rush hour in north korea

by deputydog ⋅ 02 / 11 / 2007 ⋅ post a comment

this photo just made my day.

i’m not sure of the name of this road but i’m told by ’sirend’ that it’s in north korea. i’d have thought a road this wide would only have been built to accomodate huge amounts of traffic but people are seemingly able to walk across it at a leisurely pace.

maybe it’s a sunday.

(thanks to sirend for the photo)

discussion

21 comments for “rush hour in north korea”

  1. I heard that this huge streets mainly are for administration people.

    posted by Michel | 2nd of November, 2007, 4:39 pm

  2. Or maybe, all drivers are under arrest.

    posted by Feri Macfrickins | 2nd of November, 2007, 5:03 pm

  3. Wow!! Man, I wish my way home was like that !…

    posted by xonecas | 3rd of November, 2007, 3:08 am

  4. That may be a really nice road but the people who use it still have to live in North Korea.

    posted by Mary | 3rd of November, 2007, 6:38 am

  5. nice pics.

    posted by crazyheartedbitch | 3rd of November, 2007, 7:35 am

  6. Hi, the Permalink for the “11 phenomenal images of earth” doesn’t work.

    posted by dd | 3rd of November, 2007, 11:00 am

  7. Its probably a major highway through the center of the country for the Government. For example moving mass ammounts of supplies or fleets of tanks.

    posted by Whistler | 3rd of November, 2007, 6:23 pm

  8. It’s likely also intended to double as a runway for aircraft in wartime. If it gets bombed at one point, you just move your makeshift airbase a mile or two forward or back.

    posted by Umbriel | 3rd of November, 2007, 9:30 pm

  9. Probably it is reserve runway? Even for reserve runway it can be used by two fighters at same time. In soviet block countries russian’s build sometimes to “middle of nowhere” three times as wide as needed roads with length of 3 km to be able to use them as airports in wartime.

    posted by lontulovikutsu | 3rd of November, 2007, 10:25 pm

  10. Sorry guys, but it’s built to double as a runway.

    In South Korea, where they have more cars, many highways are also duel purpose.

    Yank the street lights out of the centre, and you have a runway for fighter jets.

    Sitll, I wouldn’t mind having a car in Pyongyang. I’ll bet there are no speed cameras.

    posted by Joel | 4th of November, 2007, 9:13 am

  11. Very nice!!!!!

    posted by tik | 4th of November, 2007, 11:44 am

  12. I would not want to guess what punishment for speeding would be!

    posted by Karin | 4th of November, 2007, 6:18 pm

  13. I find this image to be very sad, for two reasons:

    * The North Korean government has spent a fortune on a road that nobody uses, instead of feeding the population, which is desperately underfed and malnoutrished.
    * The same government feels a need to create highways that can double as a runway as a result of paranoia and general hostility towards the rest of the world.

    Sorry, I’m really not amused by this picture at all.

    posted by John117 | 4th of November, 2007, 8:46 pm

  14. Well once upon of time they did use the roads, untill the got blocked by every car manufacturer, except for some chinese one, plus im pretty sure getting a car there is not the easiest thing to do

    posted by Mauro | 5th of November, 2007, 1:25 pm

  15. …. let’s do a Korean Fast & Furious ! …. wouuuuouhhuhouuu

    posted by Advise-Art | 6th of November, 2007, 9:50 pm

  16. The absence of private automobiles can be attributed to restrictions on using gasoline-powered vehicles because of the critical shortage of petroleum.

    posted by Mark | 15th of November, 2007, 7:30 am

  17. In fact this not a road, it is a footpath that leads to a much bigger road..

    posted by Peter Fleming | 8th of June, 2008, 5:30 pm


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