Gulch Wrote:
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> Check out his enormous hotel in Pyongyang - it's
> like some kind of gothic, Stalinist, Munsters,
> pyramid type thing that's scary to even look at.
>
> I hope things improve there. But his son is next
> up, right?

His son is a wingbat just like his dad. However, it will be very interesting to see how this whole thing plays out over the next 18 months. Are the military leaders and citizens going to take orders from a young 20-something spoiled brat? Will the people wake up and realize that the whole story about Il being born in a magic tree and then flying away as a butterfly is all phony? This would be their chance to rebel and have a civil war. The people there NEED to have a civil war to overthrow the government. It has been a closed, secret, barbaric society that purposely starves it's citizens and randomly murders people for the heck of it.

There is a train that runs to....China(?) from the DPRIK. Well, I'm talking off the top of my head here and I would need to sit down and look at a map, but there is freight rail service into DPRK and there are some very interesting stories of tourists who are able to ride that train, because it also has passenger cars. The whole process of entering DPRK is a real trip. You have to turn in all cell phones, cameras, and other items---your official State "guide" will take these things from you, and then return them once you leave the country.