Photos taken while driving from Pyongyang to the DMZ.

A section of the highway was closed, so we had to take a slight detour.

I really wanted to steal that cone

A quick stop at the Sohung Rest House

Anti-tank barriers. Rigged with explosives so they can be blown up and the rubble strewn across the highway to [...]

Apologies for the month long absence, but I spent June doing the following: laying in bed with a nasty bacterial throat infection, packing up all of my belongings, moving from Arlington to Alexandria, unpacking all of my belongings, looking for jobs, etc. etc. More on that later this month.
Anyways, below is more footage from our [...]

When I mentioned that a cameraman followed us around during our tour, filming our entire trip, I wasn’t exaggerating. He even filmed us dining at two restaurants in Pyongyang, which was kind of…weird. I’m guessing that when he went back to the studio at night to edit the footage he had shot, he and the [...]

On our last night in Pyongyang we stopped at the Pyolmuri Café, which, our guide assured us, served the best apple cobbler in Pyongyang. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure it’s the only place in Pyongyang that serves apple cobbler. Nevertheless, I was very excited at the prospect of eating dessert, as [...]

And here is the video that accompanies my previous post on the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum. Watch it so that you may familiarize yourself with the “immortal military exploits” performed by Kim Il-Sung.

Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) — At least 550,000 foreigners visited the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum over the past more than 50 years since it was opened to visitors in Juche 42 (1953).
Exhibited at the museum are materials and evidence proving that the army and people of the DPRK heroically defeated the armed invasion of [...]

Footage of our visit to the Mangyongdae Fun Fair aka the Disneyland of Pyongyang. You can watch us ride the Roller Coaster of Death, carousel, and Ferris wheel and play carnival games.

Here is the video of our visit to the Tower of Juche Idea, which, in case you were wondering, is taller than the Washington Monument. Bonus footage of U.S. Imperialists dancing with North Koreans is also included.

More randomness.

The Grand People’s Study House: “It has a total floor space of 100,000m and 600 rooms. The library was opened as the ‘centre for the project of intellectualising the whole of society and a sanctuary of learning for the entire people.’
The building can house up to 30 million books, of which it contains [...]

More random shots, most of them of a random traffic girl who was directing “traffic” near a bookstore that we visited.

These little kids would sneak up behind us. When we would turn around, they would run away screaming.

Rush hour