North Korea Revisited

My recent trip to North Korea began with a visit to their embassy in Beijing.

It consists of a very large building secured behind two high barb-wired fences and several armed Chinese guards. The Chinese guards are there to ensure the Korean embassy staff do not leave.

Visas in hand, we flew from Beijing to Pyongyang, the show capital of North Korea. Two years previously, there was a palpable jitteriness among passengers on the aging Ilyushin plane built in Russia. Now two years later, we flew in a modern Russian plane, apparently the only plane flying this route.

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