What do you like most about North Korea?

Nothing, and I feel like these discussions, even if made ironically, come off as incredibly tone-deaf given the reality of the people unfortunate enough to be stuck living in N.K.

That their brainwashed loyalists think everyone else in the world are as easily duped as they are.

I like that North Korea has turned the Truman Show into a real thing all for the sake of western tourists. It takes a serious dedication to the art of theater and acting to transform an entire country of 26 million people into an endless and infinitely deep stage production. They've built full skyscrapers just as back drops for their sets. They painstakingly carved and painted millions upon millions of wooden props to resemble food items such as fruit, vegetables, and grains to place in store sets ubiquitously since real food no longer exists there. The wide assortment of actors walking the streets and pretending to go to work and do their jobs, each of them with their own unique backstory handcrafted to resemble the life of a real person. The fact that they've maintained the illusions of functioning trains by using clever line of sight techniques to hide the dozens of stage crew that need to push the cars along the tracks.

This is a very impressive accomplishment once you consider 90% of the country is currently being held in concentration camps for disrespecting the Kim dynasty by not maintaining the same haircut as their supreme leader. That the remaining 10 percent can put on this kind of show is spectacular without any kind of monetary compensation or even food. Everyone there is starving to death, but they've managed to hide such inadequacies through industrious makeup and lighting techniques. The country's dedication is so intense even that these actors are allowed to have their own haircuts so as to not hurt immersion.

Where to begin! The famines? The oppression? The lack of liberties? The persecution of queer people, or, indeed, any thought viewed as slightly aberrant? The megalomaniacal madman who keeps his people in chains while he lives the life of the ultra-rich? The gasping, desperate poverty of his subjects? Their inability to leave the country? The militarism? The backwardness?

Oh, wait, what we like?

Uh...

I saw a short documentary by the BBC with a few people currently living inside the country. There is nothing to admire about North Korea

At 40 years old, they have one of the world's youngest leaders. Way to represent Millenials, Kim!

I have a morbid curiosity for their state propaganda (as with other state propaganda). They're just very persistent with it. Not sure if that counts as something from NK that's good, but it's at least one thing that I'm fascinated by.

Their flag is extra wide

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I like their one train that everyone has to push towards their one station in Pyongyang.

That it's an amazing way of sorting out people with zero functional understanding of geopolitics

Sqirrel and Hedgehog

I was hoping to go next year but sadly my gf has a Malaysian passport, which went from being the only country you didn't need a visa to visit, to being completely banned.

She is taking her British citizenship so hopefully I'll get a chance.

I want to try their beer.

Kim's haircut is pretty sweet

ha haaa

That mass games thing they do where each person is a pixel is quite something. Video.

Um, how about annyeonghaseNO.