A Pyongyang memorial to the DPRK's farmers, workers, and intellectuals. 1998.
Pyongyang's Arch of Triumph. 1998
The view from my Koryo Hotel room on election day. Pyongyang, North Korea, 1998
The winning "ward" candidate is presented to her voting public. Election day in Pyongyang, 1998
Election Day in North Korea, 1998
An afternoon on the river in Pyongyang, 1998.
Spying on the northern side of South Korea's wall at the DMZ, 1998.
Kaesong, North Korea, the ginseng capital of the world; 1998.
An artists rendering of our Kaesong hotel; traditional and very nice. We were on our way to Panmunjon, 1998.
Yomju County on the northeast coast. 1998.
Sariwan County, 1998.
Hamhung, North Korea's second largest city, located on the east coast, has some beautiful coastline. 1998.
On the way to an east coast project. 1998.
Anju County, North Korea
Our World Food Program Land Cruiser and one of the few remaining working tractors we came across. Songchon County, North Korea. 1998.
A fairly typical village home with its family garden. Family gardens were becoming very common and unregulated; they proved far more productive than communally farmed land. This is in Songchon County, just northeast of Pyongyang. 1998.
This brick home is more substantial than most of those we saw in rural North Korea. 1998.
Drying husks from the rice harvest, on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea. 1998.
The statue of “The Great Leader” or “The Dear Leader” has yet to be installed. 1998.
A flood control barrage in Songchon County, North Korea. 1998.
The rice has been harvested. Songchon County, North Korea. Songchon County is in the DPRK's breadbasket on the half of the country. 1998.
Singye County is south-central North Korea. 1998.
We approved a Food for Work project along this river in Singye County to build a flood containment wall to protect this farmland from floods. 1998.
Pyongyang. The pyramid building on the right is an unfinished hotel that is probably still not in use. At the time it was under construction it was planned to be the tallest building in the world. Rumor was that the elevator shafts were unusable. 1998.
Pyongyang's skyline. 1998.
Pyongyang. 1998.
A view from the hills just north of Pyongyang. 1998.
Pyongyang from a public park on the city's outskirts. 1998.
A public park outside Pyongyang. 1998.
Pyongyang's public square, the site of many of the 59th anniversary celebrations took place. 1998.
We cheered wildly for the Austrialian national women's soccer team in this match against the North Korean women. We were, of course, the obnoxious Americans. Other fans clapped their hand politely regardless of which side made a play. The Aussies, who won 1-0 appreciated us! 1998.
Nampo Port, south of Pyongyang. 1998.
Low tide along the coast of Mundok County, North Korea. 1998.
Hamhung city on North Korea's east coast. Hamhung contained much of what was left of North Korea's industry and was very hard hit by food shortages (as was much of the east coast). 1998.
Tidal movements covered long distances along the flat coastal areas. This is in Haeju County neighboring the waters of South Korea. 1998.
Our minders would frequently surprise us with stops at idylic spots such as this. Of course the more time we spent in such spots the less time we had for our project inspections. 1998.
School children playing something akin to musical chairs in a Hamhung orphanage. 1998.
A lonely denuded hill.
Rice and cabbage fields, Tongnim, North Korea. 1998.
This little park is near Ryangang, a small town on the Yalu River in central North Korea. This area was restricted to foreigners but I was lucky to visit with a visiting US congressional staff delegation. We were told we were the first Americans allowed into the area since the Korean War. 1998.
A private garden in Ryanggang with squash growing apleanty. 1998.
Our beach hotel in Hamhung, North Korea, from which we traveled to our east coast project sites. 1998.
A rest stop in the hills between Pyongyang on the west coast, and Wonson on the east coast. 1998.
Corn fields outside of Pyongyang, North Korea. 1998.
A private garden in Ryanggang, North Korea. A number of these gardens in the far north contained healthy looking marijuana plants. 1998.
Our hosts in Pyongsan County were a delightful group -- open and warm, frank about their plight, and not intiimdated by our senior minder. The lunch was fantastic! 1998.
