Monument to the reunification of Korea
The two Korean women symbolizing the two sides unite holding the “Charter for Reunification” over the middle of the nicest highway in Korea: the one leading from Pyongyang south to the DMZ.
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Wedding #2
With the two best friends and the photographer. Not staged. They paid no attention to us.
And the soup comes last
It’s a vermicelli chicken broth soup topped with a design of carrot, egg, scallion and gooseberry. Delicious.
From left to right, we have:
Top row (Left to Right): Sticky rice with jujube (date) and gingko, fried potatoes, roasted salted nori, fish Middle row (Left to Right): Spinach, radish kimchi, hard-boiled egg cooked in azuki bean paste,… Continue reading
Lunch
Seated on a warm floor, with this display of food in front of us, life can look pretty good in North Korea. The food far exceeded my expectations. In fact, as much as… Continue reading
The lieutenant general told me
that he likes all the Americans he’s met. It’s just our government that he doesn’t like.
NK soldiers
guarding their side of the border.
And finally, the military demarcation line
We drive a little more, and we’re on Panmunjom bridge. So famous! My mind is crowded with the scenes of prisoner exchanges (in the best of cases), escape attempts (mostly failed), desperate tries… Continue reading
Panmunjom Bridge
We drive a little more, and we’re on Panmunjom bridge. So famous! My mind is crowded with the scenes of prisoner exchanges (in the best of cases), escape attempts (mostly failed), desperate tries… Continue reading
The armistice ending the Korean war
was signed here on July 27, 1953. The final negotiations and signing were held in this building which the North built at its own expense in only 4 days (they told us this… Continue reading