Anyone enamored with the DPRK?

[Chaju]

Is anyone out there as fascinated as I am with North Korea. The fact that a Stalinist regime can exist in the digital age never ceases to amaze me. Is anyone interested in Juche?

[Emerald Dream]

VT Daily Chronicle :arrow: Ramblings of the Wise

[Miserabilia]

I think it's fascinating and a little disguisting

[Jean Poutine]

Honestly, my life will not be complete without a visit to North Korea in its present state.

I want to see it with my own eyes.

[Chaju]

Honestly, my life will not be complete without a visit to North Korea in its present state.

I want to see it with my own eyes.

There's a company called Koryo Tours based out of China. They also have a really fun game on their website.

[Harry Smith]

If you're a white westerner you're not going to leave alive-the only people that go on holiday there are people on the CIA payroll

[Typhlosion]

There actually a few people that can go to the DPRK through China. But it's a costly, way too bearucratical process that could be better spent on more awesome countries. AND, you just get to follow the weirdest tour.

There's a VICE documentary on the DRPK tourism. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24R8JObNNQ4)

I was once in love with the DPRK with all its secrecy, controversial ways. You can watch North Korean tv online (awesome, huh!) and read so much on it.

[CharlieHorse]

I'm kind of sick of North Korea.
They're like a bunch of angry toddlers.

[Miserabilia]

Honestly, my life will not be complete without a visit to North Korea in its present state.

I want to see it with my own eyes.

There are alot of videos on youtube of train rides through NK, cool stuff.

[phuckphace]

I'd totally visit if I could. it'd be cool to see things as they are and not through the media lens.

[Miserabilia]

I'd totally visit if I could. it'd be cool to see things as they are and not through the media lens.

Watch the train videos. Sure, the railroads may not give the best picture of it but it's certainly real.
Also, pretty much all inside-tourist videos are fascinating, I recomend the american tourist inside north korea videos, especialy part 2, though part 1 is prety cool too.

I dunna, really. I did a whole project on school about north korea and it's history and how it influenced it's current state, and the image it's propaganda gives contrary to other data, etc.
Most north korean propaganda consists of pointing a finger at capitalism with images of slums next to big factories, and I'm like yea guilt trip time, and then they show happy north korean people living lives with little freedom but atleast they all live the same life.
Well it's bs. Most people in north korea are actualy suffering from hunger and poverty, two things that shouldn't really exist there.
Also, they have hunderds of thousands of political prisoners, and concentration camps.

And even IF most of that data were incorrect and actualy is having a good life there, I still think it's a shame that so much of the original culture is flushed away. Such beautiful history and arhitecture, and it all has to make way for buildings that are eerily similar to sovjet russian communistic building style, not to mention the obligatory propaganda poster on every building.

[Stronk Serb]

NORTH KOREA IS BEST KOREA!
Joking, somewhat xD I want to visit it and see with my own eyes.

[Cpt_Cutter]

If you're a white westerner you're not going to leave alive-the only people that go on holiday there are people on the CIA payroll

I'd love to see some sources for this.

[Harry Smith]

I'd love to see some sources for this.

http://www.businessinsider.com/hank-crumpton-reveals-his-life-as-a-cia-spy-on-60-minutes-2012-5

http://rockthetruth2.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/north-korea-captures-another-cia-spy.html

http://tomdemerly.com/tag/cia-operations-against-north-korea/

Also partly based on the fact that similar operations have been used against Iran...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/12/world/meast/iran-bob-levinson-cia/

[Jean Poutine]

There are alot of videos on youtube of train rides through NK, cool stuff.

I've seen like every insider DRPK documentary, it is absolutely fascinating.

If you're a white westerner you're not going to leave alive-the only people that go on holiday there are people on the CIA payroll

Not really true, all I've read and seen suggest that they won't refuse you a visa if you meet the requirements, that being white or even American is not at all a barrier, and that the only real barriers present are the bureaucracy and a ban on journalists entering.

Also if you respect them and their country they will respect you and nothing will happen to you. People say just to praise every attraction and avoid political questions.

There's a company called Koryo Tours based out of China. They also have a really fun game on their website.

Yes, I know about them. Once I have a steadier job DRPK will probably be my first vacations.

[Kurgg]

While North Korean government is the most disgusting, brutal and evil government in the world, I would still visit it. It's like a real-life Oceania from Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[Harry Smith]

I'd still be paranoid about getting picked up as working for MI6.

This is worth a look though, the main hotel has a missing 5th floor
http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA3LzIyL2U4L21pc3Npbmc1dGhmLjljYjM5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTg1MHg4NTA-CmUJanBn/c7ddda5a/dbb/missing-5th-floor-yanggakdo-hotel-pyongyang.jpg

http://monsoondiaries.com/2011/08/23/piso-cinco/

[Stronk Serb]

I'd still be paranoid about getting picked up as working for MI6.

This is worth a look though, the main hotel has a missing 5th floor
image (http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA3LzIyL2U4L21pc3Npbmc1dGhmLjljYjM5LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTg1MHg4NTA-CmUJanBn/c7ddda5a/dbb/missing-5th-floor-yanggakdo-hotel-pyongyang.jpg)

http://monsoondiaries.com/2011/08/23/piso-cinco/

North Korea hotels so good, they don't need 5th floor. Jokes aside, that's interesting. I know that you had bugs and phone taps in Soviet hotels. When the shit hit the fan, economy speaking, even at the most luxurious hotels, you had to wash your hair with dish washing detergent, unless you brought your shampoo. Maybe they take you there for detainment if you do something against the rules.

[Sir Suomi]

Oh I'd love to see North Korea, as long as we've got M1 Abrams rolling down it's streets and F-35's dominating the air :cool:

[Gamma Male]

North Korea seems like an absolute shithole. I'd much rather just go to South Korea.

[Aajj333]

Honestly, my life will not be complete without a visit to North Korea in its present state.

I want to see it with my own eyes.

The visit would probably complete your life lol

[Human]

I think it's interesting and I love to read about it. I'd really like to visit as it seems like it would be an eye opener haha. Personally, I don't think the North Korean people are as deceived as we think. They have a thriving blackmarket for mobile phones and chocolate pies (lol), so I think they're mainly under control by fear, not complete brainwashing.
I only found out recently that many countries hire North Korean workers, there's a Vice documentary and the journalists visit a work camp in Siberia where North Koreans work. Countries in the Middle East hire North Korean workers, and also in Africa.