Photos from North Korea

j · Jan 19, 2008

Labelking mentioned his plan for a trip to the DPRK and I couldn't remember if I had ever posted these photo links here. Maybe I found them here. Anyway, here they are again, because I found them very interesting. (comments in Russian):

http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/
http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-2/
http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-3/
http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-4/
http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-5/

Here's a rough translation of the comments by someone on www.Militaryphotos.net (regular version has broken picture links and is kinda slow):

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...p/t-82755.html

Here's another person's travelogue, some of the pictures are broken from high bandwidth use:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=200578

Enjoy. Please keep political discussion out of this thread so I don't have to move it.

poly800rock · Jan 19, 2008

i didn't think you could go to N. Korea if you had a US passport?

LabelKing · Jan 19, 2008

There was another site with Americans visiting North Korea, and quite frankly, I could see reason why the Koreans would barely tolerate Americans--they asked obnoxious questions, and made obviously provocative comments to the Koreans.

Also, they were dressed really horribly.

texas_jack · Jan 19, 2008

It's been my dream for about 8 years to go to the DPRK. I want to go before it opens up.

LabelKing · Jan 19, 2008

Originally Posted by texas_jack

It's been my dream for about 8 years to go to the DPRK. I want to go before it opens up.
That's where the fun is. I'm afraid in this increasingly globalized society, we won't have have any more interesting places to go. Quite frankly, I've no wish to go to a supposedly ethnic place only to find a McDonalds and a Cisco Systems internet router.

texas_jack · Jan 19, 2008

Originally Posted by LabelKing

That's where the fun is.

I'm afraid in this increasingly globalized society, we won't have have any more interesting places to go. Quite frankly, I've no wish to go to a supposedly ethnic place only to find a McDonalds and a Cisco Systems internet router.

I just wish they'd let Americans in. I read that anyone that isn't American or Korean can go. Sucks.

LabelKing · Jan 19, 2008

Originally Posted by texas_jack

I just wish they'd let Americans in. I read that anyone that isn't American or Korean can go. Sucks.
They grant rare and special visas during their Mass Games. I wonder, what was the travel policy during when East Germany still existed?

Connemara · Jan 19, 2008

Originally Posted by LabelKing

They grant rare and special visas during their Mass Games. I wonder, what was the travel policy during when East Germany still existed?
A lot of the British and French spies in East Germany were issued "diplomatic visas" that, obviously, were not used for diplomatic purposes. From what I understand, a fair number of them were given out.

Connemara · Jan 19, 2008

This is another really fantastic photo essay: http://www.enlight.ru/camera/dprk/index_e.html What an incredibly bizarre place. The first and third pictures make me think of 1984.

j · Jan 19, 2008

The site doesn't allow images to be linked from other sites, unfortunately. I was going to post the whole thing with the translation here, but I didn't feel like transloading all the images.

fortune · Jan 19, 2008

note the guy on the bottom right of the steps next to the water.

j · Jan 19, 2008

Huntsman · Jan 19, 2008

I recall reading, with fascination, a similar site in the past. Apart from that beautiful train station and the wierd partially-completed hotel, it all seems so bleak. Not poor, per se, even the poor generally have a little flair where they can, but just bleak. Dickensian. And I can't stand Dickens.

Coho · Jan 19, 2008

Why would anyone visit such a cold, oppressive, and inhospitable place?

It can't be for the women I reckon.

Originally Posted by texas_jack

It's been my dream for about 8 years to go to the DPRK. I want to go before it opens up.

JetBlast · Jan 19, 2008

Their subway stations are absolutely beautiful, they seem to be influenced by the Moscow Metro.

I think part of the reason of wanting to go is just the fact that no one ever seems to go there, it's not often you hear about trips to the DPRK. I for one would love to visit.........SF Pyongyang shopping trip anyone?!

JB

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