North Korea:

Yesterday (August 24th) was the 45th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's rise to power in the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPR Korea). This from the Korean Central News Agency of DPR Korea.

I've always thought North Korea would be an interesting country to visit for a few days, just to see what it's like in a true-communist country. There aren't too many left...Laos and China are the only other two that come to mind at the moment. Only difference between DPRK and China is that China is a global trading force, whereas DPRK still has a platform-shoe-wearing leader, Kim Jong Il, and is way behind the rest of the world in terms of political and economic freedom (China has its issues with political freedom, of course, but much more economically free as compared to North Korea).

This is exactly why I want to go there...to see if it's really as "bad" as they western media tells us, but at the same time whether it is anything close to what the DPRK propaganda machine spits out. Maybe one day....