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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A North Korean monk at the Pohyon Buddhist Temple at Mt. Myohyang. Minority religion took me off guard in North Korea, an otherwise atheist nation with a mandatory belief system of the Juche ideology, the brainchild of President Kim Il-Sung himself. Buddhist temples in North Korea are cultural relics of the past and those who worship have approval. There was even a Russian Orthodox Church in Pyongyang and there’s a mosque in the diplomatic compound. Unauthorised religious activity, especially proselytising in North Korea carries harsh punishment and has been the catalyst behind most foreigner detainments.

From here and here. The captions are mostly :LIB:shittery, but the pictures are nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Those captions are pure :brainworms: . Imagine going somewhere and seeing it for your own eyes but instead of relaying the conversations you had with the people there and their point of view you just kept repeating the things you assumed were true before you went.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In countryside North Korea, buses as we know them don’t exist.

Lol

Seemingly all female guides are incredibly beautiful. I don’t believe this to be a coincidence.

Double lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I hate to say it but similarities between broken, desolate cities in most zombie apocalypse movies just can’t be dismissed

on a picture of a cityscape that would look completely normal in most of the world

You are looking across into South Korea. This open space is the Joint Security Area which straddles the political border within the Demilitarized Zone. The physical border is where the light gravel turns dark denoted by the raised concrete line. Cross that line and you’ll be shot. The blue buildings are halfway in each Korea and by entering them, one can theoretically cross to the South. The large building ahead is the ‘Freedom House’, ironically housing a dozen surveillance cameras.

whoops when you forget that the scary orwellian building youre talking about is actually on the south korean side