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.
Yeah, I don’t get people vacationing there.
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.
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
Wowww
But was it worse than Vacation Bible School?
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
After what happened to Otto Warmbier…. someone would choose to go there?
It probably helped that he is Russian and not American.
An American in North Korea is just asking to be jailed for dubious reasons.
the story from the article is from 2015 and 2016. a year before warmbier
Yes, if they aren’t very bright.
Apparently those Bieber bangs made it all the way to Russia a decade ago.
I wanna play the hamster game now!
