And it is also very possible to photograph Pyongyang in a manner that makes it look drab and lifeless. This type of propaganda unfortunately rarely helps undermine cognitive biases of people, since it is very easy to hand wave away as not representative, partly because it is true.
Yeah, these types of memes only affect people who already agree with the premise
Although now that I think about it, the thing that made me reconsider the western narrative on China was YouTube videos showing off the best parts of China - but that only worked because it was far better than the best part of any place I’d ever been