The following pages document my trip to North Korea in August 2007. Unlike other travelogues, I focus on my conversations with the people I got to know on the trip: two recently graduated students of the Pyongyang University of Foreign Languages and a current student of an elite communist institution of higher learning. My interpretations of all actions and words reflect my own “biased” worldview, and I apologize if I misread anything. Feel free to contact me with the information found on this webpage.
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 0 - Visiting North Korea and the Singapore Connection
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 1 - Getting There
Pyongyang Lala Land Part 2 - General Impressions of North Korea (Not of the regime)
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 3 - Getting there (aka easier than getting back)
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 4 - Crossing Over
Pyongyang Lala Land Part 5 - With Love, an Economics Textbook
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 6 - Selling Investment Banking to a Communist
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 7 - Arirang Mass Games
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 8 - Conversations Enroute to Panmunjeon
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 9 - At the Border
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 10 - North Koreans Say the Darndest Things
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 11 - Do North Koreans Really Believe in the System?
Pyongyang Lala Land Pt. 12 - The Metro
Pyongyang Lala Land Finale - The Train “Incident”