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DPRK blues: Creature comforts and midnight strolls in Pyongyang

"I like that in this city there is still a time when the lights are switched off"

This is the fifth part of a series written by a former development worker in North Korea. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, and part four here.

Kim Il Sung Square is a place filled with hidden gems. It took me some time to figure them out, and I still believe I missed something important. For example, only two years after I moved to Pyongyang did I discover that the two gates at the side of the square, which look like the entrance to an underground garage, instead lead to an underground mall where