I think some of it is due to the population of the DPRK. It’s roughly half of the ROK, so I’ve imagined a lot of this infrastructure is designed for future expansion rather than reflective of the current size of the population. Probably an aspect of it involves moving people from rural communities into cities.
It strikes me as similar to countries like Myanmar and Egypt that built massive cities with plans to move their governments to them, but in the meantime they sorta lay empty because people simply live somewhere else.
I think some of it is due to the population of the DPRK. It’s roughly half of the ROK, so I’ve imagined a lot of this infrastructure is designed for future expansion rather than reflective of the current size of the population. Probably an aspect of it involves moving people from rural communities into cities.
It strikes me as similar to countries like Myanmar and Egypt that built massive cities with plans to move their governments to them, but in the meantime they sorta lay empty because people simply live somewhere else.