video. He sends his drone to photograph a city in North Korea from China… and returns with stunning images

Maybe the task wasn't that complicated. On March 26, a Reddit forum user, “XiaoHao2,” posted never-before-seen photos of Sinuiju, a North Korean city, with the sobering caption: “Drone photos of North Korea, I was in China, and my drone flew over the border.” . . He shares everything multiple times, in multiple groups, without ever claiming to have any authorization.

Sinuiju is a city located on the Korean side of the China-Korea Friendship Bridge on the border with China. The drone pilot explains that these images were taken in 2020, during the Covid crisis. He would simply send his machine directly from the Chinese side of the border, two kilometers from the North Korean buildings seen in these photos. What surprises users who come across the videos is the strange feeling they experience. The city, even taking into account the Covid context with its share of travel restrictions in place at the time, feels almost empty and stuck in time. The streets and roads are particularly quiet. “It looks like a concrete model of the city,” we can read in the comments below the post.