The North Korean People
Live in a gray city for long enough, and it shows on your face. They are unaccustomed to your presence. Their heads hang low, and smiles are rare. They walk around you without making eye contact, but every now and then you may catch someone sneaking a look. You can...
“The Scariest Place On Earth”: The North Korean DMZ.
The DMZ. Former president Bill Clinton had named it the "scariest place on Earth." It is the most heavily militarized border in the world, with over a million soldiers ready to go to war at a moment's notice if either side dared to cross the 38th...
The Greatest Show On Earth: North Korea’s Arirang Mass Games
As I said in the last entry, this is the greatest show on earth. Not only does it hold the Guinness Book of World Records title for world's largest show, but it is also performed in the world's largest stadium and features 100,000 performers who have all committed...
North Korea’s Cult of Personality & Ridiculous Children
The cult of personality. That's the term giving to folks like Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Mussolini, Castro, and Kim Il-Sung. It's the idea of using mass media and propaganda to fuel the notion that a single human being is a god-like hero, a savior of the nation, and...
The Heart Of North Korea
What trip to Pyongyang would be complete without seeing the structures that represent the very soul of North Korea? We take a look at central Pyongyang and Kim Il-Sung square, the heart of its communist movement and the 16th largest city square in the world....
The Pyongyang Metro
What riding the Metro helped debunk: There's no way that they could pay so many actors to pretend everything is peachy; if they were hiding anything, it would have been more cost-effective to leave this out of the tour in the first place. So people really do...
A Tour Of Pyongyang
The constant fog (to the point I had joked that the government was creating it) definitely doesn't help debunk the stereotype. Let's face it: Pyongyang is a very clean city unfortunately inhabited by a soulless buildings spread out on a flat space of 2630 sq....
An American In North Korea – How I Got In
Press play. And then start reading. Well, I just got into the most isolated country in the world without a hitch and I'll be coming out with a lot of stories. There's a lot of material to go over in terms of what I've seen in...
Where Are We Now?
Where Are We Next?
