American family in North Korea

[Mustang83]

6min video of an American family that got to visit North Korea for 4 days and managed to get some pictures. Very disturbing in a "1984" kinda way...

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/244

 

[Blutonski816]

I remember seeing an article where a western tourist visited North Korea, illustrating his narrative with some great photos and this just reinforces how (I don't want to say backwards) sideways the place is... however at no fault to the people themselves, them being just faithful citizens of their homeland that just so happens to have hard-line communist government led by a guy who's a few veggies short of a bowl of Kimchee.

However, every time I read about this subject I love to interject that the North Koreans are the most interesting (read: humorous) communists around today...

 

[mmx1]

Love the commentary.

As far as creepy, check out Children of the Secret State, shot undercover by a North Korean exile who snuck back into the country.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1875007335054132657

 

[FLYTPAY]

Check out the reviews of their hotels!
"I do not recommend this hotel foret owners" (they might eat Fido)
"I recommend this hotel for:Young singles, An amazing honeymoon" (WTF!)
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g294444-Pyongyang-Hotels.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

If you do not have Google Earth, get it and look at Pyong Yang. It is amazing. It is very difficult to find vehicles as the streets are EMPTY. Quite creepy.

 

[Old R.O.]

Here's another blog site with some interesting insights on a visit to North Korea.

http://www.blogjam.com/2005/11/08/north-korea/