a trip to North Korea

[Elisabeth Vincentelli]

Those who understand French and have an interest in reading about the
excesses of contemporary totalitarianism may want to have a look at a
mesmerizing article in the Parisian daily "Liberation":

http://www.liberation.fr/quotidien/semaine/20000419mera.html

A reporter visited North Korea "undercover", as part of a small group of
tourists, and simply describes what he saw, from a capital without
electricity (except for the army buildings of course) to people scrounging
for roots in public parks to the two underground nuke-proof palaces built by
the rulers to store the hundreds of thousands of gifts received over the
years.

Elisabeth