Know and read enough about the DPRK, and as per other threads on a list to visit with the tourist tours as the only way to do it.
As Palin noted at the start, this was no travelogue, it would be guided and the still sprightly 75 year old Palin would not become a new Otto Warmier.
Interesting choice of entrance via the train via Dangdong, as lots trips fly via Beijing. But that wouldn't have had the disparity scenes crossing the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge and built up China one side and desolate DPRK the other.
Onto Pyongyang and meet minders, though onboard after Sinuiju, surely? Palin is easy watching and nothing more known than any other video of tourists who have been, even the May Day stuff. Pyongyang looks bewtiful, the people are the people, though lucky to live there as opposed the villages
Palin is personable and says getting outside the capital next episode will hopefully show more the real DPRK, hmm, maybe, maybe not.
But was an interesting enough watch, love the lady traffic wardens. Thanks at the end to Koryo: https://koryogroup.com/ one of a few who do tours. Still want to go sometime. A Carlos 7/10.
