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In bad country the government builds empty housing and forces people to look at the empty housing while they live in the street

I would much rather walkways be level instead. It's way better and more accessible for people on foot, other stuff like cars and transit can climb up and down easily

Hive soldier avatar? we're best friends now

"Yeah, I'm into K-Pop"

These kinds of questions are why I want us to get some North Koreans to do an AMA here

Bring back the ladies in brightly colored dresses! RetVrn!

moranbong band? or is that someone else

they opened up for tourism recently, so you might get your chance someday!

looks like :)

Great username btw, which I had it myself !

a script to download all the images courtesy of DeepSeek :)

# Script to download multiple URLs from a text file with improved line handling
# Usage: ./download_urls.sh urls.txt [output_directory]

# Check if input file is provided
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Error: Please provide a text file containing URLs"
    echo "Usage: $0 <input_file> [output_directory]"
    exit 1
fi

input_file="$1"
output_dir="${2:-./downloads}"

# Check if input file exists
if [ ! -f "$input_file" ]; then
    echo "Error: Input file '$input_file' not found"
    exit 1
fi

# Create output directory if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p "$output_dir"

# Read and process valid URLs into an array
urls=()
while IFS= read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
    # Trim leading/trailing whitespace and remove CR characters
    trimmed_line=$(echo "$line" | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' | tr -d '\r')
    
    # Skip empty lines after trimming
    [[ -z "$trimmed_line" ]] && continue
    
    # Validate URL format
    if [[ "$trimmed_line" =~ ^https?:// ]]; then
        urls+=("$trimmed_line")
    else
        echo "Skipping invalid URL: $trimmed_line"
    fi
done < "$input_file"

total_urls=${#urls[@]}

if [[ $total_urls -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "Error: No valid URLs found in input file"
    exit 1
fi

echo "Starting download of $total_urls files to $output_dir"
current=1

# Download each URL from the array
for url in "${urls[@]}"; do
    # Extract filename from URL or generate unique name
    filename=$(basename "$url")
    if [[ -z "$filename" || "$filename" =~ ^$ ]]; then
        filename="file_$(date +%s%N)_${current}.download"
    fi

    echo "[$current/$total_urls] Downloading $url"
    
    # Download with curl including error handling
    if ! curl -L --progress-bar --fail "$url" -o "$output_dir/$filename"; then
        echo "Warning: Failed to download $url"
        rm -f "$output_dir/$filename" 2>/dev/null
    fi
    
    ((current++))
done

echo "Download complete. Files saved to $output_dir"

it's likely roped off for the ribbon cutting. god forbid we have orderly public events

You're looking at an event. That's not a crowd, it's an audience. With the majority in front of the stage.

I think some of it is due to the population of the DPRK. It's roughly half of the ROK, so I've imagined a lot of this infrastructure is designed for future expansion rather than reflective of the current size of the population. Probably an aspect of it involves moving people from rural communities into cities.

It strikes me as similar to countries like Myanmar and Egypt that built massive cities with plans to move their governments to them, but in the meantime they sorta lay empty because people simply live somewhere else.