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...