Respect. I’m planning on going there too. I think there’s value in seeing even a skewed glimpse of it

Good luck! Nobody would ever hear from them again probably

I understand how the novelty could appeal, but personally I'm happier reading accounts of visitors and escapees. Dear Leader was a hell of a trip.

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I'm jealous

You mean from the West? I think they're entitled and foolish and want to become bargaining meat for N. Korea and think they're safe.

i meant anybody who'd want to

North Korea is an unimaginably cruel place: cartoonish evil is still evil. It says a lot about someone if they’re more amused by the cartoonish than horrified of abetting the evil.

By going there a person directly legitimizes and directly funds brutal and devastating things, including concentration camps. There isn’t a dispute about this.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?"

That applies to like a lot of people (not just from the West), but especially high-value targets and that would be people from the West most especially. Like what do people not get about dangerous places in the world? State Department has 'do not travel' as a very high-risk place.

I’m sorry that’s an exceptionally dangerous place. And they do nit care if your American. You literally have no rights.

I'd also like to see it, my marginal contribution to the state is surely no more evil than the impact my normal purchases have.

Is this a book or documentary?

I'd also recommend The Aquariums of Pyongyang

Nothing to Envy is the best book I've read about defectors. It's a bit outdated, though

Why’s that? Tour groups go there all the time without incident

It’s a joke…

I'm an American. If another fellow American wants to go to the hermit kingdom our government basically tells them to want in one hand, and, well you know the rest. As Americans we're prohibited from going to North Korea. You can pout, cry, stomp, give puppy dog eyes, etc, our government isn't yielding.

I seldom agree with a lot of what our government does, but in this case I have to agree. It's not safe, we cannot provide safety or even guarantee return trip home, they don't like us, so there's no reason to go and at least as far as this regime exists or any other successor in the same mold, the answer needs to be no.

It's a book. Autobiography of what amounted to a court poet who escaped.