Life in North Korea
I visited North Korea in October It was an interesting time to visit. The Worker’s Party was holding a major conference in Pyongyang to bestow a bunch of official titles (including the rank of general) upon Kim Jong-Il’s third son, a move seen as marking him as Kim Jong Il’s chosen successor. Kim Jong Il’s [...]
Posted by Aidan under Travel, Travel - World | Permalink | No Comments »North Korean Newspapers
North Korea is known for its censorship and control of the media. When I visited, I bought a couple of copies of the Pyongyang Times, an English-language North Korean newspaper. It doesn’t have many pages, but comes out once a week. Almost every front page headline is about Kim Jong-il. The stories in the rest [...]
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In Beijing I joined a tour run by Koryo Tours. It was a week-long tour into North Korea – one of the world’s most isolated countries. We flew into Pyongyang using Air Koryo — North Korea’s national airline. We had a group visa and so didn’t get any stamps in our passports. In the last [...]
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This weekend I’m going on vacation for a month. I’m spending 2 weeks in Japan. I’ll be visiting friends in Osaka and Tokyo and also visiting a couple of places I haven’t been in Japan: Takayama and Nagasaki. I bought myself a Japan Rail pass to travel around. I hardly spoken any Japanese in the [...]
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