(10-12-2026 03:26 PM)Todor Wrote:  The South China Morning Post visited North Korea to cover the city’s recent building boom and rapid modernization.

New 80 story skyscrapers have dramatically remade the cities skyline in recent years. Streets are busier now, with modern Chinese electric cars, scooters, bikes. Riding sharing apps and food delivery apps reach even smaller, forgotten parts of the country. From tablets and smartphones, online shopping, a growing app economy, and

Solar panels are everywhere in the cities now. Huge new solar farms and new industrial greenhouse operations place North Korea near the top in the world for greenhouse food production levels. This is a very welcome thing in a cold country with little arable land, and tens of millions to feed.

New subways from China’s most modern rolling stock have given transit in the city a needed upgrade to the used Czechoslovak and GDR equipment they had operated for decades.

While the article didn’t talk much about them, there are new weapons programs, new generations of longer range missiles, new war ships, and new commercial and general navy ships as well.

The North Koreans seem to have forgotten they are under the heaviest sanctions the US can dole out. They seem to be almost flaunting the fact that things are changing quickly under Un.

https://youtu.be/sEGsVXKug8I?si=ba3_-QLQDalhrG6C

#Pyonghattan

(10-12-2026 04:13 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(10-12-2026 03:41 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(10-12-2026 03:26 PM)Todor Wrote:  The South China Morning Post visited North Korea to cover the city’s recent building boom and rapid modernization.

New 80 story skyscrapers have dramatically remade the cities skyline in recent years. Streets are busier now, with modern Chinese electric cars, scooters, bikes. Riding sharing apps and food delivery apps reach even smaller, forgotten parts of the country. From tablets and smartphones, online shopping, a growing app economy, and

Solar panels are everywhere in the cities now. Huge new solar farms and new industrial greenhouse operations place North Korea near the top in the world for greenhouse food production levels. This is a very welcome thing in a cold country with little arable land, and tens of millions to feed.

New subways from China’s most modern rolling stock have given transit in the city a needed upgrade to the used Czechoslovak and GDR equipment they had operated for decades.

While the article didn’t talk much about them, there are new weapons programs, new generations of longer range missiles, new war ships, and new commercial and general navy ships as well.

The North Koreans seem to have forgotten they are under the heaviest sanctions the US can dole out. They seem to be almost flaunting the fact that things are changing quickly under Un.

https://youtu.be/sEGsVXKug8I?si=ba3_-QLQDalhrG6C

#Pyonghattan

Dude, who exactly are you pulling for?

lol---Thats what you cant figure out?

(10-12-2026 04:16 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(10-12-2026 04:13 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(10-12-2026 03:41 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(10-12-2026 03:26 PM)Todor Wrote:  The South China Morning Post visited North Korea to cover the city’s recent building boom and rapid modernization.

New 80 story skyscrapers have dramatically remade the cities skyline in recent years. Streets are busier now, with modern Chinese electric cars, scooters, bikes. Riding sharing apps and food delivery apps reach even smaller, forgotten parts of the country. From tablets and smartphones, online shopping, a growing app economy, and

Solar panels are everywhere in the cities now. Huge new solar farms and new industrial greenhouse operations place North Korea near the top in the world for greenhouse food production levels. This is a very welcome thing in a cold country with little arable land, and tens of millions to feed.

New subways from China’s most modern rolling stock have given transit in the city a needed upgrade to the used Czechoslovak and GDR equipment they had operated for decades.

While the article didn’t talk much about them, there are new weapons programs, new generations of longer range missiles, new war ships, and new commercial and general navy ships as well.

The North Koreans seem to have forgotten they are under the heaviest sanctions the US can dole out. They seem to be almost flaunting the fact that things are changing quickly under Un.

https://youtu.be/sEGsVXKug8I?si=ba3_-QLQDalhrG6C

#Pyonghattan

Dude, who exactly are you pulling for?

lol---Thats what you cant figure out?

Of course not. I was simply pointing out the obvious for those not really paying attention.

(10-12-2026 04:50 PM)Todor Wrote:  https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/north-korea-economy-success-e80f7062

The Wall Street Journal says “the regime is wealthier than ever”

Exactly whose side is Wall Street on???

Insert audible gasp and visible pearl clutching action image here.

Our sanctions suck a$$ and don’t work because we aren’t powerful enough to enforce them.

We could borrow $40 trillion more trying, but the tide has turned and North Korea has defeated the sanctions.

FWIW, Forbes is reporting the exact same thing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashalindstaedt/2026/08/13/as-north-koreas-economy-grows-kim-jong-un-is-stronger-than-ever/

(10-12-2026 04:50 PM)Todor Wrote:  https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/north-korea-economy-success-e80f7062

The Wall Street Journal says “the regime is wealthier than ever”

Exactly whose side is Wall Street on???

Insert audible gasp and visible pearl clutching action image here.

Our sanctions suck a$$ and don’t work because we aren’t powerful enough to enforce them.

We could borrow $40 trillion more trying, but the tide has turned and North Korea has defeated the sanctions.

FWIW, Forbes is reporting the exact same thing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashalindstaedt/2026/08/13/as-north-koreas-economy-grows-kim-jong-un-is-stronger-than-ever/

(10-12-2026 03:26 PM)Todor Wrote:  The South China Morning Post visited North Korea to cover the city’s recent building boom and rapid modernization.

New 80 story skyscrapers have dramatically remade the cities skyline in recent years. Streets are busier now, with modern Chinese electric cars, scooters, bikes. Ride sharing apps and food delivery apps reach even the smaller, forgotten parts of the country now. From tablets and smartphones, online shopping, a growing app economy, and major advancements in military technologies, Un has NK flush with cash lately somehow.

Solar panels are everywhere in the cities now. Huge new solar farms and new industrial greenhouse operations place North Korea near the top in the world for greenhouse food production levels. This is a very welcome thing in a cold country with little arable land, and tens of millions to feed.

New subways from China’s most modern rolling stock have given transit in the city a needed upgrade to the used Czechoslovak and GDR equipment they had operated for decades.

While the article didn’t talk much about them, there are new weapons programs, new generations of longer range missiles, new war ships, and new commercial and general navy ships as well.

The North Koreans seem to have forgotten they are under the heaviest sanctions the US can dole out. They seem to be almost flaunting the fact that things are changing quickly under Un.

https://youtu.be/sEGsVXKug8I?si=ba3_-QLQDalhrG6C

#Pyonghattan

(10-12-2026 04:19 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Probably not AI because they know we can take satellite photos but North Korea and China have built empty skyscrapers before. Project building boom on the outside but unfinished and abandoned on the inside.

(10-12-2026 03:26 PM)Todor Wrote:  The South China Morning Post visited North Korea to cover the city’s recent building boom and rapid modernization.

New 80 story skyscrapers have dramatically remade the cities skyline in recent years. Streets are busier now, with modern Chinese electric cars, scooters, bikes. Ride sharing apps and food delivery apps reach even the smaller, forgotten parts of the country now. From tablets and smartphones, online shopping, a growing app economy, and major advancements in military technologies, Un has NK flush with cash lately somehow.

Solar panels are everywhere in the cities now. Huge new solar farms and new industrial greenhouse operations place North Korea near the top in the world for greenhouse food production levels. This is a very welcome thing in a cold country with little arable land, and tens of millions to feed.

New subways from China’s most modern rolling stock have given transit in the city a needed upgrade to the used Czechoslovak and GDR equipment they had operated for decades.

While the article didn’t talk much about them, there are new weapons programs, new generations of longer range missiles, new war ships, and new commercial and general navy ships as well.

The North Koreans seem to have forgotten they are under the heaviest sanctions the US can dole out. They seem to be almost flaunting the fact that things are changing quickly under Un.

https://youtu.be/sEGsVXKug8I?si=ba3_-QLQDalhrG6C

#Pyonghattan

(10-13-2026 07:25 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(10-12-2026 04:19 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Probably not AI because they know we can take satellite photos but North Korea and China have built empty skyscrapers before. Project building boom on the outside but unfinished and abandoned on the inside.

That's my guess, they are all empty buildings.

(10-13-2026 10:02 AM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(10-13-2026 07:25 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(10-12-2026 04:19 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Probably not AI because they know we can take satellite photos but North Korea and China have built empty skyscrapers before. Project building boom on the outside but unfinished and abandoned on the inside.

That's my guess, they are all empty buildings.

The weird triangle building in NK that was supposed to be a hotel is I think still empty. They put glass in the windows about 10 years ago. It was just concrete for a long time.

(10-12-2026 04:19 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Probably not AI because they know we can take satellite photos but North Korea and China have built empty skyscrapers before. Project building boom on the outside but unfinished and abandoned on the inside.