There is a legal way to take DPRK guided tours via a beijing based agency but I'm broke and have never left Amurrika
One day, perhaps
it's just really depressing
best way to describe the country is grim
the guides say what they say, and they show you what they want you to see, but it's not so hard to draw your own conclusions when you tour
I mean, it's not like South Korea is the best country in the world
but you just come back from the oppressive grayness of NK and all of the sudden all the glitzy in-your-face commercialism feels like a breath of fresh air
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There is a legal way to take DPRK guided tours via a beijing based agency but I'm broke and have never left Amurrika
One day, perhaps
it's just really depressing
best way to describe the country is grim
the guides say what they say, and they show you what they want you to see, but it's not so hard to draw your own conclusions when you tour
I mean, it's not like South Korea is the best country in the world
but you just come back from the oppressive grayness of NK and all of the sudden all the glitzy in-your-face commercialism feels like a breath of fresh air
Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
edited June 2009
family trip. Been to Thailand for the vacation part, China for the cultural part, and Korea for the shopping. We took the NK tour as well. Really, just really depressing.
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It's legal, but you should be prepared to give "gifts" or pay an "extra fee" if you want it to actually happen. I don't know if they do it to everyone, but whenever you read about Americans getting in, some official or other will ask for a bribe in order to push it through and threaten to either not file the paperwork or let it take months to happen.
Who has the link to that Vice video?
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It's legal, but you should be prepared to give "gifts" or pay an "extra fee" if you want it to actually happen. I don't know if they do it to everyone, but whenever you read about Americans getting in, some official or other will ask for a bribe in order to push it through and threaten to either not file the paperwork or let it take months to happen.
Who has the link to that Vice video?
Koryo tours works with the government so you don't have to deal with that bologna
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[edit] I'm super jealous, man. Were there any highlights at all you recall specifically or was all just Orwellian and depressing
They took us to some major monuments, gave us a few propaganda speeches on the go, nothing I didn't expect. We didn't go to see Il Sung's body, line was way too long and the weather was crappy. But what I remember most of all was the greyness. It could've just been the weather, but it was also the buildings, people's clothes and faces, the fog over the fields. It really did seem like an extremely joyless place.
But what I remember most of all was the greyness. It could've just been the weather, but it was also the buildings, people's clothes and faces, the fog over the fields. It really did seem like an extremely joyless place.
An amazing recreation of communist eastern europe. On par with Legoland cities.
But what I remember most of all was the greyness. It could've just been the weather, but it was also the buildings, people's clothes and faces, the fog over the fields. It really did seem like an extremely joyless place.
An amazing recreation of communist eastern europe. On par with Legoland cities.
But what I remember most of all was the greyness. It could've just been the weather, but it was also the buildings, people's clothes and faces, the fog over the fields. It really did seem like an extremely joyless place.
An amazing recreation of communist eastern europe. On par with Legoland cities.
But what I remember most of all was the greyness. It could've just been the weather, but it was also the buildings, people's clothes and faces, the fog over the fields. It really did seem like an extremely joyless place.
An amazing recreation of communist eastern europe. On par with Legoland cities.
But what I remember most of all was the greyness. It could've just been the weather, but it was also the buildings, people's clothes and faces, the fog over the fields. It really did seem like an extremely joyless place.
An amazing recreation of communist eastern europe. On par with Legoland cities.
Oh look
The Russian is talking about communism
How typical
i take you back to lair now, yiss?
Fari I was going to ask you to translate some Cyrillic text for me but now I can't find the cable to transfer the photos of the stuff with the writing on it from my camera
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There is a legal way to take DPRK guided tours via a beijing based agency but I'm broke and have never left Amurrika
One day, perhaps
I make one tiny joke about nuking Africa and suddenly everyone's all about cutting off all emergency aid
yeah, emergency food aid will not solve the continent's problems
but if they don't get it millions die
so...
it's just really depressing
best way to describe the country is grim
the guides say what they say, and they show you what they want you to see, but it's not so hard to draw your own conclusions when you tour
I mean, it's not like South Korea is the best country in the world
but you just come back from the oppressive grayness of NK and all of the sudden all the glitzy in-your-face commercialism feels like a breath of fresh air
I love glitzy commercialism
This is the photo diary of a European tourist
It is so fascinating
[edit] I'm super jealous, man. Were there any highlights at all you recall specifically or was all just Orwellian and depressing
Who has the link to that Vice video?
Koryo tours works with the government so you don't have to deal with that bologna
They took us to some major monuments, gave us a few propaganda speeches on the go, nothing I didn't expect. We didn't go to see Il Sung's body, line was way too long and the weather was crappy. But what I remember most of all was the greyness. It could've just been the weather, but it was also the buildings, people's clothes and faces, the fog over the fields. It really did seem like an extremely joyless place.
Behead the Infidel Who Dares Speak Against Our Beloved Leader is popular
god damnit
no we did not go to see that
I wish we had, it looks amazing
Oh look
The Russian is talking about communism
How typical
In Soviet Russia bear eats y...wait
Their library I mean
Yes it's bizarre just like all kinds of shit over there
I know you're going for a "Wiggin's illiterate" joke but really fuck yourself
I can't handle this shit right now
That's their new schtick right
maybe "communal"
Fari I was going to ask you to translate some Cyrillic text for me but now I can't find the cable to transfer the photos of the stuff with the writing on it from my camera
everybody steals from everybody else
it's The Circle Of Theft
"Socialist crime"
You got a problem with this maybe you should talk to my good friend Vlad
Vlad the Skull-Crusher
Wow! How gloriously bizarre.
Yevgeny Stained-Axe
My associate "Steve"
Do not worry what his real name is being you call him "Steve"