Hat tip to Will Collier writing at the Vodka Pundit website for the start of this interesting look at North Korea.
Artemii Lebedev, a Russian web designer was able to visit North Korea and he took lots of photos. Artemii's website is in Russian but has a lot of photos. Here, here, here, here and here
Will links to a post by "Koutch" at Militaryphotos.net who translates the captions on a number of Artemii's photos but unfortunately, he hotlinks to the photos on Artemii's website and the links do not work. You need to open both pages and browse back and forth to get some kind of context.
What doesn't need an English translation is the grinding poverty that these people are subjected to while being surrounded by icons of their glorious leaders and happy little concrete statues {/bob_ross}... Not to mention the evening shots of buildings with no lights in the windows.
Artemii also has some photos of the Ryungyong Hotel. If people in Boston think the Big Dig was a corrupt boondoggle, they have never seen a corrupt boondoggle. For more info, read Damn Interesting and Wikipedia
