Wednesday, May 16, 2007

A Few More

A few more things about North Korea:

We were told that the resort only accepted payment in U.S. dollars, which seems quite strange because North Korea hates America. After arriving there, it also seemed strange because everything is seemingly run by South Koreans- so why do they want dollars. Why couldn't we use Korean won? Very strange. Even the North Koreans that we bought snacks or souvenirs from took U.S. dollars. Hmmm.

Also, while we were driving back from a walking tour, we saw some North Koreans right by the road in the middle of planting rice in a field. The only thing that seemed odd was that the workers were all women and the men were standing by, watching! Our tour guide said this was the norm.

A train crossed the DMZ on a test run. I mentioned to my mom on the phone how set everyone is about the reunification of North and South Korea. They do not talk about "if" it will happen, but "when". The way they talk about it, it seems inevitable. Here is an article on the train crossing- it's interesting, and a good read to understand a bit of the Unification process.

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