This is the eighteenth and final installment in a multi-part blog on North Korea. You can find the others here
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Cracking Up in the DPRK
January 1, 2010 by 2 Comments
This is the seventeenth in a multi-part blog on North Korea. You can find the others here
We said goodbye to our brave military escort at the DMZ, thankful that they’d protected us from the imminent danger of American attack.
North Korea—The DMZ Too
December 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment
This is the sixteenth in a multi-part blog on North Korea. You can find the others here
Our presence on the wrong side of the frontier caused a mild scramble among the South Korean forces.
Coming Down Hard in the Demilitarized Zone
December 5, 2009 by 2 Comments
This is the fifteenth in a multi-part blog on North Korea. You can find the others here
The highlight of my time in North Korea—the moment that made all the badgering and propaganda worthwhile—was our visit to the Demilitarized Zone and the truce village of Panmunjom. This thin line bisecting two worldviews is the last Cold War frontier, and the world’s most heavily defended border.
Propaganda Gets Me Down
December 1, 2009 by 2 Comments
This is the fourteenth in a multi-part blog on North Korea. You can find the others here
The Arch of Triumph commemorates North Korea’s liberation from the Japanese occupation at the end of World War Two. It looks an awful lot like the Arch in Paris, but of course Pyongyang’s Arch was deliberately built to be 3 meters taller…
Deep Beneath the Streets of Pyongyang
November 27, 2009 by Leave a Comment
This is the thirteenth in a multi-part blog on North Korea. You can find the others here
Every first world metropolis needs a subway, and the Great Leader’s urban paradise is no different. But as with everything else, the North Koreans went a little overboard. Other world cities pride themselves on having functional transportation systems. Pyongyang’s exists as yet another monument to the glorification of the Fatherland.
Child Stars, and the North Korea Spy Ship Incident
November 12, 2009 by Leave a Comment
This is the tenth in a multi-part blog on North Korea. You can find the others here
Any propaganda tour of Pyongyang is bound to include a visit to the American spy ship Pueblo, captured by North Korea in 1968. To most people 1968 is ancient history, the distant past. But the North Koreans are still gloating over it and the international incident it caused.
