Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
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Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
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Re: Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
#2This was fascinating! If I could do it all over again, I'd have gone into the US Foreign Service. Maybe not to places like North Korea (which we don't have a presence in anyways), but I'd have loved to travel the world. Maybe in the next life...
Re: Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
#3The last paragraph talks about being cut-off and isolated. He didn't mention Internet or phones for private use, so I wonder if they didn't have that. I can imagine smartphones being disallowed, and even if allowed, limited to home WiFi...
Re: Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
#4Weird, I tried to click on "Kimchi Harvest" to see a larger version. Instead, the link was to https://mydiplomaticlife.com/how-to-survive-3-years-in-north..., which just took me to the top of the article.
Re: Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
#5There was another diplomat that has videos on YouTube. I can't remember his name but he was able to move freely and use his DSLR around Pyongyang.
Re: Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
#6Years ago, I was lucky enough to listen to a talk from an American who got to be a tourist in North Korea. Ever since then I've been fascinated with stories like this.
North Korea is on my bucket list, but hopefully after the state loosens up.
Re: Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
#7Laibach also got away with it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oD0W6SSBUA
Re: Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
#8The last paragraph talks about being cut-off and isolated. He didn't mention Internet or phones for private use, so I wonder if they didn't have that. I can imagine smartphones being disallowed, and even if allowed, limited to home WiFi...
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have internet but I know little of North Korea. They definitely didn't have smartphones as this was the early 2000s.
Re: Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
#9The post never mentions a date, but this must have been around 2000-2004, since that is when the UK embassy was established. [1]
Some things have probably changed since then.
A fascinating read regardless.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_Kingdom,...
Re: Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
#10Years ago, I was lucky enough to listen to a talk from an American who got to be a tourist in North Korea. Ever since then I've been fascinated with stories like this. North Korea is on my bucket list, but hopefully after the state loosens up.
North Korea can take you with whatever justification they feel like and return you as a vegetable.
I know the mass games look cool and people like to go to weird places, please avoid North Korea