to. this date every news live from beyond mars john takeouts off internet access i made protests against the military coup crowds of people took to the streets of the largest city dandong on saturday to denounce the army's takeover riot police blocked protesters using to barricade and go to canada also coming out with some countries like brazil suffering more than others from coronavirus we ask how much and nations culture effects be affected most of its response to the pandemic.

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program and miles military join to has caught off internet access across the country made growing protests against this week's crew crowds of people took to the straits of the largest city yangon on saturday to denounce the military takeover riot police blocked the streets using barricades and water cannon many of the protesters wore red in support of arrested later. resistance appears to be growing this demonstration in yangon is the 1st such mass public protest since the military took over the country on monday among the chants military dictator fail fail democracy wind and demands for the release of elected leader aung sun suu kyi authorities were not far away army chief min on

lying seized power on monday alleging fraud in a november 8th election one by one son su cheese and l. d. party the electoral commission dismissed the army's accusations. now the country's internet access has been severely reduced independent monitor net block's says me and maher is in the midst of a 2nd nation scale internet blackout with connectivity at almost half of ordinary levels other reports say the military government ordered the shutdown of facebook and twitter claiming the spread of fake news protests against the military coup have also spread to other countries in melbourne australia hundreds of demonstrators expressed their concern. right here show you know why this is to let the military knows that we're not gonna stand back and let them do whatever they want him. off. and in taiwan hundreds of members

of the 1000000 mark community there also came out in force. the woman. in front of us had more than 30 years of repression from the military government with and thankfully we don't want to go back to that it'll be a woman who once and so we hold our next generation can live in a country like taiwan where everyone enjoys civil rights would think i was right here here today that i like it. despite efforts to silence protesters in myanmar calls for an end to the coup are still loud and clear in the country. dave barry bonds a journalist who's been covering them often many years he joins us now from kuala lumpur dave widespread cuts to the internet access some a calling it a nationwide blackout what's behind this crackdown. yeah all makes it tougher for the organizers of these demonstrations to communicate with one another and strategize with one another i also makes it tougher for them to get their messages

and powerful visuals out to the outside world for us to see certain the military like to clamp down on that you know the military they've got a playbook that they worked out before they went forward with the coup on monday what they're doing is seeing what the public does the reach of the playbook grab the plating of that particular time or what they think to me now in australia an advisor to elected lady. she has been detained as she has also they why are authorities tongan targeting her in a circle so it's really not clear at this time why they're detaining sean turn out that australian economic advisor that you're talking about particular since she's not really known by most of the people of myanmar but her all her advisers many of whom are well known the military does not want anyone influential out there encouraging the masses to continue resisting. what kind of response can we expect from the military late as today's public protests. well it really depends on how big these protests get there picking up steam do they really become something

massive and also these work stoppages that are going on across the country to do those continue to grow and if the generals find that there's a colony is just really sliding down i mean it's already been battered by covert 19 but if they lose the ability to keep the economy running at all well then and may find themselves backed into a corner senior gentlemen on long the commander in chief he has put his chips on this risky gamble for total power for him there's no turning back even if it means that he has to use deadly force but keep this in mind this is something we do not know does he truly command the loyalty of all of its kinds of units across the army this is really have the loyalty of police officers across the country we do not know there is a chance at some point there could be some division in the ranks that's something you need to keep an eye out for now what about cheney here has been detained for several days now any update on her whereabouts yet her lawyer says that she is at

her home in a.p. dot he has not been able to talk to her but all we know is that she's basically under house arrest we have not heard from her really since monday and what came out on monday was a statement that had been prepared in advance of the coup as they want to say that it might happen. to have been involved in kuala lumpur thanks very much for the updates sure thing. i was turned down to some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour tens of thousands of farmers have blocked highways across india to protest against new agricultural mole's the blockade is the latest action in more than 2 months of protests thomas has been camping outside delhi demonstrating against laws that they say benefit big business at their expense. chad's ruling party has endorsed president idriss dead these bid for a 6th term the former army chief has been in power since 9090 and uses time in office to change the constant constitution to remove limits on presidential terms

chads opposition parties said they'd agree on a joint candidate to run against him in the eye for election. he german chancellor angela merkel has vowed to provide more support to anti-government protesters in bella ruse germany would ease days of what was the persecuted dissidents and also helped to victims of torture bellerose has been gripped by months of protests stemming from a disputed all this presidential election and a brutal police crackdown. covered 19 has devastated many parts of the world with millions of people infected and more than 2000000 deaths and counting but the impact has varied considerably between countries even ones with similar resources since the pandemic began we've been asking ourselves why that is now a scientific study says it has the answer and my colleague did a reporter problem solving ileus has delved into the results how low this sounds intriguing tell us more about this research. well the researchers found that

actually culture plays a very important part here that it doesn't just come down to whether a country is wealthy or whether it's population has access to medical resources so what the researchers found was that whether a culture follows the rules or doesn't plays a key role here so what they did was they broke it down even further and it said ok what we have that cultures which would be culturally tight an example would be say and or south korea where normally the population would mostly follow the rules or cultures which would be considered culturally lu stout would be the u.k. and the united states would be 2 examples where normally rule breaking will say is a little bit more accepted within those cultures so let's hear now from a professor michel. gelfand who was in charge of this research what we know now is that looseness can be

a real liability during times of collective threat in our research published this week in the lancet planetary health we found that was cultures had 5 times the number of cases over 8 times the number of deaths ok as a culture plays a big comet this ray said it's analyzed on top until october and we know there's been a 2nd wave since then has anything changed what i certainly hasn't we don't have to look too far rebecca and it would be here in germany which would say of the 1st wave that handled it pretty well but in the 2nd wave things haven't gone as well as they had at the 1st time around let's hear professor galson have to say on the topic. but in that context some countries that were doing really well when we were analyzing did it not tobar had a lot of problems there after germany austria were doing really well early on the pandemic but had large spikes in cases this fall and so it's a reminder that even cultures that the tighter can't prematurely loosen and so we

need to really be thinking about as we go forward. managing the nature of this threat and tightening when we need. out of this study explained countries that it claims might be rule breakers ordinarily but who have managed to handle the covert 19 crisis pretty well throughout well a good example would be new zealand in fact in this research they looked at you zealand you zealand was only 25 deaths and that is you know considerably less than say here in germany earlier country set but the key issue here is the communication was very important they closed their borders very early on in the pandemic so there was no export of movement of people in and out of the country and also people had a clear kind of goal of care clear sight to the end of the pandemic which sort of gave people a boost in following the norms and saying ok if we follow the rules things may come

to an end relatively soon and the proof is in the putting have i thought it is thanks very much for that it's been more than 5 years since german chancellor angela merkel told this country fish and us all we can do it at the height of europe's migration crisis in the air that followed that statement and has welcomed more than a 1000000 refugees and the many now cold to me home they're under represented in the german political saying one man wants to change all that he's under been in germany 6 years but he's hoping to get a state in palma in september as election day devotees emanuel chance has the story . this is terry collabos a 31 year old legal advisor from damascus he's one of the half 1000000 people who arrived in germany using the park a route he applied for asylum back in 2015 now he wants to run for a seat in germany's parliament to ponder stark in d.c.'s elections in september.

it's been 5000 from. arrived in germany in 2015 and was brought to an emergency shelter along with 60 other people i was shocked by the living conditions there is a long time human rights activist in syria i decided to get involved again here in germany for refugees and. active if you give you should i mention here i've worked as an asylum advisor here. you should mention by the terrigal aus is no stranger to political activism back in damascus he worked for the red crescent and here in germany he co-founded a disease or c. bridge and n.t.o. which advocates say for passes to europe for refugees allows turned to the green party in a constituency that was his 1st home when he arrived in germany in order invest. i arrived in north rhine-westphalia that's where i had my 1st flat my 1st job and

also my 1st friends in germany so i have a strong emotional attachment to it oberhausen is the city where i started my political work on a bigger scale and that's why i want to take the next step from there. nearly 6 years after and the america's famous weekend duties terry allows his endeavors in his country of adoption is a success story but refugees and migrants are under represented in political bodies in germany he says. is this image for the mentioned. human rights i've come to europe to germany to live a safe and a dignified life i have experienced the feeling. but at the same time i was appalled by the situation of refugees. by their living conditions here. i want to represent those people in parliament with my candidacy there are many debates on refugees but nobody actually. it's why i want to give them

a political voice for one last hurdle remains in order to get into the bundestag terek allows has to be a german citizen he has already filed for citizenship if all goes well the greens can put him on the official list of candidates by spring. showbiz news now on a huge loss for fans of the stage and screen oscar winning actor christopher plummer has died at the age of $91.00. big made in i was best known for been trying captain gale mantra in 1960 five's the sound of music in a chris banning more than 7 decades enjoyed a late career in a sense at the age of 82 he became the oldest winner of an academy award for acting taking home the oscar for best supporting actor for his role in the 2020 film beginners. if you're watching did have

a nice life from then coming up next doc film a peek into the secret world of north korea state you don't actually have more headlines for you at the top of the hour until they get all the latest news and information on our website at www dot com i'm rebecca resist in berlin from a in the tank thanks for watching. can you hear me now oh yes we can hear you and i love stands german sounds that way bringing uncle a mascot and you've never tired have been surprised to self it was just possible to smell cold really what moves them quote the people who followed her along the way maurice and critics alike join us for metals last august.

decades on the topic of north korea remains a touchy subject. the world has passed judgement the country is beyond repair our preconceived ideas about the democratic people's republic of north korea remain firmly in place. in a radek orwellian regime paranoid schizophrenic a place of modern day gulags. a red dynasty long headed by a despotic film buff and now by his son whose portly appearance is topped with a singular haircut. and then there's the country's nuclear arsenal a threat that makes the self-proclaimed innocent nations of the world tremble with fear. when it comes to north korea why do we so often resort to cliches in light of the difficult and often tragic situation the country's people find themselves in hyperbole seems rather inappropriate.

the we're often told that foreigners are not permitted into the country that those who do manage to visit are not permitted to see much of anything and that those who do manage to see something should remember it's probably fake. someone once insisted to us that there were no high rises in pyongyang. a disorienting claim given that one of us was living on the 24th floor of a building on quite a box street at the time. this film was shot over a period of 8 years by 3 people one of us is

a translator of korean. between us we made more than 40 trips to north korea. but the film does not show prison camps or rocket launch pads that's forbidden as are images of soldiers construction sites shopping malls gambling pictures of people who do not have enough to eat and pictures of people who are eating avoiding these images is harder than it might seem. entering north korea is still complicated but foreigners are permitted to travel and explore the country although they always have a local minder and. visitors are not required to proclaim their loyalty to the state nor do they only see what the state permits them to see. and it's a myth that you'll never hear laughter in north korea. go out

carol. ah. as soon as we leave the city the roads are riddled with cracks and potholes. the bumpy journey is hard on drivers and vehicles. that could explain why broken

down trucks and buses are a common sight. depending on the season the workers in the fields might be harvesting wheat rice or potatoes although much of the country is mountainous the rest is primarily devoted to farming. north korea hopes to become economically self-sufficient someday every square meter of available land is put to use even on the steep hillsides. but only barely 20 percent of the land is arable. part. this factory was not filmed in 1000. but in 2016 using

a small camera while exploring the city of homs home. as so often in north korea appearances are deceiving. this is the country's largest fertilizer factory which kim il sung's honored with more than 30 visits. its recently been modernized in a bid to increase the productivity of the country's cooperative farms. cooperative farms like this one with its familiar oxcarts geese and ducks and the on the present red flags. i. another visit to a collective farm a year later. it's raining and everyone has gone to seek shelter. the productivity chart proudly displays the farms yields. we

take shelter in the living room of one of the farm workers she tells us about the bitter cold winters hot summers and the fact breaking work in the rice fields her son is 14 small for his age she admits but the family has been through hard times. her son was born just as the great famine was ending. behind her one of the country's ubiquitous historical melodrama says playing on t.v. . then she launches into a vivid description of her visits to pyongyang. to sunday i'm going to be in addition to the muslim of the great need as i think the museum of the revenue sion the amusement park near the neatest birthplace the revolutionary mount a cemetery the science and technology museum and the grand people study house. i went everywhere cause. it's.

anyone from the provinces who visits the capital comes here 1st the house where kim il sung was born the birthplace of the republic. and this is where it all started they say. the great leaders training as a revolutionary the resistance against the japanese the struggle against the evil landowners and collaborators it's a story that's very familiar to people here. and as kim is song was the son of an ordinary peasant he's also venerated as a role model. this is a place of pilgrimage year round in the winter the buildings and grounds are decked in sober white. during our visit and 2011 we 1st saw a local visitors wearing brightly colored winter coats imported from china.

by 2015 the classes of schoolchildren are wearing brand name sweat pants even though their sneakers don't quite yet make the grade. september brings the color of autumn and a pumpkin on the patched roof. that n.p.r. everything is bigger more modern more beautiful we were told by the woman from the collective farm. the city has more of everything more light more shops more food more housing more work more education more culture who wouldn't want to live here. the capitol is more than the epicenter of the state it's an icon. our farmer would probably have been told that these exemplary buildings are home to exemplary citizens scientists soldiers civil servants. some of the

most eminent live on the glossy numerate or future scientists treat. for a farmer from a village without so much as a paved road this would be an impressive sight. and the people who live here seem to have plenty of time for leisure activities. our visitor from the collective farm couldn't help but be dazzled by these high rises the most famous of which looks like an atom when viewed from above. and by the new district springing up around the city built with the labor of the country soldiers and workers. but it would be very unlikely that our visitor would ever set foot in one of these

apartments reserved for the most worthy citizens. it's perfectly neat and tidy for the residents have fled the camera there's a computer cell phone books and a sewing machine. the balcony offers a view across the city in the midst of a real estate boom there's an abundance of color quite the contrast to the. re that dominated here just 20 years ago. this real estate boom has given rise to a black market in pyongyang and other large cities. when the state awards a faithful follower with a new apartment they pass on the old one to the highest bidder for a choice location prices can easily top $100000.00 and only a fraction of that is tax that ends up in state coffers karl marx might have called this the primitive accumulation of capital. a visitor's tour might end with

a trip to an amusement park or a water park one of kim jong un's priorities is building playgrounds for the people . the entrance fee equivalent of 2 euros isn't cheap by local standards but everyone mingles and enjoys themselves even the adults get into the swing of things. to lose i will tell you i came with my group but i don't know where my coworkers are. now i'm looking for them. who are in the book and whose euchre look very

similar. has good mood do you deny the i work at a large coal mine an hour away from pyongyang i can't come often because of my work . i don't see let's hear a little today we visited the great leaders muscly i'm so i stop by here. i like to come to pyongyang to relax time after having fun like this work comes more easily oh. god what are you looking at you go play the fool. we've never been abroad but now we have lots of waterparks even at home in our province north of pyongyang moves were you. are using carnival modifies we will become the best in the world without anyone's help just by our own hands but with shots to i don't know. any more questions where the best come from. were. some of the rural visitors seem

a bit lost in the crowd home but since many people don't know how to swim no one really notices. but on state television nowadays people can even tune into swimming lessons. were. the sun is beginning to set a good time to visit the city's main amusement park beyond pyongyang's arch of triumph. like everywhere in north korea filming anything to do with the military is banned but hard to avoid because soldiers are everywhere. some might call this nothing but bread and circuses but it's far more than that there's hardly a north korean who doesn't dream of living in pyongyang and every resident of pyongyang is terrified of being expelled from the city for some foolish mistake forcing them and their family to live in exile for

a few years or for the rest of their lives in a place where they'll have less of everything. with its lights and sights pyongyang inspires loyalty. people flock to the parks and swimming pools to enjoy what is the most attractive city in the country. and even the world. for the people who live here at least since their world ends at the north korean border.

we've never witnessed a birth in north korea but we've seen plenty of weddings for wedding preparations to be more precise like this professional photo shoot for the happy couple is posing in front of pyongyang most iconic locations. it's monsoon season which means 38 degrees celsius and a very humid. day susan has elicited the bride and groom 1st went to the statues of the great leaders. and then we came to the flower park you see here near the water fountain so one. minute soldiers usually like to pose in front of military monuments and you know like the monument to the victorious fatherland liberation war. what the wedding video doesn't show are the many people who helped make this happy event possible.

to 4 o'clock until they get up. in north korea most marriages are arranged through matchmakers it's their job to find the ideal marriage partner who will also be suitable to the families. although marrying for love is just starting to trend arranged marriages are still the norm one result is that people usually marry within their own social class. for many decades the country's elite was dominated by the revolutionary comrades of kim il sung and their descendants. at the bottom of the social order were the families of people who had collaborated with japan and their descendants. in between were some 40 subclasses who were not permitted to marry outside their rank. the end of kim il sung's regime the famine under kim jong il and the partial disintegration of both state and party that followed not only shook the country but also its traditional

social hierarchy. this helped loosen the stringent marriage rules. today the most desirable professions for a husband are scientist diplomat the military and of course business professionals . for years women traffic police were highly sought after on the marriage market but they're seen less often now with the installation of traffic lights. young couples are expected to have children and their education will be put in the hands of the state at an early age. the country boasts a reported literacy rate of 100 percent a success that is attributed to the revolution. the most important school subjects

are math physics music and singing korean and the lives of the great leaders. from kindergarten on children are subjected to a rigorous selection process the best students spend their holidays taking part in sports at the young pioneer camps. there here are. by. the. 7 c time when we arrive at the stadium a competition is underway each side is cheering on its team. the young charges aren't wearing the standard lapel pins bearing the images of the great leaders there on holiday and children under 16 aren't obliged to wear them for a fiver a didn't get prize for

a period i thought i should have thought ira . then it's time for the tug of war you are all took the evil american soldier in the middle is tough he's already made it through several tournaments ira 6 6 i. i i i read. finding a good husband having a successful career these topics are far more interesting to most north koreans than the endless propaganda they're exposed to getting married is important and

it's also the focus of the sitcoms that are broadcast on a giant screen at the central railway station the local stand here to watch them in the middle of december even in a chilly minus 15 degree celsius. where we were who who who who are people there's also an ad for automaker p.r. which means peace and curry and the company was founded by sun myung moon's unification. in church but has been fully owned by the state since 2013. people. who want that who. was in the the sitcom's betray a politically correct world the individual matters only as a part of the collective we're being a good worker is what counts. in

the winter everyone is responsible for a stretch of road no matter how much snow has fallen it has to be cleared. that's why scenes of people scraping snow and ice off their patch of road before heading off to the office are a common sight in the winter. for someone known reason we had to wait for years before our guides allowed us to film in parks. more on bowling park is a popular place for sunday outings at something like north korea's central park.

and. we wondered why permission to film here took so long. people drawing park scenes hardly seem like a state secret. then there are also shooting ranges. dancers. and lots of picnics. on public holidays the state sometimes distributes meat and beer. the. thing. that i. like. most. of. 6 these pensioners free of family and professional obligations are enjoying a day out. i was.

there free style of dancing is not easily defined and has the air of a show moniker ritual. in 1956 filmmaker chris marker who was part of the 1st french delegation to visit the north after the korean war recorded almost identical scenes of workers dancing by a train factory. we've only stands to more and bang park anyone who knew the learned us we can play with full mcconnell makes the game was what we need to every sunday to down it's. the nazi. and it doesn't thank

you. why do you stand down for this. the district next to the park is nicknamed little dubai at 1st sight it looks like a kind of commuter suburb but appearances are deceiving. all sorts of things are hidden behind these tinted windows electronics stores pharmacies banquet halls supermarkets and a huge selection of bars and restaurants. this

television ad sings the praises of a luxury supermarket so heavily airconditioned the staff wear warm jackets it's well stocked with everything from swiss chocolate to olive oil french and italian wines and imported fruit. the elegant restaurants up stairs are popular with the don't jews the money masters as the newly affluent are called they serve up sushi cappuccino a $20.00 steak north korea is no longer an empty consumerist state quite the opposite for those who can afford it.

north korea's part. newspapers don't publish restaurant reviews yet but given the number of restaurants barbecue joints and snack bars cropping up everywhere around the country that's probably not too far off. 6 is the north korean obsession with food a remnant of the arduous march the famine that ravaged the country between 1009 142000 causing somewhere between half a 1000000 and a 1000000 deaths. back then even the word restaurant was considered taboo. came into power he promised the north koreans they would never face such deprivation again. now food has become a sign of success an important part of the culture almost as much as in south korea .

we come across a 2800 press release from the official north korean news agency. it reads from the 2nd to the 4th of april the 23rd cooking festival took place at the pyongyang noodle house marking the day of the sun the birthday of president kim il sung. if there's anything north koreans excel at it's. each time military experts around the world scrutinise the missiles mounted on the vehicles imported in violation of un sanctions. others and the slogan ponder the differences between parades over 3 generations of rulers. his son and his grandson. but there's one constant over the years the images of north koreans cheering on their leaders.

it takes weeks of practice to make these living mosaics. the law. normally filming rehearsals is forbidden. north korea only likes to display finished products to be to acquire a painting of a missile or a reform. but it's a tempting scene. since 5 30 in the morning students have been out on every square in the city practicing for the upcoming parade. all of pyongyang its main roads pass through kim il sung square. and it's obligatory to slow down when passing in front of the portraits of the great leaders so the temptation to reach for our cell phones and cameras is high and.

we observe the portraits as they observe us. during our 1st visits here we were like many foreigners and treat by their omnipresence. but the more often we visited the less we noticed them. the same does not apply to north koreans cyclists are required to dismount from their bikes and look upon the statues of their leaders. cars must slow down. the 6 passers by turn to gaze at the images. shortly after kim jong il's death by a young upper class woman trying to explain what the leaders meant to her. it's a bit like you with your jesus she said except for us jesus would also be

a member of the family. thank you i in the heat of the summer we occasionally saw a fan cooling the portrait of the leaders. north korean art like this fresco near the entrance to a sports shoe factory is designed to protect the country as the party would like to see it that it's not pure fiction but more often more an aspiration rather than a reality. the real one factory or weeping willow paradise has 700 workers 70 percent are

women they produce 1500000 sports shoes a year it's assembly line work. for years local products were conspicuous in their conformity. now the factory is seeking to draw inspiration from foreign trends. in marketing jargon this is what's called benchmarking. so how do you know guilty after he visited our factory a respected marshall said us 142 pairs of foreign shoe models but one thing he said all this but that. this missile thing and it was. he told us to display them at the workplace next to the ones which had been done incorrectly. but the point is should be this that i was technicians and employees

to observe and compare them to ours so. our goal is to raise the quality of our shoes to an international level legacy and that was just. copying foreign trends reducing imports and promoting local industry makes sense in a country that is often struck by sanctions but for the plan to work the products have to appeal to north korean consumers. one new brand is called body box with a b the shoes all sport 3 stripes. but in north korea patriotism is still a key sales driver. fashions are changing slowly too. in the early 1990 s. a foreign ministry publication was still proudly defending the goal of a monochrome society something between grey and brown. times have changed.

we pay a visit to a bowling alley bowling popular in the 1980 s. has become trendy again. up stairs people are playing the slot machines. downstairs we get a good look at some of the latest bashan zz here to banners tell the party line. that reads let's advance the social revolution that ensures the happiness and well being of the masses. if it wasn't for the slogans on the walls we could be almost

anywhere in asia. this young woman is an office worker. but that's not everyone dresses to suit their body type and coloring some women have square shoulders and try to disguise them. even you would see the heavier ones try to dress in the color there to stand. up and men do the same don't they. everyone knows best which clothes shoes and makeup to choose so they can look stylish. did you listen to. me on the right have fled. to go to cuba we come here with friends and colleagues to get some exercise and relax. bowling alone is no fun is the atmosphere and good mood that counts when you eat seafood out of the people.

there. it's. just so. at this rest area along the motorway a bustle of chinese tourists has stopped on its way to k. song the city at the border to south korea. and 2017 nice visitors had all but disappeared to dissensions. and 20 team they returned nearly $1000.00 chinese tourists come each day drawn by the peace and quiet the unspoiled nature and perhaps a touch of nostalgia for a country that reminds them of china 40 years ago. though it might come as

a surprise to training for jobs in the tourism industry is very popular in north korea nowadays. over the long term the country is hoping to increase the number of visitors by 30 percent each year. in the fall one sun beach on the east sea is deserted. it's the off season here 2 soldiers. have the beach to themselves. this time we're allowed to film them since they're not in uniform but. this is the same beach in the summer. on the right the premium beach for affluent visitors. on the left the public area

where admission costs just a few cents. whether it's a group of workers a gathering of students or entire families everyone's enjoying themselves. and. people arrive by truck or on bicycles some come for the day others for a week. many come from rural regions. ok everybody dig in. and. we come from the countryside north of pyongyang. the whole family has come here to relax it's the best place to rest and have tried. our leader kim

jong long encouraged us to come on. they're building another tourist site in one sun and this year we're enjoying the beach here. next year we plan to relax into a new calmer tourist zone. but you know. in the distance we can see the construction site dozens of hotels are being built that's another priority for the current leader. when donald trump met with kim jong un the us president was enthusiastic about the area and said the location had a lot of potential for development. in 20152016 north korean delegations discreetly inspected the french riviera and other mediterranean resorts for ideas that they could bring back to adopted home. but.

the manager of a famous local fish restaurant is pleased with what's happening. the miners have this was ok it's a great opportunity to make one sound known around the world. i do want us there are knots of guest houses and small hotels had some people even campaign because the sea is very close. just because. because it i hope many french people will come here to swim and try a famous soup of course see go look look look look look look look look. except in the mining and nuclear testing areas there's lots of unspoiled nature here. due to unbar goes farming uses very little artificial fertilizer. there's little light. pollution due to frequent electricity shortages. it comes as something of a surprise that north korea has never thought to market itself as

a pioneer in sustainable development and. uninhabited for the past 65 years the demilitarized zone has preserved a unique biodiversity. to so far pyongyang doesn't seem inclined to take advantage of these natural assets. was. the barrier. in the rest of the world north korea is seen as an anomaly. north korea also sees itself as unique which it certainly is as frequent visitors we are struck by the endless repetition of the same songs sung everywhere at schools and on public transportation the same

slogans decorate the streets the same films are constantly broadcast on t.v. north korea is a country under a bell jar a country marching to its own pace it's impenetrable frustrating exhausting. but its people are open curious and full of life. north korea is changing rapidly. poly or fast fast as a favorite phrase and both north and south korea. north koreans tastes are changing as are their hopes for the future. perhaps one day our image of north korea will change to.

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