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North Korea🇰🇵Visiting the North Korean library

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Our next stop was the library, where some students were zealously interacting with computers. However, upon closer inspection, it seemed that their only goal was to interact. They would right-click to get a quick menu, close it, move the mouse up and down, and right-click again to get the same quick menu. When a new person came to a computer, they wouldn’t start their own search but would just investigate the search results of the previous person. Were they using a computer for the first time? Did they have to be there to give the library a busy and well-used appearance?

Traveled route: Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge, Pyjongyang, Kaesong Checkpoint, Wonsan, Hamhung
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Photographed by: Johan Kruseman
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Probably the most fun part was the wave pool, where a small group of foreigners introduced the concept of making noise when you’re having fun. Within minutes, the normally silent Koreans were jumping and shouting with every wave. One boy happily held

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