North Korea to open beach resort as Kim Jong Un bets on tourism
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Hope there aren't any flags or posters that can murder a poor tourist.
Anyone who goes there of their own free will should know that they could end up like Otto Warmbier at any time. No tears will be shed for them.
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The last resort.
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Does anyone even go to North Korea? Is that like a thing?
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Otto Warmbier
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It will be a Trump hotel and MAGA nuts will go stay there.
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Anyone who goes there of their own free will should know that they could end up like Otto Warmbier at any time. No tears will be shed for them.
They are likely betting on Chinese/Russian tourists. No way Kim lays a finger on a PRC citizen.
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I tried to go, but had funny pictures of the vice supreme leader and wasn't allowed in the country.....
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NK is a bad enough place to visit without worrying about everything. It’s the ultimate in mismanagement.
Management says it must happen, so it happens, or we tell them it’s happened. When someone gets hurt because it actually didn’t happen, there’s a cover up.
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Does anyone even go to North Korea? Is that like a thing?
A few people have, but it's not common. https://abcnews.go.com/International/prominent-americans-met-north-korean-leaders/story?id=53635089
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They do have a tourism industry, composed of ideological "true believers" (not that big of a group), tourists wanting to experience the unique culture out of curiosity (or - in the more recent years - also to produce social media content), and tourists interested in the unique architecture.
In the overwhelming amount of cases, it also goes well enough, because it is a welcome avenue to get foreign currency for them, and despite what some may believe, the state is still fully within the dynamics of capital accumulation. (Other examples are: contractors in construction, where they have unique know-how in monumental constructions, which is also one of the places where the exploitation of their populace as wage labourers can become visible to the outside world - and selling stamps and other collectibles in demand for being "exotic" as they are from NK.)
But then, every now and again, you have cases like Otto Warmbier.
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I tried to go, but had funny pictures of the vice supreme leader and wasn't allowed in the country.....
Surprised pikachu x Vance Photoshopped
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Plot to a horror movie.
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Kim Jong Un bets on tourism
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Interestingly, I've recently watched Real Life Lore's video on the topic. It's from 2 months ago and later in the video, it talks about the last batch of western foreigners that got in and how the regime almost immediately regretted letting them record and talk as much as they did.
There was also a S. Korean resort ran by Hyundai, from 1998 to 2008, which got shut down and nationalized after an incident had the N. Koreans shoot and kill Park Wang-ja, a 53 year old woman.
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Only a moron would want to visit North Korea where Kim Jung Un will have you killed for saying anything negative about him or the country.
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Can you imagine being this disconnected on the world perception about yourself and how you run your country? Crazy.
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It will be a Trump hotel and MAGA nuts will go stay there.
Oh can we please make this happen?
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Only a moron would want to visit North Korea where Kim Jung Un will have you killed for saying anything negative about him or the country.
I'd love to go there, and Iran, but I'm not stupid. The foreign culture would be amazing.
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Anyone who goes there of their own free will should know that they could end up like Otto Warmbier at any time. No tears will be shed for them.
You are talking about a fellow human being...
