As we arrived at Pyongyang's airport our mobile phones were confiscated and throughout our stay in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea there was no access to the internet.
At the hotel our government minders had booked rooms alongside ours, and on the one occasion that we tried to leave without them we were reported and reprimanded.
From exchanges with our minders, we also learned that our rooms were bugged.
But then we were not being singled out, the entire country lives in a bubble of unreality, cut off from the outside world and watched by an army of informers.
There are only two mobile phone networks. The diplomatic corps and NGO workers use one of them to contact one another.
A relatively small elite of North Koreans use the other system, but this still denies them access to foreigners inside the country and to anyone outside.
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