Elvis Fu Wrote:
DPRK is full of shit like this.
They have one of the largest highways in the world, yet there are so few private automobiles it hardly gets traveled at all.
I once read a travel journal of a Western tourist who got the inside tour. I think he was German, but living in South Korea and managed to slip in with some Japanese travel group. It was completely bizarre, sometimes scary and often hilarious. Apparently, in North Korea they use Microsoft Windows in English. When the traveler asked why they don't use the Korean version, he was told something along the lines of "Don't be silly. There is no Korean version," though it's all over the southern half of the peninsula.
Another good story took place in a shrine/museum thing dedicated to Kim Jong-Il, I can't remember, but it showcased a basketball autographed by Michael Jordan and given to the Dear Leader by Madeleine Albright. The traveler and the guide had an argument over it, because he wouldn't believe that Jordan was "just" a basketball player.
Right up on the border, they have a HUGE facade of a building that is some kind of 'testament to DPRK's technological power", but it is just the front of a building. I used to have a bunch of propaganda sheets they would drop over the south and some stuff like that, touting the "worker's paradise" etc..
Fucking FRIGHTENING.
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harry Wrote:
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