While I am working on my upcoming blog posts, I would like to direct you to a really awesome lecture on North Korea and how their system of government has lasted as long as it has.

International Affairs – The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves – And Why It Matters – Book TV.

B.R. Myers uses examples of visual art to drive a lot of great points home.

For the past of couple of years, I have found myself fascinated with North Korea itself.  Similar to watching a bad movie, one can’t look away.  This fascination led me to reading the Guy Delisle graphic memoir Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (amazing book, but I noticed a typo in his writing) and the National Geographic documentary hosted by Lisa Ling.

I also find myself obsessed with North Korean art and architecture.  I think Delisle called one of their failed hotels a “German Expressionist nightmare.”  I’m paraphrasing, but the building does resemble something out of F.W. Murnau’s Faust (from what I’ve seen so far).

ETA: Fixed a few typos of my own.