When

• NYE 2016 (1 week)

Why

• Curiosity to see first-hand the world's most secretive country
• Curiosity to make observations on truth v DPRK propaganda v media narratives

Highlights

• Going through the single weirdest experience of my life
• Spending NYE at Kim-Il-Sung Square without supervision from North Korean handlers
  • Hanging out with foreign embassy diplomats at the Taedonggang Diplomatic Nightclub
  • Having drunk North Koreans whipping out their phones and taking photos of us
• Experiencing the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun - a crazy underground museum & mausoleum
  • Seeing the preserved bodies of Kim Jong Il & Kim Il Sung and the places where they died
  • Walking on travelators face-to-face with battalion after battalion of North Korean military
• Traveling to the DMZ from the North Korea side, and seeing South Korea across the border

Pictures