North Korea’s Sinuiju and my country’s Dandong are across the river. Sinuiju is the fourth largest city in North Korea. Now you can travel to Sinuiju without a visa. You can directly sign up for a tour and show your ID card. Although it is the fourth largest city in North Korea, the urban area of ??Sinuiju is actually very small. Many places look like rural areas, and crops are planted along many roads. The street scene in Sinuiju is a bit like China a few decades ago. The residential buildings look a bit old and slightly gray in color.

There are mostly two-wheeled bicycles on the road, and there are very few four-wheeled cars. There are even fewer private cars on the streets, and there are only a handful of private cars in Sinuiju. The cars that can be seen occasionally on the streets are mostly public cars. What I find interesting is that I can see old ladies setting up stalls on the streets of Sinuiju. I know that North Korea implements a planned economy and some goods are distributed. After chatting with the tour guide, I learned that the behavior of elderly people setting up stalls is now not encouraged, but it is not explicitly prohibited.

The North Korean tour guide smiled and said that North Korean people are very friendly to Chinese tourists. If they see Chinese tourists, they will wave enthusiastically. If they see golden-eyed European and American tourists, they will wave their fists. In North Korea, we did see local people smiling and waving at us, but I couldn't verify whether they waved their fists at European and American tourists. Although the tour guide often told me not to take photos along the way, I couldn't help but take a lot of photos. When I traveled to Sinuiju, I was originally worried about not having a good meal, but I didn’t expect that the quality of the lunch was pretty good. The only regret was that most of the food was cold.

The environment in the hotel is very good and the waiters are also very nice. While we were eating, these waiters also sang and danced for us. If you give them flowers, they will invite you to dance with them. There are flowers for sale in the hotel, usually twenty or thirty yuan a bouquet. Several uncles in the group took the initiative to lay flowers and walked on the stage to dance with these young and beautiful North Korean girls. The waiters in these restaurants are all carefully selected. When I entered and exited the country, I saw many girls dressed similarly to them crowded in the same carriage.

Tourists in the group said that some of these North Korean girls would go to Dandong to work. Many Korean girls who are tall, fair-skinned and beautiful work as waitresses in foreign-related restaurants, and some are even sent to Korean restaurants in China as waitresses. Of course, their work in China is not an individual act, but a dispatch from the country, shouldering the heavy responsibility of earning foreign exchange for the country.