Upon arriving at Pyongyang airport you realise exactly where you are. The proud, smiling face of the former ‘Great Leader’ Kim Il Sung’s portrait hangs above the only, relatively small and calm terminal. On each side of the airport runway, peasant farmers tend to dry fields which have only recently defrosted after a long, freezing winter...Delightful. Ah for Pyongyang now that spring is here! Owen is quite sure it's intended as ironic humour. It is, isn't it?
LINKS: Six Days with three Kiwi Students in the DPRK - Nick Healy, Scoop
TAGS: Socialism, Humour
It is a shame they had return tickets.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm, you'd hope it was humour - as if the country is a great joke instead of a grotesque revolting prison.
ReplyDeleteNothing like an exceptionally well designed road system because:
ReplyDeleteA: Pyongyang was flattened in the Korean War;
B: The state owns all land and can build and destroy at will; and
C: Private citizens almost never can own a car.
Whimpering little simpletons haven't a clue. Bet they loved the absence of crime and poverty in the street too - such a great system