It is and was one of the most surreal experiences I’ve ever had. It’s beyond anything that you can imagine when you read about or hear about third-world countries. I’m sure there are countries that are more desolate in some respects than North Korea. But when you combine the desolation and the poverty with the cultural divide between the rest of the world and the North Korean government and people, it’s amazing. I’ll never forget when I was in grade school in the early and mid-1960s, we were taught how evil communism was, and how the population was brainwashed, and how the government controls the media and controls what people think. You never really understand or appreciate what that means until you experience it firsthand. And being in North Korea, I experienced it very firsthand.[...]