Update: here's the new version
It should be in the right order now + i added the missing city names
https://imgur.com/a/BybJ7DQ
:kim-peace:
The album includes pictures from Hamhung, Chongjin, Sinuiju, Nampo, Wonsan, Kaesong, Sariwon, Pyongsong, Haeju, and Anju.
There are some descriptions along the way (mostly just city names + general info)
I also included rural photos, and some showing various housing/development projects
I remember growing up around 11-12 and I read a story about NK by a guy who was visiting. They stopped for a pee break in the woods during a long trip and as he went deeper in, he stumbled across some kids playing around and laughing while collecting wood for their families.
That was the first time I really started to realize that "Hey even in these places we call repressive regimes, people at the end of the day still are just that, people."
This has pretty greatly influenced my views on how we treat other countries. Even if you believe everything that is said about places like China or NK or Cuba, we should still help their populations out because they are people too and people should help people. The amount of hatred towards people in these countries is so disturbing.
Anyway I mentioned this because these pictures bring back that sort of feeling I had. They're just living their lives, I really especially like that one of arm wrestling. This is something you don't see much out of "enemy nations" since most English sources don't want to publish it and it's great to see.
i remember someone posting an article in the old sub (or possible here?) with some pictures taken by a western journalist. every picture was accompanied by a description that made it seem completely dystopian, even when it just showed people doing completely mundane stuff. it was also presented as if the journalist was in some sort of grave danger for "exposing" the "kim regime".
i really don't think there's a single group of people more dehumanized in the western imagination than north koreans. you're only supposed to think of them as people if they deflect and disavow their homeland. and even then, they're mostly threated as an attraction.
I remember that too, like one of the pics was just children waiting to cross a road or a railroad or something I don't remember specifically but it was painted as some evil thing which was just weird.