"US is empire of the devil": A visit to North Korea(1stopkorea.com)
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"US is empire of the devil": A visit to North Korea
http://www.1stopkorea.com/nk-trip1.htm
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A documentary filmed covertly during a trip to Korea (similar to the one described in this article): probably the bravest and most stupid journalistic stunt of all time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ixGYzbLz0&feature=PlayL... It makes for an Oscar quality documentary.
I'm up to part 6, and this documentary is awesome. The only problem I have with it is that any of the North Korean citizens depicted have probably been sent to "re-education" camps for letting this filming happen. The makers of the film have essentially killed anybody they interacted with them.
It's possible, but I wouldn't estimate the possibility as "probably." Odds are no one from North Korea has any idea this film exists.
If you like crazy, here's a blog of a guy who went from Vienna to Pyongyang by train, entered North Korea through the border with Russia and spent 36 hours without a guide...until he got to Pyongyang
http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/
This guy's blog is so much better than the Vice video. Even when alienated by whats going on, they continue to try to be respectful of the people they are with. What a novelty.
My favorite N. Korea travelogue is this fellow's, done by train:
http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/
He's a train hobbyist, a touch obsessed with timetables. He noticed that Moscow-Pyongyang routes were hypothetically opened. He secured a travel visa through the normal routes, and as it turned out, his visa was valid for any entrance to N. Korea.
As a result, he entered the DPRK through the Russian border. He was able to walk around in normal N. Korean train stations and talk to the locals, without any government guides or monitors.
He's a train hobbyist, a touch obsessed with timetables. He noticed that Moscow-Pyongyang routes were hypothetically opened. He secured a travel visa through the normal routes, and as it turned out, his visa was valid for any entrance to N. Korea.
As a result, he entered the DPRK through the Russian border. He was able to walk around in normal N. Korean train stations and talk to the locals, without any government guides or monitors.
The North Korean leadership would have never been able to get this much traction with their populace had it not been for the Korean war.
The long term effects of such actions are often very hard to predict.
The long term effects of such actions are often very hard to predict.
> And yes, they even use Windows in North Korea. Though one doubts Microsoft ever sees their cut!
> Oddly enough the students were using the English version of Windows 98 rather than the Korean one.
Heh, interesting. I was trying to figure out how North Korea would have gotten their hands on a copy of Windows. My guess is someone ran across the border to China and picked up a pirated copy..
> Oddly enough the students were using the English version of Windows 98 rather than the Korean one.
Heh, interesting. I was trying to figure out how North Korea would have gotten their hands on a copy of Windows. My guess is someone ran across the border to China and picked up a pirated copy..
To their credit, half of that propaganda is right: The United States is most definitely an empire- albeit one in denial.
Very interesting story.