North Korea: Hidden Korea
North Korea's inner sanctum of unexplored temples and lush green countryside is gradually opening up to travellers. Robert Willoughby becomes one of the first to make it through.
"No Westerner's seen this before." Would that nagging, heinously-flawed conceit that had bugged me throughout my travels in Asia be rendered true, here, in North Korea? My excitement simmered as our aged Volvo saloon hammered down North Korea's empty east-coast road towards Korea's spiritual heart, the sprawling complex of granite [ read more ]
