Exclusive bird's eye look at Pyongyang

From the website NKnews.org.

The North Korean authorities prefer to keep cameras close to the ground, where they can better control what is recorded: the marquee developments, smiling locals, the new restaurants. 

But visit the country as many times as Aram Pan, a Singaporean photographer, and they’re likely to eventually give you something new to photograph. 

In a recent visit to North Korea in September, Pan was given an exclusive chance to take his camera on a microlight flight over the city, filming both with a 360° camera and snapping regular photos.

And ...

Aram Pan: Perhaps it’s because I don’t see them as the terrifying people everyone thinks they are and I guess they feel that. I find that the friendlier I am, the more they naturally reveal themselves to me. There’s an old saying, “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger”.

Aw bless, Singapore Person. That's so sweet. It's a bit different though applied to nations designated word leaders assigned the impossible task of keeping these militant communist crackpots from spreading nuclear arms to global terrorists antagonistic to civilization and progress. Including yours. You can spare us the pedagogic axioms. We've read it in Poverbs 15:1. The Bible is often misunderstood this way. Teaching that applies to the individual isn't intended for nations. Although national leaders may bring this inspiration with them to their positions, it doesn't work that way for nations.

I must now go lay down for I find the video's fisheye photography has made me crosseyed. There might be permanent visual disorientation. Though it's interesting watching the approach unzip and the sides pull away from each other, you have to imagine what it looks like straightened out. The colors are interesting. So is the absence of vehicles. No parking for a stadium. A commenter wrote, "Must be rush hour. I saw a car."