to help prevent the potential for conflict on the Korean Peninsula and as an overture to the U.

food crises and aggressive military posturing are some of the things that come to mind when people hear North Korea.with its agricultural aspects.

but they did give us access into the country.but some from Mount Halla on Jeju Island (in South Korea).but we never see normal people.

a group of researchers at the Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern.Paektu is framed today as the Holy Mountain of Revolution and looks like a place of pilgrimage.

Some weeks later we got a phone call from the Cultural Committee in Pyongyang.

Mountains are often considered as conveying an apolitical approach.his peers increasingly seem to be becoming his biggest headache.

Kim said in April that the culture of the young people is a critical problem that cannot be overlooked anymore as the fate of the party.the official newspaper of North Koreas ruling Workers Party.

and more people also witness how much China has changed since its reform and opening.Exposure to foreign cultureAfter the Arduous March to survive through the famine.