Isn’t it in Uxbridge, or is that another one I’m thinking of? It’s definitely not on ’embassy row’ in Kensington, that’s for sure!
Why can I hear the theme music to Terry and June. Wow what if Terry Scott was at one point an attaché.
A lot of comments in [this thread](/r/london/comments/moqx79/north_korean_embassy_in_london_in_ther_past_they/) from last year about the embassy.
That must the cushiest gig ever. Who goes there?
Imagine having them as your neighbours.
cool. stop watching TV.. NK is actually a nice place. Watch documentary on american defectors. (not the bald dude who came out and lied for america to take him back). It is a nice place, nice people. TV only tells you it is bad.
Is there any security around the premises? Embassies usually don’t like people taking photos or videos.
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It’s right on the north circular, I go past it at least a couple of times a week. Almost always has a Velux open at the top whatever the season.
Its always fun to see this on the way to my gandma’s house
wonder if they’ve done a loft conversion
US should buy one of the properties next door and add an extra floor and a big extension just to one up North Korea. And instead of a flag pole just have the star spangled banner painted onto the roof. They can be the worst neighbours ever constantly playing loud music, putting their rubbish in North Korea’s wheelie bins and having BBQs whenever the Koreans hang their washing out.
Can I have the address?
They might be taking asylum applications
Apparently very nice neighbours, so long as you don’t try jumping over the fence to get your ball back.
Maybe the Dear Leader selected it for its ready access to the latest communications technology (post box).
So how to embassies work. If I cross the fence perimeter am I considered to be in NK?
Fart through the letterbox
I went there about 10 years ago to pick up a visa (visited North Korea on a tour in 2012).
It was a weird experience, I went up to the front door and kept knocking and ringing the bell periodically for about 15 minutes. Nobody answered the door, but two small Korean children kept running up to the door and making faces at me from the inside (the door is partially glass so you can see through). Felt a bit nervous just standing there next to the North Korean embassy.
Eventually I googled the number for the embassy and phoned them, and told them I was at the front door for a visa. Somebody came down to take my passport and the £10 fee, and I came back about an hour later to collect it. There was a display of propaganda about Kim Jong Il (it was not long after his death) on a notice board just inside the front door. I could hear the children and cooking/family noises in the background. It felt more like a family home than an embassy really, apart from the propaganda display!
The deputy ambassador to the UK at that time, Thae Yong-ho, later defected to South Korea in 2016 with his family and is now a well known public figure there, and a member of the National Assembly. I don’t know if the children I saw at the embassy were his, but it’s possible.
The UK and NK have surprisingly good diplomatic relations.
There are a few British people (academics mostly) that live in Pyongyang.
I’m unsure if the British embassy in NK has reopened, they pulled out during corona.
It’s funny that they still have to obey the fence restrictions.
Imagine living in a country with an unelected head of state, who also happens to be the head of a made up religion, and a lot of the population are brainwashed into worshipping the head of state and their family by media propaganda.
And then you get recalled to Pyongyang
E Thanks for the award
Me and my mate Sean went there a few years ago for a rare open day, it was an art exhibition basically. Quite a big house, not that many people there when we went. Quite a surreal experience really.
That’s gotta be the plummest of jobs in the whole of the PRNK – away from dictatorial peasant conditions in West London. Nice butt kissing that man.
That’s an imposing guard they have in front of the gate.
Imagine when the kids kick the ball over and your have to write a formal letter to supreme leader to ask for it back to avoid an international diplomatic incident
That’s handy for the neighbours who might want to defect.
Handy to have a postbox just outside for sending letters back to the DPRK
Embassies just being in houses or generic office buildings isn’t all that unusual. Lots of smaller countries will basically just sign a lease making a building their embassy and when the lease runs out they can move the embassy elsewhere. Often only the “big” countries will have purpose-built semi-permanent embassy campuses.
Great Scott! We have found them!
Nice house
Pretty sure there’s at least one Mercedes’ in the front of the house, I imagine they don’t use South Korean cars.
Would be funny if the South Korean embassy was next door. Or at the bottom of the garden.
Jesus. I thought N.Korea was poor. But they can afford a 4 bedroom detatched with gated driveway?
Man. What am I missing here?!
Isn’t that the Texaco flag?
🌳 Ealing 🌳
hey, Park-Jeung See – was that letter box there yesterday? I swear it sniggered when I posted a letter to Our Glorious Leader…
Imagine kicking your ball into the North Korean embassy’s back garden
What about it?
It’s just a house looool
It reminds me of a house a secretive cult would live. That being the flag of their ethno-religious micro state.
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Isn’t it in Uxbridge, or is that another one I’m thinking of? It’s definitely not on ’embassy row’ in Kensington, that’s for sure!
Why can I hear the theme music to Terry and June. Wow what if Terry Scott was at one point an attaché.
A lot of comments in [this thread](/r/london/comments/moqx79/north_korean_embassy_in_london_in_ther_past_they/) from last year about the embassy.
That must the cushiest gig ever. Who goes there?
Imagine having them as your neighbours.
cool. stop watching TV.. NK is actually a nice place. Watch documentary on american defectors. (not the bald dude who came out and lied for america to take him back). It is a nice place, nice people. TV only tells you it is bad.
Is there any security around the premises? Embassies usually don’t like people taking photos or videos.
[deleted]
It’s right on the north circular, I go past it at least a couple of times a week. Almost always has a Velux open at the top whatever the season.
Its always fun to see this on the way to my gandma’s house
wonder if they’ve done a loft conversion
US should buy one of the properties next door and add an extra floor and a big extension just to one up North Korea. And instead of a flag pole just have the star spangled banner painted onto the roof. They can be the worst neighbours ever constantly playing loud music, putting their rubbish in North Korea’s wheelie bins and having BBQs whenever the Koreans hang their washing out.
Can I have the address?
They might be taking asylum applications
Apparently very nice neighbours, so long as you don’t try jumping over the fence to get your ball back.
Maybe the Dear Leader selected it for its ready access to the latest communications technology (post box).
So how to embassies work. If I cross the fence perimeter am I considered to be in NK?
Fart through the letterbox
I went there about 10 years ago to pick up a visa (visited North Korea on a tour in 2012).
It was a weird experience, I went up to the front door and kept knocking and ringing the bell periodically for about 15 minutes. Nobody answered the door, but two small Korean children kept running up to the door and making faces at me from the inside (the door is partially glass so you can see through). Felt a bit nervous just standing there next to the North Korean embassy.
Eventually I googled the number for the embassy and phoned them, and told them I was at the front door for a visa. Somebody came down to take my passport and the £10 fee, and I came back about an hour later to collect it. There was a display of propaganda about Kim Jong Il (it was not long after his death) on a notice board just inside the front door. I could hear the children and cooking/family noises in the background. It felt more like a family home than an embassy really, apart from the propaganda display!
The deputy ambassador to the UK at that time, Thae Yong-ho, later defected to South Korea in 2016 with his family and is now a well known public figure there, and a member of the National Assembly. I don’t know if the children I saw at the embassy were his, but it’s possible.
The UK and NK have surprisingly good diplomatic relations.
There are a few British people (academics mostly) that live in Pyongyang.
I’m unsure if the British embassy in NK has reopened, they pulled out during corona.
It’s funny that they still have to obey the fence restrictions.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4288231/north-korea-embassy-west-london/amp/
**The Sun Warning**
Imagine living in a country with an unelected head of state, who also happens to be the head of a made up religion, and a lot of the population are brainwashed into worshipping the head of state and their family by media propaganda.
And then you get recalled to Pyongyang
E Thanks for the award
Me and my mate Sean went there a few years ago for a rare open day, it was an art exhibition basically. Quite a big house, not that many people there when we went. Quite a surreal experience really.
That’s gotta be the plummest of jobs in the whole of the PRNK – away from dictatorial peasant conditions in West London. Nice butt kissing that man.
That’s an imposing guard they have in front of the gate.
Imagine when the kids kick the ball over and your have to write a formal letter to supreme leader to ask for it back to avoid an international diplomatic incident
That’s handy for the neighbours who might want to defect.
Handy to have a postbox just outside for sending letters back to the DPRK
Embassies just being in houses or generic office buildings isn’t all that unusual. Lots of smaller countries will basically just sign a lease making a building their embassy and when the lease runs out they can move the embassy elsewhere. Often only the “big” countries will have purpose-built semi-permanent embassy campuses.
Great Scott! We have found them!
Nice house
Pretty sure there’s at least one Mercedes’ in the front of the house, I imagine they don’t use South Korean cars.
Would be funny if the South Korean embassy was next door. Or at the bottom of the garden.
Jesus. I thought N.Korea was poor. But they can afford a 4 bedroom detatched with gated driveway?
Man. What am I missing here?!
Isn’t that the Texaco flag?
🌳 Ealing 🌳
hey, Park-Jeung See – was that letter box there yesterday? I swear it sniggered when I posted a letter to Our Glorious Leader…
Imagine kicking your ball into the North Korean embassy’s back garden
What about it?
It’s just a house looool
It reminds me of a house a secretive cult would live. That being the flag of their ethno-religious micro state.