North Korea

well, i didnt quite plan to make an update today, but sometimes some things happen, and after your postman ignoring you, you just receive such mail, that you remain speechless and then burst in excitement....and you just cant sit still...so in order to sleep better (and have the caffeine evaporate too), ill give you a few cards....starting with one which arrived today...to my greatest surprise....not more not less, but North Korea!!! The country on my top 5 places to visit (if I ever get the chance to) One of the most fascinating and most intriguing countries to me, yet so mysterious....so one of the reasons why i would love to visit it is to see what is all the fuss about it...

well, i cant possibly understand what's written here, but would I be wrong if I relate this image to 'revolution'...or 'uprising'....or 'truce'?? If anyone could help me with the translation or maybe an explanation of whats really behind this image, id be really grateful :)

this is such a gem in my collection, that I have no idea how to store it...as clumsy as I am, it would be soaked in coffee....so once done with this update, i need to put it safe and sound, below other cards...keep it as treasure...if you're wondering why im so much dreading it...take a look below!

oh yes!! North Korean stamps!! Pyongyang cancellation....coz this card was INDEED mailed from North Korea itself!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Im still shocked honestly and find it hard to believe that I got a written and stamped card from THE Korea!
Thanks so much to Jean-Luc for this magnificent surprise! Not being on the initial list, I didnt really expect a card at all...so thats why im so thrilled and happy and thankful about this! Yay yay yayy!! Wohoooo!!! And it has taken exactly a month to reach me, which i must say is a decent time for travelling...actually, it is more than decent it had arrived in the first place! I just wonder if the NK Government has me on some list now after seeing my name here :)

two different stamps have been used on the card...both are definitives from a set of 12 issued in 2002.

well, this has been a real treat! and watch your mailbox! who knows, you might be one of the lucky ones as well :)

thank you soooooooooooooooooooo much Jean-Luc! I owe you a BIG one on this!

Pyongyang, North Korea

If anyone has some extra snow, can you please send it to me??? Its getting awfully depressing here...its cold, gloomy and rainy....no sun....no snow....i think that some brightness would cheer me up...even the postman has been really ignoring me lately...last week he didnt come at all...this week came only once...

And i promise that after this card, i wont be so much bragging with some rare countries...at least for a while...and even though this card wasnt sent written and stamped from NK...a North Korea card is rare by itself i think...so its a small gem in my collection...and hopefully, one day i WILL get the written and stamped version, from NK direct!!! :)
I love all that mystery veiling this country, its seclusion...the regime they allegedly have there is intriguing and always makes me search for more info about it....not so long ago, it was all over the news how they had introduced Pizza in the country for the very first time....and i just cant imagine living in a country where everything is so state-controlled....if those people living there, crossed the border to go somewhere else, they would probably be shocked of how this world really is...or at least thats the image being created about NK
Did you know that the currently mobile cellular telephone services are available in Pyongyang only?
Scary....and the glance on the card, showing some urban area in Pyongyang, looks sort of scary as well...with all those huge buildings that look like a copy of each other, with all that vast space among them...really gives the impression of how strictly NK is ruled and how everything is strictly controlled, the people, the media....I would like to visit it one day, just to see by myself how things are going on there....and of course, send you postcards....im sure you're gonna love that :D I just wonder what all sorts of inspections my cards may go through...esp. since im gonna send a real bunch of over 50 cards probably.....its gonna look awfully suspicious i guess :)  Well, as long as they arrive, its ok..

as for a closure of this NK post, id like to share this letter with you, written by Sean McLachlan  and aimed to   Kim Jong II

You can read it here: A Letter to Kim Jong II......in case you are not afraid that the NK government will track you and come after you :P