Back in March, I went to North Korea for a week and a bit. The trip started out with a visit to Kaesong City, former capital of Korea (from waaaaay back in the day), which currently sits right on the North/South Border:
Morning streets in Kaesong City:
A local museum guide in Kaesong:
A North Korean border guard, at Panmunjom:
Sitting in on an English lecture at the Grand People’s Study Hall in Pyongyang:
View from the train:
A view from the Pyongyang Film Studios backlot. In the foreground, a film set for a traditional-style Korean village; in the background, the (in)famous Ryugyong Hotel:
The trip included a visit the live set of a propaganda film being shot in Pyongyang Film Studios:
Pyongyang Railway Station:
Trading drawings with a sketch artist in Sinuiju, near the Chinese border:
With a very fashionable local guide in Sinuiju:
Sitting in on a kindergarten class in Sinuiju:
From the riverbank, you can clearly see Dandong, Sinuiju’s bright, modern twin on the Chinese side of the Yalu River:
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