Christmas in Pyongyang

Tuca Vieira

 

"It is 10 a.m. when we finally board. Train 95 is now crossing the railway bridge over the Yalu River, which marks the official border between the two countries. Slowly, producing the rhythmic and hypnotic sound characteristic of trains on iron bridges , it leaves behind a strange country to enter the strangest of countries. It is as if a portal has opened to a world where things work differently, a world that does not obey the laws we are accustomed to and where time and space, as we understand them, have been greatly shaken."

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(full text published on Archdaily .

A shortened version also published in Folha de S. Paulo )