Tag: Travel
Inside North Korea
I’ve traveled to some amazing places. But to visit North Korea, which
has been largely closed to the outside world for more than 50 years,
presented special challenges, particularly as an American. The public face the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea chooses to
present to the few visitors allowed in, and the unscripted moments
glimpsed, are all the more fascinating for the country’s closed and
defensive stance as a “hermit kingdom,” a nickname originating in
19th-century Korea’s closed-border policy, which attempted to limit
foreign encroachment.
I’ve traveled to some amazing places. But to visit North Korea, which
has been largely closed to the outside world for more than 50 years,
presented special challenges, particularly as an American. The public face the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea chooses to
present to the few visitors allowed in, and the unscripted moments
glimpsed, are all the more fascinating for the country’s closed and
defensive stance as a “hermit kingdom,” a nickname originating in
19th-century Korea’s closed-border policy, which attempted to limit
foreign encroachment.
