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When Londoner JP Floru tags along with three friends running the marathon in Pyongyang, little could have prepared him for what he witnessed.<\/p>\n

Shown by two minders what the regime wants them to see during their nine-day trip, the group is astounded when witnessing people bowing to their leaders’ statues; being told not to take photos of the leaders’ feet; and hearing the hushed reverence with which people recite the history invented by the regime to keep itself in power.<\/p>\n

Often, the group did not understand what they were seeing: from the empty five-lane motorway to the missing fifth floor of their Yanggakdo Hotel on an island in the Pudong River; many answers only came through extensive research of the few sources that exist about this hermit country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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