According to Euronews, the unfinished roads, cycling peasants in grinding poverty and toiling rural lifestyle clash with the image of a country striving to present a prospering superpower who can afford to invest heavily in a nuclear weapons program.

Gloomy gray architecture…

The state-sponsored tour guides are virtually watching the photographer’s every move. Unpleasant photos such as the brutalist design of these structures are, once again, strictly prohibited. But amidst the appearances of such buildings (which are totally not prevalent in the country) North Korea plunges into darkness at night showing way opposite to South Korea and China.  Nonetheless, North Korea is again dominated by 50s-looking infrastructures, Art Sheep reported.