This independent journalist gives us a rather personal account of his 8-day visit to North Korea's celebration.
...I did not come here to march. I came here to film and to photograph, to see the faces of local people, to read what was written on those faces, to feel, to sense, and to try to understand.He finds that the formal celebrations hamper his efforts to provide a more graphic account of the lives of ordinary North Koreans, but still he manages to provide some valuable descriptive portraits of their lives, their history, and US war crimes they suffered in the Korean War. This kind of propaganda-free account is a rarity in Western media which always describes life in North Korea as starving people living in a huge gulag.
