North Korea to open beach resort as Kim Jong Un bets on tourism
North Korea to open beach resort as Kim Jong Un bets on tourism
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North Korea to open beach resort as Kim Jong Un bets on tourism
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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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Surprised pikachu x Vance Photoshopped
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America or North Korea, both shit hole countries I’ll avoid
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Should have told him "Thank You".
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Kim Jong Un bets on tourism
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Rank 165 of 167 democracy...
Rank 179 of 180 press freedom...
Let's book the tickets, honey. We are traveling to jail.
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Sounds like the perfect conservative vacation destination.
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Don't expect three hots and a cot though
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Don't mind me wrong, but looking at what Dubai is doing, I am not surprised Kim thinks people can forget about NK reality for a nice beach.
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Hah! Good fucking point! Only thing I guess is that Dubai has a wonnnderful propaganda team winning over the hearts and minds of Western audiences, while NK has synchronized communist dancing events.
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Dubai also is smack dab in the middle of “Oil Land”
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Fantastic news for ml! I'm sure they'll visit in droves.
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Lets finance that.
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I'll buck in a kick.
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Wow, a vacation location I would like to visit even less than the US.
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Idk, at least it would be interesting.
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It will be a Trump hotel and MAGA nuts will go stay there.
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Oh can we please make this happen?
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Otto Warmbier
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Hope there aren't any flags or posters that can murder a poor tourist.
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What kind of fucking idiot builds a highway between the hotels and the beach?
Thats the fucking stupidest thing I have ever seen in my life. Who ever thought that was a good idea should be shot. It couldn't be in a worse place.
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Real question but when does a two lane street become a highway?
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Highways don't have crosswalks, and drivers can expect to have very few stoplights (compared to freeways, which should have exactly 0 stoplights or pedestrians whatsoever).
Streets can have frequent crosswalks and stoplights.
Sooo having a street between hotels and a beach would be no biggie, since guests could safely cross it on foot, at a crosswalk.
But with a highway there, you cannot safely cross on foot. No crosswalks. Or if there's something that looks like a crosswalk, it sure wouldn't feel safe to cross it.
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I agree. Probably the same idiots that built south Florida
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apparently a little american figure called henry flagler ... ever heard of US1?
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This guy Floridas!
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No. He sounds like a tool and all.
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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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Kim was educated in Europe, not like he's clueless about the outside world. Also, there's such a thing as "poverty tourism". (I forget the word.)
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Hear that conservatives?
You can visit the country you're trying to make our country look like.
You can get a good long look at what your dipshittery leads to. But only if you have the balls to leave the resort.
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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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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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Some observers say this is an easy way for Pyongyang to earn money. While foreign tourists are allowed in, tour groups largely tend to come from China and Russia, countries with whom Pyongyang has long maintained friendly relations.
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Does anyone even go to North Korea? Is that like a thing?
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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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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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When does construction of a Trump Tower there begin?
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Imagine how silent and unpolluted NK is, ngl it would be a great vacation if not for the moral concerns
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Just don't say anything against Dear Leader or you'll come back catatonic then die like that other American tourist.
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I seem to remember he took a poster off the wall to keep as a souvenir, so they killed him. Don't touch the posters, people.
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it's full of pollution from china. it's a seasonal pattern whereby dry sandy desert air from the gobi mixes with industrial emissions feom beijing and blows over to the korean peninsula, coating everything with a yellow-orange dust every spring
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I watched Ed Stafford (first man to walk the length of the amazon) survive on a uninhabited Fijian island for about a month. He picked up a toothbrush, multiple bottles, a metal can, rope/netting and a rugby ball. That was just the useful stuff.
There shit on that beach in NK I'm certain.
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Ah yes, the new Mar-a-Lago. Fantastic. I'm sure Trump will be dying to golf there.
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Just imagine all the opportunities for bankruptcy! The orange turd is getting turned on!
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Plot to a horror movie.
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Perfect for East Russian newly made widows to recover from the shock of finding unexpected money on their bank account.
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"Cut my life into pieces..."
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"This is my beach resort"
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Fascism
No voting
Don't care if they destroy the country they're living.
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I’ll go. The North Korean people are perfectly decent folks.
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The middle east oil state meta claims another.
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At least they already have a tourism industry, not like Turkmenistan is doing it
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Everything going on in the US right now makes me want to go there to get Warmbier'd
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The last resort.
RIP Warmbeer