Arirang performance in Pyongyang

My trip to North Korea. 2008-09-22: Arirang performance at the May-Day-Stadium in Pyongyang. See my trip report at http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com. The whole trip from Austria (Europe) to Pyongyang was done by train via Russia.

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Travel & Events

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• North
• Korea
• Pyongyang
• Arirang
• mass
• performance
• Nordkorea

[gab10hp]

And you got permission to film because you did what?

[berndpfe]

hmm. This is nothing else like monstrous communist so - called 'entertainment' or 'celebration' (where there is really none of such indeed, it is only a self-projection of the ruling political party, which is not a true government but nothing else like a cheap Regime). North Korea is a still struggling surviving clone of what was the former GDR which finally failed and broke down in 1989. The same faith can be foreseen for North Korea...

[istratedanut]

@Oroddruin thats why we killed him :))

[Oroddruin]

It could create an impressment on people from Western countries, but I had participated at such monstrosity in Romania, for other beast, Ceausescu! It is horrible to put people, children in special, to do such things!

[notnek011]

I'd love to see them host an olympic opening ceremony although I doubt that North Korea will be hosting the games in the near future.

[Moepabc]

unbelievable!!! very interesting video!

[yakuzablitz]

The pure number of people involved is staggering! This kind of performance would be expensive beyond belief in a Western country.

[Kuchenwurst]

Eigentlich überhaupt bei allem, was groß ist - wenn man sich mal die Monumentalbauten in Nordkorea anschaut, da schlackert man mit den Ohren. Aber letztendlich - was bringt es? Der Sozialismus wird sich auch in Nordkorea nicht ewig halten.

[01synergist]

Donnerwetter, das ist ja wie bei den Olympischen Spielen - also was Großveranstaltungen betrifft, haben die sozialistischen Länder was drauf...