In this beautifully illustrated journal based on a TV documentary, writer, comedian and world traveller Michael Palin journeys to North Korea, offering a glimpse of life inside the world's most secretive country, uncovering surprises and making friends along the way.

In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the cities have gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious underground train stations. His resulting documentary was widely acclaimed.

Now he shares his day-by-day diary of his visit, in which he describes not only what he saw--and his fleeting views of what the authorities didn't want him to see--but recounts the conversations he had with the country's inhabitants, talks candidly about his encounters with officialdom, and records his musings about a land wholly unlike any other he has ever visited--one that inspires fascination and fear in equal measure.

Written with Palin's trademark warmth and wit, and illustrated with beautiful colour photographs throughout, the journal offers a rare insight into the North Korea behind the headlines.

在这本根据电视纪录片改编的图文并茂的日记中，作家、喜剧演员和世界旅行者迈克尔-佩林前往朝鲜，提供了世界上最神秘的国家内部生活的一瞥，一路上发现了很多惊喜并结交了很多朋友。

2018年5月，前Monty Python的中坚力量和无畏的环球旅行者迈克尔-佩林在臭名昭著的朝鲜民主主义人民共和国呆了两周，这是一片没有互联网和电话信号的隔绝之地，那里的农村几乎没有超越几个世纪的农民经济，但城市里有闪亮的摩天大楼和豪华的地下火车站。他拍摄的纪录片受到广泛好评。

现在，他分享了他的逐日访问日记，其中他不仅描述了他所看到的东西--以及他对当局不想让他看到的东西的短暂看法--而且叙述了他与该国居民的对话，坦率地谈论了他与官方的遭遇，并记录了他对这片完全不同于他所访问过的任何其他土地的思考--这片土地激发了同样的魅力和恐惧。

这本日记以佩林标志性的热情和机智写成，通篇配有精美的彩色照片，让人难得地了解到头条新闻背后的朝鲜。

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