Photo Essay
May 26th, 2009 - 3:30 pm
North Korea — The Land of No Smiles.
Chilling stuff. Literally, in the case of a shopkeeper, frozen indoors during working hours.
North Korea — The Land of No Smiles.
Chilling stuff. Literally, in the case of a shopkeeper, frozen indoors during working hours.
wtf? K-Swiss t-shirts are made there.
When I read that only the finest artists are allowed to portray Dear Leader and Hellspawn, I had a moment of inspiration. Unfortunately, it looked more like Jimmy Durante so I flushed.
When Chinese and/or Russian mobsters need to farm out work to a lower cost and/or less traceable environment, there aren’t many places left better than NOKO.
K-Swiss t-shirts are made there.
Yeah, and Rolexes are sold on sidewalks here.
I wonder if they’ll smile once Obama visits to apologize for America’s interference with unification in the 50s.
The empty street photo reminded me of something I saw on the news a few years ago. Someone had taken a clandestine video inside North Korea. One of the more memorable scenes was a female cop dilligently going through the motions of directing traffic – only there was no traffic. She had her job to do and was doing it well, but there were no cars. It was theater of the absurd but probably typical of North Korea.