Journos sweat out 9-hour DPRK departure delay with beer, Twitter

What do you do when you’re stuck in North Korea — and have internet access? Light up Twitter, of course. Journalists invited to cover North Korea’s “Festival of the Sun” (ie: the 105th anniversary of the birth of founding father Kim Il Sung) spent nine hours in the airport waiting to leave the parallel dimension for Beijing. They covered mounting anxiety at the prospect of never leaving the DPRK with beer and a steady stream of tweets from their trip, including a poster depicting the 14 state-approved haircuts for men. Tap the image above for LA Times Beijing Bureau Chief Jonathan Kaiman’s feed and start scrolling backward.