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Communist China and Vietnam are now open for all, yet "The People's Democratic Republic of Korea" - North Korea - remains a mystery. There's so little that we realy know about North Korea that any piece of information is highly valued and extremely interesting.
Artemia Lebedev has had the opportunity to go into North Korea and take a few limited photos.
Here's a translated version of his Russian tales:
Here is a forum posting I found discussing his trip and detailing a few more Russians who've been to North Korea (sometimes photos are off, I donno why):
Unreal.
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Todd Alperovitz
| July 30th, 2006 at 11:11 am #
It’s just that, a peek… another sterilized travelogue of the DPRK.
Children of the Secret State hosted on Google video is a much better look at Korea.
fiLi
| July 30th, 2006 at 3:07 pm #
This one, eh? :
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6951629397402742053
Yeah, I saw it on IsraeliTV a while ago (http://www.filination.com/blog/2006/05/06/chinese-in-israel-2/)
There were a few things I found interesting about the Russian:
There were quite a few of those Russian lads going into NK.
They were allowed to walk around quite freely and take photos (though being followed).
Discovery does a good job of showing the awful happenings in NK, but the photos taken by the Russians show a different perspective of everyday NK. There is a life there… there are people living there…