The creepy part is that everyone in there is an actor and pretending to have fun. Kinda like what they did on Vice with the simulated Internet cafe— Mia Nyx 🇺🇦🇹🇼🏳️⚧️ (@fiendishMia) August 12, 2022
I think the logic of it (which is mistaken) is that the people of the DPRK are all miserable slaves under constant threat of death, so expecting them to have fun there would be like building a water park in Auschwitz while keeping everything else the same and expecting the prisoners to live it up.
Therefore, the DPRK building such a facility and allowing it to be used normally by non-tourists would only make the slave-state nature of the country more obvious.
But literally no state has ever looked like what people imagine the DPRK to be, so that makes subsequent inferences kind of useless.
I think the logic of it (which is mistaken) is that the people of the DPRK are all miserable slaves under constant threat of death, so expecting them to have fun there would be like building a water park in Auschwitz while keeping everything else the same and expecting the prisoners to live it up.
Therefore, the DPRK building such a facility and allowing it to be used normally by non-tourists would only make the slave-state nature of the country more obvious.
But literally no state has ever looked like what people imagine the DPRK to be, so that makes subsequent inferences kind of useless.