I've been reading alot about the DPRK (North Korea) lately. I think I've added it to my list of places I'd like to visit someday. "But why?" you ask, "I can understand Cambodia - weed is legal there and grows in the wild, and you can shoot a cow with a rocket launcher for 200 bucks. Even Dubai makes sense, with the bomb shelter nightclubs and underwater resorts, but Korea?"

This is why:



I encourage you to try and find part two, and to skip to around 6:00 if you don't want to watch the whole thing but are curious as to what creepy DPRK anime looks like. But seriously, keeping in mind that this is an exceptionally small part of the whole event, filmed with a shitty North Korean camera from bad seats, where the fuck else do these sort of things happen anymore? Thousands of schoolkids used as a giant video screen, while thousands more people dance in time below them, followed up by a huge, million man millitary parade.

Sure, the DPRK is probably a MASSIVE dump for the majority of the people there, but I'm not really planning on staying there permanently, and don't tell me you could resist the chance to see something of such sheer magnitude. If you can, you obviously didn't watch the video and missed the dolphin act at the end.

The only thing I'd really be all that worried about is the trip getting there, since I think you need to use Air Koryo (the North Korean airline), and don't have much choice about it. Given that I grew up around aircraft and spent my childhood being raised by an expert, I think I have a fairly good grasp on just how easy it is for a good-quality Western plane to go from a soaring wonder to a falling hunk of mega-doom, let alone some piece of shit Soviet jet from the 60s.



Given that the jet in that particular video is indeed a piece of Soviet shit from the 60s, which had a bad enough operational history in the relatively well-regulated and rich USSR, and that there are VISIBLE REPAIR WELDS on the wings, I think I'd rather take my chances walking through the DMZ than flying in or out.

Anyway, I would like to go there someday irregardless. No matter what you think about the politics, it's still an interesting country, and not really any worse than any other second-world shithole like north Canada or India.