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Aboard a captured American spy ship

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... and kept there as a tourist attraction. It remains the only ship of the U.S navy still currently being held captive. Being aboard the ship was fascinating as we got to explore the living quarters, rooms full of exciting looking buttons and switches (some of which I pressed when no-one one looking), the helm and then we got to have our picture taken while holding the rear mounted machine guns (see left). Which is a good enough segue to my next blog ...

A propaganda filled morning...

A travel blog entry by eastin80

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... agreeing that the morning had indeed been propaganda filled, but that the barrage looked pretty fancy and seemed to do a good job at what it was built for, from what we could tell. Then we spoke to one of the guys on our tour who is in the construction industry who had been less than impressed by the barrage. He had said that the Panama canal had been built approximately 75 years before the Korean barrage and boasted far more modern technology than this 'feat of ...

"You can choose your size"

A travel blog entry by eastin80

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... br> 'Operational' Buddhist temple: We made a stop in at a lovely Buddhist temple which had been destroyed during the war but rebuilt relatively recently. Someone asked if there were still practicing Buddhists and monks in the DPRK and we were told that there were. This doesn't seem to gel with what I've read about the DPRK, but I may well be wrong. I did notice quite a few monks wearing a grey outfit (as opposed to the usual red and orange one we associate more with monks) ...

The more I see, the less I know...

A travel blog entry by eastin80

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... his right hand side. The room is utterly charged with emotion as you share it with many locals, some of whom are at the mausoleum making their once in a lifetime pilgrimage to Korea's version of Mecca. I would be lying if I said that I didn't feel that emotion, via osmosis, in that room, staring at the body of this godlike man, so revered (even after his death) and so loved by the millions of Koreans they pretty much consider this man their father.

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Ilyushin in the morning, Mass Games in the evening

A travel blog entry by eastin80

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... least 20 seconds which I thought was kind of odd. Someone told me later that the pilots (who are apparently exceptionally skilled from having to fly such old planes) do this when they don't have much confidence in the under-carriage. Awesome. We then broke for ages before finally coming to a stop and the noise the brakes made was incredible! As soon as we landed, a car with a tank on it drove over to us straightaway and started ...

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