I find North Korea totally fascinating. Who knew they had a website, for instance? Check out their mp3 download section, with top hits from the North!
Watch The Vice Guide to North Korea. I think you’ll find it fascinating. If you don’t have time for it all, episode 14 is pretty funny. The vice guy does a karaoke version of “Anarchy in the UK” for his extremely befuddled guides, who have little idea of rock and roughly zero conception/comprehension of punk rock.
In reading the comments on the Vice site, I came across a link to a blog by a violinist for the New York Philharmonic, which paid an extremely rare visit to the DPRK earlier this year. You can read the intro and parts one, two, and three. I think you’ll find it fascinating reading.
Beautiful big pictures make for fascinating viewing.
And of course, it’s always fascinating to watch this video:
(It has a fascinating backstory, too).
Those are some pretty cool links. Thanks.
That NYP blog was incredibly engrossing, er, I mean fascinating, fascinating. I damn near cried by part three. Thanks for posting.
If you haven’t, check out the documentaries A STATE OF MIND and CROSSING THE LINE. The former is about the mass games, and the latter is about an American soldier who defected to North Korea. I particularly liked the former, but both are amazing.