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DPRK - North Korea 2005

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North Korea , the last Stalinist communism bastion, is the least visited and most closed country in the world. Entry requirements are not simple and traveling conditions are very special. The movements of the visitor are perfectly planned and controlled.

In spite of all that, this trip was one of the most interesting and -without a doubt- the strangest that I have ever done.

This 5 day visit in October of 2005 coincided with an edition of the spectacular Mass Games, an exaggerated example of the disciplined human mass in which the regime lays