It is the most closed country in the world, the last great communist, paranoid and aggressive dictatorship. In North Korea, nothing or almost nothing has changed since the creation of the country by Kim Il-Sung in 1953. 23 million North Koreans survive in absolute misery, without any freedom, prisoners of impassable borders. It is in this distressing universe that a group of French people have decided to spend their holidays. 8500 euros for three weeks is as expensive as a stay in the Seychelles. But for this price they will have to be satisfied with rationed food, hotels without comfort, outdated buses... Not to mention the permanent surveillance of threatening guides. Claude, Henri and Jacqueline will discover cities without cars, empty shops, casinos without money. They will have to submit to mandatory visits, propaganda and forced tributes to the eternal president of North Korea. An incredible journey, as North Korea prepares for the rise to power of Kim Jong-Un, grandson of the founder of the first communist dynasty in history.
I was watching this older video (and it is pretty good) where they're using footage they smuggled out, and at one point they're on a bus, the only vehicle in sight on this massive road going through town.
At the 21:17 mark, the screen cuts to a woman crouched down in the middle of the road sweeping something into a dust pan and the narrator intones something along the lines about this woman cleaning up after a recent collision because 'neatness is important'.
I'm sitting there thinking "An accident? There's maybe two cars per mile on this entire road, and they had an accident?" and then I remembered "Oh yeah, Asian drivers."
