!pyongyang@hexbear.net is comm for posting links to websites hosted in DPRK aka Democratic People's Republic of Korea, known as North Korea in the West. Pyongyang is the capital city of DPRK. The purpose of the comm is to try observe the DPRK perspective.
DPRK is heavily sanctioned and censored by the West. There is a lot of misinformation spread about DPRK, sometimes positive, sometimes negative. An example of positive misinformation would be all the twitter accounts making up fake Kim Jong Un quotes. Negative misinformation would be like all of the articles posted by RadioFreeAsia, a US-funded propaganda site.
There are websites hosted in DPRK that are accessible internationally. DPRK owns the .kp TLD. Every website that ends with .kp is hosted in DPRK. Linking directly to websites hosted in DPRK could demystify the western perspective of DPRK.
some info about the .kp TLD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kp
The concept of the comm is simple. Visit a DPRK website, find something interesting to you, post the link to the page in this comm. Optionally screenshot the page and/or archive it with an archive website.
To combat western narratives, all posts on the comm should contain a link to a .kp website or archive of a .kp website, either in the URL field or the Post body field. Users would be welcome to comment their own opinions, but posts should be based on DPRK websites.
Here is a current list of websites hosted in DPRK. https://archive.is/RT91h
These webpages tend to post new stuff daily, so the comm should never run out of content. The DPRK website list has a broad range categories. There's a recipe website, an architecture website, an ebook website with juche theory books, an animation website with DPRK animated videos, and more.
The two news sites in DPRK that I read are KCNA and Rodong Sinmun. They have the tendency to post new articles daily at 6 PM eastern time. The articles tend to be deleted after 1 year time, so it is good to archive the page if you find something interesting.
Also, the korean language website of the websites sometimes have additional pages not available in the english version. You might have to use the browser translate function.
Additionally, DPRK has shown rapid development over the past couple years. On June 18 2024, DPRK signed a trade agreement with Russia, which I believe gave DPRK expanded access to new technologies.
Untrustworthy Sources: RadioFreeAsia (RFA), NKNews/KCNAWatch, DailyNK, Rimjin-gang, 38North
There's a possible scenario that you found some interesting DPRK photos on twitter, reddit, or some other social media website, or even a western news site. There is a high likelihood that those images originated from a .kp website, especially if the images have a KCNA watermark.
To find the .kp page associated with the image, you first have to approximate the date of the photo. I have done this in the past by doing a reverse image search and finding articles in western media with the same photo. If the reverse image search doesn't work, you can try to do a web search with a description of the photo. If that doesn't work either, I guess you could use the date on the social media post.
Once you have an approximate date of the photo, you can look at archive.org snapshots of KCNA and Rodong Sinmun for that date to find the article associated with the image. Replace YYYYMMDD with the year/month/day of the date of the photo to find an article for the photos that you found. August 09, 2026 would be 20260809.
https://web.archive.org/web/YYYYMMDD/http://kcna.kp/en
https://web.archive.org/web/YYYYMMDD/http://kcna.kp/kp
https://web.archive.org/web/YYYYMMDD/http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/
https://web.archive.org/web/YYYYMMDD/http://www.rodong.rep.kp/ko/
For KCNA, you have to click on the camera button to view images on the article. I think Rodong Sinmun embeds the image into the page.
You may then use the archive of the .kp webpage as a post on the comm if you wish.