Commissioner returns from North Korea

Thursday, 10 November 2016 00:00

A Ramsey commissioner says visiting North Korea was the trip of a lifetime - but its political ideas certainly wouldn't work on the Island!

Juan McGuinness, who's served on the Ramsey board since winning a seat earlier this year, recently returned from a tour of the most isolated nation in the world.

He says the streets of Pyongyang were covered in statues and paintings of the idolised leader Kim Jong Un and his father Kim Jong Il.

He said there was little chance to wander off to see anything not on the strictly-controlled visit:

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