Pyongyang Circus

State circus venue sometimes included on Pyongyang's tightly managed visitor itineraries

Pyongyang Circus is one of the city's major performance venues, presenting acrobatics and spectacle in the highly choreographed style visitors quickly learn to associate with North Korea. Whether you can attend depends entirely on your tour programme and what guides are able or willing to arrange.

If it is offered, go less for spontaneous nightlife than for a glimpse of official entertainment culture. The performance, the audience management and the architecture all say something about Pyongyang as a staged capital, where even leisure is folded into a controlled civic display.

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