I had North Korean Soju before. It is godawful.
[They had it for sale for a limited time at a North NJ Supermarket]
The tagline is “You haven’t tasted shit until you have tried North Korean soju. Then you have tasted shit”
I have no desire to visit the distillery.
It’s the fault of libturds, Mexicans, Muslims, Jews, Blacks, elites, Lying Killary, and the Kenyan Usurper in his time machine.
^-- sarcasm, just in case you’re irony-deficient
As far as I’m aware, the total number of Americans to die due to visiting North Korea over recent years is one.
Statistically speaking, that makes it one of the safest tourism destinations on the planet.
Well, NK is just as bad as everyone paints it as.
I might go if they promise me that I get brainwashed and sent back as a spy.
For the Hermit Kingdom, I wouldn’t know what to pack.
Lol at the football handoff portrait, nice touch!
Thunder muscle is real!
I took the DMZ tour when I was in South Korea so, properly speaking, I’ve visited North Korea albeit only the first 10’ and then inside one of the conference rooms at Panmunjom. That was plenty.
I’m not sure how important it is to go over funeral arrangements. After all, it might be decades before they return your body.
So when you say that what exactly do you mean?
The North Korean people are the evil axis? The government is corrupt?
We should start a war with them?
That’s just what I’m getting at. The coverage on them is very samey and what I would describe as “war mongery.”
Please note I am not endorsing the people who run the country nor am I saying that the citizens aren’t suffering under a dictator.
I’m merely looking for clarification that it’s unsafe to travel there. ie I don’t take government officials at the word. I also thing that bad actors are using the cover of The Resistance.
Like I’d want to know what South Korean news has to say about it.
OK, I got a response from a friend who has actually spent time there and is a bit of a Korea-phile and he worked there as a guide.
He pointed me to nknews.org
and I found this article:
And this quote stood out:
“This was their only connection to Americans and a lot of them genuinely enjoyed being able to interact with them and learning more about ‘their supposed enemy.’ Music, culture, food, expressions, film., etc. It was a shame but a lot of the North Koreans understood the decision but were certain that it would only make things worse between the two countries.”
as well as this info:
Both Rowan Beard of Young Pioneer Tours (YPT) and Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours told NK News that only about 20% of their customers traveling to the DPRK were from the U.S. in recent years, with Beard adding the number may have reached as high as 40% prior to 2016.
As for the ban’s collateral impact on tourism from nationals of other countries, the results are less straightforward.
“Since the ban was in place we have had a huge spike in Australian and British tourists funnily enough,” Beard said.
–end excerpt–
This site is a South Korean site for news about NK for pundits, journalists, scholoars etc.
It’s a much less inflammatory than “get your will ready” which I feel is disinformation.
This is what my friend said:
" my time there was quite a few years ago now
i would still go there
but
honestly, it’s a bad place to get into a misunderstanding"
and before someone jumps on me for posting nk-propaganda there is also this quote in the article:
“The interactions described above are “more accurately described as tourist-to-minder relationships,” said Joshua Stanton, a sanctions expert and writer of the One Free Korea blog.”
That NK is a dysfunctional hellhole of a country, with busted infrastructure, famished people and a massively corrupt government built around the totalitarian personality cult of the Kim family.
Saying that NK is part of “an axis of evil” is ridiculous, and starting a war with North Korea is a spectacularly bad idea for lots of reasons. But it really is a country in very dire straits, ruled over by some genuinely awful people, and if there was a way to blow away the Kim family, and the corrupt party and army elites, without causing the immediate collapse of the country and a gigantic humanitarian crisis that would inevitably spill over to both China and South Korea, I would be all for pressing the button.
Unfortunately, real world is more complex, there aren’t such quick and easy solutions, and it seems to me that the options for North Korea are basically “Collapses now and causes a huge mess”, “Collapses later and causes a huge mess”, and “Collapses after a short, bloody, stupid war and causes a huge mess”.
Thanks for clarifying what you meant!
I pretty much agree. Though not with the last sentence.
I think there is a way out that doesn’t cause a huge mess and South Korea is intricately involved.
I don’t know if you saw my other post but I’m adding this site to my daily news feeds:
Oh, OK then… I"M GOING!
Oh, oh wait, what percentage is that?
Worked out better for Laibach than the North Koreans I would imagine - going by the pained expressions seen throughout the audience.
Second verse, same as the first?
I can think of non-idiotic reasons to travel to North Korea. Trying to visit family members who may not have much time left, for example.
Staying away might be the wisest course of action given the risks involved, but that doesn’t mean anyone considering such a trip is stupid.
