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Vice Magazine's relatively new video site VBS.tv has just finished up its 14-part series on North Korea, called The Vice Guide to North Korea. Host Shane Smith uses some stealth "guerrilla video" tactics to cover all the usual North Korea attractions, from the "world's greatest eyefuck" known as the Arirang Mass Games to the "most lavish two-stop subway money can buy," the Pyongyang Metro.

Along the way, Shane frightens some North Koreans with his karaoke rendition of a punk rock song, receives a guilt trip free of charge with a tour of the captured US ship called the Pueblo, and attends a talent show displaying North Korea's "creepily overtalented future generation."

The series gives an in-depth, and often hilarious, "tourist's-eye-view" of what it's like to visit North Korea. Head on over there and check 'em out.

If you prefer the written word to moving pictures, read about the time Gadling's own Neil Woodburn infiltrated North Korea.

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