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A trio of Pyongyang time lapse videos

Timelapse: Enter Pyongyang
Koryo Tours/JT Singh/Rob Whitworth

A video sponsored by Koryo Tours has had the Guardian descending to the level of Buzzfeed with the following clickbait headline: Timelapse video offers unique insight into North Korea’s capital city. Needless to say, Buzzfeed calls it “mind-blowing”.

As you can see from the above, it’s a very slick production, from “city-­branding pioneer JT Singh and flow-motion videographer Rob Whitworth“, and more ambitious than Koryo Tours’ more static timelapse video from last year:

To complete the trio, here’s an unrelated timelapse by Wayne Li of the Taedong River taken from the Yanggakdo International Hotel in 2012:

Nice work from everyone.

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