My dear friends in the free world.

What can I say but „ don't worry be happy.“
North Korea was an adventure of a life time. A beautiful big lie. Pyongyang is grandiose, as if built by Spear himself. Museums, monuments, statues,fountains,music halls,sport halls of every imaginable sport, childrens halls, universities, yet more statues and monument and of course the mausoleum.
The city it self was impeccably clean, cleaner than Singapore, and there are no cars on the great avenues...well those big black landcrusers the apparatchniks have are there, and the public is sardined in old trolleybuses,but so what else is new. The metro however is big and grand, at least the two stations the guides were allowed to show us. The people on the street ( whom we were not allowed to talk to) were well dressed, clean and proper, no difference between the generations, everyone dresses well. Children all in school uniforms or youth communist league outfit.
We were promptly put into a 30 story EMPTY hotel, and it was awkward the first meal we had in a humongous restaurant, we were alone like in the film Shining and Grímúlfur went berserk shouting redrum! Redrum! Running all over the 2000m2 empty space.
The food we had was however surprisingly very good and excessive. Fish, meat,dog,duck and vegetables.
The program was very strict, started early in the morning and lasted long into the evening, all we saw and heard was in a strange tune. „ Our great leader said that..bla bla bla. Well I can understand Kim Il Jung and the ideas that he had after the war, then the world was divided and both China and the Soviets were there to help,assist and advice. But since then the world has changed but the noose around N-Korea just tightens and one day these proud, polite and humble people will wake up and realize that they have lived in a lie all their life.
I have traveled vastly over Europa and Asia, this is the first time that i have a bad taste in my mouth after my encounter with the most oppressed people I have ever met. The Soviets were bad enough but in my memory that was childsgame compared to this.
But this is the trip through the oppressed world so I suppose I asked for it.