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North Korea’s Best Building Is Empty: The Mystery of the Ryugyong Hotel

Nearly 30 years—and an estimated $750 million—after its construction began, the empty and unused Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang remains a glorified telecommunications antenna.

26 Surprising Facts About: North Korea

North Korea's one-star airline

A model farm — with few farmers — in North Korea

They said it was a model cooperative farm. There were vegetables, to be sure, but there was barely a farmer in sight, barely any activity. And it was surprisingly spotless given that farming usually entails dirt.

Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro

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During my visit to North Korea, I was part of the first ever group of foreigners given access to all stations across both lines of the Pyongyang Metro. This may sound mundane, but the previously restricted Pyongyang Metro is surely one of the most mysterious, yet beautiful transit systems on earth, each station uniquely themed in ultra-nationalism, parading North Korea’s revolutionary goals and achievements to impressionable commuters. In many ways, it’s a small museum, most of which formerly hidden from outside eyes and subsequently shrouded in conspiracy theories. Sensationalism aside, here’s my journey in over sixty photos of the beating heart of Pyongyang, the Pyongyang Metro.

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Inside: Undercover in North Korea

North Korea Loses Its Link to the Internet

A strange thing happened to North Korea’s already tenuous link to the Internet on Monday: It broke.

 

Enter Pyongyang

North Korea Not Happy With Viral Chinese video that mocks Kim Jong-un

Kim Jong Un Attends An Air Show In North Korea

The photos North Korea didn’t want you to see

PHOTOGRAPHER Eric Lafforgue has ventured into North Korea six times.

Using digital memory cards he smuggled out images of the communist nation he was forbidden to take.

Mr Lafforgue wanted to show that North Koreans are humans, not robots, who also suffer.

“I was banned after my last trip in September 2012 when I published some photos on the web. The North Koreans saw them and asked me to delete them as they judged them too offensive. I refused as I thought it was unfair not to show the reality of the country,” he told news.com.au.

He said life outside Pyongyang and the main towns was tough for the locals.

“Life is brutal in many places of North Korea, far from the Western standard.”

In a small fishing village, where Mr Lafforgue visited multiple times, he was treated like an honoured guest. The town was so isolated they had never seen a mobile phone and they spent their days fishing and growing seaweed.

“Even with their hard life, they told me, with tears in their eyes, they venerate the dear leaders ... even if sometimes they do not have a lot to eat.”

These are the photographs Kim Jong-un didn’t want the outside world to see.

The shocking contrast between the two Koreas as seen from space

No propaganda can hide the stark contrast between South Korea and North Korea as seen from orbit. A buzzing megalopolis and a bright constellation of cities versus a sea of nothingness and a capital that looks miserable despite the fact that it houses 3.26 million people.

North Korea’s Weapon of Choice: The Fax Machine

 

North Korea has ramped up the rhetoric against South Korea again through its weapon of choice this year: the fax machine.

North Korea: Where Everything's Amazing and Everyone Is Happy

“Welcome to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” our host beamed. The plane had barely landed, and the propaganda had already started. I was officially part of the first tourist delegation to ever visit North Korea for New Year’s. Over the next five days, I’d be under 24-hour surveillance, and I’d be hearing all sorts of interesting “facts.”

“What is the first thing you notice?” my guide asked.

“Ummm…” He didn’t give me time to answer.

“The fresh air. Do you love all the fresh air?!”  I sniffed for a second. All I smelled was jet fuel and diesel fumes.

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