North Korea

A friend of mine went to North Korea in October. Apparently they do allow a very limited number of American tourists into the country now on strictly guided tours. You have to be with the group at all times and can only take pictures of designated sites or your camera is confiscated. So her pictures are limited, maybe, but it is still really neat to see images of a place so isolated, controlled, regimented, and behind. Here are the pictures if you are interested. What struck me most was how devoid of people public places seemed, as if normal life was so strictly controlled that people weren't even allowed to freely and casually be outside.