These are the photos from my last 24 hours in North Korea.
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The “Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum” of Pyongyang
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).
North Korea in Photos: On-The-Spot Guidance
Day Four
At nearly every single visit for our last two days in North Korea, various tour guides attempted to impress upon us the extent of leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il’s “on-the-spot guidance” in moving North Korea forward.
The first journey of day four would be by subway.
North Korea in Photos: The DMZ
The Korean Demilitarized Zone was the focus of day three in North Korea, May 2nd, 2016.
Roughly straddling the 38th parallel, the Korean DMZ is the final result of the Korean War, one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. The heavily-armed and high-tension borderline between the two Korean nations is open to tours in both Korean nations. It was a three-hour drive from Pyongyang.
