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https://xcancel.com/Reuters/status/2054098106136813829
Cars in North Korea??? That's not supposed to happen. It's ruining our narratives about them having dead rats for dinner. 
DPRK citizens now have access to superior Chinese EVs that amerikkkans can't have. 
dprk no cars? bad
dprk has cars? bad
"What we are dealing with is an unfalsifiable orthodoxy so assiduously marketed that it has infected people across the entire political spectrum."
Inb4 “the cars are just props to make people think North Korea isn’t that bad”
Nooooo, you can't have cars we need to believe you're starving and eating vermin to survive while the government eats all your grain
"you aren't supposed to have those!"
I want a Chinese electric car, I am driving my American made vehicle all the time as of now and it works alright but that is just about it and honestly if it was a couple years newer i would be worried about it spying on me more than I am worried about any product made in China doing it
LMAO, western cope will always be funny. IIRC the DPRK actually have at least one car factory and brand on one of their special regions bordering China, but I can't find the commercial they did for that. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
The one that I know if is Pyeonghwa Motors and it has its main factory in Nampo which is on the west coast, not near the border. It's definitely not their only car factory either. There might be some on the border with China now, I don't know either, but at the very least there's also the older Sungri Motor Plant that has made vehicles for DPRK since like the 1950s, but it's pretty much right in the center of the country.
@couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip, looks like your prediction was shit.
Damn that's fucked, comrade Kim please unleash infinite trains upon Pyongyang
Seeing just how bad the propaganda is really makes you wonder about how much of this will be lost to time. Like will future history history books talk about how bad this propaganda was? Surely not right? So how many cases like this have we already forgotten about?
Of course not, we don't even talk about how bad the propaganda was back in the day now. Like people were treating Trump's campaign as being 'un-civil and un-American' when, within living memory, John Kerry was swift-boated, and literally James Madison accused his opponent of all kinds of henois shit.
American execeptionalism is a hell of a drug.
HAHA NORTH KOREANS CAN'T AFFORD CARS
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HAHA THERE ARE TOO MANY CARS IN NORTH KOREA
Chinese car sellers: "I consent"
NK car buyers: "I consent"
Burger Eagle Freedom Institute brightest boy: "Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?"
What do they mean "aren't supposed to be there"?
They hate cars and feel betrayed by the DPRK allowing private transport
The gist of the article is, the boom in vehicle ownership in North Korea is outpacing the infrastructure and systems to management it, e.g. traffic jams and parking spot scarcity.
There are some choice pure ideology moments in the article:
The boom follows changes to North Korean law that formalized private car ownership over the past two years, allowing licensed drivers to buy one vehicle per household through state-certified dealers. Owning a car is still mostly the preserve of the elite and the entrepreneurial class known as donju, analysts say.
Car ownership is simultaneously getting so pervasive that it’s causing backups and overflowing parking lots, but also it’s only the elite that can afford them (much like we were told it’s only the “elite” Chinese on Xiaohongshu).
Peter Ward, a research fellow at the Sejong Institute, a non-partisan think tank in Seoul, said North Korea’s automotive policy is part of a broader push to bring private economic activity under state control.
I’m sure the think tank in South Korea with a white dude on staff is very unbiased and neutral when it comes to North Korea.
Peter Ward, a research fellow at the Sejong Institute, a non-partisan think tank in Seoul, said North Korea’s automotive policy is part of a broader push to bring private economic activity under state control.
Damn those communists for doing.... communism
The gist of the article is, the boom in vehicle ownership in North Korea is outpacing the infrastructure and systems to management it, e.g. traffic jams and parking spot scarcity.
That's a hilarious accusation considering how big of a problem those are to every major American city. People commonly assault each other over road rage and parking spot disputes.
state certified dealers
Why yes, article, uhhhhhhh all dealers are state certified. That's called a business license. If they're not state certified that's usually called tax evasion.
20 years ago, a favorite trope of western media talking about the DPRK was how Pyongyang had all these big fancy clean boulevards and roadways with precise traffic control, but the streets were empty of cars. how silly!
it's like those old stories about China's ghost cities of infrastructure with no inhabitants being all fake and communism. now, of course, they're full of people and well integrated into a regional development plan.
and, the cherry on top has got to be, as you point out, the article talking about car ownership being elite only, but the roads are full anyway because the dang proletariat are too numerous. don't they realize they can't have so many elites?! the word "elite" has lost all meaning in these communist countries!
Elite Chad Proletarians
20 years ago, a favorite trope of western media talking about the DPRK was how Pyongyang had all these big fancy clean boulevards and roadways with precise traffic control, but the streets were empty of cars. how silly!
Basically the same as chinese ghost city propaganda. They can't conceive of planning ahead.
They can't conceive of planning ahead.
Perfidious communist lies. Planning ahead into Q4 from Q3 is planning, sweaty.
The big one that gets me is that they always talk about, "Oh don't you know that they have skyscrapers they put up ten years ago that are falling apart?" And I am like, "Ok how many? One, two? A thousand? Because China has built over 10,000 over five story buildings in the last two decades, and it doesn't fucking look like the majority of them are going anywhere." But the western brainpan cannot comprehend the statistics and numbers of buildings created. In the U.S. this number is less than 1000.
Moreover, who cares if it is falling apart in 10 years, when you can just put up another one if you have the resources? Money is fucking fake.
no no, it makes sense. when the workers are in control, they are the elite. and they can all afford cars apparently. it's only the poor aristocrats of north korea who cant.
my grandfather had an egg monopoly and a palace with many servants. and now i must walk the streets like a dust-covered peasant, where any one feels permitted by this authoritarian government to make eye contact with me.