When I was there for ten days in April 2012 as part of the ‘peaceful space program’ media junket, we saw how specific Pyongyang facilities [stories, restaurants, parks] were set up as Potemkin show-piece exhibits that guides brought us to while pretending they were typical everyday facilities. The pretense slipped when while we were at one well-stocked department store and restaurant we were visiting ‘at random’, we lingered too long at the gift shop despite the nervousness of our tour guide who kept checking his watch, which was explained as we walked down the stairs to run into – the NEXT group of entering Western tourists ALSO being shown a ‘random’ store.   www.jamesoberg.com

PS -- the 'peaceful' façade on their space program was transparently bogus.