Thanks for the good words, guys. About the garbage--- I think there's a serious fine if you chuck litter on the streets. Plus they don't have an industry for stuff in wrappers--- chips, sweets, that sort of thing--- I didn't see any, anywhere.
Quote: "by the way, what's this: http://www.jeku.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=432 ? it looks like a waterfall running down into a street?"
That's just a big street, not a waterfall, but I can see how someone might mistake that for one! There was definitely a lot of water when I was there. Flooding in Pyongyang has claimed over 300 lives, and destroyed 60,000 houses so far in August.
Quote: "im guessing u werent allowed to take photos of anything unpleasant"
Quite right-- there was a laundry list of things not to take pictures of: soldiers, anything out the bus or train window, military vehicles, etc.
Quote: "What are the things in the glass cases? Like banned items or something? I noticed a laptop in one of them, and a lot of musical instruments."
Ah yes, we went through several museums. There was a Korea museum, a Korean War museum, and a movie studio museum (which was basically a museum for how great Kim Jong Il is
) The items are just things of importance.
Quote: "Also I noticed that at the line of demarcation the South Korean/US side was saying something across in a megaphone, what were they saying?"
As soon as we got to the DMZ, some South Koreans and Americans on the other side started taking our pictures! We were all taking pictures of them, too, which was rather funny (to us, anyway). I don't recall anything happening on a megaphone, but it was a little bit nerve-wracking knowing there are snipers trained on you so I might have missed some details.
