• Electric@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Despite the boring, miserable and overly controlled experience, I returned the next year. I don’t like confrontation, and the Communist Party officials had already signed me up, so I went again.

    Could have just… not paid the $300 a second time. Also this dude looks like the 3rd Sprouse brother.

  • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If you willingly pay to go to North Korea you’re funding a dictatorship. You’re an asshole and if you end up in jail there you should be on your own

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    A large portion of tourism income, including airfare, goes directly to the government, and North Korea can buy old nuclear warheads for several hundred thousand dollars, which adds up pretty quick with a few hundred tourists.

    Bear that in mind if you’re thinking of visiting.

    • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Jesus Christ i hated Vacation Bible School. I know it was just to get us little shits out of the house for five minutes but for fuck sake anything else would’ve been better

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    5 months ago

    After what happened to Otto Warmbier…. someone would choose to go there?

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      5 months ago

      It probably helped that he is Russian and not American.

      An American in North Korea is just asking to be jailed for dubious reasons.