The Big Picture collects some shots from North Korea
The best of Aiden Foster-Carter of the Asia Times
I made pizza for Kim Jong-Il
This is a wonderful story of a chef who went to North Korea just to make pizza. Fascinating read in three parts:
There’s a lot more on this if you search for Furlanis North Korea
They eventually ended up opening a pizza place… possibly the first smart thing North Korea has done.
Renowned documentary photographer Tomas van Houtryve entered North Korea by posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. Despite 24-hour surveillance by North Korean minders, he took arresting photographs of Pyongyang and its people—images rarely captured and even more rarely distributed in the West. They show stark glimmers of everyday life in the world’s last gulag.
