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Keep 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
by idlewords 10y ago
Keep 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-khasan-border-russiadprk.html http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/2008/09/khabarovsk-khas...
- kough 10y agoWas just about to post this! Highly worth checking out if for the story alone.
- idlewords 10y agoMy 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.
- waqf 10y agoDid you read the first few lines of the page? Or pretty much any of the captions? > Most tourists only experience the political smokescreen of Pyongyang; I had the privilege in visiting all corners on one of the longest tours ever executed (no pun intended) for foreigners into the hermit kingdom. Photos from an officially supervised tour, yes, but limited to Pyongyang, definitely not.
- idlewords 10y agoMy mistake; thanks for the correction!
- jpatokal 10y agoIt's not quite that straightforward: through exploitation of a bureaucratic loophole, they managed to enter the DPRK through a border that's supposed to be closed to foreigners and had quite a bit of time essentially unsupervised (although most of it was on a train).
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