In the comic strip "Pyongyang," the story follows the main character as he travels to North Korea. The visual text is represented in a few pages and ends abruptly when he finally enters into the country. The artwork in this comic is very simplistic and the text is also easily understood. The author created this comic intentionally to be straightforward and not complex. By using specific writing techniques and unique sketches, the author portrays a common view of North Korea and its people. The comic strip, "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea," shows that North Korea is very different by looking at the plots, images, and the text that appears in each frame.  

The plot throughout the comic, "Pyongyang," does not have many eventful scenes that occur in it. The main character begins in a hotel in China before he leaves for Pyongyang. He talks about the book he brought on his trip "1984," which happened to be written the year Korea became a republic (Delisle, 153). The book helped him familiarize himself of Pyongyang. Prior to leaving for Pyongyang, he goes through another day and stays at the hotel with the Chinese disturbing him. The scenes of the main character at a hotel extend through most of the comic strip. By making the plot move slowly, the author relates it back to what is happening in North Korea. The people in this country are not allowed to do much of anything, and the plot shows that not much of anything happens. Nothing remarkable really occurs in the story or in the city of Pyongyang. When he finally reaches Pyongyang, he is limited to places he is allowed to visit. This shows the people who are living in North Korea are under high control. He does not interact with anyone and guards surround every building and street corner. The scenes where he is actually in Pyongyang only take up about two pages out of the whole comic strip. The main purpose of the comic is not about his stay in Pyongyang, but to show that the slow plot has no excitement just like there is nothing to do in the city. 

The author of "Pyongyang," Guy Delisle, makes the entire comic easy to read. By looking at the simplicity of the text how the plot does not have many exciting events occurring, it can be easily understood. However, it still has an interesting storyline that is directed for those who understand the events occurring in North Korea. The text that appears either in thought and speech bubbles or in the text boxes is written in a style that is easy to perceive. The writing is bubbly and in all caps. Because the bubbly writing is simple to read, the reader can perceive that nothing occurs in Korea just like nothing occurs in the text. Also, The author gives the main character's thoughts a stereotypical view to Koreans. He mentions how "They leave the door open, watch television in their underwear  and yell to each other from room to room until late into the night," which could be perceived negatively (151). Yelling usually has a negative connotation, and the main character doesn't know what they are saying because the author wrote their speech bubbles in Chinese and the rest of the comic in English. By including the Chinese language into the comic strip, the author incorporates a piece of their world in the foreigner's narration. North Korea is portrayed as a place separate from the world, and it does not really accept visitors from outside countries. By showing in the text there are yelling people and showing they are from there, tells the reader that North Korea is not a happy place. Not only does the simplicity of the text and how it is written relate to how nothing goes on in North Korea, but also portraying angry people in the text shows that North Korea is not a place he should want to travel to during this time. By portraying North Korea in the text, the author communicates to the reader the citizens there do not have many rights and they are not allowed to do anything.

Finally, there is a relationship depicted through the images' simplicity and the country of North Korea. All of the images are just brief sketches with very little details. Because the sketches that are about where he is visiting are simple in style, it shows the reader that North Korea is also dull and bland. The author intentionally made the illustrations simple and not specific to relate the city of Pyongyang to the images. Delisle is forming a gloomy, boring setting by not using details. He relates this back to the country, because people are barely allowed to leave their houses to actual see the country they are living in. The author also draws the characters in a very simple form. He makes them all sort of look the same; everyone has short hair. None of the characters have mouths either, which could show how they are emotionless. This can also relate to country of North Korea, because citizens here were not allowed to have emotions or feelings. All the characters look unhappy because they do not have mouths, which again relates to the people in the country. The drawings are all simple, and the characters are all similarly drawn. Because the author made the characters have nothing unique about them, he was trying to prove that the citizens of North Korea have no rights of their own and they all have to be the same person. The simplicity of the images portrays North Korea as a highly controlled country with no individualism. 

"Pyongyang" contains simple drawings and text that can be related to North Korea and the people within it. The images have little to no details, and the text does not have a climax or many actions that really intrigue the reader. By using slow moving scenes, the author relates it to nothing occurring in North Korea. The purpose of it is to display to the rest of the world what 

North Korea is going through and that they do not have much freedom to their own rights. The author shows this issue within the images and how they are simple, too. The plot, the images, and the text show the comparison with the comic strip, "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea," and with what is occurring in North Korea. 

