It’s not quite vacation season yet here in the United States – believe me, when vacation season starts, every Alaskan knows it because of the non-stop stream of rental RVs headed north – but the season is evidently different in other parts of the world. Like, say, North Korea; not a place one would think of as a popular tourist destination.
And yet, North Korea, that isolated Stalinist regime run by a stunted little gargoyle
with bad hair from a long line of stunted little gargoyles with bad hair, has recently received the first group of tourists since the country was locked down during the COVID-19 panic.
What these tourists had to say about their visit was both revealing and troubling:
A group of Western tourists were treated to a surreal performance of North Korean schoolchildren dancing and singing against a backdrop of animated ballistic missiles…