I’m Bill Tsutsui with another Postcard from Asia from the Center for East Asian Studies.
Greetings from North Korea, Your Vacation Paradise! Huh? It’s true: 1500 Western tourists, along with thousands from Asia, visit the last bastion of Communism every year. "Holidays in the Axis of Evil," a BBC Radio series, has reported some of the more surreal sights to be seen in Pyongyang: There’s Restaurant Street, filled with food outlets . . . all of them empty. And the International Friendship Museum featuring an exhibit of gifts given to the Eternal – and dead – leader Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong-Il including a warthog from Zimbabwe. With no connection to the outside world, no advertising, and no lights after dark, a sojourn in North Korea lends new meaning to the phrase “getting away from it all.”
Today's Postcard from Asia was written by Randi Hacker. From the Center for East Asian Studies, I’m Bill Tsutsui. Wish you were here.
