The Pyongyang Metro isn’t just the deepest metro system on earth, it’s also a nuclear bunker with purpose built blast doors, and an ultra-nationalistic museum of North Korea’s revolutionary history, ideals, and achievements. Each station is uniquely themed. The ‘Golden Soil’ station celebrates agriculture by showcasing murals of wheat harvests and fresh fruit, while the walls of ‘Construction’ station include mosaics of smiling labourers at work as Kim Il-Sung offers field guidance. Statues, bronze plaques, and ornaments scatter the platforms. Transiting here just as 700,000 locals do each day will mean leaving with a stronger understanding of what it means to be North Korean.