Emotions: Floating or Sinking the Ship of Rule-Based Authoritarianism?
The author, as the adventure traveler that he is, often gets the question of where his "most interesting" destination have been. Generally, without a doubt, the answer has been North Korea, a foreboding land for most who has the yearning to go but no courage to do so. The author's own trips to North Korea occurred both from the Chinese and the South Korean side, years before the existence of this blog, and thankfully, before the more stringent regulations governing travels to the Hermit Kingdom today. It was a different time when curiosities of foreigners was keeping a modest state-led tourism sector growing at steady pace.