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Thank you for the links, Beestie. They were extremely interesting to read.
The English travelogue was very intriguing, and a great story, but unfortunately it kept me up several hours after I had hoped to go to bed =]. Having read that, I would really like to visit North Korea -- it sounds like a fascinating place (not that I would ever want to live there, mind you). It sounds like the Arirang would have been an amazing spectacle to see. I thought it was funny that there was a problem with him taking a picture inside the building at the JSA, and that South Korean tour guides had told them that the building was nothing more than a façade. I was also surprised that no one wanted to push open the door, or present the flowers to the statue -- I would have had fun doing that.
The Japanese travelogue was interesting because it showed what had changed between their visits. The Japanese tourist complained that he couldn't get the schoolchildren to smile for a picture, but the American from South Korea complained that the children in the schoolrooms wore forced smiles whenever the tourists poked their heads in. The metro lighting was insufficient to read when the Japanese toured the place, but when the American took his pictures, it was brightly illuminated.
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