Here is the last footage from the DVD of our North Korea tour. This is the Mangyongdae Children’s Palace (which I will write about further) in Pyongyang. The Children’s Palace is where the most gifted (or politically-connected) children go for their after school extracurricular activities. It’s like a miserable YMCA on steroids, where, instead of having fun, the kids are forced to put on show after show for Palace visitors.
The below videos show these kids, whose “artistic skill is higher than that of the children of any other country”.
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