North Korea Debriefing

We headed this morning to the headquarters of our affable tour partners for our pre-trip debriefing.

Simon's briefing was humorous and enjoyable.....our hotel is on an island in the middle of the city but we're not to LEAVE the little island...and the hotel staff is all Chinese.....it gets odder and odder. It is apparently a 47 story hotel with elevators that take essentially 15 minutes to reach the higher floors but voila it has a revolving restaurant on top (I can't believe that the thing will work...but if they can build an atomic bomb perhaps they can accomplish a revolving restaurant). We are said to be able to SEND emails but not receive anything....and I doubt very very seriously if anything I might try and send will come through....so this is a goodbye missive until we get back to Beijing on May 1st---at which point I will burn up the ether-waves of whatever they are.