Pyongyang Have you read? It 's a graphic novel of Guy Delisle, a Canadian artist invited to a couple of months in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea from an animation studio. Guy starts with the recommendations to travelers (the phones will be confiscated and returned to the airport exit from the country) and carries a book (Random), Orwell's 1984. After leaving the airport is brought to extend their compliments to 22 meters high statue of Kim Il-Sung , was President of North Korea after the death beautiful 1994.
gradually discover the oddities and continually violated the freedom of a closed country, even barricaded himself in, he had to open a window to the West as a humanitarian aid could no longer hide the famine in 1995 had strike the country. And who did not hesitate to convert humanitarian aid in order to strengthen the dictatorship of absolutism.
Guy Delisle looks around with the trained eye of the designer. You wonder, you get angry but does not fall of the obvious of easy judgments. How can we not acknowledge a dictatorship that makes the air breathable, the grotesque that fills up the lives of his subjects of overwhelming demonstrations of the greatness of the nation and its superiority over the capitalist world, which is working 6 days a week and the seventh, required to serve a volunteer for community service.
left open the question "but they really believe?" For many, unfortunately, the answer seems to be yes.
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