1. A valued reader sends in these photos taken in the DPRK:
The photo on the left was taken in an elevator. Read all of the regulations–they get better and better.
The photo on the right is an advert for the Pugang Pharmaceutical Factory’s “Kumdang-2 Injection”. It is your best choice for “Radioactive Damages”.
2. Xinhua (the Chinese state media) reports “Girls dress fashionably in DPRK”. Judge for yourself here: Part 1 and Part 2. Apologies to the female readers that there has yet to be published a “Men dress fashionably in DPRK”. If such a story is published, I promise to link to it.
Ray Cunningham has a DPRK women’s fashion photo set as well. See it here.
Choson Exchange has some DPRK fashion photos here and here.
3. YouTube user “Tyrlop” has provided English subtitles to many North Korean songs. So far, my favorite is the very catchy “The General Uses Wharp!”
4. Norway launches their first mass games. Not nearly as impressive as the DPRK version.
5. The Onion reports on the ways that US-DPRK relations are improving [satire].
6. Earlier I posted information on the Unhasu Orchestra’s performace in Paris this week. Listen to the performance here. Watch it here. It is beautiful.
“The dead drunk guests cannot take an elevator”. Classic.