Originally Posted by
Spent_All_My_Miles
Based on my travels, I get the impression that North Korea, to some extent, can be viewed as a combination of:
- Almaty, Bishkek, other large ex-Soviet capital cities: Communist architecture
- Turkmenistan (during the time of Turkmenbashi): cult of personality
- Turkmenistan and Burma: you have minders, who escort you everywhere
- Various mideast and southeast Asian cities: half-finished buildings
- South Korea: culture
Have you visited any of these places? There are no minders in Burma, South Korean culture these days is pretty much orthogonal to North Korea's, and Pyongyang's
solitary famous unfinished building is, in fact, currently under heavy construction again.