Editor’s note: this was part of Day Five in North Korea.
On Wednesday, May 6th, 2016, I visited the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, or Victorious War Museum for short, in Pyongyang, North Korea. This site is nothing more or less than the anchor of the reclusive nation’s false understanding and deliberate misrepresentation of the Korean War.
Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, Pyongyang.
It was a bizarre and troubling experience.
Here, at last, would be the final, full-throated, heavy dose of propaganda for which we had all done our best to prepare. There was no precedent for the experience, not even the earlier tours to the North Korean side of the demilitarized zone or the resting halls of the two deceased leaders. The military museum would outdo all of that. We were given enough false information for a Quentin Tarantino alternate-history flick, told by people who genuinely believed it (with a similar adoration of violence).