I quite liked that ^^ Looked a lot like most south korean cities, but without street markets and mountains of bootleg chinese goods in vending machines everywhere. I'd want to go and experience some of it for myself but, as I understand foreigners can run into some hassle these days (hopefully it'll improve in the future?)
At the very least it's a nice change from the demonizing perspective Western media takes. It's basically gotten the same treatment as China, Cuba etc.: no news but bad news. But people still live and work and raise families there. I think it is because they follow a different way of life there that makes it so hard to trust. Personal freedom as most westerners know it was unheard of throughout the entire world until the colonial period when it was more or less enforced globally. I believe that average people in places like this can live perfectly happy live, as they do, and maybe it needs a fresh perspective like this to  it?