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Has anyone here ever been to North Korea?
If so, why and how would you suggest future visitors who visit (beside not going)?
I see the appeal in visiting a rare state like that, so it's something I might like to do before I die.
Of course I'll assure you that I will not do daring things, like going to the countryside, take pictures with impoverished residence, or steal a poster, but I might want to go to the American slaughter memorial, the Ryugyong hotel, or the DMZ. I want to hear the story told from their viewpoint. Now I don't think that I'm going to blindly believe it. I just want to hear the ridiculous exaggerations that only North Korean propagandists can do.
Of course, I've heard of them over and over, but not in person.
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Don't get your hopes up, you can't move freely in North Korea as a visitor. You are under constant surveillance from the moment you enter the country until the moment you leave. You are not allowed to talk to anyone, you can only see what is officially approved. And if you try to escape in an unsupervised moment, prison awaits you with long imprisonment. My advice is: don't do it, there is no other country on earth that you can compare with North Korea. Not even authoritarian states like Russia, Iran or Saudi Arabia can be compared.
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That's what I heard, but one particular reason is that I would like to visit the war memorial boasting war trophies and expose the evil Americans who butcher women and children. I want to hear the North Korean narrative they seem to exaggerate a lot.
I know they don't accept Americans and South Koreans, but what about Canadians, British, etc.?
But no, I'm not going to try anything stupid like smuggling a poster or shoplifting. I just want to visit the war museum and the DMZ.
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(May 05, 2023, 07:59 am)FS_Crawler Wrote: You are not allowed to talk to anyone, you can only see what is officially approved. And if you try to escape in an unsupervised moment, prison awaits you with long imprisonment.
That's only if your lucky.
It is far safer to satiate one's dictatorship fetish by viewing videos on sites like Telegram, Rumble and RT. Also (as always) there is Facebook-- quite a number of dictatorial regimes have accounts there, including North Korea. Just make sure your anti-spyware and AV is all up to date.
Think of it as the difference between viewing a snuff film and actually being featured in one.
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I guess things only come in dreams.
Still, it's still one of the things I would do before I die, perhaps the last.
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(This post was last modified: May 06, 2023, 23:05 pm by RobertX.)
Yes, if you don't mind people looking at you from a lens.
Me, I just want to see the war museum where the dastardly American solders slaughtered the innocent women and children during the war. I don't believe it of course, but I just like to hear that kind of narrative. It's great entertainment, and when you go on vacation, you go because you want to be entertained.
I also want to go to the Demilitarised Zone to really watch shit happen. If World War 3 starts, I would want front row tickets in the theatre of mass destruction.
Other than that, I'll do what I'm told.
I was talking tongue-in-cheek of course, I know no airlines (except Chinese ones) go to the DPRK.
I do get angry when I hear of prisoners and kids outside the capital get abused by guards.
I just hope that there are more defectors going out and blasting the rotund dictator.
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