tnkted

What does your family think about your job? If you are married, your partner must be one tough cookie.

They have a propaganda village right next to the DMZ. It's a village filled with what is essentially movie props. I visited the DMZ recently and have photos if anyone is interested.

We know that the village is empty because when they light it up at night (veeerrry rarely due to how hard it is to get electricity there) the lights at the bottem of the house are brighter than the lights at the top, so they clearly just put a bulb at the bottom and let it light up the whole empty box.

They've also got a massive flagtower with a huuuge flag. It's kind of a funny story actually. The South Koreans have a small village inside the DMZ and the north koreans built a flagpole as a kind of fuck you to the South Koreans. The South koreans decided to build one too, only taller; the North Koreans took their flagpole down, and built an even TALLER one with a bigger flag. The flag weighs 220 kg and the pole is the third tallest in the world. You can read about it here.

Here you go!

Propaganda village got its name because the North Koreans would blast propaganda from huge speakers in the village. They turned it off awhile ago, but the name stuck.