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Hypothetical highways in the DPRK - Conjecture?

Is there a source for the 'hypothetical national highways' section or is it conjecture? 77.100.132.172 (talk) 21:34, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was actually wondering the same thing a while back. I had had actually thought about simply deleting the section. If there are no sources to back it up, then I have no issues if someone removes that section. Masterhatch (talk) 22:23, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I found something of interest on this topic. https://maps.vlasenko.net/soviet-military-topographic-map/map200k.html

Soviet military maps from the 1980s, only covering North Korea. They show road numbers, and these road numbers match exactly, what's shown as "hypothetical North Korean numbers".

This made me think, maybe this isn't conjecture, nor is it hopotethical, maybe this is just a single unified system that was created during the Japanese colonial era, and both Koreas inherited (modified only in South Korea slightly within its own defacto jurisdiction). North Korea obviously lags in road construction, and in a standardized way of putting up directional signage, relative to its Southern counterpart.

Maybe, if we make sure that this is the case, we can merge the "North" and "South" under a single korea-wide system, and completely get rid of the notion of "Hypothetical".

BasilLeaf (talk) 20:37, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]