4 articles tagged with north korea
The metro station walls gleamed with polished marble as our train pulled into Puhŭng Station, adorned with chandeliers that would look at home in a European palace. This wasn't Paris or Moscow, but Pyongyang—North Korea's showcase capital and perhaps the...
Standing at the gateway to Kaesong's ancient walled city, I couldn't help but feel like I was stepping onto a playing field few Westerners ever access. After coordinating athletic exchanges across Asia for years, North Korea remained my final frontier...
Let me shoot straight with you – getting to Pyongyang isn't like rolling into any other capital city. After two decades hauling freight across America and five years exploring Asia's most controlled corners, I can tell you North Korea's capital...
There's something eerily captivating about rolling into Pyongyang, a city that exists in its own carefully orchestrated reality. After two decades of hauling freight across the sunburnt Australian outback, I thought I'd seen places that time forgot – but nothing...