Members Loobs Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 I think it'd be fascinating and definitely unlike any other experience. You can travel there, albeit with certain difficulty, but given that the country is a police state where citizens go 'missing' if they defect, giving them any money is morally sketchy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wiklund87 Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 no thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members -TJ- Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 Just go to Beijing. Its sketchy enough and you have all the amenities you could want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Coach Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 hell no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members neoflox Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 I watched a french/german documentary about Burma (Myanmar) recently. This country is the closest to North Korea in terms of dictatorship and they just started letting tourists in. Bizarre country, they don't have a stock exchange, they trade SIM cards for phones, making them raise as much as ten years wages. Also they don't take US dollar bills that have the slightest mark on them. In the 80s they had a currency where all bills and coins had values of 8 and multiples of it because it is a lucky number there. It took them 2 years to dump that practice because no one could pay stuff anymore. Also no one is allowed to stay overnight anywhere else than at home without the consent of a government employee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members magnum pi Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 Traveling there seems to be limited to guided tours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members neoflox Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 Traveling there seems to be limited to guided missiles fix'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 9520575 Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 I would go. seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnorkelMonkey Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 Get locked up and tortured? I'll pass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loobs Posted November 20, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 Just because you go there, doesn't mean you're going to have anything bad happen. Of course you have to respect what they say and stick with your tour guide, but apart from that it seems safe. There's tons of blogs written by people who have travelled there. It's nothing like Beijing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCTC Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 bahahaha nope. I'd rather go to England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members -TJ- Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 bahahaha nope. I'd rather go to England. you can have scones then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MickTaylorFan Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 I was in South Korea a long time ago and spoke with some former North Koreans that escaped/migrated during the Korean war. Most of them still had family in the North and when asked if they would return, if given the opportunity, all of them said no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lolque? Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members magnum pi Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 I remember seeing some footage shot in side a Military museum there, it looked wonderful with its slanted views on reality and is second on my must see museum list after this place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members live-I-evil Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3 I was just gonna post that, so weird when he's eating in that empty ball room filled with food. Seems a little eerie but I'd be down to go and check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members six acre lake Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 I love food. I adore food. I will eat pretty much anything. That said Korean Food is quite possibly one of the worst foods I have ever had. I dated a Korean girl for a while and I swear the {censored}ing awful food was a huge part of our demise. So no. I would not want to go to NK based on cuisine alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members woolyh Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 A holiday in other peoples misery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rizza Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 If you haven't read Pyongyang by Guy Delisle, it's a fascinating read. The country just seems so surreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Reaganomics! Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 I think pretty much the only way to go there is a guided tour where you're forking over your money to a totalitarian government for the privilege of walking around and saying "Oh man its so goofy and weird how these people's misery is constructed LOL can't wait to put pics up on flikr!" so no... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members crohny Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 Regardless of what blogs say about people that have traveled there, I refuse to disregard the accounts of all the terrible {censored} that has gone on there, and still goes on there. That being said, if I had a death wish, {censored} yes give me a ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cassette Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loobs Posted November 20, 2011 Author Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 Saw the Vice thing. Creepy. Fascinating though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Coach Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 I think pretty much the only way to go there is a guided tour where you're forking over your money to a totalitarian government for the privilege of walking around and saying "Oh man its so goofy and weird how these people's misery is constructed LOL can't wait to put pics up on flikr!"so no... Exactly, it's like taking a trip to a zoo where the captive animals in the cages are people. {censored} supporting that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 9520575 Posted November 20, 2011 Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3 after watching that, I really want to go now. find that tea girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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