Anna Fifield is the Financial Times’ correspondent in Seoul. She is in North Korea for two weeks and is writing an online journal available only on FT.com about her visit to and life in the isolated hermit state.This is the fifth entry of her online journal. Go to www.ft.com/pyongyangdiary for entries.
The road to Panmunjeom is a bumpy one. Partly because it heads directly to the demilitarised zone and therefore South Korea, from which North Korea has been painfully separated for more than 50 years, and partly because it has many, many potholes.
