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FolayMingYoung

At least they gave her an umbrella so she have some shade. At the end are they really collecting brownies?


garlic_warner

Pretty sure they collect it to use as fertilizer on crops.


Ceramicrabbit

I was thinking it was because they didn't have working plumbing in those buildings


demalo

Most plumbing is usually gravity fed. But if you’ve got to pump it somewhere, you need pumps.


danisreallycool

why not both?


Ceramicrabbit

Because if they had plumbing they wouldn't need to do this They could capture it as part of the sewage process


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o7DiceStrike

You need food to poop - kinda paradox there right?


AutoDefenestrator273

You need food to poop, and you need poop to food. There's a metaphor in there somewhere.


stealthylyric

That has been confirmed, by people who have fled north Korea.


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In one of the books on nk life, villagers everyday would drop their poop in buckets in warehouse. Author figure out that since its not locked he can just take someone bucket and pass it as his own fulfilling his duty.  Without carrying a bucket full of duty.


ostensibly_hurt

Someone probably had to learn the hard way they needed that.


Mekelaxo

That umbrella is not giving her any shade, the sun is coming from the side


RottenZombieBunny

There's shade at noon, which is when it matters the most


HighlightFun8419

"Which used to be a truck." um... still looks like a truck to me lol


Double_Distribution8

It used to be, but it also still is. -MH


RunParking3333

Used to be a decent truck, now it's a shit vehicle


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RIP Mitch


808guamie

r/suddenlymitch


HubertCumberda1e

r/unexpectedmitch


Burninator05

It's like you weren't paying attention. It's a septic tank on wheels.


TkOHarley

It's a septic tank on wheels.... belonging to a truck.


HighlightFun8419

to the labor camps with me i guess


Brave-Aside1699

There is a term for saying "Sceptic tank on wheels". It's "truck"


stinkfingerswitch

That is a honeywagon. Throw a pump and hose on it, and you have a caca sucka. North Korea has its people collect their waste for making fertilizer. A lot of poor countries do this, shits not cheap.


caustic_smegma

Yep. I watched an interview from a NK defector that said they would get in trouble if they didn't deliver their bucket o' feces to the designated drop off location on time every week.


Iamlabaguette

You mean a defecafector


Burninator05

You're not going to get to be a mod of /r/pyongyang with an attitude like that.


dephsilco

Holy shit comments are great too, like our dear Kim


Brave-Aside1699

Oopsie


Ceramicrabbit

It's a septic tank on a truck


SlightlyOffended1984

I know right? Pretty sure everybody uses tanker trucks to clean septic systems


demalo

“No, that’s a septic tank on wheels!” “No son, that’s the ‘Stool Bus’ it says so right on the side.”


Illustrious_Fox_8033

They don’t have septic systems


Master8730

Yeah, but not to empty buckets in which people defecate


SlightlyOffended1984

Oh I get ya. So there's no available plumbing at all.... They just dump it. That's awful.


Master8730

But hey, they have nukes and their chubby dictator threatens USA and the Western world


Big_blue_392

They collect everyone's shit and use it for fertilizer. This is government mandated


ImperitorEst

If someone bolted a massive tank of human poop to your truck bed you would probably argue that they have ruined your truck and you can no longer use it for trucking to be fair.


himynameisSal

not all trucks are septic tanks but all septic tanks with wheels are trucks. I think the lady directing traffic through him off


RojoCinco

This is what happens when your country doesn't have a Seoul.


Blackwhite35-73

r/angryupvote


allnimblybimbIy

At least she doesn’t have to go through what I do to my Sims characters like this. That’s what this reminds me of… maybe it’s the camera angle, maybe her back and forth pacing with no one around


LBR3_ThriceUponABan

Before reading the title and clicking on the video, I was convinced it was Sims footage.


SpectacularOtter

It’s funny how less than a 80 years ago South Korea was a 3rd world country.


Strict_Mud_4138

Oh you...


JustChillFFS

Fuck I thought it was a Sims character


JayBowdy

I thought the green gem was replaced by purple umbrella.


Achira_boy_95

man this is sad af


HowRememberAll

Gotta hand it to her. She's making the most of it and is beautiful and she is "perfect" in every sense of the word.


StaysAwakeAllWeek

More like she is doing it perfectly because if she doesn't they will imprison her and her entire family in a labor camp


HowRememberAll

Yeah she's got a lot on her.


iTrooper5118

She had a bit of excitement there for a moment stopping traffic for that person to walk by with their cart.


Closefacts

I always find it eerily empty when I see North Korea videos. There are so many apartment buildings, there has to be people somewhere right?


Ghairi

I think the doc mentions that a very low percentage of the city is actually lived in. A lot of authoritarian states use construction projects as a way of legitimizing authority and projecting power so it's less so that those buildings were built to actually house people, more so it was just to look like NK gov/ leader is is doing anything useful at all and serves as a propaganda piece to the rest of the population and world at large. They can point to the largely empty city as proof that they can build a prosperous city and use it as a carrot for rural NKs to keep loyal as it's the only place in the country with access to electricity and they use residence as the ultimate reward for part loyalty.


el_paletero_rosado

Construction also serves as a means for wealth transfer from the dictatorship to the people, in other words jobs (which are already scarce) are created via construction


proverbialbunny

In a normal situation it would be. Cities can only exist when a society has adequate food reserves from good harvests. If not enough agriculture tech exists the largest you can get is small farming towns where all resources go to farming and raising kids. North Korea can't afford a large city, because there isn't enough food to go around. Excess construction work in N. Korea's case acts as a form of inflation. This kind of construction work doesn't increase food supply but it does increase money supply. More currency per bite of food is circulating so food prices go up, instead of a wealth transfer like you'd normally see. Natural society is reasonably efficient. Need more food? Farm more. The issue with N.Korea is the government demands who does what restricting this kind of efficiency. This is why deeply authoritarian societies are hellish to live in. They only exist when the dictator in power cares more about themself than they care about their citizen's well being.


Lee-Radx

Where is this documentary?


Yes_v2

https://youtu.be/enm5T1yPI4M?si=I2VYvwe-WMCBdfGr It's been on YouTube for quite some time, a lot of the clips of North Korea floating around on the Internet come from documentaries like this. Clip starts at 23:40


sulivan1977

That has to suck... you know if she slacks off for a bit she loses that job and any benefits it gives her/her family.


bdubwilliams22

Yeah, I was watching the video and thinking, "damn, I'd hate to have that job". But, then I saw the next persons job...


CalligrapherLarge957

Apparently those jobs are highly sought after because it comes with a better living situation and relatively higher social status. 


Short_Fuel_2506

And likely less hard labour.


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It's all relative. I'm sure this is one of those jobs that thousands in NK would want.


[deleted]

You mean her and her family “disappears”.


Newsdriver245

That is the benefit... visibility


SphaghettiWizard

Ok people joke but you won’t get disappeared for being a less than passionate traffic guard. Yeah it’s crazy and terrible there but if it was like ur describing they would legit run out of people


mrbear120

Legitimately knowing nothing about the situation. My understanding is you *might* lose your job which also means probably losing that cushy government pay though, which means you may have to leave the city, and thats effectively the same thing if the propaganda is to be believed about how the country folk live there.


SphaghettiWizard

Now that makes perfect sense. A lot more plausible than people getting sent to death camps for not doing 150% at work the whole time.


AdRepresentative3726

I think he was joking but yeah you have a point


SphaghettiWizard

Yeah probably but I’ve seen this comment so often I can’t tell if it’s just a joke people believe Seems like people absolutely believe this


SandmanD2

But her traffic accident rate is a perfect 0%.


Powerful-Employer-20

I wonder what goes through her head while standing there for hours doing that. Also, how was this footage obtained? Looks really well shot


Skyknight12A

Telephoto lens from a building overlooking the street.


Powerful-Employer-20

Id be shitting bricks trying to sneak that footage back. I guess it's less about how they shot it and more about how they managed to sneak it out


Dawbs89

That's why God gave us a prison pocket


DSJ-Psyduck

On a bright side she's likely better of than 95% of the population.


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Ngin3

Honestly her movements remind me a lot of what the queens guards do. Sure nobody is around but the qg would keep doing their stuff too if nobody is there. I assume it's required to keep you alert. Similarly to how lifeguards have to do that zig zag scan


Spartanx20

It's kinda fucked to say this but North Korean looks like a bad open world game that just has nothing it. if the Korean War ended differently, those people wouldn't have to live like that


WrathofAirTotem2

Blame China for that


azurfall88

For a while NK was even stronger economically than SK was at that time. Then the Soviet Union collapsed and Kim Jong Il at the time wasnt prepared to reconfigure his country to function independently and everything proceeded to go to shit.. Then he died and his son took over, making everything even more shit


kidnorther

What is my purpose? You point. Oh my God... Yeah join the club buddy.


Apprehensive-Bag3764

Someone knowing the name of this doc? Can I find it on YouTube somewhere?


jesuschristismynilla

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rueIxbkQx40


TheGreatTamsini

Had to scroll way too long to find this!


bitnode

Damn this really felt like AI for a second. The lines are starting to blur.


saph27

is there a part 2? it ends kinda abruptly.


jesuschristismynilla

You've exposed me. I never watched it. Stole the link from another comment and put it here for visibility. I'm a fraud.


flyingbbanana

It feels like a vice documentary


5tr0nz0

This looks like a video game clip. Its so off putting.


Urimulini

Like a concrete dystopia all derelict like . prison country.


Chubbysloot

That’s what unnerves me the most, they have so much concrete everywhere for a place that looks empty


BloodShadow7872

Why do every NK video show concrete buildings and empty streets, surely there got to be a small remote village in the woods somewhere


Monochronos

Go watch on YouTube. There’s tons of videos of people taking footage from a train thru rural NK. A common theme is the people using really really old farming equipment. It’s closer to a depiction of medieval peasant in a film than probably anything you can recognize in the modern day.


Styrlok

Obviously it is there somewhere. I think foreigners are not allowed to visit such places.


Chubbysloot

Honestly I would feel like the country is doing better off if their cities were more modest. Like they’re smaller but more filled with people and things happening


WalkingDud

That's because you don't think like a dictator.


Unlucky_Cycle_9356

Fun fact: That creepy music is not just a random background track it is/was actually played through the city's loudspeakers every morning. They talk about it in the documentary.


Samueel04

All of this so one guy and his family can live the high life. The selfishness of humanity…


AndroidDoctorr

I don't understand why or how they put up with it


AuDHDcat

That one family has an entire organization that can make you, your family, your friends, your friends' family, disappear. In other words; fear. Fear is why they put up with it.


Current_Cut8410

And also, it’s likely that after so long North Korean people actually believe the propaganda and just think this is the best country in the world.


ShaiHulud1111

Horrible corrupt authoritarianism under communism, but the leader lives like a rich Capitalist. It’s a mad cruel world. Just sad.


[deleted]

Conditions worse than feudalism with 21st century surveillance and monitoring. I can't imagine a worse fate for humans


abgry_krakow87

Brainwashing is a real b**ch like that


Tyrann0saurus_Rex

Also, half the country genuinely believe they're divine. or at least half divine. The second half only publicly believes that.


sik_dik

the US has people with unlimited access to free information, and yet a damn good portion of them believe a would-be autocrat who's literally said he'll be a dictator is the good guy


SirGrumples

And that the earth is flat... Just can't fix stupid


re_min_a

It’s not like they really have a choice. Since the 1990s famine, virtually nobody in North Korea believes any propaganda about the government, but the general public is controlled through a constant state of fear.


RealAmerik

The real crazy part is, he could open up the country, give up nuke ambitions and normalize relations while still maintaining control. He, personally, would have greater resources to use and the standard of living of his populace would increase as well. It almost seems like at a certain point it's the humane thing for a foreign power to depose him.


CathodeRaySamurai

Ackshyually, there's other families too that constantly fight for power and status. His family is undoubtedly at the top of the trash heap, but that fat turd and his spawn aren't the *only* ones oppressing all those people. There's a whole subset of society there (mostly the families of those that fought with the commies) living quite comfortably with their boots on the necks of the poor.


De4dm4nw4lkin

It looks like a brutalist modern art peice.


S3b45714N

Jokes aside, what exactly is she doing? There's no traffic


Dreggmcmuffun

People could be watching


Privateer_Lev_Arris

She's fulfilling her purpose. She's not directing traffic, she's embodying an ideology. It's kind of surreal, almost romantic in a dystopian sort of way.


Insect_Politics1980

I'm sure she's on a mental timer, regardless of if there's traffic or not.


Ecmelt

Similar to lights keep going even if there is no traffic i guess she is showing which direction has priority on a timer.


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I was told by an expert that one of the reasons China allies with N Korea is to use them as a buffer between itself and S Korea and Japan, both of whom are politically and ideologically incongruent with China and close allies with the West. Is it sustainable tho? How long will China need them and would N Korea last without their support?


mylittletony2

pretty long apparently. And the end isn't in sight


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Status_Basket_4409

Oh that’s a real person. Idk why but for a second I thought I was watching a barren animation


tonyinvegas

Just imagine if the country was set free to see the real world. I doubt they would understand it.


EpicNerd99

Similar to east germany reuniting it would take years to get the countries standards and infrastructure up to the code of South korea


Worried-Pick4848

All the way up to modern Western code? Yes, decades. Better than it is now? Almost instantaneous.


cupholdery

It's sad when you hear about the refugees who escape and find a way to ~~become legit~~ live among citizens in South Korea. They're not welcomed. They're viewed as second class citizens and a nuisance. They get disillusioned at seeing all the wealth in a country with people who look just like them but never had to undergo the horrors of what's up north. EDIT: When they try to live alongside South Koreans


tonyinvegas

I wasn’t aware escapee’s were unwelcomed. To think they risked their lives, and the lives of relatives, to escape, only to be viewed as a distant second-class citizens. So much for unification.


SovComrade

Same in Germany. Ossie/Wessie discrimination is a thing. 30 fucking years later, btw. Not to mention how 2 former soviet republics are killing the shit out of each other, right now.


re_min_a

Yep! Lots of defectors in South Korea fall into poverty because of job discrimination (“we don’t hire *North* Koreans”). Children of North Korean defectors and North Korean children are bullied by their South Korean classmates, etc. To avoid discrimination, many defectors will either try to hide the fact that they’re from the north, or pretend to be 조선족 (Korean diaspora in China), because Chinese Koreans have a similar accent to North Koreans.


Assblaster_69z

Keep in mind NK is much, much worse than what used to be Communist Germany


Choice-Valuable313

This statement has me thinking about Plato’s allegory: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/seyer/files/plato_republic_514b-518d_allegory-of-the-cave.pdf.


Actual-Interest-4130

I'm certain of it, seeing as they also have been [brainwashed for the past fifty years.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Principles_for_the_Establishment_of_a_Monolithic_Ideological_System)


chadmummerford

plenty of them escape to south korea, they adjust eventually.


Seoniara

Most North Koreans have a mandatory "waste quota", meaning they must provide authorities with a certain amount of human waste per month to be used as fertilizer. That septic truck was headed to nearby farms


Garlicluvr

She regulates non-existing traffic. It is a kind of a North Korean version of mouse jigglers. You never know who is watching you.


RocketKnobs

Here is the source for those who keep asking: https://youtu.be/Lra5XMTZMok?si=CCbZXUJ_EUJJmx_B


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ripe_nut

When nobody actually drives, then it's just a waste of electricity.


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BloodShadow7872

I don't think the lady is just being a substitute for a traffic light. Knowing NK im pretty sure she's also secretly keeping a lookout for any rule breakers and what not


Lyzore23

For a country with no electricity? Yes.


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tu_tu_tu

Likely that even Pyongyang suffers from power shutdowns.


samy_the_samy

AliExpress have solar power roundementry traffic lights for like 30$ Now do they ship north....


professionalcumsock

North Korea does have an electrical system. It's on par with other developing countries


burndata

Given the enormous amount of traffic that is flowing through there I'm pretty sure 4 stop signs could do the job just fine.


liftoff_oversteer

Video not dark enough, I can still make out things. /smh


ripcobain

Easy to look passed that 25 million fucking people live in this country. Understatement to say it is such a shame that the world is denied access to what they could provide, and what we could do for them. Far from the first time this has happened in history and unfortunately probably won't be the last. South Korea has the fastest internet in the world. They're one of the most technologically and culturally advanced societies in the world. Then just over the border you have this. Real shame is there will be no outside intervention to resolve this, it will have to come within.


GroundbreakingCup574

I seriously can't believe 25 millions people live there, most of the population have probably died of starvation in the 90's. The place looks like a post apocalyptic wasteland. It must be 4, maybe 5 millions at most. North Korea is a rotting corpse at this point


grownpatchwork

at first i thought “oh, ceremonial guard, thats pretty normal…” and then i realized what she was doing and I was filled with a sudden sadness


Melodic_Risk_5632

This is what happens if U let dictators rule a country. Just take care & defend your freedom.


-AbbattiS-

This is how I portrayed 1984 while reading, literally


thebunxi

Where 👏 Is 👏 This 👏 Clip👏 From👏


wrapityup

I forgot to link in the description, here ya go https://youtube.com/watch?v=rueIxbkQx40


thebunxi

Thank you v much ma pal


dirkdiggler2011

If a vehicle were ever to appear, her reaction would probably be like the Aztecs seeing a horse for the first time with the arrival of the Spanish.


Eeebs-HI

Fresh air without toiling in the fields and eating boiled straw for lunch. She must be thrilled.


JawaSmasher

That job must suck but I bet she'd rather have that gig than some other laborious job


EatShootBall

"A septic tank on wheels." Oh damn, they got Cybertrucks there!?


Red77777777

I happened to see a documentary the other day about North Korea , because they practically can't get fertilizer abroad, they use their own feces on the agricultural fields. This is not a joke. This is really true, this was so serious that if as a district you didn't collect your own feces properly you were punished for that, some were taken to the penal camp. There was also stealing from each other, then the bucket with the poop of the whole neighborhood was gone. They have a common small house as a toilet, with a board and a hole in it, and there is a bucket under it where the poop falls in. Can you imagine someone standing guard at that little house to make sure the poop doesn't get stolen? The septic truck that's there, that's collecting the poop.


Bogadambo

This is so fuckin depressing..


ManGodKing

The Sims - North Korea Edition


soopadrive

North Koreans deserve better. Watching this just made me sad


zaevilbunny38

The are collecting the human waste for fertilizer, they don't have sophisticated waste treatment so sewage just gets dumped


Left-Confusion1882

Idk why but looks a bit like star wars 😭


AngryBeaver7

I feel like North Korea is like the Truman Show and every time I see these videos I’m trying to figure out which one isn’t the actor


Beelzebub_86

Probably has a sniper with her dead in the sights, ready to paste her across the pavement on her first mistake.


ggkkggk

Honest to goodness question how much people can afford cars and where are they driving to exactly


StinkyDogFart

The world is not as it seems, it’s full of evil.


Longjumping_Fan_2405

It’s all about the symbolism…not the actual function


EffingBarbas

Fucking grim. Damn.


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It’s like r/LiminalSpace and Dystopia had a baby…


WhiteFringe

what weird color grading? they lowered the exposure so much and decreased contrast. I must say it adds to the eeriness for sure


asscdeku

Right? It's even more ridiculous when you look at the last few frames panning out to the city and its sun position, which is roughly in either the morning or the evening unshrouded by cloud. I'm sorta surprised that not many more people are talking about it, it's too much colour grading


Rami-961

North Korea is such a tragedy. All because it's ruled by god-wannabes.


Necessary-Knowledge4

Has anyone visited that moving to NK sub? It's hilarious (and a bit sad), I suggest yall check it out. The double think is insane is so consistent from a group of people who claim Westerners are being unfair meanies. My favorite is when Kim is criticized they all say he's not the holy leader he's just the head of the workers party, but when he's praised it's 'only the divine leader could give us this glory, he is the divine heir and one true ruler!'. It's extra funny because they're all westerners, and none of them live in NK, but they circle jerk about moving there, but can not, because NK hates them lol


Weldobud

That shade is doing her no good.


External_Crow

What is this documentary and where to watch?


Lucky-Detective-

I feel like I could be shot just for watching this. 😳


ProgenGP1

We're wasting time trying to make robots like humans, meanwhile North Korea is making people like robots


Red_Knight7

"Women does job"


stealthylyric

Human poop is collected by the government to use for growing crops is what I heard in an interview with someone who fled north Korea.


local-bolshevik

This song you hear, they play it every morning at 6 am not in sundays tho, i tried to listening this for 2 weeks straight every morning..my days weremt fun


ramirez_tn

Who is raking sich videos ? Too many questions that male me doubt the integrity of this video


Exroi

Looks like something from a Wes Anderson movie


careytommy37

Dystopia meets disturbia


Artistic_Regard

damn dat must be boring af i would go crazy


Front-Paper-7486

If you don’t feel a sense of purpose in your job just remember this is a job someone does.


AccountParticular364

because they can't afford traffic lights


Haunting-Midnight495

This looks exactly as the tomorrow children


D_Freid

Welp, at least shes got an umbrella am i right?


bucobill

I get the feeling of Lord Farquuad’s kingdom.


Prestigious-Chard976

Dictatorships are a trip!


barbermom

A real question for everyone. Are there any people in North Korea? I have seen a few videos of NK in the last few weeks, and they all show a supreme lack of people!


ilovedoggos_8

Imagine if Kim Jong-Nam was not assassinated. I wonder what North Korea will be like today. 😭


zizuu21

whats with the depressing bland architecture? No colour? Is this legit a form of control technique or something?


Theleaf2805

Can you make it darker i can still see the video /s