a very pyongyang day

Today was an interesting day.

For the entire morning our E-mail system at work was down, which kinda crippled everyone. So i commented that in this era we are so dependant on the internet, or specifically E-mails, see what happens when the internet breaks down? We can do almost nothing! No updates coming in from vendors, meetings can't be confirmed, basically info leading to immediate action is being blocked, therefore no action can be done! so all the guys juz hung around chatting about their weekends, holidays... while others (like me) continued to sit at my own workstation/cubicle to surf the internet.

Amusingly enough, I had this appetite to learn more about North Korea this morning. I dedicated the entire morning to feed myself abt the DPRK. I was totally absorbed into it, and found out so much juicy adventurous dark suspicious, on the edge of dangerous, stories of the North. Just by googling PyongYang or North Korea opens up a door that allows us to be taken on a tour of the North, something that not many in the world has done. It is interesting to compare between what the North write on their websites, and the detailed recounts given by the few discovery seekers for truth, or just seeking to whet their what-the-heck-is-going-on-in-north-korea appetite, who've been inside the North.

When I came back from lunch, when we were informed that the E-mail system has been restored, the first thing I saw on my Yahoo page (which I had left on my screen over lunch) was a piece of featured news that PyongYang has just shocked the world by conducting a nuclear test, followed by a series of missile tests. The North did it agn! They made headlines by doing something so atrocious and brave, but something that leaves no one in a better position.

As today wasn't a very busy day, I kept one eye on my google news page, rotating between using keywords North Korea & PyongYang for my search. I'll wait with much interest to see how things unfold this time round. Its gonna be explosive i hope.

vin
PS: I consider myself to be one of the what-the-heck-is-going-on-inside-North-Korea travellers, just that I've yet to make a trip there to play guess-the-answers-yourself.