“The ideal set up by the Party was something very huge, terrible and glittering — a world of steel and concrete of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons — a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts, wearing the same clothes and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting — three hundred million people all with the same face. The reality was decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.”
George Orwell, 1984 (page 77, chapter VII)
Photos taken during a two week visit to the DPRK in 2005. To read my travelogue of the trip, click here.
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