Comment on North Korea opens massive beach resort, rolls out red carpet for Russians

sramder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They are surpressed culturally they are not too stupid to build things.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah and one thing autoritarian regimes are known for is sufficient oversight and regulatory rigour!

    They are a piss poor insular dictatorship, it is reasonable to expect lacking standards and outdated methodologies as they do not have sufficient investment for cutting edge processes.

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    • doleo@lemmy.one [bot] ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s insensitive that you choose to dunk on the USA in a thread about North Korea.

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And of course someone had to mention the US…

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    • jaxxed@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On top of that, there will likely be a lot of foreign contractors without much pressure to produce quality results.

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  • Laser@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah like that navy warship a month ago. Cultural suppression in action

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  • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, but they are smart enough not to put in too much effort.

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    [slow clap]

    I’m not picking on the people… hell, hopefully this project brings a bit of prosperity to the region. Down side, Russian tourists are a handful — search “what air defense doing” for someone awesome memes 😉

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  • jaxxed@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably the suggestion is related to authoritarian corruption, rather than average intelligence.

    I think that if the glorious leader really believes in the project, them it may getsonw reasonably well, so it should be safe.

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• bobo1900@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They probably are, have you seen videos from western tourists in NK? They have super luxurious hotels costantly empty because there are at most a handful of people at one time. They really really want to be perceived as modern and civlized so they throw ludicrous amount of money to their ridicule tourism industry so they hope to attract foreigners. Of course this is done at the expense of their citizens

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This guy watches Exploring the Unbeaten Path :-)

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• frunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I imagine it would be like a taste of home to the Russian tourists, given the hospitality provided to the athletes when they hosted the Olympics in 2014

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You couldn’t pay me to be an Olympic athlete these days ;-)

    • Toilets that don’t flush
    • Toilets that do flush, but the outflow is just a ditch behind the “dorms”
    • Cipro required for a brief swim in the… we’re doing what now? Am I in the wrong line?
    • Seriously, I’m an olympic swimmer… o-l-y-m-p-i-c not the X-Games™???

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• bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  one thing i am certain of, its that they’re better than the american drywall stuff.

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• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  NK needs foreign money. They can’t afford to cheap out that.

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  • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bruh… they can’t afford to do anything but cheap out. It’s slow motion genocide. With nukes.

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