Riding the Pyongyang Metro

Riding the Pyongyang Metro

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• North
• Korea
• DPRK
• Subway
• Metro

[Eddy929292]

how were you able to film?

i thought all foreigners were always followed etc.

[inepom]

They were ok with us taking pictures/filming in many of the places we visited.

[ExpressionOfMe]

Is the man talking to the little girl in red korean or a tourist????

[inepom]

That was a tourist.

[revanbh]

It seems like no one has ever seen any other station but these two. There is no video of any other station. This can easily lead to a conclusion that these are for showcasing to the foreigners. Also people in here seem kinda "artificial", with no purpose whatsoever for being there, but as showcasing material. NK should allow tourists sightseeing without "guides", otherwise these vids can't be taken as credible. Presence of "guides" means they have something to hide from foreign eyes.

[umahuma4]

let his citizens out of the country.

[airdrieboy1984]

I agree with the comments that this is staged... one other point i noticedm when the train was arriving at the station there appeared to be around 30 soldiers waiting to enter the last carriage. I wonder what they are there for.

[JuhaVnt]

@TheLukas1946 Ex- East Berlin subway cars.

[TheLukas1946]

the trains are copied from berlins subway

[Lordmaster36]

@revanbh They have everything to hide from foreign eyes.

[anorak2]

@Doomsday2060 Or even from West Germany. The cars were originally made in West Berlin in the 1950s. Some were sold off to East Berlin in the late 1980s, but some remained operating in the West. After reunification they continued to operate in united Berlin, until all of this type were finally sold off to North Korea some time in the 1990s. That is when scratching windows was a widespread form of vandalism.

[isokessu]

Why people say that North Korean metro is fake and all -.- of course it's not. I think Pyongyang metro is just like Moscow metro. It's a big communist metro system what can be used for transporting civil, soldiers and shelter from bombings. Actually subways on many capital city is made against nuclear bombs (Washington, Stockholm, Helsinki, Moscow, the tunnels aren't safe but there are bomb shelters everywhere. Btw that door window is scratched by Korean teens so how is it acting for tourists?

[loro1rojo]

@Sanaluvern What makes you think that? How could you generalize like that?

[Sanaluvern]

Although I've never know a N.Korean in real life,but I guess they are better people than the S.Korean

[fuckmealex]

My roommate is from Beijing, and has been to Pyongyang for work numerous times. He described the subway as a giant fall out center (hence the depth of it) and he said the reason "tourists" can only go to two stations is because North Korea is as you know a facade. The other stations are very dark (if the lights are even working) and the electricity is so bad the trains rarely make it from one station to another, other than these two that have to function to keep up the image.

[Doomsday2060]

@detnies

Nope, that vandalism is probably from East Germany.