Yeah like that navy warship a month ago. Cultural suppression in action
Comment on North Korea opens massive beach resort, rolls out red carpet for Russians
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 weeks agoThey are surpressed culturally they are not too stupid to build things.
Laser@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Honytawk@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
No, but they are smart enough not to put in too much effort.
sramder@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 😉
jaxxed@lemmy.ml 4 weeks 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.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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They are a piss poor insular dictatorship, it is reasonable to expect lacking standards and outdated methodologies as they do not have sufficient investment for cutting edge processes.
doleo@lemmy.one [bot] 4 weeks ago
I think it’s insensitive that you choose to dunk on the USA in a thread about North Korea.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
And of course someone had to mention the US…
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
jaxxed@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
On top of that, there will likely be a lot of foreign contractors without much pressure to produce quality results.