I clicked on this so excited for news and then… 💔

But in all seriousness, looking at the pattern of development, you have the fifth and final stage of the Hwasong District in Pyongyang currently being built. You have the 20x10 Regional Development Project, we are in its third year and it will be complete by the end of 2033. Not to mention factories, hospitals, schools, farms, and all sorts of things cropping up around the country.

I can’t help but feel that after all this work is done, the next phase will have to be transport. Which admittedly they are building new roads everywhere as well, but I recall Kim Jong Un mentioning to Moon Jae In that the DPRK railways were in an embarrassing state.

I watched a docu-vlog on YouTube regarding the Lao HrSR and the Lao team actually being students in Chinese universities learning about building HrSR. It makes sense that there are an educated group of DPRK citizens who may have already studied this in China or are in the process of studying it, and planning for an improvement in rail.

I could personally see a HrSR line between Sinuiju and Pyongyang and then another one between Pyongyang and Wonsan to start with, with the rest of the rail network being upgraded.

the high speed rail index might be useful than GDP, big mac index, or democracy index.

china and the dprk officially makes humanity immortal with new medicine derived from licking your teeth twice and sells the medicine for 0.2 dollars while the US celebrities only letting white refugees in

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To be honest considering North Korea is about to have an economic boom it will unironically build HSR before America does.

But really I think what we have to do is examine why the North Korean economy is growing quite rapidly in comparison to before.

1. Degradation in the effectiveness of western sanctions.

I think this is a really big one, one of the consequences of neo-liberal deindustrialization was that it introduced severe levels of contradictions of the American dominated global economy, in the past where America produced a lot of goods, America’s economic dominance was justified with the industrial production of the burgerreich, however overtime with the begining of deindustrialization and the rise of China as a manufacturing super power countries where purchasing there goods more so from China then they were from America, this in turn introduced a severe contradiction in Dollar dominance, as you no longer had to purchase goods from America or the west in order to develop, this inevitably forced the US to rely more on the stick rather than the carrot to maintain its dominance, which inturn has given more and more countries motivation to find alternative means to conduct global trade.

2. North Koreas planned economy.

In a similar way to China, North Koreas ability to coordinate it’s economic resources to conduct large scale strategic developments has helped it immensely in its development, while north Korea never embraced Developing Market Socialism like china did, it was still able to develop in spite of that (though, I know this will be unpopular but I think north Korea should adopt a market socialist system GRADUALLY as it has worked really, really, well for china, it doesn’t even have to be developing if it wants to a advanced Market Socialist economy onto where worker collectives and cooperatives control the domestic markets is a possibility for the future, though granted attempting to leapfrog over developmental steps led to shit like Kruschev so yeah.) fact.