The Disturbingly Paranoid Republic of Korea

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March 21st 2011

Published: March 21st 2011

That would be a better name than the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. Of course any country that feels the need to shore up its credentials by affixing such prefixes as 'democratic' and 'peoples' is bound to be dubious. As a rule the more a regime emphasizes its democratic values through the amount of adjectives in its name the more ruthless and undemocratic it is. As such the D.P.R.K is the ... Read Full Entry

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Korean War Memorial for the Chinese soldiers

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Pyongyang metro

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Kim Il Sung smiles and leads the people to glory in a mosaic in the metro

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Nina, our guide Kim and Nils in the metro

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Pyongyang metro is very deep!

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So called house where Kim Il Sung was born (though strangely he was born in Khaborovsk Russia as well)

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Portrait of Kim Il Sung and parents, he is the one on the left

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Pyongyang at night, this is where the whole countries electricity goes to.

Mount Myohyangsan

View from the balcony of the International Friendship Exhibition

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Kwangbop Temple

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Frescoes at the Buddhist Kwangbop Temple

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Stone pagoda at the temple

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Nice carvings

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Performance put up for us at the number one middle school

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Dancing

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School childeren with flowers, waiting for?

22nd March 2011

LivingTheDream
Ben

So agree with the naming game
I so agree with the naming of country that you mention in the beginning - the more a country calls itself democratic or the like, the less it is. I have always found this fact incredibly ironic....

22nd March 2011

ornella
non-member comment

Questions!
Just a few questions, where there internet cafes and if so surely they were monitored, so did you write this once you left the place? Did you see the World Cup, although they were losing one of the players started running around like they'd won the world cup so that they can show the footage back home! I think quite a few citizens/subjects have defected in sport's competitions! Good Blog title btw! Nice dancing, at least they had a wee bit of colour! What about the shops? Did they have anything? I remember going on a school trip to the Soviet Union and seeing people queuing up for hours only to get to the front with nothing there to buy! Are they allowed to go out? So many questions, I'll have to wait for you to come back!

10th April 2011

Niv
non-member comment

No doubt
Kim Ill Sung's birth place looks very like a normal untouched country house.. definitely not like some kind of a house in the wizard of Oz. they did a good job there. at least you had some fun with the chinese room-mate :)

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