Link: http://1stopkorea.com/nk-trip1.htm

Westerners snapping a pic with the 'Great Leader', Kim Il-Sung

Ever since I was stationed in South Korea at Camp Humphreys, I've had an interest in the reclusive Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), mostly known in the west as North Korea.

I'm even more fascinated with pictures and travel accounts that come from those English-speaking westerners lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it) enough to travel there and experience firsthand what surely must be one of the strangest places on Earth.

Footage from the 2007 Arirange Mass Games in Pyongyang, North Korea

One of the more interesting accounts I've read lately comes from Scott Fisher, who amazingly enough was able to travel to the DPRK via China for four days in order to see the 2002 Arrirang Mass Games. His account is all the more interesting and amazing to me because he is an American citizen allowed to obtain a DPRK travel visa despite coming from one of the supposed worst of the corrupt capitalist regimes!

Anyone with even a passing interest in North Korea should check out his story about what really appeared to me to be one of the most interesting and surreal 'vacations' one could take anywhere in the world.