What really shook me up about North Korea few years we hearing about famine in that country this way before I have the net
And remember 60 minute did thingy on North Korea it show North Korea police woman direct non existent traffic that so Twlight Zone
Rush hour in the Worker's Paradise.
I actually spent a month in North Korea back in 1996. I was just 21, and at the time was working on a merchant ship carrying grain as part of the BS foreign relief effort the US was carrying out. The little I saw of the countryside was horrible, and it has to have gotten worse in the intervening years. Very little animal life, and even the soil was barren and washed out in most places. The people were unfriendly and scared to death of us. When we went on Liberty, we were escorted by the tallest soldiers they could find (about 5'8"), and constantly had machine guns pointed at us every time we looked out the window. As I recall, every time anyone was allowed off the ship, something happened that required that they be escorted back at gunpoint.
The Captain offended every single official with style, referring to Pyongyang city as "Ping Pong City," comparing the downtown area to a set on the Flintstones movie, and lighting napkins on fire on his dinner plate whenever the power went out (about every 10 minutes) at the Seaman's Club.
Google Maps is another good way to see just how empty the roads are in North Korea.