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North Korea's fake village with painted-on windows

boingboing.net • 21 Jul 2026, 14:45

North Korea's fake village with painted-on windows
Kijong-dong — Don Sutherland, U.S. Air Force / Public domain (via Wikipedia)

From the South Korean side of the DMZ you can look through binoculars at a tidy North Korean town — bright blue roofs, multicolored walls, a childcare center, schools, a hospital. Kijŏng-dong is a stage set.

The buildings are concrete shells with no glass in the windows, and some of the windows are just painted on. — Read the rest

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