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North Korea

In June of 2002 the DPRK granted visas to US citizens for the first time since 1995. I was among a group of 7 US citizens to visit - The Pyongyang Seven. I've divided the photos into 3 sets - Pyongyang, The Demilitarized Zone, and the 100k person Mass Games. It is an amazing place....
Pyongyang
Pyongyang 		DMZ
DMZ 		Mass Games
Mass Games

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Guest 05-Jul-2007 02:40
Tom, do you also find inspiring the million or so that have been starved to death by the DPRK regime? (Do not try to claim that THAT is because of U.S. imperialism.)
Walsh McGuire30-Jun-2006 14:09
Tom - you are out of your tree. I have been to a number of countries where I don't particularly like the methods of government, but I can honestly say the DPRK is an extremely dangerous regime. I had a general tell us w/ a straight face that nuclear war was a viable option with the US and Japan. They are extremely unpredictable and not practicing real politique as Libya is now for example. They have nothing to lose, and this makes the DPRK a large threat to global stability.
Tom 01-Mar-2006 15:05
While some may say the DPRK is bizarre, I think it is inspiring to see a country that is fiercely maintaining its independence in the face of US imperialism, surrounded as it is by nuclear powers Russia, China, South Korea and Japan.Long live the DPRK
SUZY 21-Feb-2006 19:56
YOU SHOULD VISIT SOUTH KOREA AND TAKE SOME OF YOUR WONDERFUL PICTURES..
Guest 24-Nov-2005 21:04
Maybe like China in the 60s (to the comment below), thanks for sharing, really interesting photographs of a rarely photographed land.
Bongeiste 27-Sep-2005 02:10
Wow. That looks a lot like mainland China except for the paucity of people and what looked like cleaner streets. I echo others' sentiments on how eerie the place looks.
AL 20-Sep-2005 04:00
The thing that comes to mind is either "Star-trek ", or " The twilight Zone" . What an erie place- overwhelminly creepy. The only way to deal with such madness is by deterance , nuclear that is. What madness! Surely that wack-o polyanggang or whatever his name is, is crazy enouph to light the firecracker!
Guest 26-Apr-2005 04:25
some pictures are incredible! good job. this country is too strange.
Walsh McGuire25-Mar-2005 05:57
some of them are b&w because I shot them w/ b&w film. Ilford 125 specifically.
Sotiris Blatsis24-Mar-2005 08:08
An excellent "window" to a country that we know so little about. Thanks a lot.
(Question: are these pictures scanned from non-digital? Why are some of them b&w?)
Guest 21-Feb-2005 16:48
Amazing pictures, in a sort of way an amazing country (despite the regime and his leader)
Guest 20-Feb-2005 02:30
Very interesting images. Thanks for sharing.
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