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02-07-2013, 04:11 PM
Mr.Ferris, seeing you do tours to NK, these are my interests to see in NK:
Ryugyong Hotel, in particualr see inside.
Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, yes i want to meet him in real.
Yodok, Kwan-li-so #15, labour camp.
Pyeonghwa Motors, in particular the FIAT manufacture division.
Room 39 [Bureau/Office 39] with a view of import/export N.Korean products.
Grave/tomb of ex Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, to pay my respects.
Taedonggang Brewery, for tasting and plant inspection.
Kaesong Industrial Park, with a view of North Korean goods for export.
Some sort of organised bike ride around the capital of Pyongyang, with interaction with the local people.
Visits to food markets and shopping centres where the local population attend.
Whats your thoughts on that lot, very keen to see all that, can you arrange it?
NOT interested in a hold-my-hand minder tour
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02-11-2013, 07:41 PM
Just real quick, some of this stuff is possible: In Rason you are allowed to shop in local markets and convert and use local currency.
The Taedonggang Brewery has a bar, not sure if you can get in to see the plant- a visit there is allowed but not on normal trip itineraries, I'm going there in March, will pass on my experience.
The mausoleum of Kim Il sung and Kim Jong Il is open again, I am also going there in March. I have been and seen Kim Il sung, the most bizarre experience in my life.
Some of my friends at Koryo Tours were brought into the Ryugyong Hotel, their pictures from the inside were the first to ever be published.
Koryo also offers North Korean bike trips - not sure if they do Pyongyang, but who knows.
-I dont like to think of the private tours I lead as "hold my hand", but there is no escaping that you must have North Korean guides and minders.
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Thanks for reply!
Yeah, this would be TheParty reply:
Visit ROOM 39 "it does not exist"
Visit Gulag camp/prison "it does not exist"
Meeting The Great Leader "does exist, but he is not interested"
Bomb out on 3 me think?
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05-31-2013, 08:25 AM
I've just paid a deposit and will be going in November for a 5 day stay in North Korea.
I know there is a no fraternising with the locals rule but fuck that, I'm going all out to escape my guides and get a bang.
I hear there is a massage parlour in the basement of one of the hotels which offers extras so at the very least I'll get a 'happy massage' out of it.
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05-31-2013, 12:57 PM
Apparently all the girls in the massage parlor are shipped in from China.
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05-31-2013, 01:15 PM
Here's a decent
Reddit AMA from a frequent American visitor to North Korea. Probably won't help with flagging, but some interesting insights nonetheless.
I can't have sex with your personality, and I can't put my penis in your college degree, and I can't shove my fist in your childhood dreams, so why are you sharing all this information with me?
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06-01-2013, 03:04 AM
Three of my friends have visited. They enjoyed it. It's like going into the 1960s and time frozen.
I am in South Korea. Tourism is opening up there in the North.
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06-01-2013, 07:43 AM
My only issue with it is having to go on a tour. I hate tours. I know YPT do tours for people who don't like tours BUT it's still a tour and I'm told where to go, what to see, where to sleep, where to eat and to make it even worse because it's NK who I can speak to, where I can go to and and what I can take pictures of.
A totally surreal experience it might be but until I can travel freely I'm not sure I'm interested.
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06-02-2013, 03:49 AM
I read an article a while back about various foreign students who in the past studied at universities in NK including Cambodians and various Africans. They were segregated and had little interaction with other NK students and were monitored at all times.
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06-09-2013, 07:51 AM
The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
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06-13-2013, 10:53 PM
Maybe because I'm ethnic Korean and my folks are from South Korea, I would never visit NK on one of these foreigner tours. Every few years, they always grab some Korean American tourist and accuse him of spying for the imperialist West. I've had buddies get locked up in Seoul and Guangzhou, but I can imagine NK being significantly worse than that.
If they opened the country up on the other hand, I'd be one of the first in the country. I bet it would be reminiscent of post collapse Soviet Union where parents were desperately offering their daughters up to foreigners.
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07-19-2013, 01:25 PM
I have a feeling North Korean girls are very hot and they will be perfect girls for any american who gets there
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08-05-2013, 05:05 PM
One of the BEST videos yet on DPRK:
Who is that fugly *creature* @ 2.09 and whats with the comments @ 2.30? WTF!!
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04-26-2014, 08:05 PM
Here are some pictures from someone who visited.
http://imgur.com/a/F04gj