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Weird things in North Korea...

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This is my third and probably last blog entry about North Korea for now. It still feels like a dream having been there, and dragging up memories and watching pictures is draining emotionally. Not everything in North Korea was rosy and beautiful, and a lot of things were.... well, weird... though that word can not quite cover what I felt at times. Here are some quotes and experiences to try to explain some of the weirdness I felt during my trip there. One of the men in our group put it best. He said: "I feel like I´m in a movie.... and that I´m one of the actors." That put it right. I felt like that many times.  Other quotes from the group were: "It´s easier to get run over on the sidewalk here than in the middle of the street." A feeling we that came around all the time: "I walk around here feeling normal, just looking around. Then suddenly something happens that shakes me and makes me understand that this is not a normal place..." At certain...