The Strange Land of North Korea (DPRK)

⛄ NORTHEAST PASSAGE ON ICEBREAKER 🧊 - This is a film about a traveller in the strange land called North Korea or officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Tours to the DPRK are tightly scheduled and normally include a visit to the demilitarised zone, museums and statues to Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, Pyongyang’s amusements parks, chandelier-laden metro system and showcase entertainment facilities such as the Circus and the SchoolChildren’s Palace. In addition to these, I took a flightseeing flight on a Mi-17 helicopter over the DPRK’s capital city of Pyongyang. As well, as my tour was an extended one, it also went the northeast of the DPRK to the tri-country area around the Rason Special Economic Zone where the DPRK, China and Russia conjoin. The cult of the Kims is perhaps the most extraordinary feature of the DPRK. Images or statues of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il are found everywhere. These graven images are effec