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The last resort.
I tried to go, but had funny pictures of the vice supreme leader and wasn't allowed in the country.....
Surprised pikachu x Vance Photoshopped
Should have told him "Thank You".
Rank 165 of 167 democracy...
Rank 179 of 180 press freedom...
Let's book the tickets, honey. We are traveling to jail.
That just makes me wonder who they are beating in these rankings
Myanmar and Afghanistan, apparently
And for press, Eritrea
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Sounds like the perfect conservative vacation destination.
Don't expect three hots and a cot though
Don't mind me wrong, but looking at what Dubai is doing, I am not surprised Kim thinks people can forget about NK reality for a nice beach.
Fantastic news for ml! I'm sure they'll visit in droves.
Only a moron would want to visit North Korea where Kim Jung Un will have you killed for saying anything negative about him or the country.
I'd love to go there, and Iran, but I'm not stupid. The foreign culture would be amazing.
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Wow, a vacation location I would like to visit even less than the US.
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It will be a Trump hotel and MAGA nuts will go stay there.
Oh can we please make this happen?
Hope there aren't any flags or posters that can murder a poor tourist.
Anyone who goes there of their own free will should know that they could end up like Otto Warmbier at any time. No tears will be shed for them.
They are likely betting on Chinese/Russian tourists. No way Kim lays a finger on a PRC citizen.
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You are talking about a fellow human being...
Yes, which is why it's important for them to realize what they're getting themselves into. Did Warmbier deserve what happened to him? Absolutely not, but knowing what happened and still going over there to play tourist means you've understood, accepted and internalized the possible risk. I will reserve my tears for the many thousands of people who get into trouble through no fault of their own.
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Otto Warmbier
Can you imagine being this disconnected on the world perception about yourself and how you run your country? Crazy.
Hear that conservatives?
You can visit the country you're trying to make our country look like.
You can get a good long look at what your dipshittery leads to. But only if you have the balls to leave the resort.
Interestingly, I've recently watched Real Life Lore's video on the topic. It's from 2 months ago and later in the video, it talks about the last batch of western foreigners that got in and how the regime almost immediately regretted letting them record and talk as much as they did.
There was also a S. Korean resort ran by Hyundai, from 1998 to 2008, which got shut down and nationalized after an incident had the N. Koreans shoot and kill Park Wang-ja, a 53 year old woman.
NK is a bad enough place to visit without worrying about everything. It’s the ultimate in mismanagement.
Management says it must happen, so it happens, or we tell them it’s happened. When someone gets hurt because it actually didn’t happen, there’s a cover up.
Does anyone even go to North Korea? Is that like a thing?
They do have a tourism industry, composed of ideological "true believers" (not that big of a group), tourists wanting to experience the unique culture out of curiosity (or - in the more recent years - also to produce social media content), and tourists interested in the unique architecture.
In the overwhelming amount of cases, it also goes well enough, because it is a welcome avenue to get foreign currency for them, and despite what some may believe, the state is still fully within the dynamics of capital accumulation. (Other examples are: contractors in construction, where they have unique know-how in monumental constructions, which is also one of the places where the exploitation of their populace as wage labourers can become visible to the outside world - and selling stamps and other collectibles in demand for being "exotic" as they are from NK.)
But then, every now and again, you have cases like Otto Warmbier.
A few people have, but it's not common. https://abcnews.go.com/International/prominent-americans-met-north-korean-leaders/story?id=53635089
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Some observers say this is an easy way for Pyongyang to earn money. While foreign tourists are allowed in, tour groups largely tend to come from China and Russia, countries with whom Pyongyang has long maintained friendly relations.
Imagine how silent and unpolluted NK is, ngl it would be a great vacation if not for the moral concerns
Damn, you're right. I wouldn't want to vacation anywhere that has a long history of atrocious civil rights abuses.
Books tickets to Florida
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Just don't say anything against Dear Leader or you'll come back catatonic then die like that other American tourist.
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it's full of pollution from china. it's a seasonal pattern whereby dry sandy desert air from the gobi mixes with industrial emissions feom beijing and blows over to the korean peninsula, coating everything with a yellow-orange dust every spring
When does construction of a Trump Tower there begin?
Ah yes, the new Mar-a-Lago. Fantastic. I'm sure Trump will be dying to golf there.
Plot to a horror movie.
Perfect for East Russian newly made widows to recover from the shock of finding unexpected money on their bank account.
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