Kindergarten Children's Performance in Chongjin, North Korea

Performance by children at the kindergarten in the steelworks factory located in Chongjin, North Korea. The kids put on a show for about 45 minutes. The show consisted of short skits drawn from Korean folklore and popular music.

Mass Games, May Day Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea -part 2

Another short clip from the Mass Games performance in Pyongyang. This scene here is highlighting the agricultural prowess of the country.

Mass Games, May Day Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea

Short clip from the Mass Games performance in Pyongyang. The performance ran about 90 minutes and was quite a spectacle. The background is made by 20,000 schoolchildren holding up special books, which are turned to a specific page for each scene change. No camcorders were allowed into the event. So, I took this video using my regular digital camera. This is why the resolution is not the best.

Drive through central Pyongyang at rush hour on National Day Holiday

Video taken from tour bus as we drove through central Pyongyang at rush hour on National Day Holiday, September 9, 2010. There was much more activity on the streets, as well as more vehicles than what we normally saw on the other days of our tour. Pyongyang is the "showpiece" city for the DPRK government, and the main place that most foreign visitors to the country usually see. As such it is a very privileged place to live for North Koreans and residency there is restricted.

Mass Dance in Front of Party Foundation Monument, Pyongyang, North Korea

Video taken on National Day holiday, September 9, 2010. Young people are doing mass dances in front of the Party Foundation Monument near central Pyongyang, North Korea. Even though it was raining lightly, everyone continued to dance. The monument is seen in the background near the end of the short video.