This is from an ongoing series on Gadling.com about a writer’s trip to North Korea for the mass games. For the most part the series reads pretty similarly to ever other account I’ve read on the subject, and has the, frankly, dumb title of Infiltrating North Korea. (For a much better and even-handed treatment on the subject get a hold of the documentary A State of Mind by Daniel Gordon)

But in this post the writer cuts loose a little and muses about the traffic women in Pyongyang. It’s pretty fun.

Dolled up in crisp, blue and white uniforms that are rumored to have been designed by Kim Jong Il himself, the immaculately coifed women work the middle of intersections throughout Pyongyang. Every Traffic Girl is beautiful, young, shapely, and sexy in a uniform-wearing sort of way. On sunny days, they even doff Matrix style sunglasses that add an even deeper layer of suggestive innuendo.

Since there are no streetlights in Pyongyang, the Traffic Girls are the only way to maintain order on the roadways, and man do they! Armed with just a whistle and baton, the girls are a one-person show beautifully orchestrating the flow of traffic with patented, choreographed moves that are crisp, robotic, and out of this world.

In any other country they’d cause accidents as rubbernecking perverts speed by gawking at them; but not in North Korea where there are few automobiles on the street and even less opportunity to be reckless and deviant.

And here’s a three-minute long money shot of a video. Actually, it gets a little old after 30 seconds. Ok, after one minute.

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