So I have been very interested in North Korea ever since I have moved to South Korea but now that has been greatly amplified by The Vice Guide to Travel: North Korea. Basically the Vice Broadcasting guys have a habit of going to places where most wouldn’t want to go. Anyways after watching these super interesting documentaries I think North Korea might be among the top places I want to go and see.

What I found most interesting about these videos is that they show just how much of a different world North Korea really has become. The main narrator describes North Korea as the land that time forgot, like walking into 1930s Stalinist Russia. As you will see in the videos, North Korea puts up a facade to impress their tourists which really just displays how eerie the Northern dictatorship really is; like the Potemkin Villages built for Empress Catherine II most of the tourist destinations are just empty husks of false luxury built to impress. In reality this is only effective in displaying the austere decadence of a country that continues to limp along because of the solidarity of their brainwashed masses and charity of the rest of the world meant to appease a dictator that threatens world peace.

Vice Guide to Travel: North Korea
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Having trouble embedding the videos into my wordpress blog, so just use the links above.