Photos from Inside North Korea (2014)
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Photos from Inside North Korea (2014)
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#2(2014), and posted to HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10003615
But still fascinating!
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#3Keep in mind these are photos of the capital, in areas that tourists are allowed to see.
There's a fascinating photoset from 2008 by some Europeans who through a bureaucratic miracle were allowed to enter and cross North Korea by train: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/09/khabarovsk-khas...
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#4"Isn't it stately and above board national defense, not subservient to outside forces?"
of course why do you ask!
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#5The photo and caption about the spectacular paintings in North Korea remind me of how much I regret going into the country without a good amount of cash. On the tour, we visited several galleries and artist studios stocked full of large and exquisite paintings—most not propaganda—at what I remember being very reasonable prices.
Obviously, they were unable to accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
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#6Keep in mind these are photos of the capital, in areas that tourists are allowed to see. There's a fascinating photoset from 2008 by some Europeans who through a bureaucratic miracle were allowed to enter and cross North Korea by train: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/09/khabarovsk-khas...
Was just about to post this! Highly worth checking out if for the story alone.
Re: Photos from Inside North Korea (2014)
#7Keep in mind these are photos of the capital, in areas that tourists are allowed to see. There's a fascinating photoset from 2008 by some Europeans who through a bureaucratic miracle were allowed to enter and cross North Korea by train: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/09/khabarovsk-khas...
Was just about to post this! Highly worth checking out if for the story alone.
My favorite part about it is that the blogger is a rail nut, so even in the North Korean part of the travelogue—photos from a place almost no one gets to see—there are tons of locomotive beauty shots. It's pretty charming.
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#8The photo and caption about the spectacular paintings in North Korea remind me of how much I regret going into the country without a good amount of cash. On the tour, we visited several galleries and artist studios stocked full of large and exquisite paintings—most not propaganda—at what I remember being very reasonable prices. Obviously, they were unable to accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
That is the most capitalist regret ever.
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#9Fascinating pics -- however, his guides in North Korea will likely get in trouble due to their publication.
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#10These are the areas tourists are allowed to see. O.k.--I didn't find these pictures depressing.
The lack of urban sprawl, overcrowded--overbuilt cities, traffic congestion, airplanes is not a bad thing to some people.
Yes--I'm missing the starving people we just read about, and the horrid treatment of prisoners.
I'm just saying, these pictures were not depressing. Then again--I don't find the crowded parts of San Francisco, and New York someting to ooo over. Especially when we just step over the homeless because they are everywhere.
No, I don't like their political system. There's got to be a happy medium between America, and this country?
Why do I feel it's many parts of Europe?