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  Tuesday 2006-09-05 - P’yŏngyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Getting in is easy

It turns out to be surprisingly easy to get into the country. I had expected we’d have to open all luggage on arrival at the P'yŏngyang airport, but it simply goes through a scanner and we pass through a little gate and are scanned with a hand scanner. "Do you have a phone?" - "No." When my carry-on case goes through the scanner I'm asked: "Do you have a GPS?" - "No." -"Can I see?" - "Sure," and I open my case, suspecting they saw the silhouette of my image tank, which I show to them and explain it's a photo album and for listening to music; they believe me and I don't even have to turn it on. My little bags with cables are no problem either; I also have to open my little camera cleaning kit. And that's it. The security people are friendly and extremely polite as well - a pleasant change from many other border crossings I've done.

posted: Monday 2006-09-18 07:55 UTC borders