As with all things dealing with North Korea the question is where are the people? While they dubbed in some music you can plainly hear the wind blowing but it is absent of all other sounds associated with civilizations. No honking horns, no passing cars, no background conversations nothing but the propaganda music and the wind. Even with the building still under construction there are no workers present. Nothing to disturb the idyllic scene. But hey I hear they are doing real good at staying in line with the Kyoto protocols and I haven’t heard Al Gore complain about their carbon footprint.

Just A Grunt on February 1, 2008 at 4:44 PM

lorien1973 on February 1, 2008 at 4:58 PM

Everything I learned about North Korea I learned first hand. The biggest thing that most people in the west can’t wrap their little brains around is the vast majority of the North Koreans are content with the life they lead because they know of no other life. To them the rest of the world lives exactly like them. When we would get a defector and they would see the civilization of South Korea they quite often went into a real state of denial. The S Koreans would always assign handlers to them because for some of them it was more then they could handle. They thought grocery stores full of produce were just something the government was showing them as propaganda. it would be later when they were allowed a little more leeway, after making sure they weren’t saboteurs sent south, and they were getting around on their own that they realized what they had initially shown was not propaganda.
The lucky ones would have family in the south to look after them. The ones that didn’t had a hard time adjusting.

Just A Grunt on February 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM