North Korea is one of the most closed and backward countries in the world, ranking 210th among countries and regions in the world, and its per capita GDP is only 1,40 of its southern neighbors.
For example, ordinary people can't make international calls, but foreign tourists can make international calls in hotels for 17 yuan per minute. When foreign tourists arrive in North Korea, there is no mobile phone service, no Internet access, and no wifi (in the underground casino of Giethoorn Island can connect to wifi, but the signal is weak, so they can only send messages).
Letters must be checked when sent or received, and if the official deems the content to be "sensitive", it will be withheld, for example, if the text appears "South Korea", it is considered sensitive content, and the accurate title is "North Korea".
In addition, smiling is prohibited on national holidays, especially during the Festival of the Sun, and it is very troublesome for the authorities to find a smile. The festival of the sun is in honor of the great leader Kim Il Sung, and the smile is blasphemous to the gods and must be severely punished, and other entertainment activities are of course prohibited.
In addition, when traveling to North Korea, you must follow the tour guide to the designated scenic spots, and don't go too far alone, otherwise you may never come back. Because North Korean taxis are not allowed to pull foreigners, and if they don't know the language, they can't get a ride, and they will be ...... as South Korean spiesWhen heavily armed military police officers conduct interrogations, those with poor psychological qualities often panic and flee, and the military police will shoot and kill them.
As for the crime committed by one person, the "consecutive seats" system of three generations is even more standard. If there is a North Korean defector in a family, the other family members will also be thrown into the ** camp, and the crime is unforgivable! Zhu Xianjian, a North Korean who escaped from Jilin Prison in China two years ago, was a special soldier of the People's Army before he fled to China, and because his sister "left North Korea" and his whole family became "defectors", he was also imprisoned, and finally escaped from prison to China.
Many kind-hearted Chinese netizens posted messages: It's not easy to run to my country, don't send people back, you will definitely be shot ...... if you go back
In addition to these, North Korea has been imposing a system of control over the countryside, prohibiting the movement of people, especially rural people, into the capital, Pyongyang.
Rural people are not allowed to enter the capital, not because they are afraid that rural people will affect the image of coming to the capital, but because rural people will consume resources when they enter the city.
In North Korea, many rural people dream of visiting Pyongyang, but dreams are dreams, and dreams are dreams when they are realized, and dreams are only ......fantasies if they cannot be realizedFor ordinary rural North Koreans, entering the capital is pure fantasy.
North Korea is a highly centralized country, holding all the rights of the state, including the eating, drinking, sleeping, life and death of ordinary people.
From a political point of view, the authorities believe that the entry of rural people into Pyongyang poses a threat to the political ecology of the capital, and secondly, North Korea's economy is backward and its social resources are extremely limited, with a GDP of only $40 billion in 2022 (26 billion in South Korea). Pyongyang is the most prosperous city in North Korea, not only with first-class institutions and the military, but also with administrative institutions, schools, hospitals, television stations, newspapers and other institutions, all of which require resources and funds for construction and technical maintenance. In order to avoid the appropriation of resources, the state has done everything possible to prevent rural people from entering Pyongyang so as not to overdraw resources.
In addition, the income level of the rural people in the DPRK is extremely low, which is only enough for food and clothing, and it costs a lot of money to get to Pyongyang, which is also a difficult point for rural people to enter Pyongyang. Let's think about it, the average salary of urban residents in North Korea is equivalent to 500 1,200 yuan a month, and rural people have the money to visit Pyongyang!
Finally, the DPRK has a strict hukou system and is one of the three countries in the world (China, North Korea and Mali) that still has a hukou management system. Rural people entering Pyongyang must first have an urban hukou, which requires a lot of money and must be strictly examined and approved by the hukou department, and 99 percent of the rural people in the DPRK can neither get this money nor pass the political examination.
Only with a resident hukou can you live and work in the capital and enjoy public benefits.
The hukou system is one of the important means of social control in North Korea, with the aim of restricting the movement of people in order to draw a prison and restrict the movement of people, otherwise it would have implemented an efficient and flexible ID card management system like other countries in the world.
To sum up, the DPRK does not allow rural people to enter Pyongyang because of a special regulation introduced after taking into account various factors such as political system, national conditions, and resources.
But no matter how desolate the desert is, there are desirable resources, and the DPRK is not useless, at least housing, education, and medical care are all free, and under the supply system, residents will be given meat, eggs, sugar and other ingredients every month, and some food stamps and cloth stamps will be distributed. If you don't like to eat well, you can go down to the restaurant and go to the supermarket, provided you have to have money.
In any case, North Korea is a majestic country, life and death are downplayed, and if you can't do it, you can do it! It's just that the people at home are suffering, like wandering bohemians, who are always on the edge of the world.