Monday, May 26, 2008

Propaganda: North Korean Style

Click title for link to KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).

Propaganda on Kim Jong Il - the Great Architect:



Click here for CNN Video and Christiane Amampour's visit to Pyongyang, North Korea. I stumbled on to the special this morning on CNN. It highlighted the New York Philharmonic's trip there - the first cultural exchange between the US and the DPRK since before the outbreak of the Korean War.



One of my Dvorak favorites, the New World Symphony, performed by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang.



There are no traffic lights in Pyongyang, so they employ traffic "ladies" at intersections. See video below:



Compare and Contrast: Lake Worth is to Palm Beach County as North Korea is to the rest of the World? Discuss.