A vacation in a hell of a state
This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. Michael Palin in North Korea was a two-part 2018 documentary on the Monty Python actor’s tightly choreographed tour of North Korea. Palin dances with cheerfully drunk North Koreans on International Workers’ Day and picnics with his guide, a woman called So Hyang. He plays catch with an inflatable globe with some North Korean children and learns some taekwondo.
