While in Asia in 2007, TEDster Paul Koontz got the priceless chance to spend a few days in North Korea. He brought his kids and his camera, capturing both quotidian detail (like the military bearing of a lonely traffic warden) and the grand spectacle leading up to the Mass Games. This short slideshow gives a rare perspective on a culture that the rest of us know far too little about.
It also has a clip of the
mass games at the end with a human LCD that's much more impressive than the one I posted previously.
Interesting video. Kinda what i aspected. Its like a caricature of a communistic dictatorship.
ReplyDeleteI want to go there! Global train pass to Korea?
ReplyDeleteTo think that these images only show the part that the minders (the people from the government that 'guide' foreigners) allowed him to see.
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