by Calvin Sun | Aug 13, 2011 | Mythbusters, North Korea, Public Transportation, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea
What riding the Metro helped debunk: There’s no way that they could pay so many actors to pretend everything is peachy; if they were hiding anything, it would have been more cost-effective to leave this out of the tour in the first place. So people really do use...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 13, 2011 | North Korea, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea
The constant fog (to the point I had joked that the government was creating it) definitely doesn’t help debunk the stereotype. Let’s face it: Pyongyang is a very clean city unfortunately inhabited by a soulless buildings spread out on a flat space of 2630...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 13, 2011 | Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, Let me tell you a Story..., Mythbusters, North Korea, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come
Press play. And then start reading. Well, I just got into the most isolated country in the world without a hitch and I’ll be coming out with a lot of stories. There’s a lot of material to go over in terms of what I’ve seen...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 9, 2011 | North Korea, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea
…I should be in North Korea. Bye bye Internet. - At time of posting in Pyongyang, it was 75.2 °F - Humidity: 88% | Wind Speed: n/a | Cloud Cover:...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 8, 2011 | North Korea, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, Travel Warnings
Thank you, U.S. State Department, for issuing this warning for me. In any case, I’ll be in North Korea within the next 12 hours! The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against entering North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK), without...
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