Tour of North Korea’s “new town” in Pyongyang with buildings shaped like missiles!

[ganymede]

I do believe that their tears are genuine because being a resident in one of that buildings such opportunities status and safety.

[danielaramburo]

I hope the north Korean people prosper. Politics aside, any improvement to their life is good.

[JKRoss-zmzu]

From the bottom of my heart, I wish the people of North Korea that they live in prosperity, well and happily!

[robinchen]

I am a Chinese student who is now studying in Canada. The interior of those apartments in North Korea looks just like the new apartment in my grandma’s home back in Wuhan. 😅😅😅I believe this buildings may be designed by the Chinese construction company in a 1990s style.

[mathozero]

I hope they have electricity to power the lifts

[blayne]

Love all the shots of people just standing in the middle of empty highways. 😂

[RedTheOriginal]

North korea is like a minecraft singleplayer world many buildings but all empty

[Personng]

Bro this city is literally better than half of every city i see in Philippines 😭

[iCoolaxe]

Amazing how it's all brand new and yet looks so old.

[namelastname]

Can you imagine such a big city with literally NO TRAFFIC on the roads?

[marko_]

I feel so happy for them, in the west you have to be well educated and to work for half of life just to buy maximum 50sq meters apartment on the end of city, very nice from their government, you wont ever see such a thing to be done by any western country, much respect for North Korea and their leader from Serbia ❤

[takeakienomoto]

Make no mistake. Pyongyang has been going through a long series of such shiny, show-off residential blocks. They all ended up losing their paint and tiles in less than a year and becoming almost uninhabitable not much later, with people installing their own coal stoves with handmade chimneys so they don't freeze in winter and car batteries on the balcony to help them over the city's regular blockouts. Apartments in the lower floors are highly desired because elevator service is completely unreliable. Unless, of course, you live in the very center of the town, in the area reserved for the country's nobility from the Worker's party.

[nothing]

North Korea reminds me of the fictional country Panem. A luxurious capital with very poor districts surrounding it.

[tribinaaux]

In 1 year they built more than my country in 30 years (Croatia)

[jwholmes]

Notice how every single light in every building is always on at the same time…

[BeagleChanzxro]

Politics aside. The roads look a lot like Seoul. Clean, detailed, & quite complex looking

[faizannehal]

This whole country feels like a fake reality show to me

[judejaradat]

These type of apartments are only for the very loyal people to the system and who have special abilities. There are waiting lines for people to get a "permit" to live in the capital Pyongyang, not just anyone from the outskirts can just go and live, maybe they cannot even visit it, if they look poor and not up to standard.

[Mike-mmmx]

If i had the choice of being offered a 'free' apartment in Pyongyang or a tent on the moon, I think I know which I would rather go for...

[MaimiZhang]

If I would put a portrait of Kims in my house it would be my pleasure.

I mean Kim Dahyun, Kim Minju...

Kidding aside but I love the development of Pyongyang.