Featured Image Credit: Reddit/u/XiaoHao2
Topics: China, North Korea, Reddit, Social Media
Kit Roberts
Footage reportedly shows images from inside North Korea after a drone pilot claimed to have flown a drone over the country.
North Korea is notorious for its secrecy, with tourists previously only being allowed in under strict supervision before those from certain countries were barred.
As such it's been impossible for many to visit the country since 2020, though North Korea is now relaxing the restrictions.
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One person claimed that they had decided to try and get their own look at North Korea, though without actually entering.
In a post on Reddit they claimed that while in China, they had flown a drone over the border with North Korea and shot footage of what was there.
The Redditor claimed that they had posted the footage to the social media platform, with the post subsequently going viral with some 144,000 upvotes.
Among the images shot by the drone are ones of a large building which is decorated with pictures of Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea, as well as Kim Jong-il.
The streets are also very empty, with no motorists and few pedestrians, though it's also not clear what time the footage was taken.
In some of the clips, people can even be seen on the ground looking up and pointing at the drone as it flies over.
And social media users certainly had a few thoughts about the stunt.
One wrote: “Am I tripping or is there no street drainage at all? Definitely no traffic lights. Looks like a concrete model of a city."
A second said: "It’s interesting how the uncanny valley exists for inanimate things as well. This is close enough to being an actual city that it’s disturbing."
A third posted: "Yesss but barely any cars or people. No trash anywhere. It's so bizarre to look at it."
But there was still one thing that a lot of people thought about the images, and that was that the person who piloted the drone could definitely get into a lot of trouble.
Not only that, that it had been a very dangerous thing to do.
There were also some who were left perplexed as to how easily he had managed to fly the drone over the border.
One person joked: "Guy singlehandedly invaded N. Korea."
A second observed: “If this random dude with a drone from a store can this easily spy on North Korea, imagine the intel the US has.
“US intelligence are probably like 'wait s***, we spent hundreds of millions on spy satellites and could have just used a f****** $500 drone?'"
Someone else warned: “Causing an international incident as a goof,” while another said: “That seems like a dangerous game."
Others observed that the relationship between China and North Korea, which is cordial, could mean that it was unlikely to result in any serious consequences even if the drone had been shot down.