North Korea: Surreal Land of the Kims -- CBS News
Last week this time, I was in North Korea. Forgive the delay in writing, it took me a few days to let the dust settle on what I saw.
I visited Russia when it was still the Soviet Union. I went to a circus and saw an "Uncle Sam" character chase Russian children around the big top aiming a scaled-down model of a missile at them.
I've been to Cuba, and been whispered to by dissidents about the repressive regime. But if I'm simply applying the weirdness filter, then nothing I've seen anywhere I've ever been - I mean nothing - compares to what I saw in and around Kim Il Sung square last week.
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My Comment: My father mentioned to me on numerous occasions that North Korea reminds him of what it was like to live in the Soviet Union when Stalin was in power. Put it bluntly .... as he told me .... as a child it was a surreal experience for him to praise Stalin while everyone around him was either hungry or starving.
I am sure many in North Korea feel that way today.