A Reddit user secretly filmed a border town in North Korea using a drone (8 photos + 2 videos)
Sinuiju is separated from China by the Yalu River. Back in 2020, a user with the nickname XiaoHao2 launched a drone from China, and only now shared pictures from four years ago. 
North Korea has always been a closed country, so any photos and video evidence of how people live there are of genuine interest. In the city of Sinuiju everything is calm, quiet and measured. At least, this was the case about four years ago, although it is unlikely that anything has changed significantly in the intervening time. 
Photos and videos taken with a drone show clean streets. Instead of traffic lights, there are street traffic controllers, and on buildings there are canvases with communist slogans. 
Social networks suggested that the deserted streets and sparse crowds were most likely caused by the early hour of filming. However, at this time a pandemic began in the world, and perhaps the authorities in North Korea also introduced quarantine measures for citizens. All these are hypothetical versions, because... one can only guess at what was happening in an already closed country at that time, but not say anything. 
It is only known that in a short time almost all foreigners were expelled from the country, and entry into it was closed. 
On Reddit they called what they saw a ghost town. 
And the user’s post became second in the “Top of the Day” rating on March 27. The drone filmer was also warned of the danger of persecution after publication. Because The Chinese government maintains contact with the DPRK, if necessary, the author of the photos and videos will be extradited to the neighboring country as a criminal.
However, in the discussion it was assumed that the Chinese user had already left the country, otherwise he would not have taken such a risk. After all, Sinuiju is a border city, and it is unknown how the North Koreans will view filming of their territory from a drone.
