Our guide is truly stunning, and listening to her graphic descriptions, I think up a few tortures of my own that I wouldn't mind inflicting on her.
One Korean woman is showing him through a museum which depicts Americans inflicting horrible torture on North Koreans, and he thinks: There's also something very creepy - even predatory - about the way he talks about women. He seems to portray the North Korean people as something less than human, unworthy of basic respect. In Jerusalem, I enjoyed his touristy approach, but here it feels insensitive. He mocks their clothing and their insistence that the "Great Leader" is amazing, without pausing to consider what it must be like to live in such a strict regime. It didn't sit well with me how callous and pompous Delisle is towards the North Korean citizens, most of whom live in fear of imprisonment, or worse. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is another Delisle book, but this one I liked considerably less. Tatiana's review of The Arab of the Future 3 inspired me to seek out other graphic novels about foreign countries, and I've already read and enjoyed Sacco's Palestine and Delisle's Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City. I've spent most of the last 24 hours immersed in non-fiction graphic novels. I think of mentioning it to our charming guide, but why bother in a country that’s so devoid of common sense?
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