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Surprise of the Day: Knife Tricks Survives Air Koryo!

Earlier this month, we told you that Knife Tricks blogger Paul Karl Lukacs was off to North Korea. What we didn't tell you, out of respect for the blogger, was that we weren't entirely sure he'd make it out alive. To be fair, we're not sure we was free of doubt either. But survive he did, and the reports have been rolling in since his escape departure.

Particularly interesting is his Air Koryo flight report. As you might remember, Lukacs has a thing for flying scary airlines. Here we go:

Patriotic music was playing as we found our seats. After we settled in, the flight attendants offered a choice of in-flight propaganda. I chose the English-language edition of The Pyongyang Times. The off-lead story – headlined “Books and writings extol Korean leader” – began with the sentence: “The world people in the five continents are highly praising President Kim Il-sung with immense reverence for him.” Great, I quipped to myself, the mathematical computations needed to keep this plane aloft are being made by people who do not know the correct number of continents.

Oh, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Click through for all the fun, including much more on North Korea itself.

[Photo: Knife Tricks]

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