It remains unclear how strong the skateboarding culture is in North Korea. According to Alejandro Cao de Benós de Les y Pérezis, Special Delegate for the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, North Koreans are more into inline skating, a hint on how this skatepark may be used.Oliver Pelling, Why is North Korea adopting skateboarding?, Jenkemmag.com, 3 September 2013 According to Patrik Wallner of VisualTraveling who travelled twice to North Korea, skateboarding is not "tolerated" in the streets of the country.Yasha Wallin, Shredding the DMZ: North Korea's First Skatepark as Cultural Barometer, Good.is, 25 November 2012
