Report from North Korea

DJ Mandyczewski, one of The Rest Is Noise's fearless foreign correspondents (he prefers to use a pseudonym), recently ventured into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and took the above video at the Tower of the Juche Idea in Pyongyang. He writes: "The sonic landscape is amazing. In certain respects it reminded me of the Muslim world, where the call to prayer and Koran recitations are playing constantly, reminding you of the value/belief system and its binding force. Every morning...