In August 2006, sometime between a missile firing and a nuke test, nine wayward Korean Americans touched down in that part of the homeland that runs north of DMZ minefields. We journeyed under the banner of DEEP, the DPRK Education and Exposure Project, led by Nodutdol’s awesome Juyeon Rhee -- Sugo!
Our North Korean hosts called us “compatriots” or “dongpo,” which, broken into its constituent parts means from the “same womb.” They welcomed us with open arms and mountains, rice paddies and history.
Here is the bojaki wrapping cloth, the patchwork quilt of impressions we wrote to carry our hopes, heartache and longing for this land of shared tongue and memory....<more>
All photo credits: DEEP 2006
North Korea: Journeys of the Heart