2 units on each floor. Just going off the way the balconies are arranged, and the shape of the buildings. So these are clearly designed with the desire to house lots of middle-class-esque families while the larger white buildings are probably the even more affordable option. So the west will try to say this is for the "Kim family" or some other "elite class" of the DPRK but it seems pretty obviously designed for use by the masses not by a small number of elites.

I would guess the skyscrapers are the cheapest option, the gray/beige ones are the mid range option, and the red ones are the most expensive(maybe meant for foreigners specifically? Would be easy for them to find if they know their place is a different color, and the signs are in korean). Makes sense to have the most expensive ones along the water too. It looks really well thought out, and like it was designed to actually be a very nice place to go visit.

GHOST BEACH CITIES

Just like China's "ghost cities" which are now not ghost cities they're going to pretend this is all some spooky stupid shit instead of acknowledging that they're being constructed as part of long term plans and expectations in the future.

The biggest concern the west has about tourism in dprk however is that it undermines the idea it is "closed" and that people know nothing about what is going on there.

Boy boy should visit

North Korea gets a fair amount of tourists, just near-zero from America because America banned travel there for its citizens. If the WPK is saying it's a city for tourism and that's not just some made up term like the "propaganda city" is, it will probably be mostly tourists, diplomats, and domestic bureaucrats, and capitalists rather than common citizens, but I suppose we don't know and there's a good chance they'll be doing some sort of subsidy thing for at least part of it.

Being banned isn't a problem; the DPRK don't stamp your passport specifically so people don't get problems when they go back home.
- Good on the DPRK for that, but it seems like a serious problem still. I think you need to report on something like that and if the state found out that you lied during customs or whatever, that's an actual crime. Maybe if you plan on never setting foot in the US again it's fine, but that's a more specific circumstance.
- So basically if you're from the States you have to use some sort of layover? Can you even buy tickets to there on US websites?

But also at what price?

Probably pretty reasonable. I'd be down to go if I coudl afford to.

I'm sorry but

this is obviously fake.

Everyone knows North Korea doesn't get the sun. It is always perpetually overcast to give the nation a doom and gloom look to it. Everyone knows the people of North Korea haven't ever experienced happiness and if they do they are taken by a commissar of emotional regulation and given 5 minutes to control their outbursts before they are killed and sent to work in a gulag.

This but it's England

Not whitey lol

And Russians most likely

As far as i know, DPRK is still pretty locked down as far as foreign visitors are concerned. From what Young Pioneer Tours have learned, the resort is for domestic tourism only.

I think everything about north korea always need a caveat that the place only has ~27 million people, theres simply not a lot of people in a regularish size coutnry

I mean, that's more than Taiwan
- NK isnt subsisting off US foreign aid money and isnt run by evil capitalists

But at what cost?

I love that the west is like, “ooooo a beach resort, for us?!?” As if no other group of people could ever want to enjoy a vacation in their own country. The rest of the world is really just a collection of vacation spots for westerners.

I'm posting from there right now losers. I'm having juche libres with the homies