Inside North Korea: No Ads, No Planes, No Internet, No Mobiles, No 21st Century... A Rare Dispatch From Deep Within The Lunatic Rogue State Enslaved By Zombie And Sons -- Daily Mail
* John Sweeney enters the secretive state to see 'the true North Korea'
* Travelled undercover as a tourist as journalist are barred from the state
* He found the regime 'a more frightening tyranny than Saddam's Iraq'
Down, down inside the Pyongyang Metro stands a statue of the Eternal Ruler of North Korea, Generalissimo Kim Il Sung – dead these past 19 years but still calling the shots. Brainwashing cast in bronze.
The regime’s florid propaganda blares from loudspeakers: ‘The pure white snows of our sacred mountains’ artillery will wipe the filthy enemy from existence.’ Or something like that.
The newspaper racks on the platforms detail the latest from the ‘American imperialist aggressors’ and warn of thermo-nuclear war.
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WNU Editor: The above video illustrates what AP photographer David Guttenfelder found in North Korea, and John Sweeney is the Daily Mail reporter in Pyongyang. As to what is my take on their coverage .... they were mainly in the cities and were always watched by minders. It's too bad that they could not go out into the countryside where underground reports are painting a far more dire picture.